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Choosing Purposeful Alignment: The Messy Middle of Transformation
Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Silver Book Awards in Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood.
#1 International Bestseller on Amazon in SEVEN categories in the US and SIX Categories in CA. Including Organizational Change, Lifespan Development, Business Etiquette, Business Ethics, Business Mentoring & Coaching, Developmental Psychology, and Project Management in US. Business Training, Economic Development & Growth, Business Writing Guides, Total Quality Management in Business, Human Resources & Personnel Management, and Consumer Behaviour in CA.
Rise and make intentional choices as you lean into a journey of transformation.Whether you realize it or not, in this moment you are called into something bigger than yourself that requires the creation of intentional purpose and alignment. In doing so, you inevitably have to navigate the necessary messy middle of change, which is the gap between your current state and your desired purpose.
The messy middle is the space where the painful, often unspoken work takes place. That work you whisper about to your most trusted confidants. The sacred work you often do not prioritize that ultimately moves you from success to significance. But you have to choose it and step into your game-changer posture to position your leadership and leaderful organization to drive innovation and change for the future.
Learn from Tracey’s Journey
“What If” QuestionsTransformationDefining MomentsClarityAudacious BoldnessThrough imbalance and dis-ease, and grappling with challenging moments in her personal and professional life, Tracey Greene-Washington survived the messy middle of transformation and emerged as a true game changer who continues to evolve in the work to address complex social change. She takes you through a series of critical “what if” questions to guide you into your game-changer posture, allowing you to rise and make intentional choices as you lean into a journey of transformation, defining moments, clarity, and audacious boldness.
#1 International Bestseller on Amazon in SEVEN categories in the US and SIX Categories in CA. Including Organizational Change, Lifespan Development, Business Etiquette, Business Ethics, Business Mentoring & Coaching, Developmental Psychology, and Project Management in US. Business Training, Economic Development & Growth, Business Writing Guides, Total Quality Management in Business, Human Resources & Personnel Management, and Consumer Behaviour in CA.
Rise and make intentional choices as you lean into a journey of transformation.Whether you realize it or not, in this moment you are called into something bigger than yourself that requires the creation of intentional purpose and alignment. In doing so, you inevitably have to navigate the necessary messy middle of change, which is the gap between your current state and your desired purpose.
The messy middle is the space where the painful, often unspoken work takes place. That work you whisper about to your most trusted confidants. The sacred work you often do not prioritize that ultimately moves you from success to significance. But you have to choose it and step into your game-changer posture to position your leadership and leaderful organization to drive innovation and change for the future.
Learn from Tracey’s Journey
“What If” QuestionsTransformationDefining MomentsClarityAudacious BoldnessThrough imbalance and dis-ease, and grappling with challenging moments in her personal and professional life, Tracey Greene-Washington survived the messy middle of transformation and emerged as a true game changer who continues to evolve in the work to address complex social change. She takes you through a series of critical “what if” questions to guide you into your game-changer posture, allowing you to rise and make intentional choices as you lean into a journey of transformation, defining moments, clarity, and audacious boldness.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2020
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August 2, 2022
I'd just finished an MBA in Nonprofit Management and was feeling a need to make my next career move. After reading the first chapter of this book, I started exploring and leaning into my own truth and applied for an MFA in creative writing. The journal prompts made it clear to me what I wanted to do and what to do next.
The writing is not only beautiful, it's inspiring. I shamelessly penciled notes and underlined parts I plan to return to over and over. This is a must read for our future leaders and advocates in transformative work!
The writing is not only beautiful, it's inspiring. I shamelessly penciled notes and underlined parts I plan to return to over and over. This is a must read for our future leaders and advocates in transformative work!
November 24, 2020
Great insight in to what is the messy middle and opened my eyes to see that is where I am. I can move from success to significance. Tracey's writing is thoughtful, meaningful and useful. Good weekend read that motivates and inspires.
