Nonfiction: I'm just finishing this great book that is wonderful for people who have so many interests & want to move in different directions that they just can't seem to settle on one thing: (NOT an ADD or ADHD problem,) they jump from career to career, from interest to interest; they hate being pinned down to one job or self-definition. They
need variety and love of finding new challenges to do. It's also great for parents who have kids who always want to explore new things. Or teens who may be going to college soon & are not sure what to focus on. This book shows how to manage it all.
The Renaissance Soul.
There is an excerpt at
Amazon. You can also download a few chapters at the author's webpage:
First Chapter,
PARENTING THE RENAISSANCE SOUL, Turning "Too Many Interests" Into A Great Life!
It actually gave me some new ideas of part-time jobs for extra Disney cash. And I'm always having to try to explain to people how I can be a licensed therapist as well as a professional ceramic artist, inspirational jewelry maker, and the whole slew of other stuff I am involved in without sounding like a dilletante.
Her book gave me ways of doing that now, as well as giving me "permission" to already do what I've been doing!
Most importantly, she taught me: I do NOT have to stick with one thing for life! I can do something for a few years, and as I grow, change, change priorities & directions, I can switch careers, directions, hobbies & interests
with integrity, meaning not leaving people in a lurch, but transitioning out smoothly.
After this book, my next will be book,
How Much Joy Can You Stand? Just reading the Amazon excerpt alone, my heart just sings, it just so affirms my dreams & the directions I want to move in and supposedly has techniques to make it doable.
The first paragraph:
Whether you realize it or not, you and you alone have something unique to create. None of the billions of other people who populate the earth has your particular talents, knowledge, experience and dreams. This is your birthright -- the gift you have been given...If you've ever listened to that small, still voice in the dark recesses of your soul, you know it's true. Somewhere in there, the longing to manifest this gift speaks to you on a regular basis; it's that embarrassing dream you keep coming back to... 
