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Books That Help You Figure Out Your Life

These books have helped millions of people. They might help you too.

This is a collection of carefully selected books that will help you on your way to self-discovery whether it is finding purpose or contemplating career choice. Next to each book there's a short summary of what it's about; click on any book to purchase it.
  

purpose forum Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
In this absorbing combination of detailed self-awareness exercises and true stories from her own counseling experience, Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck invites readers to explore their heart's desires and the vast social webs that keep such desires in check. The goal is not to forsake the "social self" and indulge every emotional impulse of the "essential self." Rather, Beck gives readers the tools and the encouragement to achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices.

purpose forum Now Discover Your Strengths is a book that helps you to identify your natural talents and teaches you to focus on what you can do best and ignore your weaknesses. So that they can take a test revealing their strengths, readers are given access to the StrengthsFinder web site and a special ID number; once they learn their profile, they can read the analysis in the book. Highly insightful and self-awareness increasing book.

purpose forum Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions
The Sufi poet Rumi once claimed that it is better to live the questions than always know the answers. In this spirit, bestselling author Dan Millman offers a book of contemplative answers to the common spiritual questions that we all live with. Millman has created a very readable format where he poses a question, offers a brief response, and then elaborates with lengthier thoughts and anecdotes.

purpose forum The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place In The World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, And Uncommon Sense
Spirituality, optimism, career planning, and self-help neatly blend together in this highly useful guidebook on living one's true purpose. Step by step, Adrienne shows readers how to discover one's calling (learning how to take advantage of synchronicity, intuition, and "uncommon sense") and organize life accordingly. Author does not promise a payoff of material wealth or worldly fame. Rather, she suggests that "writing your own job description" and "doing the dream" will result in a more spiritual and meaningful life.

purpose forum Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose In Your Life And Work
This is a simple and practical guide for anyone who wants to find purpose in their life and work. It is about: doing what one loves; dealing with bills and broken legs; discovering one's own power; finding peace of mind; dealing with disasters; and not blaming one's mother. The book is also about: how happy people think; why rich people make money, even by accident; and what losers do, and how not to be like them.

purpose forum Dharma: Finding Your Soul's Purpose
Now you no longer have to wonder why you are here or wander from place to place to discover your soul's mission. You can find out definitely through an Intuitive Dharma Portrait offered through the School of Metaphysics. This book brings you stories of seekers who have found their purpose in life through this important intuitive research.

purpose forum The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
For people who love fables this is certainly a good one. The protagonist is Julian Mantle, a high-profile attorney with a whacked-out schedule and a shameful set of spiritual priorities. Of course it takes a crisis (heart attack) to give Mantle pause. And pause he does--suddenly selling all his beloved possessions to trek India in pursuit of a meaningful existence. Yet it is easy to forgive the story's simplicity because each kernel of wisdom is framed to address the persistent angst of Western white-collar professionals.

purpose forum Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your Life
A LifeLaunch is the beginning if a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday's commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.

purpose forum Life On Purpose: Six Passages To An Inspired Life
Does the road to self-discovery really have to be so long and torturous? No! Cut decades off the process and take a major shortcut on the road to clarifying your true purpose, says Dr. Brad Swift: Just follow the six steps that he outlines - and infuse purpose into every aspect of your life. Author turned his life around to follow his true life calling--and in the process, invented this six-step method to determining one's life purpose. He has since made a difference in the lives of hundreds of clients who've gone on to clarify their own purpose.

purpose forum Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life: Getting to the Heart of Your Life's Mission
For all those who have been enchanted by the power of synchronicity and are ready to be taken further down the path, Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life offers the next step. Here the author provides a practical workbook that shows you how to tap the unsuspected potential of synchronicty -- the force revealed in everyday coincidences -- and use the power of your own intuition. Using dozens of examples from her own life and work, and offering an array of write-in exercises, Carol Adrienne reveals how you can use synchronicity to find your purpose in life and achieve the rewards that come from living in harmony with the souls'code.

