It's hard to find a realistic approach to changing your life into what it was meant to be. Many books seem to imply that not only will it be simple, but it will happen overnight. This book does none of this. It is realistic, to the point, and very well written. Like most children, my parents raised me to believe that I could be anything, and the top of it, and it would be simple. While I'm still hoping that someday I'll be the president (hey, gotta aim high!) this book is a great help to finding something a little more realistic in my life to aim for, and become.

Using the North star as a model, Beck helped me to realize what I'm really here for. This is a hard subject for me to discuss sometimes, as it has come up several times in my life. I hate thinking about my purpose in life sometimes, as I tend to feel I am unimportant. The author only helped to emphasize the fact that God has a purpose for everyone, and she really helped to put that into perspective. Just like there is a North star all the time in the sky, there is a north star all the time in each one of us. Put in simpler terms, her book was a very good ego boost for me because this whole concept is now one less thing I have to worry about, and quite frankly realizing I truly have a purpose helped to aleviate other troubles I have had as well. Wonderful book.

Martha Nibley Beck is an inspirational writer and packs a lot of good advice and techniques into "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live."

I like the way Beck guides you to shape the conversations you have with yourself regarding how other people's words affect you, and how you filter words that may help you due to negative conditioning of years of self doubt.

Beck uses the example of a person who is so stuck in a rut of self doubt that "...if the entire membership of Mensa lined up to tell you how brilliant you are, their words would skitter off your consciousness and land in some obsure mental waste depository." She continues with advice on how to counteract the rut. "The only way to counteract the persistent lies is to wear a different set of ruts, new tracks for your mind to follow in its unconscious meanderings."

This is great advice, and Beck backs it up with methods of achieving those new tracks for your mind.

You should really read Ms. Beck's book, "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live."