Facing Pain - Embracing Love: The Map to Authentic Living - Tapa blanda

Our highly competitive society drives us to be the best and accumulate the most. Yet, as we earn more recognition and wealth, the less we seem to enjoy our lives. In our quiet moments, many of us sense a vague unease and admit that something important is missing. Facing Pain - Embracing Love uses a unique geographic metaphor to guide you out of that discontent and into the joy and richness of authentic living. You will learn how to navigate through your painful truths to open up fully to love and deep satisfaction. This empowering book offers proven strategies and action steps to help you break free of illusions, enlist support, and transform your life and relationships. You will discover how to shift from: Cynicism and judgment to curiosity and acceptance; Anxiety and confusion to serenity and clarity; Measurement and entitlement to appreciation and gratitude; Materialism and ownership to service and stewardship; and Resentment and vengeance to forgiveness and compassion. As you journey closer to authenticity and true self-expression, you will experience inner peace, increased creativity and spontaneity, greater intimacy, and a passionate connection with your ultimate purpose in life.

Jim Warner is an entrepreneur and life-transition expert with insights grounded in a rare combination of experience and empathy. From 1980 through 1992, he skillfully navigated the peaks and valleys of the burgeoning software industry. First, he led his own firm from start-up through phenomenal growth. Midstage, he forged beyond downsizing to successful resurgence. Ultimately, Warner sold his company, with visions of comfortable, secure, and satisfying days ahead. But the transition was far rockier than he expected. In his midforties Jim entered a three-year period of introspection and questioning: How to rejuvenate relationships with his family and friends? How to leverage his existing and latent skills and interests in a meaningful way? How to overcome personal weaknesses that blocked his fulfillment? OnCourse International is the product of Jim's taking stock and heightened awareness. Today, he is a dedicated coach, advisor, and facilitator to senior executives, guiding them into candid, creative, and collaborative interactions for enhanced performance, at both the enterprise and whole-life levels. Having worked with more than 2,000 CEOs, executive teams from fast-growth, high-performance companies, and dozens of couples navigating difficult midlife transitions, Jim is a recognized expert at helping individuals, couples, and teams achieve greater self-awareness, authentic and productive communication, more fulfilling relationships and more satisfying lives. Jim is the author of Aspirations of Greatness: Mapping the Midlife Leader's Reconnection to Self and Soul as well as the audio series When Having It All Isn t Enough. Whether for entire corporations, executive teams, small groups, couples, or individuals, Jim is an expert in breeding clean, productive interactions and eliminating destructive and draining behavioral ruts. He is also a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and corporate events. Jim has been married thirty-two years and enjoys enriching relationships with his three adult children. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan as well as an alumnus of Harvard Business School, OPM program. He is a member of the World Presidents Organization.