”This is a book that can transform the trajectory of your life.
Tara Brach, PH.D.Author of Radical Acceptance & True Refuge
”At last. At last this very important book has been written, encouraging women to take up all the creative space they deserve in the world.
Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Big Magic & Eat Pray Love
Playing Big is for you if...
– You feel a calling or longing to play bigger, but you feel afraid or unsure about the next right steps.
– You want to make a positive difference in the world but feel held back in some way.
– You feel done with striving to play big on the world’s terms – but you do want to play big according to what that truly means to you.
– You wish you struggled less with fear, self-doubt, worries about what others think, or tentativeness around your ideas.
– You suspect it would be a whole lot more fun to play big.
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A Peek Inside Playing Big
What’s In The Book?
Introduction: My Story
How I got so passionate about brilliant women like you playing bigger. And an introduction to the kind of playing big this book is about – not “big” external markers of success, but playing big with your real dreams for your life and career.
Chapter 1: The Inner Critic
How to recognize your inner critic and practical tools you can use each day to quiet its voice.
Chapter 2: The Inner Mentor
What if you really did have the answers to many of your biggest challenges within yourself? This chapter is about how to access and utilize your unfailing (yep, unfailing) inner wisdom.
Chapter 3: A Very Old New Way of Looking at Fear.
We go back 3000 years to an ancient teaching about the two types of fear because it has such profound relevance for women today. Learn the two types of fear and how to skillfully respond to each.
Chapter 4: Unhooking from Praise and Criticism
How being “hooked” by both positive and negative feedback limits women’s playing big, and the gentle way to get free of that – including a radical way of understanding and utilizing feedback.
Chapter 5: Leaving Good Student Habits Behind
It turns out there’s a lot we learn as girls in school that later gets in the way of our having the careers we desire. Learn the four major behaviors rewarded in school that often get women stuck in their careers.
Chapter 6: Hiding
The clever ways brilliant women come up with to keep playing small – all the while convincing themselves they are doing all they can to play bigger! I loved it when one reader said this chapter was like getting five years worth of therapy in half an hour!
Chapter 7: Leaping
A special, highly specific kind of action that gets us playing bigger right now. You’ll learn the six criteria of a leap and start leaping.
Chapter 8: Communicating with Power
The “little things” we do in our speech and writing that diminish our impact. How to let them go, and what to do instead.
Chapter 9: Callings
How to identify your callings and practical steps to start living yours right away – even if that seems near impossible now.
Chapter 10: Let it Be Easy
I don’t believe we should ever rely on willpower or self-discipline to achieve our goals. They are far too unreliable. This chapter is about how to truly create sustained action.
Conclusion
The big picture. What’s next on the journey. Becoming a change agent.
Afterword
My new-mama reflections on motherhood and playing big.
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