Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
by Martha Beck
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Author: Martha BeckEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-29
ISBN: 0812932188
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Super Book - Excellent Way to Find and Live Your Passion!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read just about every career development book out there that's designed to identify what your life dream and goals are and how to make them come true.
This is the BEST! By far! Finding Your North Star is inspiring and practical. I recommend it for anyone who's serious about investigating who they are, what truly turns them on, makes their heart beat faster, and is willing to do the work to make it all happen. Except it really wasn't about "work" for me once I got in tune with my North Star. Martha Beck put so much in beautiful perspective, and her imagery was very poignant and inspired me to take the necessary steps, however she helped me be so aligned with the process that it was relatively painless and very fruitful. She mixes idealism with a heavy dose of realism that is perfect for the person who knows that it's just not about a single moment of "rah-rah" but also knows that the right path is not tortuous hard work but a thrilling exercise in discovering oneself and nurturing that passion that is truly you. The energy around the hard work that would be necessary was transformed from feeling arduous to running a tough race with delight and anticipation.
I've found my North Star, and I changed my career focus as a result. I know that as I move forward in life, that I'll realign to my North Star again and again, and will have her ideas, processes and inspiration to buoy me forward. Martha Beck has helped me to appreciate myself more fully, and have the courage to make some major changes in my life that I would not have made otherwise.
NOTE: I've also read many of her articles in Oprah Magazine - additional insights there are very helpful.
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Summary of Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
"Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot."Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star, fulfill their potential, and live more joyfully. Now, she shares her step-by-step program that will help you take the exhilarating and frightening journey to your own ideal life. Finding Your Own North Star will teach you how to read your internal compasses, articulate your core desires, identify and repair the unconscious beliefs that may be blocking your progress, nurture your intuition, and cultivate your dreams from the first magical flicker of an idea through the planning and implementation of a more satisfying life. Martha Beck offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, exercises, and her own trademark wit and wisdom to guide you every step of the way.
Put the telescope away; the North Star mentioned here is a human body, not a heavenly one. And like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide a wayward soul back to his or her "essential self." In this absorbing combination of detailed self-awareness exercises and true stories from her own counseling experience (equal parts sobering and hysterically entertaining), Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck invites readers to explore their heart's desires and the vast social webs that keep such desires in check. The goal is not to forsake the "social self" and indulge every emotional impulse of the "essential self." Rather, Beck gives readers the tools and the encouragement to achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices.
Beck (author of Expecting Adam) admits that repairing a damaged emotional compass and setting out on such a vital journey--which often involves painful realizations and changes--"has all the combined attractions of suicide and childbirth." But the payoff, she concludes, is a love affair with real life. To that end, she walks readers through a lengthy exercise to evaluate their current lifestyle's pleasures and pains, teaches the process of listening to the body for directional cues, describes how to extract "soul shrapnel" (healing all those nasty, self-defeating emotional wounds), and provides an intriguing "Map of Change" to achieve an authentic life. Beck's impressive knowledge, her engaging (if somewhat irreverent) voice, and her ability to parse this scary process into achievable steps make her a new champion in the self-help arena. --Liane Thomas
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