1. Are you willing to consider that there is a purpose for your life that is bigger than your current moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings, and that this is the next step for you?

2. Are you willing to slow down enough to read each segment so that you can decide whether it is necessary information for you to open to, take in, and connect to your life?

3. Are you willing to skip segments that don’t talk specifically to you without making yourself or the material wrong?

4. Are you willing to open the doors of your intellect to the experience of “not knowing” to allow new information to expand your thinking or to allow old information to reconfigure into new and useful insights that you can use now?

5. Are you willing to stop reading whenever you start to feel overloaded, overwhelmed, or satisfied and full, even if you have read only a few pages?

6. Are you willing to refrain from using this information to criticize or condemn yourself or others and instead give yourself permission to re-read a segment until you can fully absorb the information and use it to enhance your understanding of situations you are currently facing?

7. Are you willing to stay focused on your own process of growth and intentionally bypass the temptation to try to counsel, teach, or fix anyone else?

8. Are you willing to test and experiment with the information rather than immediately rejecting it or immediately believing it, so that you can use your personal experience to determine what is true and useful to you?

9. Are you willing to be gentle with yourself and patient with your new insights by taking all the time you need to savor this journey?

10. Are you willing to allow yourself to welcome orphaned feelings; discarded hopes and dreams; buried and abandoned desires; and new, exciting and unanticipated creative ideas to begin to show themselves to you?