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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
How to start living your best life -- a life by design The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life is your guide to designing the next magnificent part of your life, starting today. An energising, honest, at times hilarious and at times devastating call to action, this is a transformational, life-is-for-living handbook. And it belongs in the hands of every woman who yearns to do something more spectacular! After turning 50, losing her former life partner to cancer and seeing her kids move on as young adults, Kate Christie was faced with the fact that life is too short. And it was time to do something about it. So Kate created the concept of a "life list": A list of everything she wanted to do and be while she was still young enough to enjoy it. A list of abundant, joyful new discoveries and opportunities. Using her unique framework to inspire not only big goals but also real action, Kate shows you exactly how to design and implement your own life list. Why? Because it's your turn. You are energetic, confident, comfortable in your skin, successful and ready for more. This is not a crisis: it's a catalyst. With The Life List, you'll learn how to: * Find a new perspective, identify what matters most and celebrate with gratitude * Set and smash incredible, life-changing goals * Embrace life's endless possibilities while you're still young * Master every moment, with simple steps for living in the now and planning your future * Create and manifest momentous experiences in your everyday life It's time to join the movement and do whatever the hell it is you want with the rest of your life. This is your life -- by design. So live it big. Be audacious. The award winner for best General book at the Australian Business Book Awards
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction: I want more moments that are spectacular
On discovering my most favourite word in the world
Combining the Moments to create MOMENTum
Living my best life
Section I: On Becoming Unapologetically Selfish (Or at Least a Little Less Selfless)
Life is Too Short
Gaining Perspective and Gratitude
Live Exactly How You Want
Why Now?
Before My Life List Was Even a Life List
My two goal-setting epiphanies
What I did with my epiphanies
Section II: The Life List Framework
But First, Some Goal-Setting Basics
STEP 1: Your Life List Rules
STEP 2: The 7 Life List Chapters
STEP 3: The 3 Types of Goals to Include
Go Big Goals
Go Small Goals
Go Now Goals
What not to include
Bring It All to Life
Section III: The Master Every Moment Framework
PART 1: MOMENT
1 Set Your Intention
2 Pick a Goal
3 Identify Your Resisting Forces
4 Identify What You Most Value
5 Lock in a Deadline for the Goal
PART 2: MOMENTum
1 Mind Map the Goal
2 Lock in Deadlines for Each Action
3 Find Your Cheer Squad
4 Reframe Your Goal
5 Take a Step
PART 3: MOMENTous
1 Do It!
2 Celebrate
3 Share with the Squad
4 Acknowledge Your Growth and Lessons
5 Express Your Gratitude
It's time
Section IV: My Life List
A is for my Agenda
B is for Business planning and development
C is for Contributing
D is for Declutter
E is for Empowering myself to live a life by design
F is for Finance
G is for Growing a community of incredible women
H is for Hiking
I is for Immersion in Italy
J is for January
K is for Knowledge
L is for new Love
M is for Marathon
N is for New products in my business
O is for Opportunity
P is for Practice
Q is for Quality Clothes
R is for Relocate to Bali
S is for Swim every day
T is for Travel as a digital nomad
U is for Unlock new experiences
V is for Valuing what I most value
W is for Woo Woo
X is for X-ing out alcohol
Y is for the Yes Quest
Z is for Zero out my carbon footprint
Thank you
About Kate
Do you want to work with me?
The Life List Program
The Life List Retreat
Time management and executive/ business coaching
Speaker for your next event
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Guide
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Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Table of Contents
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Thank you
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Having hiked in the Larapinta with Kate in 2022, I had the privilege of sharing her second annual ‘Go Big Goal’. So I can personally vouch that Kate is absolutely living her best ‘Life List’. With our little trekking group with whom we quickly developed bonds, we experienced countless hours of talking, laughing and sweating whilst hiking, climbing and slipping or falling, as well as sitting around the campfire at night or floating down the icy Larapinta River, to reflect on life. The vision, ideas and structure Kate has developed around her own ‘Life List’ to help others build their own meaningful ‘Life List’, and more importantly to motivate us all to go out and live an audacious life, is commendable.
—Fiona Pak-Poy, Chair, Tyro Payments
Kate Christie is truly one of a kind — I've never met anyone so incredibly passionate and so hugely capable when it comes to helping people take control of their time — the number one issue we all face in life. With The Life List, Kate takes us to the next level with her unique formula for how to use your time to create a life by design. Kate is a bestselling author, international speaker, she's appeared on Australian and NZ television, she has been featured on radio and in print as a leading commentator on time management and living your absolute best life. Her laser-like focus is to help people take control of their time to ensure more meaningful success across career, family, community, and life. Clearly I'm a fan.
