This brilliant book is your Get out of Fear Now pass! You have dreams to create and a marvelous life that awaits you. Tama Kieves shares how to be in the middle of all sorts of things and find your way to everything you deserve. Shes funny, real, and smart, and Thriving Through Uncertainty is essential reading for those who want to live a great-full, authentic, FULLY EXPRESSED life.
Anyone pursuing their heroic dreams faces uncertainty every single day. How you deal with your uncertainty makes all the difference to your bottom line and to your peace of mind. Tama Kieves has written the guidebook for those in the trenches. Thriving Through Uncertainty will help you shift your mind-set from anxiety to powerhouse focus.
Tama writes like someone who has been there before you because she has. She is a qualified and experienced guide. Her words and images land on you like a novel, descriptions that stir the soul as she guides you through a gentle and important transformation. Let this book usher you to a new place where your every wish can get a chance at becoming real.
Were living in a crazy time where many of us are stuck and afraid to make the wrong move, so we dont actually move at all. With moxie and wisdom, Tama Kieves has written this timely guidebook to help answer some of those daunting questions that continue to keep us running in circles. If you want to unlock your power and laugh your way back to happy, Thriving Through Uncertainty is the book you should be reading right now.
Tama Kieves is the perfect tour guide through challenging times. Thriving Through Uncertainty is brilliant, funny, practical, motivating, and, most of all, inspiring (like Tama herself). If you are experiencing uncertainty in any area of your life, this book is a must!
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kieves, Tama J., author.
Title: Thriving through uncertainty : moving beyond fear of the unknown and making change work for you / Tama J. Kieves.
Description: New York : TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017031598 (print) | LCCN 2017051040 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101992302 | ISBN 9780143109532 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Success. | Change (Psychology) | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth. | SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness.
Classification: LCC BF637.S8 (ebook) | LCC BF637.S8 K46 2018 (print) | DDC 650.1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031598
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I read recently that snowflakes are all alike. However, when they fall through the atmosphere and interact with the elements, they crystallize into their own unique patterns. The way you fall in this life, the way you meet the elements, this is your love song to the Universe. The journey creates who you are. Today, I know that how I respond to my trials, creates who I am.
T AMA K IEVES from A Year Without Fear
Naturally, I have empathy for those with demanding mindswho want to know how to do things, and how to take charge of their lives. I know what its like to want to know everything up frontdocumented, certified, and notarizedbefore you budge a single half step. But, of course, the inspired path is one that asks you to dive into an ocean in the moonlightwhen theres no lifeguard in sight.
Then and only then do you understand what youre doing.
And by then, you couldnt care less. Because the love and goodness is overwhelming and you no longer need facts because, lets just say, youve already bought the farm and youre singing to the daisies.
Its a different path, to be sure.
Love is so much bigger than control.
T AMA K IEVES
CONTENTS
AN INTRODUCTION AND INITIATION
IM HOLDING THIS DOOR OPEN FOR YOU
Y ou may feel like things are challenging at this moment in your life. But lets get this straight right now: Its not because youre failing or broken. Its because your spirit demands soaringnot coping. Its your time.
The Doorway
Youre standing at the doorway.
On one side of the door, you can decide that life has not turned out the way you desire. Its unfair. Its too hard. Maybe the same thing keeps happening to youor not happening.
You might feel anxious or discouraged. Its a young techies world. Or a blondes. Or someone luckier and other than you. You dont have real money. Stable true love. The recognition or freedom you deserve. It almost works out sometimes. But then it rains. You lose your ticket. The job is taken away. Your lover turns out to be a tiny bit misleading, what with being married to eight other people and all. And the disappointments seem familiar, and yet cut you to the bone, because some part of you knows, it doesnt have to be this way.
This is a life that is happening to you. This perspective denies your power. I am not demeaning your feelings of frustration. Its just that I have something more useful in mind.
You can walk through this doorway.
You may have to crawl. You may need to breathe deeper than you have ever breathed. You may do it while kicking stones and cans in resentment, but doing it nonetheless, giving yourself a shot. You may have to grow. You may have to choose to do things in a way that you have never done them before. You may have to become a superhero in your own lifetime. Its what you really want. Its what the deepest part of you desires.