Guiding Principles For Success: GPS Map

by Lester Frederick

"This motivating book combines insight with practical tools" - Kirkus Reviews


“Lester Frederick presents a fun and informative guide” – Readers’ Favorite (5-Star Rating).

Spinning your wheels? This multifaceted book will get you moving on the road to success by bridging the gap between your personal and professional goals, guiding you toward a more balanced life.

The Guiding Principles for Success (GPS) Map includes downloadable, interactive infographics! You'll use six Personality (Identity), Purpose, Passion, Problem-Solving, Planning, and Profit to develop your personal GPS Map. The guided exercises help you align your GPS with your goals to customize your GPS Map.

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• No fluff - just precise and concise content to help you get unstuck.

• Engaging, exclusive worksheets to tailor your GPS Map and personal brand.

• Examples from business leaders, media, entertainment, and artificial intelligence.

• Strategies to align your mission, vision, and values to boost life skills.

• Key images, charts, definitions, and illustrations for clearer understanding.

• Fun, relevant content for young adults and entrepreneurs to upskill.

• Practical ideas for Educators, and Learning & Development Trainers.

Who is this multidimensional non-fiction book for?

Ideal for people interested in personal growth, professional development, self-help, and work-life balance. Whether you're an employee, student, or business owner, this flexible framework will help you reset, realign, and shift forward. Give it a go and drive on!

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 22, 2025

About the author

Dr. Lester Frederick, also known as ‘The Synthesiza’, is the founder of Instructional Design and Leadership Development (IDLD) Creatives LLC, where he works as a Learning Experience Designer, Digital Project Manager, and Learning and Development Consultant. He is also the coauthor of the “Managing Creative Projects” chapter in The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management book.

Lester credits some of his practical knowledge and skills to traveling to six continents. From 2010 to 2016, Lester served as a university Leadership Course Director (BA). Since 2016, he has been a Project and Team Management Course Director (MA).

For over 25 years, he has intermittently refined his mashup of guiding principles for success. In 2025, his eclectic version was published in this book. These principles are timeless, universal, and transferable. Give it a go and drive on!

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"This motivating book combines insight with practical tools" - Kirkus Reviews

Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Reviews
1. Guiding Principles for Success: GPS Map by Lester Frederick is a self-help book that teaches how we can align our personal and professional goals for a more balanced life, using a creative driving metaphor. Frederick provides step-by-step instructions and downloadable interactive worksheets which readers can use to create their own GPS map to success. Lester Frederick's writing style inspired me. It was engaging and detailed…I recommend Guiding Principles for Success to anyone looking to rebuild their lives and find a balance between their profession and true passion. - Jalene Dion

2. Lester Frederick presents a fun and informative guide. He expresses himself in a warm and friendly manner, and his examples are clear and inspiring....Additionally, the content is interactive because it includes questions at the end of each chapter, allowing us to reflect on what we have learned…This book will be beneficial for students and workers seeking to organize their activities more effectively. - Diana Lopez

3. Guiding Principles for Success provides a practical and concise guide to those who are stuck. Downloadable resources are available to support readers. Other inspirational stories unfold to inspire, both in real life and through characters in literature, movies, and television. A series of charts rounds off this highly recommended work, plus an extensive bibliography. - Leonard Smuts

4. Lester Frederick’s Guiding Principles for Success: GPS Map is a wonderfully practical blueprint for transforming ideas into tangible results through actionable strategies and structured thinking. I really like his use of historical examples, like the women in Hidden Figures, and contemporary models such as MinecraftEdu, to underpin what he has to say…this book offers a hands-on and highly applicable approach to achieving consistent results in both personal and professional contexts. Very highly recommended. - Jamie Michele

5. The step-by-step approach includes exercises and downloadable worksheets, making the process interactive and tailored to each individual’s unique journey. Lester Frederick successfully blends motivational insights with practical tools and keeps the pace steady and encouraging. His use of vivid metaphors and real-life examples makes the concepts easy to visualize and apply in daily life. - Mansoor Ahmed

Reviews

[Tanmay Mehta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guiding Principles For Success: GPS Map is a practical guide to personal and professional growth built around the idea of creating a personal GPS Map for success. Lester Frederick introduces a structured yet flexible framework that helps readers bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be in life. Using six core prompts, namely Personality, Purpose, Passion, Problem Solving, Planning, and Profit, the book encourages readers to reflect deeply on their identity and goals. Through guided exercises, interactive infographics, and clear explanations, the book focuses on alignment between personal values and professional ambitions, making the journey toward balance and clarity more achievable.

