Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine

Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine
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GREAT BOOK FOR INSPIRATION

Great gift idea

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Best Handbook for life

Breath of Fresh Err

Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine
O the Oprah Magazine
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Few people other than Oprah can count Bono, Alicia Keys, Sen. Barack Obama, and award-winning authors Amy Bloom and Ann Patchett among her buddies. Oprah's rightfully tapped these friendships over the years for contributions to O, The Oprah Magazine, for Q & A's and ruminations that cover such topics as love, friendship, the creative process, and how to cultivate joy. In Live Your Best Life, the past several years' worth of articles have been own pared down into a collection of the most "rip and save-worthy" ones. A bit surprisingly, some of the more stick-in-your-head essays and profiles are by and about people who are far from household names, but who are putting their souls into work that's bettering themselves and world. Like Susan Buckley, who lost 75 pounds and kept it off for 11 years; or "everyday hero" Saranne Rothberg, who founded the nonprofit Comedy Cures, to bring humor to people who, like herself, have faced a cancer diagnosis. While the majority of the book's topics are woman-focused ("Oprah Talks to a Mother of 9"; "Getting Married: The Strategic Approach"), a good chunk of it ought to appeal to men, such as the interviews with Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela. Speaking of chunky, the book's hefty enough to induce wrist strain--as if the editors of O and Oprah meant it to be read only while propped on your lap, as you take a well-deserved break, stretched out on a comfy sofa.--Erica Jorgensen

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For anyone eager to answer Oprahs call to live your best life, here is the ultimate, all-around self-discovery book. This first annual edition of Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine pulls together over 100 of the most empowering, energizing, and entertaining articles from the magazines last two years. Filled with brilliant advice from experts like Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, Martha Beck, and Oprah herself, the book is divided into three sections. Your Personal Best focuses on emotional and physical well-beingfrom Oprahs own weight-loss secrets to ways to gain confidence, serenity, and balance. Relationships has the tools and insights everyone needs to form warmer, more satisfying connections with those near, dear, and even not-so-dear to us. And, in true Oprah style, Living in the World helps the reader think about how to make her life more meaningful and useful. This rich, collectible volume is a resource that readers will keep returning to for answers and inspiration.

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GREAT BOOK FOR INSPIRATION.......2007-04-11

As a life coach I'm always looking for appropriate books to recommend to my clients--this is one of them. When this book first came out I bought several copies and gave them as gifts to friends. If you need inspiration, this book will help you make positive choices so you can live your best life. Pamela D. Blair, Author The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond

Great gift idea .......2007-03-21

I bought these as gifts for all the girls in my office, They all loved the book and would talk about their favorite sections. This would be a grat hostess, gift, birthday, Christmas, etc. All around great book.

Winning Combination.......2007-01-12

This book is a great compilation of Oprahs work. A nice addition to your table top books. I'm so pleased with this book and what a great price through Amazon! I bought several of these and gave as gifts for Christmas. Oprah and Amazon - a winning combination!

Best Handbook for life.......2007-01-03

This is an Oprah "Best of the Best". This books contains articles and advice on every life topic you can think of, from finances to marriage. Beautifully put together, I have purchased this book as a gift for friends again and again. It is a MUST own.

Breath of Fresh Err.......2006-11-08

Oprah is a dynamo. And in this delightfully supercilious compendium of interviews, advice, wit and wisdom, you'll find a way to finally give meaning to your life. I can honestly say that if it wasn't for Oprah, I don't know where I'd be in my life. I don't bother doing anything that she hasn't endorsed or given some time on her show. It's just not worth risking.

I also want to answer a lot of Oprah's critics out there: she just does not care what you say. And she's not, but even if she was a bit bossy, slightly fake, sychophantic to celebs and arrogant. She gets things done! She helps wayward souls find meaning in their miserable lives through her products. And do I detect more than a hint of jealousy from those detractors? Of course, they all wish they were as powerful as Oprah and could afford to do anything they wanted.

For one, I thank Oprah for all she's done for me, for my low self-esteem my poor writing skills and the world.

How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

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Baby Boomers Not Ready
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Oft-repeated, upbeat advice about dealing with aging
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

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Baby Boomer Alert
Get ready for the next prime of your life!

Today we're living so much longer and more productively that age sixty
has truly become the new age forty-the prime of life when our careers are in full swing, our minds are at their most creative, and our passions burn their hottest. -Mark Victor Hansen and Art Linkletter

So how do we ensure that our bodies remain fit, our minds alert and creative, our finances stable-even growing-throughout our senior years? TV icon Art Linkletter (incredibly active in several enterprises at the age of 94) and Chicken Soup for the Soul

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great.......2007-07-07
Not only does it have a humorous side, which all of us need, but it has alot of great information and web sites to visit to find more.
Baby Boomers Not Ready.......2007-03-09
This book was dedicated to Baby Boomers. I don't think that they are ready yet to acknowledge that they are approaching the age of 60, much less think about their mortality. Census numbers reveal that 6,000,000 Baby Boomers are already dead. They are not ready for this fact. This was an excellent book, but it has not opened up the conversation that it should have stimulated. [...]
Hansen and Linkletter are heroes!.......2007-01-10
As a senior myself, I was elated to find this book so practical and encouraging to anyone who does not see themselves as an "old fogey", ready to be shelved until the grim reaper comes along. Older adults have a wealth of experience, wisdom and knowledge to share and this culture has worshipped youth for far too long. The authors have coined a wonderful new word, "re-fire" as an excellent way of describing the process of finding a new path to the "Rest of Your Life!"

From finances to health and sex (yes sex!), the authors offer excellent advice and wonderful ideas for making the "Best of Your Life" meaningful, productive and thoroughly enjoyable. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to have an energetic, exciting and productive life after retirement age!

Oft-repeated, upbeat advice about dealing with aging.......2006-12-05
There's nothing bad to say about this book. Everything in it has been said before by many other people in many places. The non-religious may be discomfited by this book's stress on religious and near-religious beliefs.

What's refreshing in its way is the upbeat attitudes of authors Linkletter and Hansen. Both men have had full, rewarding lives and large fortunes, which may affect their attitudes. Not all have been as fortunate as they.

Their advice, as noted, is nothing you won't find elsewhere. There are chapters on the "myths" of aging, taking care of your aging body, are you "sageing" or "aging", sex, spirituality, attitude, creativity and so on. Nothing that hasn't been covered someplace else. The book is up-to-date and "with it", so to speak: there's a section on web resources.

All told, there's nothing really bad to say about the book: it's the same advice you'll find in dozens of other places.

Jerry
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life.......2006-11-11
Enjoyable reading.

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Provides companies of all sizes with management strategies.......2007-03-12
The Essential Guide to Managing Talent: How Top Companies Recruit, Train & Retain the Best Employees provides companies of all sizes with management strategies, showing how to create an 'employer brand' of quality and how to become the employer of choice. From HR's strategic role in the process to learning what motivates talent, tailoring rewards to foster improvements, and creating and utilizing a 'talent pool', business managers will find much here to lend for building a successful company - and business libraries will find it a popular choice.

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Don't Worry! Be Happy!!.......2003-06-24
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