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Product details Paperback 246 pages Publisher Ballantine Books; 2nd edition (January 1, 2004) Language English ISBN-10 0345465180

Wishcraft How to Get What You Really Want Barbara Sher Annie Gottlieb 9780345465184 Books Reviews

• This book is what made me decide in my early thirties to go to medical school and guided me lovingly through the process. What I mean by guided me lovingly is this 1) Barbara Sher made it clear that it was okay to go for what I want without needing to be someone different, an "improved" version of myself. I could be flawed (really flawed) and still do it. That lesson stayed with me through the arduous medical school and residency years and beyond. I share it with my patients all the time. 2) She showed me concretely how to break down the process of achieving my dream into steps so it never seemed overwhelming.
  
  You'd think that those two ideas are simple, but if you don't know them -- and I think many people don't -- absorbing them can transform your life. Wishcraft should be the core of a mandatory high-school course, although they'd probably screw it up. I feel very lucky to be doing what I am doing in my life, so Ms. Sher, you have achieved your goal with me, as I am sure you have with countless others. Thank you.
• I first discovered Barbara Sher when someone recommended "I Can Do Anything if I Only Knew What It Was". Based on reading that, I purchased one of her earlier works, "Wishcraft". Both of these books together make an excellent combination for changing one's mindset in order to achieve one's goals. Wishcraft discusses topics such as what is holding most people back from pursuing their goals, the importance of planning and then acting, and various ways and strategies to make change happen.
  
  She emphasizes the importance of mindset and goals. She also demonstrates how helpful surrounding yourself with the right people can be and provides different scenarios that led to improvement in peoples' lives.
  
  I personally prefer her later book, but both books share some fundamental concepts that are critical to achieving success, especially in today's climate that constantly attacks success and emphasizes victimhood of all sorts.
  
  This book is very relateable and is an interesting examination of common occurrences. How much you get out of it will depend on how much you time you devote- there are several exercises to complete but also various case study type examples that are insightful. Highly recommend both books!
• I purchased this book when I joined a Success Group centering its lessons on the exercises contained in it. I love it. Absolutely love it. It's encouraging, insightful, and makes you think. Not only that, but the exercises are great motivations to get you to do. I consider myself a fairly introspective person, and yet I've gained lots of insights from just the first few chapters. I think everyone should read this book.
• I have had this book in very active use as my own personal life-building guide for the past 25 years, and counting.
  You will not find a better one.
  If you want to figure out, and then become, everything you ever wanted to be, and give all your gifts to the world, this book tells you how.
  I have still not DONE everything I want to do, but I have become who I want to be.
  That took a lot of work because I have many dimensions that needed to come forward in a whole new way.
  Barbara's book has guided me through this process (it is in tatters, but I am not ) I am one happy and grateful woman.
  This book, though gentle, is not kidding around.
  Don't buy it unless you desire to get so strong that you will actually believe in, and dare to bring into reality, your most precious dreams.
  That is what it did/does for me.
  I have achieved many of them and the rest will be coming soon )
• I've bought countless copies of this book because I keep loaning them out and not getting them back... it really is that good! If you want to learn how to finally follow your dreams in life, read this book and take action! Highly recommended!
• Wishcraft was written in 1979. I was a young mother from a blue-collar
  family, with a 2-year-old son, and another one on the way. Up until
  then, I had worked at various jobs, mostly in accounting, which I
  hated with a passion.
  
  Laid off from my part-time accounting job with an insurance company
  (They could "tell" I wasn't happy there.), I was looking for a new
  direction. I'm not sure now how I became aware of "Wishcraft", but I
  bought it and it made me think differently about life and jobs.
  
  It had never occurred to me that you could get a job without having
  all of the formal credentials required. I liked that way of thinking!
  There were so many things I wanted to do!
  
  So I went to the Virginia Unemployment office, and began reading job
  descriptions of things that I'd like to do, whether I was qualified to
  do them or not.
  
  I saw a part-time teaching job, working with CETA students (in this
  case, high-school dropouts with kids) to teach them Data Entry.
  I had once *done* data entry, so I figured I could teach it! So I took the listing to the agent and asked them to call the place and see if they would take "experience" in lieu of a teaching degree. The guy looked at me funny, but made the call, and they said "Sure - send her over."
  
  And that's where my teaching / training career began. It's wandered
  all over the place over the last 30 years, and 14 years ago I started
  my own technical training company, and went on to teach overseas and
  at several "real" colleges.
  
  I believe in my heart that if I had not read "Wishcraft" I would have
  ended up typing for someone else for a living, and my kids would have
  had far fewer opportunities in life.
  
  Instead, my oldest came to work for me, as a trainer. As a technical trainer, he's been able to travel to Europe and Australia. Nowadays, he's a senior Oracle database administrator, but he still loves to teach, so he often tutors friends in a make-shift classroom in his basement.
  
  My youngest is a web architect in San Francisco, as well as a
  world-class athlete representing the USA in competitions in South
  Africa and England.
  
  So the path my life took changed, and resulted in my children's lives
  changing -- and hopefully the future generations that will follow us
  -- all because Barbara Sher took a risk and wrote a book, based on some
  workshops that weren't making any money.
  
  Is it any wonder that I am in awe of her?
  
  Every 30 years or so, she comes into my life -- and changes everything.