The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It

By Debbie Ford

Book Overview

No 1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford's The Best Year of Your Life is a call to action to stop pretending that the future will bring you the life of your dreams and to instead start living your dreams in this moment and for the rest of your life. The Best Year of Your Life provides the reader with the blueprints to create the life they always wanted. This is a highly practical, detailed map for becoming the 'you' you have always wanted to be. Many of us spend our days thinking, talking and dreaming about what our lives could be if only... We make New Year's resolutions, we follow a new diet, we start exercise routines, we get to work on our lifelong goals and then...we give up, get too busy and move on. Our dreams still well out of reach. Yet all the while the life we always wanted is right in front of us, well within our grasp. In Debbie Ford's most practical and inspirational book to date, she offers a clear blueprint of how to make today, this moment be the beginning of The Best Year of Your Life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060723947
• ISBN13: 9780060723941
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Gentle Loving Support

I'm so tired of self-help kits that are demanding on my time and push me harder than what was good for me. I didn't realize this until it was too late. If you want support, but have it come from a place of compassion instead of intensity, then this is the kit for you! The visualization CD alone is worth the cost. I've heard negative reviews about Debbie's voice, but I appreciate her coming from a place of neutrality instead of stressing words she feels you should "get". Whenever I get stressed, I put on her CD and give myself love and nurture myself from the inside. I highly recommend this kit!

A Great Companion

This kit is a great companion to The Best Year of Your Life Book! Inspiring, encouraging, and motivating.

Timely reading as a new year approaches

Looking to change your ways? Looking for a succinct, encouraging, step by step guide? This book is for you. I could recognize myself in many of the examples. The author divides her book into three sections, dream it, plan it, and live it. I particularly liked the "No-Cookie Zones" chapter; how to recognize when we engage in debilitating behaviors; that when we do, there is no reward. She discusses how goals have to be specific, something different from dreams and ambitions. Ms. Ford emphasizes the need for structure and discipline in planning life changing goals. She also encourages her readers to seize moments in their days, and to live to inspire.

Making a difference a day at a time

Having purchased and read "The Best Year of Your Life", Debbie Ford's newest book, I thought that she had really captured the steps to take to really improve your life. The Best Year kit gives a day to day way to step back into the inspiration and joy of everything the book had delivered. The kit does it every day in a innovative and fun way. Each day it brings my consciousness back to what it will take for me to truly live my best day which is the only way to get to your best year. I even started picking a card each week with my friends so all those I care about get what I have found in using these magical cards. One day at a time. This is a must for anyone who wants their best day or year . If you want some guidance you can trust ... use the cards to get your own guidance.

How's your year going?

"It's never too late" would be an appropriate cliché for The Best Year of Your Life. Although some cliché's are present such as, "you have to put your best foot forward", this book goes beyond cliché's to specific ways to begin your best year yet. Broken down into three categories, author Debbie Ford gives personal examples, analogies, and asks questions to bring out your desired goals and reasonable ways to achieve them. Her conversational writing style mixed with inspiring but thought provoking questions motivate you to focus and want to better your attitude and consequently, yourself. Far from a self-serving manual, Ford encourages us to also be the best for those around us. Like any good learning experience, it comes with assignments. These however, will only be graded by the difference it makes in your coming year.