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Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently |  | Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1400202361
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.333
EAN: 9781400202362
ASIN: 1400202361
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
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Read Find Your Strongest Life and discover:
- How to make the most of the role you were born to play
- How to get others to understand who you really are
- The successful strategies of other women like you
Check out what women are already saying about Find Your Strongest Life. Brooke: When I read the "Ten Myths" that opened the book, I was completely hooked. The statistics are interesting and fresh. I also related to the problem that sets up the book: "Which parts of me should I cut out?" As I read, I could see myself in the Marcus's big-picture analysis and statistics. The early part of the book made me anticipate a breakthrough. And Marcus delivered. Overall, he explains a woman's dilemma perfectly . . . in fresh terms with a unique spin. The main ideas in each chapter were so engaging. Chapter 6 in particular is worth the price of the book. I have already started looking for strong moments in my life, and I want to tell every woman I know to do the same. It is definitely life-changing. Rebecca: It was really good. It was awesome. And to be honest, perfect timing for my life. I'm REALLY in that place. I can't tell you how badly I've been depressed for the last several months just trying to figure out what to do differently so I'm not so miserable. On one hand, I'm grateful I have a job still. I have a mortgage and bills and all that. But on the other hand...I can't continue to work at a job that gets me nowhere, is not rewarding, not challenging, and mentally drains me. I really have started avoiding my family because I've become so rude and snippy. It's a bad cycle. BUT...God willing this year (sooner than later) I will be able to put this behind me and do what I love :) Even if it's making half as much money. Thanks for thinking of me to read this. I needed it!
Delaney: I was on a plane as I finished reading the manuscript. I was going to be with my daughter who is a law student. As I finished the pages, Marcus helped me gain a new understanding of myself that stood out like a neon sign: I am the person who helps others build infrastructure, get through situations ,and set everything right. It goes beyond motherhood. I am an event planner by birth. I see big pictures and the components necessary to get from vision to execution. The content helped me to reframe my own thinking. Very helpful. I'm excited to take the online test and see which role I'm born to play.
Jennifer: As a working mother, I found the concept of the book fascinating. There are daily struggles of trying to balance being the perfect wife, mother, and employee, and the book helped me truly understand how to navigate all those demands.
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 Far better books on this subject, e.g. Deborah Tannen November 19, 2009
Russ Emrick (Monument, CO)
I've read all of Buckingham's books. He has dramatically changed the business world with his "First Break All the Rules" series. I've enjoyed each book because they have been serious books based on empirical research done with hundreds of businesses. Marcus' advice is often against conventional wisdom but in this book he clearly over reaches by talking (IMO) beyond his expertise or wisdom.
This book is dramatically different from his business books. The premise of the book--woman are unhappy despite progress and the woman's liberation movement--might be true but a man attempting to solve it through preaching isn't the answer. Mining Oprah's resources couldn't be the best source data on which to base one's opinion or write a book.
There is a lot of touchy-feely new age and made up terminology. "Strong moments" and Cradling, striving for Imbalance, it seemed to all add up to some rather bizarre advice. The woman who added their input and life experiences are the best part of the book. For me that was the most valuable part of this otherwise pretty mediocre text.
In short if you want to learn about woman's thinking and enter into a conversation as only woman can read anything by Deborah Tannen. Marcus raises some important questions that woman need to consider. Are you happy? Has becoming 'liberated' made woman, families or society better? How to you balance work and family. Regrettably the book only ends up being a self-help you can have it all kind of tripe with only a superficial treatment of the questions the book raises. I admit being prejudiced with the attitude that a man shouldn't have written this book to begin with.
Patronizing and Trite November 3, 2009
Katherine Berry (Kansas)
Another Oprah-made "expert", Buckingham's book claims to help women fix their lives by discovering their true hopes and talents. Frankly, I find it odd that a man would claim to be an expert in this process of supposedly unfettering women from their alleged desires to please and put others first. And how does he do this? By listing 20 or so questions, the answers of which will supposedly enlighten the reader, allowing them to miraculously see "truths" they've somehow ignored prior to reading this simple and simplistic book.
