Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness? Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?) explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we are born for the purpose of spiritual growth. Through compelling profiles of people who knowingly planned the experiences mentioned above, Your Soul’s Plan shows that suffering is not purposeless, but rather imbued with deep meaning. Working with four gifted mediums, author Robert Schwartz reveals the significance of each person’s life plan and allows us a fascinating look into the “other side.” Each personal story focuses on a specific life challenge, organized by type for easy reference. Accessible both to those familiar with the metaphysical aspects of spirituality and to the general reader, the moving narratives that comprise Your Soul’s Plan help readers awaken to the reality that they are transcendent, eternal souls. With this stirring book as a guide, feelings of anger, resentment, guilt, and victimization are healed and transformed into acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace. Robert Schwartz is also the author of Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, which explores the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage, abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. There’s also a chapter about the pre-birth planning we do with our future pets. Robert Schwartz is a hypnotherapist who offers general Spiritual Guidance Sessions, Past Life Soul Regressions, and Between Lives Soul Regressions. Visit Robert online at www.yoursoulsplan.com.

This book shows how our lives have a Planand how we can discover what we are here for. It should be of interest to spiritually-minded people of all ages, being based partly on my own experience of life (which includes bringing up a family of three and enjoying grandmotherhood), and partly on my years of working as a Deep Memory Process therapist.

While you may not understand all the twists and turns of life, you can be sure of one thing: the same God who created you, loves you. God’s personal promise to you is one of extreme hope and potential (Jeremiah 29:11). He also has an awesome strategy for your future. No matter what failure you have experienced in the past, you can learn how to make right choices at every juncture in your life. In God Has A Plan for Your Life, Dr. Charles Stanley explains that there is no such thing as coincidence, luck, or good fortune. God is sovereign, and He has a course that He wants you to follow. He opens and closes exciting doors of opportunity, but it is up to you to step through each one by faith. You don’t have to miss another exciting moment. You can live each day with a sense of hope and assurance that whatever comes your way has passed through God’s omnipotent, loving hands. This book outlines the exact steps that will lead you to discover His plan for your life.

There Is Only Plan A is a self-help book that will revolutionize and awaken a generation seeking to develop a life full of meaning, authenticity, and purpose. Through the use of real-life stories, Plan A teaches readers how to discover their purpose and calling in life, offering mechanisms to help sustain themselves while striving to obtain their Plan A. Plan A gets to the root of negative personal issues that stand in an individual's way of becoming a complete person. Through the authenticity of lived experience, readers are taken on a journey of raw spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical truths that the author, Klay S. Williams, experienced on the journey to his Plan A. The philosophy of Plan A is that when people desire to be their very best—through extreme self-expression in any arena—Plan A is the place where peace, reality, and spirit are met, offering readers the fortitude of understanding who they were meant to be. The explorative manner in which Plan A is displayed offers significant appeal to both secular and spiritual/religious readers, who are looking for a platform to experience an invigorating journey that does not judge their belief systems, but will enhance their quality of life. Plan A operates under a very specific, clear, and appealing formula that is unique to the universal experience individuals will undergo while striving to obtain their dream. Plan A simply asks the question, “Does my life reflect who I was called to be?” The immense impact of answering the above question without certainty creates an even bigger void in the lives of most young adult to midlife individuals who are seeking to live a lifespan full of meaning and purpose. There Is Only Plan A is the resource that will provide a path to both discover and fulfill the reader's mission while here on earth. Unlike most self-help books on the market today, There Is Only Plan A provides an extensive amount of teaching experience within the “Hard Work” section of Plan A—as the journey amid discovering and fulfilling our end goal is the most challenging measure of the process. Readers will discover a vast array of identifiable stories within each chapter that range from the author's stint with homelessness; relationship betrayal; divine interventions; sexual identity; financial ruin; and various other circumstances on the way to Plan A that he experienced. Unbeknownst to us, Plan A has always been working in our lives, but has required us to recognize its call, understand its meaning, and make peace with the gift that is bestowed to us. The unlikely path of the author, as he discovered his Plan A, is an incredibly interesting story that will capture the hearts and inquisitive natures of readers. Through real life journal entries that appear before each corresponding chapter, readers will experience firsthand the raw passions of the author as he discovers his dream. While engaging in graduate theological studies at Princeton Theological Seminary (in hopes of becoming a pastor) and working at Polo Ralph Lauren to offset the cost of grad school, it was within the spiritual and fashion sectors that the author found his Plan A. The unorthodox nature of Klay's Plan A serves for creative discernment, inspired conversation, and radical change in the lives of his readers. The unconventional process illustrated in There Is Only Plan A is practical and relatable for readers in a wide variety of settings, from local taverns in New York City, to Corporate America confines, to ashrams in India, to protestant synagogues in America and other followers of thought throughout the world.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Women's lives are more hectic today than ever; the demands of child rearing, work, ministry, and marriage can drain women of energy and enthusiasm. What they need is order; they need a plan for prioritizing what's important and sticking to it. Lysa TerKeurst has created Living Life on Purpose to answer this obvious need. It is a Bible study that helps women design a life plan based on seven main principles of the Proverbs 31 woman. Upon completion of this study, a woman will have goals to work toward, action steps to complete, and most importantly, a plan for living their lives on purpose . . . God's purpose.

Originally published in 2003 under the title: Life shouldn't look like this.