Lessons from Life: Four Keys to Living with More Meaning, Purpose, and Success

In this deeply personal self-help memoir, Steve Darter asks himself the question: What is the purpose of my life? Using incredibly entertaining and relatable storytelling, Steve takes you on a journey of emotion, reflection, and insight that encourages you to think about how to live with more meaning, purpose, and success at any age whether young, old, or in between.

If you apply the concepts and techniques described in Steve's book, it will help you:

. Identify and engage in work and activity that provides a sense of meaning, purpose, satisfaction, and fulfillment

. Understand and manage your motivated strengths and prevent them from becoming weaknesses that can damage performance, limit productivity, and create all sorts of problems in life

. Break free what may be holding you back, including physical and emotional pain

. Be who you were uniquely designed to be, realize the purpose of your life, and maximize your potential,

"Exceptionally well written. . . extraordinary personal story combined with life enhancing, life affirming commentaries. . . very highly recommended"
—Midwest Book Review

Ranked #1 "Profound Book About Finding Yourself" by Fupping, a media company that focuses on book and product reviews and expert buying guides.

For more than forty years, Steven has preached about understanding, using, and effectively managing motivated strengths to live a more meaningful, purposeful, and successful life. He has counseled roughly 5,000 people, ranging from CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to troubled teenagers, on work, career, and life issues.

What others have said about Lessons from Life:

“Steve Darter exhibits extreme courage, humility, and vulnerability as he tells a fascinating story of his lifelong journey leading to self-discovery of his God-given giftedness and life purpose . . . This book can significantly enhance your life!”
—Fred Sievert, retired president, New York Life Insurance Company; author of God Revealed: Revisit Your Past to Enrich Your Future

"Everyone who reads this will benefit from its honest self-reflection and will be inspired to find the hidden strength their life journey has to make them better people.”
—Kenneth Klepper, Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO, ReactiveCore; former president, Medco Health Solutions

“I highly recommend Steve’s book for everyone desiring to use their God-given gifts to their fullest”
--Stephen D. Ban, PhD, retired CEO, Gas Research Institute

“Whether you are early or late in your life, there is much to learn or relearn from Steve Darter’s Lessons from Life”
—Sam Havens, retired president, Prudential Health Care

“I found the writing to be magnetic, sentence after sentence. The communication is clear and deep; nothing hidden, so painfully honest. The message about life and purpose, consistent and growing, illustrated through struggles, victories, and defeats that are so real.”
—Arthur F. Miller, Author of: How God Shapes Our Lives

“Steve distills incredible wisdom from his own life’s experiences. . . I felt myself frequently laughing one moment, only to be startled by a moment of great poignancy the next.”
—Greg Baumer, senior vice president and chief growth officer, naviHealth; author of God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School

“This book reveals an amazing, intelligent, and proven way to discover your life’s purpose.”
—Dick Staub, nationally syndicated broadcaster and founder of The Kindlings; author The Culturally Savvy Christian, and other books

“Steve offers us the powerful reflections that have emerged from his own life story. . . This is a book you will read, reread, and gift to others.”
—Zara F. Larsen, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Engineering, Werner International POC GmbH

“Engaging life stories—each with important lessons for all”
—Robert C. Andringa, PhD, President Emeritus, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities