Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives
Praise for LIFE IS A VERB: "Damn, girl. You write good."-Lee Hancock,Dallas Morning News "I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: I adore Patti Digh’s bookLife is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally.  I love her writing, her depth, her sizzle. This is a book that makes me sing with life and the possibilities we all have for transformation and awareness. It is the best antidote I’ve got these days for the pain and fear raging around us--that and loving hugs, long naps, frevent prayer and letting myself feel whatever I’m feeling."--Jennifer Louden, author ofThe Woman's Comfort Book  "Life is a Verbis brilliantly-crafted, raw, gorgeously-designed, and daringly different from 'self-help' books. It relates, through stories that sparkle and astonish and soar, how to move, to be on your way, torealizewho you really are through youractions. Through exercises that you participate in, as if in conversation with the author, you will learn, as she promises in the prologue, 'deeper things—how to know what to care about, how to treat others around you (and yourself), what to question, how to love, what to stand up for, and why you should tell stories and listen to the stories of others.' There is no more important learning.         So read it. Inhabit it. Breathe in every word, because every word of this book is essential. Let it animate you. Annotate it to make it your own. And then let it let you change yourself, and become who you were intended to be.Begin now.You have no time to lose."--- Dave Pollard, author of The Natural Entrepreneur, and the weblog How to Save the World  "Patti’s guide for the last 37 days of life will turn every one of your next 3700 days a fully lived experience. If you had some unsolved fear for death, that would be your season ticket to have a free ride on the train with the author. I have never seen such a simultaneously practical, esthetic and soul-caressing book in my life."--Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo  "I laughed.  I cried.  I want the t-shirt!  Seriously,Life is a Verbmay well be the single book that will change the world or maybe onlyyour life. . .    Artful, funny, heart-breaking, Digh reminds us that today isn't a dress rehearsal and we can start today celebrating the magic of ordinary life. ReadingLife is a Verbis like mainlining goodness. Digh shows us what is real and what matters, and she gives us insiders tips on how to make minuscule life corrections that result in quantum shifts in experience.  She reminds us that life can easily be fun.  This will surely be the last self-help book you will ever need or want to read."--Patricia Ryan Madson, Stanford Emerita, author ofImprov Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up "Life Is A Verb is a wonderful treat! Good exercises, stories, and examples. Reading it will help you appreciate just how much can be gained through living with intention. It's also a lot of fun."--Roger von Oech, author ofA Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative