Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up!: Practical Tools for Personal Transformation - Softcover

Lok-Payne, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736459791 ISBN 13: 9781736459799

Publisher: WellMinded Media, 2021

Synopsis

Standing at a midlife crossroad, wondering what comes next?

You don’t need a complete life overhaul. You need one shift, and it starts here.

Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up! is a practical, uplifting guide for women ready to quiet self-doubt, stop the negative self-talk, and step into their next chapter with confidence, one small, powerful change at a time.

Lynn Lok-Payne knows what it takes to start over. After sudden losses turned her life upside down, she rebuilt it from the ground up. This book shares what actually worked: simple, research-backed tools to rebuild confidence, find your footing, and move into the second half of life with clarity and purpose. It isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about coming home to who you already are.

A book you’ll feel, not just read. Every chapter ends with a curated song playlist, turning each lesson into an experience you’ll want to return to again and again.

Your journey in three parts:
Wake Up! Find moments of inner peace, even in the middle of change.
Change Up! Release outdated beliefs and turn struggles into strength.
Rise Up! Reconnect with your true self and rise into who you’re meant to be.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Quiet self-doubt and reframe negative self-talk
• Build self-love and confidence, and trust your own decisions
• Stop reacting, stop taking things personally, and let go of what you can’t control
• Navigate midlife changes, from career shifts to an empty nest, with clarity instead of chaos
• Turn challenges into fuel instead of fear
• Use reflection prompts, affirmations, and daily practices that create lasting change

Two-time Silver Award winner: Two-time Silver Award winner: 2024 Readers’ Favorite Silver Award (Non-Fiction Inspirational) and 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver (Self-Help).

Whether you’re starting over, healing from loss, or simply ready for more, this is your invitation to rise. It also makes a meaningful gift for any woman standing at a crossroad in her life.

One shift is all it takes. Start yours today.

About this title

About the Author

LYNN LOK-PAYNE is the award-winning author of Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up!: Practical Tools for Personal Transformation, received silver awards in both the 2024 Reader's Favorite Non-fiction Inspirational and 2022 IBPA Self-Help genres!
 
As a former CEO and founder of a multi-million-dollar business turned author, Lynn motivates others to become the next chapter of who they are meant to be by creating a more empowering narrative for their life. When not writing, she can be found curled up with a good book, traveling to new locales, and attending concerts. Sign up for weekly emails and free tools at my website lynnlokpayne.
 
Books:
 
* Speak This Not That: Positive Affirmations to Have a Better Day

* Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up!: Practical Tools for Personal Transformation

* Gratitude 101 Journal: 101 Days of Unique Prompts, Positive Affirmations, and Inspirational Quotes for Happiness

* NEW: Build A Better Day For Success: Positive Affirmations and Daily Inspiration to Unleash Your Full Potential

From the Back Cover

Find inner peace in a world of constant change.

Life is full of setbacks. Instead of wishing them away, what if we could transform our lives by shifting how we perceive challenges?

Inspirational seeker, Lynn Lok-Payne, rebuilt her life after several devastating losses. She discovered that personal transformation is possible when we allow ourselves to flow through change instead of resist it. We have the inner tools to navigate life's unexpected turns.

Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up! inspires us to:

• Accept change and revise outdated beliefs
• Let go of the Blame Shame Game
• Find healing through gratitude
• Cultivate well-being using practical exercises such as affirmations, meditation, and writing
• Uncover a more purposeful, happy, and authentic life

Discover how we can Wake Up our inner power, Change Up the beliefs that no longer benefit us, and Rise Up to the life of our dreams.

Be the magnet for what you want to appear in your life. You are the solution.


REVIEWS:

"An interesting book about taking control of your own life and owning every part of it! What makes this book unique is that it feels like a conversation with a friend rather than a how-to book. The author doesn't shy away from delving into her own personal experiences, she even shares her struggles and failures with the very tips and tools and exercises she's recommending, highlighting how healing takes time and how we all move at different paces and how we can all 'get there' someday with enough faith and practice. I highly recommend the book for anyone who's been through pain and doesn't know where to start in getting his/her life back together. "— Fatima Aladdin, Reedsy Discovery 2021 Top Reviewer

In WAKE UP! CHANGE UP! RISE UP! Lynn Lok-Payne has given us a treasure of her lived wisdom. The beautifully written chapters include her direct experience, quotations from her exceptionally wide reading, creative and helpful exercises, and even playlists of uplifting songs relevant to each topic. Among Lok-Payne's profound insights, I especially appreciated her fresh expressions of the peace in letting go, and how instead of dwelling on loss, finding what gives joy. — Gail Storey, author of the Barbara Savage Award, I Promise Not To Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

