**Tips on how to navigate change, become more powerful, and stay strong in every aspect of your life.

A woman often feels the pressure to conform. Most of society, including her parents, teachers and peers, dictate through learned behavior how she should act.

As a woman, you may feel like you are struggling to live up to everyone’s expectations.

• Does it feel like you are doing more for others then you are for yourself?
• Are you ignoring your own dreams and desires because people in your life constantly depend on your help?

As your personal ambitions keep getting bumped to the bottom of the "to do list", you devote less time to them and to yourself. Women are used to putting everyone and everything ahead of themselves. This habit has become second nature. Society as a whole expects women to be self-sacrificing, even if it means putting themselves in danger. After an entire lifetime of this behavior, it is no wonder that many females feel so exhausted mentally, spiritually and physically.

Take a serious look at yourself right now.

• Do you feel as if your commitments and responsibilities take up every minute of the day?
• Have you any time left to work toward your goals, to pamper yourself, to take a break?

If you have pushed the goals and dreams from childhood into the dark corners of your mind, it is time to take them out and dust them off. It is time to learn how to set boundaries and take care of your own needs. It is time to pamper yourself and feel as if you deserve to live the life that you envisioned for yourself.

When there is such a demand for your time, you do not get a chance to realize how your life has evolved until something serious or critical happens. It is unfortunate that illness, death or the end of a relationship is often the catalyst that forces us to take stock of the way we are living.

It is often the negative experiences in life that force you to sit down and notice the type of person you’ve become. At such a time self-love and joy are not the overriding emotions in your life.

**This is true whether you have high self-esteem and are working toward life goals or feel lost and depressed.

Like it or not, you are a woman of the 21^st Century and times are always changing. However, as we reflect back on those changes experienced during the past 100 years alone, there is no denying that this new century carries an even greater promise of surprises, challenges and demands on all of us.

• Have you thought about this new century in relation to your Self?
• Are you eager for change?
• Do you have some particular plans in mind for yourself?
• Are you prepared for the challenges you will encounter?

If you want the rest of your life to be rewarding, happy and in fact absolutely fantastic… there is no better time than now to decide to be bold and create a new vision for your life.

Opportunities and challenges are your future. They are for every woman on this planet. Isn’t it time you took a look inside your own heart and decided if the way you are currently living is where you want to be 5, 10 or even 15 years from now? If not, it is time to make some changes!

Imagine how your life would be if you decided to:

• Liberate yourself from all the emotional baggage that prevents you from feeling truly loved, peaceful and happy
• Concentrate and focus energy on your Self
• Actively work to make your life happier and more meaningful
• Spend your time on uplifting projects that would benefit you
• Create friendships with joyful, more creative people
• Think positive thoughts
• Make positive uplifting statements to yourself every day
• Take classes or courses that would increase your income
• Create a goal-board and take at least one step every day to achieve your goals
• Eat only those foods that benefit your body
• Move from your current situation into something happier, healthier and wealthier

Taking just a few minutes to reflect on these notions might trigger some longed-for memories of goals and dreams you have harbored for years.

• Visualize your life being different, far better, from what it is now.
• Imagine those "crazy" fantasies, you decided could never happen.
• Picture how your life would change if you knew these fantasies could actually come true.

You have a responsibility to yourself to live the best life possible.

It is time to check out the way to make this happen.

You have the capacity to create unimaginable happiness, love and success.

Are you ready for it?

**Living the life of your dreams requires only simple, consistent steps**

Here are a few to get you started:

• Make a conscious decision to change and improve your life
• Acknowledge that change does not have to be a major production (take either baby steps or giant leaps, it is up to you to set the pace)
• Write down your goals
• Get a journal to list some obvious first steps you will take
• Keep track of the progress you are making
• Include a reasonable time-frame for accomplishing your goals
• Appraise your current life style and decide what changes can help you
• Consider whether you need to spend more time taking care of your personal needs and wants and note this in your journal
• Be honest in deciding whether you are living an active, healthy life.
• Be aware of any negative messages you give yourself
• Decide to use self-talk (praise) and tangible rewards for each step of your goals
• Refuse to wait for someone else’s help (use the help of others only if you need it and don’t let their cooperation, or lack of it, influence your determination)
• Move forward daily
• Distance yourself from criticism (both from yourself and others)
• Look for people who are successful and imitate them, they are your role models (if you do not personally know any role models, read about those people you admire from history or popular culture)

Self-esteem does not blossom overnight. To cultivate it in yourself you must take a new step or two each day.

• Learn and practice the skills that invite and accommodate successes your life.
• Embrace and celebrate each of the steps you take toward developing an awesome existence.
• Keep in mind that no step is insignificant. Every single positive action you take adds to your personal power.

Every single one of us, regardless of where we are in our life right now, possesses the potential and the inclination to improve.

It takes courage to change. However, every step need not be difficult.

You can be an instrument of change or a victim of change – you choose.

Nancy McFadden, M.A. is a psychotherapist, university instructor, lecturer and avid participant in her own self-growth. She has developed a guide for women to support their journey into a life of personal empowerment, professional success and deliberate self-awareness. She teaches the self-commitment every woman requires if she decides to gain happiness and excitement in her life.

Nancy is convinced we can successfully overcome the fears that hold us back. Any woman can succeed when given specific directions on how to reward, encourage and motivate herself to move forward.

Nancy McFadden’s book, "Step Aside Gentlemen We’re Coming Aboard: A Woman’s Guide to Becoming Powerful and Staying Strong," gives you these specific directions. Here you will find constant personal encouragement to keep your momentum going along with the necessary information to help you make important changes.

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Every inventor, developer and person of greatness has achieved success by their willingness to take risks and do whatever was required of them to create the change they envisioned.

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Nancy McFadden, M.A., has spent more than 15 years in the motivational and self-help fields researching and developing techniques to propel you into a life of phenomenal self-trust, love, happiness and success.

Nancy’s own personal growth gives her the ability to understand how we get stuck in sorry life situations. She has learned from her own experiences what it takes to move out of sadness and depression into an outstanding life.

Nancy McFadden’s techniques are not complicated. Nor are they difficult to understand.

"Step Aside Gentlemen We’re Coming Aboard," embraces a perspective that any woman, man or teenager can understand.

The tools used to create change in your life must help not hinder you. Nancy has utilized every idea in this book in both a personal and professional capacity. You will be able to understand and incorporate the skills immediately. Even if you have read 100 self-help books, with this book you will find something new and powerful to add to your success "toolbox".

Do not pass up the opportunity to start living the life you want!

Postponing change can cause five or ten years to pass by unnoticed.

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