A celebration of our own potential for limitless growth. It will help many to awaken. DSDr. Wayne W. Dyer A celebration of our own potential for limitless growth. It will help many to awaken. -- Dr. Wayne Dyer A refreshing, gentle invitation to become far more than you ever imagined. It makes it safe and easy to grow. -- Ann McGee Cooper, Ed.D., author of You Dont Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted At some time in our life, each of us experiences a wake-up call a divorce, a firing, a new baby, a near-death experience, a promotion, or a bankruptcy. Wake-up calls come in many forms, but they all momentarily force us to interrupt our normal thought and behavioral patterns. This inspirational book helps turn lifes teachable moments into positive learnings. It shows how breakthrough moments offer choices and opportunities to discover new levels of awareness and growth, and offers practical strategies for linking head and heart to move beyond the stuck state to personal and professional fulfillment. This unique book in itself becomes a wake-up call as you explore fresh insights for work or home, for you or a friend who has just had a wake-up call. A beautiful book! Wake-Up Calls is full of practical ways to enhance your personal growth. -- Ken Keyes, Jr., author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness Are you fully awake? Do you sometimes hit your snooze alarm when you get one of lifes wake-up calls? Sleepwalking through your relationships, career, or life can be costly and disruptive. We all get wake-up calls that range from a mild Aha! moment to a cosmic two-by-four. We can either pay attention and choose to grow from these experiences or recycle history by repeating old patterns that havent worked. The insightful, yet gentle messages in this self-discovery book can assist you in experiencing greater joy and fulfillment by Waking up becoming more conscious in your personal, family, and work relationships Choosing to grow by stretching beyond your comfort zone Learning straight-talk skills to be a more effective communicator and listener Using pause power to tap into your internal resources and make better life choices Learning how to work more effectively with relationship differences Taking charge of your behavior and shaping your life results staying awake This compelling and refreshing book will energize you on your continuing journey to positive self-discovery. It will take you on a journey of increased inner awareness and outer effectiveness. You may never be the same again. Brian Tracy A must for todays leadership reading. Its principles have revolutionized the leadership team at my hospital. Jim Boyle, president and CEO, Shawnee Mission Medical Center Stop Sleepwalking Through Life! Transform times of chaos into opportunities for renewal . . . Wake-up calls are those turning points in life that everyone experiences, those jolting events that command our attention. They can take the form of a crisis, such as a divorce, job loss, or serious illness. Or they can be more gentle discovering hidden talents, welcoming a new baby, starting a business. They may even be smaller Aha! moments that challenge our beliefs, values, and priorities. But often, instead of confronting these times of change and viewing them as opportunities for self-improvement, we resist by staying asleep and in our comfort zone. Only you can control your response to lifes wake-up calls. You can hit your internal snooze alarm and keep on living in the same way. Or you can use wake-up calls to strengthen your personal and professional effectiveness, and Dr. Eric Allenbaugh will show you how in this compelling new book. Youll learn that every wake-up call comes with corresponding choice points. If you choose correctly, you can shape your own life story and find success. Youll see how thinking like a victim makes you a victim only by accepting accountability for yourself can you learn and grow. Above all, youll discover how to wake up and become more conscious in your personal, family, and working relationships. Uplifting, comforting, witty, and wise, Wake-Up Calls will teach you how to read these life-changing messages, and will catapult you to new levels of positive self-discovery and fulfillment. G. Eric Allenbaugh, Ph.D., is president of his own consulting firm emphasizing individual peak performance and corporate excellence. His personal and professional growth seminars are often described as life-changing by the thousands who have attended them. His national and international clients include businesses, hospitals, all levels of government, and corporate boards. Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Eric was in hospital administration for a dozen years and became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. His masters degree in hospital administration from UCLA was followed some years later by a University of Oregon doctorate that emphasized management, applied psychology, organizati