Wake Up Live the Life You Love Finding Lifes Passion
August 21, 2009 by Finding Happiness · Leave a Comment
Wake Up Live the Life You Love Finding Lifes Passion
Inspirational speaker and coach Steven E revisits the subject of “passion” in the latest in his popular “Wake Up . . . Live the Life You Love” series. Led by such mentors and motivators as Brian Tracy and body builder Lou Ferrigno, dozens of coaches, teachers, and successful entrepreneurs discuss the role of passion in the search for success. Co-compiler Lee Beard describes it as “the engine that drives over obstacles and once-inpenetrable barriers.”
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Do It Anyway Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments
June 29, 2009 by Finding Happiness · Leave a Comment
Do It Anyway Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments
“Quoted by celebrities and politicians and cited on more than 6,000 websites, Keith’s sayings had been credited to everyone from Mother Teresa to rocker Ted Nugent.”
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent
This book is excellemt. It motivated me to “Do it anyway” I read it within a week and really enjoyed it. This is the 2nd book that I have read by Keith and I plan on reading more.
5 Stars Do It Anyway
Deep inside, we all want to do the right thing. We want to be generous, kind, loving, and full of integrity. But it’s so hard. If you decide to be kind and loving, you undoubtedly will come across someone who is difficult and confrontational. If you decide to do the right thing in your work, others will likely create obstacles for you. Then, when you’ve accomplished your goal anyway, someone else will get the credit.
Do It Anyway doesn’t debate that the world is a pretty crazy place or that good efforts often go unrewarded. Instead, it presents ten paradoxical commandments. These realistic facts of life represent the things that most commonly derail us when we try to do the right thing. Then, instead of trying to get around these things or reducing their powerful influence, the author tells us to do it anyway.
Such a simple concept but it really has power. Recently, I have been debating with myself about an aspect of my career. My concerns what if I fail and what if no one remembers my efforts. The answer, do it anyway. It’s not about applause or anyone knowing the good I do. It’s about doing what’s right. I’ll know and I will feel good about my efforts.
5 Stars A Guide Book for Meaningful Living
People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway. From the book (the first paradoxical commandment).
Sometimes it seems like there is just so much wrong in the world that nothing we can do will make a difference. In Kent M. Keith’s book “Do It Anyway” he shows us that one small person can make a difference; one small person can be the change through living the paradoxical commandments.
Mr. Keith wrote the paradoxical commandments back in the 1960’s while attending college. Over the years they gained world-wide popularity; they have circulated over the internet, and you’ve probably been the receiver of them many times.
“Give the world your best and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world your best anyway.” From the book (the tenth paradoxical commandment).
This is a sweet little book, and can easily be read in a day or two. I really enjoyed Mr. Keith’s writing style, which was very inspirational. The book is also filled with touching personal stories and questions that help the reader to think about how living the paradoxical commandments can bring more meaning and happiness into their lives and the world around them.
Sometimes we forget to give our best. It happens to all of us. But when we get to the point where we are taking the easy way out rather than doing what’s right, we are off our path, and most likely just getting by rather than living a life filled with meaning. By following the paradoxical commandments, we gain a sense of personal self-worth, and find our lives filled with meaning and happiness.
Living with Passion How to Make Every Moment Count
May 23, 2009 by Finding Happiness · Leave a Comment
Living with Passion How to Make Every Moment Count
Most everything above has to do with your ability to LIVE WITH PASSION in your life. If you’ve ever secretly thought that you are MORE than what you represent now, if you really want to actively “live with passion” you just might want evaluate your areas of daily activity and decisions.
Once you’ve discovered how to bring out your passion… Then-
♣ You would feel MORE CONFIDENT about YOUR PATH IN LIFE.
♣ Your surroundings would improve – including your job, income, relationships and family. THE PEOPLE ROUND YOU WOULD MOST LIKELY LOOK TO YOU AS A DO-ER NOT JUST A SAYER. YOU’D BECOME KNOWN AS A PERSON WHO LIVES WITH PASSION!
