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This book is for you. But you can use it in many ways. You can use it on yourself, right now. I think you will learn more if you do. You can carry out all the exercises and scribble down the results in the book. Or if you want to keep this book all neat and shiny, get yourself a notebook just for the purpose. Every time you are asked a question in one of the exercises, write down what you think and feel. Let the journal build and be a foundation to the rest of your life. No scribbles means no fun, so let rip and fill it with stuff – any old stuff – because stuff makes you have different ideas. Stuff is stimulus and it helps break you free from difficult or stuck situations.

Creativity is about experimentation, trying things out. Some exercises may work fabulously for you and the issues or challenges you are working on, others may not. Play with the exercises, adapt them and make this book yours. There are no rules and no right and wrong. So please don’t just read this book. Engage with it by playing. Sail the boat.

If you follow the book’s flow and try out the exercises you will create fresh options and opportunities regardless of whether you have a particular area in your life where you want more choices, or you just fancy a good explore.

Once you have had a good play, practise the exercises some more. Practise on your life, practise with friends, help colleagues create freedom to choose new ways of living their lives.

Apply it to everyday issues, such as:

• How to run your time better

• How to spend less time travelling

• How always to keep up with what’s cutting edge

• How to improve your relationship with your boss

Or bigger stuff like:

• How to retire by 45

• How to become more famous than Persil

• How to be the person you want to be

The more you do this, the easier it becomes, the more it becomes part of you. An automatic fun process that will enrich your life and guarantee that you will always have options, you will always have inspiring possibilities. Bored, stuck, average are never words to worry about again. Your life is getting shiny already!

I guarantee that if you are stuck, if you don’t see dazzling results, it won’t be the process, it won’t be the excercise, it will be how you are engaging with it.