The High Achiever's Guide: Transform Your Success Mindset and Begin the Quest to Fulfillment

by Maki Moussavi

Overview

If you’re successful but feeling stuck, restless, or unfulfilled, this guide can help you figure out what you really want and how to get it.

Does your life look great on paper, but it’s just not enough? You’re making money, have a career and lifestyle that you thought you always wanted, but now you’re there and it’s not all you expected it to be. The High Achiever’s Guide shows you how to get that out of that rut, find your purpose, and get that something more that you are searching for.

You have the power to rewrite the way you think and operate so that you can pursue what matters most. In this book you will get the tools, techniques, and encouragement needed to create a meaningful life that you love.

The High Achiever’s Guide can help you:

• Discover what isn’t working in your life and define what you truly want
• Rewrite your mental programming with intention
• Go after what you want with confidence
• Update your mindset model from traditional success to deeply personal fulfillment
• Experience authentic happiness

A former corporate career professional, Maki Moussavi knows firsthand how it feels to be stuck in the rut of conventional success. Her early life was filled with messages of working hard, chasing the dream, and making money. After creating the “success” that she’d been taught to value, she found herself questioning how she ended up feeling stuck, restless, and unfulfilled. Through a journey of self-examination, she learned how to find her purpose and experience authentic happiness.

Readers of books like Authentic Happiness, The Motivation Manifesto, or The Big Leap, will love The High Achiever’s Guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642500226
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Maki Moussavi is a corporate career veteran and Master’s trained genetic counselor who left the glory of societally-defined success to become a transformational coach and motivational speaker. Over the last several years, she has focused on personal development and how to help people create fundamental change in the pursuit of fulfillment. Maki has a passion for helping people see their true potential and supporting their journey to raising the bar for their lives. Her ability to break down complex concepts into accessible and actionable information was the backbone of her corporate achievements and is a critical component of her coaching and thought leadership. Her background as a clinician who pursued a corporate career established a diverse skillset with expertise in communication, presenting, sales and management. During her tenure with a large corporation, Maki had the opportunity to leverage her unique background to author two patents (awarded by the United States Patent Office) and two institutional review board proposals that were approved for clinical studies. Through speaking and coaching, Maki teaches the process she has created to jumpstart rapid and lasting transformation, using the wisdom and knowledge gained through her education, experience and her own journey from being stuck to being aligned.

Read an Excerpt

From the book:

As a high achiever, you are beautifully equipped to lead a fulfilled life. But first, you have to acknowledge that what drives you may be a bit dark. The need to be validated, acknowledged, accomplished, seen, recognized, to win, etc., are drivers that come from a place of limited self-worth. You may be thinking, “Wait a minute. I’m self-confident. I know what I’m worth.” But do you really? Your self-confidence is bolstered by the validation you receive for meeting the expectations of others. Would your confidence remain intact if you didn’t receive recognition? You don’t know your value internally, so you seek to have it defined externally. As you know, these drivers will work for a while. You’ll enter the achieve/receive validation cycle and it will feed itself, all while you remain void of the knowledge of your intrinsic worth. You will make money, achieve status, accumulate material possessions, and remain unfulfilled. The tangible cannot fill the intangible hole inside of you.

As successful as you are, you can’t take your life to the next level without doing the deep work to transform the way you see yourself and raise the bar for what you expect from life. The way you live has been dictated from the outside with little to no input from you. How can you possibly expect fulfillment if what you want isn’t at the heart of all you do? Yes, it will be scary. You must have the courage to walk out of step with those who surround you. You must have the conviction that it’s worth facing the fear to live a life in which you can thrive rather than survive. Neither the courage nor the conviction will show up to support you as long as your desires remain unconsidered. This is YOUR life. Not your mom’s, dad’s, kid’s, partner’s, or friend’s. Yours.

Table of Contents

PART 1: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE A COMPUTER CHAPTER 1: You’ve Been Programmed CHAPTER 2: Toxic Fumes CHAPTER 3: Rinse and Repeat CHAPTER 4: Break the Chains PART 2: MEET YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM CHAPTER 5: To Achieve or Not to Achieve CHAPTER 6: How Fear Has Made You Its Bitch CHAPTER 7: The Illusions That Drive You CHAPTER 8: Don’t Just Pray. ROW the boat. CHAPTER 9: Anger and Other Not Awesome Motivators. PART 3: SYSTEM UPDATE CHAPTER 10: What Are You Worth? CHAPTER 11: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater CHAPTER 12: Your Feelings Are Your Compass CHAPTER 13: What About Your Friends? CHAPTER 14: Stay in Your Lane CHAPTER 15: The Dangerous Allure of Conditions CHAPTER 16: Show Up and Use Your Words, FFS. PART 4: SMOOTH OPERATOR CHAPTER 17: See It. FEEL It. CHAPTER 18: Tenacious Is Your New Middle Name CHAPTER 19: Trust the Process CHAPTER 20: Who Cares, Anyway?

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Maki reminds us to change the arc of our existence by setting the bar HIGHER and demanding more from life. Read this book and reclaim what you want out of your life, instead of resigning yourself to making the best out of circumstances that only meet the status quo.”
—Richie Norton, bestselling author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Interviews

Are you trapped in a gilded cage of your own making? Successful, but not necessarily fulfilled? Stuck, but not sure why or how to get unstuck?

Your life looks fantastic on paper. You’re making money, have a career, family, lifestyle, etc. that you thought you always wanted. But now you’re there and it’s not all you expected it to be.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

But where do you begin? You want life to be better, but you don’t know *how* to make it better. The High Achievers Guide: Transform Your Success Mindset and Begin the Quest to Fulfillment provides the reader with the tools, mindset and process to do the deep emotional work, get clarity, and create the life that is truly aligned to them.

A dismal 1 out of 3 people reports feeling happy with their lives. And what does happiness mean anyway? Is it fulfillment? What does fulfillment mean? Is your definition the same as the person next to you?

To have something you’ve never had, you have to be willing to do something you’ve never done.

You need the tools and process to determine what fulfillment means to you. The High Achievers Guide guides you through four major themes of personal development:

· Clarity regarding your baseline – how you’ve been programmed to operate and how to identify the limiting beliefs and outdated mindset that holds you back

· What drives you – achievement-oriented focus largely defined by outside factors rather than internal drivers

· How to leave behind outdated programming and make space for the new, updated mindset that will take you to the next level of operation

· Taking inspired action and committing to the vision you have created for your life

A former corporate career professional, Maki Moussavi grew up in midwestern small-town America, a first-generation citizen born to immigrants. Her early life was filled with messages of hard work, chasing the dream, getting the degrees, and making the money. After creating the “success” that she’d been taught to value, she found herself questioning how the hell she ended up feeling stuck, restless and unfulfilled. An avid consumer of self-help, she found that the literature available, while helpful in the pursuit of personal betterment, didn’t quite get her to where she needed to be. She discovered the key to deep and rapid transformation is a willingness to do the uncomfortable self-examination and commit to raising the bar of expectation in pursuit of thriving rather than surviving.