How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters

“Piercingly frank, funny, gorgeous, vulnerable, and ultimately really damn helpful.” ― Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult

Unlock your greatness. Set a goal that matters to you―and to the world

With The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier penned the bestselling coaching book of the century. With The Advice Trap, he showed you how to tame your Advice Monster. Now, he’s here to help you reclaim your ambition and motivation to become your best self, driven with purpose and meaning.

If you are ready to get unstuck, to figure out what you should do that matters, to unlock your best self, to take on a project that you know is yours―you need to know How to Begin.

This is your practical guide to finding the focus and courage to set a Worthy Goal: one that lights you up, compels you to grow, and serves a bigger game by being thrilling, important and daunting.

With humor, compassion, and laser-focused clarity, Bungay Stanier walks you through a tested process to:
• find and refine your Worthy Goal to meets three integral criteria;
• strengthen your Worthy Goal with three tests―and a single word that takes it from Good to Great;
• get clear on your commitment;
• build the resources to cross the threshold and begin;
• how to travel in small steps to ensure that you progress;
• find the four types of people you need to travel with―and the fifth you should consider;
• and a good deal more.