—Andrew Griffiths, international bestselling author of 14 business books (sold in over 65 countries) and global speaker
Forget sinking into comfy slacks and daytime TV. In The Life List, Kate Christie acknowledges middle age is a time of power, creativity and freedom. It felt like she was talking straight to me, an empty nester refusing to go quietly and wanting middle age to mean transformation and a big, meaningful life. A real life time lord, she meshes her lived experience of love and loss with her time management expertise to give a compelling fresh take on the message life is too short. Kate compels you to want to be and do everything now while you can enjoy it all. An inspirational, practical and contemporary call to action for fit, fabulous and successful women craving adventure over comfort and wanting their next chapter to be all about them.
—Kate Halfpenny, Bad Mother Media, The Age columnist, former executive editor WHO Magazine
Kate's lived experience is a powerful reminder of why life is too short and needs to be lived fully now. The Life List is a step-by-step process to re-examine the life you are living and the life you want to live. Kate's honesty and humour will guide the way.
—Kemi Nekvapil, best selling author of Power: A Woman's Guide to Living and Leading Without Apology and host of The Shift Series podcast
Get out of my head!! From the opening chapters of this book I felt as though Kate had jumped inside my brain and swum around (poor Kate!). The idea of ‘mid life’ had been irksome to me for a while but I was so caught up in my own world I hadn't stopped to consider there was something I could do about it. Enter The Life List and voila. Light bulbs went on, ideas came stirring and a sense of order began to seed deep inside my soul. Without a doubt this is a book that every woman needs in her life. With no more fucks to give it's time we got our shit sorted and focused on the things we want while we're young enough to enjoy them. This is the book that wakes you up, empathises with you, then gives you the tools to make it happen.
—Tracy Sheen, tech futurist and author of The End of Technophobia, Australia's Business Book of the Year and Best Technology Book, 2021
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To Freddie, Wally and Peggy—the loves of my life
IntroductionI want more moments that are spectacular
The year I turned 50 I experienced the first tantalising taste of how I could (and should) live an audacious life if I simply learned how to master every moment. I went skiing for the first time in my life. In France no less. I mean — if you are going to do life-or-death, crazy-as-bat-shit stuff in your 50s, you may as well do it right!
In all honesty, I did not want to go skiing, had never had the faintest desire to go skiing, and would not have gone skiing at all but for my daughter.
The reason I am introducing a tantalising little taste of the skiing incident up front is to foreshadow the whole Life List plot — to set the scene for exactly why and how to create your own Life List of audacious, wonderful, life-changing and singularly spectacular moments. Because, fair to say, if I'd had a Life List prior to the skiing incident, skiing would not have been on that Life List. Because I did not want to go skiing. Ever.
But skiing I went, and it changed my life. Not that it sparked a life-long, enduring passion for skiing — god no. Rather, skiing was the vehicle by which I changed my whole approach to goal setting and goal smashing. And that is why it is so critical to this story.
Skiing was the inspiration that caused me to discover the power of the word ‘moment’. Where I first fully embraced the concept of living in the moment. Where I realised that I want to have many more ‘moments’ in my life: moments that create memories; moments where I am fully present; moments that are anything but mundane; moments that bring me joy and wonder and delight and laughter. Moments that are life changing.
On discovering my most favourite word in the world
I use the word ‘moment’ a lot, and have always done so quite mindlessly. Generally I use it to buy myself time with my kids when they scream ‘Mum!’
There are two inflections to that word — ‘Mum!’ There is the ‘drop everything and run’ inflection because one of my kids has cut their leg off. And then there is the ‘I don't need to drop anything at all or run, just because they can't find a spoon’ inflection. For the latter, my response is generally along the lines of, ‘Just give me a moment’.
‘Moment’ is the word I use to buy myself time. And as a time management specialist I am all about buying time.
But what exactly does the word ‘moment’ actually mean?
On looking into the word properly I was thrilled to discover that it can be so much more than just a vehicle to buy me a little time to finish whatever it is I am doing before I go and show the 20-year-old where the spoons are kept.
In fact, there are three separate definitions for ‘moment’, and it was a combination of these three definitions that gave me the willpower, in the face of massive self-resistance, to get myself onto the ski slopes in France, and which I have continued to use to completely redesign my life.
And that's what this book is all about — a life by design. A life where you get to master every moment and live a truly audacious life.
