Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook : The Essential Workbook and Companion to The New York Times Bestselling Classic [Paperback]

The exercises in this book are great! They lead you through the self-questioning process that exposes the root of your limiting belief systems. Once you really see how you're hurting yourself with that belief, you can't wait to pull it out! Each weed-pulling is immediately followed by a "flower-planting"--that is, an exercise that helps you feel positive, supported, and hopeful. Because she combines left-brain (analytical) and right-brain (emotion, imagination) activities so effectively, it's amazing how quickly the internal changes happen. And, BTW, my experience confirms that when you change your innerds, the outerds respond quickly, too!

Like most people I bought Excuse me your Life is Waiting, read it and loved it. Then I bought the companion Playbook, took one look at all the exercises and let it gather dust on a book shelf. I already knew how to create goals, visualize what I wanted in my life and take action steps to create the jobs and situations I wanted. I did not need a new way to accomplish the same thing. But I also knew that I would always fall into a safe, comfy zone and stop doing anything once I got what I wanted. And that's when the trouble would begin.

This year it seems like everything came crashing down at once. For the first time in my life I had a life threatening illness that used up all my leave for year before the end of the summer. Then money seemed to disappear before it even made it to my bank account. And the job that I loved suddenly required 10 hour days, seven days a week support. I had no time for myself, family or friends.

I needed to take a different approach to my life. Just being reactive, charging in and taking action was just making me exhausted and often made the situation worse.

I dusted off Lynn's Playbook and decided to not just skim for the parts of my life I needed to fix first. I decided to take my time and do a few pages each day. This meant I had to turn off my TV and computer, and sit and pay attention to me. As an addicted multi-tasker this was very hard for me to do. It was also hard to admit that I had pushed and numbed down my feelings so that nothing upset me anymore.

I started setting aside an hour each night with the book and a big journal to do the exercises in, and decided to commit to the process. After the first week I noticed I could actually feel my emotions as they occurred instead of ignoring them. I was embarrassed to find out I was in a constant state of annoyance with my life, and even worse with everyone and everything around me.

I practiced each exercise in order and did the meditations. Each one builds on the next, so sometimes I repeated an exercise or meditation until I felt I really understood what I needed to know.

In about a week things started to change. My relationships with my family, friends, co-workers and especially my boss became happier and more relaxed. I know I was the one who changed. They were just responding to the new positive vibrations I was sending out, instead of the dark, annoying don't bother me with anything stupid signal I was sending before.

In about two weeks new ideas and new money began flowing in. I learned that if I approach a new goal or plan with confidence and faith, I was more likely to get a positive outcome. If I reacted to the situation with a whine and fear if I don't get this I am going to be out of a job, house, etc.; then I just got more lack in my life.

I have had continued success using this Playbook and now do one exercise or meditation as a weekly focus. My life has steadily improved and so has my ability to sense when I fear something so I can identify why I fear it and switch to a more positive emotion and solution to the issue. I have a long way to go, but I love the changes I am seeing in myself and my new world.

This Playbook helps you identify old habits that are holding you back, old issues and problems that no longer have meaning in your life and gives you positive ways to let them go so you can create the life you really want. And while some of the exercises may seem repetitive, Lynn is just trying to reinforce your new positive outlook on life.

Even if you do not believe in the Law of Attraction (you radiate what you attract via your emotions/feelings/thoughts), this book will help you create a more positive you.

If you want to try a new way of living, I strongly suggest this Playbook as a solo self improvement activity or as a touchstone for a self help group.

As a huge fan of Grabhorn's book, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, and a facilitator of groups learning the technique, she outlines in the text, this work/playbook is a great resource for excerises to support the text. For those disciplined enough to work through it on their own [or with the support of a group] this book give many interesting and powerful exercises which you to bring the steps to life and flip the switch from living life by accident, or deliberately.