What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up?

By Marlene Hamilton and Kenney Hayes

Do you remember what you dreamed of becoming when you were a child? Did that change as you grew older, or did other parts of your life cause you to do something else while dreaming the same dream? Are you ready to find a way back to your dreams, or to find what you haven't even dared to dream? What Do We Want To Be When We Grow Up? offers, in a conversational format, the views of women who have found the path to their dreams, and whose path has lead them to help others do the same. Kenney Hayes gives advice from the perspective of working for over thirty years as a banking executive, and knowing the challenges that women face in their professional lives. Utilizing her life-long experience in women's ministry organizations to encourage women to seek those things about which they are passionate, Marlene Hamilton's approach focuses on the spirit. By collaborating back-to-back, each encounter creates a dynamic diversity of experience intimately familiar with a woman 1/2s heart, mind, and soul. Women are challenged to think and take action through the personal-enhancement pages at the end of each chapter, which also give opportunities to internalize, strategize, and realize. Gain insight to your secret dreams and discover why many of them are still secret. Discover why frustrations occur in your life, and what they can teach you. Get in touch with your "inner woman", and find out how to motivate her. Change your life with belief, conviction, and passion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565549902
• ISBN13: 9781565549906
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Do we have to grow up?

This is like reading your best friends journal. Great life stories,lessons learned and wisdom included. Try it. You won't be disappointed.

Good, Common-sense Advice

Every year thousands of self-help books are published promising you can be smarter, richer, thinner, happier and/or better pleased with yourself even without all of the above. The majority of these books have one basic assumption: that the reader knows what he or she wants.Authors Kenney Hayes and Marlene Hamilton, however, know there are some --women in particular -- who may have a feeling there's something missing in their lives but aren't quite sure what. What may be missing, they say, is an understanding of one's life's purpose, a dream. Everyone has such a purpose, they advise, but may have either lacked the courage to pursue it or lost faith in their ability to do so. What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up is for them. "Get ready," writes Ms. Hamilton, "to visualize the invisible Dream God has for you, or the one tucked down deep within your heart."In a breezy, wry style, Ms. Hayes and Ms. Hamilton offer the kind of "you can do it" encouragement one gets from good friends, and that is totally intentional. Although both are active in church ministry, they aren't out to preach a sermon. Instead, by using events in their own lives as examples, they show how even the negative events in our lives can further our path goalward. Each chapter is followed by a single page of exercises intended to build confidence and aid in self-discovery, making their slim volume an potentially excellent group study guide.WHAT DO WE WANT TO BE WHEN WE GROW UP might almost be subtitled "An Introduction to Self-Help," because that is essentially what it does. It's a place to start if one is dissatisfied without quite knowing why, a first step on the road to finding out just what one is here for presented in an easily digested, uplifting way that never accuses or condemns. And it is well worth reading just for the pleasure of knowing the authors.