deeper about your own.
With both my clients and the people who have attended my programs, I have witnessed the power that flows when we give ourselves the emotional space to connect to our deepest desires and uncover the fears holding them hostage. The possibilities that can open up when we remove our armour and get clear about the highest purpose for our lives – the most meaningful mark we hope to make on the world – are as boundless as they are beautiful.
It's why this book is different from others I've written or the many wonderful books that may already line your shelves. While it's far more than a journal, my intention for writing it is to help you access the wisdom already inside you, uncovering your own answers to life's most pressing questions.
As such, I have deliberately excluded anything I felt could distract from or dilute the impact of the questions. While all of the concepts in the book are backed by empirical research, it doesn't detail studies about the psychology of risk-taking, the neuroscience of peak performance or the importance of cultivating grit and a ‘growth mindset'. Nor does it contain the case studies I've included in my previous books. All these have their place, and it's an important one. It just isn't here.
My primary goal for this book is to guide you on a journey to chart your bravest course to your biggest life. To do that, you'll need to be really honest about what you most want and what's kept you from having it already – or having more of it!
That in itself will take courage. To pause from the busyness of your doing and to spend more time simply being. To step beyond the shallows and dive deep into the still waters so seldom entered. To embrace your vulnerability and interrogate your reality. To park your cynicism, confront your fears and see yourself as a leader with an invaluable mark to make – both on the people you care about most and those you may never get to meet.
BUT LET'S FACE IT, WE HUMANS ARE WIZARDS WHEN IT COMES TO DISTRACTING OURSELVES FROM THE REAL WORK OF THINKING HARD ABOUT LIVING WELL.
We hurry through our days, from one activity to the next, juggling balls, spinning plates and bending ourselves inside out to measure up or avoid missing out. All the while we never quite get around to getting real about our inner lives or, to quote industrialist John W Gardner, ‘to probe the fearful and wonderful world within'.
It's my hope that this book will help you to probe the ‘fearful and wonderful world within' so that you can avoid the barrenness of a busy life and relish the richness of a brave one.
I must warn you, though. The journey ahead won't always be comfortable. Then again, having spent so much of my adult life feeling decidedly uncomfortable, I know that no worthwhile endeavour ever is.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED SINCE GROWING UP ON A FARM WITH A VISION THAT EXTENDED LITTLE BEYOND THE BACK PADDOCK, IS THAT OUR LIVES ARE AS BIG AS WE DARE TO MAKE THEM.
It's why you cannot afford to wait until ‘one day' before you make time to create the highest vision for your life. One day, when your kids are older. One day, when the economy's better. One day, when the mortgage is paid. One day, when you've lost your doubt or ‘found yourself' and finally feel like you've grown up.
There is no ‘one day'. There is only ‘this day'. Today.
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