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"Happiness Is the New Bottom Line," read the front-page headline in USA Today. Based on a quote from life coach and best-selling author Laura Berman Fortgang, the headline reflects both a shift in perspective in recent years and the idea behind Fortgang's new book, Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction. Designed to help people discover and become who they want to be, Now What? offers a 90-day program arranged in two halves - "45 days to find the new direction, and 45 days to set the course toward it" - that makes it easy to take the crucial first steps toward better living and a more fulfilling life. "Listen to what she has to say and you will move your life to new heights," says life coach Iyanla Vanzant, and Anne Fisher of Fortune magazine writes, "This wise, honest, and practical book can help you figure out what may be holding you back, and where to go from here. I'm recommending it to everyone I know. Great stuff!"

Laura Berman Fortgang is one of the founding members of The International Coaching Federation, the author of Living Your Best Life and the business bestseller Take Yourself to the Top, and president and owner of InterCoach, Inc., a life-coaching business that works with individuals, small businesses, and corporations. She has appeared on NBC's Weekend Today, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The CBS Early Show, MSNBC, CNBC, and CNN, and her expertise is often sought in such print media as USA Today, Fortune, Self, and Money. Over the years, Fortgang has found that satisfaction with life and career stems less from what we choose to do for a living and more from who we get to be while we are doing it. Through an easy-to-follow program, which includes writing exercises to clarify goals as well as practical ways of pursuing them, Now What? offers a structured and realistic means for becoming the person the you want to be and provides several examples of people who have risen above their unhappy stations (Fortgang boasts that her program has been effective in more than 90% of her clients!) "This is it," writes author Jennifer Louden, "- a turbocharged, high-energy, stripped-to-the-core distillation of key insights and practices to truly move you forward. After reading Laura's loving and potent guidance, you can't help creating the life you yearn for." "This book will take you through an encapsulation of the process my clients go through to find out what their next step or steps should be," Fortgang writes. "The goal: a happy life. And to me, that is all that matters."

-- Marc Bain