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Life Is a Verb: 37 Days To Wake Up, Be Mindful, And Live Intentionally Paperback – Illustrated, August 26, 2008

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In October 2003, Patti Digh's stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later. The timeframe made an impression on her. What emerged was a commitment to ask herself every morning: What would I be doing today if I had only 37 days left to live? The answers changed her life and led to this new kind of book. Part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, Life is a Verb is all heart.

Within these pages―enhanced by original artwork and wide, inviting margins ready to be written in―Digh identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life: Say Yes, Trust Yourself, Slow Down, Be Generous, Speak Up, and Love More. Within this framework she supplies 37 edgy, funny, and literary life stories, each followed by a “do it now” 10-minute exercise as well as a practice to try for 37 days―and perhaps the rest of your life.

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"Life is a Verb is brilliantly-crafted, raw, gorgeously-designed, and daringly different from 'self-help' books. It relates, through stories that sparkle and astonish and soar, how to move, to be on your way, to realize who you really are through your actions. Through exercises that you participate in, as if in conversation with the author, you will learn, as she promises in the prologue, 'deeper things―how to know what to care about, how to treat others around you (and yourself), what to question, how to love, what to stand up for, and why you should tell stories and listen to the stories of others.' There is no more important learning.

So read it. Inhabit it. Breathe in every word, because every word of this book is essential. Let it animate you. Annotate it to make it your own. And then let it let you change yourself, and become who you were intended to be. Begin now. You have no time to lose."
--- Dave Pollard, author of The Natural Entrepreneur, and the weblog How to Save the World

"Patti's guide for the last 37 days of life will turn every one of your next 3700 days a fully lived experience. If you had some unsolved fear for death, that would be your season ticket to have a free ride on the train with the author. I have never seen such a simultaneously practical, esthetic and soul-caressing book in my life."

--Kichiro Hayashi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo

"I laughed. I cried. I want the t-shirt! Seriously, Life is a Verb may well be the single book that will change the world or maybe only your life . . . Artful, funny, heart-breaking, Digh reminds us that today isn't a dress rehearsal and we can start today celebrating the magic of ordinary life. Reading Life is a Verb is like mainlining goodness. Digh shows us what is real and what matters, and she gives us insiders tips on how to make minuscule life corrections that result in quantum shifts in experience. She reminds us that life can easily be fun. This will surely be the last self-help book you will ever need or want to read."
--Patricia Ryan Madson, Stanford Emerita, author of Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

"Life Is A Verb is a wonderful treat! Good exercises, stories, and examples. Reading it will help you appreciate just how much can be gained through living with intention. It's also a lot of fun."
--Roger von Oech, author of A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
 "I've said it once and I'll say it again: I adore Patti Digh's book Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally. I love her writing, her depth, her sizzle. This is a book that makes me sing with life and the possibilities we all have for transformation and awareness. It is the best antidote I've got these days for the pain and fear raging around us--that and loving hugs, long naps, fervent prayer and letting myself feel whatever I'm feeling."--Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman's Comfort Book

About the Author

Patti Digh (pronounced dye)
Patricia Digh's first book, Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures (Simon & Schuster 2000) was selected by Fortune magazine as a Best Business Book for 2000. Her most recent book, The Global Diversity Reference Guide, was published in 2003 by John Wiley.
Patti is a business consultant, writer, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of globalization and diversity. Her firm, The Circle Project, provides consulting, strategic development, and training for organizations and executives around diversity and leadership issues. Patti has developed international and diversity strategies for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many international conferences. A faculty member for the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication and the University of North Carolina at Asheville, her comments have appeared on PBS, and in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and London Financial Times, among other publications. She has written over 75 published articles and has lived, worked and traveled in over 60 countries.
In speaking and writing, Patti uses a unique style of storytelling and inspiration, gaining an international reputation for her innovative approach and ability to galvanize reflection, synthesis and action, particularly around diversity issues in organizations. She recently keynoted the International Conference of the American Society for Training and Development, with over 12,000 participants.
Patti was formerly the Vice President of International and Diversity Programs for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), with over 195,000 members. While there, she established the SHRM Global Forum and award-winning diversity initiative, including the International HR Certificate Program,
the National Diversity Conference, the Diversity Train the Trainer Certificate Program and the MOSAICS diversity newsletter. Patti is also a co-founder of The Global Diversity Roundtable, a consortium of senior practitioners from multinational corporations that provides a confidential forum for the exchange of
leading edge practices, strategies, and methodologies in global diversity.
Patti's clients include Amdocs Israel, PepsiCo, the U.S. Postal Service, Discovery Communications, Shell Oil, PBS, the Australian Human Resources Institute, the American Cancer Society, JP Morgan Chase, the American Red Cross, and the American Institute of Architects, among many others in the U.S. and abroad. She has served on the President?s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and on diversity advisory councils for the National American Red Cross, the AARP, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, among others. Patti's hobbies include making photographic image transfers and writing 37days, a weekly newsletter about living intentionally (www.37days.typepad.com). She and her husband, John Ptak, live in Asheville with their two daughters, Emma and Tess, a dog named Blue, three cats whose furniture scratching proclivities don't merit their being mentioned by name, and until the recent Unfortunate
Incident, a dwarf hamster named Maggie.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1599212951
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skirt!; First Edition (August 26, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781599212951
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1599212951
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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"If the Buddha had two kids, a dog named Blue, a Southern accent, and a huge crush on Johnny Depp, his name would be Patti Digh," wrote one reviewer after Digh's grassroots bestseller, Life Is a Verb, was published. In 2003, Patti Digh's stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer and died just 37 days later. She woke up on day 38 and asked herself a question that she has asked every morning since: "What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?"

