Home Court Advantage
How to Win in Life by Strengthening What Matters Most
What if success is not only about what you accomplish, but about what you strengthen along the way?
We spend much of our lives keeping score. Income. Sales. Career accomplishments. Bank accounts. Credit scores. Some of the most important parts of our lives never show up on that scoreboard: our relationships, our family, our faith and purpose, our health, our finances, our growth, our priorities.
Get the bookAm I winning where it matters most?
Home Court Advantage asks you to stop long enough to answer it honestly.
Success looks different when you change the scoreboard
It is possible to succeed professionally while quietly neglecting the very things you are working so hard for.
Gary knows that tension first hand. In Home Court Advantage he shares personal stories and hard-earned lessons from a lifetime of marriage, raising a family, building businesses, experiencing loss, growing in faith, making mistakes, and discovering that some of life's most important victories do not come with trophies.
This is not a book about having everything figured out, and it is not about creating a perfectly balanced life. It is about becoming more deliberate. Through honest stories and practical principles, Gary asks readers to look at where they are today, recognise what deserves more of their attention, and begin strengthening it one decision at a time.
Because meaningful change does not always require a dramatic transformation. Sometimes it starts with one small promise you are willing to keep.
If nothing changes for the next five years, are you okay with where you are headed?
Same priorities. Same habits. Same relationships. Same health decisions. Same financial choices. Same use of your time.
The purpose of this book is not to make you feel guilty about where you are. It is to help you become deliberate about where you are going. You do not have to change everything. Start with one thing that matters.
Take the message beyond the stage
The keynote creates the moment. The book is what lets the message continue after your attendees go home.
Copies can be arranged for conferences, leadership retreats, corporate events and association meetings. Gary will also sign at your event, which gives attendees a reason to meet him and carries the conversation past the last session.
What is your home court score?
Most of us know our credit score. We know what is in the bank. If we are in business, we know our sales numbers. Almost nobody knows this one.
There are no perfect scores, no right answers and no judgement. It is a chance to step away from the busyness long enough to see where you are strongest, and where you have the most room to become deliberate. You finish with a clearer picture of where you are today, and something more useful than that: a place to begin.
You don't have to win everywhere today.
You just need to become more deliberate about what matters most.
Your career matters. Your goals matter. Your accomplishments matter. So do the people waiting for you at home. So does your health, your faith, your relationships, your time, and the person you are becoming along the way.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is to build a life worth winning.