Changing Directions Without Losing Your Way

by Abdou Sani Boukari Consultant

This book will facilitate your journey through the six stages of changing directions.

Chapter One: Facing a New Reality: Recognizing It's Time to Move On, involves accepting that you can't change until you accept that you must change and decide to take charge of changing your life.

Chapter Two: Saying Goodbye to Where You've Been: Releasing the Past, addresses the second stage of change, letting go of what has been so you can free up the time and energy to create a new future.

Chapter Three: Finding Your Way: The Inner Compass, is actually about one of the other key tools you need to change, finding a deep inner sense or conviction about who we are regardless of our external circumstances.

Chapter Four: Saying Hello to Where You're Going: Embracing the Future is about the fourth stage of change which requires that you focus in a specific new direction and make a commitment to a course of action. While each stage of change has its own challenges, we've found that people have more difficulty getting through this stage than any other. So, in this chapter, we provide a series of tools we've developed over the past 20 years for helping you find a match between your desires and talents on the one hand and the realities of your life on the other.

Chapter Five: Discovering How to Get There from Here: Developing a Strategy, is about the fifth stage of changing directions, a plan for how you'll coordinate and draw upon all your available resources to make the changes you desire. It deals with the tough issues like finding the money, making the time and having the energy to implement the changes you're seeking to make.

Chapter Six: Putting the Show on the Road: Experimenting, Initiating, and Following-Through, is about actually making the change you want to make which is the sixth stage. This involves handling whatever challenges arise and juggling life as it has been while you create your new life.