What's Really Holding You Back?: Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be

by Valorie Burton

Get Unstuck. Become Unstoppable.

What is stopping you from fulfilling your purpose and achieving your dreams? Like millions of people you may find yourself repeatedly stuck in the same old rut–in your relationships, finances, career, health, or spiritual life. Maybe you want to start exercising, find a better job, get out of debt, launch a business, deepen your friendships, practice a new spiritual discipline–or pursue some other goal. The question is, What’s Really Holding You Back?

In this compelling book, life coach Valorie Burton explores the four forces that can free you from the fear, distractions, and obstacles that limit you. Discover how to harness your thoughts, words, actions, and energy to give you the power and strength to get unstuck and become unstoppable in every area of your life.

• Learny why you do what you do.
• Stop sabotaging your own success.
• Overcome the fears that have held you back.
• Keep your emotions from controlling your actions.
• Break through internal and external obstacles.

Seize the opportunity to move from where you are now to where you want to be. You were created to live fully, passionately, and freely. You can do it.

Now is the time!

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Personal Development

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2005

About the author

I am a bestselling author, speaker, and life coach dedicated to helping people like you get unstuck and be unstoppable in every area of life.

I founded The Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute and have served as a Certified Personal and Executive Coach to hundreds of clients in over 40 states and ten countries.

For more than a decade, I have had the pleasure of writing, speaking, and coaching in order to help people like you:

- Make major life changes
- Be happier and have more fun
- Become strong leaders
- Achieve professional dreams
- Navigate setbacks
- Speak up with confidence
- Feel at peace with decisions
- Conquer emotions that can cause self-sabotage

Let me help you get unstuck and be unstoppable!

Feel free to add me as a friend, rate or review one of my books, take one of my quizzes, or visit my website to learn more.

Reviews

[Gilbert Glenn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't get anything from reading this book, it was basic and I feel like most of us already know these things she tells us but there wasn't any passages where I felt like "ah, that was clever, I'll have to make a note of that" The book has a very small audience, I see it appeals to middle class female Christians which inhibits the message she's trying to get across. I think she could have used a lot more sources besides the bible such as philosophical quotes or psychological studies and experiments. The chapters are way too short and there's too many of them, making it seem like she's just throwing a bunch of points at you and just hoping you'll remember all of them instead of really milking every idea and supporting it. The book is also VERY repetitive, it's like if you read one chapter it feels like you've read all of them. Each one starts off with a story or a question, proceeds to answer the question, insert bible quotes here and concludes the chapter with her final thoughts. I really wish she took the opportunity to take some time and spend some research looking into answering many questions people have about getting their shit together. Life is hard and it's hard to answer these questions with one persons opinion.

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I continue on my quest to find out more on topics I heard Ms. Burton speak about in December. This book didn't have what I was looking for any more than the one I read in December. This one was a little closer to what I'm looking for because it was more about proactive forward movement. It talks about five key areas of life: relationships, career, finances, physical health, and spiritual. It encourages us to figure where we want to see the most change/improvement in our lives and focus on that area. Obviously, we can work on different areas at the same time and improvement in one may help the other. While not a new concept, I liked the emphasis on building the vision of what you want and figuring out the small steps that can get you working toward that. The motivation of the vision and the success of the small steps will feed continued progress. There was a good amount of content that I could specifically apply to my current area of focus.
As a starting point, I liked this book better than the one I read in December. I liked that the content was presented in very bite-sized pieces that could be applied one at a time, if you wanted to use this book as a workbook... and to do the ones you like the most and skip the ones that you don't want to focus on at the moment. Similar to the one I read in December, this one has a lot of excellent journaling prompts and specific exercises. It also has the traditional Christian God content that in some contexts can be hard to relate to enough to apply... if you are not Christian. I could apply my "Higher Power" to most of it, but there was some content that was a little too specifically Christian to make that stretch.

[Sonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow

This book took me two years to complete because I wasn't ready to deal. But it helped my entire life!!! Excellent!

[Christina McLemore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Read

-Practical ways to think about how one is to take ownership
-A biblical guide on how to live and lead
-Each chapter provides a call to action.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book because of the recommendation of a friend, who happens to be the author's cousin. It changed my life! Now, if only I could hire her to be my life coach :)

Valorie Burton helps you dig down to the root of many of your problems and guides you to take the next step. Her spiritual background is evident throughout the book with scriptures backing up her advice and motivation. She will not give you answers, but she will help you look within to find them and ways to overcome obstacles. This is not a fun beach read. It is a book that you pick up because you want to advance your life in one way or another. If you take it seriously, you will find patterns in your behavior, speech, attitudes, actions, etc and in others', understand the meaning, and know how to react to them to make your life better. When you do decide to read this book, make sure that you have a Bible and journal handy because you will definitely need both!

[Ashley Terrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book stopped me in the midst of my tracks late one night while shopping at WalMart. I read half of this book in three hours. I love the set up to really make you critically think about what and who you are and how you want to progress from where you are rather you stay and become comfort with being stagnant.
What made her an "author mentor" to me was that Burton implemented biblical scriptures that really bought her literature home and spoke to me.
I have ALL her books!

[Sherri Moorer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book to be a helpful reminder of advice I've heard from therapists, pastors, and other similar books. She makes many good points and the advice is sound, scripturally accurate, and correct.

[Car7rand · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent read. Anyone who would like to study with me please let me know.

[Mizbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Life-coach, Valorie Burton, has written a good book, with lots of good advice and tips. Recommended.

[Colette Hope]

Valorie is my favorite author. This book is very well written, inspirational and really coaches you in getting unstuck so you can move forward towards your purpose in life.

[shaka thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another hit

I was inspired and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think ill be sending the audio book as a gift for someone.