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Book SynopsisHow to transform your life with IMPACT: Unlock the best of you, offers a powerful way to understand and overcome personal difficulties and challenges. Many people experience mental health and emotional wellbeing due to issues they face in life and struggle to resolve them not because they can’t but because they don’t know how. How to transform your life with IMPACT shows you how. It will take you through the six stages of The IMPACT Model and its six powerful concepts core to successful and sustained transformation: • A Conversation With Impact • Meaning • Patterns • Acceptance • Challenge • Transformation Nothing is more important than our health and wellbeing because everything else is dependent on it. If we neglect ourselves, then our health and wellbeing and what we value most in life become threatened. How to transform your life with IMPACT is for anyone wanting to work through life’s challenges so they can flourish in good times and remain resilient through difficult ones. Written in a jargon-free style and packed full of practical exercises and activities, How to transform your life with IMPACT can help anyone wanting to work through a range of issues, including: • Identity, role and status • Self-esteem and self-worth • Past, present and future issues • Home and family life • Relationships – personal and professional • Career and professional development • Health and wellbeing • Lifestyle – finding meaning and purpose • Social and cultural factors • Essential life skills – assertiveness, resilience and self-care As an experienced coach and therapist, Mark Evans has worked with thousands of clients from a wide range of backgrounds. He has spent his whole career observing and studying what people need to enjoy positive mental health and emotional wellbeing. His IMPACT Model is the result. It has helped thousands of people to achieve their personal and professional goals, dreams and ambitions. This book is for adults faced with persistent and intractable personal and professional difficulties and challenges. • Discover why your existing conversations explain your difficulties and challenges, and discover how to turn your conversations into those that make the difference you are after • Learn how your emotions contain important messages about how to thrive and survive and how to translate these messages and respond positively to them • Identify the unhelpful patterns of thinking, behaving, feeling and relating in your life, and how to replace them with the helpful patterns we all need to flourish in life • Discover why Fantasy-Reality Gaps can lie at the heart of your problems and how to close them through the power of acceptance • Make challenge work for you, not against you using The Goldilocks Principle of Challenge: not too little, not too much, but just right • Learn the art of transformation so you can enjoy the journey and reach your destination
Trade ReviewLUKE - Insightful and accessible - this text engages the reader to gain a greater understanding of purpose and direction. When reading you feel part of a conversation, one that is really listening to you and helping you to find others to converse with in a productive manner to a positive end. In fact more important than conversations with others are the conversations that you are encouraged to have with yourself - this is a great starting point for anyone facing a some kind of change or uncertainty which we all do at some moment in our lives. It makes you reflect and take stock in order to move forwards. The advice is grounded and straight talking making this the book for everyone - I highly recommend to anyone out there - if you're already here reading this review then look no further for a text that will guide you through the process of progression and change;
Table of ContentsContents Introduction.ix I is for IMPACT 1 The Conversations With Impact Questionnaires 7 Bridge of Curiosity 19 M is for MEANING 21 The Meaning Map 32 The Observing Self activity 45 P is for PATTERNS 51 The Cliff Edgeb 54 A is for ACCEPTANCE 83 Fantasy-Reality Gaps (FRGs) 86 The Triangle of Possibility113 CisforCHALLENGE 115 The 0–10 Challenge 137 The Stretch Zone 143 T is for TRANSFORMATION 145 The Ship’s Rope163 Cave and Continuation Points168 DarwinianTree 181 The Destination Finder 185 A Final Thought 195
