6 Good Reasons to Get Into: Life Is A Verb, by Patti Digh:

1. The book is sectioned into six practices to be explored,

Intensity: Say Yes
Inclusion: Be Generous
Integrity: Speak Up
Intimacy: Love More
Intuition: Trust Yourself
Intention: Slow Down

2. Burn Those Jeans, Chapter 6, where Patti explains her three decade attachment to her favourite pair of jeans that she held on to despite the fact that they’d long ceased to fit:

“For thirty years I’ve tried to get back into a pair of jeans that are too small for my thin, strong, athletic twelve-year-old daughter?

Everything is a metaphor, isn’t it? Replace the word jeans with the albatross hanging around your neck, following you around through life, diverting your attention from the real goal, setting you up for failure. Is it the wrong goal?“

3. The Live An Irreversible Obituary exercise whereby you write your own death announcement from three perspectives: as you would like your family to write it, your closest friends, and the people in your community or at work.

4. The book is plush with inspirational quotes, from Rumi to Spanish proverbs.

4. A visual playground, Life Is A Verb is actually illustrated by the around-the-world readers of Digh’s blog 37days, and printed in full color throughout. If you’re a fan of Sark (Succulent Wild Woman) Life Is A Verb is for you.

5. It’s a great gift book for girlfriends. Best read and savored one day at a time. Digh’s writing is grounded in courage and open-heartedness, composed with poetic skill.

6. Life Is A Verb will bring you squarely back to center - from where your life affirming truth flows.

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