Follow Your North Star

by Martha N. Beck

The terrain along the journey of life is spectacularly varied, teaches Martha Beck. But the one thing that will never change is that your true nature will always urge you toward your destiny. Over two million readers a month look to Martha Beck for her advice in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, here's the audio workshop her readers have been waiting for: her all-in-one guide for recognizing your life's purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness. On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for charting your life path by following the unchangeable "true north" markers of your life.

Runtime: 4 hours, 40 minutes.

Genres: Self Help, Spirituality, Audiobook, Nonfiction

5 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Dr. Martha Beck, PhD, is a New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality.

Her recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Her latest book, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose is out now.

Reviews

[Leanne Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

The audio format of this book made it very accessible and enjoyable. I found the content both enlightening and helpful. Martha Beck is an engaging teacher with a credible background, making her advice easy to accept and put into practice.

[Heather H · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend as a self-exploration book for people on the go. Beck has very accessible information presented in a fun and playful format.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Touches on a lot of topics familiar to all self-help book readers, but frames them in a way where you can create points of action. Things aren’t sugar-coated. Failure is definitely an option. But she gives you the tools to pick yourself up and level with yourself. What do you really want? Start small. Where do you see yourself? How do you get there? How do you make the journey as pleasurable as the destination? I feel like this is one of those books you’re gonna want to keep going back to as you continue to shape yourself. The exercises are great.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book and there is a lot of useful information. Some of the information did not pertain to my situations, but for the most part the information is very useful. I would recommend this book for anyone who is a little lost and looking for their true path.

[Mead Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened on CD to this, read by the author. Very inspiring. I think I will listen again and journal more while reading it this time. No very woo. Good for folk who have lived very ambitious lives and have at some point wanted to re-check their goals in their heart and live with soulful purpose.

[Karen Styles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hearing Martha's voice on this audio program was like coming home. How to go through changes in your life and move towards your true right life. This is definitely not an absent-minded listen! I took tons of notes and took time to do the mediation exercises. I'll be coming back to this one!

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was just a companion speech to go along with the book, but just as insightful. Loved it!

[Mollie the Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Hayley Chewins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love everything Martha Beck writes. This book is a great accompaniment to FINDING YOUR OWN NORTH STAR. The visualisation exercises are fantastic!

[Libby Andrews · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I think I read it years ago too but I don’t remember it leaving such a good impression on me. Martha Beck, the author, is an intelligent, inspiring and compassionate woman. As a Phd student she learned she was carrying a child with Downs Syndrome. Against all advice she listened to what her mind was telling her and decided to keep the child. She uses this process of meditation and visualization to discover your hearts desire. She allows time for procrastination and meltdown and encourages you to make collages of your goals by breaking your goal down into baby steps. If you get this book, get the audio version as her meditations are excellent.

[Sylvie M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful way to train the mind to behave in ways that are beneficial to the Self. A way of changing our negative beliefs and setting the mind to soar. It is a great life-changing lesson after another!

[Kerstin Dahlgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Förvånansvärt bra. Förstår Oprah gillar henne.

[Xylia B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book and can’t wait to read it again. Tons of wisdom. The audiobook is really soothing as well.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rare 2005 workshop presented by Martha Beck. This is a companion to her books, Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! (this is not an audiobook version of her printed material, but a supplement). I happened upon this at the library while searching for her newest volume, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.

Follow Your North Star offers several interactive meditation exercises - I found the visualization exercises to be the most helpful and intriguing. Imagine seeing into the future and visualizing your ideal life - Martha Beck will walk you to that vantage point. Beck showed me a whole new meaning to having a personal "melt-down", her version is related to the imago metamorphosis of a caterpillar to butterfly.

This presentation is distributed by Sounds True Publishing, an organization based in my city of Boulder, Colorado.