The Power of Your Past: The Art of Recalling, Reclaiming, and Recasting [Paperback]

Discover your path of personal and professional development with this practical guide to actively and purposefully engaging with your own past.
 
Most of us don't use our yesterdays very well. With so much focus on living in the moment, we neglect to engage in creative reflection on our personal histories. In The Power Of Your Past, John Schuster demonstrates that the past is the most valuable, most accessible, and yet most under-utilized resource for anyone wanting to make positive changes.
 
Offering a practical three-phase model for working with one’s past—Recalling, Reclaiming, and Recasting—Schuster illustrates the process with inspiring histories of those who have experienced transformative results. Schuster provides insight, encouragement, and practical steps for essential professional and personal development. Readers who follow this model will make progress in their endeavors, overcome persistent obstacles, and make decisions based on their own truth rather than relying on someone else’s.Preface
Introduction: Your past can work for you

Part I: Discovering the power of your past
Chapter 1: The underused past: the price of forgotten yesterdays
Chapter 2: Good and bad news: evoked and compressed

Part II: Tapping the power of your past
Chapter 3: Recall
Chapter 4: Reclaim
Chapter 5: Recast

Part III: Channeling the power of your past
Chapter 6: A big question: When to say yes and no
Chapter 7: Using suffering to grow
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author“John Schuster’s latest book evokes in each of us our own complicated and colorful pasts and offers them to us as rich assets to be reveled in, appreciated, and learned from.l£Ö