Mission Driven

Former Navy SEAL commander, White House fellow, and popular business speaker and author, Mike Hayes zeroes in on tried-and-true methods of searching for meaning in one's life. MISSION-DRIVEN is a frank playbook for understanding your motivations, setting goals based on them, and starting the process of executing them.
Mission-Driven offers a practical guide for seekers at transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles or people shifting to find new balance in their lives more broadly. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you're looking to have both in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moves readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they've gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities). Its lessons include: - Not What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be - The Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More - Getting Comfortable Making Decisions - Finding Enough in The Ways You Spend Your Time Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or, at any stage, looking for more, Mission-Drivenis a book about knowing yourself, training yourself, generating opportunities, and building a life of impact, meaning, and reward, however you personally define it. A roadmap for discovering what drives you, and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities, it is a book to help us all satisfy our ambitions and our souls, filled with the smart, empathetic guidance we can all use to finally find enough.

MIKE HAYES is the former commanding officer of SEAL Team Two, leading a two-thousand-person Special Operations task force in southeastern Afghanistan. In addition to a twenty-year career as a SEAL, Mike was a White House fellow, served two years as director of defense policy and strategy at the National Security Council, and has worked directly with both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Beyond his military and government service, Mike is the founding board member of the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, and his own 501(c)(3), the 1162 Foundation, which has paid off twelve Gold Star widow mortgages to date. In the private sector, Mike has served in several C-level roles and is currently managing director at Insight Partners, a software investment firm with $90 billion of assets under management and 600+ portfolio companies. He lives in Sunapee, New Hampshire, and Westport, Connecticut, with his wife and daughter.