Finding Your Own North Star

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780812932188

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Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck Pdf

New York Times bestselling author and Life Designs, Inc. creator Martha Beck shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential and create a joyful life. In this book, you'll start by learning how to read the internal compasses already built into your brain and body--and why you may have spent your life ignoring their signals. As you become reacquainted with your own deepest desires, you'll identify and repair any unconscious beliefs or unhealed emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress. This will change your life, but don't worry--although every life is unique, major transformations have common elements, and Beck provides a map that will guide you through your own life changes. You'll learn how to navigate every stage, from the first flickering appearance of a new dream to the planning and implementation of your own ideal life. Based on Dr. Beck's work as a Harvard-trained sociologist, research associate at Harvard Business School, instructor at Thunderbird Business School, and especially on her experiences with her clients over the last six years, Finding Your Own North Star offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercises to help you articulate your core desires and act on them to build a more satisfying life. “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

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 159359979X

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Wisdom from Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck Pdf

Bestselling author Martha Beck shares her step-by-step program that teaches you to read your internal compass and cultivate your dreams. The wisdom and humor of the excerpts provide insight you can use to chart a course to your own North Star.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781451624618

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Finding Your Way in a Wild New World by Martha Beck Pdf

Author of Oprah’s Book Club Pick—The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self “The best known life coach in America” (Psychology Today) and bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star provides a new transformational program for creating an unconventional life path to a sustainable way of life. Martha Beck’s program has been practiced by Oprah and featured on Super Soul Sunday! Finding Your Way in a Wild New World reveals a remarkable path to the most important discovery you can make: the knowledge of what you should be doing with your one wild and precious life. It’s the thing that so fulfills you that, if you knew what it was, you’d run straight toward it through brambles and fire. Life coach and bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star Martha Beck guides you to find out how you got to where you are now and what you should do next, with clear instructions on tapping into the deep, wordless knowledge you carry in your body and soul. You probably have sensed that you have a higher calling and a quiet power that could change the world—you lack only the tools. With her sparkling prose, Beck draws from ancient wisdom and modern science to help you consciously tap into that power and develop those tools for transformation. You’ll also find your inner identity and your external “tribe” of like-minded people, experience the spark of inspiration, and take action to make a lasting impact on the world. Compassionate and inspirational, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World is a revolutionary journey of self-discovery that leads to miraculous change.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307453143

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The Joy Diet by Martha Beck Pdf

Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day’s journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence. Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a “crash Joy Diet” to help you navigate life’s emergencies. The ten menu items are: • Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after. • Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you’re hiding—from others and from yourself. • Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your heart’s desires—and learn how to let yourself want what you want. • Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to help you obtain your heart’s desire. • Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is it has to scare the pants off you. • Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats just because you’re you. No exceptions. No excuses. • Play: Take a moment to remember your real life’s work and differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play wholeheartedly. • Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged. • Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who matters to you. • Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without food. No matter what your long-term goals are, The Joy Diet, written with Martha Beck’s inimitable blend of wisdom, practical guidance, and humor, will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here and now. Begin your journey today.

Author : Peter Reynolds
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763636777

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The North Star by Peter Reynolds Pdf

After following paths and signs determined by others, a young boy finally realizes that he must find his own individual way in life.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781594868122

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The Four-Day Win by Martha Beck Pdf

A life coach columnist for O magazine challenges opinions about will power being a key element in weight loss, introducing an unconventional program that incorporates a series of four-day habit-changing steps that culminate in an overall healthier lifestyle. Reprint.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623361976

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Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck Pdf

In Steering by Starlight, renowned life coach Martha Beck, Ph.D., describes the step-by-step process she uses with her private clients to help them navigate the terrain of their best lives. Bringing together cutting-edge research in psychiatry, neurology, and related fields in an accessible, substantive, original way, Dr. Beck offers powerful methods for solving the problems that beset ordinary people. Using her trademark wisdom, empathy, and engaging style, she connects you with proven, effective strategies that have worked for the hundreds of people she has coached. For those who have found your North Stars, this book will be an invaluable tool to stay the course and overcome obstacles. For those who still feel adrift, it will provide a way to find true North and follow the path of best destiny. Dr. Beck identifies three stages along the path to recapturing a satisfying life: • "The Stargazer" helps you understand why it is so easy to lose yourself and offers strategies for sighting your North Star • "The Mapmaker" uses this newly clarified perspective to evaluate your situation and plot a course for upcoming years • "The Pathfinder" discusses the adventures that may be encountered as you travel along this new life course Whether you are seeking better relationships, a more focused career direction, a more harmonious lifestyle, or the achievement of specific fitness goals, the colorful anecdotes, case studies, and exercises in Steering by Starlight will point the way.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781984881489

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The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck Pdf

