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Title: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
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Author: Barbara Sher
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Comments for I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

• Posted on 2009-10-24
  What a waste of time
  
  I got nothing out of this book. Too much time focused on doing meaningless activities in the book. Too much hogwash about upbringing, etc. as the root of your problem.
  
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• Posted on 2009-10-06
  Hard work-but worth it!
  
  I'm only in the first chapter, so I can't say I've discovered my passion and changed my life. But, I don't doubt that by the end of the book, I will have made some kind of change. This isn't just a self-help book that you read, you have to do exercises that really help guide you to figure out why you don't know what you want in life--do you feel obligations to family & friends? Leftover childhood issues? Fear of financial ruin? Fear of change? I'm telling you, in the first exercise I was sobbing like a baby over the epiphanies I was having. If this book continues to be as great as it seems, I will probably buy her other book too. Her writing is straight-forward and encouraging, not too new-agey or spiritual, and not condescending or pushy.
  
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• Posted on 2009-09-22
  Promising start, but not quite what I was looking for
  
  I found the first four chapters helpful with activities that made me think about what career would be right for me. Unfortunately the following chapters were not really on "discovering what you really want", but covered a slew of reasons why people don't go after their heart's desire. I have a great life (minus the fulfilling career) with supportive family and friends whose only expectation is to do whatever makes me happy, so the majority of the book just didn't speak to me. It just seems to focus on the negative reasons you don't pursue a new career rather than counselling the reader in ways of how to go about uncovering the career that is right for him or her. So, good book if you are surrounded by mental roadblocks, not so good if you just really don't know what you want to do.
  
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• Posted on 2009-09-04
  Written for Me
  
  When someone asks me, "If you could do anything, and money wasn't an issue, what would it be?" I know it is crazy, but I can't answer that question! I have a hard time figuring out what I'm passionate about, yet I'm a passionate person. This book gave me a lot of insight. I've read Do What You Are (also good), Parachute (really good job finding tips), and others. But this one was the only one that was written for me. Now I'm on Refuse to Choose and loving it.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-17
  Better than I expected
  
  If you are willing to put the time into the book and actually do the excersises that are involved in the process, the book itself can be an enlightening and rewarding experience.
  
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