What Are You Waiting For?: A practical guide to knowing what you want and making it happen...NOW

by Shelley Brunskill-Matson

Overview

What Are You Waiting For? is a unique, impactful guide to living the life you want, right now. People from all walks of life find themselves saying that they’ll be able to chase their dreams ‘when they have more time’, ‘when the kids grow up’, ‘when the weather improves’, and many more tenuous excuses. Shelley Brunskill-Matson challenges readers to stop waiting, to let go of whatever is holding them back, and to start living the life they want.

Going beyond the routine self-help processes, Brunskill-Matson offers an effective approach that she herself has followed. You will be inspired along the way by motivational quotes and challenged by powerful coaching questions. The comprehensive, five-step process will help you to be honest about what’s really stopping you from going after your dreams, and give you the tools to push through it. If you want a dynamic, innovative, transformative approach to living your life, this book is for you.

Break the habit of waiting and cultivate a happier, more fulfilling life. With Brunskill-Matson’s revolutionary way of recharging your life, you get out exactly what you put in. Following her structured steps will give you a better understanding of how to stop wasting time waiting. Practical, immediate, lucid and fun, this book carries a life-changing punch above its weight, with distilled wisdom and new zing to live your kick-arse life without fear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781921966651
Publisher:	Exisle Publishing
Publication date:	04/21/2015
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Shelley Brunskill-Matson has an honors degree in psychology and is an experienced life coach, writer, and speaker. Since leaving the corporate world to establish her own coaching practice almost 20 years ago, she has helped hundreds of clients get unstuck through one-on-one coaching and group coaching workshops. Shelley has also done a great deal of work in the area of supporting those who have lost loved ones to suicide. She is a facilitator of the WAVES program, a psycho-educational program for adults bereaved by suicide, and is completing a PhD focusing on the care and support of young people who have lost someone close to them to suicide. In addition to her private training practice, she holds training roles with Victim Support and Skylight trust (a specialist grief support organization).

In What Are You Waiting For?, her first book, Shelley’s "say it as it is," no-nonsense approach shines through, coupled with her step-by-step process for determining what you want and making it happen. Shelley is married with four children and lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction: About this book 11

1 The Waiting Epidemic: What are you waiting for? 17

2 The truth about fear: What is really stopping you? 26

3 Take responsibility for your life: What are you currently choosing for yourself? 34

4 Know you can handle anything 42

5 Choose to live a 'kick-arse life' 47

6 The secret to knowing what you want in life 55

7 Five-step process for deciding what you want in life 65

8 Step 1: Get to know yourself 73

9 Step 2: Identify your values 86

10 Step 3: Discover your passions 98

11 Step 4: Ask yourself the right questions 108

12 Step 5: Decide what you want 122

13 Set seriously fabulous goals 138

14 Make it happen 150

Recommended reading 167