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Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do: How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!
Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do: How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!
Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do: How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!
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This is a book about coping with life events before the event occurs, and we are unable to cope at all. It’s a book of answers to the gut-wrenching question, “What the hell am I going to do now?”

The tricky part to life events is that the event often requires us to make informed decisions at a time when we are emotionally incapable of doing so. Yet make decisions we must, and without some kind of planning or preparation, we often make them with disastrous results.

The focus of this book is on life event planning: the three simple steps we can take to prepare for, and then successfully cope with, the events that make up our lives. Everything from the unforeseen, like divorce, loss of a job, or terminal illness, to the inevitable, like death and, for most of us, taxes.

You will learn how to do the things that can be done in advance so that the emotional part of a life event doesn’t cloud your judgment or render you incapable of action. Because certain life events, no matter how unexpected, unsettling, or painful, carry with them certain common activities that can be done in advance. And it’s much easier to do these things in good times than in bad.

This book goes far beyond the usual “estate planning seminar” approach to life event planning to address the emotional aspect of planning for whatever life might throw at us. Because it’s far easier to think about the unthinkable when our minds are clear and our hearts are not yet touched by pain, grief, or loss. The exercises you’ll complete as you work through this book are designed to help you know how to make the lemonade long before life serves up the lemons!

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Release dateAug 2, 2015
ISBN9781311586773
Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do: How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!
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McDowell Graham

McDowell Graham is an Author, Intuitive Mentor, and Therapeutic Storyteller. Her Life Purpose is to help people see themselves and their place in the world with new eyes.McDowell describes her books as a “collaboration” with Divine Source. Each book begins as an experience or an encounter in her daily life that provides new ways of thinking, which are to be brought forth and shared with others. Once the message is received, the book essentially writes itself. Divine Source holds the wisdom. McDowell is simply a grateful messenger.You can connect with McDowell on her website at www.cracksinconsciousness.com, and you can follow her on Facebook at Cracks in Consciousness.

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    Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do - McDowell Graham

    Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do

    How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!

    By McDowell Graham

    Examine  Envision  Emerge

    Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do

    How to Prepare for all of the Unforeseen, Unexpected, and Inevitable Events That Life Can Throw at Us!

    Published by McDowell Graham at Smashwords

    Copyright 2015, 2020 McDowell Graham

    No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the Author (except by a reviewer or other Author, who may quote brief passages accompanied by an accurate attribution to this book).

    Disclaimer: The advice and strategies contained in this book may not be suitable for every situation. This book is sold with the understanding that the Author is not suggesting or recommending legal, accounting, or other professional services. If professional assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Further, readers should be aware that websites listed in this book may have changed or disappeared between when this book was written and when it was read.

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    How This Book Is Organized

    A Quick Reference Guide to the Nine Exercises

    Chapter 1. An Inconvenient Time

    A Matter of Interpretation

    A Cup Half Full or Half Empty

    Exercise 1: My Life Events

    Exercise 2: Lifetime Achievement Award

    Exercise 3: Up Close and Personal Profile

    Exercise 4: Grab and Go

    Exercise 5: Who Ya Gonna Call

    Exercise 6: Passenger Mode

    Exercise 7: Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway

    Exercise 8: Doing the Thing You Think You Cannot Do

    Exercise 9: You Can Get There From Here

    Chapter 2. The Way Ahead

    Suggested Reading and Works Cited

    About the Author

    Connect with Me!

    Introduction

    You gain strength, courage, and confidence by experience in which you look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

    Thank you for buying this book!

    I sincerely hope that you will never have to complete a single exercise in this book. That, one day, you will find this book gathering dust in some forgotten corner of your house, and you’ll think, Buying that book was a complete waste of money.

    However, I sincerely believe that, one day, you will need to complete one of the exercises, and, on that day, you will declare, Buying that book was one of the best investments I ever made.

    Because this book is about coping with life events before the event occurs, and we are unable to cope at all. It’s a book of answers to the gut-wrenching question, What the hell am I going to do now?

    I define life event as an occurrence or happening that changes some aspect of your current life. It can be anticipated or unexpected. It usually requires some kind of response or action.

    The focus of this book is on life event planning: the steps we can take to prepare for, and then successfully cope with, the events that make up our lives. Everything from the unforeseen, like divorce, loss of a

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