Moment 1 — as a unit of time
First, I discovered that, rather than buying me an unquantifiable amount of time, the word ‘moment’ is an actual unit of time. ‘Moment’ first appeared in the English language in the eighth century when Saint Bede the Venerable recorded that each hour of the day is divided into four quarter hours, 10 minutia and 40 momenta — the latter representing 90 seconds of time. Just like a ‘minute’ is 60 seconds, a ‘moment’ is 90 seconds.
This tickles me pink. Next time I say, ‘Just give me a moment’, what I am actually doing is buying myself exactly 90 seconds of time.
Moment 2 — as a measure of energy
Second, a ‘moment’ is a measure of energy. The Moment Magnitude Scale (think an enhanced version of the old Richter scale) measures the actual size and magnitude of an earthquake the moment it strikes.
Moment 3 — as a unit of force
Third, a ‘moment’ is a unit of force. In physics, a ‘moment’ is the measure of how an object pivots or rotates around a specific point. For example, when you open a door and the door rotates around the hinges, this rotation is called a ‘moment’.
MOMENT
A unit of time
A measure of energy
A unit of force
After exploring these three definitions and thinking about them a lot, I was very much taken with the word ‘moment’. Just imagine how profoundly I could change my life if I combined these three ‘moments’ together to ensure I actually live in the moment and that I actually get shit done.
I could take just 90 seconds of time to generate enough energy to open a brand new door.
Combining the Moments to create MOMENTum
Adding the three moments together — that is, taking just 90 seconds of my time to use enough energy to open a brand new door in my life — was literally the only way I got myself into those skis and onto the ski lift and up to the top of that snow-covered mountain.
Without the simplicity of ‘moments’, skiing would not have happened — because the idea of skiing was simply too monumental. It was too audacious. It was too overwhelming. It was complex and complicated and how on earth was I supposed to get myself from Australia to France and onto a snow-covered mountain without any ski gear or experience or indeed any desire whatsoever to ski? I mean, come on.
On the other hand, exerting just 90 seconds of effort to open a new door is pretty simple.
Once you realise that goal setting, or approaching any new challenge or change in your life, requires just a ‘moment’ — then getting from point A to point B becomes elegantly doable.
In fact, everything becomes possible because you can do a hell of a lot in a ‘moment’.
And once that new door is open, all you need to do is step through it. And then take another step and another and another because when you add one ‘moment’ to another ‘moment’ to another ‘moment’ and so on — you generate:
MOMENTum
the measurement of mass in motion
Holy shit.
I mean, the world ‘moment’ is actually in the word ‘momentum’.
Momentum is the measurement of mass in motion. Simply put, any object that is moving has momentum. If you want to generate momentum, then you have to be moving. And how do you get moving? You take action. I didn't just decide one day in Melbourne, Australia, to go skiing for the first time in my life and then find myself in the French Alps the very next day decked out in a cute little ski suit, on skis, holding poles and shitting myself at the top of a run — I took action in the form of lots and lots of small steps towards that glorious, hairy goal and I self-generated a sense of momentum.
Thinking and acting small helped me knock off what was otherwise a very overwhelming goal that I thought was impossible to achieve.
And once you are in motion, it becomes very easy to stay in motion; you are on a roll.
Nothing is out of your reach. It will become, and continue to be, easier and easier to set outrageous goals and to implement them. Again and again. All by using the power of ‘moments’.
Living my best life
And that's exactly how I truly started living my best life — a life by design. A life where I get to call all the shots on exactly what I want to do. And it is stupendous.
And isn't that what you want the rest of your life to be too? The best chapter yet? Where you routinely invest time in yourself to open new doors to create earth-shaking, life-changing experiences? A life where you are a little less selfless?
That's what this book is all about.
In Section I, I share with you my journey to mastering every moment to live an audacious life as a woman with no more (or much fewer) fucks to give. This section also covers the life-changing experiences that propelled me to create my first Life List. A Life List of everything I want to do while I am still young enough to enjoy doing them.
In Section II, I walk you through exactly how I created my Life List and show you how to design your own Life List — a perfect life from here on until forever.
In Section III, I share The Master Every Moment Framework: a step-by-step guide that shows you exactly how to implement and realise your magnificent Life List goals using the power of ‘moments’.
And in Section IV, I share the very current iteration of my Life List, which I hope will inspire you in the creation and implementation of your own Life List.
