Thoughtfully Fit
Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
- Work, Money & Leadership
- Publisher: Harper Horizon (HarperCollins Focus)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Your mind is like your body. Train it right, and it’ll become stronger, faster, and more agile! Grounded in simple yet proven strategies, Thoughtfully Fit trains your mind to perform well under any challenging circumstance. It helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses, maximize your full potential, and customize a plan for success. Developed by Darcy Luoma, one of America’s most highly credentialed leadership coaches, Thoughtfully Fit is the culmination of her lifetime work training leaders and teams to achieve peak mental fitness and overcome any hurdle effectively. Luoma is no stranger to life’s challenges, one of the biggest being her husband’s incarceration for a sexual assault case against a minor. Breaking down and giving up was not an option for her or her young daughters, so she relied on what she knows best: coaching and the Thoughtfully Fit® model revealed in her book. Through personal stories combined with concrete skills, Thoughtfully Fit draws on the same principles of being physically fit – like flexibility, agility, and strength – to train you to be mentally fit for life’s challenges, big or small. After reading this book, you will learn how to: improve communication strengthen your relationships have less conflict, resentment, and regret have more energy for the things you love live with greater intention Luoma has been where you are, and she will equip you to overcome whatever obstacles life throws your way!
Endorsements (26)
“Thoughtfully Fit is an excellent guide for anyone feeling stressed out, isolated, lacking in control, without choices, or just plain stuck. It’s also the culmination of life’s lessons, professional and personal, from someone who knows how to learn, teach, and endure with radical grace and growth. I’m forever grateful Darcy said ‘yes’ to working on our team way back when. It has allowed me to be part of the evolution of what’s always been her true calling: helping people. In this, her first book, she does just that: helps people get Thoughtfully Fit, while poignantly showing us that lemons do make lemonade.”
“Lost? Darcy Luoma’s Thoughtfully Fit can help you find where it is you or your business and team need to go—and prepare you to blaze your own trail there. Have mountains, figurative and literal, to climb? So did Darcy. And she found her path to the summit. You—and your business—can too. She pours more than twenty years’ professional and personal experiences into a topographic map of exhilarating achievements, a shattering and ruinous situation, persistence, lessons, and action. With Eliza Waters, Luoma has wrapped them into Thoughtfully Fit, both a book and a model training plan. It is relevant, honest, and dynamic. Darcy has figured it out. She and Thoughtfully Fit are the wise, expert guides to have along, with the skills, strategy, and savvy to help you endure, no matter your adventure, no matter the mountain.”
“As Darcy reminds us, life is both beautiful and messy. More importantly, she models how clear thinking, honesty, and compassion help us live into our beauty. This book is authentic because it is rooted in her life, family, and community. It is a treasure!”
Rev. Winton Boyd
“Thoughtfully Fit is an amazing playbook for regular folks, leaders, executives, coaches, and anyone who wants to create awareness, become mentally fit, and enhance their overall well-being. The Thoughtfully Fit model aggregates practical and effective strategies designed to help us do better and intentionally show up as our very best selves in any given situation. Best of all, you can start from where you are. It’s a must-have resource for your success toolbox!”
“Darcy’s shocking yet relatable story is proof positive that by thoughtfully choosing how you want to show up, you can train your mind like exercise trains your body.”
“This is not your typical self-help book. It’s also a moving story of resilience in the face of unbelievable adversity. In Thoughtfully Fit, Darcy opens her heart as well as her research-based, fire-tested, mental and emotional training system to help prepare anyone to summit their own ‘Mount Crisis,’ whether large or small, in everyday life.”
“Darcy’s Thoughtfully Fit model is a game changer for one’s personal and professional life. Her willingness to be vulnerable sharing her life story—while providing each of us a plan for thriving through whatever life brings us—is moving and inspiring.”
“It takes courage to tell the story of a life-altering trauma. It takes wisdom to develop a framework for personal and professional success. And it takes experience to translate that wisdom into practical steps that can be applied immediately. Darcy has done all three in this compelling, valuable resource for anyone interested in becoming better equipped to pursue a life of purpose, presence, and impact.”
