The Grass Is Greener

About the Book

This book is about being successful in all of life---job (including homemaker), family, church, and spiritual life. Yes, this book tells you how to find your niche, but a lot more. It also tells you about the positive and negative influences on life’s priority relationship--- our walk with God. Written to be informative and encouraging, questions are included to inspire thought and direct attention to God’s way of thinking as revealed in Scripture. Life’s problems and dilemmas hit everyone. Listen in … •“I’m at a crossroads. Should I stay in this job or do something else? I’m confused.” •“I like what I do now, but is this what God really wants of me? Should I be considering a full-time ministry? Is there something else I should be doing? Should I go back to school? If so, what should I major in?” •“I’m bored stiff…life is a treadmill. Spiritually, I’ve ‘lost it’, I feel like a robot reading my Bible. I have no energy. Why?” People know they should do something, but what? Listen in again ...… •“I’ve tried figuring out what to do, but I’m never sure about what I come up with, so I continue on the path I’m on now.” •“I get confusing advice. Who should I listen to?” This book will help you (or help you help others) Find and Live Out Your Calling ... •With an organized, proven-in-practice decision making process to find or clarify your life direction and calling. •By showing how your God-Given Strengths (Greens) and God-Given Limitations (Reds) impact your …a. Attitude, energy level, performance, and relationships b. Job (including homemaker) life, family life, church life, and spiritual life. … so that you will know you are doing your best to do what counts, in God’s eyes.

About the Author

Author Richard G. Hagstrom is a consultant, speaker, and writer.  He is originator and developer of the “Green Light Concept,” a unique and innovative way individuals can view themselves and others through the Green, Yellow, and Red signals of a traffic light. 

Profit and not-for-profit organizations use the Concept while solving people problems, selecting and supervising people, developing training programs, and career planning.  Individuals use it to choose their life direction and right-for-them job opportunities that will best utilize their God-Given Strengths.  

Hagstrom, from years of experience in organizational leadership and development and consulting work, draws on hundreds of real-life illustrations to tell you how to be at your best in your job life, home life, church life, student life, spiritual life, and relationships. 

In 1976, he started Hagstrom Consulting, Inc. Prior to that, he served as a management consultant for an international research and consulting firm specializing in leadership development.  He has lectured on the Green Light Concept at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad.  He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

He and his wife Marion live in East Longmeadow, MA.  They have two grown children and five grandchildren.