Start With Values
How to Build a Life with Meaning and Purpose
Bradley Hook · Hatherleigh Press · distributed by Penguin Random House
Our values quietly shape every decision we make — yet most of us have never named them. Start With Values is a practical guide to discovering what matters most to you, and building a life and work that reflect it.
About the book
Name what matters. Then build around it.
Drawing on years as an executive coach and researcher — and his work at the Resilience Institute and the Values Institute — Brad Hook unpacks the extraordinary impact that values have on our lives, our relationships and our organisations.
Part guide, part workbook, it's full of tools, lists and thought-experiments designed to help you find your core values, live them when it's hard, and share them with the people and teams around you.
Inside the book
Three parts, one journey.
01
Discovering Your Values
Tools, lists and thought-experiments to help you find and name your core values.
02
Living Your Values
How values and wellbeing cultivate resilience — and how to hold to them under pressure.
03
Sharing Your Values
The communal side of values: relationships, teams and the cultures we build together.
Praise
“Start with Values provides a compass that can help you navigate the complexities of modern life. It will help you find your north star, your purpose, as well as yourself. If leading a worthy life matters to you, and I suspect it does, I recommend you start with this book.”
“Defining our values is an essential step to fulfilment — yet few of us take the time to do so. Bradley Hook is the ideal guide to set us on this journey. Your future self will thank you for reading this book.”
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