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

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Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! by Martha Beck is an empowering,wonderful book. Beck is a Harvard educated life coach.

She writes: "My goal in writing this book is to help you find your deepest sense of purpose--to give you back to yourself, since you are the ultimate arbiter of your own fate."

Throughout the book, there are lots of stories about her clients that illuminate her theories. Many might seem fantastic and over-the-top to the uninitiated, but as someone who has experience with many of Beck's work, I can assure you they are real.

Beck writes about our three selves--essential, social and stargazer. The stargazer is the higher or true self; it is the self imbibed with the knowledge of true destiny and purpose in life.

The book is filled with exercises to uncover our destiny and purpose. She discusses three stages:

*Dissolving: when you remove the blinders that prevent us from seeing our destiny
* Dreaming: When we begin to align ourselves with our fate, we will experience magic, coincidences and more
* Daring: Learning the work to make our destiny happen

Beck mentions The Secret and how the essential message is "everything you think about happens." She struggled with that and came up with this: "thoughts that come from the core of peace are magic, versus thoughts from our shallow outer limits of our psyches have little power." I love that!

She writes: "Living space is a powerful metaphor for your life. Whether you know it or not, you can't change your life without changing your home, and vice versa." I loved this, as it was a bit of coincidence/magic for me--I recently read Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet and the book has allowed me to change my house/change my life!

This is a clear and concise guide to learning how to access your higher self, live proactively and reach your goals.

This is an inspirational read. Empowering and eloquently written. Great exercises to lead us toward our True North, or our purpose.