Unlock Your Potential: 21 Actions for Women Who Want to Move from STUCK to UNSTOPPABLE

By Kimberly S Buchanan

The revised and expanded "Unlock Your Potential" book is for women who want to move from STUCK to UNSTOPPABLE! Kimberly Buchanan’s heart-felt, practical guidance advises you through 21 action steps BEFORE you implement a new plan for your life. These 21 actions are designed to set you up for the win!

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: The Buchanan Group, LLC.
• Release date: Jan 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9780578642673

Kimberly S Buchanan

Kimberly Buchanan is an international bestselling author, speaker, certified transformation coach and an award-winning corporate professional. She is also a wife, mom and mentor to a community of amazing women. Kimberly is best known for creating the Unlock Your Potential online platform. She created the platform for the ambitious and courageous woman with desires to make an impact on the world while still managing work, family and life. Kimberly provides valuable content, training and transformational coaching to help them overcome their fears and gain the courage to use their unique skill sets to extend their brands, beyond their day jobs. Kimberly gained her experience as a consultant working with some of the largest, global companies in the world including Daimler Chrysler, Discover Card, Accenture, and many others. She has appeared in newspapers, TV and on nationally syndicated radio. She has contributed her productivity, business, life planning and work/life balance expertise to national publications, including Forbes, Thrive Global and The Huffington Post. Kimberly speaks frequently at seminars and conferences. She currently resides in Illinois with her husband and their two teenage sons.

Book preview

SECTION 1:

REFLECTING ON

YOUR PAST

If you don’t understand where you’ve been before, it’s difficult to know where you’re going. It’s fundamental to creating real change in your life.

Action. . .

1:Examine Your Past covers an uncomfortable reality we have to address—that you may not be being completely honest with yourself about the role you played in things that didn’t go your way. When you focus only on what was done to you, you stay stuck in the past instead of being able to move forward.

2:Use What You Already Have is about transitioning from looking at the things you feel you lack to looking at how full your cup really is. By filling your thoughts will all the positives of your capability, experiences, and background, there should be no room left to worry about what anyone else has or what you don’t have, too.

3:Start Thinking Big is about how you can think big to be a player in what you really want to do with your life. When it comes to unlocking your potential and creating the life you desire to live, your own beliefs about what is or isn’t for you might be what’s really holding you back, and by playing it safe, you’re missing out on your potential to make the BIG impact of your dreams.

Are you ready to start reflecting on the past so you can project a future in which you are truly unstoppable? Turn the page, and let’s take that reflective look behind you.

"Be honest

about your mistakes,

learn the necessary

lessons and move

forward."

ACTION #1: EXAMINE YOUR PAST

You probably already have ways to address problems that you recognize, but what do you do about the problems you can’t or aren’t willing to admit? If you don’t face the truth of what role you played in something that went wrong, or just blame everyone else, then you’re likely to have that same issue come up again because you haven’t learned how to handle it yet.

Think about the common saying, The first step to solving a problem is to admit there is a problem. That can sound trite, but there’s reality in it. Whatever is not going right in your life, you can’t fix it unless you admit it needs fixing.

For example, have you ever been passed over for a promotion? This happens to most of us at some point in our careers, and how we handle it makes all the difference to our future. When someone else gets the position you interviewed for, it’s easy to accuse the hiring committee of not reviewing your materials or giving you tougher interview questions. You might even wonder if an old boss or co-worker put in a bad word against you, or consider that the person who got the position probably had personal ties with someone. Do you know what all those reactions have in common? They keep you free of examining yourself or doing anything that might make you a better candidate in the