By reading this book and creating your own Life List, you will get to live a big, spectacular, enormous, incredible, audacious life where you create, generate, experience and manifest a life that is:
MOMENTous
of great or lasting importance or consequence
And if that doesn't rock your world and knock your skis off then I don't know what will.
Section IOn Becoming Unapologetically Selfish (Or at Least a Little Less Selfless)
And so, I turned 50.
I have always loved my age, regardless of whatever it is at the time. I am not one of those people who frets about getting older. Most of the time I feel like I'm about 38 or 42, depending on the day.
But 50 is a milestone. It's a biggie. It's halfway to 100.
Approaching and then turning 50, along with everything else that was happening with my family around that point in time, did cause me to pause and to very intentionally challenge every single aspect of the life I was living.
I was 50 and my ex-husband was 54 and he was terminally ill. It was beyond confronting. What if I only had four years to live? Or months?
After Dan passed away I went through a period of time where every lump, twinge or general discomfort sent me into a genuine spiral of fear and a trip to the doctor. This fear wasn't so much for myself as for my children: if I too became terminally ill then my children would lose their mum as well as their dad. I projected this fear onto my own dad and every cough, sniffle or sneeze had me forcing him to go to the doctor too. My kids have lost enough for now, thank you very much.
After my personal and projected health crisis dissipated a little and I was less fearful for my imminent wellbeing, I spent a lot of my time in deep reflection about my life to date and what I want for the next part of my life. And here is what it comes down to for me.
I am a 50ish woman.
I have worked in some capacity—casual, part-time or fulltime—since I was 15 years old. I have worked as a lawyer in law firms and in the corporate world, I have worked as a senior executive in big business, and I have started my own businesses. I have always worked my arse off to be as magnificent as I can possibly be in every aspect of my life: daughter, sister, student, partner, parent, employee, employer, friend.
The day I turned 30 I gave birth to my first child. In quick succession I had two more pregnancies and had three young babies within three and a half years. I was the primary carer of my children and I continued to work and, with various iterations of success, downright failure and a good dose of grit and sheer survival, I managed to integrate motherhood with my career.
For much of the last 23 years of my life I have rarely prioritised myself—the order of my priorities has generally been my kids, my partner, my job, my parents and sisters, my friends, me. I have given and given and given some more.
For much of the last 23 years of my life, I have been the exact opposite of selfish. I have been monumentally selfless. I don't expect a prize for this. On the contrary, it makes me very much the same as literally every other woman I know—we are all quite fundamentally helpful, generous, altruistic givers.
My kids are now young adults and they are in the process of breaking up with me. It is a long, drawn out and often brutally painful break-up. Some days they want every part of me—mentally, emotionally and physically (having three incredibly noisy adult children play fight to sit on your lap for a cuddle in a competition to have you declare who you love the most is a very different experience to juggling three toddlers wanting to do the same), and then for days on end they simply aren't even here. They are at that stage in their own lives where they have one foot firmly planted in childhood and the other firmly planted in adulthood. And they get to choose which role they want to play on any given day: ‘today I am a child and I need every ounce of you and can you please drop everything and book me a haircut because I don't like talking to strangers on the phone and can you also pay for it, Mum’ OR ‘today I am an adult and please get out of my way and don't let the door hit you on the arse, Mum’. I have spent 23 years being their primary carer, their biggest cheerleader, the love of their life—but I am being moved firmly across to the sidelines.
I am no longer the sun they need or want to orbit around.
All of which is normal and wonderful and right on time because my children are young adults and they are forging their own lives. But it's also heartbreaking. For me it feels like only yesterday that we were playing ‘there were five in the bed and the little one said—roll over’.
However, it also means I have the opportunity to forge the next stage of my own magnificent life too. My children are no longer the sun that I need to orbit around.
I am only 53. I have my whole life ahead of me and I am desperate to live it stupendously. I feel like I have been waiting for this moment for years. I am very happily moving into the phase in my life where I get to experience the exquisite joy of becoming unapologetically selfish.
I am sick of working every hour god sent. And while I have always strived for and been fuelled by success in my career and business, I don't know exactly where the finish line is. I don't know when and where the previous part of the journey ends or what success in my future needs to look like. I don't know at what point in time I put the tools down, say that I have done and achieved enough and that it's now time to enjoy everything I have worked hard for.
My life to this point has been incredible and worthwhile and wonderful and exactly what it needed to be and I would not change a thing—but there's so much more to be had. Because I'm not sure whether all of this ‘current state’ I have been living is fulfilling enough for me any more.
I have ceaselessly compromised and I don't want to compromise any more.
