Miranda Gray - The Optimized Woman: Using Your Menstrual Cycle to Achieve Success and Fulfillment

First published by O Books, 2009

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Text copyright Miranda Gray 2008

Design: Stuart Davies

ISBN: 978 1 84694 198 6

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To my husband who continuously supports me in all my numerous creative projects.

To everyone who I have met both face to face and online who has contributed and supported this title. I feel honored at having met so many amazing women and appreciate your on-going input and help.

You simply have to look along the shelves in any bookstore to see the popularity of personal development, life-coaching and business-coaching subjects. And of course there are numerous courses and workshops to help you to transform yourself, your life and your career with goal setting, action plans and motivational schemes. So why do we need a new book on changing our lives? Because the books currently on the market are not specifically designed for women and dont take into account what makes them different to men!

We readily buy new self-help books to change our lives. We commit to the method, apply the techniques to our thought processes and activities, read the motivational statements, and then find that two or three weeks later we have lost that commitment and motivation, and the dream of success has gone.

So why dont these personal development systems work well for women? Because women have something which men havent got and these schemes fail to take this one important factor into account!

The Optimized Woman Daily Plan is a 28-day guide specifically designed to help women become aware of their Optimum Times and associated abilities, to apply them to create fulfillment and self-motivation, and to achieve the success and goals they want in their lives.

By taking action at the right time and using peak time abilities and talents when they arise, we are able to work with our natural motivation, creativity and insight to make the dramatic changes in our development and work lives that we really want.

The concept in this book is out-of-the-box; it is a new, unique approach that will radically change the way you think about yourself and how you live your life. Try the plan for 28 days and discover for yourself your own unique talents and skills and how to practically apply them to everyday situations and work projects and to the achievement of long-term goals. This book will change your self-perception, build your self-confidence, and help you to experience the vibrant, creative, successful woman that you truly are.

You will be amazed that this is the one self-development method that you can apply month after month without losing the commitment and motivation to achieve your dreams, and bring fulfillment and success.

Miranda Gray

We all know the saying that if we want to change the world we must first change ourselves. But what if we change during the month; does that mean the world changes too? Yes. Miranda Gray.

What do women have that men dont?

What if I told you that you had a tremendous power available to you? What if I told you that it would empower you to go beyond your everyday expectations, bring focus and logical reasoning, create better relationships, enhance your problem solving ability, offer creative insight and blue-sky thinking, and finally, create deep insight and understanding?

What if I told you that you are not using the one greatest power source that you have at this moment which could make you more successful at work and in your life? Would you be interested? Of course you would!

And then, what if I said that the answer to What do women have and men dont? is the menstrual cycle.

Bet you werent expecting this!

The menstrual cycle is a huge unrealized personal and work asset.

Generally the menstrual cycle is seen as an inconvenience rather than an advantage, and the worlds of business, work and personal development have completely ignored a fundamental truth about women: that our abilities change throughout the month.

Unlike men, we have a cycle of mental, physical and emotional changes which impacts the way we think, feel and behave. We have within our cycles a natural, in-built life-coaching model with its own Optimum Times for planning, consolidating, taking action, creative thinking, reviewing and cutting loose.

Where other life transformation and goal achievement approaches go wrong is to force women into a linear structure with unrealistic expectations about the consistency of our mental and emotional approaches and perspectives. This limits us from reaching our full potential in a much wider and diverse range of abilities during our Optimum Times.

I found Miranda Grays 28 day program to be very self empowering as a woman in the work place. It has allowed me to maximize my peak times and strengths throughout my cycle and to be a little more forgiving of those times when I didnt feel quite so energized and productive. I would recommend this program to any woman. Tess, Human Resources, Canada.

With current self-development techniques we are forced into a masculine way of thinking, creating the seeds of failure before we even start towards our goals. And in the business world, rigid working structures ignore our cyclic nature, losing businesses the best creative resource they may have us!

When we do work in awareness of our abilities and talents as they occur during the month, we can become exceptionally productive and perceptive members of a working team and experience levels of achievement and personal fulfillment beyond our expectations, in our personal and work life.

In a world where every business needs an edge to keep ahead, tapping into the vast resource of abilities women offer could provide the necessary inspired leaps to stay one step ahead of competitors.

What are our Optimum Times and how can we use them?