Valorie Burton - Where Will You Go from Here?: Moving Forward When Life Doesnt Go as Planned

Valorie Burton navigates us through the maze of lifes uncertainty with the skill of a GPS system placing us back on course. For those who refuse to live the rest of their lives stuck on the side of the road, this book gives guidance!

B ISHOP T. D. J AKES , New York Times best-selling author,
founder and senior pastor of The Potters House

This compelling book offers a hands-on approach to recoveringand thrivingafter crisis. Valorie Burton provides well-researched solutions, practical help, and many examples of real people who have faced dark times of adversity and come out on the other end stronger for it. In these pages, readers will find hope and answers for how to progress from a place of pain and setback to hope and abundant life.

S HAUNTI F ELDHAHN , best-selling author of For Women Only

If you are in that what now? place in your life, this is the book for youfilled with practical steps and profound principles to jump-start your comeback, but even more important, youre repositioning for new levels of victory in your life. Valorie Burton speaks from experience as well as learned wisdom and offers the tools you need to master your life and get the results you desire.

M ICHELLE M CKINNEY H AMMOND , author of
How to Make Life Work

Ive never seen such a clear road map to full recovery as Valorie Burton has so vividly drawn in this phenomenal book. She doesnt just help you arrive at a better destination; she inspires you to savor the journey every step of the way. Ill be using Where Will You Go from Here? with many of my coaching clients!

S HANNON E THRIDGE , M.A., certified life coach, international
speaker, and best-selling author of Every Womans Battle

In Where Will You Go from Here? my friend Valorie Burton offers a clear, concise, and manageable plan for dealing with the curve balls that life throws at you. If you open your mind to receive what she has laid out, you will be much more prepared to make the right choices at the right time.

R OLAND S. M ARTIN , host/managing editor of Washington Watch (TV One cable network) and analyst for CNN and the Tom Joyner Morning Show

In her book Where Will You Go from Here? Valorie Burton has provided us with the perfect map for those times when we feel traumatized and cant see the road in front of us. I am excited she has put her words of wisdom on paper. If an unexpected challenge has brought your life to a screeching halt, Valorie will help get you moving again!

C HONDA P IERCE , comedienne, author, and recording artist

W HERE W ILL Y OU G O FROM H ERE?
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eISBN: 978-0-307-72977-4

Copyright 2011 by Valorie Raquel Burton

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

J OHN W OODEN

L ife has a way of taking us by surprise. One day everything seems fine. Youre making progress toward your professional and financial goals, youre finally getting in shape, youre making plans for the future, and bam, youre knocked senseless by some unexpected development. Suddenly everything you believed to be true about your life is in question. Youre disoriented. Youre scared. And you may feel as if youve landed in a foreign, lonely place.

My guess is you picked up this book because you know exactly what Im talking about. Some unexpected turn in your life story has left you not only deeply disappointed but also unsure of what do to next. So my goal is to help you answer this vital question: where will you go from here? Whatever has sent your life plans careening off coursean unplanned career change, the death of a marriage, a health crisis, or something else altogetherIve written this book with your unique emotions, challenges, and destiny in mind.