The Naked Executive: How Being Honest Can Change Your Life Forever

187 Pages·2012·0.87 MB·English

by  Kelly Davies

One Girl, Four Steps, Ten Lessons
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Copyright © 2011 Kelly Davies
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
DOLLY PARTON
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preface
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n this book, may you fi nd a safe place to say your life isn’t perfect.
May you fi nd a safe place to say you feel like a failure, you’re
sick of being busy and numb all the time.
May you fi nd a safe place to know that the truth won’t kill you, but
living a lie might.
May you fi nd the courage to join the Naked Movement and live a
naked life: honest in your thoughts, action and words.
It will change everything.
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contents
Introduction
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CHAPTER 1 N aked 101: Th e Basics 1
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CHAPTER 2 O ne Girl: Th e Naked Executive 21
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CHAPTER 3 F our Steps: How to Get Naked 33
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CHAPTER 4 L esson 1: You Must Get Naked with Yourself First 49
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CHAPTER 5 L esson 2: Only Get Naked in Safe Places 69
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CHAPTER 6 L esson 3: Naked is Something You Need to Ease In To 75
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CHAPTER 7 L esson 4: You Can’t Make Other People Get Naked 85
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CHAPTER 8 L esson 5: Everything Just Feels Better Naked 93
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CHAPTER 9 L esson 6: Stay Awake and Aware 99
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CHAPTER 10 L esson 7: Naked Information Does Not Get Shared 103
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CHAPTER 10 L esson 8: Everybody Wants to Get Naked 109
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CHAPTER 12 L esson 9: Never Pass Up the Opportunity 117
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CHAPTER 13 L esson 10: Getting Naked is the Easy Part 127
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CHAPTER 14 L iving a Naked Life: Naked Th oughts and Stories 133
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CHAPTER 15 J oin Th e Naked Movement 167
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Join the Naked Movement
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About the Author
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introduction
MY FIRST TIME GETTING NAKED
D
o you remember your fi rst time getting naked? I will never
forget mine. It was during my last year of graduate school,
fall semester of 2009.
Graduate school was a life changing experience for me. My program
was in Executive Leadership and Organizational Change. We did an
intense study of emotional intelligence and right at the very top of the
list of competencies was a biggie, “self-awareness.” All the students in
the program were successful and experienced professionals, we knew
what self awareness is (or so we thought). Ironically, in a program on
leadership, we had no defi ned leadership roles. We worked in teams and
those leadership roles were delegated out on a project and task basis.
Th ere was no seniority, no titles and no get out of jail free cards. We
were learning to “learn” and trying not to “perform” but its tough for
successful type A’s to not want to perform. We had spent our entire lives
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