PREFACE
Some years ago I experienced a loss that can
arise at any time, in anyone’s life. This was a critical time for me to
evaluate the most significant struggles I faced in life. I jotted down several
topics and researched each topic extensively. Years later a process was refined
and eventually this book evolved. My mission was to understand the phenomenon
of living passionately. I tested the materials with fellow students and this
proved that the content can create new life-altering habits. These pupils made
drastic improvement in their life by simply following this step-by-step
process. The content was then enriched with input from hundreds of interviews,
recommended books, seminars and money mastery classes.
My entire life unfolded into a changed person
as I followed the step-by-step plan to create new ambitions for my life. Once
again I was fueled with tremendous momentum for a newfound passion and that was
to teach this Life Empowerment Makeover program, assembled as an Appendix
for this book.
I’ve applied stories from my life as a guide to
exemplify how to use this coursework as a personal reflection of growth. Anyone
interested in answering two crucial questions, now has a tool to execute on
them. These questions are: Who am I? And, What do I want to become?
An interactive approach was used to answer
these questions. Worksheets and long-term planning techniques are bundled into
what is called the Life Tracker. It provides a lingering continuance for
the program to stay focused on health, wealth and soul. It defines passions and
a strategy to overcome doubt. The Life Tracker will help you find what you
don’t know and develop a plan to discover the answers.
My goal is to teach how to better love
yourself, appreciate loving relationships, and avoid depression while creating
a financial mastery plan so you empower the future. Next the step is to apply
interpersonal skills and use personal freedom with grace so you can be granted
permission to explore what makes you tick and notice how others respond to that
energy. You will learn to face new challenges and establish clarity in life.
You will understand the unconscious need to have spaciousness with your
relationships, yet be present to an Authentic Self.
Living inside the box of YOU is an inevitable
consequence of doing whatever you want—and so it should be when you have a
passion and faith in self and those around. Confidence is a pinnacle pivot that
will encourage you to accept new challenges you are about to face and make
decisions that are strategic.
As life transitions, you will transform into
the remarkable person you want to be. You will have trained your inner voice
and kept it calibrated it to the barometric pressure of your local environment.
As you seek-out new exciting adventures, brainstorming ideas will easily filter
into your life and give you a sense of peace with the ability to choose what is
the best route for your journey. This new sense of direction is incredible. So,
let’s set the altitude for utmost height of your glorious trek. You don’t get a
dress rehearsal in life; it is a one-time opportunity for most! Appreciate the
journey of discovery using Life with a Passion.
How to use this book
Life with a Passion was designed to explore the mind, body and
soul. This will be a journey of personal self-awareness and proactive planning.
It is packed with twenty-eight exercises and questionnaires to engage you, the
reader, with a life changing process that has been proven to be very effective
at developing new ambitions. It is also a life-skills educational program with
on-line activities.
The Appendix is referenced in certain
exercises in the book. Here you will find informational charts that can be
ordered as a separate workbook, along with three months of Weekly Intentions.
The data relate to all chapters is encapsulated in the Appendix. It
provides sample worksheets for monthly activities and financial planning
strategies that are bundled into a Life Tracker, which includes a year long
focus of a balanced life for health, wealth and wisdom. These two auxiliary
options will give you a place for you to retain all your learning experiences
from reading this book.
You will see a symbol that looks like a delta ∆ symbol. This will direct you to the Appendix and the
appropriate page number. You might
glance at the Appendix page(s) noted and simply return to your reading
or stop to complete the exercises therein. The exercises make it easy for
coaches to use this book using their License for Passion, or to
teach a Life Empowerment Makeover class.
Our chapters are progressively designed to give
you a thorough journey of personal empowerment, in a logical sequence. Although
the author uses her own life and stories of her family as an example, she
attempts to have funny antidotes and a sense of lightheartedness to make the
reading experience fun. The exercises are intended for you to develop serious
thoughts about your own life and belief system, yet it is encouraged for you to
open-minded and positive. It is with the hope that this will externalize a
record of your internal voice. The dreams you establish now or later can be
retained in this book as you prepare yourself for many years of life-changing
events and adventures.
The inner voice is your conscious thinking that
you hear all day long. It can be extremely confident or self-destructive. This
book provides an opportunity for you to explore how to influence the inner
voice and respond to it better within your surroundings. It opens a window for
brainstorming ideals and to find a potential self. It provides instructions to
obtain mastery of personal achievement and even financial empowerment.
New disciplines can be successfully reinforced
using the Life Tracker that will be graphically enhanced from the
samples provided in the Appendix and dated for a year. It tracks personal
interests, weekly activities, finance logs, monthly goals, health habits and an
insert tablet for online Weekly Intentions! Personal information
can be entered online but it is not retained, unless you choose to have a
login-ID and password.
Feedback at the Website: www.lifewithapassion.com can contribute to the effectiveness of this
program. Suggestions are extremely valuable, so please provide your comments,
as it might become a public testimony about your life changing experiences and
career choices. This public information is for future readers to learn about
the adventures you’ve chosen. The Website is edited to support appropriate
content for all ages.
Photographs were taken by the author to share
artistic expressions found on a recent journey to Germany. These snapshots are
nestled between chapters, sometimes using humorous captions to liven the
content. They represent outside art found at many gardens in the landscape of
Berlin and Dresden.
Gender has been neutralized with his/her
references from time to time. However the author chose to use “him” or “her”
consistently in certain chapters to create a more enjoyable reading and audio
experience.
Resource books provided tremendous inspiration
for the author. Some of those books were mentioned in a chapter to acknowledge
that specific source. This is not a violation of other publisher’s copyright
works, because it is limited to a brief quote. To fully explore these published
works, a reference list has provided.
There is a meditation session in Chapter six
that can be downloaded as a free audio clip on the Website. To order the Life
with a Passion book, Audio CD, Life Empowerment Makeover--Appendix, and
the Life Tracker, the entire program makes a wonderful gift to
someone who is inspired to make change in life.
You can contact the publisher at the following
phone/fax line: 1.503.624.7282 or email to insiterose@yahoo.com
or more easily order at www.lifewithapassion.com.
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