As the founder and CEO of a financial-planning firm, Jerry Foster might be expected to write a book about 401(k) plans or climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, the Christian-themed “lifeFocus: Achieving a Life of Purpose and Influence” (Revell, $12.99) offers advice about finding contentment in life regardless of the size of your nest egg.
“True personal wealth,” Foster writes, “is more about realizing deep fulfillment and satisfaction than about accumulating things.”
Getting headed in the right direction is important, Foster suggests, because people generally choose one of three paths through life: indifference (existence-centered), indulgence (self-centered) or influence (others-centered). It’s the latter road that leads to fulfillment, he says.
Borrowing a page from geometry, he says that making a slight change in direction now (the “vector principle”) can bring major changes to the arc of your life through the years.
In “lifeFocus,” Foster offers practical advice for discovering your talents and concrete examples of how to use those gifts to enrich your family and community.
Quoting carmakers: “Henry Ford wisely stated, `Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.'”