January 19, 2021
“Choosing Purposeful Alignment” reads simultaneously as a self-help book and a brief memoir as author Tracey Greene-Washington uses her own experiences in the messy middle to guide readers through theirs.
Targeted towards “game changers,” the author uses her own philanthropic experiences, encounters and challenges to provide readers with lessons to better align their goals and work with the outcomes they hope to achieve. The pages of “Choosing Purposeful Alignment” linearly progress from asking for permission to spark the change, towards moving forward to the action stages required to untangle the messy middle, as readers learn to Double Dutch their way through transformation successfully.
Each chapter provides interactive QR codes that keep readers engaged on multiple platforms, from the physical pages of the book to the digital platform and survey developed to tie into this read. However, the QR interaction didn’t seem to be fully developed as each chapter’s link brought you to the same twenty-seven question survey. Despite this, the survey was successful in asking hard, deep and introspective questions of oneself that tied succinctly to the lessons within the pages of Greene-Washington’s book.
Furthermore, while the title seemed to insist this book only covers the messy middle, “Choosing Purposeful Alignment: The Messy Middle of Transformation” goes beyond this as Greene-Washington reflects on the before, which drove her to the clarity and ultimate decision to seek transformation, as well as the final re-emergence from transformation as the game changer. This read also addressed the need to set boundaries in relationships when embracing the new you and provided relevant examples from the author’s own life in doing this.
This short, but insightful, read will engage readers as they reflect deeply on their own paths. Providing avenues to re-assess and re-align one’s career with their true purpose. Author Greene-Washington holds readers hand as she spills her own vulnerabilities on the pages and invites us to assess our lives in the same way. Providing both a digital platform to enhance our awareness while doubling as a memoir self-help read into her own experiences, the author leaves it all on the line as she provides readers a comprehensive path through the messy middle towards transformation.
Targeted towards “game changers,” the author uses her own philanthropic experiences, encounters and challenges to provide readers with lessons to better align their goals and work with the outcomes they hope to achieve. The pages of “Choosing Purposeful Alignment” linearly progress from asking for permission to spark the change, towards moving forward to the action stages required to untangle the messy middle, as readers learn to Double Dutch their way through transformation successfully.
Each chapter provides interactive QR codes that keep readers engaged on multiple platforms, from the physical pages of the book to the digital platform and survey developed to tie into this read. However, the QR interaction didn’t seem to be fully developed as each chapter’s link brought you to the same twenty-seven question survey. Despite this, the survey was successful in asking hard, deep and introspective questions of oneself that tied succinctly to the lessons within the pages of Greene-Washington’s book.
Furthermore, while the title seemed to insist this book only covers the messy middle, “Choosing Purposeful Alignment: The Messy Middle of Transformation” goes beyond this as Greene-Washington reflects on the before, which drove her to the clarity and ultimate decision to seek transformation, as well as the final re-emergence from transformation as the game changer. This read also addressed the need to set boundaries in relationships when embracing the new you and provided relevant examples from the author’s own life in doing this.
This short, but insightful, read will engage readers as they reflect deeply on their own paths. Providing avenues to re-assess and re-align one’s career with their true purpose. Author Greene-Washington holds readers hand as she spills her own vulnerabilities on the pages and invites us to assess our lives in the same way. Providing both a digital platform to enhance our awareness while doubling as a memoir self-help read into her own experiences, the author leaves it all on the line as she provides readers a comprehensive path through the messy middle towards transformation.
January 24, 2021
I loved the way Tracey weaved personal stories and antidotes while simultaneously asking the reader thought provoking questions. I’ve been wanting to switch up my career lately so I couldn’t have found a more perfect time to read this work.
July 5, 2022
This is not just about Tracey’s story but she invites you to walk along side her answering your own questions too. She gives you language and understanding for your experience, the opportunity for discernment. Tracey is honest and vulnerable throughout her story which is about more then just the messy middle. She is modeling what we need more of in the world, especially the game changer space. This is not a book to be read just once.
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