|
Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! | 
 enlarge | Author: Martha Beck
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $12.40
You Save: $12.55 (50%)
New (29) Used (10) from $10.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 4394
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1594866139
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781594866135
ASIN: 1594866139
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In the tradition of her bestseller, Finding Your Own North Star, Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck reconnects readers with their best destinies. Described as one of the best-known life coaches in America in media such as Psychology Today, NPR, and USA Today, Martha Beck has demonstrated a rare gift for helping people whose lives have gone off course find their way back to authentic, rewarding lives. Now, in Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!, Martha Beck 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 new methods for solving the problems that beset ordinary people. Using her trademark wisdom, empathy, and engaging style, she connects readers with fresh, never-before published strategies that have proven most effective and efficient for the hundreds of people she has coached. For readers who have found their 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 readers understand why it’s so easy to lose themselves and offers strategies for sighting their North Star -“the mapmaker” uses this newly clarified perspective to evaluate one’s situation and plot a course for upcoming years -“the pathfinder” discusses the adventures that may be encountered as one travels along this new life course Whether it’s seeking better relationships, more focused career direction, the achievement of specific fitness goals, or a more harmonious lifestyle, Steering by Starlight’s colorful anecdotes, case studies, and exercises will point the way.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 False Hope September 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read it and did the exercises. It's one of those self help books where the author says one thing in one chapter and then unsays it later in another. If her advice doesn't work it's not her fault, it's yours. She doesn't agree with the "Secret's" premise that our thoughts become our reality which I give her credit for. But while all of this has made a nice career experience for her, it doesn't really help. We already know to think positive and keep going. It's murky enough so that you don't know for sure it's psychobabble until the end.
 Helpful August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book with real life examples. I can relate to this book like few others. Martha Beck is fantastic at presenting what she knows, experiences and understands. This is beyond anything "The Secret" gives us.
Martha Beck never disapppoints August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first time I was ever aware that Martha Beck existed was when I read her column in the first issue of "O" magazine. I thought, "Holy cow - this woman is brilliant AND practical AND funny. And her observations and advice are solid because I've lived through some of the same things myself." Oddly, this is the first of her books that I've read or purchased ....but, as I imagined, she does not disappoint. Far from it, she truly is amazingly talented at talking about topics and ideas that may seem uncomfortable (or even a little scary), odd, difficult, or impossible, in a way that not only makes you understand them but yourself better. And she makes you laugh out loud in the process ...not in a "toss off a clever line" way, but a down-to-earth, caring, smart, enlightening way. She's among the two or three best at articulating this understanding and help. Highly recommended, for ANYone. If you don't get it, you can go back and read it again later. You WILL appreciate her brilliance at some point in your growth. Just read it. :o)
Best of all the "self-help" books on my shelf August 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Combine profound wisdom with laugh-out-loud humor and you have one of the best "self-help" book I've yet come across. I found particularly insightful the exercise on listing the things I love, then tracing back the events that led to how these things came into my life until I reached the "bad luck" that started the chain of events. Wow! That put the "bad luck" I've had in life into a whole new light and made me look forward to even more. Any book that can do that is well worth the price and the time and energy to read.
You can achieve! August 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am excited to read this book. I hope to obtain at least one tip that I can put into practice on the road to health and happiness.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
