It’s finally here! For the last year, my writing partner and I have been working on bringing you a tool to help you reflect on your experiences and lead with the best version of yourself, regardless of your line of work. Cassie Crosby and I spent countless mornings waking up at 4am to virtually collaborate because we both have day jobs and live 700 miles apart. Our efforts paid off, and the book is available now in hardback and paperback. We are beyond excited (and a little nervous) to finally share it with you.
My Green Notebook: “Know Thyself” Before Changing Jobs is a guided, 30-day self reflection intended to draw out your lessons learned and help you thrive as a leader as you take on positions of increased responsibility. We created this book based on our experiences changing leadership roles every 12-24 months. Every time we transferred, someone we trusted and respected made it a point to tell us to take time during transition to reflect on our experiences and capture our lessons learned. Until much later in our careers, we approached this advice passively, reminiscing as we drove across the country to our next assignment, hoping that would be enough. It never was.
So we created this notebook for you as a guided reflection to assist you in reflecting on your own experiences. In the book, we talk about reflection- what it is, where it came from, and how it has influenced humans for more than two millennia. To help you with your own journey, we also provide a guide for how to use the notebook to get the most out of your experiences.
Finally, we challenge you to 30-days of reflection. For 29 out of the 30 days we present a leadership topic with a brief definition and two tailored questions to generate reflection. On the final day, the real magic occurs as you make meaning of the last 29 days and create an action plan for where to focus your development next.
We hope you will give reflection a chance and share your own experiences with us, as we intend to share ours with you as we continue our own journeys. We can’t wait to hear from you!
“An innovative and useful tool for the difficult, and often-overlooked, task of critical self-evaluation.” General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army (Retired)
“The book is original, innovative, invaluable–a portal into the mindset of a leader and a guide for the rest of us in enhancing our own mindfulness and self-awareness.” Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art
“When you change jobs, you are expressing your values. You’ll choose much more wisely and get much further faster if you slow down at this critical juncture and get explicit with yourself about your values. This book will help you get to know yourself a little better, so you can make a better choice about your next step.” Kim Scott, Bestselling author of Radical Candor
Click here to purchase My Green Notebook: “Know Thyself” Before Changing Jobs
