The Daily Six

In today's challenging and fast-paced environment we call "Corporate America", many people feel life isn't simple, they can't find a sense of balance, and the definition of prosperity doesn't include quality of life. It's these stark realities-complemented by the ambition of fame and fortune-that lead many down a spiraling path of sacrificing the very attributes that give life substance and meaning.

Personal fulfillment doesn't have to be a trade-off for success.

The Daily Six is a simple road map detailing how you can find a deeper meaning in life while building a successful career. Following the six simple strategies will change the focus of your life and lead you to a more centered, peaceful balance of your personal and professional existence without adding any more "to-do's" to your already overwhelming list. It will show you how to optimize your energy, hold to your ideals, and stay focused on the only person you have total control over-YOU.

About the Author
It took a failed marriage and losing his family during the process of building his multimillion dollar company-only to lose the business, his assets and his financial wealth in the end-for John to realize the desperate transformation and change of focus his life needed in order for him to be successful again.

While working to rebuild his financial success he was determined to find balance and a sense of self-significance in his personal life. He created a plan to remind him where his daily focus needed to be-The Daily Six.

Today, John runs Changing the Focus, LLC, his own executive coaching and business consulting firm. He's incorporated The Daily Six in his motivational speeches, coaching and workshops. John travels across the U.S. teaching others how simple it is to achieve both the success and substance that makes life great by implementing The Daily Six strategies. His desire is to revolutionize the lives of individuals in need of changing their focus to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life through his lectures, articles and book, using his life as a prime example.

Writing the Book
When faced with rebuilding financial success, I recognized my own challenges. In the past it seemed each time I was faced with character building or wealth building, I always chose the latter. Knowing what my "Type A," laser-focused personality had contributed to my life in before, I devised The Daily Six as a plan to remind me daily where my focus needed to be so I wouldn't make any of the same detrimental choices again.

I fine-tuned my plan into a more comprehensive strategy for both individuals and orgainzaitons and incorporated The Daily Six in my keynote speeches and executive workshops. I noticed audiences grasping the concept of The Daily Six, and was pleased my story could impact their lives. When a person came up to me after one of my speeches saying I should write a book about all of it, I realized the true positive impact I could have on so many more lives. The rest, as they say, is history.

I wrote The Daily Six to help people learn how to:

Make positive changes in their lives,
Return to a sense of balance and centeredness,
Be successful without putting parts of their lives on the backburner,
Remember each relationship is something to add to instead of take from,
And finally, I wrote The Daily Six so people can learn from my "Gift of Desperation" and not wait to make the necessary changes in their lives before they have a story of their own.

Copyright © 2005 Changing The Focus, All rights reserved.

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Book Review

Read some of the exceptional reviews The Daily Six has received from book reviewers across the globe.

10/05 - The Daily Six in stores November 3rd
The Daily Six: Six Simple Steps to Find the Perfect Balance of Prosperity and Purpose
"Chappelear is the ultimate life coach. He teaches us all to focus on what's really important-our health and values, our families and friends. Step off the train for just a moment and listen to one of the best."
- Dr. Bob Rosenauthor of Leading People and Global Literacies

John Chappelear is a self-described "recovering Big Shot." When Chappelear's workaholic lifestyle and mantra of E.A.R.N. (Everything! All the Time! Right Now) eventually led to a divorce and estrangement from his children, he still continued living an unexamined life. But when the bank essentially dismantled the business for which he had sacrificed so much, he finally realized how bankrupt he had become both professionally and personally.

In the wake of these devastating setbacks, Chappelear learned that a successful life is not defined by how much you own, but by who you are and how much you give of yourself. It was a simple yet stunning revelation that totally changed the way he did business and the way he approached life. With the help of several unlikely mentors and some painful self-assessment, Chappelear forged a new life strategy over the next several years. Today he helps others avoid his fate by counseling business executives and firms on how to become financially and professionally successful without becoming spiritually bankrupt.

Chappelear shares his time-tested strategies in The Daily Six: Six Simple Steps to Find the Perfect Balance of Prosperity and Purpose (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $19.95; November 3, 2005). Chappelear supplies a "powerful road map to change the focus of your life and experience both the success and substance that make life great." There are countless self-help business books that teach managers how to improve the bottom line and an equal number of life coaches who offer advice on improving relationships exist, but The Daily Six bridges work and home issues brilliantly by showing how to balance career success and personal fulfillment. The result is an empowering guide to what most people crave today-deeper meaning and fulfillment in life.

Chappelear's "Daily Six" are the essential principles, practices and truths that have become the cornerstone of his consulting work. These life-changing strategies are deceptively simple, but when put into play-singly or all together-they help people strengthen personal vision, connect with their inner spirit, and alter the way they think, feel, and act. Best of all, these strategies can be tackled without adding more stress to life.

Sound impossible? Dip into the book to read about people whose lives were dramatically changed by this life plan. The author introduces dozens of people, including unlikely mentors, who have turned harried, empty lives into lives filled with success and substance. And they did it by following one or more of Chappelear's guiding principles:

Willingness: Be open to change, face your fears, and give up controlling behavior.

Daily Quiet Time: Just by setting aside the briefest period of contemplation can set your heart in the right direction.

Service to Others: When you do for others, you change the focus from "What's in it for me?" to "What's in it from me?"

Love and Forgiveness: With love you understand another's needs and treat them as your own. With forgiveness, you begin to let go of anger and resentment. Expressing love brings love. Practicing forgiveness brings peace.

Gratitude: Practicing gratitude changes every relationship in your life. There is no direct line to happiness. You have to go through gratitude to get there.

Action: Change starts only when you take that first step. Small steps are important because small changes, practiced consistently, transform great ideas into dramatic results.

In each chapter, Chappelear shows how to incorporate the step into daily life without sacrificing professional goals. He illustrates with real-life examples and punctuates them with timeless quotes from great philosophers and thinkers throughout the ages:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" (Gandhi)

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world" (George Bernard Shaw)

"Usually our criticisms of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different from ours" (Roger Eastman)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change" (Charles Darwin).

At the heart of The Daily Six is the idea that you deserve to have both personal fulfillment and career success, and that you can have both, if you get your priorities straight. John Chappelear is a living example that it is possible and his timing couldn't be better. In a business world trying hard to reconcile ethical practices with bottom-line responsibility, The Daily Six is an inspiring place to start.

John Chappelear's six steps are tailor-made for the frenetic, achievement-driven culture we live in. Informed by his own experiences, Chappelear delivers an accessible, pragmatic life plan that can be embraced at any level.