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Ready, set, live! : empowering strategies for an enlightened life / Janet Bray Attwood, Marci Shimoff and Chris Attwood.

By: Attwood, Janet Bray [author].
Contributor(s): Shimoff, Marci [author] | Attwood, Chris [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Life Calling Resource Books.Publisher: New York : Newport News : Morgan James Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2016Description: ix, 227 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781630476601 (paperback); 1630476609 (paperback).Subject(s): Self-management (Psychology) | Happiness | WellbeingAdditional physical formats: Electronic version : Ready, Set, Live! : empowering strategies for an enlightened life DDC classification: 158.1 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Living in the miracle zone -- Opening the door to a new realm of possibility -- The unexpected power of ritual -- Back from the brink: relationship rescue from a man's point of view -- Power lunch -- Finally! Fearlessly me -- Waking up to authentic self-love -- Love is an inside job -- Leaving self-doubt behind: tap into the science of self-confidence -- Prepare for take-off: release your fears and soar -- Basta ya! enough already! Grandma Shaman's advice for living a kick-ass life -- Pilgrim in Prada: how to live a first-class life and liberate your soul -- Lost and Found -- Chapter 14 Born Confident -- Chapter 15 Discover the Art of Freedom-and Thrive! -- Mother Mary's Tips for Parenting from Love, Not Fear -- How to Love Others Without Losing Yourself -- Make the Best of the Bumps on the Road -- Treasure Hunting for Meaningful Gifts -- Turning Your J-O-B into Your J-O-Y: Transform Your Relationship with Your Boss! -- Dearly Divorcing: Choose Love and Live Happily Ever After -- Will He Call Me? Break Your Addiction to Unavailable Men! -- PTSD, Who Me? -- In Flows Forgiveness: How to Melt a Frozen Heart -- In the Presence of Ducks: How Agreements Shape Our Lives -- Your Sacred Purpose: Put Your Personal Power and Passion to Work Now! -- Enlightened Bestseller Mastermind Experience.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

You can live the life of inner peace, and "Ready, Set, Live: Empowering Strategies for an Enlightened Life" will show you how. With wisdom from more than 25 transformational leaders including "New York Times" bestselling authors, Janet Bray Attwood, Marci Shimoff and Chris Attwood, you'll find practical advice and tools for overcoming adversity and consciously creating the life you've always wanted.

Here you will find engaging personal accounts punctuated with humor, deep-insight, and heart-centered wisdom to empower you with the knowledge and motivation to create a life of abundance, happiness, health, and love. Covering topics from career to relationships to personal transformation, this international team of authors will show you how to finally overcome some of life's challenges and live the life you were destined for.

No matter what your circumstances, there is a way to make a change, and this book will be your guide. You will find the inspiration and tools to empower you to create a life that is enlightened in every way.

With chapters by transformational teachers: Jennifer Scavina, Christina A. Beauchemin, Sergio Baroni, Melinda Anderson, Louisa Jewell, Maggie Dillon Katz, Mayra Fernandez, Anita Catalano, EM Richter, Katharine Bain, Michael LeValley, Tracey Souverein, Angela Romero, Lance Rennka, Lisa Bader, Mindy Mackenzie, Ann Calderone, Sarah Kotz, Ayo Kenyatta Haynes, Kim Harmon, Candace Pedicord, and Raven Sinclaire.

