If you’re like most people on the planet, the natural, creative energy you were born with has become trapped within as you constantly strive to meet family, social, and work expectations. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Bob McCulloch and Julia Gluck, veteran coaches and motivators, show you how to liberate your natural energy. Using many real-life stories, they walk you through these proven, powerful practices: A - awareness: staying mindfully aware of self and others, capturing and cherishing your lightness, and being thoughtfully authentic; E - engagement: getting and staying personally engaged, staying resolved without attachment, and accepting and supporting your mutuality with others; O - openness: accepting every idea’s inevitable relevance, allowing and fully appreciating fresh associations, and perceiving the positives in every idea that comes your way;and, U - understanding: acknowledging and suspending judgment, confirming your understanding, and embracing the power of the both/and. And they show how all of these practices are orchestrated by, I - integrity, as your Thoughtful I helps you intervene between your emotions and responses.