Product Description

No matter how long it's been since you've dreamed it...
No matter how "unrealistic" it seems...
Your impossible dream may not be impossible anymore.

If you've been waiting for a job that rewards you with more than a  paycheck...or for the perfect moment to take that "long-lost" dream off  hold...it's time to stop waiting and start creating a life you can truly  love!

In this life altering follow-up to the sensational New York Times Bestseller  I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, Barbara Sher shows you how  to break free from a career that doesn't cut it...tailor-make a meaningful,  rewarding life to your personal specifications...and create a foundation for  a success that's strong enough to support your heart's desire.  With wisdom and warm reassurance, this step-by-step guide to personal and professional  fulfillment teaches you the practical strategies you need to make your  "impossible" dreams possible, reachable, and real.

Discover:

How to use "outcome thinking" to plot a positive path to your lifelong goal
What your favorite childhood pastimes tell you about what it takes to be a happy adult
How to use your natural curiosity, talents, and resources to turn your thinking--and your luck--around
Why one-size careers do NOT fit all
Foolproof techniques for leaping over the hurdles between you and your dream
How to do what you love and love what you do for the rest of your life!1997).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51544 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02-10
• Released on: 1997-02-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Amazon.com
This book is the dramatic followup to I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you can make your "impossible" dreams possible, reachable, and real. She shows you how to decide what your dream is, eliminate the unnecessary burdens and clutter in your life, develop your ideas, and get what you want. Stop just getting by and start getting the most out of your life!

From the Publisher
Barbara Sher has helped thousands of people overcome self-doubt and fear and find meaning in their lives with her previous bestsellers. In Live the Life You Love, she puts those ideas to work. Combining fast-acting strategies and innovative exercises with motivational techniques, she has created a revolutionary step-by-step program that will reveal:

What quality will make you "unstoppable" (and it's far more effective than "discipline" or "willpower")
What your favorite childhood pastimes reveal about what it takes to become a happy adult
How to use your natural curiosity, talents, and resources to turn your life around
Why one-size careers do not fit all
Foolproof techniques for leaping over the hurdles between you and your dream

With her trademark wit, wisdom, and insight, Barbara Sher has created a manual to live by--a transformational guidebook for self-understanding, and ultimately, lifelong happiness.

Inside Flap Copy
Barbara Sher has helped thousands of people recapture their dreams, overcome self-doubt and fear, and find meaning in their lives with her sensational bestsellers, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was and Wishcraft.  Now, in a work that is a brilliant culmination of her groundbreaking ideas, the New York Times bestselling author goes beyond the principles introduced in her previous books to explore the unique genius inside each of us.  Here, Sher employs a new, phenomenally effective approach to uncovering hidden talents--and nurturing the inborn "gifts" that make you different from any other person and provide the key to creating a life you will love.

Combining fast-acting strategies and innovative exercises with motivational techniques and warm encouragement, Sher has designed an extraordinary step-by-step program that will help you uncover:

What quality will make you "unstoppable" (and it's far more effective than "discipline" or "willpower").

What your favorite childhood pastimes reveal about what it takes to be a happy adult.

How to use your natural curiosity, talents, and resources to turn your thinking--and your luck--around.

Why one-size careers do not fit all.

Foolproof techniques for leaping over the hurdles between you and your dream.

If you've been waiting for a job that rewards you with more than a paycheck, or for the perfect moment to take that "long-lost" dream off hold, Barbara Sher's exquisitely simple but utterly transforming program makes right now the perfect time to break free from a career that doesn't cut it tailor-make a meaningful, rewarding life to your personal specifications and create a foundation for success that's strong enough to support your heart's desire.  With profound wisdom and insight, Barbara Sher has written a book that will lift your spirits, transform your thinking, and inspire you to dream--freeing you to do what you love and love what you do for the rest of your life!

Customer Reviews

Practical Tips for Making the Most of Your Life
Over the years I've read a lot of self-improvement books. I was particularly impressed with Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons."

Barbara Sher gives 10 suggestions: (1) Find the hidden motivators in your life. (2) Gather an unusual support system. (3) Uncover the buried feelings that hold you back. (4) Learn an easy trick to clearing space and making time. (5) Discover the gifts that make you different. (6) Overcome the biggest obstacle in your path. (7) Access an "idea bank." (8) Use a dress rehearsal to work out problems. (9) Create a tool that makes the final steps a breeze. (10) Create a path that will lead you straight to the life you love.

I found three tips particularly helpful. The author suggests ways to incorporate the things that give us joy into our daily lives, without needing to give up our day jobs.

She describes how to draw on the experience and expertise of others in a most creative, effective way.

And she explains that we're genetically programmed to resist change. Sher gives some easy ways to deal with that resistance, dispelling the notion that we must be weak or unmotivated if we resist, procrastinate or otherwise sabotage our dreams.

All in all a practical book that is both easy to read and easy to implement.

A waste of time
I bought this book based on a recommendation given during a session aimed at helping employees prepare for retirement. I found the book disappointing and full of the sort of liberal arts twaddle that passes for wisdom but is not at all helpful for someone looking into retirement options.

Takes you To The Starting Line
By today's standard this book is an old timer having been published ten years ago in 1996 but like all things worthwhile it has some very good qualities. The purpose of the book appears to be one of mindset preparation prior to engaging the new life the reader would like to live. It gets the reader to look inward and to understand the feelings one has as well as to recognize one's natural gifts. Importantly, Barbara Sher gets the reader to recognize the resistance we all sometimes feel when called to action and then she deals with ways of overconming it. The reader is taken to the starting line and then encouraged to dig in one's heels and to move out when the opening shot is fired. A good book for those in need of developing perspective in preparation for dealing with the new life they would like to live.