This book is excellent for those how have, or about to experience a breakdown due to all the stresses placed on us by society, corporate and ourselves. You can't ever be that perfect person, only the best you can be. Why are we all competing for the prize we will never win or obtain. How to have it all, the way YOU want it, not what everyone else wants for you. Great book, truthful and speaks to everyone woman and MEN, thanks for writing it and making us accept the prize is not worth loosing our family and dreams.

Funny, frank and insightful this book will help you to dust down expectations, shake off pressures and claim your right to sparkle! A practical road map to living a life you love on your own terms its the breath of fresh thinking that youve been longing for. Megans ability to walk her own talk shines through every page as her story of highs and lows unfolds restoring hope to us all.

Google 'having it all' and you will see thousands of references to this ideal. We all 'want it all', but for some reason many just can't seem to bring it into reality. Megan Dalla-Camina's book Getting real about having it all gets to the nitty gritty of how to create that world for ourselves. More importantly, she gives us insight into why it is that we may not be having it all right now.

It's a book for (primarily) Gen X women, written by one who has clearly made it in a male-dominated world. As Director of Strategy for IBM in Australia and New Zealand and Executive Director of the World Wellness Project and successful mother of an eleven year old son, Dalla-Camina is truly 'walking her talk'.

The book is broken up into three parts: 'Bringing out your Personal Best'; 'Creating a Career you Love' and 'Becoming Well Women'. It's not a simple weekend read you will need to put away personal time to apply yourself to the exercises and meditations she suggests. It is packed with powerful thoughts, ideas and tasks that, if followed with enthusiasm, will truly set you up to 'bring back your sparkle' as the sub-title of the book suggests.

I like the way Dalla-Camina blends her quirky personality with a no-nonsense approach to tapping your potential she's not some lofty guru sprouting an unrealistic approach to the reader.

One of the most valuable elements of the book is the precis at each chapter's end that provides important reality checks and tips on how to bring yourself back to taking a pragmatic approach to having it all.

This book is not about throwing wishes out to the wind and hoping they will stick somewhere and pay off a little later in your life it's a well thought out guidance manual that can help you to create the abundance, love, career and energy that Dalla-Camina clearly has in her own life.