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Discover Your Sweet Spot: The 7 Steps to Create a Life of Success and Significance
To create an effective space, landscapers must design, build, and maintain that space. To create an effective life, we must design, build, and maintain that space too.
Discover Your Sweet Spot equips you to create the life you want. Using a landscaping metaphor and written in a conversational tone, author Scott Fay reveals seven proven steps that enabled him to achieve a unique blend of personal and professional success.
Imagine if you discovered your Sweet Spot. What results would you experience? Better finances? Better focus? Better relationships? Discovering his Sweet Spot equipped Scott to do all three and much more. Specifically, it helped him acquire fourteen distressed businesses and turn them into profitable environments for leadership and commerce. It prepared him to forge a partnership with the No. 1 leadership guru in the world and create the world’s fastest-growing speaking, coaching, and training team. It primed him to start several other ventures, projects, and initiatives related to his core strengths. And finally it enabled him to create a robust life with a variety of options.
If this can work for Scott—a guy who wears jeans and boots and drives a pickup truck—then be encouraged; it can work for you too. In fact, it can work for any individual or organization serious about creating a growth environment. Discover Your Sweet Spot and discover the life you’ve always wanted.
Discover Your Sweet Spot equips you to create the life you want. Using a landscaping metaphor and written in a conversational tone, author Scott Fay reveals seven proven steps that enabled him to achieve a unique blend of personal and professional success.
Imagine if you discovered your Sweet Spot. What results would you experience? Better finances? Better focus? Better relationships? Discovering his Sweet Spot equipped Scott to do all three and much more. Specifically, it helped him acquire fourteen distressed businesses and turn them into profitable environments for leadership and commerce. It prepared him to forge a partnership with the No. 1 leadership guru in the world and create the world’s fastest-growing speaking, coaching, and training team. It primed him to start several other ventures, projects, and initiatives related to his core strengths. And finally it enabled him to create a robust life with a variety of options.
If this can work for Scott—a guy who wears jeans and boots and drives a pickup truck—then be encouraged; it can work for you too. In fact, it can work for any individual or organization serious about creating a growth environment. Discover Your Sweet Spot and discover the life you’ve always wanted.
150 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2013
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July 13, 2018
I'd like to preface what will be an overall negative review by saying that I do not wish to reflect negatively on the character of Scott Fay. As a reader, you can tell that he is the type of guy you'd love to be around. His voice is incredibly positive and he's probably a pillar of support for many that he has encountered in his life. I wish him the best on future writing - if he should choose to make that mistake again.
Now, let the roasting begin…
The only thing I found to be ground-breaking about this book was the tractor-sized load of landscaping metaphors Fay was able to fertilize it with.
Once I accepted the aromatic potency of its fromage, I eased up on my critical consumption of this piece of shed. One thing I will not let landslide however was its misleading title. I was expecting more personal psychology and less grandpa wisdom. To be fair, I should have glanced at the back cover, his dirt-eating grin would have given him away.
Fay unabashedly admits that he loves the self-help section. I’m not going to give him any grief for that. I too find the genre to be useful. A self-help, now coined, "personal development" book is like the equivalent of throwing $5 in your gas tank – it may not get you to your destination, but it should at least get you a little further down the road. And hell, if you keep stopping to pump another $5 in, who knows where you might end up!
Unfortunately, this book was the equivalent of a litre of low-grade petrol. Thankfully, having spent only $1.50 on it at a thrift store, I still feel I got my money’s worth!
The last dirty comment I will leave is that I saw right through its muddy motivation. This book is an artefactual piece written for Fay himself, driven by the purpose of placing it in on his mantle. Even though he wrote the book just to say he did, I have to give him some credit, at least he finished it.
As someone constantly toggling between potential topics to run with for my first book, I suppose he’s accomplished much more than me. At least Fay actually made a decision, saw it through, and wrote the damn thing! Good for you Mr. Fay.
I give it two inches of gravel out of a required eight-inch base.
Now, let the roasting begin…
The only thing I found to be ground-breaking about this book was the tractor-sized load of landscaping metaphors Fay was able to fertilize it with.
Once I accepted the aromatic potency of its fromage, I eased up on my critical consumption of this piece of shed. One thing I will not let landslide however was its misleading title. I was expecting more personal psychology and less grandpa wisdom. To be fair, I should have glanced at the back cover, his dirt-eating grin would have given him away.
Fay unabashedly admits that he loves the self-help section. I’m not going to give him any grief for that. I too find the genre to be useful. A self-help, now coined, "personal development" book is like the equivalent of throwing $5 in your gas tank – it may not get you to your destination, but it should at least get you a little further down the road. And hell, if you keep stopping to pump another $5 in, who knows where you might end up!
Unfortunately, this book was the equivalent of a litre of low-grade petrol. Thankfully, having spent only $1.50 on it at a thrift store, I still feel I got my money’s worth!
The last dirty comment I will leave is that I saw right through its muddy motivation. This book is an artefactual piece written for Fay himself, driven by the purpose of placing it in on his mantle. Even though he wrote the book just to say he did, I have to give him some credit, at least he finished it.
As someone constantly toggling between potential topics to run with for my first book, I suppose he’s accomplished much more than me. At least Fay actually made a decision, saw it through, and wrote the damn thing! Good for you Mr. Fay.
I give it two inches of gravel out of a required eight-inch base.
April 5, 2018
Create the life of your dreams, while living a life you love is how to achieve success and significance. Through Fay's stories of his life's experience in the landscaping business, he shares how to design, build and maintain a business and life! Truly the sweet spot of success can be yours by reading and incorporating this book. It is a key component of the 5 Minute Success principles as well. Karen Briscoe, author "5 Minute Success"
January 4, 2014
Discovering Your Sweet Spot is an inspirational, yet practical book on how to align your purpose, passion and plan to intentionally live out the life of your dreams. Scott provides relevant examples of how he has applied these timeless principles to his life and his business to create a life of success and significance. This is a book that I will read again and again to refine my leadership skills and to shape my life. Thank you Scott for translating your life work into a system that sets us all up for success through living in our sweet spot!
January 9, 2014
Scott Fay’s Discover Your Sweet Spot takes you on a journey of discovery through the eyes of a man who traveled his own journey of highs and lows and now lives in his Sweet Spot. Scott has identified 7 clear steps for designing, building, and maintaining a life of significance. Discover Your Sweet Spot is about creating a “purposeful you” that enables you to grow exponentially, live at a level of significance most only dream about, and influence others to do the same.
My full review is at http://www.rickcoplin.com/sweet-spot
My full review is at http://www.rickcoplin.com/sweet-spot
November 29, 2013
Continual success needs a system
Scott Fay provides actionable steps to achieve consistent success. Without a proven system no one should expect success to appear consistently. If you are looking for steps to take you to the next level this is a great read.
Scott Fay provides actionable steps to achieve consistent success. Without a proven system no one should expect success to appear consistently. If you are looking for steps to take you to the next level this is a great read.
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