Scott Perry

THIS ISN'T A SELF-HELP BOOK. IT'S A HELP OTHERS BOOK.You enhance your life most when you make a difference in the lives of others. That work is at the intersection of your values, talents, and tribe.It’s time to fly higher in an endeavor that makes a difference. Are you ready?IT'S TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCEHave you wasted enough time traveling the well-worn path of what’s expected? Are you done seeking a destination mapped out by the status quo?That map leads to where everyone else is headed. Do you want to settle for the tried and true, the ordinary, and the unremarkable?DRAW YOUR OWN MAPIt’s time to embark on a voyage of discovery. Who are you? What are you good at? Where do you belong?Endeavor is a compass to help you draw your own map and a process to encourage you to step into your “what’s next” with integrity and intention.THE WHAT, WHO, AND PROMISE OF THE ENDEAVOR BOOKWhat's It For? Endeavor is a book about discovering your life's work. Finding fulfillment, prosperity, and meaning through making a difference.Who's It For? You're not defined by your role or job, but by your values and vocation. Cultivate excellence through work that matters.What's the Promise? The work you're meant to do is work you get to do. Work that's worth it. Endeavor helps you define "what's next" and step into it.*

Advance Praise for Onward "Every day we get to choose the stories we believe, the stories we tell, and probably most important of all, the ones we live. Use Onward as your guide to living a bolder story in service of others." Bernadette Jiwa, author, and creator of The Story Skills Workshop "I've said 'onwards and upwards' for years. Scott's book is helping me finally understand it. If you're stuck, this will get you moving." Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit "Scott Perry's Onward is the antidote to complacency, stagnancy, and stuck-ness. This digestible and actionable missive offers tons of provocative questions, examples, and direction to propel you forward and help you maintain momentum." Natalie Nixon, author of The Creativity Leap "Scott Perry's Onward is compact but packs a big punch. It will help get you on your way forward and keep your endeavors rising." Stephen Hanselman, co-author of The Daily Stoic and Lives of the Stoics "Onward is a guide to serving others, respecting ourselves, and making decisions. It is a timeless workbook that will help you navigate any endeavor." Tania Marien, Talaterra "Profound, actionable, and generous, Scott has written a short manifesto that will sit with you and help you move forward. Worth sharing." Seth Godin, Author of This is Marketing Are you ready to make a difference? Onward is a handbook for aspiring and advancing change agents leaning into endeavors that make a difference. Presented in a pithy and provocative style, the insights and inspiration shared in Onward help readers cultivate a thriving difference-maker's mindset and posture. Dedicating yourself to work that matters is fraught. Moments of doubt, insignificance, and inertia are part of the gig. Onward is written to motivate determined and deliberate action. It's time to get unstuck, out of your own way, and stepping into possibility with the change you seek to make. This isn't a self-help book; it's a help-others book. Ready to step into possibility with intention and integrity? Onward will get you guided and going. Scott shares a time-tested and scientifically vetted approach to ensure you thrive as you strive to level up. "Legacy isn't what you leave behind. It's the contribution you're making now." - Scott Perry, Onward Find fulfillment and flourish doing meaningful work done with and for others. Start living your legacy now. About Scott Perry Scott Perry is a husband, father, teacher, musician, and Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose. He's a head coach in Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops and the author of several other titles. Scott believes excellence is cultivated through work that enhances the lives of others. He helps people like you step into what's next with curiosity, courage, and a commitment to make things better. Scott and his wife, Lisa, live in Floyd, VA where they've raised two sons and more than a few eyebrows. Experience less stress and more well-being while doing work that's worth it. Let's go! Onward.

"Scott will open your eyes to a different way of doing work that matters. This is time well spent." - Seth Godin, best-selling author of Purple Cow and creator of the altMBA Scott Perry is the founder of Creative On Purpose. TSC was written and published by Scott during the first session of The Marketing Seminar. Scott is currently a coach in that and other Seth Godin online programs. The Stoic Creative Is a Handbook About Where the Art of Living and the Creative Process Collide Are you missing the bullseye with your work? Find it by applying ancient wisdom and your creative capacity. It's time to intentionally pursue artistry in an undertaking that aligns with your values, talents, and audience. Develop your potential by delivering work that matters to those that need it. The Stoic Creative helps you engage your curiosity, courage, and creativity to do more meaningful work. It's Time to Share Your Excellence Work done on purpose, with purpose, and for a purpose enhances the lives of everyone it touches. When you adopt the posture of a professional who is creative on purpose you - Identify the unique gift that only you can share by aligning your core values with your true talents. - Collaborate and serve those who share your values and need your talents to enhance their lives. - Experience greater prosperity, passion, recognition, and significance through your work. The Stoic Creative delivers straightforward and engaging lessons and exercises. Chapters begin with a provocative assertion to transform your mindset and reveal possibilities. Lessons provide a clear process for dialing in the intention of your work and gets you started right away. Chapters end with an exercises for cultivating a thriving artist's journey beyond the handbook. This handbook shares an approach to creative enterprises that promote less frustration and greater flourishing while you engage with the challenges inherent in any meaningful venture. The handbook ends with a resource guide and suggestions for further exploration. Are you ready - Invest in yourself? - Enroll in a process that works? - Be held accountable for realizing your promise? - Engage in endeavors that serve others? Then click “Buy Now” to get going! You have so much to contribute (and we need you)!

