Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You [Paperback]

Bonnie Grove (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2009

Have you ever tried to change something about yourself but had a hard time making it stick? If so, Bonnie Grove knows how you feel. The problem, she explains, is that when it comes to self-improvement, most of us start by asking ourselves the wrong questions. Instead of, What are my weaknesses? How can I fix them? we should be asking, What are my strengths? How can I build on them?This book is not a one-size-fits-all approach to lifestyle change. It doesn t offer a ten-step formula or a one-minute prayer that guarantees success in 30 days. This book is about you. It’s about discovering and developing what you do well, what you love, and what brings you joy so you can see yourself the way God sees you and begin to truly receive His best for your life.Unlike some self-improvement books, you won’t be asked to:spend time digging around in the pastput your problems under a microscopetry and fix everything that’s ’broken’ in your lifeimprove on things you’re not very good atInstead, Bonnie gives you tools and resources to help you:discover what you’re good at—not what you think you should be good atdevelop your strengths and use them to offset your weaknesseslearn to recognize your true goals create a personalized map to follow as you begin your journey to becoming Your Best YouVisit thechangeroom.blogspot.com for more information about Your Best You from the author, Bonnie Grove.

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About the Author

BONNIE GROVE is a former program developer and trainer, who uses her passion for God and people to help others make significant changes in their lives. She's also dynamic speaker, who teaches highly interactive workshops and seminars. Bonnie lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, with her husband, Steve, and their two

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City (February 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834124394
• ISBN-13: 978-0834124394
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,671,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bonnie Grove started writing when her parents bought a typewriter, and she hasn't stopped since. Trained in Christian Counseling (Emmanuel Bible College, Kitchener, ON), and secular psychology (University of Alberta), she developed and wrote social programs for families at risk while landing articles and stories in anthologies. She is the author of Working Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You, and Talking to the Dead: A novel. Grove and her pastor husband, Steve, have two children; they live in Saskatchewan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Book Review: Your Best You, October 3, 2009

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Keiki Hendrix "Vessel Project Book Reviewer" (Greenville, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You (Paperback)

What an encouraging book about change!

Written to those who see some aspects of their lives that need change (isn't that every single one of us), Bonnie Grove's Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave you, begins from a different prespective.

She offers what she calls a 'strength based approach' to making meaningful changes in your life.

The focus, however, is not a pessimistic view of what needs to be changed. The focus is on developing one's gifts and strengths and the revelation that walking in your individual gifts is an offering of worship.

I say Hallelujah and are we not so very tired of hearing, reading or seeing the `10 steps to _________' (you fill in the blank). I discovered that viewing strengths as a form of worship reveals the object of the worship.

We don't need to know now to excel in areas in which we are not gifted simply for popularity or prosperity. What we need is an evaluation of what God has blessed us with and a plan to develop those gifts and talents.

One can easily become discouraged attempting to excel in areas in which we have no talent but nothing compares to the satisfaction from first recognizing and then achieving in areas in which we were created to excel and then living it out as worship to our Creator.

This book helped me to centralized my thinking on defining, developing and apply my gifts and talents as well as listing and identifying areas I need to change.

It contains fifteen chapters that begins with evaluations and ends with encouragement. Included are questionnaires for personnel inventories, worksheets for exploring discovering areas of change, and journals for recording results. Sections begins with a sample answers to various issues that need changing (smoking, overeating, etc) helping the reader further to focus their answers.

This book is an excellent choice for an individual study or a group bible study. I recommend it highly. I suggest you visit her website (subtitled: Life is Messy. God is Love) and read more about her books.

Keiki Hendrix
Vessel Project Book Reviewer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not your run of the mill self help book, October 6, 2009

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HLM "learn-n-teach" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You (Paperback)

I was so glad to pick up this book. It has been what I have been looking for. We don't have to be perfect in every area and it is helpful to have someone acknowledge that. But more importantly, I am so grateful to be shown how to take my strengths and use them to help me in my weak areas. I think Bonnie Grove does this really well with this book. I'm so glad I found it.

5.0 out of 5 stars A faith-based approach to self-help, executed quite well, June 10, 2009

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This review is from: Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You (Paperback)

How do you really find out what you're really good at? "Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You" is a guide to finding these talents. Author Bonnie Grove hopes to help readers cut right to the chase and start to live life as they want to. A realistic manual that realizes not everyone can do everything, "Your Best You" is a faith-based approach to self-help, executed quite well.