Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! | 
 enlarge | Author: Martha Beck
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2562
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1594866139
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781594866135
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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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.
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 Transformational Journey April 28, 2008
O. Brown (Twopeas, WA)
26 out of 32 found this review helpful
*****
This latest book from Martha Beck was more of a journey for me than just a book to read. The author advises you in the very beginning that for you to really have this book change your life, you have to do the exercises. So I did, and I was glad. They really helped me to be able to apply the concepts and ideas in a way that benefited me personally and not just theoretically.
The purpose of the book is to change your life so that you get your "right life", not by thinking or feeling your way TO it, but by "dissolving" the thoughts and feelings that are OBSTACLES to it. The difference may seem just semantic, but it isn't---it's profound! I was a life coach for several years in the past, and I can say that Martha Beck's concepts here are right on, effective, and truly transformational when really applied.
The author's writing style is hilarious and makes the journey fun. For me reading this book and working my way through it seemed like a series of chiropractic adjustments to my life, helping me to indeed figure out where I was missing my "right life" and what is standing in its way. Working through the book helped me to develop useful skills that I can use each day to stay on course and to make life more meaningful, just because I know I'm going in the direction that's right for me.
It's an awful lot to get just from a book; I think this work truly earned all five stars. Highly recommended.
*****
Going farther on her own path March 20, 2008
Anna Paradox (www.annaparadox.com)
33 out of 43 found this review helpful
I was so impressed with Martha Beck's book Finding Your Own North Star that I trained with her and became a life coach. Now Steering by Starlight takes her concepts of following your own best destiny even farther. She offers new and deeper tools for discovering and following your heart's true desires.
Martha Beck is too much of an explorer to simply repeat what she has done before. Steering by Starlight ventures into startling territory, where dreams come true and apparent coincidences pile up beyond the bounds of probability. I admit, these areas both scare and excite me. My rational mind wants to stop at the edge of what it can explain. Yet why should I think that what I can explain is all there is? Martha makes the way easier by talking about her own scientific responses and documenting what has happened to her and people she knows personally. The possibilities feel like new doors opening.
The book is very well written, and full of humor. I laughed out loud about twice a chapter. Read it for the stories, for the tools for self-transformation, for the pleasure of good words.
Read it, just maybe, for the invitation to a life more amazing than you have imagined.
Stellar April 11, 2008
Lydia Nibley (California)
16 out of 41 found this review helpful
I couldn't put Steering by Starlight down last night and read right through to the end. The greatest compliment from reader to author is greeting the dawn bleary eyed. This book is like my favorite soup at my favorite Chinese restaurant--full of unexpected and tasty things and sizzling rice. Steering by Starlight crackles with energy, humor, and wisdom! Martha has done it again. Find your own north star first, and then steer by starlight.
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
A Magical Experience March 20, 2008
BooksAreGood (Los Angeles)
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
I finished this book in one day. I was mesmerized from the beginning. What I love about Martha's books, I've read them all, is that she doesn't make it seem like you have to be a spiritual guru to "get it". You can be an everybody swimming in the world of material and matter and you can still connect to the magic of your being simply by... well, I don't know. Just read this book and tell me if you don't find yourself laughing and then crying and then laughing. I feel like a new person. Honest. Thank you so much Martha. Gifts like you and Byron Katie and Ariel and Shya Kane and Eckhart and all the endless teachers are delightful.
Do this for yourself, read this book and enjoy the spell that the stars have cast for you.
Warm glow! May 15, 2008
Eric Winter (Melbourne, Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Martha Beck, and I'm enjoying the warm afterglow from this book.
For Olympic swimming fans - life is like a swim, and Martha is the possibly illegal new swimsuit that helps you glide through the pool like never before!
It's too soon to talk about life changes, but stay tuned!
Eric Winter
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