Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
“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.

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Amazon.com Review
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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Customer reviews

review by: Career Fitness Coach date: 2008-11-30 rating:
Great book!
This is one of the best books I've read all year. It confirms I'm on the right path, but more than that, it's a great guide that I give to all of my life/career coaching clients. I highly recommend it to anyone who feels they're on the wrong path in life and needs to figure out who they really are!

Malcolm O. Munro
The Career Fitness Coach[..]

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review by: LJ date: 2008-11-10 rating:
The Ultimate Coaching
This book offered me so much insight based off of the examination of my own life. There are workbook sections that help you pinpoint exactly where you are off your path. It helps identify the resistance and blockages in your life and it then leads you to discover exactly what you are here to do. There is a formula that Martha Beck uses as she is extremely talented as a life coach. She works from the soul and she will offer you tools and techniques to guide you to work from yours.

I think this is an essential part of realizing your potential and living a peaceful life. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a life's journey full of passion, enthusiasm and, ultimately, triumph. Martha Beck's lessons will inspire you to reach for the stars. Good luck.

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review by: date: 2008-10-12 rating:
Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages I wasn't aware of.
Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages and the underlines distract from my enjoyment of reading the book. I underline my books that I do not intend to sell. I wish I'd known the book I chose to purchase had so many underlined passages. I would have bought another one.

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review by: date: 2008-08-01 rating:
Wonderful
I see myself and just about everyone I know in this book. It is a good read, interesting, insightful and has a lot of exercises to help understand what's going on in your life and how you can change the things that feel wrong. Martha Beck is just plain wonderful!




review by: FANTASY FALLS date: 2008-07-19 rating:
Finding Your Own North Star
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Liveis a life changing book. Beck's examples are all ones we can relate to no matter where we are in life.

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