Many of the world's traditions promote cultivating a "sound view"-an unfettered way of seeing that is not encumbered by grasping or rejection. As you will see, this unique journal will invite you to cultivate a "sound view" in a daily, experiential way. You'll be inspired to reflect and write briefly-just a few paragraphs a day-as a way to start or end each day. Through cultivating these recommended habits regularly, you will witness simple-even profound-changes unfolding in your life.

"Cracking Up" is a girrrlbook written in the form of a letter by that growling girrrl in me who cannot tell a lie. Oh yes, that "girrrl" is really a fully grown woman who will now recollect almost all the peculiar advice she has received regarding: "What makes a young girl a successful woman?" The medium for this recollection is that oh-so-antiquated vehicle called "the Letter." Sometimes, within this letter, you'll find a furtive missive, a pithy quote, or a direct note of warning. Other times, the reader will be invited to use her imagination to invent an alternative future-as if her own...

This insightful journal is an invitation to cultivate clarity for "what's next" in your life. It will help you listen to that voice within you, the voice that will nudge you along toward your right work in the world, your vocation. "Polishing the Mirror" becomes code for cultivating calm, stilling your thoughts, dusting off social conditioning, and letting go of worry about the future. These helpful writing techniques and clever questions help you uncover your hidden passions, psycho-social temperament and natural talents, which, in turn, give you an increasingly sharp focus for going...