Positive: Author and podcast host Andrew Horsfield draws on two decades of working with leaders in business, education and elite sport to reveal how high performers move through challenges and come out stronger and more focused on what truly matters in Better: Escape average. Beat burnout. Own your life. Photo: Supplied.
We know life seldom goes according to plan. Some days you feel unstoppable and other days leave you pondering how it all became so overwhelming. Que sera, sera.
Setbacks, uncertainty and self-doubt are part of life, but staying stuck doesn’t have to be. You can’t always see trouble coming, but with the right tools you can always make a positive change.
In Better: Escape average. Beat burnout. Own your life., author and podcast host Andrew Horsfield draws on two decades of working with leaders in business, education and elite sport to reveal how high performers move through challenges and come out stronger and more focused on what truly matters. He facilitates transformational events, programs and workshops that help people and teams.
In this pragmatic playbook filled with tools and real-world insights, Horsfield shows that progress isn’t about avoiding difficulty; it’s about learning how to navigate it. We learn to tackle the challenges of human performance. He wants us to reimagine what’s possible.
“We love stories of overnight success and dramatic transformations,” Horsfield points out. “But we rarely talk about the difficulties we face in moving through the messy middle.
“Whether you’re building a career, rebuilding a relationship or rebuilding yourself, improvement requires you to move through the messy middle. And while every messy middle is unique to the person working through it, messy middles are always challenging because we have to put ourselves on the hook in order to move from where we are to where we want to be.
“Sadly, rather than accept this responsibility, many of us are choosing to step back and settle. We know we have plateaued, but struggle to find a way forward, and despite feeling trapped, choose to keep going. Applying the practices in this book will help you navigate what’s keeping you stuck, so you can advance your personal and professional life.”
It is effortless. Life gets chaotic, you see, and when you manage the chaos, you master your life.
In Horsfield’s words: “I believe a better future favours those who dare to do things differently. You are here because you’re ambitious, know life could be better and want to shake things up to improve how you work, lead and live. You are ready to be a force for change and want practical actions you can see in your results and feel in your chest.”
Horsfield admits to helping people transform “stuckness into strength. It’s not handed to you. It’s earned through the courage to move beyond your comfort zone. We are wired to seek comfort and avoid difficulty. But a life lived entirely in comfort is a small life. Embracing the messy middle is your antidote to average. It’s deciding to trade the illusion of safety for the reality of your own strength, and living a life of meaning, growth and purpose.
“Building assets along the way: life, resilience, wisdom, self-respect and the quiet, unshakeable confidence that comes from knowing you can handle hard things. Realising that struggle is not an obstacle to the life you want. It’s lifting the path to get you there.”
If you feel stuck, or have plateaued personally or professionally, this innovative book will help you unlock your potential and creatively rethink what is possible for your life.
You need a guide that equips you with a suite of practical and adaptable skills you can use in the real world, under real pressure. To that end, Better is structured around the Better Life Index, which is made up of three core attributes: character, capability and courage.
Go for empathy, not ego, using sagacity that comes only from living these ideas every single day. For the past 18 years, Horsfield has developed tools that help people get unstuck, lead better and bring more clarity to their lives.
Given research shows 80 per cent of Australian workers feel disengaged, Better offers practical ways to navigate change and optimise performance, leadership and lifestyle.
If you’re a leader or a busy professional unsure of your next move, help is now available to reset your direction so you can move forward with clarity, confidence and purpose.
It’s time to unlock your potential and form a new concept on what is possible for your life with this deeply personal, practical guide that will fundamentally shift how you think and ameliorate how you work.
Better: Escape average. Beat burnout. Own your life., by Andrew Horsfield, self-published and distributed through John Reed, $32.99
