Getting There from Here: Creative Strategies to Transform Your Business & Life

By Carol Walkner

Are you at a crucial crossroads in your business or life?

If you don't know where you're going, how will you get there? If you're wondering how you got where you are and asking what's next, if you're looking for clarity in all the wrong placeslook here instead.

Getting There from Here can be your map and creative path to your own bright future.

You can get to that dream business and life from here!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504331425

Carol Walkner

Carol Walkner is a right-brained entrepreneur, successful business owner, workshop leader, transformational coach, writer, poet, imaginer, recovering workaholic, and refugee from corporate America. She is a deeply caring person—a good friend, kayaker, nature lover, expert at reinventing herself, and a seriously fun and trustworthy person to know. Walkner splits her time between two great locations: the Jersey shore and Long Beach, California, where she spends time with her grandchildren.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015906099

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/13/2015

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Dedication

To Jean Houston, Barbara Fuller, and the many people who have strategically transformed their lives through their participation in workshops based on this book.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

Contents - What’s In Here?

(And, what’s in it for me?)

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

PHASE 1: THE BASICS

Gain clarity on who you are, what you value, and how it impacts you

How to crunch time

PHASE 2: WHO ARE WE REALLY?

Inner-self process, and action oriented exercises for self discovery

Find out what rocks your world, what doesn’t, and everything in between

Plumb the depths of your Self, explore brain dominance

PHASE 3: AT THE CRUCIAL CROSSROADS

What Next? Experiential exercises and rituals to explore what’s stopping you from having all that you desire

Action steps to inspire you to get out of your own way and have the business/life you imagined

PHASE 4: VISION UNITED

Feelings exercise to stay in the present moment

Visualizations to lock in your plan or that of a larger group

Create a Vision Collage/Dream board – the start of your new journey into transformation

Conclusions – a new beginning

Appendix

Inspiring Thoughts & Important Notes:

Foreword

Jean Houston, PhD—world-renowned philosopher, teacher, and visionary thinker—pioneered the Human Potential Movement and established the Social Artistry Leadership Training Program. My involvement with Dr. Houston’s salons and this training program laid the fertile ground for the creation of some of the processes within Getting There … From Here.

Barbara Fuller, MBA—entrepreneur, professional coach, and management consultant—was the immediate past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Central Jersey Chapter. Barbara planted the seeds for the concept and the book in 2013 when she asked me to do a strategic planning session with her incoming board of directors and committee chairwomen.

The men, women, and organizations that have participated in the workshops based on this book are what keep this amazing process blossoming. These people were ready to bloom where they were planted, and here is what some of them have to say about the process:

"These processes have changed my business life and personal life by leaps and bounds. My business has grown larger more quickly, with more consistency than ever before.