The Perfect You Workbook: A Blueprint for Identity
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Based on her powerful book, this study takes participants through seven steps to unlock their unique design--the brilliantly original way they think, feel, relate, and make choices--freeing them from comparison, envy, and jealousy, which destroy brain tissue. Participants learn to be aware of what's going on in their own minds and bodies, to lean in to their own experiences rather than trying to forcefully change them, and to redefine what success means to them. Released from the suffocating box of expectations, they'll embrace their true identity and develop a clear sense of divine purpose in their lives.
Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf holds a PhD in communication pathology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Since 1981 she has researched the science of thought as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Dr. Leaf is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance, such as stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, thinking and learning, controlling our thought lives, wisdom, and how to identify and use one's natural gifts. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show starting in 2013. Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Texas.
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The Perfect You Workbook - Dr. Caroline Leaf
© 2018 by Caroline Leaf
Published by Baker Books
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Ebook edition created 2018
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ISBN 978-1-4934-1417-8
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Contents
Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Introduction 7
How to Use This Workbook 11
Prologue 13
1 The Big Picture 23
2 The Perfect You: Thinking, Feeling, Choosing 34
3 Discovering the Potential of Our Blueprint for Identity 41
4 The Philosophy of the Perfect You 52
5 The Science of the Perfect You 67
6 and 7 Profiling the Perfect You: The Unique Qualitative (UQ) Assessment Tool / The Perfect You Checklist 83
8 The Discomfort Zones 86
9 and 10 The Perfect You Chart / Perfect You Metacognitive Module Exercises 91
Conclusion 93
The Perfect You Reading List 95
Back Ad 96
Back Cover 97
Introduction
See the Read-along Instructions on the DVD.
Who am I?
We all, at one point in our lives, ask ourselves this question. We are who we are, but unveiling our identity and activating it correctly are crucial to a life well-lived; this question is the theme of countless books, both classic and modern, fiction and nonfiction. It shapes some of the greatest masterpieces in the world of art and characterizes the world of education. It is a question that none of us can escape—a question that can only be measured by the individual as an individual: Can I accept the way God has allowed me to be?
In The Perfect You, I discussed this question of identity and how each of us has a unique way of thinking, feeling, and choosing. No two minds are alike—our ability to think, choose, and feel is our particular blueprint for identity.
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