Are you ready to take that next big step? Our potential for greatness is as big as our dreams, but carving out a path to that next level, without taking any wrong turns, can be incredibly overwhelming. Many of us end up stepping back, giving up, or delaying our potential for true happiness and real success. The Compass: How to Navigate Your Life and Career in Times of Change is here to give you the direction, confidence, purpose, and tools you need to start making positive changes, right now. Do you have big career hesitations? Are you nervous about retirement? Are you considering major life changes due to a marriage, cross-country move or by starting a business? The list of important decisions we’re faced with can seem endless.But don’t lose heart, the original compass was invented over 2,000 years ago and still provides direction to people all over the world, from remote villages, to elite military operations. We all need a compass to guide us on our path. In this powerful resource that utilizes the N.E.W.S.® Compass™ you’ll navigate important questions like:WHERE do you want to go?WHY do you want to go there?HOW do you want to get to your destination?WHAT is stopping you?And rest assured these seemingly simple concepts take on an entirely new life when structured as part of the N.E.W.S.® Compass™ -- a unique approach that helps individuals and organizations identify key roadblocks, while creating practical solutions that propel them to the next level and beyond. N.E.W.S.® Compass™ programs are being taught in workshops and used in over 30 countries around the world and will definitely help you on your individual path! The period of accelerating change we are witnessing has put a strain on individuals, organizations and entire societies. Globalt rends are occurring faster, hitting harder, and spreading more widely. The intensifying problems of uncertainty and anxiety resulting from too much change lead to feelings of helplessness, despair, uncertainty, insecurity, depression, and burnout. Although most of us have learned to manage a certain amount of change,today we are increasingly being faced with more change than we can handle. In  The Compass ,we first examine how people make decisions. Then we introduce and develop the concepts of self-navigation and choice points. Following that, we focus on each direction and offer skills and tools for better self-navigation--tools that have been tested in many companies and with a large number of individuals across the globe. Throughout the book, we tell stories of people who have used the approaches portrayed here. Finally, we suggest some solutions that you can adopt and use to navigate your life and career in a better, more productive,and more exciting direction. Use this book as a general guide to self-navigation.It can also help you navigate through a specific choice that you currently face. It can be a useful tool for HR or OD consultants or for managers as they help others in the organization navigate their careers. Finally, it can be used as an introduction to the N.E.W.S.® workshops and coaching process. "When I met Jane eight years ago, she was feelingmiserable. From the outside, it seemed she had everything that should make aperson happy and satisfied. She had a successful career as the head of adepartment of speech therapy in a famous health center. She was happily marriedto a loving and supporting husband and had two charming children. Yet shecomplained about her situation and said that she needed a profound change. I tried to understand why she needed such a change..." The story of Jane opens The Compass and leads the reader into finding our what was wrong with this seemingly picture-perfect executive, and how show managed to navigate her life into a completely new, and happier one. The Compass is an easy-to-follow guide that can help anyone who is at a crossroads find their True North - WHERE should they lead themselves, WHY should they do it, HOW to do it and WHAT is stopping them. Thousands of happy turned-around people who went through this life-changing process are the best testimony to the efficacy and benefits of The Compass. As the world grows more complex, we believe that having a Compass, tools and the skills to navigate through the life becomes more necessary. We have used the Compass to help thousands of individuals and organizations make crucial decisions in the past seven years. We hope you will find it a useful guide as you arrive at the next crossroads in your life and we wish you a great journey toward your future. Aviad: My co-author, Kim Barnes, and her company,Barnes & Conti Associates, have developed powerful tools for learning and improving interpersonal and thinking skills. Together, we decided that many more people could benefit from applying these systems and tools as they navigated their lives and careers. We agreed to combine our two approaches in the form of this book. Kim: Aviad Goz and I have worked tog