Executive in Passage: When Life Lets You Know It's Time to Change, Let That Knowing Lead You

By Paige Marrs and Donald Marrs

Book Overview

Executive in Passage (Making Sense of Crisis: A Story of Enlightened Change) is a healing book - a powerful story about engaging life-disrupting changes and discovering your path to a level of triumph beyond what most people believe possible.

This is an intimate diary, a true story, of a top advertising executive's struggle to find satisfaction in his career and happiness in his life.
"I had quit smoking but was making ads for Marlboro. I was working on Kellogg's while restricting the kids' intake of presweetened cereals. I was asked to keep GM's gas guzzlers selling during the nation's worst oil crisis. These clients were the largest billings in the house, and the most exciting projects for creative people, but I could barely stomach working on them."

A crushing incident during a major client presentation brings Marrs to a breaking point. He finally stops resisting change, then quickly discovers that what he thinks will be a simple career change becomes a passionate quest for whole-life fulfillment.

With insightful storytelling, rather than the headiness of a how-to book, Executive in Passage escorts the reader beyond the pain and uncertainty of midlife change, career transition, crisis and burnout - to discovering the transformational secrets that illuminate and inspire this universal journey.

As the story unfolds, readers find themselves comforted and not alone. They gain a clear sense that their challenges are not the result of mistakes they've made or signs that they are broken or lacking. Rather, they are milestone along a natural, albeit confusing and sometimes scary, unfolding of personal and spiritual development.

There is plenty to munch on here for anyone who would benefit from expanded perspectives on their search for a happier life. To speed the passage and make it easier and less frustrating, the story's structure highlights:
-> Three distinct phases to successful transition
-> Eleven hidden thresholds of transformation
-> Deciphering signs and markers that point toward the best choices
-> The language of inner guidance, a personal mentor for the passage

For anyone interested in attaining a deeper understanding of the mysterious underpinnings of a beautifully evolving life, this is an extremely helpful guidebook.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0925887005
• ISBN13: 9780925887009
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Barrington Sky Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Even better the second time

I am reading this book for the second time and I'm actually finding it even more insightful than I did the first time, which was pretty good...

Wonderful book that really helped me

This book has help to lead me from the confusion that I had in my own career. So often we fear doing what internally we know is right for us. This book gave me a view of the path I was on and in doing so, gave me the insight to make the choices best for me in getting to fullfillment in my work.

This book is about honoring the process of life.

I read this book years ago and can honestly say it was one of the baby steps necessary to get me to the point where I walked away from a six-figure advertising career to finish writing my novel The Fifth Goddess. It's not all peaches and cream. Life can be messy. It can be complex. And it's rarely without drama and major life decisions. Don talks about all of this with grace and insight. His willingness to live his process is an inspiration to anyone who is open to it. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is questioning his/her path in life.

A roadmap for anyone struggling to find deeper meaning.

What a marvelous book! From the beginning, I felt that special connection one makes with an author whose personal and self-revealing style touches the hidden places within us. As the author struggles to discover what was really valuable and important in his life, I too began asking life-altering questions: Where is my life really going? What are the things I truly value in my life? What do I honestly want the focus of my career to be? How do I want to express the love and integrity inside of me? The open, honest and often vulnerable presentation of the author's personal experiences and explorations resonated with both the emotional and intellectual parts of me struggling with the same issues. I particularly appreciated that the author did not dilute his process or try to soften mine with cliches and platitudes. Instead, he offered a human process with all of its inherent doubts, mistakes, questions, insights, sadness, and ultimate understandings, growth and joy. When I finshed this book, I felt I was much more aware of, and far better prepared to continue, my own journey

A must read for anyone confused about their career

This book is a must read for anyone confused about the value of their work or considering a career change. It is for the person who likes to probe the deeper levels of meaning in life. Don Marrs' path is intriguing and fascinating to read about. I could relate. It's a spiritual book and reads like a great movie! S. Scolastic