Stepping Stones: 10 Steps to Seizing Passion and Purpose

by Dr. Tim Sams

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Stepping Stones: 10 Steps to Seizing Passion and Purpose

by Dr. Tim Sams

Finding happiness, harmony, and meaning of life discovered through self love, love relationships, and spiritual love is at the core of Stepping Stones. From selfish hedonism to forgiveness, Stepping Stones guides your life change.

In Stepping Stones: 10 Steps to Seizing Passion and Purpose, Dr. Tim Sams combines vivid imagery with humor and down to earth advice in giving you principles that lead to living effectively and joyously. This is a truly integrative, self help book that helps you establish a new life paradigm for mental, emotional, physical, moral, and spiritual health. Unlike other self help books, it begins with a poem and ends with a fictional tale that weaves a cloak as Dr. Tim’s gift to the traveler in you.

Self love is described in the first four steps in Stepping Stones. You learn how to give yourself permission to blend hedonism and sensuality into a busy day. You can encourage happiness, passion and purpose by being maturely selfish and meeting your own needs. Self reliance is demonstrated by infusing some discipline into hedonism and developing a life long Mastery Map that directs your efforts and achieves all your goals.

The next step toward self love teaches you how to proactively create healthy and supportive life change rather than reactively coping with life change. You can promote emotional healing, take risks, and revel in life change instead of fearing it. The fourth step to self love is physical health, the engine of happiness, passion and purpose. You discover how to overcome the obstacles to health and the three “secret” barriers to the hedonism in exercise. Self love and happiness are realized through being selfish, self reliant, committed to life change, and physically healthy. Effective self love is the soil from which grows healthy love relationships.

Combining vivid imagery and soaring prose with humor and down to earth advice, Dr. Tim Sams weaves a tale of principles that lead to living and loving effectively and joyously. Among other things, you will learn how to:

• Blend hedonism and sensuality into a busy day

• Develop a Mastery Map for true self-reliance

• Overcome the barriers to physical health

• Improve your relationships

• Inoculate yourself against depression and anxiety

• Take risks and embrace change

• Use the STAR and STIM techniques to fully engage with nature

• Recognize and practice spiritual love

• Travel each of the four paths to life’s meaning

• Encourage the insight and awe of a Nexus event

• Use APEX healing to forgive yourself and others

The 10 steps in this book culminate three decades of education in psychology, anthropology, biology, religion, and peak performance. Dr. Sams has refined these steps through 20 years experience as a life coach and health psychologist with over 10,000 clients. Dr. Sams received his B.A. from The University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Michigan State University. He has been on staff at dozens of hospitals and taught at major universities. His clients include homemakers, firemen, the terminally ill, ministers, entrepreneurs, corporate CEOs, and professional athletes.