The Brilliance of Resilience

I am wondering why really awesome serendipitous things don't happen more often. Things like finding a winning lottery ticket discarded in the street or actually finding the celebrities that were rumored to be in Ketchikan when I was there in 2009, instead of stalking the docks in hopes of seeing a greasy Johnny Depp sunning himself in the unseasonably warm Alaskan sun. The next piece of Beck's book  is talking about intuition. People that she met that just seemed to trust their gut feelings, running with them and finding immense success in those hunches. About how to hone your intuition and test your psychic abilities. Many critical reviews of this book found this part to be out of place in a book that talks about practical ways of finding a destiny, but the idea is to trust the body, mind and spirit. When something doesn't "smell" right, a body cries out in its own way, the mind will give hints and intuition, however small, probably knows it. Basically, giving ...

I was telling a friend that Martha Beck's, "Finding Your Own North Star," has been the most pragmatic self-help book that I have ever worked with (or in or through or against...however you'd like to phrase it). Beck even writes about the anxiety that she felt about writing a book in the way that North Star is written - lacking in psychological terms, using funny (and sometimes slightly racy) analogies and using a myriad of examples from her clients'/patients' experiences. The supplemental material is also useful for those that are just starting their journey into understand why they do what they do or those that are seasoned in seeing the meaning in every move they make. It is often grueling to be the one in the room that has done the most emotional/psychological work - because it means that when you think of intangible things in this really methodical way, somehow, you're instantly pegged the Buzz Killington - too cerebral (and yet too unpredictable, some...