Decisions, Courage, and Action
Real Stories of Choosing What Matters,
Moving Through Fear
and Turning Intention into Results!
Moving Through Fear
and Turning Intention into Results!
Compiled by Robert Plank,
host of Marketer of the Day
host of Marketer of the Day
Other decisions are harder to put off. Your team needs an answer. A client is placing their trust in you. The pace you’ve been keeping is starting to cost you, and you’re wondering how long you can continue.
Decisions, Courage, and Action brings together ten authors with real stories and practical ways to work through those moments. They explore how to make decisions under pressure, lead people through change, and finish work that has been sitting unfinished for too long.
Rita Ainsworth recalls staring at a familiar advertising dashboard and suddenly being unable to make sense of the numbers. Mitch Slater describes receiving a million-dollar check to manage when he had been a financial advisor for only a few months. WL Gertz returns to poetry after roughly fifty years, finally publishing work he had left sitting for decades.
Their experiences raise questions worth asking about your own life. What is pushing harder actually costing you? What does another person’s trust require of you? How much longer do you want to postpone something you care about?
You'll Discover How To...
- Make better decisions when AI speeds everything up with Jason M. Riggs. Identify where human judgment belongs, who owns the result, and how to avoid building the wrong thing faster.
- Recognize when pushing harder is costing you with Rita Ainsworth. Learn from a performance marketer whose two burnouts forced her to reconsider ambition, rest, and the need to prove her worth through work.
- Lead confidently from the middle with Sally Foley-Lewis. Use her memorable Burger Framework to examine your values, ask better questions, and communicate with employees, peers, and senior leaders.
- Help your team think for themselves with Dr. Carlos Davidovich. Recognize the management habits that send every decision back to your desk, and practice coaching without taking over.
- Bring people through change with Dr. Julie Donley. Look beyond the behavior that frustrates you, understand what may be making change difficult, and give important conversations your full attention.
- Earn trust before you make the pitch with Mitch Slater. Explore what a million-dollar client check and five years of pursuing podcast approval taught him about listening, persistence, and following through.
- Return to something you thought you’d left behind with WL Gertz. Follow a traveler and poet back to writing after a long absence, and reconsider the experiences and creative work you keep postponing.
Build strength for the life you want to keep with Phil Ross, M.S. Explore gradual, repeatable practice that supports everyday capability, from carrying groceries to getting up from the floor.
Finish three small things today with Donna Blevins. Question the self-talk that discounts your progress, give AI assignments you can inspect, and get useful work finished before perfectionism adds another delay.
Turn an overwhelming project into five little boxes with Robert Plank. Define the finished outcome, work backward to a step you can take today, and use AI throughout the process while keeping responsibility for the decisions.
You can bring a business problem to this book. You can also bring the difficult conversation, the neglected creative interest, or the personal goal that never seems urgent enough to get your attention.
Choose the chapter closest to what you’re facing. Try an idea, notice what happens, and give yourself something concrete to work with the next time you open that unfinished project.
About Decisions, Courage, and Action
Compiled by podcaster, author, and DFY Podcast founder Robert Plank, Decisions, Courage, and Action brings together ten perspectives on the choices that shape your work and life. The contributors draw on experience in business, coaching, healthcare leadership, financial advising, travel, poetry, poker, and physical training.
Each chapter combines personal experience with ideas you can put to use. Read from beginning to end, or turn to the author addressing the problem in front of you. You’ll find room to examine how you work, how you treat people, and what deserves your attention next.
© 2026 JumpX LLC, a single member LLC registered in California owned by Robert Plank. Decisions, Courage, and Action is a compilation book featuring ten contributing authors.
Decisions, Courage, and Action is a compilation book featuring 10 entrepreneurial authors.