| Finding Your Own North Star |
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| Reviewed by Harmonious Living | |
| Friday, 14 October 2005 | |
 Author: Martha Beck   The goal of this book is to help you work out what you really want out of life and how to achieve it. Martha Beck draws on the experiences of her clients to help you the reader. Being one who is constantly on a quest of understanding myself better - I leapt into this book with great gusto. Martha has a style that is very easy to read and she is quite funny. However, this was not enough to keep me reading till the end. After stories about her numerous clients and some exercises, the book starts to tackle the "Change Cycle". She represents this cycle with four squares. The latter half is all about this cycle with further chapters dedicated to each of the four squares. When I got to square one, I had come to the startling realisation that a) I had not learnt anything from the book as yet and b) I was getting bored - so for the first time in my life I did not finish reading a book all the way to the end. Martha Beck is a very high profile author, so I was expecting more from this book - a better understanding of me. It did not deliver. |
This is the powerful story of the author's struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and how a healer's unusual prescription of mindful altruism - to 'give away 29 gifts in 29 days' - ignited her energy, her happiness, and invited more abundance into her life.
