Engage Connect Grow: 52 Lessons to Guide Individuals & Corporate Teams to the Heart of What Truly Matters to Them

by Aaron Solly

About the Book

Are you at a point in your life where you are ready to commit to seeing your life challenges differently? Perhaps you are struggling with performance at work or maybe you are not sure how to handle a difficult situation. Maybe there is something you need to communicate and you are not sure how. This self-guide format is designed to help you get serious about what is really going on in your life and at work. You can take one step each week for a year to move closer to your life’s intention or goal(s).

It is very important for corporate teams to work together in a professional and productive manner. This workbook includes exercises that corporate teams can complete together to help improve teamwork, employee engagement and success overall. 

“Aaron has written a transparent, vulnerable guide book that offers individuals and groups a meaningful method for moving towards their personal and professional goals. These journaling exercises will take you on a journey backwards to reclaim aspects of self that are essential to move forward in a powerful, integrated way.”
— Catherine and Duane O’Kane, best selling authors of REAL: The Power of Authentic Connection and founders of Clearmind International Institute.

 

“Aaron Solly helps us explore who we are on a deeper level in his powerful book, “Engage, Connect, Grow”. Using his personal experience and journey he helps us truly understand this human experience. Take your time with this one and absorb the message.”
— Joe Nunziata, Spiritual Business and Life Coach author of Spiritual Selling and Karma Buster.

 

“Aaron was a team member with me in a fast growing tech company in the early 2000’s. Aaron was a to performer who was always very focused on his personal and professional development – something much needed in the high tech industry, due to the rate of change. Aaron told me of his philosophy that your results were always in your head – he called it “the Between Your Ears approach. This book takes that concept to a deeper level that many of us will benefit from, including myself. On behalf of those people, including myself – thank you Aaron !”
— Tro Anderson, Software lndustry.

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About the Author

Aaron’s own life journey has been focused on personal and professional growth.
As a teenager and young adult, he silently struggled with low self-esteem and depression. For a long time, he felt disconnected from who he was and from how to express his true self to his friends, family, and coworkers.
Over twenty years of journaling—and taking additional steps to ultimately show compassion and love for himself—enabled him to gain a sense of awareness of who he is and the amazing gifts he can bring to the world.
His passion is to guide individuals,  corporate teams and organizations to the heart of what truly matters to them.
He is able to bring his passion to others through his company, Engage Coaching Group, as a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, an author, a coach, and a teacher. Aaron has over fifteen years of combined business development experience in the financial services and technology industries. He holds a Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology from Clearmind International Institute and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University with a major in Human Resource Management.
Aaron was born in Burnaby, British Columbia (BC), Canada and he spent the majority of his childhood in Williams Lake, BC. He is a father, son, husband, friend, and self-loving man. He currently lives in Langley, BC, Canada, with his wife Farrah and two sons.

Aaron would love to hear about your experience with completing the 52 lessons.
You can reach him via email at info@EngageCoachingGroup.com or by phone at 604-731-7933.

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Interview with Aaron Solly

Please share a bit about your journey to become a published author?

In 2012, as I was starting a counselling diploma through Clearmind International, I became motivated to type all my journal entries onto my computer. I knew that they could help people improve their lives in some way. I wasn’t completely sure how twenty years of journal entries would translate into a book, but I knew the act of journaling had really helped me work through my own feelings, doubts, worries and fears.

I connected with Julie Salisbury of Influence Publishing after finding out that she had helped the founders of Clearmind International with their book. She provided one on one consulting to help me take what I had written and ensure it was structured in a way that was engaging and beneficial to the reader.

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How does the writing process work for you? Do you schedule a time every day, work madly when inspiration hits or ?

At the start, I tended to want to sit down and write as much as I could in one sitting. I soon realized this wasn’t the best use of my time as I needed to manage daily routines for my son, work full-time, complete homework for my counselling diploma plus have a break from the day. I committed to writing twenty minutes a day. It worked perfectly. At the end of a week, I was so amazed to see how much I was able to get done by doing just a little bit every day.

What did you find most difficult about the writing and publishing process? What was the easiest?

I did find the editing process more intense than I expected. I think initially I was attached to how I wanted the book to look and it took me some time to let go of some things and embrace others. I am so glad I used the editor, Nina, that Juile recommended as I am so happy with the final draft of the book.

Once I was in a groove, the writing became easy and I am having fun promoting it.

What title (or titles) have you released? Please include a short synopsis of what your book is (or books are) about.

“Engage, Connect, Grow – 52 lessons to guide individuals & corporate teams to the heart of what matters to them”

This workbook is in a self-guide format designed to help readers get serious about what is really going on in their lives and at work. Readers will have a total of 52 lessons to work through. They can take one step each week for a year to move closer to their life’s intention(s) or goal(s).

The workbook is broken up into three main parts:

PART ONE: ENGAGE – Engage is all about becoming an active participant in your life.  You will spend time writing about things such as:

  • Your life stories.
  • Your thoughts.
  • Who are you?
  • Your intention.

PART TWO: CONNECT – Connect focuses on connection. Connection to yourself, your family & colleagues, etc. You will write about topics such as:

  • Connect with yourself.
  • Your response to connection.
  • Your behaviors.
  • Your family
  • Your health.

PART THREE: GROW – Grow, you and your team will look at key ways to maintain growth in your life and at work, such as:

  • Creativity
  • Education
  • Mediation
  • Support

Do you have any new books in the planning or writing stage?

No new books planned as of yet although there are a lot of poems that I have written in my journals over the years. I have thought about creating a book with them to highlight how creative writing can help those dealing with depression.

What do you hope readers will take away from your book?

My hope that this book helps readers take a step (no matter the size) to create positive change in their work and personal lives. Also, I think it would be amazing for corporations to use it with their teams to help with employee engagement, team building and overall growth.