Dare to Dream

by Florence Littauer

Tells how to discover one's personal dream and set the goals necessary to acheive it

Genres: Christian Living, Self Help

Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

About the author

Florence Littauer is a Christian self-help author and public speaker. Littauer is best known for her series of books based upon the Personality Plus personality system. She was listed as one of Helen K. Hosier's "100 Christian Women Who Changed the Twentieth Century" and has received the National Speakers Association's Council of Peers Award for Excellence and has been designated by them as a Certified Speaking Professional.

--From Wikipedia

Reviews

[Rebecca Waring-Crane · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book years ago and vaguely remember crying through much of it: I didn't know how to wrap my head around living a dream. Thinking that timing may change my perspective, I tried it again.

Re-reading it now I find the text dated and a bit over the top with example stories from people the writer knows personally or has researched. While lacking specifics on the "how" of daring, the writer shares much rehashed material from her work with personality profiles. This aspect of the book didn't help me much and neither did the thread of hero-worship for her younger brother and his success as a radio personality/deejay. I did not cry.

[Kyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's helpful!

[Colin Pearce · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Personality Plus and a bunch of other Florence Littauer books, so when I met her and shared the stage with her at several conventions where we both spoke, I had to read Dare to Dream. It's a little more serious that some of her other books but not dull in ANY way.

Florence spends a year or more gathering anecdotes and clippings from newspapers, airplane magazines, journals and notes she makes about stories she hears and when the time comes to write, it's all there for her. Her research has been done and this book is a great example of that kind of diligence.

The five big sections are Dare to Dream, Prepare the Dream, Wear the Dream, Repair the Dream and Share the Dream. I've been through each of these phases a number of times and Florence's contribution has been to let me know I am not alone and that there are no surprises in the life of a dreamer.

[Sumawil De lange · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is not much in this book of how to dream or how to accomplish your dream. What helped me in the book was two pages of personality interpretations. Florence Littauers way of summarizing the personalities is good.