"So very exciting to see this out in the world. A call for courage to pursue the endeavour that makes a difference: great work indeed!" - Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit Better Living Through Endeavors that Make a Difference This handbook helps you discover, develop and deliver better endeavors for the people who need you to show up and enhance their lives. Creative on Purpose is a distilled process crafted from years of conversations and correspondence from Scott Perry's acclaimed broadcast and blog at BeCreativeOnPurpose.com. We all do the work we have to do. Are you ready to start doing the work you get to do? Built and tested throughout Scott Perry's long career as a teacher, this program has been refined and improved through his work as a student and coach in Seth Godin’s online programs. Thousands of people have benefited from the tools and concepts you’re about to learn. But they only work when you employ them. This isn’t a self-help handbook. It’s a help-others handbook. Do you want to make a difference in your life through efforts that improve the lives of others? Are you ready to fly higher in enterprises that elevate everyone? Are you a recent graduate of high school, college, or an online program? Someone in mid-career looking to make a change? Retired or nearly so and ready to start a second act or encore career? Someone who is ready to level up in an endeavor worthy of your time and effort? Then it's time to step into possibility. It's time to be Creative on Purpose. It's time to GO! About Scott Perry Scott Perry is a husband, father, teacher, and founder of Creative on Purpose. He coaches in Seth Godin's online programs and is the author of Endeavor. Scott asserts that excellence is cultivated through work that enhances the lives of others. He helps others step into what's next with curiosity, courage, and a commitment to make things better. Ready to make a difference? Creative on Purpose is a catalyst for tapping into your promise and developing your potential through work that's worth it. If you benefit from this work, please tell the others. Even better, send them a copy!

The Predicament What do you fear most in the work you do? Is it failure, inadequacy, irrelevance, obscurity, poverty? Perhaps it's "all the above." Your work is fraught with challenges, uncertainty, and obstacles that are beyond your control. But you do control the most important asset required to thrive in any situation or circumstance. What asset is that? Your mindset. The way you perceive "the game." And just three little words can reframe any state of affairs. You can find possibility within challenges, options within uncertainty, and opportunities within obstacles. About the Author Scott Perry is a husband, father, teacher, and musician from Floyd, Virginia. Scott coaches in Seth Godin's online programs and is the founder of Creative On Purpose. Your life is enhanced by elevating the lives of others. Scott is dedicated to helping people identify their values and develop their talents to flourish by serving others.

“The ultimate guide to a life lived fully.”—Jeff Moore, founder of Thursday Night BoardroomReady to live without limits in your life's next chapter?There’s a moment when we realize there’s more living behind us than in front.It can be depressing and even triggering.But confronting this reality is also an invitation to develop and deliver on your promise—an opportunity to tap into and engage your limitless potential.If you have a sneaking suspicion that you can be and do more and better.You can.The rules of the game of life you were schooled for and occupied by in the first half of life are compliance, conformity, and competition.Is it any wonder the game you were taught to play feels stifling?Are you surprised that you never really felt like you were winning?You can’t win a game you don’t want to play.It’s time to reconnect with who you really are, what you’re really good at, and where you really belong.It’s time to play your game.All it takes is the will to acknowledge and engage your power to see and step into the unbounded possibility ahead of you.Your life is speaking to you because it wants to speak through you.Let your life speak.Here’s the best part.When you’re playing your game, time expands. You’re present and living in the moment because you’re doing work that matters with people you care about.You’re living your legacy.Which means the time ahead of you can be more fulfilling and meaningful.Ready to get clear about and closer to what you really want in life and live your legacy?It’s your turn. Dial in your unique gift, discover your hidden wholeness, and step into your limitlessness with The Art of Encore Living.

Music is a language you already know and understand. The 3 basic elements of music & how you already use them. The framework that organizes the 3 basic elements of music. Chart a course to begin your guitar playing adventure!

Learn how to hold your guitar and the basics of left and right hand technique. Presented in an easy to follow, step-by-step sequence guaranteed to help you get it right the first time!

Guitar chord diagrams are simple illustrations of how chord shapes are fingered and fretted. They are the most commonly used tool to learn new chord shapes and they are easy to understand and master once you know how they work. This guidebook will have you mastering chord shapes through every level of your guitar playing journey!

An Approach to Thriving In Life Through Music& Three Disciplines You Can Start Using Right NowPhilosophy is largely an esoteric pursuit reserved for academic instructors, institutions and publications. However, for the ancient Greeks and Romans, philosophy was for everyone, providing practical applications for living a meaningful and worthwhile life.A complete understanding of Stoicism is not necessary to put its central concepts and practices to use. At its core, Stoicism is a method for establishing a worldview that accepts whatever life throws at us and a framework for developing a mindset that enables us to thrive in any situation. As Ryan Holiday states in The Obstacle Is the Way, Stoicism is “a formula for thriving not just in spite of whatever happen, but because of it.”

What is productivity, really? It’s not just “getting things done.” Everyone gets all sorts of things done daily. After a day of doing things, most are exhausted, But some get remarkable work done day after day and appear energized by the effort. Wouldn’t you like to be one of those people? I decided that I did. Since graduating from Seth Godin’s altMBA program two years ago, I built a brand, Creative On Purpose, and developed a successful and self-sustaining coaching program, membership site, speaking and workshop career, released two best-selling books on Amazon, and published over 100 blog posts and broadcasts. And I’m just getting started. My family, friends, fans, and followers frequently refer to me as “a shipping machine” and ask, “How do you do it?” In this little handbook, I reveal exactly how I approach every endeavor in which I choose to engage. It’s a process that cultivates excellence while making a difference. An approach that you can start employing right now. “The Process” is a 5-step program to help you start to get the right things done with and for the right people for the right reasons right now! Learn how to develop and execute your vision, mission, goal, strategy, and tactics efficiently and effectively. Ready to make progress in endeavors that make a difference? Let's Go! Click the green Read Now button and start making the change you seek happen.