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The Life List: The #1 Award Winner: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life
How to start living your best life — a life by design
The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life is your guide to designing the next magnificent part of your life, starting today. An energising, honest, at times hilarious and at times devastating call to action, this is a transformational, life-is-for-living handbook. And it belongs in the hands of every woman who yearns to do something more spectacular!
After turning 50, losing her former life partner to cancer and seeing her kids move on as young adults, Kate Christie was faced with the fact that life is too short. And it was time to do something about it. So Kate created the concept of a “life list”: A list of everything she wanted to do and be while she was still young enough to enjoy it. A list of abundant, joyful new discoveries and opportunities. Using her unique framework to inspire not only big goals but also real action, Kate shows you exactly how to design and implement your own life list. Why? Because it’s your turn. You are energetic, confident, comfortable in your skin, successful and ready for more. This is not a crisis: it’s a catalyst.
With The Life List, you’ll learn how to:
Find a new perspective, identify what matters most and celebrate with gratitude Set and smash incredible, life-changing goals Embrace life’s endless possibilities while you’re still young Master every moment, with simple steps for living in the now and planning your future Create and manifest momentous experiences in your everyday life It’s time to join the movement and do whatever the hell it is you want with the rest of your life. This is your life — by design. So live it big. Be audacious.
The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life is your guide to designing the next magnificent part of your life, starting today. An energising, honest, at times hilarious and at times devastating call to action, this is a transformational, life-is-for-living handbook. And it belongs in the hands of every woman who yearns to do something more spectacular!
After turning 50, losing her former life partner to cancer and seeing her kids move on as young adults, Kate Christie was faced with the fact that life is too short. And it was time to do something about it. So Kate created the concept of a “life list”: A list of everything she wanted to do and be while she was still young enough to enjoy it. A list of abundant, joyful new discoveries and opportunities. Using her unique framework to inspire not only big goals but also real action, Kate shows you exactly how to design and implement your own life list. Why? Because it’s your turn. You are energetic, confident, comfortable in your skin, successful and ready for more. This is not a crisis: it’s a catalyst.
With The Life List, you’ll learn how to:
Find a new perspective, identify what matters most and celebrate with gratitude Set and smash incredible, life-changing goals Embrace life’s endless possibilities while you’re still young Master every moment, with simple steps for living in the now and planning your future Create and manifest momentous experiences in your everyday life It’s time to join the movement and do whatever the hell it is you want with the rest of your life. This is your life — by design. So live it big. Be audacious.
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299 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2023
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April 1, 2023
Recently I confided to my husband that I was feeling lost and aimless and I didn’t know how to change it. My kids are 20 somethings now, needing me less and less. I’d happily given up a career, that paid the bills but did little else, to raise my three babies. 25 years later I now have a “career” that’s happily giving me up, so when I came across “The Life List”, it gently beckoned and whispered “you need me”.
Kate is an engaging, funny and insightful writer. All your emotions will be tugged as you read her heartbreaking story of love and loss, and the life she’s rebuilding from the ashes of grief. But this book isn’t really about that. It’s about recognising that there shouldn’t come a time in your life when you feel like you haven’t put yourself first in a really long time. That life shouldn’t feel like it might be slipping by a little too quickly and that it shouldn’t take a catastrophic event to feel like it’s ok to demand time for your wants and needs.
Eagerly devouring page after page, I started feeling inspired but then doubts started to gnaw at me. How do I start? Can I afford time and money? Are these things I want silly? Frivolous? Doable? As women, we really are conditioned to put others first! Kate takes each of these doubts and shows you how to turn them around and work towards “I can do this, I will do this”. This book provides a template for getting started and making a plan, how to identify and neutralise the negatives. It will not only encourage you to dream silly, dream small, dream big and dream impossible, it shows you how to achieve each and every one in a practical way. More importantly, it will empower you to finally put yourself first and be ok with it. It’s your time, it’s your life!
