Fun and practical happiness guide

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	• Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live Martha Beck Three Rivers Press, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 108 reviews view larger image
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Amazing serendipity!

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.

Helpful advice

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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Fun and practical happiness guide

This book talks the reader through a fun and practical path to a meaningful life. Beck writes in a playful, funny, lighthearted manner while also appreciating the difficulty and the need of living an authentic and meaningful ife. Beck uses a framework based on finding YOUR "social self" and your "essential self". Your social self is the one created by culture and society, the rule follower. Your essential self is passionate and could care less about rules. The book provides exersizes to help the reader become better in touch with his/her essential self, and thus engage in more joyful and fullfilling activities. This is a book that is based on acceptance, Beck encourages you to embrace what you may have previously judged as too "wierd" to pay attention to (what would I do if I knew no one would ever find out?). She also talks about facing fears (what would I do if I weren't scared?). There's even a little relationship advice (ie. assertive, not offensive, communication). And lots of information about "navagating" your emotions, great for those of us who are scared or unaware of our emotions.

I bought Finding your own North Star over a year ago and go back to it regularly for a "refresher" course. One activity I go back to often is a "body scan" type activity in which she describes a sort of meditative activity step-by-step, for those of us who find it difficult to clear our minds for any amount of time. Overall a life altering book with LOTS of material, a great investment!!

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A ground-breaker

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.

This book has changed my life!

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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