Live Life Gently
I'm loving a current trend called writing out loud where a book is written in public. I follow a few people who are creating in this way and wanted to try it myself.
So, it makes you, essentially, a beta reader! I hope you enjoy watching the book take shape.
Live Life Gently ~ Change the World is a non-fiction book based on my explorations of the past decade or so. Focusing on the cycle of change that I call the Essence Map, and incorporating concepts shared in Boot Club, this book takes the reader on a journey through the ebbs and flows of life, the potential found in pivotal moments, and the role that change plays in bringing us back to our essential self.
This book is being written and compiled using a tool called Obsidian, a notetaking app, which also has a publish function.
Some of the content already exists and needs to be repurposed and edited for this book, so chapters may appear out of sequence. It is a work in progress and some sections are still in draft.
Become who you truly are and you can change the world

Introduction

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Find your way around the book by selecting the sections below. Over time, I'll be restructuring and re-ordering the content to complete the book. For now, here are all the right words, not necessarily in the right order.
  • 0. Contents
  • 0.0 Cover
  • 0.1 The rapture of being alive
  • 0.2 Joe versus the Volcano
  • 0.3 Do you dream of a different life?
  • 0.4 How this book will help
  • 0.5 Shall we begin?
  • 0.6 Be most you
  • 0.7 Copyright
  • 0.8 Dedication
  • 0.9 Quote
  • 0.10 How to navigate this book
  • 0.11 Summary contents
  • 0.12 Avatar/blurb
  • 0.13 Intro
  • 0.14 Quote
  • 0.15 Worksheet (download)
  • 0.16 Worksheet (content)
  • 0.17 CTA
  • 0.18 Preamble/positioning text
  • 0.19 Who are you now?
  • 0.20 Who do you want to be?
  • 0.21 Stick figure exercise
  • 0.22 How Aligned Are You?
  • 0.23 Quote
  • 0.24 You're a Genius

The End

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Chapter 1 - The End of the World as We Know It
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
(It's time I had some time alone) ~ REM
1.1 A Global Pivotal Moment 1.2 Endings and pivotal moments 1.3 - The End 1.4 A Normal Life 1.5 How is it the start of changing the world? 1.6 Examples of the end in the world 1.7 Excavating our true selves 1.8 How do you find your truth? 1.9 Practices 1.10 How do you experience the End? 1.11 Chris' story 1.12 How do you emerge? 1.13 The End - Reconnect 1.14 - Endings and Pivotal Moments
  • 1.1 The beginning is often the end
  • 1.2 The secret to change
  • 1.3 Seed
Chapter 2 - How it all began
2.1 Where it all began 2.2 My philosophy of life 2.3 My Credo 2.4 The Journey back to you 2.5 Don't die with your music still inside you
My Journey It's all been leading to this Coming into focus
Chapter 3 - The Essence Map
3.1 how the essence map came about 3.2 The Essence Map - an Overview 3.3 What is Essence? Wyrd, Web of Wyrd 3.4 3.5 3.5 Live your Truth 3.6 Where are you now? 3.7 A Journey Back Home 3.8 Milestones 3.9 The End - Reconnect - Mind 3.10 What is the End?
Chapter 4 - We Start at the End
4.1 A crisis is a holy summons to cross a threshold 4.2 Look for endings if you want a new beginning
Your world is ending A new normal The old is gone Why we should embrace endings
Chapter 5 - Change and Loss
5.1 when your life changes, it changes you 5.2 Chaos and change 5.3 Cosmos v Chaos
Trust Faith Chose Put you on a new path Can't see the path yet 5.X Changes 5.Y Chaos
Chapter 6 - Lessons in Loss
1 2 3 4 5
Chapter 7 - Change helps you find your Truth
7.1 Wounds are doors 7.2 why walking through the fire is our way home 7.3 Why change is a catalyst 7.4 Why we fear change
Chapter 8 - Unfolding
8.1 we are unbroken
Peeling back the layers
Chapter 9 - Letting go
9.1 Release and let go 9.2 The difference between letting go and the need to let go 9.3 how letting go helps us find our way home 9.4 You must be able to do 3 things
No normal
Chapter 10 - Light at the end of the Tunnel
10.1 The Blind Woodturner 10.2 the blind woodturner and the archetypal hero's journey
Chris' Story
Chapter 11 - Love is the answer
11.1 Fear or Love
Chapter 12 - Change your World, Change the World
12.1 how to save the world by starting with you 12.2 We create our future 12.3 Awaken the unique spark 12.4 Consciousness - Climate Change 12.5 A new world can arise
The first step in changing the world around you The End is just the Beginning
12.6 What sort of world do you want to live in? 12.7 What kind of world do you want to live in 12.8 The Adjustment Bureau 12.9 how we can create the world we want to live in