What stands out most is the book’s clarity and practicality. It delivers focused content without unnecessary filler, which makes it easy to stay engaged and motivated. The worksheets and visual tools help translate abstract ideas into concrete action, while real world examples from business, media, and technology add relevance and credibility. The tone is encouraging and accessible, especially for young adults, entrepreneurs, educators, and trainers who want ideas they can immediately apply. The balance between insight and action makes the book both informative and enjoyable to read.

It offers a realistic and adaptable roadmap for anyone feeling stuck or uncertain about their direction. Its emphasis on alignment between mission, vision, and values makes it useful not only for career growth but also for overall life skills. Whether you are a student, employee, business owner, or educator, the framework can be customized to suit your needs. For readers interested in self help, professional development, and work life balance, this book provides the tools and motivation to reset, realign, and move forward with confidence.

[Sophia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guiding Principles for Success: GPS Map is a practical guide to help you achieve personal and professional goals. The author presents the concepts in a light-hearted manner that makes the content understandable and fun. Connecting the concepts to a "GPS" system makes the ideas presented easy to follow and remember. The use of visuals and making comparisons to real-life situations and people helps make the information relevant and easily applicable.

This guidebook helps the reader learn more deeply about themselves through engaging activities of self-discovery to understand their own personal and professional purpose.

I recommend this to anyone looking for a clear step-by-step approach to setting and achieving meaningful life goals.

[Keeyahna Sheard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational and practical

This book shared ideas on creating goals or plans to direct to your ideal destination. The questions organize you ideas and plans and help you create an road map for yourself. There are several quotes from successful people that he studied. It was a inspirational book. I recommend it.

[Terry Birdgenaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guiding Principles for Success: GPS Map by Lester Frederick is a self-help book for adults early in their careers who need guidance for finding the purpose that will lead to success in life. The author begins by discussing the effort needed to balance personal and professional goals. He continues by outlining the six guiding principles for success, including identity, purpose, passion, problem-solving, planning, and profit. The book goes on to define identity, arguing it is not what you do, but who you are. He stresses that who you are is based on your heritage, nationality, race, gender, upbringing and how you see yourself, which is influenced by your spirituality, soul (mind, emotions & will), and body. Purpose is defined as the way you get from reality to destiny, and involves setting goals and using a workable system. Passion is like gas in the car; without it, you won’t go anywhere, and it must be combined with time, values, and effort. Problem-solving involves empathy, ideation, innovating and testing, while profit depends on monetizing your knowledge and skills, and requires leadership and project management skills. The author does a good job of using examples from history (famous people), literature, film, and pop culture, and of comparing life experiences to heroes’ journeys in fiction. The book is filled with helpful charts, diagrams, footnotes and an extensive bibliography. Particularly useful are the catchy acronyms and actionable exercises that help the reader remember and put into practice the various steps and approaches described. Highly recommended for young adults (teens to late twenties) seeking direction on how to lead a successful and fulfilling life.

[Greta Shoop · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Guiding Principles for Success: GPS Map" is a thoughtful and well-structured guide for anyone looking to align their personal values with their professional goals. Lester Frederick uses the GPS metaphor effectively, helping readers navigate challenges and clarify their direction in life and work.
Whether you’re just entering the workforce or have decades of experience and are feeling restless, this book helps you to pause, refocus, and reorient toward what truly drives you. Frederick walks you through each step with clarity, including detailed explanations, thoughtful activities, inspiring stories (from well-known people), and guided exercises that turn some overwhelming life questions into manageable actions. It’s not just theory, it’s a process you can truly work through.
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It’s rare to find a self-help book that speaks equally well to people just starting in the professional world and to those in midlife transition, but this one does it beautifully.

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