Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Martha Beck, a New York Times bestselling author and creator of Life Designs, Inc., presents a step-by-step program designed to help you reach your potential and build a joyful life. The book begins by teaching you to recognize the internal compasses built into your brain and body—signals you may have ignored throughout your life. As you reconnect with your deepest desires, you'll identify and address unconscious beliefs and unhealed emotional wounds that may be holding you back. While every life is unique, major transformations follow common patterns. Beck provides a map to guide you through each stage, from the first emergence of a new dream to planning and implementing your ideal life. Drawing on Dr. Beck's background as a Harvard-trained sociologist, research associate at Harvard Business School, and instructor at Thunderbird Business School, as well as six years of client work, the book includes tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercises to help you clarify your core desires and act on them to create a more satisfying life.