Lotus and the Pool: How to Create Your Own Career

by Hilda Lee Dail

Book Overview

This book offers a totally new, holistic approach to career development, involving the wisdom of the unconscious--expressed in dreams, symbols, personal myths, intuitions, and memories--as well as the analytical skills needed to set goals and plan strategies. It is designed for anyone who has to make important life decisions--whether in choosing a field, changing careers, trying to get more satisfaction out of work, planning for retirement, or reentering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087773478X
• ISBN13: 9780877734789
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A tool for self discovery

When I first read this book about ten years ago, I was floudering about in a very unfulfilling career with no idea what made me happy or how to incorporate the happy, successful part of my life into what I did for a living. I'll be truthful and say I didn't do all the exercises, I skipped some of the meditations and hopped and skimmed through a number of chapters. Nevertheless, some very important processes that I did complete were rather profound and did eventually lead me to move to a better city, and make career choices that were much more closely aligned with who I really wanted to be. The book is most useful in getting one to stop focusing on the intensly negative experience of not being in balance. Of feeling stuck and unfulfilled. It is at it's best a guidebook for discerning the you who wants to be actualized.I give it four stars because it doesn't have an index and that makes it a bit difficult to navigate between the steps described.OTherwise, I think it should be regarded as a standard reference in the field of career counseling.