Living in the miracle zone -- Opening the door to a new realm of possibility -- The unexpected power of ritual -- Back from the brink: relationship rescue from a man's point of view -- Power lunch -- Finally! Fearlessly me -- Waking up to authentic self-love -- Love is an inside job -- Leaving self-doubt behind: tap into the science of self-confidence -- Prepare for take-off: release your fears and soar -- Basta ya! enough already! Grandma Shaman's advice for living a kick-ass life -- Pilgrim in Prada: how to live a first-class life and liberate your soul -- Lost and Found -- Chapter 14 Born Confident -- Chapter 15 Discover the Art of Freedom-and Thrive! -- Mother Mary's Tips for Parenting from Love, Not Fear -- How to Love Others Without Losing Yourself -- Make the Best of the Bumps on the Road -- Treasure Hunting for Meaningful Gifts -- Turning Your J-O-B into Your J-O-Y: Transform Your Relationship with Your Boss! -- Dearly Divorcing: Choose Love and Live Happily Ever After -- Will He Call Me? Break Your Addiction to Unavailable Men! -- PTSD, Who Me? -- In Flows Forgiveness: How to Melt a Frozen Heart -- In the Presence of Ducks: How Agreements Shape Our Lives -- Your Sacred Purpose: Put Your Personal Power and Passion to Work Now! -- Enlightened Bestseller Mastermind Experience.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Chapter 1 Living in the Miracle Zone (p. 1)
  • Chapter 2 Opening the Door to a New Realm of Possibility (p. 10)
  • Chapter 3 The Unexpected Power of Ritual (p. 18)
  • Chapter 4 Back from the Brink: Relationship: Rescue from a Man's Point of View (p. 27)
  • Chapter 5 Power Lunch (p. 36)
  • Chapter 6 Finally! Fearlessly Me (p. 45)
  • Chapter 7 Waking Up to Authentic Self-Love (p. 53)
  • Chapter 8 Love Is an Inside Job (p. 62)
  • Chapter 9 Leaving Self-Doubt Behind: Tap into the Science of Self-Confidence (p. 71)
  • Chapter 10 Prepare for Take-Off: Release Your Fears and Soar (p. 80)
  • Chapter 11 Basta Ya! Enough Already! Grandma Shaman's Advice for Living a Kick-Ass Life (p. 90)
  • Chapter 12 Pilgrim in Prada: How to Live a First-Class Life and Liberate Your Soul (p. 99)
  • Chapter 13 Lost and Found (p. 109)
  • Chapter 14 Born Confident (p. 114)
  • Chapter 15 Discover the Art of Freedom-and Thrive! (p. 122)
  • Chapter 16 Mother Mary's Tips for Parenting from Love, Not Fear (p. 131)
  • Chapter 17 How to Love Others Without Losing Yourself (p. 140)
  • Chapter 18 Make the Best of the Bumps on the Road (p. 148)
  • Chapter 19 Treasure Hunting for Meaningful Gifts (p. 156)
  • Chapter 20 Turning Your J-O-B into Your J-O-Y: Transform Your Relationship with Your Boss! (p. 165)
  • Chapter 21 Dearly Divorcing: Choose Love and Live Happily Ever After (p. 174)
  • Chapter 22 Will He Call Me? Break Your Addiction to Unavailable Men! (p. 182)
  • Chapter 23 PTSD, Who Me? (p. 191)
  • Chapter 24 In Flows Forgiveness: How to Melt a Frozen Heart (p. 200)
  • Chapter 25 In the Presence of Ducks: How Agreements Shape Our Lives (p. 209)
  • Chapter 26 Your Sacred Purpose: Put Your Personal Power and Passion to Work Now! (p. 218)
  • Enlightened Bestseller Mastermind Experience (p. 227)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