purpose forum How to Find Your Passion and Make a Living at It!
Thank God It's Monday! Wouldn't it be nice to say this every week? Afterall, the reason you don't say it is because you do not enjoy what you do. But now is the time to free your creative talents and gifts to make a living, and most importantly, acquire peace of mind. In How To Find Your Passion And Make A Living At It, Darrell "Coach D" Andrews, a recognized expert on passion, tackles the question, "How do I find my passion in life and make a living at it?" In addition, he helps you answer: What is it I love to do? Why do I allow my past to control my future? How can I stop wasting time on unproductive activities? What causes mediocrity? How can it be stopped?

purpose forum Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul : Finding Peace, Passion, & Purpose
Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul is a guide to living the life you want. It's about finding more peace, passion, and purpose. It's filled with real-life stories of people who decided to take back their lives and live from the inside out. Dr. Zoglio offers practical tips for figuring out what's best for you next, and then shows you how to get it. Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul is the winner of the year 2000 Independent Publisher Award as best Self-Help book, and a Top 10 Outstanding Book of the Year winner as "Most Life-Changing".

purpose forum Discover Your Passion : An Intuitive Search to Find Your Purpose in Life
Discover Your Passion is a concise, easy-to-read book for readers who are looking for personally-satisfying work. No matter if the reader is 17 or 97, this book will be of help. Recent graduates, those dissatisfied with their jobs, those about to return to the job market or retire from it, and those who are already retired will benefit from reading this book and completing the exercises. There are truly no walls when you finish this book. It is a keepsake that goes on and on, to be used whenever the need arises. It's always complimenting the human spirit and reminding us that we are always in search of our passion, most of all the Discovery of It!

purpose forum Will the Real You Please Stand Up?: Find Passion in Your Life and Work
Bored with your job? Is it hard to drag yourself to work in the morning? Here's an easy and fun way to find the job of your dreams, discover the passion of your life, and find the "real you." The Passion Revealer test, included in the book, helps you pinpoint what you really want to do with your life. You'll find out how to get the career you love and learn more about yourself in the process. Great real-life examples illustrate how others have found their passions in life. Now you too can have a job you look forward to every morning.

purpose forum Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us? This book examines the callings we get abd guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling: How do we recognize it? How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song? How do we handle our resistance to a call? What happens when we say yes? What happens when we say no? Callings is a compassionate guide to discovering your own callings and negotiating the tight passages to personal power and authenticity.

purpose forum What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Author manages to create a career book that is a page-turner. His 50 vivid profiles of people searching for "their soft spot--their true calling" will engage readers because Bronson is asking himself the same question. He explores his premise, that "nothing is braver than people facing up to their own identity," as an anthropologist and autobiographer. He tackles thorny, nuanced issues about self-determination. Among them: paradoxes of money and meaning, authorship and destiny, brain candy and novelty versus soul food.

purpose forum I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
"Close your eyes and imagine what it would feel like to be happy and excited and fulfilled in your work." Can't do it? Career coach Jansen's no-nonsense volume just might help. Herself a former disgruntled employee, Jansen is a big proponent of jobs that suit: work, after all, "is not one size fits all.'" She identifies six reasons people find their employ unsatisfying, from boredom with an overly familiar routine, to insecurity in the face of discrimination or a toxic boss, to lack of focus on work due to an eye on upcoming retirement. Several quizzes and questionnaires help readers identify their job problems and the kinds of work they might find more meaningful, as well as build confidence in their choices.

purpose forum I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion
In I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, one of the most charismatic teachers and thinkers of today speaks from her heart. Twenty years ago, faced with a life-threatening illness, Dawna Markova began a journey of rediscovery. This book follows her path to finding deeper meaning in life. As she points out, people can continue to feel powerless and live habitual lives - or they can make the choice to follow their passion.

purpose forum Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
This addition to the crowded self-help genre claims to document a previously overlooked phase of life: the period between college graduation and one's 30th birthday, when young adults struggle to find their place in the world. According to the authors, the difficulty arises when 20-somethings are ejected from the structured academic environment and forced to choose a career, find a home, carve out social niches and manage money (or the lack thereof). Authors discuss among other things spirituality, job-hopping and living with parents. Most of the book's advice lies in lengthy quotes from other 20-somethings an anecdotal overabundance that makes for more of a pastiche than a guidebook.