Living With Intention: Designing a Wildly Fulfilling & Remarkably Successful Life [Paperback]

Ph.D Deanna Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2005

There is an art and a science to living deliberately. Living With Intention is all about exploring your priorities and passions, and capitalizing on your skills and gifts. It's about honoring what is important to you now and making purposeful choices about what you want to do next. It's about finding meaning in all you do. Using a unique combination of information, inspiration, reflection, and action, Living With Intention guides you in creating a vision for who you want to be and how you want to design your life. In this book, you will explore six key foundations for designing a wildly fulfilling and remarkably successful life: 1) Powerful Perspectives: Create an attitude of possibility and opportunity by transforming your outlook. 2) Get Vivid, Get Busy, and Get Support: Design an inspiring vision and practical goals that ensure fulfillment and success. 3) Energy, Focus, Outcomes: Direct your time, energy, and expertise to achieve outstanding results in everything you do. 4) Enduring Happiness: Practice the science of life satisfaction to weave more joy and contentment into your days. 5) What You Do Best: Identify your unique strengths and gifts, and use them to create the life you want. 6) Balance and Resilience: Tap into the power of positive stress while minimizing the impact of negative stress. Living With Intention takes you on a voyage toward the life you were born to live. Enjoy the journey! Deanna Davis, Ph.D., is an accomplished life coach, professional speaker, and author who helps people design wildly fulfilling and remarkably successful lives. She coaches clients and audiences in such diverse issues as mind/body health, finding balance, peak performance, and improving quality of life. Deanna is an admitted laughaholic and a strong proponent of adding chocolate as a key component of the USDA Food Pyramid. Visit Deanna online at www.appliedinsight.net.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"..written with intelligence and insight of a seasoned professional coach and all the humor and compassion of a loving friend.." -- Kate Spencer, Editor in Chief of Imagine Magazine, November, 2005

From the Back Cover

There is an art and a science to living deliberately.

Living With Intention is all about exploring your priorities and passions, and capitalizing on your skills and gifts. It’s about honoring what is important to you now and making purposeful choices about what you want to do next. It’s about finding meaning in all you do.

Using a unique combination of information, inspiration, reflection, and action, Living With Intention guides you in creating a vision for who you want to be and how you want to design your life.

In this book, you will explore six key foundations for designing a wildly fulfilling and remarkably successful life:

1) Powerful Perspectives: Create an attitude of possibility and opportunity by transforming your outlook.
2) Get Vivid, Get Busy, and Get Support: Design an inspiring vision and practical goals that ensure fulfillment and success.
3) Energy, Focus, Outcomes: Direct your time, energy, and expertise to achieve outstanding results in everything you do.
4) Enduring Happiness: Practice the science of life satisfaction to weave more joy and contentment into your days.
5) What You Do Best: Identify your unique strengths and gifts, and use them to create the life you want.
6) Balance and Resilience: Tap into the power of positive stress while minimizing the impact of negative stress.

Living With Intention takes you on a voyage toward the life you were born to live. Enjoy the journey!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (October 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1420894935
• ISBN-13: 978-1420894936
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,148,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Deanna Davis is the author of "The Law of Attraction in Action," "Living With Intention," and the forthcoming "Laugh, Cry, Eat Some Pie" (Perigee, 2010). She helps her clients and audiences with strategies for success, satisfaction, and self-care...all with a sense of humor. Deanna is a professional speaker, consultant, coach, and entertainer. She created the one-woman-show "Womanhood: The Divine Comedy" and hosts two signature events each year: "Womanhood: The Weekend" and "The Success Summit." Deanna and her husband, Michael, live in Spokane, Washington with their children Malina and Carsten. They are the proud parents of two grown children, as well--Amber and Rhiannon--and are the very youthful and hip grandparents of two adorable grandchildren, Chase and Mathis. Visit Deanna online at www.deannadavis.net.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud!, February 8, 2006

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Cynthia J. Collett (Bremerton, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living With Intention: Designing a Wildly Fulfilling & Remarkably Successful Life (Paperback)

I think this is the first time I've read a self-help book that made me laugh out loud--several times. The author has a great way of combining practical, easy-to-follow techniques for improving life with light-hearted humor.

Each chapter focuses on an individual technique for making improvements in all aspects of life. I've put several into practice with incredible results in my life.

Reading this book is like having a life coach right there next to you. Don't miss this one!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Living with Intention: a remarkably useful book!, November 28, 2005

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Living with Intention combines witty, interesting writing with useful practices -- practices that work! Each chapter educates readers and combines all insights with a call to action. These practical action steps result in the behavior changes necessary to transforming your life. The book has helped me re-frame my thinking about myself, my job, and my relationships. Even more important, I have taken this new way of thinking and have applied it to my actions. As a result, I feel more equipped to face challenges, accomplish goals, and experience lasting joy. I often find myself passing along the wisdom found in the book to my friends, colleagues, and family members when they come to me with their own challenges.

I have often been skeptical of "self-help" books, but Living with Intention is a practical manual that I couldn't have done without. I highly recommend this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Self-Deprecating Humor, Helpful Examples, Solid Research, and Useful Free Exercises, February 23, 2007

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Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 109,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living With Intention: Designing a Wildly Fulfilling & Remarkably Successful Life (Paperback)

Dr. Davis's comic talent deserves to be directed towards an all-humor book. Her tales of personal comeuppances are truly funny and touching at the same time. Here's an example: After succumbing to the flu on Valentine's Day (the kind that keeps you hugging the toilet), her one-year-old daughter repeatedly exhorted Dr. Davis to stop drinking the water in the toilet bowl if she wanted to feel better. If you like that one, wait until you get to the softball stories!

Seriously, though, the humor serves to break down the barriers most of us feel between "experts" (especially well-educated ones by Dr. Davis) and normal folks. Her book has a serious purpose which is to direct you to take charge of your life to create a direction and a style that make you feel terrific.

Here's a brief overview of her key points:

1. Change your perspective to a more powerful one: See yourself as in charge of what's going to happen to you; be optimistic; and choose meanings for what happens that inspire you to keep going.

2. Pick a direction: Determine your values; picture what you want; develop goals; and find the support you need to succeed.

3. Become efficient in employing your focus and energy.

4. Fill each day with happiness (life is a journey, not a destination): Savor what you love; re-experience things that bring you joy; help others; lose yourself in something joyful; be grateful.

5. Build on what you do best.

6. Develop resiliency in responding to external and unexpected events.

Each section is filled with specific descriptions of research that talks about how to do these things, strategies for turning the research into practice, and exercises to help you move your thinking along. A good portion of the book is also devoted to pages where you can write down your thoughts and the results of exercises so that you can keep track of your progress over time. Dr. Davis doesn't limit herself to her own resources: She also cites many other excellent books and free online resources that you can use.

I don't know of a better, simpler, and more helpful book for taking charge of your life. Those who find The Success Principles to be too daunting (with all of those short chapters on things to do) will find Living with Intention to be low-key, accessible, and comfortable.

Get the ball rolling today by ordering this excellent book.

If you need more help, Dr. Davis is also a life coach who can work with you directly. That sounds like fun!

Just don't ask for help with softball.