What Matters Now, Gareth OCallaghan
What Matters Now, Gareth OCallaghan
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What Matters Now
A Memoir of Hope and Finding a Way Through the Dark

Author: Gareth O'Callaghan

Narrator: Gareth O'Callaghan

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2021


Synopsis

From the Number One Bestselling author comes his powerful memoir.

Gareth O'Callaghan is one of Irish radio's most popular and familiar voices. In 2018, after receiving a life-changing diagnosis, he retired from full-time work and gave up the career in radio that he had loved for decades.

Here, in this deeply personal memoir, he tells his story of love and hope. From the moments after his doctor uttered the words Multiple System Atrophy -- a neurological disease that is both progressive and incurable, and ultimately carries a fatal prognosis -- to how, drawing on inner reserves and determination, he pulled himself from the darkness to come to terms with a new way of living.

With his trademark empathy, insight and honesty, he looks at how, no matter what the circumstances, we can choose how we live and that every life must be lived to the fullest.

"For me, this is not a choice. It's all I want, namely a full and loving life that I strive to choose every day over everything else - considering that maybe the big odds are heavily stacked against that. But I don't care what the odds might be; I'll keep defying them for as long as I can keep fighting and living."

(P)2021 Hachette Books Ireland

About Gareth O'Callaghan

Gareth O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's most popular radio presenters, having enjoyed a successful career that has stretched across forty years. During that period he has worked for many radio stations, both home and abroad, including RTE and BBC.He also spent a number of years working as a psychotherapist in Ireland.In 2018, Gareth took early retirement from his radio career after being diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy.He is the author of six books, including the 2003 No. 1 bestseller, 'A Day Called Hope', which documented his own personal journey through and beyond depression.He spends much of his time these days writing and blogging. He continues to challenge this awful illness through daily physical exercise, while urging others with similar debilitating conditions to do the same. He lives in Cork.


Reviews

Goodreads review by posthuman on June 01, 2020

Someone recently recommended Gary Hamel's What Matters Now and upon cracking open the Kindle version, my first reaction was to double check the copyright date. It might have been written a decade ago with public anger over the 2008 economic crisis in mind, but it could have easily been written in 20......more

Goodreads review by Henri on September 03, 2012

I finished the book about a week ago and I'm still bit puzzled, what it was all about. There was so many good things presented there and so many good examples around the world, that it takes time to digest it. Maybe the main message there is, that management practices in use are old and these don't......more

Goodreads review by Kevan on September 08, 2014

This makes me want to reinvent the way every bureaucracy in the world is structured. A return to putting humans first in your enterprise, and encouraging individual contributions rather than systematized control. If all managers and leaders around the world gave these theories some thought, we'd hav......more

Goodreads review by Marc on September 08, 2013

Though I found the first chapter preachie and Gary an excessive sesquipedalian (someone who uses big words), the content and cases Hamel uses are inspiringly convincing. This book is an excellent addition to your library if you want new ideas that inspire employees, balance innovation and efficiency......more

Goodreads review by Arnab on May 22, 2019

Well here are my numbers on these parameters: Avoiding Redundancy: 2/5 Case Studies: 3/5 Authenticity: 3/5 Readability: 2/5 Practical: 4/5 Quotes: 3/5 Well, the book does nothing new when it comes to present day companies and their vision. Most of the companies are working under the guidelines which GARY me......more