I have ceaselessly nurtured my children and, while I will continue to love them endlessly, it is now time to nurture myself.
I have ceaselessly made all of the decisions for everyone all of the time and I have had enough of decision making. It's not so much decision fatigue (my ability to make decisions is just fine) as decision disinterest. Sometimes I just want to hide away in a dark room so that the people looking for a decision to be made for them cannot find me.
I have money, my health, time and space. I have worked hard all my life and I am financially secure. I have worked hard on my self development to ensure that I am time affluent. I have worked hard to stay fit and healthy and energised.
I am tenacious. I am courageous. I am fearless. I am thriving professionally. I feel very good in my skin. I am brimming with wisdom and experience and knowledge. I am self-reliant and self-assured and somewhere along the journey my confidence and my common sense and my prudence and my self-knowledge have allowed me to discard that part of my ego that used to care what other people think of me. I am exactly where I need to be—which is, I am fast approaching a place of having no more fucks to give.
It is my turn.
And so these are the questions I have been pondering:
I have spent so long climbing the ladder that all I can think right now is ‘how the actual fuck do I get off?’ And if and when I do get off, what am I going to do that fills the void? And how do I best give back the knowledge and experience and skills I have accumulated?
What is next?
How do I holistically change every aspect of my world so that I feel fulfilled in every part of my life?
How do I start prioritising myself?
And how do I find the women I need in my life who feel exactly the same way as I do so that we can work this out together?
I know I am not the only woman thinking deeply about her life. Every woman I know is having a challenging conversation with herself. Every woman I know has had an eventful journey to get to this point and none of those journeys have been effortless—we all have a backstory. It is your backstory that will help you shine the light on what you want your future-story to be. My backstory, particularly over the last five years, has been instrumental to how and why I now master every moment to live an audacious life.
Life is Too Short
After 22 years of marriage Dan left me.
Dan was a vital, charismatic man. He was the funniest person I ever met. He could light up a room. He was also supremely polarising — he was loved a lot or not at all. There were a lot of rules living with Dan.
And he loved me fiercely until he didn't. When he left, he told me that he wanted to fall in love again — with someone else — before it was too late.
I was angry. I was devastated. I was shocked. We had built a life together. We were part way through raising three amazing kids. We were a unit, a team, a partnership. We had planned our future and we were almost there, at the point where we could really start enjoying what we had achieved. And then it was gone. He was out. I felt like my future had been stolen from me.
Separating from your life partner is a brutal experience — regardless of who instigates the split. All of a sudden you are left wondering — who the hell is this person? How can you change so quickly from confidante, partner and co-pilot to stranger?
And then there is the fallout on the kids. Trying not to share with them or in front of them the tears and pain and anger and all of the wrongs and hurts and callous little incidentals that become so consuming.
And then there is negotiating a new way of being with your former partner. Our marriage was over — Dan wanted to be without me but he also wanted to be with me. He wanted to call me every day to tell me about his day. He wanted my advice. He wanted me to help him choose furniture. He wanted my friendship. Not because he wanted me back as his lover and partner, but because he wanted me back as his best friend. And that just wasn't part of the deal — you can't have all the good bits of a partnership and none of the bad bits. You can't walk away from the physical marriage but retain the emotional benefits.
And then there is the sheer publicity of separating. None of this plays out in private. Everyone gets a front row seat to the most traumatic event of your life. Everyone. We lived in a small suburb where everyone knows everyone else and their business — the kids were at school with or played sport with or travelled on the bus with or were friends with literally every other kid in town — and after we separated there seemed to be a community outpouring of grief and self-reflection.
‘We thought you had the perfect marriage,’ many said. ‘What went wrong?’
What they were really saying was, If this could happen to you, then it could happen to me. What did you do wrong, so that I can avoid doing the same thing?
Or, ‘You are so lucky he left you,’ some said to me. ‘My husband will never leave me and I can't afford to leave him.’
What they were really saying was, I want to leave my marriage but I am too scared to walk away. I am frightened that I won't be able to support myself financially, and so I am stuck and I wish I was you because now you are free and your husband will feel so guilty at having left you that he will play fair with your financial settlement.
I lost friends. Some people seemed to choose Dan. Others just stopped choosing me. Others still seemed worried that I might come and try to steal what belonged to them.
At the time all I could do was focus on my kids and myself. There was so much sadness and fear and loss and anger and confusion to work through. I changed supermarkets. I shopped in sunglasses and headphones for months. I avoided the sad gazes. I tolerated the hugs.
