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Get There, Love Here!: The busy professional's guide to authentic, enjoyable success
Are you striving for career success, but struggling to find work-life balance? Are you driving hard towards each new deadline, but paying the price with your health, relationships and wellbeing? In short, are you enjoying - or merely enduring - the journey?
If work feels like a relentless race, you're following a route map to success that is fundamentally flawed. But there is another way - a kinder, more humane way - one that can help you achieve and contribute as much, if not more.
Get There, Love Here! is your alternative route map to success. It reveals the key shifts in mindset and strategy needed to escape the "success through sacrifice" trap and set yourself up for a journey that is authentic, enjoyable and sustainable.
Through an empowering combination of insight, practical guidance and inspiring personal stories, Master Coach Kate Trafford draws on over 20 years' experience in personal and leadership development to help you:
Recognise who you really are, underneath all those layers of conditioning.
Understand what drives you when you're at your brilliant best.
Discover your unique zone of genius and put it to work.
Envision your authentic dream destination, a goal with soul.
Keep burnout at bay, and still make progress like a pro.
Navigate uncertainty with courage and confidence.
It's time to put your true self in the driving seat and transform the relentless race into your most authentic adventure.
If work feels like a relentless race, you're following a route map to success that is fundamentally flawed. But there is another way - a kinder, more humane way - one that can help you achieve and contribute as much, if not more.
Get There, Love Here! is your alternative route map to success. It reveals the key shifts in mindset and strategy needed to escape the "success through sacrifice" trap and set yourself up for a journey that is authentic, enjoyable and sustainable.
Through an empowering combination of insight, practical guidance and inspiring personal stories, Master Coach Kate Trafford draws on over 20 years' experience in personal and leadership development to help you:
Recognise who you really are, underneath all those layers of conditioning.
Understand what drives you when you're at your brilliant best.
Discover your unique zone of genius and put it to work.
Envision your authentic dream destination, a goal with soul.
Keep burnout at bay, and still make progress like a pro.
Navigate uncertainty with courage and confidence.
It's time to put your true self in the driving seat and transform the relentless race into your most authentic adventure.
290 pages, Paperback
Published September 26, 2022
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January 8, 2024
This is an easy to read but deep dive into how you can get more success in your life - although it is aimed at professionals, it would work for non-work projects as well. Kate's metaphor of driving or going on a journey is consistently used throughout to avoid confusing readers. I immediately wanted to go back with a single goal in mind and work through the activities and text again.
May 19, 2023
I read Kate's book ahead of interviewing her for my podcast and absolutely loved it. It's a mix of inspiring stories, thought-provoking ideas, and actionable exercises you can choose to do as you move through the book or come back to later on.
For ambitious people, the balancing the drive and ambition to strive for more, with a quieter sense of calm and contentment along the way is a tough one to find.
Kate strips back the reasons why our conditioning has created this either / or dichotomy, and shows us how we can instead integrate for far greater results and experience along the way.
Some readers may find that they internalise the central idea very quickly and for others it may take more of the exercises and 'travel log' entries to get to the lightbulb moment.
Crucially, this isn't a book where the call to action is 'quit your job and follow your passion!'. For some that may be the case, but the book encourages us to explore ways we can turn our existing roles into joy-giving pursuits by understanding and harnessing more of our 'authentic selves'.
For anybody who feels trapped in the endless cycle of reaching for the next level, this book could be a gamechanger and lifesaver.
For ambitious people, the balancing the drive and ambition to strive for more, with a quieter sense of calm and contentment along the way is a tough one to find.
Kate strips back the reasons why our conditioning has created this either / or dichotomy, and shows us how we can instead integrate for far greater results and experience along the way.
Some readers may find that they internalise the central idea very quickly and for others it may take more of the exercises and 'travel log' entries to get to the lightbulb moment.
Crucially, this isn't a book where the call to action is 'quit your job and follow your passion!'. For some that may be the case, but the book encourages us to explore ways we can turn our existing roles into joy-giving pursuits by understanding and harnessing more of our 'authentic selves'.
For anybody who feels trapped in the endless cycle of reaching for the next level, this book could be a gamechanger and lifesaver.
January 30, 2026
I read this book as part of a coaching programme and honestly was not sure what to expect, but I cannot express how much I have been able to take from this book, both professionally and personally. It was written in a style that was engaging, easy to follow and allowed you to really make sense of each section and for ideas to develop. I found parts of it incredibly moving, and also incredibly confronting. Although this is absolutely a guide for how to find success in your career, so many of the teaching and guided tasks can be applied to all areas of life. For any one wanting to get the most out of their career, or struggling with uncertainty of what the next steps for them could be I highly, highly recommend this book
July 1, 2023
Brilliant book that has given me lots of food for thought and lots of actionable things to take away!
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