The Execution Factor: How to transform your good ideas into cash in the world's most distracted industry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477536667)

Benjamin Jacques is a lifestyle designer, artist, and founder of Melting Waves design studio and the Taking Back Earth foundation. He started off as a designer, pursuing the career after he was told at a young age that "I wasn't artistic enough to work on the school mural in elementary school, and constantly improved my craft just as if to prove my old art teacher that I was wrong." He loves art and I thrust himself into the freelance graphic design arena, and although the majority of his clients were supermodels (true story) and large businesses, he found that he was very unhappy very quickly because he wasn't taking the time to design anything for himself. While everyone making was money and continuing to grow their businesses with the use of his designs and it wasn't long before he realized that if he learned how to run a business, He'd be able to streamline it by producing all of his own designs for marketing his personal services and products. He went from being just another freelancer to developing a dominant graphic design brand in the internet marketing space and now has the pleasure to design for only the coolest and nicest people around. "I've always had an interest in personal growth, but started to pursue it at a faster pace with deeper intentions in the past few years and it's led me from a place of deep depression to the current peak state that I perform at, where I'm full of joy and energy in every moment." He quickly realized that just like designing a beautiful work of art, we are able to design our lives that we live if we are only willing to take the steps necessary to understand what we want to craft and then dive right in. That's where Taking Back Earth came from, and since the day he began to spread that idea, our group has been able to help people from all around the world start taking the necessary steps to designing their ideal lifestyles.