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** Self
Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out by Phillip
C. McGraw
Your life has a root core that, once
understood, unlocks a powerful force to create your life the way it was
meant to be, the way you want and need it to be. Key questions and an
amazingly clear "map" are now at your fingertips to begin your
journey to "Live by Design." Through his books, McGraw
has changed the lives of millions. In introducing the world to his matter-of-fact,
tell-it-like-it-is philosophy of life, Dr. Phil, as he is known to his
legions of fans, has put an end to the "everyone's a victim"
attitude that had taken hold of our culture.
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Sacred
Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss
Some
know it as a calling. Some see it as a life mission. "In short,
a Sacred Contract is an agreement your soul makes before you are born,"
Myss explains. "You promise to do certain things for yourself, for
others, and for divine purposes. Part of the Contract requires that you
discover what you are meant to do." Herein lies the rub. Decoding
our Sacred Contract requires us to become fluent in the language of symbols
and archetypes so that we can interpret dreams, understand the meaning
behind "coincidences," and learn to follow our intuition.
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The
Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness by Gary Zukav, Linda
Francis
We are all students in the "Earth
school," according to authors Gary Zukav and Linda Francis in The
Heart of the Soul. And the time has come to create a whole new lesson
plan. For thousands of years we were outwardly focused, as we mastered
the tasks of cultivating food and building shelter. Unfortunately, we
are still outwardly fixated, obsessively accumulating more wealth, material
objects, and power. "What enabled our species to survive so long
is now bad medicine. In fact, it is poison," according to Zukav
and Francis. What we need now is an inward focus, in which we cultivate
the heart and live in alignment with our souls. |
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Do
What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets
of Personality Typeby Paul D. Tieger,
Barbara Barron-Tieger
For over 10 years, Do
What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find the job
that suits their personality type best. Using workbook exercises, the
book provides specific job search strategies, including information on
how to harness the power of the Internet to conduct the most efficient
and effective job search. It lists the wide array of occupations that
are popular with your personality type, including today's hottest career
tracks in growth areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media,
and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career
advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type
with real-life examples. |
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Breaking
the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance
by Kurt Wright, Donn Bruns (Photographer), W. George Meredith
Breaking
the Rules is both an intensely personal self-improvement book and a business
management book. On the self-improvement side it is a personal guide
for discovering what you are like at your very best and how to be that
way more often. It offers a complete system of self-understanding based
on the premise that being at your best is your natural state, and one
you could be enjoying more often if you weren't doing so much to interfere
with it. A complete description is furnished for how real-time access
to your intuition can be easily achieved when your intuition is being
supplied with properly framed questions. |
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Beyond
the Twelve Steps: Roadmap to a New Life by Lynn Grabhorn
"Although this book assumes the reader is a
'survivor' of alcohol, food, drug or other addictions that sent them
through their twelve step program of recovery, that needn't turn you
away from this great resource.BEYOND THE TWELVE STEPS speaks to my own
longing, shared by many I know, to hear that promised but elusive, still
small inner voice -- the voice from the kingdom within that lies behind
the loud chatter of the ego self. It is the voice of our Inner Self that
is our true identity." CONVERGENCE MAGAZINE |
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Who
Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and
in Your Life by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on
your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can
come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese
and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable
that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and
Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese
and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople,"
mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese.
It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives
and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found.
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Life
Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
by Phillip C. McGraw
Written in a tough-love,
sometimes cantankerous tone, this self-help book is not for those looking
to explore their inner child or visualize away negative energy. No, this
is pull-yourself-up-by-the- bootstraps advice from someone who's done
just that. McGraw opens with a scene describing how he helped Oprah Winfrey
survive--and win--the 1998 "Mad Cow" lawsuit in Texas, when
she was having difficulty coping with the reality of what was happening
to her. He helped her face the facts about the lawsuit, after which she
was better able to participate in crafting a strategy to win it.
McGraw first forces you to take a good hard look at who you are by dissecting
your personality. It may be painful to realize that you fall into the
"Porcupine" or "Perfecto" or any of the other personality
types McGraw delineates, but here it's true that there's no gain without
pain, because (Life Law No. 4) "You Can't Change What You Don't
Acknowledge." He then describes in depth all 10 "Life Laws"--the
rules by which the world plays--that he learned the hard way. Laws such
as "You Either Get It, or You Don't," "Life Is Managed;
It Is Not Cured," and "You Have to Name It to Claim It"
make up the bulk of the book and McGraw's realist philosophy. |
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Life
Makeovers by Cheryl Richardson
"This
book is excellent if you look to it and use it as a self help "tool"
or "mannual" and not as a book for spiritual guidance or merely
an enjoyable read. It is simply written but very well written. Precise
and to the point and this is why it is so effective. Many books will
spend pages and pages telling you about the benefits of positive thinking,and
how to achieve it. This book actually fostered positive thinking with
one very simple exercise. This is the beauty of this book!"
Wafa Rashed |
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Excuse
Me, Your Life is Waiting : The Astonishing Power of Feelings
by Lynn Grabhorn
The law of attraction puts whatever
you think about into your life, so you have to be careful what you put
in your mind and how you feel about it. The distinction between negative
wants and positive wants is difficult for most people, but the author
makes it abundantly clear with great personal examples and a lot of enthusiasm.
We can choose how we frame things and thus control the vibrations we
send out to the world. Here's a simple, four-step plan that works in
every area of life: money, health, relationships, spirituality, and more.
What if you could have everything you want by using just four simple,
guaranteed steps? We create by feeling, NOT by thought! |
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A
Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
With a compassionate
realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens,
this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity
and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city
by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in
whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted
from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste
violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to
share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters
move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine
Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman
state. |
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The
Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Don Miguel Ruiz
Featured in the premiere issue
of O: The Oprah Magazine and on Oprah's Favorite Things 2000 segment,
The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that
rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec
wisdom, the Four Agreements -- be impeccable with your word, don't take
anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best -- offer
a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform life into a new
experience of freedom, love, and true happiness. This jacketed linen-bound
hardcover gift edition features two-color printing and a silk ribbon
marker. |
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