Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life [Paperback]

Mary Anne Radmacher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2008

Mary Anne Radmacher has a way of inviting those who hear or read her words to change their lives, and in Live Boldly, she continues on that engaging path.
In the book, she indentures an assortment of qualities for our life s journey and defines each as it relates to laughing loudly, loving truly, playing often, working smart, and sharing your heart. Each definition is followed by a quote, a poem, or an aphorism that explores the quality. Stories culled from Mary Anne s own life and teaching practice are followed by an invitation to readers to listen more closely to their lives, to give themselves what they need and to step back into their daily lives knowing they can choose in that moment, to live boldly by their own definition.

Whether readers need or want justice or gratitude, endurance or celebration, comfort or challenge, the processes is the same-read and listen to the word, enter into its meaning in the lives of others and bring that meaning to your own life. Other qualities include generosity, compassion, leadership-34 in all!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"For the person who wants to make "living their life" their work of art consider "Live Boldly" by Mary Anne Radmacher. It offers gentle challenges to readers to help them reach this goal." --Kathleen Sullivan, Librarian

"This is an amazing book. The writing is so exquisitely beautiful, the ideas so wise, and the suggested applications so sensible, that reading it is like being a member of a celestial choir--you feel an essential part of something greater than yourself, something immediate, good and lasting." --- Hugh Prather, author of The Little Book of Letting Go and Morning Notes

"Mary Anne Radmacher's second book Live Boldly offers the tools we need to move beyond merely surviving each day to living more fully and deliberately.  She invites us to add special meaning to our lives by discovering and embracing what is most important and making choices that will fulfill dreams." -- Christine Witt-Trzcinski, President, Brush Dance, Inc.

About the Author

Mary Anne Radmacher runs a wholesale business selling her art, posters, and cards. Radmacher also is a speaker and trainer for Participant Centered Results and does workshops on living a full, creative, balanced life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573243213
• ISBN-13: 978-1573243216
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Anne Radmacher's words and art travel the world to homes, hospitals, offices and school rooms. People use her classic combination of phrase and image to celebrate and commemorate from birth to remembering eulogies...and
all the significances in between. In addition to her own original web store at maryanneradmacher.net, her words are found on web sites, in commencement speeches, in trade and professional journals, in eulogies and
on diverse commercial products. She publishes her writing through Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari Press. Mary Anne's work is licensed to such internationally recognized firms as Quotable Cards and Brushdance. Her words are available in books presented through Conari Press.

Her classic signature work is available through a dot com that bears her name. She is included in the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. CNN, HGTV, Oprah, the New Yorker, among others, have featured her work.

Radmacher is known in many different roles. She is writer, artist, trainer, speaker, teacher, activist, change agent. The title her business card features is, "Inspirator."

Throughout her extensive entrepreneurial career Radmacher has demonstrated consistent green practices and expansive philanthropic and community involvement. Mary Anne enjoys teaching the benefits of a regular writing practice in the corporate context as well as to audiences ranging from preschool to prison. She believes a writing habit contributes to excellence and innovation in any environment from school room to board room to barbed prison walls.

She is a capable and engaging guest in radio and television. She is at ease in any venue when she has the opportunity to celebrate and discuss the profound applications of a writing practice and the keen value of well ordered words.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Anne has done it again! Intentional brilliance., August 31, 2008

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Deanna Davis "Author , www.deannadavis.net" (Spokane, WA, USA) - See all my reviews

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Once again, Mary Anne has offered her exquisite blend of insight and intention in one phenomenal resource. A book that makes you think, dream, and act differently. This is a brilliant resource that will go on my list of "highly recommended" books for creating purpose and passion in your life. Mary Anne shares a truly unique blend of poetry, story, powerful quotes, and transformative exercises in this gem of a book. You will find yourself nodding your head in agreement and lifting your eyebrows in wonder and insight. What a joy to read!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Delicious Recipe for an Authentic Life, September 3, 2008

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Innergized! (tm) "Innergized!" (Florida) - See all my reviews

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Mary Anne has cooked up this delicious recipe for an authentic life. No matter where you are on your journey, Mary Anne's loving reminders to "live as if this is all there is", to be fully present in your days, to deepen connections, and to show up in this world as the loving, amazing being that you are - will help you Live Boldly. While there is no one secret recipe for a perfect life - Live Boldly comes awfully close with Mary Anne gently nudging you out of your comfort zone and into living boldly. Mary Anne inspires you just enough to begin asking your own questions, allowing you to ultimately choose your unique path to Live Boldly.
Pam Williams, ACC and Marci Moore, ACC - Chief Innergy Officers, Speakers and Professional Coaches, Innergized!, Inc.

5.0 out of 5 stars Live Boldly, January 4, 2012

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my first book I found from Maryanne Radmacher, I found at B&N, just glancing through it, I bought it, surprising Maryanne is amazing...her books are very easy to read and understand, she puts life in perspective, ideas which you can apply to everyday...

One of her most famous saying is "lean forward into your life"..."begin each as if it were on purpose"....WOW...I think we all can use that....