Janelle Ryan - Become Extraordinary

Footnotes

First published by Busybird Publishing 2020

Copyright 2020 Janelle Ryan

Print: 978-1-922465-33-7

Ebook: 978-1-922465-34-4

This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Janelle Ryan.

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Cover design: Busybird Publishing

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Illustrations: Kev Howlett

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This book is dedicated to four extraordinary women:

Glenys Farley, Jean Farley, Mavis Wake

and Marjorie Molloy.

Praise for

BECOME EXTRAORDINARY

A powerful book that gives you practical steps towards achieving what seems to be impossible. Your life begins at the end of these chapters.

Lisa Cavill

Company Director

If you are ready to get unstuck and smash through some stuff that is holding you back in any area of your life then I highly recommend this book.

Wendy Barron

Personal Trainer & Lifestyle Coach

Janelle Ryan has had such a deep impact on my life. Without her coaching approach I wouldnt be where I am today. If you are looking for practical tips that will support your growth and learning, Janelle Ryans got them!

Stephanie Abouatallah

Founder of BlueHiveHealth.com and Senior Account Executive

Janelle brings a practical down-to-earth approach to some of the deepest and most existential issues we face; least of which, what is my purpose?

Giovanna Capozza

Relationship Coach, Spiritual Teacher, Speaker and International Retreat Leader

Since working with Janelle I have become calmer, stronger and more resilient. My emotional intelligence has grown in a way I hadnt anticipated and external situations and people no longer have the ability to raise unwanted emotions in me. Every chapter in this book gives you powerful tools and activities. Work through them and your life will transform.

Sidonie Berke

Lawyer

Consciously creating the life of your dreams starts right here, with empowering and practical strategies that actually work! Janelles passion and authenticity jump out of every page and pull you in (with both hands) equipping you with the confidence to know that if you do the work, you will get results. Prepare to be inspired.

Nikki Karpeles

Public Relations and Communications Professional

Contents

Foreword

by Kate James

Coach, meditation teacher, speaker and writer

J anelles main purpose and passion is to make a difference to help others see how extraordinary and limitless they are, and to show them how to create a life that is the most fulfilling one it can be.

She is a shining example of someone who has done this herself. Through seeking help, challenging her mindset and changing her behaviour, she overcame her fears and discovered her own version of a meaningful life. Janelle has been you.

I first met Janelle in the early 2000s when she approached me for coaching. She had recently returned to Australia after residing in Europe for many years, and was unsure how to create a new life for herself in Melbourne. We spent six months together and during that time I watched as Janelle embraced coaching principles and tools, and used them to lay a foundation for her future. Before long she had designed a vision for her life that aligned with her values. Janelle took responsibility for her own transformation by turning inwards and examining her own beliefs, attitudes and behaviours, even when she was afraid to. A few years after our coaching program, Janelle had completed a university degree, stepped into a dream job and saved a deposit to buy her first home.

A true advocate of the coaching process, Janelle returned to me a few years later when she was ready for a leadership role, which she achieved within months. She returned again eight years after that, when she had become disillusioned with corporate life and was ready to make change. She wanted to build something of her own; she just wasnt sure what that was.

It became apparent very quickly, via values, skills, strengths and personality testing, that coaching was Janelles most aligned vocation. Within eighteen months she received formal qualifications and launched Sky High Coaching. Within six months of the launch she left her full-time corporate role to devote her time to her clients and her business.

If you are looking for a book that is simple in its delivery; contains personal stories from the author who has lived through her own transformation (which wasnt always easy) and has a life-long passion for learning; outlines the theory behind the concepts in a way thats easy to understand; provides effective activities and exercises to work through and implement to create immediate change; is supported by real-life client case studies; and shows how you, and your life, can become truly extraordinary, then this is the book for you.

I hope you enjoy it.

Introduction

extraordinary:

1. unusual or remarkable
2. usually great

A nas Nin once wrote, We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. Do you see yourself as the extraordinary person you are, understand the power and energy at your disposal every moment of every day? Do you know the magnitude of what had to take place on a physical, mystical and spiritual level for you to be here on Earth? Do you know, at a deeply fundamental level, that you have the capability, skills and talent to create anything you wish?

Perpetually curious and a passionate pupil, I have spent decades diving into why I think, feel and behave the way I do. Ive wondered why Im here, and what my place is within the Universal landscape. Ive wondered how to tap into the unseen forces at work around me (upon discovering they existed), and how to use them to my advantage. Am I truly the powerful creator of my own world, or is my fate at the whim of other people and external circumstances and events?

This lifelong endeavour has taken me around the world, exposing me to cutting edge scientific and spiritual concepts, introduced and delivered by some of the most brilliant minds today. Veils have been lifted, onion layers peeled back and truths revealed. Its been a very long road, but not by any means complete.

When I reflect over my life I can now clearly see I spent not years, but decades creating my world when I had no idea how I was doing it. Actually, to be honest I had no idea I was doing it. Like most people, I moved through life assuming life would happen to me, and Id navigate through it to the best of my ability. I thought my role, when it came to the creation of my life, was to have some goals and take the conventional step-by-step approach to reach them. If something tripped me up along the way I usually blamed life, others, or myself ( if only Id been born richer or thinner or smarter or funnier, with longer legs, or in a different city or country if only Id made Choice X instead of Choice Y you know the drill )