Patti's award-winning blog, 37days.com, emerged from the lessons she learned by asking that question and soon the essays were crafted into the bestselling book LIFE IS A VERB: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally. Patti has since written FOUR-WORD SELF-HELP: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives, CREATIVE IS A VERB: If You're Alive, You're Creative, and WHAT I WISH FOR YOU: Simple Wisdom for a Happy Life.

Her new book, The GEOGRAPHY OF LOSS, is due out from Globe Pequot Press in Summer 2013. In the tradition of her other releases, Geography of Loss will also be beautifully illustrated by readers. This unique book will serve as a guide to help readers Embrace What Is, Honor What Was and Love What Will Be.

In addition to her writing, Patti is a co-founder of an international consulting firm focused on re-imagining K-12 education. Patti is also a sought after Keynote speaker. Audiences come away from her speeches both laughing and crying, and with a clearer sense of what's important in their own lives.

Patti and her family live (intentionally) in the serene mountain town of Asheville, NC.

www.37days.com

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Mark Trevor Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising depth
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2023
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Bought this to work through with a friend. Expected superficiality but found depth. Rilke, Nabokov, Tennyson jump in soon to help us think about the best ways to spend our remaining days in earth.
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Jean A. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Grace in a Beautiful, Well-Written, Humorous Package
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2008
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I have been reading Patti Digh's blog "37Days" for many months now and I am always moved by her humor, her humanity and her insight.

She has captured all those things in an art-full, inviting book. "Life is a Verb" has truly changed me. I am doing the exercises, re-reading the essays. Thinking about life again when I feared I had fallen into some pit of monotony and sameness. Now, I am noticing beauty and joy purposefully. What a gift this book is and can be. I have already purchased 4 more copies for all my friends who need a little perspective or who can appreciate a good laugh.

Don't miss this book! Not only is it brain-food, it is eye-candy. Art submitted by folks who read her blog, thick pages with wide margins for dreaming and thinking and questioning, colorful pages.

