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Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide |  | Authors: Caroline Adams Miller MAPP, Dr. Michael B. Frisch
Publisher: Sterling
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 29149
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1402762593
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781402762598
ASIN: 1402762593
Publication Date: January 6, 2009
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Product Description
The passion for life lists has spawned an industry that includes thoughtful experts such as Caroline Miller, a life coach and motivational book author, and Dr. Michael Frisch, a positive psychology coach and clinical psychologist at Baylor University. Working together, they have fashioned the most useful, science-based, and up-to-date book on the topic of goal setting and accomplishment.
Creating Your Best Life supplies dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes readers can use to identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes. The exercises are fun, making the process of self-discovery enjoyable and productive. The authors’ unique “life list coaching” program organizes life lists into 16 key areas that are universally known to make people happy—to help you actually achieve your aspirations. No other life list book offers research-validated information on why certain steps matter in goal accomplishment, or even how goals are connected with any type of life satisfaction.
Readers will feel both educated and inspired to start writing goal-setting lists in order to live their lives more consciously, productively, and happily. |
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Excellent Resource October 20, 2009
reading_chick (Northern CA)
Finally! A self-help book that is engaging and challenges you to reflect on your own life with each page. I especially appreciated the review of evidence-based research, which is something that most self-help books lack or overlook.
The end of the book has exercises, quizzes, and a place to form your own "bucket list" which I found very helpful.
From NYC to Los Angeles September 12, 2009
InfoFish (Los Angeles CALIFORNIA - USA)
I originally picked up this book in NY, at a library. I LOVED it so much that I had to buy my own copy. It is really practical and full of items you can apply today that make a difference. It will be a book I refer to over and over again as the years speed by.
Create your own life July 21, 2009
Steve Burns (Nashville, TN)
If you are looking for a book to help you draw out a map of your future, this is it. I have always been big about writing out goals and achieving them. This one task has kept put me on a track to achieve success in many areas of life. Like losing 60 pounds, acquiring a large net worth, becoming debt free, having a happy marriage, and many other smaller things. I believe you will never get any where unless you know where you are going. I have read several books on writing goals and this one is by far the best. This books author connects the research on goal setting with the new science of positive psychology, giving us all the tools we could ever need to move ahead in life and keep going past every setback or challenge that will occur. The book is based on research not on the authors personal opinion. That is what I like about the book, it is backed by science and statistics. The book gives you seventeen areas of life to construct your priorities with from health, self-esteem, values, spiritual life, money, work, play, learning, creativity, service, love, friends, children, relatives, home, neighborhood, and community. It will allow you to focus your time and energy on areas that you find most important. The back of the book has several exercises you can go through to get your creative juices flowing along with a 100 item "bucket list" you can create for yourself. This book really shows you step by step what you will need to achieve your goals. You will need to develop willpower, you will see how to get it. You have to take educated risks. You will need relationships with people that support you in your goals. You have to have the grit to not quit when setbacks occur. See how to write your own brief but powerful mission statement. Celebrate the wins along your journey. The speed bumps might slow you down but do not let them stop you. This book covers all these principles in great detail. This is one of the five books I will give to my children on their 18th birthday. I wish I would have had this book when I was young. I did have a book about written goals and it has been a powerful life guiding principle for me for the past twenty. I will return to this book for many years as I accomplish my bucket list. This is a book that will change your life if you let it.
 Highly recommended for life coaches and their clients July 10, 2009
Dr Cathy Goodwin (Seattle, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A good book that brings some sanity and science to the world of self-help. They present a number of strategies that won't be new to anyone familiar with self-help and life coaching.
Outstanding chapter on "prime," i.e, environmental influences on behavior. For instance, people made different choices when a briefcase was on a table than when a backpack was in the same place.
Best parts:
Good discussion goals and the inadequacy of the "SMART" goal acronym.
Excellent chapter on "grit" and determination.
Based on solid research, not just a series of anecdotes.
Nice worksheets and exercises.
Weak points:
As in most self-help books, the authors give examples of people who were rewarded by doing the "right" thing. For instance, they show people who benefited from taking risks. By definition, risks can have negative consequences, too. I would like to see some examples of people who took risks that did not work out, but turned the situation around or were glad they took the risk. Colette Dowling's book, The Cinderella Complex, includes a cautionary tale of the wrong kind of risk-taking.
The chapter on relationships is geared toward the "married with children" set. Considerable research shows that making friends has become increasingly difficult. Adding friends on Facebook or connections on LinkedIn rarely leads to meaningful relationships; they're more helpful for business and career.
The discussion of retirement follows the stereotype that older people want to trade off money for "doing good."
Many action suggestions are impractical. For instance, The section on neighborhood makes suggestions that will be difficult for many people especially those living in a city.
Definitely recommended with a caveat that some strategies will be challenging to apply to your own life.
Life Path June 17, 2009
Hal (Birmingham, Alabama)
I love the idea of life lists. Life, for many of us, is empty drudgery. Living to just to get by. This book helps us see that there is so much more to life and gets us to begin living.
Another book that readers might like is the Life Path Journal. It's a workbook that allows you to map your ideal life. Life Path Journal: Who are you, what do you want and how are you going to get there?
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