From Intro:

 

Anyone stepping into fulfilling and prosperous work will need to engage with their issues of power and success. Why? Because you’ve developed strategic ways of being powerful and successful solely based on your present perceptions of power and success, which you created in your past. You’ve been assessing what’s right, wrong, good or bad about everything you think and everything you do, based on beliefs you fashioned very early in your life. The anxiety of these internal conversations sends most of you back into hiding, deciding to play small and avoid potential failure.

 

Excerpt from Chapter 1 Section on Stepping into Power:

 

The work we’ve come here to do throughout our lives is to empower ourselves by individuating and self-actualizing. This means acting from your authentic foundation of personal power, which comes through your own self expression, no one else’s.

 

From Chapter 4:

 

Vulnerability is not a word that suggests safety, strength and courage. However, if you are to face the impossible task of unfolding your life to its highest potential you will undoubtedly face peril and the danger of ridicule, rejection, and failure. You will be vulnerable to attack. But, you already do this, all the time. Whenever you want something bad enough you take risks and agree to be vulnerable. They are calculated risks, but they are risks none the less.

 

Excerpt from Chapter on Commitment

 

The experiencing of wanting can be very uncomfortable for people. They experience anxiety, nervousness, and vulnerability. For others, there is excitement, anticipation, expectancy. What creates these different responses? The vulnerability of wanting is embedded in our bodies as are the memories of disappointment. The level of significance we give to what we want influences our willingness to have a want ― enough to set intentions to make it happen.

 

More people than you can imagine have given up wanting, not because its part of their spiritual practice but because they decided a long time ago that it wasn’t safe to want, and most likely they weren’t going to get it, so they stopped wanting.