The year was 1948. Every morning, a man named Marcel Sternberger would leave his home in New York City and take the same 9:09 subway to work. One day, Marcel decided to visit an ill friend before going to work, so he took a different subway, one he'd never ridden before. The car was packed, but there was one vacant seat. As Marcel sat down, he noticed that the man next to him was reading a Hungarian newspaper. Marcel was originally from Hungary, so he struck up a conversation in Hungarian with him. He found out that this man, Bela Paskin, had survived extreme atrocities during World War II and had ended up in a Russian work camp. After the war was over, Bela walked hundreds of miles back to his hometown in Hungary, only to find that his entire family, including his beloved wife, had been killed in the concentration camps. He was so devastated that he eventually left Hungary and made his way to New York. As Marcel listened to Bela's sad story, it felt strangely familiar to him. Just a few days earlier, he'd met a woman at a dinner party who had told him a very similar story. He'd been so intrigued by her story that he'd written her name and phone number on a slip of paper and put it in his pocket. Marcel reached into his pocket for the paper, and asked Bela his wife's name. Bela replied, "Well, my wife's been dead for years, but her name was Marya." Marcel grabbed Bela by the hand and urged him to jump off at the next stop with him. Then they ran to the closest pay phone. Shaking, Marcel dialed the number on the piece of paper and when the woman answered, he asked, "What was your husband's name?" She replied, "Well, my husband's been dead for years, but his name was Bela Paskin." Marcel turned to Bela and said, "It's a miracle. Take the phone and say hello to your wife." I've shared this true story many times in speeches and on radio and TV interviews, and it still gives me goose bumps every time (I call them "God bumps"). But it's only one of the thousands of "miracles stories" I've read while co-authoring the books in the Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul series. What I've found is that miracles are not only possible, they're happening all the time. And yet, if you're like most people, there's probably some area of your life in which you feel like you could use a miracle. Maybe it's finding your soul mate, or having a financial breakthrough, or uncovering your life's purpose. Or maybe it's as simple as being happy. Now that one was a hard one for me. I've often said I came out of the womb with existential angst. Throughout my childhood and teens, I felt like I had a dark cloud around me. I continued to be unhappy in my twenties, thirties, and early forties, even though wealth, recognition, and even fame came to me during those years. It was only when I began studying happiness and applying what I learned to my daily life that everything turned around. By the time I was 50, I was genuinely, deeply happy---and that honestly seemed like a miracle to me. But then something even more surprising happened. I started experiencing something beyond happiness. I began to notice that everything in my life felt like it was "in the flow." The right people were showing up at just the right time, whatever I needed was appearing out of nowhere, and miracles seemed to be happening almost every day. Wow, was that nice! I decided to do some research on miracles, and what I discovered blew me away: There's actually a formula for unleashing miracles in your life. Now, if you're a type A person like me, you're probably thinking, "Okay, give me the formula now, so I can get to work creating my miracles!" But here's the trick: You can't create miracles. According to the dictionary definition (with which I completely agree), a miracle is "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." So if miracles are a gift from the divine, and there's no scientifically reliable way to create them, what can we do? We can create the conditions that will invite miracles into our lives. There are specific things we can do, a formula, to put ourselves in the flow that will allow synchronicities and miracles to show up in our lives---I call this "living in the Miracle Zone." Once I uncovered this formula for living in the Miracle Zone, I created a course called "Your Year of Miracles" to show people how they can live miraculous lives. I've been astonished at the amazing miracles---big and small---that the thousands of people who've taken the course have manifested. The formula works! Let me share with you three key steps in the formula, so you can start to live more and more in the Miracle Zone right away. Excerpted from Ready, Set, Live!: Empowering Strategies for an Enlightened Life by Janet Attwood, Marci Shimoff, Chris Attwood, Geoff Affleck All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Janet Bray Attwood is a visionary, a transformational leader, and a world humanitarian. She supports people in all walks of life in knowing their personal greatness. Janet is the co-author of the "New York Times" bestsellers, "The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose" and "Your Hidden Riches: Unleashing the Power of Ritual to Create a Life of Meaning and Purpose." She and Chris have trained 1,500 Passion Test Facilitators in 50 countries around the world.

Marci Shimoff is a celebrated transformational leader and a #1 "New York Times" bestselling author. The woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, she is the co-author of six of the top-selling titles in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, "Happy For No Reason" and "Love For No Reason." She is also a featured teacher in the international movie and book sensation, "The Secret."

Chris Attwood is co-author of the New York Times bestsellers, "The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose" and "Your Hidden Riches: Unleashing the Power of Ritual to Create a Life of Meaning and Purpose." Chris is one of the leading trainers and authors in the transformational industry, having co-created programs such as the Enlightened Millionaire Program and the Alliance Secrets Program, co-founded "Healthy Wealthy n Wise" magazine and arranged some of the major strategic alliances in this industry.

Geoff Affleck is strategic marketing consultant to new thought leaders and the bestselling co-author of the #1 bestseller, "Enlightened Bestseller: 7 Keys to a Successful Self-Help Book" and "Breakthrough: Inspirational Strategies for an Audaciously Authentic Life." Geoff is also the co-creator of the "Enlightened Bestseller Mastermind Experience" for aspiring self-help authors. His passion is to help transformational authors build their marketing platforms so they can reach more people with their message.

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