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Registration for our next Live the Life You Love Book Club opens in March 2026
Book clubs beginning sooner:
March 2025 It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now
July 2025 I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
November 2025 Refuse to Choose
Our next Barbara Sher book club begins on March 26th with Live the Life You Love (in Ten Easy Step-by-Step Lessons). The exercises in this one will carry you along from not knowing what you want right into accomplishing the work required to add it to your life. Sign up below by 11:55 pm, NY time, on Wednesday, March 25th to be part of these powerful 16 weeks of reading, discussing and moving toward a life you truly love.
And please don’t worry whether this will fit with your schedule. It will, no matter where in the world you live.
This book is different from the other ones we’ve done book clubs for. Live the Life You Love is the book that helps you figure out what you want and takes you step-by-step to achieving it. By the end you have found and are doing what you love to do. It’s the do-it-yourself version of Wishcraft.
Except you won’t need to do it yourself, because you’ll be part of a group sharing what you’re learning, and the steps you’re taking, through the exercises in each chapter. You’ll get more out of the book. And you’ll get the accountability that helps you make the time each week to read some more of the book and really work through the exercises.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
That’s what we’re creating here, and we want you to be part of it. For sixteen weeks, we’ll share Barbara Sher’s Live the Life You Love (in Ten Easy Step-by-Step Lessons), winner of the Books for a Better Life Award for best motivation book of 1997 and a five-week Publisher’s Weekly bestseller. We’ll read every word. We’ll do all of the exercises. And we’ll encourage you on your transformative journey from wherever you’re stuck today to a life that makes you happy.
Registration opens March 12, 2026
Tammy Garver, from Barbara’s very first Scanner Retreat in Corfu
Your Guide: Tammy Garver, from Barbara’s very first Scanner Retreat in Corfu
Tammy Garver has been immersed in Barbara’s work and using her methods and philosophy for more than 3 decades! A true Scanner, Tammy is honored to include teacher, writer, artist, consultant, certified life coach, practicing helping professional and holistic thinker on her list of loves and pursuits. Tammy is an alumna of Barbara’s first Write Speak Retreat and used ideas from Refuse to Choose to raise money to attend the first Scanner Retreat in 2006 where she finally “met her tribe” in Corfu. She created and led our Weekend of Wishes in Cleveland in April of 2023. Tammy’s education includes degrees in Human Services, Family and Individual Studies, Early Childhood and a special concentration in Teaching Adult Learners. Tammy loves having fun, robust conversations and discovering new things with Scanners and Divers alike. This will be her eighteenth time as a Barbara Sher book club guide.
Here’s what people have said about Tammy:
“Tammy is a great person to brainstorm with! She always has loads of ideas and she’s very supportive.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed having Tammy as the moderator of my recent Barbara Sher Book Club. Barbara’s books are life changers, and the book club groups really compound the benefits, but having a knowledgable, supportive guide for the journey enriches the experience immeasurably. Tammy is a natural: she seems to have an intuitive feel for when the group as a whole needs a nudge, when individuals need to be encouraged, and when it’s time to really dig into someone’s response(s) and make it clear they’ve been heard—and perhaps, most importantly, that they’re not alone.”
“Having a knowledgable, supportive guide for the journey enriches the experience immeasurably. Tammy is a natural: she seems to have an intuitive feel for when the group as a whole needs a nudge, when individuals need to be encouraged, and when it’s time to really dig into someone’s response(s) and make it clear they’ve been heard—and perhaps, most importantly, that they’re not alone.”
The Live the Life You Love Book Club
We begin on Thursday, March 26, 2026. If you don’t sign up by the night before, it’s likely to be a year or more before your next opportunity. We’ll read part of the book and do the exercises in it every week for sixteen weeks. We’ll finish up on Wednesday, Julu 15, 2026.
We’ll meet here on this website, discussing each exercise and each chapter in the comments on its own web page. No phone calls or webinars to fit into your busy schedule. Read what the rest of the club has to say and write about your experiences any time during each week. We’ll email you the comments that come in after you’ve posted yours, or you can just check back later in the week.
You will need to purchase or borrow a copy of Live the Life You Love, but they are plentiful and inexpensive. Choose the hard cover, the paperback, or the Kindle edition, whatever suits your reading style.
You will get an email every Thursday with a reminder of the week’s assignments, or you can find them in your Member Profile on this site. You can subscribe to be emailed each comment or you can visit the week’s pages to read them all at once.
As with all the previous Barbara Sher book clubs, we expect a lot of members. We’ll assign you to a group that’s just the right size for good discussions. If you want to join with a friend, do it at the same time to be part of the same group.
