Your Workbook to Find Your Power, Transform Your Life and Get What You Want

In Appreciation

This book owes its existence to a great many people. First, I extend my gratitude to all those who helped me get through my own struggles to grow and gain strength. I am here today because of you.

Thanks to everyone whose own success against personal struggles has inspired me and countless others to battle their way through significant obstacles. Your very lives are a beacon of hope for everyone who is convinced that there is no possible way out of their darkness. There is always a way through the minefields but sometimes you have to think creatively. Thank you for your positivism, your strength and your cheer-leading as you encourage us all!

I owe a special thanks to the Jedi Realist community, my friends both online and offline, who have played a major part in helping me grow into myself and who never let me give up. They helped me to regain a significant portion of my true self. Each one of these people is a survivor and an inspiration. Thank you!

I also owe a debt of gratitude to my family for their support and encouragement in spite of some very rough times. Additionally, I give a very special thanks to my husband, who kept encouraging me to write and who understood if I stayed up late during a creative binge. He has been a constant support for over a quarter of a century and I consider myself very fortunate to have him in my life.

Thanks to Pixabay.com for supplying the graphics, unless otherwise indicated and to Contenta Converter for enabling me to resample the graphics.

                                           Forward

If you are reading this page, instead of perusing the latest cookbook, gossip magazine, comic book or bestseller, you might be interested in learning more about yourself and about your unique purpose in life. When we are young children, we generally know that we have a special purpose and a specific lifestyle we want. We have dreams and aspirations. We are convinced that we can do anything. Each blade of grass, each rock, each tree branch and each living thing is, to us, full of wonder. Each sunrise brings a new gift of hope, wrapped in promise and possibilities.

Many of us are looking around and wondering what could have happened to us. When did we get off track? When did the world turn so gray? When did each day become a burden rather than a blessing? Why does nothing make us as happy as waving a tree branch, blowing bubbles or dandelion seeds, or splashing around in a plastic pool used to?

I have several pieces of good news for you. First, you are reading this book. In it, you will find some useful tools to use in rediscovering what your child-self once knew: who you really are and what you want out of life. Once you know that, you have a good start on finding your own path. Second, you have the power and the choice whether to keep on going as you are, or to choose to backtrack and turn things around. You have this power now. And as you proceed through this journey of self-awareness, you will gain the abilities to begin the process of change. Third, you came into this world in order to do certain things: things that only you can do. There is only one you. Besides making you pretty special, by trying to learn more about your true self, you have shown some amazing courage! Fourth, and most importantly, you are not alone. There are lots of people who have been right where you are and they will be happy to help you. So, with this in mind, let's get started on the greatest journey possible: the road to YOUR success!

                                 The Purpose of this Book

The best foundation for a successful life always starts  with knowing yourself: who you are, what you want and where you want to go. There are several people who advertise help in various matters relating to helping you achieve wholeness in mind, body and spirit. As in anything, some are better than others.

In picking up this book, you have shown that you felt a need to grow and change some things in your life. And you are interested in what this particular book has to say. Thank you for your interest. I sincerely hope that you find this guide helpful.

I know what it is like to hit rock bottom and to wish there was someone who could help me to help myself. I spent years in therapy, over medicated, depressed, bombarded with suggestions about what I should do. I had always been of a spiritual bent and knew that, deep down, we all have our own answers and if we could just find them, we could do whatever we wanted. Now, at the age of 50, I realize that more and more people are realizing this and if we just have someone to guide us to those answers locked in our heart, we can conquer the world. I have had the benefit of several wise and caring people helping me to find out who I was, what I wanted and how to get there. Now, I want to help you.

After reading literally hundreds of books from authors such as Bettie Eadie, Carolyn Myss, Louise Hay, Deepak Chopra, James Redfield, Eckhart Tolle, M. Scott Peck, Dan Millman and Paul Coehlo (just to name a few), I have reached a personal conclusion that each one of us has a primary life goal of finding out who we truly are, why we are on Earth at this particular time and what we are meant to do with our lives. I personally believe that we are somehow "programmed" with this information and that we cannot find real peace unless and until we discover these answers lying within us. Life circumstances such as early trauma, health situations, cultural and economic influences and dysfunctional relationships can obstruct this discovery. Or, as I have found, they can be formative elements in our journey to finding our life paths. Through the struggles, we can find our courage, become strong, and develop character. If we choose.

During your journey through this workbook, it is my hope that you will travel back in time to your childhood self, that person who KNEW who you really are and BELIEVED that you can do anything you dream. I hope that you get reacquainted with that magical inner self, who is still there, waiting to talk to you, and bring that savant with you through the years into the present. I did. And I have used her, that spitfire "fairy child", to help guide me into defining the future I really want as well as helping me to make the optimal choices to create it. You can do this, too.