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    Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You've Always Wanted
    Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You've Always Wanted
    Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You've Always Wanted
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    Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You've Always Wanted

    By Bob Pritchett

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    You have permission to do something incredible.

    Whether you'd like to start a different career, earn greater income, or perhaps accomplish something unrelated to your job, you can do it! And now is the time to start.
    In Start Next Now, successful entrepreneur Bob Pritchett shares his guiding principles, which have grown his company to over 440 employees today. You won't find mere inspirational puffery here. This fast-paced book provides you with an actual plan to start achieving your goal before you even finish reading.

    So what are you waiting for? It's time to start next now.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKirkdale Press
    Release dateOct 20, 2015
    ISBN9781577996460
    Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You've Always Wanted

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      Start Next Now - Bob Pritchett

      START NEXT NOW: HOW TO GET THE LIFE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED

      BOB PRITCHETT

      KIRKDALE PRESS

      Start Next Now: How to Get the Life You’ve Always Wanted

      Copyright 2015 Bob Pritchett

      Kirkdale Press, 1313 Commercial St., Bellingham, WA 98225

      KirkdalePress.com

      You may use brief quotations from this resource in presentations, articles, and books. For all other uses, please write Kirkdale Press for permission. Email us at permissions@kirkdalepress.com.

      Scripture quotations marked (LEB) are from the Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2013 Lexham Press. Lexham is a registered trademark of Faithlife Corporation.

      Print ISBN 978-1-57-799645-3

      Digital ISBN 978-1-57-799646-0

      Kirkdale Editorial Team: Lynnea Fraser, Abigail Stocker

      Cover Design: Josh Warren

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION: Permission to Try Anything

      STEP ONE: Identify Your Next

      What Do You Want?

      Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

      Life as an Imposter

      STEP TWO: Start Doing the Next Thing Now

      Always Turn to Goal

      Keep Moving

      Despise Comfort

      Confront Fear

      STEP THREE: Set Yourself Up for Success

      Distinguish Yourself

      Increase Your Visibility

      Ask Questions

      STEP FOUR: Evaluate Your Employment

      Get on the Right Bus

      Making More Money

      Money Is Only Part of Pay

      Getting a Raise

      Can You Afford This Job?

      STEP FIVE: Reach for Your Next Milestone

      Identify the Next Milestone

      Keep Doing the Next Thing

      CONCLUSION: Be Intentional

      Acknowledgements

      INTRODUCTION: PERMISSION TO TRY ANYTHING

      My parents were not particularly ambitious for me.

      They didn’t push me to excel in school. My dad didn’t pressure me to win the game, and my mom wasn’t overly concerned with my report card. My parents cared a lot about my character but not as much, it seemed, about preparing me for a specific career or status or ambition. They didn’t push me to do anything in particular.

      What my parents did give me was encouragement to find and explore my own passions. Every project, idea, and fleeting career ambition was met with their encouragement, support, and a suggestion of what I could do right now to explore that passion.

      When I wanted to be an FBI agent, my parents introduced me to a police detective who gave me a stack of professional law enforcement magazines. When I expressed an interest in bees, they put a beehive in the backyard and encouraged me to start a honey business. My interest in business got me sent around the neighborhood with a cart selling vegetables from the garden; my curiosity about journalism was met with the support to launch a school newspaper.

      I have read many stories about parents driving children toward excellence in one pursuit or another, but none of parents giving such benign and nonspecific support as I received. Athlete, merchant, cop, or president of the United States—my parents led me to believe that every option was open to me, and they offered suggestions on how to start exploring it right now.

      My interest in computers led to a high school business selling software for computer programmers. In writing and online no one knew I was just a kid, and during the day my mother took phone messages so I could return calls after school.

      That experience helped me land an internship at Microsoft when I was eighteen. A year later I was working full time at Microsoft when I started a hobby project with a friend that grew into yet another business. At twenty I left to pursue that business full time, and I am still leading it more than twenty years later.

      I love being an entrepreneur; it’s fun to set a vision and lead a team and even make some money. But the joy I find in my daily work doesn’t come from money or position, but rather from doing purposeful work I love with people I love. And I am wise enough to know that I am not a self-made man. I am the beneficiary of many advantages, not the least of which is permission.

      Today I employ hundreds of people. In interviews and coffee conversations, I hear over and over again how people were held back by parents who discouraged them, by teachers and coaches and bosses and counselors who told them they weren’t qualified, and by so-called friends who laughed at their dreams.

      If you are among those who did not find encouragement to pursue your passion, then I am here to pass along the wisdom of my gently supportive parents: You have permission to try anything and my belief that you can accomplish whatever you’d like. It might be hard, it might take time, and maybe you won’t even want to. But we can start finding out right now.

      You have permission to do something incredible.

      You can have the

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