Living an Extraordinary Life
Unlocking Your Potential for Success, Joy and Fulfillment
3rd Edition
Published on 15. August 2025
Book
Hardback
224 pages
979-8-9985207-1-6 (ISBN)
Description
Based on intensive work with over one million people worldwide, this personal development and leadership coaching book demonstrates that we all have everything it takes to live an extraordinary life - if we are willing to take charge of our lives and discover the true meaning of personal responsibility. Like diets we don't follow, 'self-help' books have become cliché-ridden shopping lists for what doesn't work. They are as likely to generate a Doonesbury spoof as improvements in people's lives. Often the only thing they improve is the thickness of their authors' wallets. Prescribing solutions is almost always ineffective and self-defeating. Until you are good and ready, you are not going to follow even the most well-meaning advice about personal growth. But if you are truly ready for growth and change, and if your facilitator is gifted, it is possible. The key is insightful coaching and a lot of penetrating questions, heart-to-heart questions that reach deep inside and ask you to address issues you can no longer afford to avoid. In this, Robert White's first book, he says, "I don't have the answers for your life, but I know for certain that you do. There are no rules in these pages, nothing conceptual or theoretical to be mastered or to memorize. It is simply an inquiry into what is possible for each of us in the areas of life we truly care about most: our relationships, career, personal identity, joy in living and connection to spirit."
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Robert White is Founder and CEO of Extraordinary People LLC plus a frequentkeynote speaker and workshop leader on organizational leadership, successfullyhandling rapid change, entrepreneurial mindset success and being morepersonally effective.Robert's experience encompasses over forty years in the trainingindustry. He was President of pioneer personal growth seminar company MindDynamics Inc., and Founder and President of Lifespring, Inc. (sold in 1974). Hefounded and served as Chairman of ARC International from 1978-2001 andworked closely with its corporate and individual clients in 15 training centersthroughout Asia, South America, Europe and North America. In 2002 hefounded and is currently CEO of Extraordinary People LLC focusing on servingexecutives and their teams in growth-oriented corporations.Lifespring, ARC and Extraordinary People have graduated over1,300,000 participants from high-impact experiential leadership trainings andserved over 1800 corporations.Robert also founded, financed and later sold Woodlands Press, apublisher of award-winning photography books featuring USA's National Parks- Yellowstone, The Grand Canyon, Olympic, Mount Ranier, The GreatSmokies, Grand Teton, Glacier and others.Robert White has utilized his experience as a keynote speaker to "turnon and inspire" diverse groups including United Telephone, JPMorganChase,Young Presidents Organization (YPO), World Business Academy, TheAmerican Chambers of Commerce in Japan and Hong Kong, plus Rotary Clubsfrom Aspen to Singapore.Robert White served as a vice president of the Instructional SystemsAssociation, and as Asian regional vice chairman of the Pacific Basin EconomicCouncil. As a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, heserved as chairman of several committees, and then as a member of the Board ofGovernors. Robert was elected a Fellow of The World Business Academy in1999. The World Scout Foundation honored Robert as a Baden Powell Fellow;he is co-author of the award-winning photo essay, One World, One People; andauthor of the best-seller Living an Extraordinary Life. Nightingale Conantpublished an award-winning audio tape and CD home-study version of Robert'swork.Living out his commitment to contribute toward a world that works for allpeople, Robert actively supports the Sarvodaya community developmentorganization in Sri Lanka, The Kempe Center for Child Abuse and Neglect andThe Adoption Exchange. He also served on the Board of Directors of TheWindstar Foundation and The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. He now serveson the Board of Plant-It 2020.Robert founded One World, One People Foundations in the USA, Japanand Hong Kong - non-profit organizations that have donated over one millionU.S. dollars to charities doing environmental education, communitydevelopment and those working to end child abuse and neglect.Helping others to develop extraordinary personal leadership abilities,capacity and effectiveness is Robert's personal mission. His other interestsinclude current events, reading history and philosophy, being with his eightchildren and enjoying many styles of live music.