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READ IT DIFFERENTLY!

Carry the book around in your workbag, handbag, schoolbag, or try and fumble it into a coat pocket if it will fit. Have it next to your bed, on the kitchen table. This is about your itch! Don’t find time to read this book, make time. Read it on the run and whilst reading, change the run.

Read this book front to back, in reverse or start somewhere in the middle. Maybe use it as an “Oracle” and open the book at a random page and see if it holds a message for you that day. Don’t use this book how you have been taught to.

Use this book to refuel your fire, spark ideas and to remind yourself of what you want to achieve. Use it for daily motivation. In the process let the book become weathered with notes, page folds, highlights and the necessary blemishes, stains and tears that mean that you have actively worked with your itch. Reflect and act.

DON’T READ THIS BOOK AS A TEACHING MANUAL ON HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE.

YOU HAVE YOUR LIFE AND YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS.

IN OTHER WORDS . . .

AVOID

NEAT BOOKMARKS,

FINDING SACRED READING HOURS AND USING SEPARATE NOTEBOOKS

Take on the journeys in Itch, Pivot and Play. Above all, keep it light:

• Whatever speaks to you loudly: stop and spend time.

• Experiments: try on for size when it feels right.

• Play with words. Let words speak to you in different ways aside from their conventional meaning.

• “Cynical self alerts”. These voices will rear their little nagging heads trying to make you listen. It’s a voice, but not necessarily yours. Consider it, don’t let it consume you. Cynicism is rarely constructive.

• Allow yourself to be moved. Play, discover and look at something from a different viewpoint. Many new, small beginnings create a new movement. Do something differently today and again tomorrow.

PEOPLE ARE SO

MUCH BETTER

THAN THEIR

EXPERIENCE

IN LIFE

LEADS THEM

TO BELIEVE