Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!

Martha Beck, PhD

Rodale Books, Mar 18, 2008 - Self-Help - 256 pages

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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I wasn't able to finish this book. I think it is an interesting book, but I have too much self help on my hands right now and can't focus on the exercises the way I would like to. I am not a self help ...

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Contents

• Digging out of the Dungeon: 49
• CHAPTER 4: 75
• CHAPTER 6: 123

About the author

MARTHA BECK, PHD, is a life coach and monthly columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine. She has taught career development at the American Graduate School of International Management and was research assistant to Dr. John Kotter at Harvard Business School. The author of the bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star and the memoir Expecting Adam, and The Four-Day Win, she lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!
• Author: Martha Beck, PhD
• Publisher: Rodale Books, 2008
• ISBN: 1594866139, 9781594866135
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness