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Designing Your Life: A Life/Work Empowerment
    Program  

Unlikely Angel: Memoir of a Long Marriage

     by Carole Wood Hardy

Designing Your Life: A Life/Work Empowerment
   Program
by Connie Komack

Are you looking for focus, clarity, and direction in your life? This book can help!

		"It's like having a coach in your corner all the way through the process, without having to leave your home, make a phone call, or pay for multiple coaching sessions." - Private Client
Designing Your Life: A Life/Work Empowerment Program by Connie Komack, MA, CEC Published by LifeWork Enterprises, ©2003, 2005, 2008 178 pages $49.95

The workbook Designing Your Life: A Life/Work Empowerment Program evolved from my Designing Your Life™ workshops. This self-guided workbook - a combination of information and self-paced exercises - takes you through a step-by-step process that leads you to your answer to the question, "What do I want to do with the rest of my life?"

The process of working through the workbook leads you to …

• a clearer and deeper picture of who you are and what you have going for you in your life, by looking at such things as your skills, strengths, interests, aptitudes, personality type, values, beliefs, and purpose.
• a vision of your ideal future in terms of your personal life and of your work, career, or business life.
• a plan for the steps you will take to bridge the gap between your current life and your ideal future life.
• a call to take action towards your goals.
• an integration of, and mastery of, daily success habits which will support your growth and the realization of your dream.
• a balance between your personal life and your work life in accordance with your values, goals, and priorities.

Brief Outline of Contents

1. Introduction: Creating the Map
2. Part One: Who Am I? Taking Stock
3. Part Two: Where Am I Going? Envisioning the Future
4. Part Three: How Will I Get There? Planning and Taking Action
5. Part Four: How Do I Live My Dream? Staying on Purpose
6. AfterWord: Living a Magical Life
7. Daily Success Journal
8. Daily Gratitude Journal
9. Resources
10. Following Up

If you would like to view a full Outline of Contents, click here.

This easy-to-use spiral-bound workbook is designed for use in a number of ways:

• As part of the classroom/training/workshop series
• In one-on-one coaching sessions
• On your own, as a self-guided process

The Designing Your Life™ program and workbook can be customized for use by schools, employment training programs, career counseling, personnel placement and outplacement companies, and other organizations. Contact us for more information.

To learn more about the Designing Your Life™ program, go to Programs or go to Info to Go and download About Designing Your Life.

To order, click here.

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Unlikely Angel: Memoir of a Long Marriage
by Carole Wood Hardy

"In the poems in Unlikely Angel, Carole shares glimpses of defining moments in their long and complex marriage from the heat of their initial passion through their middle years of both joy and struggle and, as they aged, to an increasingly compassionate tenderness and companionship." - from the Bio by Cynthia Fisk

"Her poems go way beyond the personal. They touch the experience of everyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship." - a Reader

"The author's relationship with nature and the world around her is even more profound than her relationship with her husband of 63 years! The two are interwoven with consummate skill and beauty." - a Reader

		You rise on the chair lift of the day-care van, an unlikely angel smiling under the visor of your old Greek cap.
Unlikely Angel: Memoir of a Long Marriage by Carole Wood Hardy Edited by Connie Komack Published by the Estate of Carole Wood Hardy (Watermargin Press) ISBN: 0-9716932-0-X 96pp Paperback, $15.00

A Sampling of Carole's Poems

Heat Lightning
by Carole Wood Hardy

I think I hear your whistle
remembering how it precedes you
like the pull of the sea

coming in before a wave, how
I wait in the dark, drowning
in the musky smell of lilies.

You anchor your boat by the pier
stride through shallow foam,
stones glistening under your bare feet.

Flying with combers we meet
while heat lightning embraces the sky
with intermittent flares.

Beyond the churning waves I hear
my mother's voice calling my name
from the veranda of the summer cottage

and my hair rides loose in the wind
as I walk over scumbled stones
listening to the split voice of the foghorn.

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Loss
by Carole Wood Hardy

Sometimes I turn against the sky,
that rush of power
sly enough to shatter me.

This morning, rain ruled the house,
spilling off the roof
the way a silken robe
slips from bare shoulders
to lie forgotten on the floor.

Morning glories stitch their blue
along the window screen. Light
enters my room, unhurriedly,
teaching me the art of losing
without loss.

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The Way of Birds
by Carole Wood Hardy

Oh to be back in a time
before flowering
spring tulips opening
before possession.

But I choose
the vibrant life
in spite of pain
that only love can bring,

the way a bird circles the sky.
She falls,
and falling,
spreads her wings.

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