The Business Apostolate

Do you feel that achieving professional success is taking too great a toll on your personal life? Is there something in your personal life that is not allowing you to give your best at work? Do you feel like you're living your life based on someone else's priorities and not your own? The Business Apostolate will provide you with a fresh set of insights to help define your life's mission (your "apostolate"). It will enable you to live your "life journey" across your different personal and business roles. There are many lessons I have learned in my nearly three decades in business. Most of them come from the balancing act of being a dedicated husband and father, while simultaneously climbing the corporate ladder to positions such as general manager and marketing officer in Fortune 100 companies, living in five different countries, and interacting with multiple cultures for work as well as pleasure. It wasn't always smooth, but it has been a continuing process of adjusting and living my life in a manner increasingly consistent with my personal mission statement. In this book, I am grouping my life philosophy into three broad steps: . Step 1: Be 100% accountable for your life. . Step 2: Develop your personal mission statement. . Step 3: Live your personal mission 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is not a book about religion, as the "Apostolate" title may imply, although I will highlight the benefits of continually feeding your soul. It is also not a one-size-fits-all program, but rather a list of insights from which you can extract what you find most applicable to you. Nor is it a quick-fix to produce life-changing results overnight, yet it will hopefully entice you to get started while you are still reading the book. Don't wait until you wake up one day wishing you had lived a more meaningful life. Don't wait for a life-changing event to define your legacy to your loved ones and the rest of the world. Open your eyes now! Join me in the journey toward fulfilling your business apostolate and succeeding in life.

Do you feel that achieving professional success is taking too great a toll on your personal life? Is there something in your personal life that is not allowing you to give your best at work? Do you feel like you're living your life based on someone else's priorities and not your own? The Business Apostolate will provide you with a fresh set of insights to help define your life's mission (your "apostolate"). It will enable you to live your "life journey" across your different personal and business roles. There are many lessons I have learned in my nearly three decades in business. Most of them come from the balancing act of being a dedicated husband and father, while simultaneously climbing the corporate ladder to positions such as general manager and marketing officer in Fortune 100 companies, living in five different countries, and interacting with multiple cultures for work as well as pleasure. It wasn't always smooth, but it has been a continuing process of adjusting and living my life in a manner increasingly consistent with my personal mission statement. In this book, I am grouping my life philosophy into three broad steps: . Step 1: Be 100% accountable for your life. . Step 2: Develop your personal mission statement. . Step 3: Live your personal mission 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is not a book about religion, as the "Apostolate" title may imply, although I will highlight the benefits of continually feeding your soul. It is also not a one-size-fits-all program, but rather a list of insights from which you can extract what you find most applicable to you. Nor is it a quick-fix to produce life-changing results overnight, yet it will hopefully entice you to get started while you are still reading the book. Don't wait until you wake up one day wishing you had lived a more meaningful life. Don't wait for a life-changing event to define your legacy to your loved ones and the rest of the world. Open your eyes now! Join me in the journey toward fulfilling your business apostolate and succeeding in life.

Percy M. Cannon was born and raised in Peru. He received a chemical engineering degree from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the same school. Percy spent 27 years working for three multinational companies (Procter & Gamble, IBM and Microsoft), living in seven different cities and five countries, covering several consumer and informational technology categories and markets in Latin America and worldwide. During those years, Percy performed different business, marketing and people leadership roles, with responsibilities for brands, product categories, business units and overall general management. His current career goal is to leverage his 27 years of corporate experience to help corporations succeed, and enable business individuals to thrive at work and across their different roles in life. The first step will be to publish in November 2012 his book “The Business Apostolate: Insights to Define and Achieve Your Mission in Life.” This will be followed by offering consulting and coaching services to businesses, professionals and corporate employees. Percy is married and has three children and two granddaughters. He is a passionate runner and reader, and speaks Spanish (native), English and Portuguese fluently.