Aliveness Mindset: Lead and Live with More Passion, Purpose, and Joy

by Jack Craven

Overview

Jack Craven’s Aliveness Mindset is an invitation for anyone feeling stuck to awaken to a life of renewed passion, greater purpose, and authentic joy.

When did you last feel truly alive? What if you could experience that feeling not just once in a while but every single day?

That is the promise and goal of an Aliveness Mindset. You are fully capable of bringing the best, most vibrantly alive version of yourself into the world day after day. Aliveness is already within you, but you have to define it and find it, guard it and grow it. It must be discovered because you are unique and so is your experience of aliveness.

In Aliveness Mindset, executive coach Jack Craven shares the principles and strategies he has used to lead countless CEOs and high-level business leaders into a more fulfilling, authentic life. His practices are not a series of impersonal steps or a formula to blindly follow but rather an organic process of self-understanding and personal growth.

In Aliveness Mindset, you will:
1. Create your own Aliveness Mindset.
2. Learn the simple yet powerful components of the Circle of Aliveness.
3. Discover the unique way you experience aliveness and how to remain in this “Optimal State” despite the ups and downs of life.
4. Understand the seven components of an Aliveness Mindset and how they work together to power your aliveness journey.
5. Receive practical, proven strategies to restore and expand your experience of aliveness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637632611
Publisher:	Forefront Books
Publication date:	04/02/2024
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,089,926
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jack Craven has always shaped his professional journey around his passions. Starting out as a trial lawyer with the Chicago State’s Attorney’s office, he moved into private practice and later took on the role of CEO for his family's business for nearly two decades. Yet, his move into executive coaching stands out as the most challenging — and rewarding — chapter of his career. It was during this time that Jack created his "Living All In" philosophy. He has utilized his extensive professional and personal growth journey to empower individuals to discover deeper purpose, joy, and happiness in their lives. Since 2007, Jack has also been an active member and Certified Facilitator for the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the world's leading community for chief executives. Just as passionate about his personal pursuits, Jack loves keeping fit, reading, volunteering for his Chicago community, and spending quality time with his wife and three daughters. This is his debut book.

Editorial Reviews

2024-04-22
Executive coach Craven presents a guide to reclaiming one’s sense of “aliveness” via a practical, tailored plan for personal growth.

Outwardly, the author was a successful and confident businessman in 2012, working as the CEO of his family’s business providing closeout consumer products to wholesalers and retail chains in the United States and Canada. Inwardly, however, he struggled with loneliness, frustration, and a feeling of being overwhelmed by responsibilities. This moment of realization, he says, was the catalyst for his creating his “Aliveness Circle” system. Craven walks readers step by step through the three main parts of his program, which aims to return readers to that feeling of when they were most “alive on the inside.” The first part is the Aliveness Mindset, which consists of seven subsections (“Ownership,” “Openness,” “Awareness,” “Authenticity,” “Courage,” “Tenacity,” and “Love”) that cover what it takes to set up that desired frame of mind. Next comes “Aliveness Practice” (“Feel it,” “Anchor it,” “Live it”), in which readers take the aforementioned tools and put them into practice. Lastly, readers learn to achieve the “bull’s-eye of how we want to feel and what we want our daily experience to be,” which the author calls the “Optimal State.” Craven uses occasional diagrams and shares strategies that he uses with his own clients, which includes such concepts as identifying areas of self-resistance and fostering self-compassion. Each chapter is peppered with discussion questions that are effectively designed for maximum self-reflection, such as “What am I most frustrated or disappointed with right now? What is missing?” Craven’s prose remains consistently clear yet inspirational, as in this comment: “Life is always bigger than our capacity to control or understand it. Making peace with that reality, and moving forward in light of it, is courage.” Craven conveys such bits of wisdom with clarity and warmth, and one gets the sense that he’s truly rooting for readers while also building up their sense of self-esteem. The occasional, anonymized anecdotes that Craven provides about real clients help to show how theoretical concepts work in practice.

An inspiring, straightforward self-help manual that breaks down a process of self-understanding into manageable portions.

Kirkus Reviews