Waiting for Jack: Confessions of a Self-Help Junkie: How to Stop Waiting and Start Living Your Life
Waiting for Jack: Confessions of a Self-Help Junkie: How to Stop Waiting and Start Living Your Life
Robin Spizman says: “Refreshingly vulnerable, witty and wise. Waiting for Jack feels like a conversation with your best friend over coffee. With an honest approach and take action message, Kristen Moeller motivates readers to make it happen. This book is a special gift!”
Waiting for Jack is Eat, Pray, Love meets the Success Principles. Its memoir meets “how to.” It’s an inquiry into why we keep waiting for our lives to start, why we look outside ourselves for the answers and why we hide the magnificence that we really are. After so many years of being a seeker and not a finder, I declared an end to the “waiting for Jack.” Through the sharing of intimate and authentic stories (both mine and others), the reader takes the journey to break free from the “self-help treadmill” and to find their own “inner Jack.”
It is the permission we have been waiting for to end the cycle of searching and never finding. It’s an inquiry not an answer—the reader is provided with tools and challenged to find her own unique answers. It is the call to stop “jacking around.” It’s the access to being set free to create our lives and to stop waiting to live.
We are all Waiting for Jack—whatever or whoever “Jack” is. We falsely believe the gifts of life are just around the corner, that anywhere is better than here, that one day we will arrive and everything will be okay. So we don’t try; we give up. We sell out and we forget who we are. We are afraid to succeed, afraid to fail, and afraid to say we are afraid. But as Wayne Gretzky said, “You’ll always miss one-hundred percent of the shots you don’t take!”
So take the shot, get on the path, and move forward. Authentically give your word to something that matters to you. And remember, you don’t have to wait for Jack.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars This book is wonderful, honest & inspirational
“Waiting for Jack” is an inspirational story that is written in an honest, down-to-earth and identifiable tone. The author, Kristen Moeller, engages you from the beginning of her journey with both sadness & hope. The book is filled with wonderful quotes that I would read out loud to my husband. There is a bit of Kristen in all of us…so as the title says, what are you waiting for? I highly recommend buying this book — her positive energy is infectious!
5 Stars Surrender is not an option!
This was a classic real life case of “don’t judge a book by its cover” Don’t let the sub title fool you; Kristen Moeller delivers content with real, true, funny, heartfelt, & sincere insights on how to practice the best habits for you to stop waiting and get moving on your thoughts. Timing is everything and there hasn’t been a better time to Disrupt Your Ordinary! If you are looking to break out of your routine this book will surely be a wake up call. I am exposed to books on a regular basis and my quest for knowledge and Library is extensive. I had the opportunity to receive Kristen’s book at a chance meeting in LA and added it to my collection. Though brief, her energy gave me a sense that this book may be pretty special; I placed it on my shelf with the others for my reading queue. I thought when will I read this book when I have so many already? Then one early morning as I walked into my office, thoughts of my personal relationship with my wife prompted me to take immediate action with many questions about our relationship and its longevity. I decided to change my patterns, there it was staring at me…The day had come, based on a “gut” feeling I catapulted this “Waiting For Jack” to the top of my reading list. I believed that she in fact probably has something great to say. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, changed my normal patterns and began reading with intensity. Kristen’s message answered my call for the information I needed at that exact moment I needed it and she delivered. Thank you for your wonderful Wisdom and Information! I will gladly be referring this book to my community in the quest to make a difference and change the way we filter the world and communicate more effectively.
5 Stars Waiting for Jack
OH my GOSH! What have I been waiting for? Reading Kristen’s humorous, fun, heartfelt book of her journey made me wake up and realize it is time to take ACTION and quit the cycle of waiting for someone, something and some place to make decisions for me. If you have been waiting for something bigger, brighter and better to happen to you…read “Waiting for Jack” and you won’t spend another minute waiting-you will be ready to take action to fulfill your dreams!
5 Stars This book works!
I too love this book. Its a very original idea, and beautifully written and structured- its a joy to turn the pages to meet and then stride past the next Jack. Reading this book is like sitting with an extremely wise, funny and deeply caring friend. Thank you for this.
Allison Brandt
Washington D.C.
5 Stars Great Book from a Real Person
This is a super book. All of these “self-help” authors seem to have the perfect system and perfect life. Sometimes when you read their books it’s as if they never have a bad day and nothing ever goes wrong. Kristen is a real person. This lady hasn’t had a perfect fairytale life of bliss. She is more like you and I than any self-help author I have ever read. To read about her life struggles and how she overcame them and stopped “waiting” is very helpful.
If you have ever felt the need to get everything perfect in your life prior to going after your dreams, passions, or goals this is the book for you. It’s not about getting life perfect before starting. It’s about stopping the waiting and living!
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