Living Your Best Life

"Living Your Best Life" is a practical guide on discovering what you want while presenting the skills it will take to get it. The foundation of the book is the belief that each person has their own innate wisdom that can be used as a resource. Once you have tapped into that resource, a change in attitute and perspective can help you create the life your wise self desires.I purchased this book as an informational companion to my role as a coaching client. As someone in the midst of many personal and professional decisions, I found the client success examples illustrating each idea to be energizing and inspiring. Fortgang's perspective is a breath of fresh air in a world that tells you to push for your goals. Fortgang supports allowing your innate wisdom to pull you toward your passion and purpose."Living Your Best Life" is not about making lists, or even making plans. It is about knowing what you really want in life, instead of what you think you can have. It is about being who you are so you can do what you are meant to do in order to live your best life.

This book is a different kettle of fish from many other self-help books, and it deserves a read.A lot of books shame you about current life choices (you're dependent; lazy; immature; in denial; codependent; not actualized, etc.) and lecture you about how you must change in order to FULFILL your DESTINY*! "...You're right," you might say, sighing. "So if I should do something else instead, why don't I just DO it?"Fortgang says you need reinforcement and continuity to bridge the change. Her strongest suite is helping you recognize how your life purpose is already being enacted, to understand how your essential nature already infuses your life, and build from there. For example: My nature is that of an observer, analyst, and expressor. analyst (duh). My purpose is not necessarily to write incredible novels like Chuck Palahniuk, but to analyze what I see, hear, or read and then to communicate that assessment effectively through my strongest means--which happens to be writing.The cool thing about Fortgang is that she doesn't lecture you; she leads you to teach yourself and create the continuity you need to further work the change.

Not what I expected at all. I found this book Hard to read and comprehend. I am only about 1/4 thru and it's been 2 months! It is confusing and seems to be going around in circles. I have read several self-help books and this one in particular I found to be of no help at all. Very disappointing.

Very helpful

Great Book and lots of interesting and helpful information

Just as Advertised!

Book received in excellent condition. Still reading it. Good direction.

The best book ever!

If you are fascinated by, or just appreciate, archaeology then there will be something very rewarding for you in Living Your Best Life, but even if you don’t then Excavating your life ‘blueprint’ through Wisdom Access Questions (WAQs) enables you to discover the true person you are, and consequently find the life you are meant to live.I love the use of metaphors and so the comparison of coaching to archaeology was a joy to hold in my mind as I read the book. Scraping away the dirt to reveal the outline (blueprint) and allowing this to come to the surface is an engaging concept. Laura’s three stage approach; The Reckoning; The Doing; and The Being describe how the bones of your life can be found, put together and allow what was supposed to be, to be again. These stages are broken down into ten strategies that are each given a chapter.There are numerous challenging concepts that emerge and you will need to appreciate that Laura believes that your destiny is, to a greater extent, pre-determined and that wisdom is potentially lost through bad habits that are developed as we grow. However the tools that can restore your ‘blueprint’ to its original condition are, Wisdom Action Questions, Wisdom in Action, Wisdom Writing, and Wisdom Stories.We might not all have a single pivotal moment in our life that provides us with the stark choice that we have to turn things around, but when Laura was facing hospitalisation for severe depression she somehow summoned the resolve to find her inner wisdom.The Reckoning stage describes as the process of eliminating the negative energy that is stopping your inner wisdom taking you to the path that leads to the destination you deserve. To move forward Laura suggests you must find out who you want to be, rather than doing what you think you have to do.Whether it is the pressure of society, the expectations of parents or the demands of our friends there are a range of external influences that can often be seen as the reason we do not achieve inner fulfilment.Laura strongly recommends that we re-train our brains to recognise the negative beliefs we are holding before gaining an inner perspective and contracting to move forward. The Doing stage allows us to recognise true purpose and attract good things that make us happy.And in the last stage, The Being, there are strategies for staying on this new course, the protection needed to prevent us reverting to the ‘old ways’ and being content that if it feels right for you then it probably is.Illustrated by wonderful case studies that bring life to the theory you will never cease to be amazed by the achievements of Laura’s clients once they find their own ‘blueprint’. Don’t be tempted to go straight to Appendix 2 for a list of killer questions – resist that!

Very thought provoking and useful. I'm enjoying it and being challenged.

This really helped me evaluate my life and how I approached things. Take your time reading this and you will reap real benefits

Very good book I am enjoying and learning so much

I loved this book. Very easy to read and interesting.