The Void

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Chapter 1
2.1 The Void - Retreat 2.2 Un-becoming and letting go 2.3 Creating the new 2.4 Finding flow 2.5 Spend time in Nature 2.6 Making and creating 2.7 The Void in the world 2.8 How the world reflects these stages
  • 2.1 The brain is a receiver
  • 2.2 Evolve or remain
  • 2.3 Decluttering
  • 2.4 Creativity is the route to our divinity

The Beginning

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Chapter 1
  • 3.1 Personal Creed
  • 3.2 Follow your Bliss
  • 3.3 Unbecoming

Essence

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  • Essence – Realign – Spirit
    • The upward spiral of the Essence Map
  • 4. How aligned are you?
    • 4. Who are you? Who are you not?
    • 4. Finding your True North
    • 4. Follow your Bliss
    • 5. Your purpose is your message to the world
    • What is it that holds us back
  • We are all connected
  • 4.1 The medicine to heal the world
  • 4.2 What you seek
  • 4.3 There is a quickening
  • 4.4 The Genius myth leads to a return to the origins of our lives
  • 4.5 Longing for home
  • 4.6 Heal the world through joy

Oneness

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  • 5.1 You are one of a kind
  • 5.2 Made in a star
  • 5.3 We are a network of light
  • 5.4 Today I am wise
  • 5.5 The power of the collective
  • 5.6 Solve our problems
  • 5.7 Unconventional thinking
  • 5.8 What actually matters?
  • 5.9 Map of Consciousness
  • 5.10 How our vibration can change the world
  • 5.11 Choose love
  • 5.12 Everything changes
  • 5.13 What makes you come alive?
  • 5.14 The world needs people who are alive
  • 5.15 Your vision, your world
  • 5.16 Imagine
  • 5.17 We are all connected
  • 5.18 Truth within

Endleaves

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  • E1 The End
  • E2 Photo M&D
  • E3 Quote
  • E4 Appendix
  • E5 Blank worksheet
  • E6 Example worksheet
  • E7 Examples of people in alignment with their essence
  • E8 Go deeper eCourse
  • E9 Connect/Community
  • E10 Bring essence to your life and work
  • E11 Audiobook
  • E12 Books
  • E13 References
  • E14 Thanks
  • E15 About Nicola Fisher

Prompts

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  • Live Life Gently/P1. Let's talk about endings
  • Live Life Gently/P2. Map your own pivotal moments
  • Live Life Gently/P3. What is your personal philosophy of life?
  • Live Life Gently/P4. Tell your own story
  • Live Life Gently/P5. The creative act of writing
  • Live Life Gently/P6. What brings you joy?
  • Live Life Gently/P7. Find your flow in photography

Worksheets

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  1. Worksheets

Work in Progress

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  • Live Life Gently/The Adjustment Bureau
  • Live Life Gently/1. How the Essence Map unfolded
  • 2. The End of the World as We Know It
  • Live Life Gently/5. A Crisis is a Holy Summons to Cross the Threshold
  • Live Life Gently/6. Why walking through fire is our way home
  • 7. How to navigate the Essence Map
  • 9. Why are we here?
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