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Title: Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons by Barbara Sher ISBN: 0-440-50756-1 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No, really, this book did change my life!
Comment: At a difficult point in my career, I turned to this book to help me move to something new. I followed the steps described and it really worked. I had a dream of teaching environmental ethics at university, and now I am! A great thing about this book is that it is really written for sceptics like me who can't stand self-help books. Barbera Sher is particularly suspicious of resolutions and positive affirmations. She states quite clearly that you don't have to improve your character in order to get a good life - good news indeed! Another great thing about this book is that, just as she promises, all the exercises suggested are actually fun. This book moved me from a place of despondancy to a widening sense of wonder and excitement in life. Could you ask for more than that?
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than self-help: SELF-UNDERSTANDING
Comment: This is one of the best books I have read for improving and understanding your life.
The premise of the book is that you can't force yourself to be "successful" or happy. The success gurus generally tell you to discipline yourself, to use the power of choice, to take more action. As Barbara Sher points out, these philosophies have mixed results because people can rarely discipline themselves for very long to do things that they don't feel like doing.
Maybe you know that you need to contact certain people to get started on the path towards something you love, but somehow you never get around to it? We need to understand that this doesn't happen just because we are weak and undisciplined -- there's a REASON for our behavior. This book awakened me to the concept of resistance. There are many different possible reasons that we experience resistance to doing things that we know we need to do. But if we try to just force ourselves to do things, then inevitably it will become too uncomfortable and we will quit, or "forget" about it.
In addition to resistance the book describes how to awaken yourself to things that you might love to do, and gives numerous techniques for helping you on the path to doing them. I will refer to this book again and again as I pursue my goals and dreams.
Overall this book is much better organized and written than her book "I could do anything, if only I knew what it was". That book does have some other useful material, but I would only recommend reading it after "Live the Life You Love..." if you are still hungry for more of her insight.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book is An Absolute Gem!
Comment: Live the Life You Love is overflowing with valuable ideas that will help you to uncover and appreciate your uniqueness -- which in turn, can lead you to fulfilling work. Barbara guides her readers through a series of exercises -- exercises which I think are not only thought-provoking, but also fun. Her tone is conversational and genuine. If you're looking for a no-nonsense approach to self-exploration and career guidance, read this book.
Paula Fitzsimmons, pjpublications.com
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Title: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher, Barbara Smith ISBN: 0440505003 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age by Barbara Sher ISBN: 0440507189 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want by Barbara Sher, Annie Gottlieb ISBN: 0345465180 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love by Barbara J. Winter ISBN: 0553371657 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: I Don't Know What I Want, but I Know It's Not This: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen ISBN: 0142002488 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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