I highly recommend this book if you’re in a rut, wanting more from life and needing a guide to help and push you to just do it and feel great about it. I can’t wait to use Kate’s template to design my own life list, and be brave enough to cross every item off it!
Kate is an engaging, funny and insightful writer. All your emotions will be tugged as you read her heartbreaking story of love and loss, and the life she’s rebuilding from the ashes of grief. But this book isn’t really about that. It’s about recognising that there shouldn’t come a time in your life when you feel like you haven’t put yourself first in a really long time. That life shouldn’t feel like it might be slipping by a little too quickly and that it shouldn’t take a catastrophic event to feel like it’s ok to demand time for your wants and needs.
Eagerly devouring page after page, I started feeling inspired but then doubts started to gnaw at me. How do I start? Can I afford time and money? Are these things I want silly? Frivolous? Doable? As women, we really are conditioned to put others first! Kate takes each of these doubts and shows you how to turn them around and work towards “I can do this, I will do this”. This book provides a template for getting started and making a plan, how to identify and neutralise the negatives. It will not only encourage you to dream silly, dream small, dream big and dream impossible, it shows you how to achieve each and every one in a practical way. More importantly, it will empower you to finally put yourself first and be ok with it. It’s your time, it’s your life!
I highly recommend this book if you’re in a rut, wanting more from life and needing a guide to help and push you to just do it and feel great about it. I can’t wait to use Kate’s template to design my own life list, and be brave enough to cross every item off it!
July 11, 2024
Lots of inspiration and a good framework for goal setting. A little bit repetitive.
March 22, 2024
Bought this one perusing Barnes and Noble on my birthday. Seemed appropriate to my life circumstances. I enjoyed the book and tips she brings in for moving beyond having ‘ideas’ about what you want to do in life to actually doing those things. I struggle to move from, “Oh I want to do _____” to actually following through with _______. So there is actually a lot of value here. My frustration comes in when self help books promote websites constantly. Have a page with your website and how to contact you and save the reader from reading that over and over. Also, a TON of wasted space here. Blank pages. Pages with same chart just different highlights on them. Could have been done better. I don’t need to be fooled into thinking this is a valuable book. It is valuable. Please don’t waste space to make it seem more dense while also stating a life goal of taking care of the environment. Also last 1/3 of the book is her personal goals and how she processed them using her worksheets. I did peruse it, and will look back at a few as I make my list, but potential reader should know that it is her life list and how she followed her worksheets and filled them out, taking a substantial page count of total breadth of book.
Overall do I recommend this? Yeah. There are some good ideas here for people like me who are easily distracted to stay focused on both short and long term personal goals. I will use the process, because I too enjoy setting goals and also being mindful of how I spend my future days. I have already implemented it and feel less overwhelmed of where to begin taking steps toward things. I just get cranky when publishers and/or authors use useless filler to make things appear like there is more than there is. Could have EASILY been a smaller book and still have been very valuable, I would have still purchased it, while also respecting the reader. We aren’t stupid. One chart could suffice.
Overall do I recommend this? Yeah. There are some good ideas here for people like me who are easily distracted to stay focused on both short and long term personal goals. I will use the process, because I too enjoy setting goals and also being mindful of how I spend my future days. I have already implemented it and feel less overwhelmed of where to begin taking steps toward things. I just get cranky when publishers and/or authors use useless filler to make things appear like there is more than there is. Could have EASILY been a smaller book and still have been very valuable, I would have still purchased it, while also respecting the reader. We aren’t stupid. One chart could suffice.
April 22, 2023
I loved this book and I’m recommending it to all of my clients and friends. It’s like she’s reading our midlife minds! She speaks of the things that lead people to reach their 70s and 80s and feel regret. Kate Christie makes sure that’s not going happen to you if get this book do the exercises. Trust me, you will be back leaving your own five star review if you put this in your cart.💙
June 2, 2025
3.5/5
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