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    Creating a Life Worth Living
    Creating a Life Worth Living
    Creating a Life Worth Living
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    Creating a Life Worth Living

    By Carol Lloyd

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    Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals.

    Creating a Life Worth Living helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as "The Drudge We Do For Dollars" and "Excavating the Future," contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler.

    The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 20, 2012
    ISBN9780062262684
    Creating a Life Worth Living
    Author

    Carol Lloyd

    Carol Lloyd, a writer, performer, and entrepreneur, is the founder of The Writing Parlor, a San Francisco literary arts center. For the past seven years, she has led Life Worth Living workshops, helping hundreds attain their creative dreams. Her essay and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Focus, and Salon magazine, where she is a regular contributor.

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      This is an excellent guide for anyone taking a less than straightforward path through life (which includes just about everyone). Though the subtitle aims at artists, the life-planning and career guidance methods provided can be used by anyone. One of the things that I love about her method is that it can be used again and again throughout one's life and new factors insert themselves or priorities shift. Lloyd essentially provides one with an evaluation and implementation process. And calling it a "method" is misleading. What she provides is a set of tools to use in the service of the process. She emphasizes that each person must tailor their own path and use the tools which work best for who they are and the kind of life they're wanting to create. The book contains wonderful interviews with people who have crafted unusual lives.Lloyd gave me a real eye-opening experience with her personality types. I had never had anyone nail dead-on my mental process of idea generation (and forgetfulness), it's positives and pitfalls. This alone sold me on the book (which was given to me by a career counselor who sensed I was a "creative type") but what keep is on my shelf is how usable it is over and over again (it was very helpful after a major illness). I love it. I have given it to others and I have gone through it with others to help them get focused on what they want and plan what they need to do to get closer to the life they want.

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