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Refreshing & Inspiring! A great read Jan 23, 2008
By A. March
Inspiring! All too often we drive ourselves to do more both professionally and personally. Often we set a frantic, unhealthy pace for ourselves. This book reminds us that it is necessary to stop and look at the life we have created and see if it at all resembles the life we want. Jim Huling's book "Choose Your Life!" offers practical and inspirational advice for examining your life and for creating a path to the life you want for yourself - rather than what others choose for you. The author provides excellent worksheets to help readers keep track of their goals and to help readers chart a course for positive growth and change. The worksheets are an essential element of this book's impact.
This book is excellent at reminding you that you have the choice everyday of how you want to live. After all, we all have only one life and it's up to you to make it meaningful and happy for yourself.
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to make positive changes to their life.
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This book will cause you to rethink your life Nov 19, 2007
By Patrick Turner
Wow! If you feel frustrated that your life is not focusing on the right priorities for you, then here is the answer. This book is a practical step by step approach to designing and living an extraordinary life. These easy-to-follow instructions provide you with the worksheets to make the tough choices. Based on the tools outlined here, I plan to invest my limited days on this earth living according to my own unique priorities. I have made major decisions based upon this book.
Yes, completing these worksheets is hard work that requires thoughtful introspection. The results are worth it. I am ordering copies for my family and friends right now so that they can have the tools they need to choose their lives.
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Once you choose your life, you will be compelled to live it! Oct 29, 2007
By B. Hetherington
What a revelation! The life I wanted to live was always inside of me. I just needed the tools to draw it out. That's where this book truly excels; it contains a blend of insightful, thought provoking narrative coupled with practical, step-by-step instructions that helped me reveal and then pursue the life I always wanted to lead.
In hindsight, I had been living a contented life, but not necessarily a purposeful and fulfilled life. I was investing energy into my career, relationships, community, etc., without a true understanding of how it all fit together. Each time I felt conflict or was forced to confront an important life decision I found myself looking outward for answers and seeking advice from others. After reading Jim's book, I found the answers I was seeking, and they were within me. Now, many conflicts have seemingly disappeared as I make choices and live roles that are consistent with what is important to me and want I want to be. This clarity now defines me. I have a new sense of purpose and direction that was absent from my life. I no longer cautiously live my life one step a time but rather at a confident, purposeful stride.
In the beginning of the book, Jim breaks down the Choose Your Life! process into simple steps that each of us will find enlightening. Expect as you go through these steps, though, that you will be challenged. Some steps were easy for me. Others took more time and contemplation before I truly could be honest with myself. But, wow, was the effort worth it! By applying the LifeDimensions and LifeVision techniques Jim prescribes, I found the clarity I needed to prepare my vision and then take steps toward fulfillment by tracking and measuring my progress.
Where this book is different from other self-help books is the many real world examples and articles. Learning through Jim's experiences is powerful. I enjoyed reading how these same techniques translated into a practical roadmap for Jim's personal life journey.
To say this book provides a new perspective is an understatement; it's truly life changing. In fact, many friends and family have noticed the change in me and asked me how I did it. What a pleasure it has been to gift them a copy of the book and see them go through the same revelation. You, too, will find that once you choose your life, you will be compelled to live it.
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Jim has done it again! Oct 23, 2007
By P. F. Danskin
If you've ever attended one of Jim Huling's keynote presentations, you won't be surprised by the clarity and passion with which he delivers insightful, real-world, and applicable advice as he does in Choose Your Life!
This book should be read by every executive who is struggling with work, bungling priorities, or just plain losing their way. We've all been there. And it's good to know that Huling is out there helping us regain our perspective on what it means to live extraordinary lives.
I highly recommend this book - if you have an opportunity to hear one of Huling's keynotes, don't miss that, either.
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Amazing Book! If You Plan To Read One Book This Month, Make It This One! Oct 22, 2007
By William F. Hickman
"Bill Hickman"
One moment he was dining with his family. Three hours later he was on a gurney in an emergency room believing he was about to depart this earth. What occurred to him in that moment of pure clarity was that he had no regrets. He had lived the life he wanted to live - an extraordinary life.
When we are faced with our own imminent departure, will we be able to say that we have lived the life we want?
Jim Huling believes we can and has used his close encounter with the afterlife as the starting point of an intensely personal story about a remarkable life journey, a journey that shows us how we can achieve an extraordinary life.
Jim Huling is a master teacher. He doesn't provide the answers, he merely provides the questions. He poses three distubingly simple questions; questions that have the capacity to make us stop fooling ourselves.
Many of us desire balance and peace in our lives, but our daily activities work against us. In this era of increasing complexity these questions remind us that simplicity is not only compelling, but achievable. Achievable, that is, if we recognize that we must consciously choose.
I know my answers to Jim Huling's questions and they have made a major difference in my life. If you plan to read one book this week, this month, or this year let it be this one. You will never regret it.
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