Cross-Stepping Your Way To Success: The Power to Transform Your Life One Step at a Time!

By Carolyn Bowen

Simple Steps to Change Your Life!

When surfers hit the waters, they use a technique called cross-stepping: moving their weight forward and backward to stay standing. Cross-stepping isn't just a good idea for surfers; you, too, can metaphorically use the same strategy of zigzagging motions to achieve success.

In "Cross-Stepping Your Way to Success," career coach Carolyn Bowen shows you how to zigzag your way to success one step at a time. She examines grieving, life planning, owning your power, becoming health-conscious, learning to love again, and more.

Discover how to maintain your balance on the choppy waters of life with Cross-Stepping Your Way to Success!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Next Chapter
• Release date: Dec 23, 2021
• ISBN: 4867472050

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INTRODUCTION

Cross-stepping is defined as a two-way street. It is a way of moving your weight forward and backward until you achieve success. This is typical knowledge for surfers of the longboard who succeed with this method to hang ten or other magnificent watersport feats.

The reference to cross-stepping in this book refers to the zigzag motions you’ll master to become successful for who you are and were meant to become. Get ready to throw overboard anything that stands in your way of achieving your dreams of living a purposeful and successful life.

If you’re reading this book, we’ve most likely traveled down similar roads and asked the question, How do I start over again and become successful? Or to phrase it differently, How can I be successful at any age?

Reinventing ourselves is not a one-time-and-you’re-done process. We change with our personal relationships as they begin and end—age, health, business climate, and financial situation to say a few of our lifestyle choices. This is not a bad thing, depending on how we handle it.

For instance, how many times have you read or known people who’ve fought vigorously to get ahead, failed maybe more than once, yet finally reached their initial or perhaps revamped goals?

From presidents and athletes, to professionals in medicine, arts and entertainment, to biblical stories, age is not a deterrent to reinventing yourself at any age to enjoy a new lifestyle.

If you already intuitively know age doesn’t clip your wings to soar to new heights and discover new horizons, feel free to skip the examples below and go to the next section – Chapter 1.

Success and age aren’t mutually exclusive.

Consider the life of Abraham Lincoln. The self-educated Lincoln was an astute lawyer and politician and was later elected president of the United States.

Ronald Reagan became our then-oldest president, approaching his 70th birthday when he took office in 1981. He had a long career as a politician, which followed his earlier career as an actor.

Vaclav Havel, after a distinguished career as a playwright, became president of Czechoslovakia at age 52, following the fall of the communist regime.

Scientist Alexander Fleming didn’t make a breakthrough discovery until an advanced age, which seems to have been built on a lifetime of work and experience. Fleming discovered penicillin — the first antibiotic — by accident it was said. For his discovery, Fleming received the Nobel Prize in 1945, at age 64.

There is Jesus Borrego, who set the 1500-meter record for 45- to 50-year-old men when he was 46, in 2008. His time, 3:52:43, would have easily won him the gold medal for the event in the Summer Olympics of 1912, when the medal was awarded to 21-year-old Arnold Jackson for his time of 3:56:08.

Oscar Gomer Swahn, a Swedish shooter, competed in three Olympics and won six medals, including three gold ones. At age 72, he was not only the oldest medalist but the oldest Olympian ever.

The great dame of television Lucille Ball