Beth Lisick

Seems I'm not the only one who needs to learn how to handle my money, clean my house and get centered.

Although this is a somewhat amusing book, it's certainly not a how-to for the reader. The author takes us on her journey to improve herself over a year's time. She spends each month focusing on one aspect of her life.

She kind of gives herself a free pass in July, when she and her husband decide they don't need marriage or sex help and she takes a paragraph to say that and that's the chapter.

The rest of the chapters explain how she falls into deciding what part of her life to focus on and how she either a) accomplishes it or b) does an end run around it.

An okay book.… (meer)

I relate to Beth Lisick. While she had a quite normal and uneventful childhood, she found herself as part of the "counter culture." I don't really fit in well with the middle-America of my childhood, and I'm not sure why. Lisick seems to have similar issues. We can both fake it really well, though.

The main difference between Beth Lisick and myself? She figured out a way to make a living doing what she enjoys. I'm still figuring that part out.

But that's one of the main reasons I enjoyed this book so much. Here is an example of someone who didn't make it huge, didn't aim for the stratosphere of recognition and fame, but eked out a modest living doing what she wants to do. She's got the house with the white picket fence, never mind that it's in a really rough neighborhood and her neighbor is a drug dealer. He's a better neighbor than the ones I have here in this "out in the county" housing development full of people with "regular" employment. The story about the unkempt lawn is one I related to quite personally.

Lisick's stories are personal and honest accounts of a life spent doing what had to be done in order to live the life she wanted. She works hard, no matter the job. She's an inspiration.… (meer)