Can you tell I really, really love this book? Hurry up and order yours!
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JET15
5.0 out of 5 stars My life has been verbed
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2010
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When I began reading this book I was a little skeptical about what I was going to learn and if I was going to learn anything at all. The author gave incredible good examples for all of the ways that she mentioned to create a better life for yourself. She gave insight into her own life and showed how her life was just as complex and sometimes as boring as my own. I did every activity that she suggested and I got so much more out of the book than if I skipped them. I learned that life is meant to be lived, it's meant to create, and it's meant to be more open to all of the ideas that the world can give me. Excellent book and very motivational.
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She Reads and Dreams
3.0 out of 5 stars Another blogger book
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2015
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I bought this book in 2008, and I've only just finished reading it. In a personal disclaimer, as of about 2010 I make it a policy to NEVER buy books from writers who publish a book based on their successful blog. In my experience, a good blog writer does not necessarily make a good book writer, and Digh proves this opinion to be true. The book is repetitive - especially in relaiton to Digh's family. We constantly hear about "toddler Tess" and "teenager Emma." We know Tess is a toddler after we've read that ten times over fifteen chapters, but because this book is made up of blog posts where people need context for each post, we have to hear about it time and time again. Another complaint is that a lot of the exercises feel trite and silly - there are many other books that so the exercise portion so much better. "Be like Tess and wave and everyone" as an activity is ridiculous. Tess is a child, and that's cute. Most reader are grown adults who might be hauled to the funny farm if they start waving like an adorable moron to everyone. I also found the flow of this book curious - the "37 Days" thing is based on Digh's stepfather's time from disgnosis to death, but the end of the book (write your own obituary - really?) the focus is firmly on Digh's biological father who died earlier in her life. I understand both are terrible loses, but it felt strange to have two different deaths bookend the "story." I gave this book 3 stars because there were stories I enjoyed, and unlike other reviewers, I liked the quotes and the poems.
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I love practicing mindfulness, this took me a step further !! Fun, practical and inspirational .....
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SherryMarie
5.0 out of 5 stars My own 37 days
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2010
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I read a number of the preceeding reviews and then bought 2 copies of "Life Is A Verb" in mid-January of 2009. My sister's birthday was coming up, and I sent one copy to her with the suggestion that we read it in tandem, sharing thoughts via e-mail. She didn't like the idea, and within a few weeks I had my very own 37-days experience--I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. "Life is a Verb" went to the bottom of my book stack as I headed for surgery and then months of chemotherapy--I was too busy making every minute count to read about making every minute count. However, a year later and feeling quite strong and well, I resurrected Patti Dighe--and I'm very, very glad I did. Not every one of her stories hits me, but many, many do, and have become personal mantras or themes for sermons or my work with church interim task forces (I am a clergywoman trained as a transition specialist). I do try now to celebrate every orange flag, wear pink glasses (mine are actually purple), and polish my mudballs--now if only I could get my son-in-law and/or husband to just let it be a barn! I still have about a third of the book to go--I savor it in tiny little bits--but I suspect it will be one of the few I re-read every few years, if indeed I HAVE another few years. If I don't, Patti Dighe will have made the last year richer, and I bless her for it.
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Emerita, Stanford University
5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom for our times . . .
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2008
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Once a decade a book is published that delivers more than it promises. Patti Digh's voice is an Everywomen for our time. Her stories are about real people (what other kind are there? she might say). She reminds us to look beyond our myopic self interest to engage the world, to see the homeless as human first and then as people without homes. She is the high priestess of reverence for ordinary life. Kind and self effacing, her writing is wry and deep and wide. Do yourself a favor and order a case of these books. These will be gifts that keep on giving. And, be sure that your local library has a copy or three.
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Paris A.
5.0 out of 5 stars So inspirational
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2012
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I think this is one of the most inspirational books I've come across. I've already decided this is the book I'm giving everyone for Christmas this year, to pay it forward.

However, as another reviewer pointed out, in the Kindle version there are tons of typographical errors. TONS! Please please, whoever is in control of that, go in and edit it better, and rerelease it on Kindle. It was quite distracting.
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davide
5.0 out of 5 stars Meravigliosa consapevolezza di vita
Reviewed in Italy on September 20, 2013
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E' un libro molto molto particolare, si fa leggere bene (é in inglese) e avvicina il lettore con un metodo tutto suo, fatto anche di "piccole coccole di scrittura". 37 messaggi da leggere, alcuni all'apparenza banali o scontati ma che fa bene ricordare di tanto in tanto, perché la vita é fatta di tanti piccoli attimi che spesso lasciamo sfuggire, quasi come pensassimo di avere tempo infinito davanti a noi, fino a quando ci rendiamo conto che il nostro tempo che avanza é poco...
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Isabella
5.0 out of 5 stars My bible!
Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2010
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This book's title jumped out at me on Amazon.com when I was searching for something else. For some reason, my inner voice urged me to order it. I am so glad I did because it was just what was needed. When I first started to read it I wasn't sure but after the first few pages I was hooked! It is funny, and sometimes sad but I am left exhilarated after each reading session. Like the reviewer above, I will never lend it out but will be giving a copy to many of my friends. Thanks so much Patti
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MR G
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2011
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I bought this wonderful book a few years ago and I have read it over and over again. I love the way Patti Digh has collected together so many wonderful, interesting and inspirational stories. It reads nothing like the average "self help" book and it does not claim to be one! Each time I return to this beautiful book I circle a different quotation and write something new in the margins. Thank you Patti for this gift. No matter how many times I read this I still can't find anything weird or new age!
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S. F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wunderschön
Reviewed in Germany on January 17, 2009
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Was würden Sie tun, wenn Sie wüssten, dass noch 37 Tage Leben übrig sind? Womit füllen, wie gestalten, was ist wirklich wichtig, wenn es darauf ankommt?
Philosophieren darüber - da gibt es unendliche Literaturlisten.
Hier aber ist eine ganz praktische Anleitung wie man selbst dahinterkommt, was der Sinn des EIGENEN Lebens ist, wie es Erfüllung erfahren kann.
Dazu kommt eine wunderschöne Gestaltung der Buchseiten, Inspiration pur.
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Colleen R MacKinnon
5.0 out of 5 stars fast shippping
Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2018
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good condition, exactly as stated. Thank you!
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