Jackie Woodside - Calming the Chaos: A Soulful Guide to Managing Your Energy Rather Than Your Time

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Jackie Woodside has done an amazing job of presenting valuable information that can positively change the way you experience time in your life! She brings clarity and a practical plan to a world that is getting faster and more chaotic by the minute. Calming The Chaos is a great guide to mastering the elusive nature of time by putting you in both action and trust with the flow of life. This book is highly recommended to anyone looking to experience more peace and realize more time when there seems to be none!

Howard Falco
Spiritual Teacher and Author of Time in a Bottle: Mastering The Experience of Life and I AM: The Power of Discovering Who You Really Are

From ending procrastination to scheduling priorities, Jackie has all sorts of practical suggestions for getting more done and feeling better about it. She knows that Im too busy is just an excuse that keeps us from living the lives we want.

Laura Vanderkam
Author, Their Own Sweet Time (2015), 168 Hours , and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast -- a paperback compilation of the bestselling ebook series, all from Portfolio/Penguin. Please visit www.lauravanderkam.com.

Jackie is a new and powerful voice in the field of consciousness evolution. Her book, Calming the Chaos , is a practical and an excellent resource for those who want to increase their awareness along with their productivity.

Bruce D Schneider
Founder, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and author of Energy Leadership

Jackies approach is both practical and profound. Leaders and people from all backgrounds can benefit from this clear and thoughtful framework to access their boundless inner resources to navigate everyday life. Learning to manage your Self in time is key in the creation of a happy, effective, and balanced way of life. Calming the Chaos provides an inspiring and practical roadmap for making our most mundane tasks spiritually uplifting and a service to others.

Zayda Vallejo, M.Litt.
Founder of The HeartWell Institute for Mindful Living, adjunct faculty at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, instructor at the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester

There are many great teachers in this world, but few can practically and with clarity teach life. Jackies Calming The Chaos gives us, in sensible, down to earth, language how to actively apply a profound concept. It really is about Energetic Consciousness! This is, seriously, a must-read.

Rob McGrath
Principal at Wind Rose Retreats
Stratton, Vermont

At a time when so many people are immersed in feeling C.H.A.O.S. (Confused, Hurried, Agitated, Overwhelmed, and Scared), Jackie Woodsides Calming the Chaos offers an amazing and timely dose of soulful and practical ways to realign us to our purpose, passion, and point of focus so that we may travel toward our True North! Jackie, has outlined in very clear and applicable ways that we can identify those blockages and hindrances to living the lives we deserve and once identified, she helps us to remove them and then access an energy we may not have realized was ours to tap into! I give the book 10 out of 5 stars!

Rev. Dr. Raymont L. Anderson, Ph.D
Speaker, author, seminar leader

Calming the Chaos helps to de-mystify what conscious awareness is really all about. In so doing Jackie offers very practical insights into the power of choice, living in the present, projecting ones own positive energy and ultimately taking control of your life. You are ready for action once you read this book.

Bill Sex
President, New England Coaching

I really like how Jackie provides a practical approach to calming the chaos. Her use of examples taken from her own life experience helped illuminate the points she made in the book. I have some great takeaways to help me manage my energy.

Terry Durkin, MBA, EA

Owner, Durkin Associates

Calming the Chaos: A Soulful Guide for Managing Your Energy Rather Than Your Time

Copyright 2015 by Jackie Woodside

All rights reserved.

Published by Next Century Publishing www.NextCenturyPublishing.com
Las Vegas, NV

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any otherwithout the prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-68102-026-6

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014960107

Printed in the United States of America

Dedication

For Heather

Acknowledgements

As with any project of significance or importance, there is a wonderful group of people who have supported, cheered, helped, guided and mentored me along the way. I hope to capture my sentiments to all of you here.

To my team at Next Century Publishing: Ken, Simon, Shannon, Margo, Morpheus, Jason and RodI cannot thank you enough for your ongoing encouragement and belief not only in my message, but also in me as a messenger. Your confidence and enthusiasm bolstered my stamina when I thought I could not get this done. Thank you for your excellence in the work that you do. To my impeccably skilled proofreader, Maria Alma Nevedo, you are such a blessing in my life. Thank you for your unrelenting commitment to my work!

To my core group of students: especially those of you who were early graduates of my Curriculum for Conscious LivingPatty Barkas, Char Carver, Ruth Cook, Rose Couzzo, Jane Cowan, Arlene Dorischild, Amy Joslin, Nancy Langmeyer, Steve Hermann, Catherine Ives, Cherlyn Kast, Thea Klein, Martha McCown, Jan Goddard Taylor, Mary Rapa, Gary Taylor and Bev Wedda your resilience and commitment to living a transformed life continue to call me higher. And posthumously, to Nancy Lincoln, who through her courage, acceptance and grace taught us how to live a transcendent life, even unto death. I cannot thank you enoughthere are no words to convey the depth at which your belief in me, your faith in my mission and your willingness to keep showing up and doing this work has helped to create this dream. You are my students, my fellow journeyers and my friends.

As always, deep gratitude and love to my family, with whom I savor each day in this delicious life we are co-creating!

My constant commitment is to make my life a living prayerto live and fulfill my mission in everything that I do. May this book serve that end for each and every one of you.

Introduction

I meet with hundreds of people every year to talk about this notion of time, chaos and overwhelm. I repeatedly hear difficult, challenging and painful emotions that emerge in discussing this ephemeral resource. We have such an odd and unrealistic relationship with time, giving it otherworldly power and characteristics that we allow to deeply impact the quality of our lives. We relate to time both as a blessing and a curse, depending on what is happening around us. We lament its passing. We scoff at its scarcity. I have worked with prison inmates who wanted time to pass more quickly and who felt that all they had was time, and I have worked with those facing terminal illness who desperately wanted more of this precious, yet unseen raw material.

As human beings we have the ability to reflect on and alter our perceptions. It requires a certain level of self-awareness and maturity, but we have the capacity to wake up and live more consciously. Yet, as you may have noticed, we have a strong inclination to stay asleep, lulled into unconsciousness by habits and proclivities and the non-stop stimulation in the world around us. Each day, each moment in fact, we have the option of moving forward with greater clarity and power, or to remain in the same state of chaos and despair.