The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development is a science-based roadmap for leaders who are successful on paper yet feel strangely stuck inside. Drawing on more than a decade of research and executive teaching, Djikic introduces the “Wheel of Self” model, showing how lasting change only happens when five parts of the self move together: motivation, behavior, emotion, mind, and our embodied past.
Through vivid case stories and clear explanations, she explains why willpower, mindset shifts, or habit hacks alone rarely stick, and how stalled patterns like overwork, perfectionism, or emotional shutdown can be understood as frozen attempts at growth. Each chapter offers practical techniques to rediscover core desires, restore depleted willpower, process difficult emotions, loosen rigid beliefs, and relearn old bodily patterns so they support rather than sabotage change.
For CoachFinder clients, The Possible Self is both a framework and a toolkit: it helps leaders turn insight into transformation, escape the “success without fulfillment” trap, and build a more grounded, flexible, and humane way of leading themselves and others.