♣ You could FINALLY GET WHAT YOU WANT in life!
Here is what you will discover.
How to develop and identify your “Goal Posts”.
How to know with absolute certainty the steps to take so you end up where you want to be in 5 years!
Reveal how to abolish FEAR as fast as possible to FREE YOU UP to really LIVE WITH PASSION.
Solidify your sense of purpose as you actively achieve your goals, overcome obstacles and defeat adversities. This is the ground work for a passion-filled life.
Discover your true GOAL DESTINATIONS.
How to use a step by step system to plan your (fast-paced) journey to achieve more, faster than you ever dreamed. (It’s not really fair to call it a journey since it’s such a fast process.)
Uncover the simple – yet extremely effective – system to track your progress. (This is important to help you with your benchmarks of progress. And will “fire you up”.)
How to stay focused – long term – on your goals now – and in the future – so that you wake up every day energized ready to taste the juices of life! (It’s called passion!)
Discover what it takes to develop your strategy to quickly accomplish any goals you have for yours and your family’s life.
Expand your mind with a passionate and positive outlook that will lead to MORE SUCCESS in your life than you’ve ever experience before.
Support the habits that drive a “WHAT IT TAKES” attitude.
Discover the BRUTALLY HONEST TRUTH about what has been holding you back all these years and how you can avoid pitfalls that seem to be so abundant.
How to DEFINE a PASSIONATE GREAT START and what to do to make it yours!
Reveal other – not-so-well-known sources that can multiply your success rate so you can establish a passion-full life.
Much more!
Do It Anyway Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments
May 14, 2009 by Finding Happiness · Leave a Comment
Do It Anyway Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments
“Quoted by celebrities and politicians and cited on more than 6,000 websites, Keith’s sayings had been credited to everyone from Mother Teresa to rocker Ted Nugent.”
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent
This book is excellemt. It motivated me to “Do it anyway” I read it within a week and really enjoyed it. This is the 2nd book that I have read by Keith and I plan on reading more.
5 Stars Do It Anyway
Deep inside, we all want to do the right thing. We want to be generous, kind, loving, and full of integrity. But it’s so hard. If you decide to be kind and loving, you undoubtedly will come across someone who is difficult and confrontational. If you decide to do the right thing in your work, others will likely create obstacles for you. Then, when you’ve accomplished your goal anyway, someone else will get the credit.
Do It Anyway doesn’t debate that the world is a pretty crazy place or that good efforts often go unrewarded. Instead, it presents ten paradoxical commandments. These realistic facts of life represent the things that most commonly derail us when we try to do the right thing. Then, instead of trying to get around these things or reducing their powerful influence, the author tells us to do it anyway.
Such a simple concept but it really has power. Recently, I have been debating with myself about an aspect of my career. My concerns what if I fail and what if no one remembers my efforts. The answer, do it anyway. It’s not about applause or anyone knowing the good I do. It’s about doing what’s right. I’ll know and I will feel good about my efforts.
5 Stars A Guide Book for Meaningful Living
People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway. From the book (the first paradoxical commandment).
Sometimes it seems like there is just so much wrong in the world that nothing we can do will make a difference. In Kent M. Keith’s book “Do It Anyway” he shows us that one small person can make a difference; one small person can be the change through living the paradoxical commandments.
Mr. Keith wrote the paradoxical commandments back in the 1960’s while attending college. Over the years they gained world-wide popularity; they have circulated over the internet, and you’ve probably been the receiver of them many times.
“Give the world your best and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world your best anyway.” From the book (the tenth paradoxical commandment).
This is a sweet little book, and can easily be read in a day or two. I really enjoyed Mr. Keith’s writing style, which was very inspirational. The book is also filled with touching personal stories and questions that help the reader to think about how living the paradoxical commandments can bring more meaning and happiness into their lives and the world around them.
Sometimes we forget to give our best. It happens to all of us. But when we get to the point where we are taking the easy way out rather than doing what’s right, we are off our path, and most likely just getting by rather than living a life filled with meaning. By following the paradoxical commandments, we gain a sense of personal self-worth, and find our lives filled with meaning and happiness.
