Awake and Ready: How to Work with Energy and Motivate Anyone

Susan Dermond captures the essence of cultivating energy so that it can be a source of a more fulfilling life. . . on a daily basis! Her stories are delightful and illustrate a conscious, thoughtful way of navigating this chaotic world.

This book has a way of raising your energy and happiness in general, just by reading it! Many people raise their kids by talking about God and religion too much (God is watching, you must behave!). This book shows how to raise kids without ever saying anything about that, but simply being a living example of one who has wisely meditated and walked the spiritual path. Exactly what I myself was searching for as a child.
Since I am not a teacher, and all my kids are now grown, I can still apply these principles not only to myself, but to all my other relationships. It teaches ways to change, uplift, or redirect the energy in a person or group. I do recommend it highly to anyone who is around children, especially parents and teachers.

The author beautifully illustrates the '8 keys to working with energy' using simple and clear ideas with decades of personal experience working in the education system. Highlighting these principles, or keys, of energy-awareness and how to change the flow of energy makes 'Awake and Ready' a practical tool, not just for educating kids, but a true Self-Help guide for anyone.

Awake and Ready is very helpful in terms of setting the context of how energy works and how one can uses the EFL principles to motivate from a child or an adult.

This book offers not only a lot of inspiration, it goes further with providing a variety of stories and examples to actually make this a very practical hands-on approach to not only dealing with children, but everyone, no matter the age!