It was all rather New Age, which was a disappointing surprise since the publisher is known for Christian titles. Buckingham's advice is based on his interviews with thousands of women, each of whom was asked five questions about their lives. The first question is all one needs to read to understand why this book is troublesome for those seeking God's help finding a happier life:
How often do you get to do things you really like to do?
The rest of the book can most accurately be summarized as "be selfish first and you'll be happy enough to do what others want afterward". That's a message I hear often enough from women's magazines and television, the very industry that spawns these kind of self-help books that make money from convincing women they're somehow defective.
 Great book! October 30, 2009
C. Decker (Erie, CO USA)
This book really gets you thinking and is very encouraging in allowing yourself to think through what really makes you tick.
 A Few Nuggets October 26, 2009
Susan H. Lawrence (Illinois)
I have to admit I find the title a bit cheesy. The cover didn't grab me, either, because it just looked like a typical self-help book. And it's odd to me that a man is writing a book to help women find their strongest life? It all made more sense when I learned much of this grew out of an Oprah episode. And yet, I read on, trying to find some nuggets I could use. I found a few...but I had to sift through a lot to get to them. If you're looking for an encouraging book of becoming the best women in Christ you can be, this isn't it. It's filled with advice rooted in secular reasoning. It's disappointing to me that a Christian perspective is sparcely scattered throughout the book, perhaps to appeal to the Christian market. I'm not sure, but personally, I'd rather a book leave out any reference to Scripture if it's not going to do it the justice it deserves. On the positive side, I was able to gather a few helpful nuggest of encouragement. It can't say this book will make a huge difference in my life, but I can always learn something!
Didn't care for this book October 15, 2009
Debbie Crawford (Elberton, GA)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Personally, I did not care much for this book. Here are my reasons:
1. The book was published by Thomas Nelson Publishers which means (to me) it's going to be a book with some sort of Christian world-view. Right? Well, nope, not even a little bit. I am sure Marcus Buckingham is a great guy, but he didn't mention God one time in the book. There was one chapter where he used a certain lady as an example and the fact that she had a "great faith" as he termed it. But that was it. I was really surprised.
I guess because, to me, any success at all that we derive in life, male or female, comes from the Lord. And He is the One who is in charge of our lives. He is the road map that we need to direct our lives and He is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.
2. The premise of his writing was based upon an experiment he conducted on the Oprah Winfrey show. He had 30 women come to the show and talk about why or why not they felt their lives were meaningful, fulfilled, etc... I, personally, have a difficult time with Oprah these days. She has openly talked about her New Age belief system and I don't think that I want to draw from that kind of input.
3. This book was filled with many statistics and examples of women he had talked to over the course of his research for the book. It had the feel of a "women's lib" kind of take from the moment I started reading it.
It was basically just your typical self-help kind of book. I gleaned nothing new from this one at all. I found this book to be geared more toward the working business-minded woman who wants a career above all else. Nothing wrong with that, mind you. But, because of that, I found that his basic premise of what constitutes "success" to be flawed.
There is also an on-line quiz you can take, which in just a mere 23 questions, gives you your strengths and weaknesses. Both of my daughters took this and neither of them felt the quiz was at all accurate.
Finally, in my opinion, it doesn't matter how many quizzes I take or how deep I look within myself to find out what motivates me, energizes me and keeps me committed; I can never reach my fullest potential without Jesus Christ. I have had to juggle a marriage with a full-time job, have had to work outside the home when my kids were little to help put food on the table and have had a time of getting to be at home and homeschool my children. All of these experiences in themselves have not helped me to have stronger relationships, stronger kids, stronger joy. The one and only thing that has kept me through the wonderful and difficult times has been my relationship with Christ. He made me and He knows what is best for me. He knows me inside and out and if I am listening to Him, then He will direct me and show me the areas in which I am weak. Does that mean I don't seek wise counsel and find out more about myself and how I fit in this world in which He has placed me? Certainly not! But the counsel I seek is wise counsel based on God's word. I do not think this book's philosophy or approach are things that will benefit me as a Christian woman, wife and mother.
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