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Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?: 7 Spiritual Strategies to Help You Discover Your Purpose and Live It with Passion
An authentic, joyful life can be hard to find. Fortunately, Fran Harris has written the map--in 7 steps anyone can take.
Successful, self-actualized and blissful: how many of us can say that about ourselves?
Fran Harris sure can. She's a national television personality, WNBA Champion, international inspirational speaker, life coach and consultant to Fortune 500 companies. But ask her about her greatest accomplishment, and she's likely to smile and say, "That's easy: I found the REAL me."
Because she believes we should all experience that journey, Fran's new book reveals her secrets for scrapping what we think we know about authenticity so that we can see and live up to our own potential. Her "7 Steps" are unconventional--and maybe controversial--but they work.
Dr. Harris teaches that we'll only find our real selves by shedding all the layers of institutionalized belief, dogma and practice that we pile on in life--eschewing ritualized adherence in favor of a deeper, more spiritual view of the world and ourselves. This, she contends, is what "God" wants for us. According to Harris, when we become unburdened by society's expectations, we are free to experience true joy, more capable of tapping into our own genius, and more likely to attract abundance and prosperity in all areas of our lives.
A life of passion and purpose is everyone's birthright. Get yours!
Successful, self-actualized and blissful: how many of us can say that about ourselves?
Fran Harris sure can. She's a national television personality, WNBA Champion, international inspirational speaker, life coach and consultant to Fortune 500 companies. But ask her about her greatest accomplishment, and she's likely to smile and say, "That's easy: I found the REAL me."
Because she believes we should all experience that journey, Fran's new book reveals her secrets for scrapping what we think we know about authenticity so that we can see and live up to our own potential. Her "7 Steps" are unconventional--and maybe controversial--but they work.
Dr. Harris teaches that we'll only find our real selves by shedding all the layers of institutionalized belief, dogma and practice that we pile on in life--eschewing ritualized adherence in favor of a deeper, more spiritual view of the world and ourselves. This, she contends, is what "God" wants for us. According to Harris, when we become unburdened by society's expectations, we are free to experience true joy, more capable of tapping into our own genius, and more likely to attract abundance and prosperity in all areas of our lives.
A life of passion and purpose is everyone's birthright. Get yours!
255 pages, Hardcover
First published January 31, 2007
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Fran Harris
7 books1 followerFran Harris is an American television personality, sportscaster, and former professional and college basketball player who has won championships in high school, in college, and in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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August 31, 2021
This book is one of those books I haven't stopped reading in years... Fran Harris really helped me to know that has human, I am not alone in this world and I gradually started seeing who I really am
February 21, 2009
an empowering book. a lot of the things fran had to say hit home with me, but i disagreed with some major things too. first, her pluralistic view of God, spirituality, and religion.
she seems to make some contradictory statements, first saying how great it was to go to college and have so much religious diversity ("like 31 flavors of baskin robins!"). then she says "in college, before each game, we gathered in a circle and prayed to God. not to the Christians' God. not to the Muslims' Allah. Not to the Jews' God. Not to Jehovah. But to God. To Spirit. The Oneness that united us all."
so basically lets NOT be diverse anymore, but make up yet ANOTHER religion where we all believe and pray to the same "spirit" and "oneness."
?
and then she goes on to talk about the restrictions religion places on people, and how it doesnt matter how many times a day you pray or how many "hail marys" you say.
i agree completely. i believe neither are indicators of your relationship or status with God, as are many of the rites and customs inflicted on religious people.
but what happened to diversity? if we erase this part of the catholic faith, and remove that part of the muslim faith, and then just get rid of everything else thats imposes (legitimately) unnecessary rules and restrictions in all the different religions... then we end up all the same. no more celebrating our differences, no more need for tolerance, no more pluralism because weve all subscribed to one belief system now. for someone claiming to be a pluralist i just cant quite buy the flavor shes selling.
BUT. she encourages being the kind of person you want to attract, taking responsibility for your choices while accepting and "unleashing" your abilities and potential, and the importance of "blasting out" love instead of fear, anger, and criticism. i appreciate her insight and energy and a lot of her points about breaking free from religious, social, and emotional untruths and pressures were right on. sometimes her examples of things to let go of are rather odd, given the practical and necessary nature - paying your credit card debt, changing the oil in your car, watching your calories - but i appreciate her war-cry to change the things that are inhibiting you and replace them with faith, hard work, not depending on others to feel loved or to gain your sense of worth, and seeking after righteousness and a Spirit-filled life... good stuff. its already helped me adjust the way i perceive and interact with others, how i respond to challenges, and how i go about attracting good things in my life.
she seems to make some contradictory statements, first saying how great it was to go to college and have so much religious diversity ("like 31 flavors of baskin robins!"). then she says "in college, before each game, we gathered in a circle and prayed to God. not to the Christians' God. not to the Muslims' Allah. Not to the Jews' God. Not to Jehovah. But to God. To Spirit. The Oneness that united us all."
so basically lets NOT be diverse anymore, but make up yet ANOTHER religion where we all believe and pray to the same "spirit" and "oneness."
?
and then she goes on to talk about the restrictions religion places on people, and how it doesnt matter how many times a day you pray or how many "hail marys" you say.
i agree completely. i believe neither are indicators of your relationship or status with God, as are many of the rites and customs inflicted on religious people.
but what happened to diversity? if we erase this part of the catholic faith, and remove that part of the muslim faith, and then just get rid of everything else thats imposes (legitimately) unnecessary rules and restrictions in all the different religions... then we end up all the same. no more celebrating our differences, no more need for tolerance, no more pluralism because weve all subscribed to one belief system now. for someone claiming to be a pluralist i just cant quite buy the flavor shes selling.
BUT. she encourages being the kind of person you want to attract, taking responsibility for your choices while accepting and "unleashing" your abilities and potential, and the importance of "blasting out" love instead of fear, anger, and criticism. i appreciate her insight and energy and a lot of her points about breaking free from religious, social, and emotional untruths and pressures were right on. sometimes her examples of things to let go of are rather odd, given the practical and necessary nature - paying your credit card debt, changing the oil in your car, watching your calories - but i appreciate her war-cry to change the things that are inhibiting you and replace them with faith, hard work, not depending on others to feel loved or to gain your sense of worth, and seeking after righteousness and a Spirit-filled life... good stuff. its already helped me adjust the way i perceive and interact with others, how i respond to challenges, and how i go about attracting good things in my life.
January 15, 2009
Very insightful book...those who want to know their purpose on a spiritual level.
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