Registration opens March 12, 2026
No one admitted after 11:55 pm March 25 (NY time)
Money back guarantee through April 1, 2026
$82 for all 16 weeks
Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you encounter any problems with payment or if you don’t receive two emails within an hour after paying.
Live the Life You Love in Ten Easy
Step-by-Step Lessons
Is this the right book club for you?
- YES if you’re still trying to figure out what you want to be doing with your life. Or if you have an idea but aren’t making much progress toward it.
- YES if you’re stuck in a rotten job or a boring life and want some helpful, friendly accountability as you do the work to create something very different.
- YES if you get more out of exercises when you do them with other people.
- YES if you are isolated and don’t know a lot of people who have figured out what they love doing.
- YES if you’re a coach or want to be one. Learn to use my organic strategy for achieving a life your clients love.
- NO if you believe you can create your own reality just by thinking about it. (Try that on a busy highway!)
- NO if you believe a positive attitude is the best way to real results. (If you ever went to school, held down a job, or raised a child for three years or more, you surely did it with whatever attitude you woke up with each day.)
What can you expect to gain from Live the Life You Love? Well, here are what other readers have said:
If you’re in transition — or want to be — this is a fantastic book to help you redefine your life and make it a joyful one — that you yourself design.
—Gardener on Amazon.com
At a difficult point in my career, I turned to this book to help me move to something new. I followed the steps described and it really worked. I had a dream of teaching environmental ethics at university, and now I am!…Another great thing about this book is that, just as she promises, all the exercises suggested are actually fun.
—R. Griffiths on Amazon.com
“Live the Live you Love helped me go from being a starving artist with a few drawings on the wall to a successful international toy designer.”
—Zstein2 on Amazon.com
This book is very different than the usual “you can do it” book. If you follow the simple steps with this book “you will do it”! A wonderful book! You can start implementing the steps right away and be on your way to the life you love!
—Lee Mellott on Amazon.com
“This is one of the best books I have read for improving and understanding your life.”
—Jeremy S on Amazon.com
Who are you, and where are you going? If you don’t know, this book will help you find the answers.
—-J. Adams on Amazon.com
“Very straight forward with none of the usual self-help fluffy stuff to get in the way.”
—Amazon Customer on Amazon.com
This is your chance. The doors close on March 25th and the Book Club begins on March 26th. Tammy’s ready to introduce you to a lot of great people and take you through the entire book. And the earliest we can possibly offer this again is more than a year from now. Sign up now and start changing your life. You owe your gifts to the rest of us. We owe you the support you need to find those gifts and do what you were born to do.
Registration opens March 12, 2026
No one admitted after 11:55 pm March 25th (NY time)
Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you encounter any problems with payment or if you don’t receive two emails within an hour after paying.
I feel sure that I would love and benefit from being part of this book club…just cannot do it currently due to living on below poverty level govt. SSDI which only allows me to barely cover basics…so maybe by 2026 I can find a way to cover the very reasonable cost of this club when you offer it again – probably need to first find the book amidst my very full apt. and reread it, then do the exercises to look at how I could bring in more money or something to enable me to do the book club eventually! 🙂
Hi this is probably what would have helped me a lot thirty years ago, here in Australia .
I had Barbara’s book and couldn’t get anyone interested in creating a group here in 1993 (I was 33).
I’m finally really on my way now, it took three decades but it’s happening – thankyou Cosmic Creator!
I was so broke for much of that time, I wouldn’t have had any more than ten bucks to spare on a course!
But – I did have one friend who agreed to be my “check in person” weekly duting the 1990’s – where we would each do a swap of asking then telling each other “how many bite sized tasks did you get done this week?” And if it wasnt done, what were the roadblocks? And – what’s your plan for overcoming the roadblock there?
That simple check in with a trusted friend helped us both immensely.
Can you offer some free suggestions/regular encouragement like this one, to help people (especially women) at the very bottom?
Some of us need to be able to elevate ourselves to a point where we can afford the 80 dollars for the course!
Stacey Bloomfield’s courses for illustrators offer regular “valuable freebies”of this type, which is partly why she is my go to for escalating my income and prospects! (Now that I have crossed over to illustration fulltime.)
Everlasting thanks to Barbara and her early books, for helping to encourage me “at a far distance” here in Australia
Best wishes,
Phillipa Fox- author of Artful Luving in Celtic Homes (illustrated) 1999
We’re working on a few things, Pip.
Thank you for the reminder of the many increments of a passionate interest. I’m interested and involved in so many things now in retirement from law, and get so ahead of myself planning and crowding the schedule. Rest is difficult but if I do it, wonderful feelings come up. Hope that makes sense….See you on the road to a happy life.