The 12 Week Miracle: Changing your world (not the world) by changing your mind . one step at a time .

A take-home course based, mainly, on A Course in Miracles.

"The 12-Step Miracle gives you the opportunity to create real and lasting change in your life in just twelve weeks!" Sarah Alexander - author, life/business coach, UK.

"With humour and simplicity, they offer a 12-step course that really can be a new beginning." Ian Patrick - ACIM facilitator, UK

"Its simplicity and ease of use is testimony to the vast knowledge, wisdom and expertise that Anna and Philip have to offer." Riana Avis - life coach, UK

If this book has found your eyes and your heart, it knows that:

- Your life is a mess,

- Your life is becoming a mess, or

- You want to stop your life becoming a mess.

If things are not working out as you'd planned, there are two possibilities:

- Your plan was wrong and/or

- You're trying to achieve it in the wrong way - the way you've been taught by those in your world.

You see, if you pull back the happy face of every human being, no matter how smart, wealthy, healthy and successful they seem to be, there's sadness, anger and guilt behind every mask. We were taught to cope in this world by other sad, angry and guilt-ridden people. Despite all the gurus, psychologists, life coaches and others out there to help us get on with our precious lives, the world's still a sad, angry and guilt-ridden place - there's just as much war, abuse, rape, theft, depression, violence and despair as there ever was. And why? We've all been learning from dysfunctional people on how to dysfunction in a dysfunctional world. We keep doing the same old thing that people have been doing for thousands of years and hoping for a better result - the definition of insanity!

You're a perfect human being in an imperfect world, taught to operate imperfectly ... and your life is, well, imperfect? It must be if you've kept reading this far.

So, if the way we're all operating isn't working, what's next? Obviously, try another way. The chances are that that phrase - another way - has been haunting your waking and sleeping world. You've probably been looking for this other way for a long time. However, getting what we want, realising our dreams, is downright scary, for three reasons:

Firstly, we all feel we don't deserve to have our dreams realised, despite our most ardent protestations to the contrary.

Secondly, realised dreams mean that we have nothing to strive for and the worst thing to happen to any human is to take away the need for them to want more ... of anything!

The third problem with the other way is that it is another way. We don't know how long it took you to learn to tie your shoe laces, wash the dishes or wash yourself in the shower but, by now, you've got it down pat - you do these things every day, effortlessly, almost unconsciously. In fact, to explain how to do these things would be a challenge as we do them so automatically, so unconsciously, we're not aware of the process any more. Now, what we want you to do is learn to do these things the opposite way round. What your right hand did before, your left hand will now do and vice versa. Try it and see how difficult it is. Many years of practice are so ingrained that to undo that practice, that ingrained learning, is extremely difficult.

This book, then, is set out in two sections:

1. What thinking and actions have got us into the mess we're in,

and

2. What thinking and activities will take us out of our mess and into a life we both dream of and deserve.

I was born very early in my career as a human being and I made the most of the choices available in this outer world. Delving into business, teaching, writing and inspiring people to chase down the best version of themselves took me to many places, friendships and experiences. Then, somewhere along the road, I found the inner world more attractive than the outer one. Heeding Anna's advice to bloom where I was planted, I began to appreciate the inner growth that comes of stillness, forgiveness .... and found that my outer world expands in proportion to the inner expansion. I should not have been surprised at this! Anna and I met A Course in Miracles and life has never been the same. We owned a publishing business then joined in marriage and now we're on a journey of a lifetime!

Most of the work I did in my early career was for profit-making organisations, but after experiencing the satisfaction that comes from being an advocate and making life better for others, my passion for helping people was awakened and I chose to only work for organisations dedicated to helping people in some way. After two divorces I joined with Philip in relationship, later marriage, and in creating, producing, editing and writing our own inspirational magazine. After two years, we let this go and moved to the UK to live, work and travel. When I returned down under, I retrained as a Life Coach and have never looked back! This modality truly embraces everything I am passionate about and it is exceptional in its ability to be a vibrant catalyst for positive change through powerful tools and curious questioning. Since 2004, A Course In Miracles has been a key foundation in my life that has helped me recognise my wrong-minded thinking and to choose right-mindedness. Through the power of forgiveness I have deep peace in my life (when I choose it that is!). Anna's website: http: //www.annalouiselifecoaching.com/ Facebook: https: //bit.ly/2KOay2k