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Shifting Sands : A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change by Donahue, Steve is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"We had no vehicle. We didn't know how or if we could continue heading south. I was in a vast, seemingly endless desert. I didn't know when or if we'd make it to the other side. I didn't even know where the other side was. It wasn't in Algeria. I knew that much. Was it in Niger? Where does the Sahara actually end?" We live in a culture, Donahue writes, which loves "climbing mountains." We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis-divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we'll know we've arrived. And it's not just in times of crisis. There are many deserts in our lives, situations with no clear paths or boundaries. Finding a job is usually a mountain, but changing careers can be a desert. Having a baby is a mountain, especially for the mom. But raising a child is a desert. Battling cancer is a mountain. Living with a chronic illness is a desert. In the desert, we need to follow different rules than we follow when conquering a mountain. We need to be more intuitive, more patient, mor

Who reads Shifting Sands : A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change?

Author

Donahue, Steve

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609943875

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Self Help, Psychology, Travel