The Earned Life

Lose Regret, Choose Fulfilment

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

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Penguin Books Ltd
18 November 2025

Alternative lifestyles; Careers guidance; Management: leadership & motivation; Advice on careers & achieving success; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem

A powerful framework for living a fulfilled life from the world's no.1 executive coach

Our lives reside on a continuum that roams between 'fulfilment' on the one end and 'regret' at the other. Where would you place yourself right now? And where do think you should be?

In his powerful new framework, the worlds' number one executive coach Marshall Goldsmith explains that there are eight 'satisfactors' that impact our position on the scale. These are happiness, meaning, purpose, achievement, engagement, relationships, health and wealth. And he shows how creating equivalence between (a) the choices, risks and effort made in pursuing the satisfactors and (b) the reward received for doing so, moves us towards fulfilment.

Drawing on examples from his work coaching the CEOs of the world's largest companies, he lays out three simple steps; living your own life, becoming a 'one-trick genius', and committing yourself to 'earning' every day to show how we all have the power to be fulfilled and to live the earned life.

By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780241989654
ISBN 10: 0241989655
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Marshall Goldsmith (Author) Dr Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognised as the world's most influential leadership expert, renowned for his uncanny ability to help CEOs achieve lasting changes in behaviour. He has been named as one of the world's fifteen greatest business thinkers by The Times, described as one of America's 'Fifty Great Leaders' by Bloomberg Businessweek, and twice won 'World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker' at the Forbes Thinkers50 Awards. His 2008 book What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international bestseller and remains the market-leading book on professional development.

Reviews for The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfilment

Inspiring insight from the world's top coach...Goldsmith left me tingling from the journey of reflection I'd been taken on. * Bruce Daisley, author of The Joy of Work * The advice in this book can help you keep on achieving and, at the same time, do a better job of finding peace and happiness in the process. * Amy Edmondson, Harvard Professor * What a gift from Marshall - to help us become the people that we want to be and to live a fulfilled life with no regrets - The Earned Life rocks * Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford * My life changed for the better when I started working with Marshall Goldsmith. Since then, all of my significant decisions have been influenced by his wisdom, compassion, and commitment. * Dr. Jim Yong Kim, former president of the World Bank *