The Renaissance Soul: How to Make Your Passions Your Life—A Creative and Practical Guide

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The Experiment, Oct 8, 2013 - Self-Help - 336 pages

The guide to leading a creative, passionate, and multifaceted life—big enough to embrace all your dreams

Are you unwilling to settle on doing just one thing “for the rest of your life”? Do you jump at the chance to learn something new—or, after achieving success in one field, find yourself yearning for new challenges and looking around for something different to do? If so, you may be a Renaissance Soul. The Renaissance Soul is the first book devoted to this personality type, and in this updated edition—in paperback for the first time— author Margaret Lobenstine offers a life-planning strategy perfectly in tune with those who fear becoming “a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.” Discover how to design a vibrant, fulfilling life and how to:

• Manage your time the Renaissance Soul way
• Thrive on many interests without feeling scattered or overwhelmed
• Pursue your passions even if they “don’t pay”
• Carry your dreams forward no matter what your day job is.

Stocked with creative, doable exercises, relevant resources, and interviews with successful Renaissance Souls, this is “one self-help book that is exactly as advertised, well thought out and offering sage advice” (Boston Globe).

 

Contents

Are You a Renaissance Soul
1
Claiming Your Renaissance Soul
21
Thriving on Many Interests Without Feeling Scattered
63
Pratical Realities Career Design for Pursuing Your Passions
101
Successful Life Designs for Renaissance Souls
207
Going Deeper
275
Releveant Readings
307
So Whats Next?
311
Your Renaissance Soul Notebook
312
Acknowledgments
317
Index
319
About the Author
324
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About the author (2013)

Margaret Lobenstine founded Alternative Approaches, a career and life-coaching business, fifteen years ago and has worked with more than five thousand clients. A Renaissance Soul herself, she has created three successful—but entirely different—businesses. She lives with her husband in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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