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Summary: Inspiring
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In a sense this book reminds me of "Can We Live 150 Years?" by M. Tombak. These two books deal with two different subject,(Tombak focuses more on health and longevity) by they both influenced me tremedously. Get them both and save on shipping charges!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: FINDING YOUR OWN NORTH STAR is a breath of fresh air, a glimmer of hope and besides being immensely helpful and instructive is a good read! It's not often that all those ingredients are found in a self-help book. I would recommend snatching this gem up for anyone who's feeling a little lost or off-track with their life. Martha Beck's straightforward, honest, and poignant writing makes you feel as if your really really smart and really really sensitive best friend was helping you figure out how to regain--or even experience for the first time--the sense of joy in life that everybody deserves. Beck gives you the map and the tools for evaluating your own dreams, goals, morals, and even sense of self and helps you dig down deep within yourself to explore what *really* makes you happy!
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Summary: One of the best self help books ever written.
Review: I bought this book and could not put it down. Every time I am in a funk, I pick it up and it gets me going and up again! This is great. It is not just reading, it is doing.
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Summary: This book has changed my life!
Review: I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this book! This is the book that pushed me full-throttle into becoming a life coach. "Finding Your Own North Star" is, in my opinion, THE book to use when trying to design a life that's in-synch with who you really are. Martha Beck really "gets it". I enjoy her writing style, because she's down-to-earth and funny, too! Don't drink any liquids while reading, though, because you'll find yourself laughing when you least expect it!
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Summary: Helpful advice
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. It is easy to read and has a lot of exercises to help readers understand how we tick. The most important part for me was becoming aware of how we give up my essential self in favor of our social self. Since I have had this awareness, I check in with myself to make sure I make the right choices. I don't think you can go wrong with this book if you want to learn more about what motivates your behavior. I strongly suggest another book, Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self which turned my life in the right direction and helped me to create a wonderful life. Optimal Thinking showed me how to make the most of any situation and how to resolve every emotion and become emotionally self-reliant.
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Summary: Amazing serendipity!
Review: I just received this interesting e-mail that led me to search for this book: Inessa, interesting, that I am presently reading Finding Your North Star by Martha Beck. and today I ran across a note that I had tucked away, (for a later time to check out..) with your web site on it. and your web page with the same title.
Hugs and have a beautiful day. Will take more time later to further explore your web site.
Life is just full of amazing serendipity.
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Summary: Best self-help book I've read so far
Review: I've read many self-help books and have found this book to be the best one yet. Martha Beck gets right to the heart of each problem/issue in one's life and is extremely helpful with her advice, exercises and is a master in psychology. She's insighteful, supportive and candid. I plan to refer back to this book and I've already told all my friends about how much it has helped me and how I highly recommend this book. Thanks so much Martha Beck -- your my hero!
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Summary: Just What I Needed
Review: Martha Beck is a great writer to start with - on top of that, her insights and ideas are enlightening. The book has short exercises (e.g. list three things that....) - the exercises are short enough to get you to do them but at the same time they really make you think. I recognize my north star and am making changes in my life to get back on course. This book is simply terrific - throughout reading it I could really relate to what she had identified.
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Summary: A ground-breaker
Review: Of all the books I have read on the subject (dozens and dozens, Kate White, SWZ, Ban Breathnach, I could do anything if only.., do what you love and... ) this is, by far, the very best.
this one really digs into you to find, in every aspect of your life, what is truest to your essential self. You learn how to use your inner compass to make the best decision at any given time, no matter how small the choice.
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Summary: Brilliant, amazing, heaven-sent!
Review: Okay, maybe I've gone a bit overboard. But only a very little. I had previously read "Expecting Adam," which I thought was good although it brought my own grad-student days in Boston way too close too home :( This book, however, is more than "self-help." It's a blueprint for learning how to make your own choices, accept responsibility for making things better, and a PhD course in the "life lessons" that are so obvious, we've forgotten them. As in "If it brings you joy, do it. No, seriously, if it brings you joy, do it." Martha (I can't call her Mrs. Beck, because after my husband and I formed a "study group" to work through the exercises in this book together, she's become the fairy godmother I never had!) might have gotten a PhD in sociology, but thank God her North Star steered her towards writing. This book is better than years of powerful Freudian therapy (which heaven knows I've had, as well as Adlerian.) It's difficult to speak in specifics, since the book covers issues from psychosomatic illness, decision-making, visualization, and so forth, but the plan she lays out is simple: Figure out what you love. Do it--and she'll tell what land mines you may encounter along the way, the various false starts, opposition from within/without, and offers concrete strategies (and I mean REALLY concrete--this is definitely an interactive book, so get ready to start writing, thinking, and loving your life.) Martha, please keep writing! Here's a big electronic hug ....
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