The Power of Life Lessons: How to Learn Your Lessons and Create the Life You Want

by Linda Gannaway

Overview

Do You Want to Take Your Life to the Next Level?

Are you like many of us and have one or two problems in your life where you feel stuck? Or maybe you're doing fairly well right now--but not great. Even if you're already wildly successful, you can always take the next step to improve your life even more.

Regardless of where you're starting from, life lessons can make your life better. Much better. They give you the "practical wisdom" that accelerates your learning and helps you reach your goals faster and easier.

We're all here to learn certain lessons. By doing that, we naturally accomplish our goals, achieve our dreams, and fulfill our purpose in life.

This book is packed with tools and strategies to help you ...

• Successfully learn your unique life lessons
• Increase your energy by plugging your "energy leaks"
• Improve your skills at handling stress, time management, and procrastination
• Avoid regrets by using one simple technique
• Strengthen your intuition--that gut feeling where you "just know"
• Focus your intention and do what you came here to do

Discover the power that turns obstacles into teachers, and create the life you've wanted all along. This book shows you how.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998506609
Publisher:	Tcs Communications LLC
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Linda Gannaway never planned to write a book. But one evening after a relaxing run at a local park, from out of nowhere, a thought exploded in her head, leaving three words burned in her brain: "Student of Life." Somehow, Linda knew the words referred to a book, one she was supposed to write.

She didn't have to work the next summer, so Linda spent that time writing. Filled with energy and inspiration, she typed nearly nonstop for two months and ended up with a 300-page manuscript.

Wondering if there was any truth to what she had written, she started trying out the ideas and self-help techniques. Her learning curve accelerated. Problems became easier to resolve, and she accomplished her goals faster and with less stress. As a counselor on a university campus, she introduced techniques from her book into her counseling sessions with students, and their lives got better.

Convinced the material was solid, Linda began teaching university classes on the book, again with positive results. One of her students worked in a state prison with inmates who would soon be released. He started using the material to help them make the transition back into their communities. She felt thrilled when he told her that and saw it as a definite sign she needed to edit the book and get it published.

Linda worked more than 25 years at several universities and taught thousands of students the material from her book, including time management, procrastination, stress management, goal setting, and learning life's lessons. Plus, she worked in the public schools doing intelligence testing with students who had learning difficulties. She knows how we learn and how we get stuck in the learning process, all of which adds to her ability to help people learn their lessons in life.

Dr. Gannaway completed a doctorate in education and a pre-doctoral internship in counseling and clinical psychology. She currently lives in California's Central Valley and enjoys speaking, writing, and consulting. For more information visit www.lindagannaway.com.

Table of Contents

Contents Chapter 1: Things Happen for a Reason The Story Behind the Story and What’s Inside this Book • Here’s How Life Lessons Empower Us • Creating the Life You Want • How to Use This Book • No Regrets Chapter 2: Adventures in the School of Life Understanding Our Journey through Life from a Bird’s-eye View • My Adventures in School • How We Make Progress • School Rules • Using Intention Chapter 3: All about Life Lessons A Closer Look at What We All Need to Figure Out • Characteristics of Life Lessons • Types of Lessons • How to Identify Your Life Lessons Chapter 4: Finding Our Teachers Discovering Who and What Can Teach Us What We Need to Learn External Teachers • Experiences • People • Coincidences • Places • Animals • Time Chapter 5: Discovering Our Internal Teachers Exploring the Messages from Within Internal Teachers • Bodies • Thoughts • Behaviors • Emotions • Addictions • Dreams Chapter 6: Intuition, the Ultimate Teacher Tapping Into the Wisdom of Your Natural Instincts • How Is Intuition Helpful? • How Does Your Intuition Communicate? • A Lesson on Listening • Listen, Trust, Act Chapter 7: The How-Tos of Learning Applying a Step-by-Step Learning Guide • A Model for Learning • Three Steps to Competence • Your Learning Style Chapter 8: Turning Obstacles into Teachers How to Identify Obstacles and Accept the Gifts of their Instructions • Hazardous Zones • Time Management • Procrastination • Limiting Beliefs Chapter 9: Continuing to Grow Developing a Lifestyle that Increases Your Learning Curve • Managing Stress • Increasing Your Energy • Clearing the Clutter • Becoming a Growth Seeker Chapter 10: Doing What You Came Here to Do Discovering Your Purpose and Accomplishing Your Goals • Finding Your Purpose • Setting and Achieving Goals • Learning to Shine Chapter 11: Teaching What You Learn Sharing with Others for the Benefit of All • The Paybacks of Giving • Finding Your Spot • Continuing to Shine Appendixes • Appendix A: List of Feelings Words • Appendix B: Inner Guide Imagery Exercise • Appendix C: Sensory Modality Checklist • Appendix D: Thought-Stopping Form • Appendix E: Goal-Setting Form • Appendix F: Goal-Setting Imagery Exercise Notes Index Acknowledgments Invitation • An Invitation to Book Clubs and Other Groups About the Author