Marshall Goldsmith | Executive Coaching & Leadership Resources

You can’t be ambitious without taking action. And you can’t really live a fulfilled life without aspiring to be someone, to grow constantly. You want to appreciate your life, to earn your life, and not have to ask yourself, ‘Is that all there is?’ 

The good news is that it is easier to create your own life today than it has ever been in human history. In the past, almost all of us were second-class citizens from birth. We could not vote and  choose our leaders. Conformity was the rule and any difference...

What is reputation? Reputation is what you get when you add up who you are and what you’ve done and toss the combined sum out into the world to see how people respond. Your reputation is people’s recognition—or rejection—of your identity and achievement...

Sometimes the things that keep us from creating our own life is the way we were taught, or the way we were raised. We default to those learned characteristics, which can lead us into assuming we’re not capable of change.