Choose to Be Your Own Champion: The Six-Step Playbook to Becoming Your Best Self [9781636987118]

Overview

You're the one everybody counts on. So why is your own next step the hardest one to take?

You run the meeting, the household, the crisis, the calendar. From the outside you look sorted. Inside, there's a decision you keep circling and a small voice asking, "What if I get this wrong?"

Dorice Horenstein knows that voice. She landed in Portland, Oregon, in December with one suitcase, six hundred dollars, and no coat. She served as an officer in the Israeli army. She spent thirty years in education, (the last sixteen running a K-12 supplementary school), and then walked away from all of it with a knot in her stomach and no job lined up. Every one of those was a choice. Some she got right. Some she had to rechoose.

Choose to Be Your Own Champion is her playbook for making your next choice right.

At its center is the six-step method spelled out in the word itself:

Clarity. Is this even your choice to make, and what part of it can you control? Honor. What is the knot in your stomach trying to tell you? Feelings are indicators, not dictators. Openness to Options. What haven't you put on the table yet? Dorice's favorite tool here is the improv rule "Yes, and..." Oneness. Which option lets you stay yourself? Are you being led by fear or by trust? Strategy. Who else does this touch, and what support do you need? Enactment. What is the one small step you can take in the next twenty-four hours?

Dorice is a certified Positive Intelligence coach, so along the way you'll meet the ten Saboteurs that talk you out of good decisions and the Sage powers that talk you back in. You'll also get 36 short life lessons, with a "Move Forward" reflection after each one, and a free companion workbook you can download to write them in.

There's a twist you won't find in other decision books. In Hebrew, Dorice's first language, the word for choose shares its root letters with the words for friend, connect, and sword. Every choice pulls you toward connection or toward the blade. This book helps you tell which is which before you commit.

This book is all about: Thinking clearly. Choosing intentionally. Acting confidently.

This book is a reminder that falling is not failing. Getting up is the defining moment. 

Now, let's go.

Dorice Horenstein, "The Oy to Joy Champion Catalyst," is a Positive Intelligence expert, a Thinkers360 Top 25 Global Thought Leader in coaching, a recurring guest on ABC local channel KATU AM Northwest, and the author of the award-winning Moments of the Heart. She has keynoted in over 120 conferences and companies, including Netflix, Salesforce, Thermo Fisher Scientific, MDRT, IFMA, BPAA and SHRM. Dorice is the mother of three adult children, lives in Portland with her husband Bob. She enjoys dancing and walks daily with their four-legged son. Find her at DoriceHorenstein.com.