Batteries Included
How to Be Counted On Without Being Used Up
Michael Dwayne Henry · Greystone Press
Audiobook, read by the author, to follow. Chapter 1 is below.
- Format
- 6×9 paperback, 254 pages
- Price
- $18.99
- ISBN
- 979-8-9945402-0-6
- Ebook
- 979-8-9945402-1-3
- Publisher
- Greystone Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
- On sale
- 2027
Chapter 1, read by the author.
The Producer's Curse, in full, and the first minutes of Chapter 2. Eighteen minutes.
Download · 13 MB · Read by Michael Dwayne Henry
NO ONE IS COMING
TO RECHARGE YOU.
The goal isn't a full charge. It's a charge you get to keep.
I was the one people counted on. Number one in the building. The one who handled it. I showed up fully charged to every job, every church, every family table, and people used what I brought. That's what a battery is for.
Then I ran down. I lost the work, the house, and two years of having a place to live before I learned the difference between being needed and being valued.
This book is what I learned on the way back, in twenty-one short chapters:
If you're the one everybody counts on, and you're quietly running down, I wrote this for you.
Seven Threats
What being needed costs you when nobody names the price.
Seven Truths
What is still true about you when the usefulness runs out.
Seven Steps
What you do with your power when it's yours again.
Twenty-one chapters. Three parts of seven.
The chapters aren't in the order I lived them. One chapter I'm forty-nine. The next I'm nineteen. They're in the order I drained, and the order I came back. Every chapter ends with a micro-step. It's small on purpose. That's the homework.
The Seven Threats
- 1.The Producer's Curse
- 2.The Inherited Script
- 3.The Utility Trap
- 4.The Ransom of Expectation
- 5.The Imposter in the Mirror
- 6.The Pay-to-Play Connection
- 7.The Silent Bankruptcy
The Seven Truths
- 8.You Are Not What You Do for People
- 9.Boundaries Are Not Walls
- 10.The Standard Is Yours to Set
- 11.Disappointment Is a Filter
- 12.The Audition Is Over
- 13.Silence Is the Loudest Roar
- 14.Your God-Given Talent Needs No Pitch
The Seven Steps
- 15.Ask the Question
- 16.Your Yes Has an Expiration Date
- 17.It Comes Out Somewhere
- 18.Know Where Done Is
- 19.The Guilt That Isn't Yours
- 20.You Can Always Rebuild It
- 21.Build Your Own Room
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Bulk pricing starts at 25 copies, and the discussion guide printed in the book is built for small groups, men's groups, and teams at work.
Michael Dwayne Henry spent thirty years as the one people counted on, as a designer and as the number one salesman in the building. He lost the work and the house, and dictated this book on foot, twenty-five to thirty-five thousand steps a day, on the way back. He speaks to companies and churches about keeping their most dependable people without wearing them out. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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