BSP 168: Easier: 60 Ways to Make Your Work Life Work for You by Chris Westfall

Chris Westfall, author of Easier: 60 Ways to Make Your Work
Life Work for You recalls that this book wasn’t one that he
set out to write, but one that he felt he needed to write.
Throughout his career as a coach and consultant, he wanted this
book to reflect the evolution of what he was seeing in the
workplace and what his clients were experiencing as well. The book
is a reflection of his experience coaching others as well as being
coached in today’s corporate world. He emphasizes the book is a
dialogue between an incredibly frustrated client and a coach. The
client is fed up with his current job and is looking to find the
courage to quit, so he hires a coach to help with that situation.
What the client doesn’t realize is that in five days, he will be
fired. Being fired is what Westfall refers to as a “life after
career death story.”   Westfall wants others to see themselves
in the story and see new possibilities, even after experiencing the
ultimate (career) low. He wrote the book from a place of service
and to make people realize that possibilities exist even when the
road is paved with obstacles. Westfall’s focus was writing a book
that felt organic to the current climate. In fact, he made a pact
with himself that the only stories that would be included in the
book would be those that fit the narrative organically. That, to
him, is what being authentic is all about. He also wanted to dispel
the myth that people don’t have to go at it alone, arguing that
entrepreneurs tend to fall into that trap. In the end, “Anything of
value involves other people.” Watch the episode:
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