Create Your Best Year One Day at a Time: A Peaceful, Poetic Inspiration Guide to What You Want the Most This Year

By Clara Angelina Diaz

Every year, most set huge goals for their lives. However, only a small number of us actually achieve those goals. Women, especially mothers, struggle to set aside time and energy to dedicate to seeing their dreams come true. This book proposes a new way to go after your goals each year that is more aligned with women's natural ability to peacefully, purposefully progress one day at time. The author takes you through a step-by-step process that will allow you to become your own life coach and motivator on the journey to manifesting what you want the most.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543452372

Clara Angelina Diaz

Clara Angelina Díaz nacio en la República Dominicana y vive en los Estados Unidos. Está certificada como master coach y es oradora, facilitadora y escritora. Le hace coaching a empresarios tanto emergentes como establecidos para desarrollar sus habilidades de liderazgo. Como resultado, sus clientes mejoran su inteligencia emocional, la conciencia de su espiritualidad, el pensamiento estratégico, las habilidades interpersonales, su confianza y un sentido de calma sobre sí mismos. Clara es regularmente contratada para hablar y desarrollar talleres sobre su libro, Crea Tu Mejor Año, Un Día a la Vez. En su práctica privada, ClaraFying LLC, ella se especializa en trabajar con líderes de varias industrias con un foco especial en abogados, empresarias y mujeres de color alrededor del mundo. Ofrece coaching privado, entrenamiento para certificación en coaching, asesoría empresarial, talleres y retiros transformacionales. Actualmente Clara tambien es coach de liderazgo en la Escuela de Negocio de la Universidad de Harvard. Previo a su trabajo en coaching y empoderamiento, Clara ocupo un puesto como Intérprete Principal de Español del Juzgado de Inmigración de Boston, donde hizo interpretaciones sobre casos difíciles y complejos. Es graduada de Lesley University con un grado auto-diseñado en Gerencia de Vida y Negocios (in Life & Business Management) y una certificación en Vida, Negocios y Master Coaching de la Escuela Internacional Wainwright de Coaching en California. Es una Intérprete de Español certificada.

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CREATE YOUR BEST YEAR ONE DAY AT A TIME

A Peaceful, Poetic Inspiration Guide to What You Want the Most This Year

Clara Angelina Diaz

Copyright © 2017 by Clara Angelina Diaz.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017914495

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-5434-5145-0

   Softcover   978-1-5434-5146-7

   eBook   978-1-5434-5147-4

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Contents

CHAPTERS

1:   The Birth of this Book

Poem:   We Are Here

2:   Peaceful Purposeful Progress

Poem:   A Declaration to Kick-start Your Year

3:   The Intention of this Book

Poem:   Encouragement

4:   Start Where You Are: The Power of Clarity

Poem:   A Poem for Today

5:   Define Your Best Year

Poem:   My Love Gift to You

6:   SMART Goal-Setting Formula

Poem:   Creating Realities

7:   The Incredible Power of Affirmations

Poem:   Raise Your Vibration!

8:   The Wheel of Life Exercise

Poem:   Soul Love

9:   A Love Letter from My Soul

Poem:   Remembering What Is Possible

10:   The Power of Three Daily Actions

Poem:   Stop What You Are Doing

11:   The Importance of Feeling Good about Yourself

Poem:   I Love You, Body

Poem:   You, the Star

Poem:   A Poem for Change

Poem:   Capable and Worthy

BONUS MATERIAL: The Ten-Ten-Ten® Reading/Study Skills System

Poem:   Be the Gift

Poem:   Our Established Worth

Poem:   Acknowledgments

Poem:   About the Author

IN HER OWN WORDS

Start from Where You Are– Latonia Francois

Becoming Your Own Best Friend and Coach– Linda Gonzalez

Making Choices not Goals– Nicole Moreno-Deinzer

Affirmations– Christine L. Bowen

Trust Yourself, God and the Universe–Massiel P. Eversley

Dedication

To my daughter Angelina

and to all the daughters of the world:

may you find your own way and formula for creating

the best years of your life.

1

The Birth of this Book

Grow where you are

-Clara Angelina Diaz

I t was during a long, cold winter that my mother, my three siblings and I immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic. I was eight years old at the time, but did not feel like a child because I was the eldest of the four.

As far back as I can remember, I have never felt my age, and have been very aware of having a rich and creative imagination. Long before we arrived in the United States, I had been nurturing fantasies of how amazing my life would be in this new country. I imagined that we as a family would be so happy, that the streets of the United States would glitter with gold, and that I would have my own bedroom with shiny white furniture, and curtains and a matching duvet on my bed.

The reality was very, very different. We arrived in Manhattan in a cold, dreary October. The streets of New York City did not glitter; instead, they were just cold and gray. We didn’t have a big castle like I imagined; my siblings and I all shared a very small bedroom in my father’s uncle’s house. Adjusting to this new country was a struggle for me. Being the oldest, I had to learn the English language as fast as I could to help myself, my siblings and even my parents navigate our new reality.

My father struggled to find meaningful employment, and needless to say, life got very stressful for us as both parents tried to find work. We ended up moving to Massachusetts, where we lived in a government shelter for six months. Eventually, we were given government-subsidized housing in Boston.

As the years went by, I started noticing that I would