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In Find Your Strongest Life, Marcus Buckingham reveals the powerful key to bring fulfillment, peace, and control into a woman’s life.

In today’s world, can a woman truly “have it all”? A fulfilling career full of passion and performance? A belief that she is truly becoming the best, authentic version of herself? A happy, healthy life outside of work?

Countless women would roll their eyes at the possibility. Work is overwhelming. And for many of them, add the necessities of family and home. It all feels disconnected, out of control, and relentless.

In Find Your Strongest Life, Marcus Buckingham reveals the powerful key to help women draw enough strength from life to feel fulfilled, loved, successful, and in control. Even more, he helps women reconnect with their purpose and gives a starting point for change. A research-based message that applies to work and life, Find Your Strongest Life shows women how they really can have it all…the right kind of all.

Find Your Strongest Life was born out of a need to respond to questions such as these. The book challenges ingrained myths about women, tackles the paradox of declining female happiness, and demonstrates that the happiest and most successful women:

* Don’t agonize over who they aren’t—they accept and act on who they are. They have discovered the role they were born to play and they play it.
* Don’t juggle—they catch-and-cradle. They don’t keep things at bay, but select a few things and draw them in close.
* Don’t strive for balance—they strive for fullness. They intentionally imbalance their lives toward those moments that make them feel strong.
* Always sweat the small stuff—They know and act on the specific details of what invigorates them (and they let go of what doesn’t strengthen them).

Today’s  women are better educated, have better jobs, bigger paychecks, more choices about mates, careers, just about everything. But that has not translated into women being happier. Actually with more choices the opposite is true. Women’s overall happiness has been on a steady decline since 1972. This decline in happiness occurs across the board, regardless of whether women have children, how many they have, or how much they earn.

I am a strong-minded person, initially some of the statements in this book took me aback. However, after thinking about it for awhile, I realized that I was looking at this in a defensive mode, instead of taking my strengths and and channeling them in a different mindset.

First of all, you have to figure out exactly what your strengths are by focusing on the activities in your life as much as possible, on the things which you feel strongest, and most fulfilled. Next, you want to make an effort to eliminate as much of the rest as you possibly can. Once you’ve accomplished this, you’re well on your way to a more self-confident, contented life!

Remember, happiness doesn’t necessarily require abandoning everything you own and running away to live an entirely different life. Even small changes in the right direction, can change your life for the better!

This ended up being quite a heavy read for me. You’ll definitely take something positive from it though!

Strong Life Test can be a powerful tool enabling women to tap into their best selves and find their strongest lives.

The Strong Life Test presents you with a number of scenarios and then challenges you to identify which decision you would make. Be sure to go with your top-of-mind response; your immediate, unfiltered reaction is always the most revealing.

About the Author.. Click on Marcus’ Photo to learn more..

Marcus Buckingham is a well known researcher. He has written five previous books which centered around the concept that each person will be happiest when they are working from their greatest strength. Find Your Strongest Life got its start from a three hour workshop with Oprah. The workshop was conducted with 30 talented but unfulfilled women.

Founder of The Marcus Buckingham Company, Marcus is a best-selling author with more than 3.7 million copies of his landmark bestsellers in print. He has been profiled in the New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and USA Today.

Marcus spent nearly two decades at the Gallup Organization pioneering research into personal strengths and has developed strengths-based business solutions for some of the world’s most recognizable brands, such as Best Buy, Disney, and Toyota.

Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987 with a master’s degree in Social and Political Science. He is a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

A Special Thanks goes to for the opportunity to take an In depth look at myself!

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