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A roadmap on the journey to truth and authenticity… [The Way of Integrity] is filled with aha moments and practical exercises that can guide us as we seek enlightenment.” –Oprah Winfrey Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “integrity”—needed now more than ever in these tumultuous times—is the key to a meaningful and joyful life As Martha Beck says in her book, “Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.” In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante’s classic hero’s journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but also bring us to a place of genuine happiness.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307719645

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Expecting Adam by Martha Beck Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A candid and moving memoir of how one woman’s pregnancy forced her to confront her definition of how to live a successful life “Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, [Martha] Beck’s memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise.”—Time This edition includes a new afterword about Adam. From the moment Martha and her husband, John, accidentally conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. They’d plotted out a future in the most vaunted ivory tower of academe. But when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them that if they decided to keep the baby, they would lose all hope of achieving their carefully crafted goals. Fortunately, that’s exactly what happened. By the time Adam was born, Martha and John were propelled into a world in which they were forced to redefine everything of value to them, put all their faith in miracles, and trust that they could fly without a net. And it worked. Expecting Adam captures the abject terror and exhilarating freedom of facing impending parenthood, being forced to question one’s deepest beliefs, and rewriting life’s rules.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307237989

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Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck Pdf

Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman’s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. Wearing her sacred garments, she married in a secret temple ceremony—but only after two Mormon leaders ascertained that her “past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee.” She went to church faithfully with the other brothers and sisters of her ward. When her son was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Provo, Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them. However, soon after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she began to see firsthand the Church’s ruthlessness as it silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church’s most prominent authorities. This book chronicles her difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply. This beautifully written, inspiring memoir explores the powerful yearning toward faith. It offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world’s most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.

Author : Lorne M. Buchman
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780500776957

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Make to Know by Lorne M. Buchman Pdf

Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery will change the way you think about creativity. The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and probes instead the event of discovery that happens through the act of making. In contrast to the classic tale of Michelangelo, who 'saw the angel in the stone', the artists and designers Buchman interviews for this book talk about knowing their work as they engage in the doing. Make to Know explores the revelatory nature of the creative journey itself. As Buchman weaves together the vivid stories of his multiple conversations, we learn about writers of all stripes as they confront creative spaces of uncertainty 'the blank page'; about visual artists and what they understand from the materials they encounter; about designers and architects and the iterative process of solving problems; and about actors and musicians facing the surprises of improvisational performance. Make to Know is a book that will, ultimately, open a path to your own making, and, in the end, will have significant implications for how you live. Make to Know presents a way of thinking that democratizes creativity and uncovers a process that leads to knowing both ones work and oneself. It is relevant to anyone interested in why creativity matters.

Author : Martha Beck
Publisher : Bewilderment Chronicles
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944264035

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Diana, Herself by Martha Beck Pdf

In this exuberant allegory, bestselling memoir and self-help author Martha Beck takes readers into the wild parts of the world and the human psyche. The story of Diana, Herself helps every reader chart a course for awakening to greater joy, adventure, and purpose.

Author : Gary Romano
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798729200597

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Finding Your North Star by Gary Romano Pdf

Strategic planning can be incredibly powerful - if done right. Yet most strategic plans fail before they are ever completed. In Finding Your North Star(TM), master-consultant and author Gary Romano shares his strategic planning system built upon 30 years of experience facilitating strategy development with organizations nationwide. As Gary reveals his planning secrets and expertise, you will learn how to: - Select the right planning team - Easily identify the best opportunities for your organization's success- Create strategy that keeps you on course - Seamlessly react to unforeseen changes in your world- Write a plan that will get off the shelf and into your hands on a day-to-day basisWhether your organization is large or small, Gary provides you with the tools you need to realize your vision and full potential through the proven Finding Your North Star(TM) strategic planning system.GARY ROMANO is an award-winning strategist and experienced adviser for nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs, driven by the vision that no child will grow up in poverty. In 2009, Gary founded Civitas Strategies to provide mission-driven organizations with the high-quality, cost-effective consulting services needed to improve outcomes for families and children. He leads Civitas Strategies' innovation projects, including the organization's three hallmarks: Lean Recruitment(TM), Civitas Strategies' targeted recruitment system, Luminary Evaluation Group, Civitas Strategies' program evaluation spin-off, and Finding Your North Star(TM).

Author : Martha Nibley Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 030746198X

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Finding Your Own North Star Journal by Martha Nibley Beck Pdf

Author : Martha Nibley Beck
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Self-actualization (Psychology)
ISBN : 0749928387

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Steering by Starlight by Martha Nibley Beck Pdf

Outlines a step-by-step process for reconnecting with one's life purpose, drawing on research in psychiatry and neurology while sharing inspirational tips for changing one's perspective, overcoming roadblocks, and experiencing greater fulfillment.