Listen to Your Life: Following Your Unique Path to Extraordinary Success [Paperback]

Valorie Burton (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 16, 2004

A Better Life Is Calling. Are You Ready to Answer?

Consider the current state of your life: your work, your relationships, your accomplishments. Are you in the place you’d hoped or expected to be? Is this the best life you could be living? Or is something missing–something you have not yet discovered or articulated that could lead you to the rich, fulfilling life you desire?

Fulfill Your Purpose. Decrease Your Stress. Expand Your Life.

In your spirit you know the truth: You were born to walk a more fulfilling path, where the definition of success is tailored to your unique gifts and talents. Author, speaker, and life coach Valorie Burton will help you find this path and step onto it with confidence.

In Listen to Your Life, you will discover powerful strategies and tools that will enable you to hear what your life is saying to you, take action, and finally live in the abundance of joy, purpose, and true success for which you were created.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Valorie Burton has a unique and eloquent way of conveying the intricacies of living life to the fullest. Having served as her pastor, I am proud to see her share words of life to a hungry generation.”
–Bishop T. D. Jakes, Sr., senior pastor, The Potter’s House of Dallas, Inc.

“Listen to Your Life will awaken you from your nap of complacency and compel you to see and hear your own life anew–with all its fullness of possibility. With wisdom and honesty, author Valorie Burton shows us that the recipe for true success takes sweat, strength, and spiritual tenacity. Although God can do anything but fail, Burton reminds us that we, too, have a responsibility to ourselves.
–Corynne L. Corbett, former editor-in-chief of Heart & Soul Magazine

“Through her insightful words and personal touch, Valorie Burton teaches all to keep pushing, keep leading, and keep seeking the work we were placed on this earth to complete. While others can only guess who moved the cheese, Valorie has obviously found it.”
–Dennis Kimbro, author of What Makes the Great Great 

“Listen to Your Life delivers on its promise. It’s inspiring, motivating, and packed with strategies that work. It will you move you to take action to transform your life.”
–Donna Richardson Joyner, fitness expert, television host, and author of Let’s Get Real

“The insight and revelation in this book will empower you to make better choices and make your dreams become reality.”
–Les Brown, motivational speaker and author of Up Thoughts for Down Times and The Courage to Live Your Dreams

“Valorie Burton has captured the true essence of Success and its aroma is decisively God! Clearly, Burton was called to write a book that reveals the secret ingredients to a life well lived: Passion, purpose, and destiny are all combined to formulate what we are really called to do.”
–Andria Hall, veteran broadcast journalist and author of The Walk at Work: Seven Steps to Spiritual Success on the Job

“The truths in this book will bring elements of beauty, strength, and honor to your life.”
–Lisa Bevere, conference speaker and author of Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry

From the Inside Flap

A Better Life Is Calling. Are You Ready to Answer?

Consider the current state of your life: your work, your relationships, your accomplishments. Are you in the place you?d hoped or expected to be? Is this the best life you could be living? Or is something missing?something you have not yet discovered or articulated that could lead you to the rich, fulfilling life you desire?

Fulfill Your Purpose. Decrease Your Stress. Expand Your Life.

In your spirit you know the truth: You were born to walk a more fulfilling path, where the definition of success is tailored to your unique gifts and talents. Author, speaker, and life coach Valorie Burton will help you find this path and step onto it with confidence.

In Listen to Your Life, you will discover powerful strategies and tools that will enable you to hear what your life is saying to you, take action, and finally live in the abundance of joy, purpose, and true success for which you were created.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press (March 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157856820X
• ISBN-13: 978-1578568208
• Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.9 x 8.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,433 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Valorie Burton is a bestselling author and speaker who helps people get unstuck and be unstoppable in every area of their lives. As a Certified Personal and Executive Coach, Valorie has served hundreds of clients in over 40 states and ten countries, and is the founder of The Coaching and Positive Psychology (CAPP) Institute. For more than a decade, her books, speaking engagements and media appearances, have inspired and equipped readers and audiences to:

* Make major life changes that are exciting and scary at the same time.
* Be happier and have more fun, even when life seems routine.
* Navigate setbacks and disappointments in a way that makes life better, not bitter.
* Go from a scattered to focused mind to feel and be more productive.
* Speak up with confidence rather than settling for less.
* Go to sleep at night feeling peace about decisions.
* Conquer emotions that cause procrastination, emotional spending, and the sabotage of success.

In the summer of 1999, Valorie had an epiphany that confirmed her life purpose to inspire women to live more fulfilling lives. She was on a career path that looked successful but was unfulfilling, and despite her fears, Valorie took a leap of faith to pursue her dreams. The transformation has led her to write eight books, including Successful Women Think Differently, What's Really Holding You Back?, and Your 5-Minute Personal Coach.

Valorie helps readers and leaders discover their purpose and create a vision that's true to who they are. She helps people persevere until they reach their goals, even in the face of challenges, fears, and doubts. Her expertise shows how to coach yourself by saying "yes" to what matters and "no" more often. The result? People find the freedom to live the life they previously only imagined.

Valorie's transparency and blend of personal stories, faith, and psychological research is engaging and practical. She is a columnist for Ebony Magazine and a frequent media contributor who has appeared in and on CNN, HLN, Dr. Oz, Oprah Magazine, Oprah Radio, The 700 Club, Essence, The Los Angeles Times, and many more. She has co-hosted two national television programs - The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes and Aspiring Women, winning two regional Emmy nominations. She has a master's degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in journalism from Florida A&M University and a BA from Florida State University.

Let Valorie help you get unstuck and be unstoppable. Subscribe to her free weekly coaching newsletter at www.ValorieBurton.com.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Altering... A Must Read! December 14, 2004

By Waahida T. Tolbert

Format:Paperback

I have thoroughly enjoyed Burton's inspirational text, "Listen to your Life". The words in this book have truly reignited my passion for life and have forced me to move from having problems to solving them. The book provides a comprehensive step by step guide to truly living your life at its optimal potential and provides the reader with strategies and activities that assist them is listening to their life in order to discover your true purpose and mission on Earth.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book WILL empower you to live an extraordinary life! July 25, 2004

By The Good Girl Reviewers

Format:Paperback

I read and review a lot of books. And, you know how you read a bok and it sounds like something you have read before? You know..nothing unique or exceptional. Nor does it deliver what it's promised?

WELL...

This is NOT the case with LISTEN TO YOUR LIFE. It promises what it delievers. Buy it, read it, take notes and apply what Valorie Burton encourages and suggests and you too will be on your path to extraordinary success. You deserve it!

By the way, after reviewing this book I purchased a number of copies for family members who have visions of a better life, talk about having a better life but do not know or have the principles to put it into practice.

This book delievers. Think I will read it again....

Reviewed by Candi W. for The GOOD GIRL Book Club www.goodgirlbookclubonline.com

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen to Your Life and change your life October 23, 2005

By Tena

Format:Paperback

This is a great book! The information is conveyed to the reader in a wonderful way. I started reading it once and "got too busy for it", but once I actually sat down and stayed consistent with my reading, I couldn't put it down! This book makes you think about things in a different light. It also inspires you to move forward in fulfilling your purpose and unique path. Definetly a life changing book!