“In her book, Thoughtfully Fit, Darcy Luoma courageously and inspirationally offers invaluable lessons on managing life and business success during the toughest of times. Written with wisdom and knowing humor, Ms. Luoma outlines the process that helped her—and so many others—find a path to overcome hurdles and move forward with strength and purpose. I can’t recommend this book enough.”
“As a Master Certified Coach and trainer of professional coaches, I am no stranger to the myriad books, structures, research, tools, and mindsets necessary to successfully manage ourselves—our thoughts, our hearts, our spirits, and our lives. And I am here to tell you that this book belongs among the best of that body of work. Through the lens of her own personal crisis, Darcy shares how applying her Thoughtfully Fit training model helped her to summit the ultimate mountain and to come down the other side believing more strongly than ever in herself, her values, and her own potential. Heartfelt, compelling, courageous, and vulnerable, Darcy’s story is inspirational, and the lessons she shares are a gift to any reader with the fearlessness to engage them. This book is a present for anyone craving to learn some very practical tools for how to live life more intentionally, authentically, and bravely—both in times of deep crises and in everyday life situations. I am looking forward to applying her model in my own life, and I will no doubt be assigning it as recommended reading for my students!”
“Faced with an unspeakable reality just ten years into what seemed like a wonderful marriage, Darcy Luoma’s world turned upside down in a way none of us would even entertain in our nightmares. That horrific moment eventually prompted her to create this amazing, useful, brave, and necessary book. With skill and authenticity (and a huge dose of self-disclosure), she presents a solid plan for all of us who face challenges, change, and setbacks in our lives. As she says, ‘While you can’t control what happens to you, you do control what happens next.’ This book will help you regain that control and design a plan for you to be Thoughtfully Fit for the next curveball life throws at you.”
“Whether climbing literal or figurative mountains, Darcy Luoma is known for her intense curiosity, energy, drive, determination, and empathy. She left that legacy and more when she worked in my senate office. In writing her first book, she masterfully weaves knowledge, research, devotion to this work, and a deeply personal story into an excellent guide to being Thoughtfully Fit. Readers will surely benefit from the authenticity, honesty, and support that her coaching and experience provide.”
“As someone who enjoys endurance exercise, I resonate with the metaphor of Thoughtfully Fit. I can utilize the activities to improve my mind in a way similar to that of improving my physical fitness.”
“I have known Darcy for fourteen years and have watched her go through the trauma of her husband’s arrest. The principles of her Thoughtfully Fit model are what she used to navigate through that trauma and what she uses each day to bring her best self to the world.”
“Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success captures the essence of the Darcy Luoma I’ve known and worked with for years. She created and built the Thoughtfully Fit model, then was unexpectedly forced to pressure-test it in her own life as she confronted unimaginable challenges created by the betrayal of her husband. With heartfelt stories and vivid examples, Darcy shares her wisdom and proven techniques for successfully navigating life’s personal and professional challenges with integrity.”
“This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to take their life to the next level. Darcy Luoma provides a blueprint for growing an unshakeable core, becoming more resilient, and cultivating positive transformation for success in life and business. Blending together her inspiring personal story, scientific studies, and insightful and informative skills, this book breaks new ground in illuminating the power of becoming Thoughtfully Fit to reach your potential.”
Dr. Shilagh Mirgain
“Darcy Luoma’s Thoughtfully Fit book is a witness to the strength and resilience of the human spirit, and a window into a creative mind determined to make the most of even the worst situations.”
Rev. Ken Pennings
“Powerful, vulnerable, transformative! Thoughtfully Fit, a methodology that is shared and demonstrated through the real-life experience of Darcy Luoma, is incredibly impactful. Darcy shows us what Thoughtfully Fit looks like in practice, a book that delivers the ‘how-tos’ to sustainable change. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to change their lives by changing their thinking!”
“True health springs from a balance of body, mind, and heart. Darcy lays out a perfect path to be Thoughtfully Fit, which will result in creating meaningful and impactful connections with others. I love Darcy’s insights, which have changed how I interact with my family, friends, and clients. I wish I had known this years ago! Do yourself and others a favor—embrace Darcy’s plan.”
“Darcy has shown the world what it is to ‘walk the walk,’ not simply ‘talk the walk.’ Her Thoughtfully Fit model can be used in many aspects of life—from personal to professional. Presented with honesty, integrity, and grace, this is a book written for anyone ready to take their life to the next level.”
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