This month I thought I'd share an article I wrote on becoming the person you really want to be...Marshall Goldsmith's latest book Triggers, which is also our Book of the Month, addresses the challenges of staying on track...and offers practical, powerful tools to help you move beyond distractions, and to actually achieve your goals.

I'm looking forward to connecting with you again next month; wishing you continued success in the meantime.

I had the rare privilege of spending time with Marshall Goldsmith a couple of months ago courtesy of my mentor Alan Weiss at an event that Alan hosts annually called the Million Dollar Consulting Convention. Marshall was the Keynote speaker at Alan's event this year, and is in high demand as one of the most successful executive coaches on the planet. He's the author of many terrific and insightful books like "What Got You Here Won't Get You There", and he was delightful and very generous in his time with us. Marshall was kind enough to provide us all with copies of his latest book "Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts & Becoming the Person You Want to Be".

I read a lot of books on self-improvement and personal growth, and Triggers offers fresh insights that I haven't come across elsewhere to this point. Marshall's basic premise is that we all have environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life. These triggers are constant, relentless, and we are surrounded by them on a daily basis. It often seems like our environment is outside of our control, but we always have a choice in terms of how we respond. Triggers is all about how we can manage and move beyond these disruptive factors to effect meaningful and lasting change.