Act: A Road Map to Results

By Jen Smith

When it comes to your life, do you let the urgent take precedence over the important? Do the days slip by with lots of activity, and yet the big thingsthose dreams youve carried for yearslie dormant, slipping further and further from reach? Are you ready to be honest with yourself? Are you ready to stake a claim and make a commitment? Are you ready to manifest your thoughts as concrete action in the world? Whatever it is that your heart desires, are you ready to get started, to close the gap between wishful thinking and deliberate action?

Its not the lack of time thats stopping you, its the lack of purpose and structure. In ACT, the second book in the ALIGN-ACT-ACHIEVE series, author Jen Smith builds on the foundation laid in ALIGN to help you move into action. She joins purpose with structure to provide a road map for a fun, inspiring, and intentional journey toward the future you want.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491779767

Jen Smith

A PhD student at the University of Sheffield, UK and a marine biologist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, who loves the sea and researching plankton and food web interactions. Also, writing, especially for children, is an essential part of the author’s life in order to educate them about science in a very simple, fun and interactive way. This is his first published book in English and he has published a children’s short story in Japanese in 2011 along with two short story-collections in Arabic in 2004 plus writing a play for children that was performed in Kuwait in 2010.

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iUniverse rev. date: 12/30/2015

Contents

Preface

Introduction

pACT

Part I Awake

Chapter 1 Check Your Alignment

Chapter 2 Name the Resistance

Chapter 3 Find the Counterplot

Chapter 4 Move Toward the Tension

Part II Create

Chapter 5 Ready

Chapter 6 Set

Chapter 7 Go

Part III Transform

Chapter 8 Limerence

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

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for Mom

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,

Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,

Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

                  Answer.

That you are here—that life exists, and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

—Walt Whitman, O Me! O Life!

Preface

I wish I could