Live Your Best Life

A Practical Guide

By: Karla Cauldwell

Narrated by: Karla Cauldwell

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

After 21 years of working with clients and patients as a nurse and health coach, helping guide them to create their best life, Karla Cauldwell has authored a practical step-by-step guide, taking you on a journey to inspire and transform your life and clear the path toward your best life.

No matter your situation, age, or stage in life, this audiobook will inspire you with practical tools to help you achieve your desired outcomes and motivate you to live the life of your dreams. This book provides you with all the practical steps needed to get there.

In this audiobook, Karla Cauldwell reveals how you only need yourself and a practical system that works every time for creating your best life. You’ll realize it is not hard to do, once you implement small changes, daily. The small, easy changes you make daily create and maintain the life of your dreams.

Live Your Best Life offers easy-to-understand examples, stories, and practical guidance for you to discover:

• Steps to understand yourself, your strengths, and your challenges
• Ways to use this information to create simple steps that get you to where you want to go
• Proven strategies to attain health, happiness, and joy in all aspects of your life
• Daily simple steps to transform your life
• The five critical life choices the world’s happiest people live by to actualize their best life
• Methods to learn and master the mindset for experiencing the greatest amount of wellness in your mind, body, spirit, and surroundings

The author Karla Cauldwell is speaking to you through this audiobook. She will root for you and instill a desire within you to utilize your strengths and design a simple and doable plan for living your best life.

Live Your Best Life is a must-listen and a staple for your audiobook library. It is a book that you will return to frequently to give rise to and sustain your best life.

©2017, 2019 Karla Cauldwell (P)2020 Karla Cauldwell

Encouraging and supportive

This will certainly be a book I revisit. There are many lessons to take away and many layers I need to peel away on my own proverbial onion. I like the concept that we are not victims and we are in control of our own outcomes. I also really like that the author also gives titles of other books through out, knowing that there is something to grow on in other authors creations. You can hear the audio edits and you can tell the author has not had a lot of experience recording an audiobook however her insights and additional experiences are good to hear. Overall I enjoyed listening to this audiobook and I will be listening to it again.

Good Practical Guide

Good book and life resource guide. The context and guidance are practical, relatable and empowering. Some of it may seem obvious, but I guarantee many of us have not applied these principles despite knowing them. I felt a little convicted in a few areas and can see how I have control to change many things. Not everyone will be ready to receive the advice or willing to change things and there are some circumstances in life, physical and mental health challenges that are not in our control. But I appreciate the challenge to be optimistic.

The speed that she records it in may be great for some.
I sped it up to 1.5 x and you really get the motivational speaker affect which is fantastic when you need a boost. But when she provides exercise instructions, the speed helps my ADHD mind focus on the details.

She recommends reading it completely then come back and apply the exercises. I do agree with this but challenge readers to attempt the exercises the first time through then be more intentional the second time around. I imagine I will have to focus on specific sections to really make changes in all of the suggested areas. However, I can truly say that learning to truly love yourself and care enough to do the “hard things” for yourself is key. Especially if you’re a people pleaser like me who finds it easy to care for others but equally difficult to apply the same care to myself.

I highly recommend this book to anyone truly seeking to make changes to “live your best life.”

Life, Simplified for those of us complicating it.

Get this book. If you're in the self-help addiction realm, as I am, you'll be pleasantly surprised by all the references to additional books you've either read or have on your to-read list, as well as possibly a handful of new recommendations to add to your ever-growing list. For me, this added credibility, knowing that the author was climbing up a similar tree as I am. Full disclosure, I knew Karla (the author) in high school. Not well, but well enough to know she's an exceptional human being with a heart of gold. I had every intention of purchasing her book in support, but as I am currently in a self-induced quite overwhelmed parasympathetic state, I still had it on my to-do list when she graciously offered up a few copies in exchange for an honest review. Here I stand promising you that while indeed I do know Karla's heart, I have not kept in touch nor followed her closely for many years. Reading her book was an honor and I give you my honest commentary.

That was a lengthy intro, if only to say I truly enjoyed this book, as someone without an alterior motive or needing to present a 5-star review that hasn't been earned. This is a fabulously straightforward, yet not superficial book by any means. In 2024 when having an imbalanced nervous system is becoming a trendy norm, Karla brings both the simplicity of what you need to do to Live Your Best Life, and the approach of a friend, sister, mother and coach all into one. At times you're reminded of what to do. At others, you're only reminded to take a step back and simplify the chaos you've self-inflicted. This audible version, that she narrates herself, starts off honestly a bit robotic, but as it goes on, the author reads it with the ease of a conversation, even adding in examples and commentary that I don't believe would be on the written pages of the actual book, including some "Now, years later" additions. In retrospect though, how DO you make the copyright page sound interesting?

Karla brings calm and assurance to a subject many of us ignore, overthink or overcomplicate. It's spiritual, without impressing a particular religion upon the reader or making one feel uncomfortable. In fact, she's encouraging in her approach to find the spirituality that speaks to you as in individual. Her writing is nonjudgmental and she encourages you to go inward for answers, rather than searching for them elsewhere, like many of us self-help addicts tend to do. She does add a "My prayer for you" after each section, which at first I was taken aback by, but then grew to love as it made me feel like she was in my corner, encouraging me at each step along the way.

Her writing is empowering, encouraging the reader to accept themselves as they are and free themselves from unrealistic expectations, making positive suggestions and moreso simple explanations as to why and/or how to quiet our busy minds. Her writing inspires the reader to take action for change, without making you feel like you're about to embark on an uphill battle. Many books leave the reader, from my experience, feeling overwhelmed; however, this one leaves you feeling encouraged even if you're the kind of person who ends up moving on to the next book without taking any of the recommended action. For me, this is enough to earn it 5-stars. Too many books leave you feeling hopeless and overwhelmed, or that your path needs to conform to contain certain steps or even that you're path needs to be something beyond that which feels do-able. Karla brings you back to Earth, reminds you of the basics, while also gently steering you in the direction of positive change.

As someone with adult-diagnosed ADHD, I am a constant over-thinker and I appreciated the back to basics, but thoroughly well-rounded approach with wonderful suggestions. That being said, I do have one critical point and that is that during one chapter specifically, it is easy to see the authors limited understanding of the neurodivergent population. That those who struggle with it cannot for example, "simply" make changes to "be organized" or "eat well" as can the neurotypical population. These well-intentioned references to seemingly simple life tasks made me want to throw the book against the proverbial wall; however, these recommendations were aimed at the general public and not necessarily a fault of the author, just something to note in case you ARE in the ADHD hurricane. However, IF you are, I still highly recommend this read as the overall recommendations and the way it is delivered is delightfully uplifting and hopeful and will no doubtedly move you around the corner in a direction that is much more helpful than perhaps the mountain you are climbing now. That small section for ways to improve your daily is likely already on your radar in much more detail.

In conclusion - You need this book. Read it at the beach; Gift it to a friend. It's what every human needs in this overworked, overstimulated world to remind us how to recenter and enjoy what matters most.