Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide

by Caroline Adams Miller and Michael B. Frisch

Book Overview

Offers dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes readers can use to identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes. The authors' 'life list coaching' programme organises life lists into 16 key areas that are universally known to make people happy - to help you actually achieve your aspirations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402762593
• ISBN13: 9781402762598
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Create your own life

If you are looking for a book to help you draw out a map of your future, this is it. I have always been big about writing out goals and achieving them. This one task has kept put me on a track to achieve success in many areas of life. Like losing 60 pounds, acquiring a large net worth, becoming debt free, having a happy marriage, and many other smaller things. I believe you will never get any where unless you know where you are going. I have read several books on writing goals and this one is by far the best. This books author connects the research on goal setting with the new science of positive psychology, giving us all the tools we could ever need to move ahead in life and keep going past every setback or challenge that will occur. The book is based on research not on the authors personal opinion. That is what I like about the book, it is backed by science and statistics. The book gives you seventeen areas of life to construct your priorities with from health, self-esteem, values, spiritual life, money, work, play, learning, creativity, service, love, friends, children, relatives, home, neighborhood, and community. It will allow you to focus your time and energy on areas that you find most important. The back of the book has several exercises you can go through to get your creative juices flowing along with a 100 item "bucket list" you can create for yourself. This book really shows you step by step what you will need to achieve your goals. You will need to develop willpower, you will see how to get it. You have to take educated risks. You will need relationships with people that support you in your goals. You have to have the grit to not quit when setbacks occur. See how to write your own brief but powerful mission statement. Celebrate the wins along your journey. The speed bumps might slow you down but do not let them stop you. This book covers all these principles in great detail. This is one of the five books I will give to my children on their 18th birthday. I wish I would have had this book when I was young. I did have a book about written goals and it has been a powerful life guiding principle for me for the past twenty. I will return to this book for many years as I accomplish my bucket list. This is a book that will change your life if you let it.

persisting at meaningful life challenges

There are far too many self-help books out there and in recent years, an abundance of books on happiness. Miller & Frisch distinguish their book from the pack. It is nearly impossible to read this book without reflecting on your life goals, what exists in your life that facilitates them, what obstacles get in the way, what successes can you build on from your past, and most interestingly, what occurs on the fringes of conscious awareness that pushes you toward your goals or pulls you away from them. Despite studying and teaching positive psychology for nearly a decade, I found myself scribbling all over the pages. By the time I finished, a list of new life goals emerged, elaborating new meaningful themes to direct my limited time and energy. I suspect people are skeptical of a book titled "Creating your best life" and they should be. The authors seem to beckon skepticism and in response, do an excellent job of providing the scientific basis for the main points and exercises in every chapter. The reason that this book is compelling is that it has great forward momentum. If you ever read a book written by scientists, you know that smooth prose is the exception not the rule. This book is an easy read (and I mean this as a profound compliment). Guided by ample scientific research, this book provides the necessary tools for someone to immediately improve their quality of life. Author of Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life

a great book on happiness

This is a great self-help book on "how to be happy." Miller and Frisch did a great job writing a book that is rich in good advice advice and useful suggestions. Many of the "how to" principles are based on solid science from quality-of-life studies and positive psychology. I recommend this book to those interested who are seeking a self-help book on happiness based on solid science.

Your Must-Read Guide to Your Best Life!

You can get books with tips on how to make your life better. Other books will teach you what the psychologists have learned through researching happiness. This book does both. Caroline Miller combines research from the field of positive psychology with great coaching tips. The result? A must-have book that will teach you how to achieve your goals and be happier. I'll be recommending CREATING YOUR BEST LIFE to my coaching clients this year (and for many years to come). I'll also be encouraging coaching colleagues to read it. As coaches, we can learn a lot from Miller's study and practice of goal-setting theory!

Double Thumbs Up!

Miller and Frisch's book should be a permanent and well-thumbed fixture on the bed sides of both the consummate goal-setter and the weary New Years warrior. In a world filled with self-help platitudes, "Creating Your Best Life" is the rare book that marries evidence-based research with its practical application. In doing so, it provides the enigmatic "how" that is invariably missing from other self-improvement books. I highly recommend that you read this book with a pen and notebook in hand for it will ignite latent dreams and spark many good ideas!