Brent Yates, entrepreneur, husband, father, and philanthropist, reflects on the choices and changes that improved his life in his book The Gravity of Up: Unlocking Your Potential So No One Can Hold You Down. Described as a “personal lifetime audit,” Brent’s book shares the stories of how he was able to radically change his own life by focusing on three pillars of health: mental, physical, and spiritual.
“In 2020, I dreamed of climbing a mountain in California. After I reached the top, I felt thankful and really good about myself. Then I looked down. The faces of the people who helped me were on the rocks. A big inspiration for the book was the people who came into my life when I was at my worst in 2007.”
Life taught him lessons he wanted to share as he overcame those obstacles. His life coach and his wife told him he should write a book. “I’m thinking, I don’t really want to expose myself, particularly, and do I have a great book and am I the right guy, and will people listen, do I have a stage? First-time writer. There are insecurities about putting yourself out there.” Then, in 2020, Brent had shoulder surgery at the height of the pandemic. The world was shut down, and so was he. It was during his recovery that he decided to go for it.
When asked what he wants the reader to take away from his book, Brent says, “The adventure of change. I want people to be inspired to change and to recognize the adventure of change, and that discipline is the difference maker. It gives us a chance to go at life at the highest level. If you want to go higher and aspire to be better, you need discipline. Mind, body, and soul. Do I take on the clouds when I wake up and the day is cloudy?”
The Gravity of Up: Unlocking Your Potential So No One Can Hold You Down is available November 1 from Forefront Books.