Contents
Prelude to Step One: What Do You Want to Do?
The Seven Intelligences • You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant
Identifying Your Congenial Competencies • Identifying Your Compatible Careers • Identifying Your Congenial Roles • Identifying Your Preferred Behavioral Mode • Which Is Your Preferred Mode? • Pinpointing Your Best Role
3 WHAT VALUES ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU?
The Importance of Values and Principles • What’s Important to You? • Conscious and Unconscious Choices • Identifying and Applying Your Guiding Principles
Pick Your Battles • Situational Triage • Don’t Mistake the Difficult for the Impossible
Prelude to Step Two: Make a Commitment
Welcome Change • Preparing for Change • Making Change the Norm
The Visioning Process • Bypass Your Circumstances
Reengineer Your Life • Transforming Yourself • Make a Clean Break
Prelude to Step Three: Getting from Here to There
One Step at a Time • Plan Backward from the Vision
Proactive versus Reactive Approaches • Important versus Urgent • Handling the Routine
What Has to Happen? • List Alternatives and Action Steps
Prelude to Step Four: Ready, Set, Go!
Balance in Eating Habits • Balance in Physical Exercise • Balance in Work and Relaxation • Balance in Sleep Habits • Balance in Personal Habits • Make Physical Fitness a Pleasure
12 GET READY MENTALLYAND EMOTIONALLY
Recognize Your Own Self-Worth • Destroy the Gloom Bug • Acquire Proper Perspective • Be Patient • Acquire a Sense of Humor • Learn to Deal with Conflict • Expect to Succeed • Put Yourself in Charge
Acquire Social Balance • Social Balance at Home • Social Balance in the Community • Social Balance in the Workplace • Social Balance in leisure Activities • Become a Knowledgeable Person
The Greatest Man Was the Poorest • Inspiration Enters through the Spiritual Side • Suggestions for Achieving Spiritual Balance • Look beyond the Artifacts • Two Great Preachers
Cultivate Morale Sources • Create Positive Stress • Manage Negative Stress • Nourish Your Morale Daily
Prelude to Step Five: Nothing Happens Until You Act
Productive Mistakes • Have Measurable Goals • Acquire a learning Mentality • Seek Positive and Negative Feedback • Develop a System for Decision Making
Prelude to Step Six: After the End, the Beginning
18 GEAR YOUR LIFE TO THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE
Prepare for New Worlds • Broad Skills and People Skills
An Era of Exhilarating Opportunity • Five Types of Terrain
Step One: Decision • Step Two: Commitment • Step Three: Planning • Step Four: Preparation • Step Five: Execution • Step Six: Recommitment