"Lynn Lok-Payne shares the difficulties of her personal story and how she navigated through them to find peace and joy. This is a book that is helpful to everyone with beautifully written chapters that include Lynn's direct experiences, quotations, creative exercises and a playlist of great songs which I truly enjoyed. The depth of Lynn's insights into gratitude, service, meditation, compassion, self-care, grief, courage, and love and how they are all connected and flow together to bring joy are the keys to the door of purposeful life. This is a beautiful inspirational book everyone should read!" - Susan Wilkerson

"Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up! is a self-help 'tutorial' to help people with challenging life events find a methodical path to recovery. The book is written in straightforward language, like you were speaking with a friend, but gives many examples stemming from science, philosophy, and even music to help one get through tough times or make significant changes for the better. The author uses her experience of losing a spouse and coping with personal disaster to fuel her desire to help others move forward. Her journey is a path for others to learn from and helpful to breakdown any barriers that may hold one back from moving forward in their life. Each segment of the book has helpful practices to inch the reader closer towards personal growth. Give it a read and see if you don't feel more inspired to tackle those hard issues you have been putting off, or need to work through. It is a comfort to know others are willing to speak frankly about their experience so that others may benefit." - Chris Herron

"This book is full of inspirational messages while also providing you with ways to self- evaluate and make small changes along the way. The idea of finding things to enjoy in everyday life that you may have overlooked in past, leads you to take small steps into a more happier life. We all face challenges in life, but this book teaches you a way to accept those challenges and look at it as a way to grow instead of reflecting on the negativity. Waking up daily and being thankful for the things you have and setting goals for the things you want to accomplish thru positive thinking, concentrating on the path you want instead of the obstacles along the way was a message that inspired me." - Vikie Reyes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1: WAKE UP!
Chapter 1: The Power of Gratitude
Chapter 2: Choose Joy
Chapter 3: Passion and the Gift of Compassion
Chapter 4: Communicating Love
Chapter 5: We Are All Connected
Chapter 6: Be Present in Ordinary Moments
Chapter 7: Be Still

PART 2: CHANGE UP!
Chapter 8: Flip the Script
Chapter 9: Mantras, Affirmations, and Intentions
Chapter 10: Clinging to Old Stories and Beliefs
Chapter 11: Complaining and Finding Solutions
Chapter 12: Blame Shame Game
Chapter 13: Here Comes the Judge
Chapter 14: Relationships
Chapter 15: Dealing with Loss
Chapter 16: Transition and Rebirth

Part 3: RISE UP!
Chapter 17: Healing through Art
Chapter 18: Building Courage
Chapter 19: Simply Be You
Chapter 20: Music is Medicine
Chapter 21: The Dance of Life
Chapter 22: Laughter Soothes the Soul
Chapter 23: The Art of Listening
Chapter 24: Learn Something New
Chapter 25: Dream the Impossible
Chapter 26: Being Inspired
Chapter 27: Rituals and Reflection

From the Inside Flap

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

Every day we have a choice on how to navigate our journey. Life is full of change and it's a personal decision as to whether we adapt, ignore, or resist transition. Each one of us encounters challenges, but it is how we move through them that determines who we become.

Lynn Lok-Payne experienced the unimaginable with the unexpected loss of her husband and a house fire just weeks later. In the midst of these life-changing events, one right after another, she began looking for a better way to not only heal, but also find fulfillment once again.

In her search for answers, she discovered that by clinging to the old stories we tell ourselves—like how our titles dictate our lives or how we're not good enough—we diminish our own well-being. Sometimes we are afraid to let these narratives go, because if we did, who would we be? Once she decided to change this internal dialogue, her inner voice became stronger and the number of things to be grateful for began to grow. Lynn's journey illustrates, that with time, we can create a more empowering story line and become the next chapter of who we are meant to be.

Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up! is an inspirational story interwoven with self-help techniques to live a more joyful, meaningful life. The language we use has the power to change our perspective and when we connect to our personal truth, we can truly thrive.

Lynn Lok-Payne is an inspirational, self-help author, whose aspiration is to help others discover their inner voice and cultivate personal well-being. She lives in California and is very grateful that you decided to pick up this book.

Connect online at lynnlokpayne.com and Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest: @lynnlokpayne

Edition details

• Publisher: WellMinded Media
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736459791
• ISBN 13: 9781736459799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316