The "Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting" Playbook: With the 12 Tenets of Awakening

Like most people I bought Excuse me your Life is Waiting, read it and loved it. Then I bought the companion Playbook, took one look at all the exercises and let it gather dust on a book shelf. I already knew how to create goals, visualize what I wanted in my life and take action steps to create the jobs and situations I wanted. I did not need a new way to accomplish the same thing. But I also knew that I would always fall into a safe, comfy zone and stop doing anything once I got what I wanted. And that's when the trouble would begin. This year it seems like everything came crashing down at once. For the first time in my life I had a life threatening illness that used up all my leave for year before the end of the summer. Then money seemed to disappear before it even made it to my bank account. And the job that I loved suddenly required 10 hour days, seven days a week support. I had no time for myself, family or friends. I needed to take a different approach to my life. Just being reactive, charging in and taking action was just making me exhausted and often made the situation worse. I dusted off Lynn's Playbook and decided to not just skim for the parts of my life I needed to fix first. I decided to take my time and do a few pages each day. This meant I had to turn off my TV and computer, and sit and pay attention to me. As an addicted multi-tasker this was very hard for me to do. It was also hard to admit that I had pushed and numbed down my feelings so that nothing upset me anymore. I started setting aside an hour each night with the book and a big journal to do the exercises in, and decided to commit to the process. After the first week I noticed I could actually feel my emotions as they occurred instead of ignoring them. I was embarrassed to find out I was in a constant state of annoyance with my life, and even worse with everyone and everything around me. I practiced each exercise in order and did the meditations. Each one builds on the next, so sometimes I repeated an exercise or meditation until I felt I really understood what I needed to know. In about a week things started to change. My relationships with my family, friends, co-workers and especially my boss became happier and more relaxed. I know I was the one who changed. They were just responding to the new positive vibrations I was sending out, instead of the dark, annoying don't bother me with anything stupid signal I was sending before. In about two weeks new ideas and new money began flowing in. I learned that if I approach a new goal or plan with confidence and faith, I was more likely to get a positive outcome. If I reacted to the situation with a whine and fear if I don't get this I am going to be out of a job, house, etc.; then I just got more lack in my life. I have had continued success using this Playbook and now do one exercise or meditation as a weekly focus. My life has steadily improved and so has my ability to sense when I fear something so I can

The exercises in this book are great! They lead you through the self-questioning process that exposes the root of your limiting belief systems. Once you really see how you're hurting yourself with that belief, you can't wait to pull it out! Each weed-pulling is immediately followed by a "flower-planting"--that is, an exercise that helps you feel positive, supported, and hopeful. Because she combines left-brain (analytical) and right-brain (emotion, imagination) activities so effectively, it's amazing how quickly the internal changes happen. And, BTW, my experience confirms that when you change your innerds, the outerds respond quickly, too!

As a huge fan of Grabhorn's book, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, and a facilitator of groups learning the technique, she outlines in the text, this work/playbook is a great resource for excerises to support the text. For those disciplined enough to work through it on their own [or with the support of a group] this book give many interesting and powerful exercises which you to bring the steps to life and flip the switch from living life by accident, or deliberately.

I believe this book should be required reading for any one looking for changes in their life. It puts a whole new perspective on everyday life and our place in it. The down to earth writing is fantastic. I'm going to recommend it to my Psychotherapist.

First review, here goes. Yes, the previous reviewers for this book have nailed it on the head. It is about how you feel, and how that affects your thinking and then taking action upon those feelings. Do things, anything, from an inspirational aspect. What inspires you. I am re-reading this one. There is so much useful information that Lynn touches upon, that it is worth a second read. Actually, I plan to write in a notebook the parts I thought were important to remember. The biggest simpliest change you can do right now is just smile. Yes, just smile. Are you smiling? Now, don't you feel different. Well, that is just a smidgen of what Lynn's book can do for you.