A step-by-step guide to discovering who you are and how to reorient your life around what is truly important to you.
Are you living your life by design or by default?
Some lucky people know exactly who they are and what they want to do. Most of the rest of us are only vaguely aware of our natural strengths, talents and abilities, and know even less about how to design a life that will allow us to share these with the world. We are also woefully unaware of our own needs and desires. Our lives proceed by default - we fall into life choices (e.g., careers, relationships) and one thing leads to another. We are consumed by the daily demands of just getting by, which keep us focused outward instead of inward. But life is what is happening every minute and every day. You can continue to let it "just happen" by default or you can take action to create a life of your own design.
The Take Control Of Your Life workbook gives you the tools and techniques to discover who you are and create your own vision, priorities, and goals in a way that honors your unique gifts, needs, and desires. If you don't take the time to define your own vision and key priorities you end up being driven by the needs and priorities of others and doing what you think you "should" do (i.e., what others expect of you) rather than what you want to do.
The Workbook helps you to take control of what gets your time and attention. It helps you to find balance and focus in your life.
Here is what some people who have used the Workbook have to say:
"After fifteen years I was fed up with my career as a corporate software manager. I knew it was time for a change but I had no clue what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I felt disconnected and unsure about how to get myself pointed in a new, more fulfilling, direction. By following the process in the 'Take Control Of Your Life' workbook, I was able to get clear about what I wanted and started a new career as a copywriter - a perfect match for my talents, temperament, needs, and desires!"
"I have always been a 'people pleaser' who does what others expect of me. I even married my husband because it was what he wanted! By working through the exercises in the Workbook I began to discover who I was, and what I needed and wanted in my life. I now have a vision for my personal life and my career and know exactly what I can do to make it happen."
"My work totally consumed my life and drove all of my decisions about what I was doing with my time. Work always came first and the rest of my life had to fit into the left over minutes. The 'Take Control Of Your Life' workbook helped me get clear on what was most important to me and re-prioritize my time to what really matters."
"I felt completely unfocused. I was frantically busy, chasing first one opportunity then another. I felt driven - not like I was in the driver's seat! The 'Take Control Of Your Life' workbook helped me to recognize the difference between the things that were pushing me and the things that were naturally attracting me, so that I could focus on what I wanted to do and not what I felt I 'should' do."
What does the Take Control Of Your Life workbook cover?
The Take Control Of Your Life workbook offers step-by-step guidance through a proven seven-step process to:
- Pinpoint the core elements that define you (i.e., your likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, talents and abilities, temperament and needs)
- Discover the activities and behaviors that you are innately drawn to
- Create your personal vision and key priorities that are grounded in who you are and what you like to do
- Set goals in line with your vision and key priorities that are inspirational not perspirational
- Align how you spend your time with your vision and key priorities
- Start on the path to achieving your most important goals
- Lose the fear of experimenting with your life
Here are some of the things you can expect to walk away with when you use the Workbook:
- Knowing your needs and how to get them met
- Knowing your key strengths and how to leverage them
- Knowing your weaknesses and how to embrace them
- Knowing what's most important to you and how to find the time to pursue it
- Recognizing limiting beliefs and assumptions that keep you "stuck"
- A personal vision and key priorities to guide you as you make choices in the future
- A set of goals that are aligned with your vision and key priorities that inspire you and pull you forward
- An action plan for starting on your most important goals
- A process and a set of tools that you can re-use over and over again to redesign your life as your needs and priorities change
- Knowing the power of daring to "experiment" with your life
- Knowing how to set personal boundaries that prevent others from intruding on your space and time
Once you learn the life-design process and how to use the tools and techniques contained in the Workbook you can use them over and over again as your needs and priorities evolve. No need to start from scratch each time - just add to the work you have done before and update your previous results with your new insights!
Note to those who have attended my Take Control Of Your Life Workshop: This Workbook contains the exercises provided in the Take Control Of Your Life workshop workbook. It also includes all of the background material, key concepts, and guidance that were presented orally during the class.
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Why this workbook?
People often say to me, "I haven't been able to figure out what I want to do on my own or by talking with my friends, so why will this workbook help me?" Here's my answer.
Three reasons:
1. Your friends aren't you. Friends want to help you but the advice they offer is usually based on their own perceptions, assumptions, and past experience. What is right for them may not be right for you. The 'Take Control Of Your Life' workbook is designed to give you the tools to tap into your own wisdom about who you are and what you need and want.
2. When you try to figure things out on your own you get trapped by your own limiting beliefs and assumptions. When you are ready to make a change in your life, the first question you are likely to ask yourself is: "What do I want to do now?" The problem is, the usual answer is, "I don't know!" The Workbook starts at a different place - with tools to help you discover who you are before looking at what you want to do.
When designing your life you want to build upon and leverage your unique strengths, talents, and abilities, and make choices in line with your temperament. You want to know your needs and get them met so that you can then orient your life around your values. The Workbook first helps you to uncover all of these key elements of you. Then you define a vision and set of key priorities that are grounded in who you are and what you value. It shows you how to align your life with your new vision and key priorities. You'll learn how to set goals and re-orient how you spend your time in ways that honor your vision and priorities.
The exercises are specifically designed to help you broaden your thinking and shift your perspective - they teach you a new way of thinking and learning about yourself. The sequence of the steps is very important, because the insights from one step support the subsequent steps. When starting on any journey it is always easier to follow a defined path and have someone help you learn the tools and techniques that will support your journey. The journey of self-discovery is no different. The Workbook guides you down the path and gives you the tools you need - you don't need to figure it all out by yourself.
3. Chances are you are going to want to redesign your life more than once. We live in a rapidly changing world. New challenges and opportunities appear all the time. As your self-awareness increases or your situation changes, or your needs, wants, values and priorities evolve, you may want to redesign parts of your life again. The Workbook teaches you a process and a set of tools you can use over and over. When you reuse the process you don't need to start from scratch - you can simply update the information you already have!
I know this process works. I used it myself to find a new and fulfilling career after I walked away from twenty years as a senior manager and executive in the corporate world. I've led 'Take Control Of Your Life' workshops using this same life-design process, and used the Workbook with many of my coaching clients. I have seen people use the insights gained from the Workbook to make positive career, lifestyle, and relationship changes and take back control of their lives.
Downloadable PDF and hard copy versions are available
The Take Control Of Your Life workbook comes in either hard copy format or as a downloadable PDF file that you can save to your desktop to read on your computer screen or print. It includes the information I've been sharing with my coaching clients and in my workshops at a fraction of the cost. You can save money by ordering the PDF downloadable version and skip the shipping and handling costs!
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