The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Lynn Grabhorn
Hampton Roads Publishing (2010)
ISBN 9781571746412
Reviewed by Joseph Yurt for Reader Views (3/11)

 

“This is a book that will change your life! Part road map, part exercise book, part exploration of the evolutionary changes that are occurring right here – right now.” reads the publisher’s promotional text on the back cover Lynn Grabhorn’s new book.

Writer Lynn Grabhorn, author of “Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting,” has created a workbook and companion “The Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting Playbook.”  This edition attempts to go beyond the broad stroke generalities of the previous book by offering tips, exercises and detailed concrete advice. If you read the first book and have implemented it’s concepts to your satisfaction, you might not get much new from the Playbook, but if you need more coaxing to buy in to the program, the Playbook would make a great “personal trainer.” And, the new book stands alone nicely, so if haven’t read the first book, the Playbook is all you will need to get started “imagining and moving toward the life you want.”

I have always been skeptical of personal development books - I refer to them as “rah rah reads” - that reduce complex subjects involving personal change to a formulaic approach. This book does just that, but the author works hard to provide tools and guidance to the reader should they decide this is a formula they find appealing. And, Grabhorn’s “Twelve Tenets of Empowerment” offer much of value to anyone embarking on the life planning process, with or without consideration for other concepts incorporated in to the book.

My personal skepticism aside, “The Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting Playbook” is a useful resource that anyone contemplating the exhilarating experience of developing and implementing a life changing plan should consider reading.

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