Stuck: A Way Out - Softcover

Cobb, Kim Casey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948484730 ISBN 13: 9781948484732

Verlag: Clovercroft Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In her first book, Kim offers tough yet encouraging advice to help break down mental barriers holding you back from achieving what is truly possible in your life.

Kim shares moments from her own dramatic story. She shows how she overcame parental abduction, was a missing child and was one of the first kids on a milk carton. But, she went on to achieve health, happiness, and success in her life.

This book offers a realistic, step-by-step process to overcome adversity, obstacles, challenges, and moves on to show you how to create a vision for yourself, set goals, and achieve your potential, no matter where you started or where you find yourself now. It will evoke a positive “can do” mentality and inspire people to continuously grow and improve their lives for the better so that they can ultimately be of help to others facing challenges in life.

Among the many benefits you’ll reap from reading this book you’ll learn:

• The things in your life that you are actually in control of and their benefit to you.
• How to stop believing lies about yourself
• How to stop making excuses
• How to stop allowing others to hold you back
• How to move forward towards your vision

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kim Casey Cobb has had a successful career in business serving as a CFO for several companies and currently serves as an advisor to business owners and works in the investment community. She is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner and believes in a world of future possibilities. Kim was abducted at the age of nine. She became an FBI missing person and her face was featured on a milk carton. She lived, at times homeless, on the run with her younger brother. Though she never stopped trying, Kim’s mother was never able to find her. At the age of sixteen, she ran away to seek help, healing, and to begin a healthy life. She achieved mental clarity over her circumstances, which cleared the path for her to achieve much more in her life than she ever dreamed. She lives near Dallas, Texas.

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Stuck

A Way Out

By Kim Casey Cobb, Lee Titus Elliott

Clovercroft Publishing

Copyright © 2019 Kim Casey Cobb
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-948484-73-2

Contents

Acknowledgments, ix, 
Chapter 1: Introduction, 1, 
Chapter 2: Stop Saying, "I Can't!" ... Change Impossible to I'm Possible!, 13, 
Chapter 3: Goals and Determination — Where Do You Want to Go?, 25, 
Chapter 4: Act As If, 59, 
Chapter 5: Pick a Mentor, 71, 
Chapter 6: Baby-Step Your Way, 83, 
Chapter 7: Lifelong Learner, 95, 
Chapter 8: It's Worth It, 111, 
Chapter 9: Pay It Forward, 123, 
Chapter 10: Conclusion, 137, 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Have you ever noticed that when women succeed, they are more likely to attribute their success to luck and help from others, yet when they fail, they blame their own lack of ability? Why is that? More important, what can we do to change this?

Five years from now, you will be the same as you are today, except for the people you meet and the new things you expose yourself to. You Today + People You Meet + Things You Learn = Future You. You are also the average of five people you associate yourself with. Mediocrity breeds mediocrity.

I am a woman who has overcome adversity and chosen not to be a victim of my circumstances. I have taken responsibility for developing my abilities in order to keep moving forward in life. I am passionate about continuous learning, solving problems, believing I can make a difference, and seeing people I have mentored succeed. I am adamantly motivated to share my experiences and story with you. My sincere hope is that you will find some useful nuggets from my personal journey to apply to your own path forward.

I believe in a world of future possibilities. I believe that anything is possible with the right mentality and enough hard work, determination, willpower, and faith.

I have been extremely moved to write this book because I believe that no matter where a person starts out in life, there is NO excuse for not making something of yourself. I want to share my story and the things that I have learned over the last thirty years that have helped me overcome adversity and succeed. I want to share that with others who may be struggling to move mountains in their own lives. Seeing others strive for and meet their own personal potential makes me incredibly happy. As a result, my passion has become to provide motivation to people to help them not only see their own potential and future possibilities but achieve them.

For women who are "stuck," I want to help free their minds and thoughts from the bondage of self-pity and lack of confidence. I want them to open up and see that the limits to what they can achieve exist only in their own minds. I want women to realize that those who empower themselves and self-educate, who are willing to devote some of their personal time to that effort and not wait on someone to bring it to them, are more successful and happy than those that sit on the sidelines drowning in self-pity with victim-like mentalities and complacency, all the while waiting on things to magically change.

If you embrace the mentality to continuously expand your knowledge through learning new things, then you will literally change your life, because it will continue to improve as you continue to learn.

When you realize YOU are in charge of whether your life stays the same or not, you understand that it isn't even possible to "go back" to what life was like last week, last month, or last year.

This mentality will set you on a course that will bring so many opportunities your way, which means you will continue to have more and more options for yourself and never be trapped. This, the exact opposite of stagnation, is true freedom. Growth in all areas of life becomes possible once you start managing your life this way.

This book is different than others you may read. I am and always have been frank, blunt, and even somewhat "tough love" with my style and the advice that I have to offer. You will find no sugarcoating in what I have to say. I accept no excuses from myself or others. Be assured that I speak the truth out of love and a desire to see people overcome adversity in their lives.

I will encourage you to eliminate the mental barriers that are holding you back and be aggressive in believing in yourself and your God-given abilities. I will show you how you can get on the path to accomplishment quickly with a shift in the way you think about and view yourself and your future, and I will expose options in life that have been buried under the weight of your present circumstances. You will learn to eliminate any sense of victimization and set down any self-blame that you may currently be carrying and turn your life around.

If you are a female, a young woman from a poor background, a woman starting over after a relationship, or a woman at a crossroads in life, then this book is for you. If you feel "stuck" or as though you are not moving forward, then this book is for you. If you feel your life is out of control and you have no hope or options, then this book is for you.

People who know me today see a put-together, polished, confident, and successful person. There have been times I've been told by some of those I am attempting to mentor that it is impossible for them to achieve more than what they currently have because they weren't "given the same opportunities in life that I was." I never accept this from anyone. Every day is an opportunity.

That you are alive is an opportunity. If you knew where I started, you might not think it would have been possible to pull out of the muck and to form the life I have today.

The starting line of the race wasn't even visible from where I stood as a child.

I was the product of an extremely dysfunctional family, where unhealthy circumstances had been rolling into a giant snowball for generations. The situation erupted when I was nine years old and my noncustodial father abducted my younger brother and me from our mother in the middle of the night on a routine weekend visitation during their bitter divorce. Around midnight of one cold night in May of 1979, he woke us up, piled us in his little blue Subaru with nothing but the clothes on our backs, and drove away through the snow-covered mountain passes near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As adults, we sometimes try to put our finger on the moment in time that set our destiny, plotted our course, or was the most significant over any other in our life. That day was a fork in the road of my family's life.

I became an official FBI missing person and one of the first kids on a milk carton. We lived in constant fear of being caught. We were not allowed to walk in front of cameras, and we made sure we turned and looked the other way when we saw a policeman. If we encountered one in the car on the road, Dad forced us to immediately hide on the floorboard, afraid we would be recognized. Posters were out all over the country with our pictures on them. Our photos and story were run in newspapers and on the radio, and our case was listed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Child Find. Although she never stopped trying, our mother was never able to find us.

In the beginning, we honestly did miss our mother, as children would. I wanted to talk to her. I remember that shortly after the abduction, we were hiding at my grandfather's house in Oklahoma, sitting at a table with my dad, looking at a map of the United States. He was trying to figure out...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Clovercroft Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1948484730
• ISBN 13: 9781948484732
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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