While Peggy McColl’s The Won Thing may sound like a “Rah rah!” guide to the entrepreneurial pursuit, like many of the books on the entrepreneurial life, this is a much more comprehensive guide to finding, creating and living the life you want - the whole life.
Peggy talks about her confusion about relationships in a real way – it was the ’70s when Peggy was a young single mom struggling with how to survive, how to support herself, and still in some way hoping for that mythical Knight in Shining Armor to come to her rescue.
The transition towards the desire to control her own life, her own direction, her own path was not an easy one.
As a woman who is now in her adulthood, but grew up watching exactly this struggle, Peggy’s story strikes a deep chord. One that resonates with my own recent discovery that I don’t always want to be in the driver seat.
The point though of Peggy’s new book (already a smoking, overnight bestseller!) is not WHAT your personal desire is. It’s how to reach that desire. How to make it real. How to achieve exactly the life you envision as the life that fits.
Peggy also writes about her own experience of how her successes sometimes upset the status quo – how friends, family relatives may be come jealous, or destabilised by the lifestyle changes, shifts in values and priorities that are the stepping stones to achieving this new, beautiful, ideal life.
This is another experience I can personally attest to.
The truth that Peggy repeatedly circles back to is that no one is going to change your life for you – you are the only one who can rescue you from the negative beliefs, negative patterns, and ruts that keep you creating the outcomes that no longer serve you.
Thankfully, Peggy also gives concrete ways out of these negative patterns.
Using universal techniques that I recognize from my own training – Neuro-Linguistic Programming, cognitive behavioral therapies, bio-psychology, and even my favorite, GRATITUDE! – Peggy tells us how to easily reprogram ourselves out of these old, habitual grooves that keep us running down the same old roads.
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