LIVING A CONSCIOUS LIFE: The Thinking Person’ s Guide to Wholeness, Peace & Freedom offers profound, prescriptive advice with a practical footing across a wide expanse of human experience. Grounded yet uplifting, factual yet inspiring, it can be considered a “ user’ s manual for human beings” in its broad reach of topics, its depth of meaningful insights, and the transformation it brings to its readers.

Don Johnson is a former business, and sales leader turned writer, transformational coach, and leadership consultant. He is a top writer on Medium.com, where he shares life stories and lessons learned on his journey in and out of chaos with his over 12,400 followers (550,000+ views). https://medium.com/@donjohnsonwrites He is also the founder of the Integria Group, a boutique consulting firm offering transformative coaching, conscious leadership, and team-building solutions. https://www.integriagroup.com

CONTENTS Preface Introduction PART ONE For the Heart When You Live from the Heart, No One Forgets What You Leave Behind A Failed Vasectomy Changed My Life The Power of Healing Broken Relationships How to Light Up a Room without Stepping Inside The Path to Finding Love Can Be a Long, Winding Road You’ re The Only Person That Needs to Know How Good You Are Tenacity Pays Off Be Yourself— Not Someone Else Inspiration to Stir Your Soul PART TWO Nurturing the Inner World How I Reclaimed My Life after Ten Years in a Cult Happiness Comes from Learning to Play the Inner Game The Real Reason We Get into Stupid Arguments How to Face Your Limiting Beliefs and Transform Your Life The Stories You Tell Yourself Make or Break You. How to Weather the Storm in Your Head The Difference between Winning and Success Listening and Curiosity Make a Better World Two Phrases That Drain Our Power All Personal Growth Starts with an Ending Lessons from Black Holes PART THREE Building Meaningful Relationships Wisdom Begins When You Ask This One Question Four Steps to being Honest. Even When it’ s Hard. Avoid Stupid Arguments with Verbal Aikido How to Be a More Interesting Conversationalist Opinions Are Not Facts We Behave Differently Because We’ re Wired Differently Practical Tips for Type A Personality Types Forget about Trying to Change Someone’ s Mind How to Deal with Difficult People without Losing Your Mind Eight Easy Things Extraverts Can Do That Introverts Love Turn an Argument with your Partner into a Healing Conversation PART FOUR Living a More Fulfilling Life How to Get Deeper Meaning in Work and Life How to Recover from Losing Your Identity When You’ ve Only Lost Your Job Five Simple, Powerful Leadership Principles How to Quickly Size Up Someone’ s Personality Style How to Survive the Dark Side of Corporate Life PART FIVE Meditation and Spirituality Five Things I’ ve Learned From 49 Years of Meditation Five Ways to Fire Up Your Meditation Practice How to Reduce the Noise in Your Head Before You Meditate The Power and Beauty of Meditation Just One Habit to Deepen Your Meditation Practice The Importance of Being in a World Consumed with Doing Tips for More Inner Quiet PART SIX Navigating the Business World How to Get Deeper Meaning in Work and Life How to Recover from Losing Your Identity When You’ ve Only Lost Your Job Five Simple, Powerful Leadership Principles How to Quickly Size Up Someone’ s Personality Style How to Survive the Dark Side of Corporate Life Acknowledgments Index About the Author