Enough Is Enough!: Stop Enduring and Start Living Your Extraordinary Life

by Jane Straus

Book Overview

Break free of fear and let your inner truth inspire you to thrive and get the life you really want What keeps us enduring an unsatisfying life? How can we break free of our fear-based patterns to live... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787979880
• ISBN13: 9780787979881
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Practical advice that can help you impact your daily life immediately

I found this book very easy to read and, as strange as this might sound, I felt better immediately after reading it--like I really could change specific aspects of my life NOW if I was willing to see myself truthfully. The author uses personal experience, and the experiences of people she has coached in her professional life, to demonstrate how to stop enduring people, things, etc., in your life and start choosing to live a life that is aligned with your higher truth. While some books require extensive exercises and cumbersome companion workbooks, this book is much less threatening and provides thoughtful questions (she titles these "Time In") for your own consideration after she provides important "food for thought". One thing in particular that I appreciated about the author's approach is that living your life to the fullest is a process that can be started today, no matter what your situation. For example, one of her chapters is titled, "Daily Tonic for an Extraordinary Life" and she offers the following, "Living our truth cannot be for some future goal or noble end; our commitment to releasing judgment and limiting beliefs, practicing positive affirmation, honoring our emotions, and striving for win-win is the daily tonic for breaking free of our endurance." Wonderful stuff that I highly recommend to any reader!

An empowering book that will take you in the direction of your dreams!

So all this time I've been "enduring," I could have been thriving! That's the lesson of "Enough is Enough!" by life coach and consulting expert Jane Straus, who tells us that just enduring life is no way to happiness. In this powerful and truly empowering book, Straus shows how we let our fears, limitations and beliefs lead us into a life where we are just going through the motions. Until we break the bonds of just "enduring," we cannot get to that marvelous place where we aren't just surviving, we are truly thriving, and this book is chock full of tips, tools and techniques for getting us there. Using plenty of personal experience, plus that of clients she's coached to happiness and success, Straus takes us on a journey that begins by identifying the symptoms of endurance, which include not believing you have enough talent or time, ignoring your feelings, hoping things will change someday, distracting yourself with food or busywork, and more. Once we know HOW we endure, we can then work to change our habits and live a life with more integrity and authenticity. The chapters help us to find ways to drop our "acts" and find our real inner drives, how to let our heart be free to tell us what it wants, how to forgive ourselves and others so we can move past the past, how to think outside of our comfort zone, and how to constantly find inspiration around us to keep us going in the direction of our dreams. The author's use of her own personal journey and those of her clients really add so much depth and insight, and reading about how others reached their "enough is enough" point is inspiring and motivating. This is a book that can change so many aspects of your life, as it focuses on getting out of the "just getting by" mode and into a more proactive and enthusiastic way of being in the world. "Enough is Enough!" is a book that will change the way you look at the life you are now living, and help you shape it into the life you've always wanted to live.

A Practical Approach!

Finally! A practical self help type book with scenarios and ideas for self reflection that urge you to go deeper into your patterns and prior choices. Easy reading and (yippee) a sense of humor about the human condition!

Defragging the soul

Through the port hole of her life experience, humbly and vulnerably, Jane shows great discernment in revealing the principles and laws that are in place in our world. Written in a tangible and practical way for immediate life changing application, this book will be a blessing to all who seek and value the fruit of wisdom. From the context of my Christian faith it does not contradict truths, but represents them in a way that all can benefit from regardless of background or religious belief. A great work! Thank you.

Start Living: Enough Really Is Enough

While this book will be of value to everyone, it reveals that, even for those of us that may be in the latter half of our lives, we have not gained as much wisdom about how to live a full, joyful life as we may have thought. In fact, most of us likely have been living life under many limiting assumptions that are keeping us enduring. In this book, Jane Straus demonstrates that we are not required to endure one obstacle after another before we are allowed to experience happiness and fulfillment at some vague future time in life. In fact, she illuminates how it is not the outside world imposing these circumstances and obstacles upon us; it is really that we impose limitations upon ourselves. When fear runs our lives, causing us to act inauthentically and then judging ourselves for this, we become limited in our ability to live life to the fullest. I think the title of this book is perfect. Once we realize that it is even possible to imagine that enough endurance is enough, we truly can start living our extraordinary lives-no matter what your age may be.