Figuring It Out: Balancing Your Wheel of Life

By Laura King CHT NLP Life Coach

We humans learn by doing. With the right tools for doing what you need to do, including the questions you need to ask, you can make real change in your life. All you need is an open mind, a way to listen to MP3s, and something to write with.

Figuring It Out is an interactive and highly experiential guide to self-improvement, built on the reality that there’s no one-size-fits-all program when it comes to human transformation. Each person must reflect and reach individual conclusions about what to work on and how to work on it. Using the same process she uses in her practice, author Laura King presents a method for figuring out what’s working and what needs improvement in the eight areas that have been the most important to her clients for decades: family, fun and happiness, health, purpose and meaning, lifelong learning, relationships, finances, and position in life and career. She demonstrates how to use a combination of the power of the mind and the science of habit to create consistent improvements that balance out your Wheel of Life.

This self-improvement guide walks you through identifying and cultivating the habits you need to shift or create to balance the eight major areas of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665727495

Laura King CHT NLP Life Coach

Laura King is a certified hypnotist, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner, life coach, author, certified emotional intelligence coach, and sports performance coach. She is the founder and president of Summit Dynamics, LLC, a consulting service that helps people attain their goals through life and sports coaching, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and NLP. This is her seventh book, and she has created over four hundred self-hypnosis MP3s covering stress management, peak performance, public speaking, overcoming illness, and much more.

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ISBN: 978-1-6657-2748-8 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022913697

Archway Publishing rev. date: 08/02/2022

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For my family, especially Ed,

and for my clients and friends who’ve

trusted me with helping them

figure out how to create a more balanced life.

Congratulations on taking your first step in Figuring It Out!

For over two decades, I’ve been coaching Olympic athletes, titans of industry, and moms looking to reinvent themselves. I sit with them, and I listen to their stories. I get a feel for their needs, their context, and their history. And then I hypnotize them and give them work to do between our sessions—including self-hypnosis—that will help them be their best and feel their best.

I can only see a finite number of people, which I sometimes find frustrating. I want everyone to be able to reap the benefits of this vital work. My dedication to making that happen led me to create this interactive book and its accompanying downloads that can be found at www.laurakinghypnosis.com/downloads. The mp3 tracks on that page are an important part of this work, as they contain the exact words I would use if you were a client of mine.

My intention was to have us work together in a way that’s as close as possible to you coming to my office. If the Covid pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that there are all kinds of ways for us to relate that don’t involve being in person.

This journey we are embarking on is about achieving the kind of balance that seems elusive these days—balancing the EIGHT aspects of what I call The Wheel of Life. The Wheel didn’t come from me; it came from my clients. It’s composed of the areas my clients have told me, time and time again, are the most essential parts of their lives to get right. Like any wheel, it needs to be even in its construction; it needs to be balanced. That’s what this book is about.

How To Use This Book

Well, first, enjoy it. Make it your own! Draw on it, put stickers on it, and use it as a diary! I won’t say: Pick a spot in your home and a time of day and make a practice of writing in it daily. Instead, I’ll say:

Do what makes you happy and engaged!

Find your time and space that allow your unique thoughts and feelings to flow!

The only rule to follow is consistency. We tend to do more of the things that make us happy and that bring us success. So the key is finding your way to consistency and happiness, and for that I recommend a before-I-go-to-bed mindset for the first 30 days.

Before you go to bed each night for those 30 days, you’ll read or do whatever Figuring It Out exercises you have scheduled. No matter how miserable or tired or resistant you feel, you’re going to commit to doing them. Practice makes progress, and the progress here is the developing of healthy habits of mind and body.

The Structure of the Book

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Sometimes clients want to know The How of my work with them. They want to know the principles that drive what we do and how they explain why our work is so effective. I use a combination of hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming, and weave in universal laws I’ve found helpful. Part 1 contains this information, in addition to an explanation of emotional intelligence. This information sets the stage for the discovery I’ll guide you through in Part 2.

As for Part 2, I ask you to read it with a curious attitude and without judgment. We are, after all, exploring your life as it is right now. We’re not trying to figure out what’s