Imagine starting each day feeling optimistic, clear on your priorities, and proud of where you are in life. Imagine feeling confident to go after the bold goals that inspire you.

For most of us, this seems like a pipedream or something to hope for “someday.” We’re mired in what seems “urgent” and feel stuck or uninspired. We think, “If I keep pushing and making sacrifices, maybe someday I’ll arrive in a better place where life is easier and I’m happier.”

The 5 Power Principles in Fast Forward offer a simple, proven system that can help you make “someday” today. Backed by psychological research and brain science, and used by more than 100,000 people around the world, the 5 Power Principles help you define where you want to be in one year, professionally and personally, and then make it happen. 

• Declare a bold vision for your whole life that creates focus and ignites you to play big and move beyond limiting beliefs.   
• Reframe negative stories that hold you back into empowering narratives that propel you forward. 
• Create an action plan to take control of your time and energy and make steady progress on important goals.
• Use language of action to produce meaningful results and improve relationships.
• Become a conscious, curious listener who is free from solving other people’s problems.

For more than a decade, Wendy Leshgold and Lisa McCarthy have trained people at some of the world’s leading companies to achieve extraordinary success and happiness. In Fast Forward, they share compelling stories from real people who used their system to make their boldest ambitions happen. Through powerful exercises that generate insight and action, they’ll help you do the same.

Discover how to make this year, and every year, your year.

Wendy Leshgold spent more than a decade in advertising, leading teams at Ogilvy & Mather, BBDO and Deutsch, where she worked with brands including Apple, Kodak, IBM, Bank of America and Mitsubishi. In these roles, she understood first-hand the challenges people face in high pressure, fast-paced corporate environments. She felt compelled to help, so she launched a successful executive coaching practice, earning her executive coaching certification from CTI. A decade later, she joined forces with her childhood friend Lisa McCarthy, who had a similar passion. Wendy is a highly active board member of California Environmental Voters, and uses the Power Principles to fuel that team and accelerate its mission. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three children, and two dogs. 

Lisa McCarthy had spent 25 years at prominent media companies Univision, Viacom and CBS, leading sales organizations that were responsible for billions in revenue. Recognized as a people-first leader and change agent, Lisa was named a “Woman to Watch” by Advertising Age and was included in Crain’s New York “Business 40 Under 40.” She had experienced the onslaught of an always-on workplace: where we end up simply surviving, putting out fires, and often putting our personal happiness and peace on hold.