Happy at Last The Thinking Persons Guide to Finding Joy
May 14, 2009 by Finding Happiness · Leave a Comment
Happy at Last The Thinking Persons Guide to Finding Joy
“Many self-help books are wildly unrealistic and not grounded in any kind of scientific evidence about how the mind actually works. Not so with Richard O’Connor’s book. The author provides a clear roadmap through the opportunities, obstacles and complexities of happiness, drawing on the latest scientific research as well as his long and compassionate experience as a therapist. This is a book that leaves you wiser and better equipped to face the future.” - Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University; author of Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
“Richard O’Connor, having already helped us to undo depression and chronic stress, now helps us to do happiness. Filled with humor and humanity, this book gives an up-to-date summary of the best of what research and clinical experience has to tell us about being happy. O’Connor is an engaging writer who holds the reader’s attention while providing real substance.” - Bill O’Hanlon, author of Change 101
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A Thoughtful Book….
I like this book very much. I like the idea that happiness is a skill, like juggling: It may come much easier to some than others, but it still takes effort and practice. That’s really true for the “happiness” that refers to well-being or living a good life. That requires a standing back from our selves - “mindfulness” or thoughtfulnuss - which does not come naturally to most people, at least not in today’s world. When O’Connor describes that world as “cultural insanity” I don’t think he exaggerates. Instead of a culture that fights our native greed, insecurity, mindlessness, we have one that feeds into it. And so what we especially need is a book like this one which makes us stop and think, and which includes a lot of concrete exercises for increasing our awareness, our “skill” at being “happy”.
5 Stars Want to Raise Your Happiness Set-Point? This Is the One to Read
Happy at Last is not like most of the other “happy” books out there that try to tell you it’s easy to “get” happy. Dr. O’Connor describes the work that has to be done to change your happiness set-point so you can “stay” happier. I like that he covers the many traps along the way.
The writing is comfortable, enjoyable to read. The book is thoroughly researched, not just “conversations” with a hundred happy people and another hundred who are unhappy. O’Connor explains the research studies and also uses his experience from working with his own patients. His exercises show us to rebuild and rewire our brains in a clear, often humorous writing style. I have read many other happiness books; this one is indeed a happy find.
1 Star Much Better Alternatives to this Book Exist
This book had great potential but was a tremendous disappointment. First, it’s very poorly written, with sentences that are often simply ungrammatical. Perhaps that’s why the acknowledgment does not contain the usual tokens of gratitude to an editor. Second, the book lacks a coherent structure. Themes and points are repeated and the reader does not have a clear sense of progression on the subject. [...]
O’Connor spends roughly 100 pages or more than a third of the book telling us why we are so miserable, using the word “scary” an excessive number of times to describe modern conditions. He takes up a lot of space ranting and raving against not just consumerism, which is justifiable, but against capitalism in general, even spouting glaringly ignorant opinions about how the economy works. He falls just short of saying we should all go back to pre-industrial revolution living, before capitalism and its evil seed advertising brought us to this land of misery, forgetting to balance his rage with a discussion of our longer life span and higher standard of living. I guess misery loves company and O’Connor wanted some before he doled out his prescription.
He contradicts himself, at one point saying talking less is a useful technique to achieve happiness, as it detaches you from your own thoughts and allows to focus on and appreciate others. Roughly 50 pages later he’s recommending acting as an extrovert to achieve more happiness.
Any negative influence on the brain he calls brain damage. For example, focusing too much on negative thoughts strenghthens pathways that make you negative, and that is brain damage. He also claims that anti-depressants have not been proven to make any difference in chemical imbalances in the brain.
In sum, there are much better written and focused works out there on happiness than this book. Get those instead.
5 Stars HAPPY AT LAST is a gift from the author
In a previous book, Undoing Depression, Dr. O’Connor wrote: “Happiness is something we achieve through our own effort, not something we can buy or acquire, not something anyone else can give us. It’s a by-product of living a certain kind of life that helps us feel good about ourselves. It comes from being fully engaged in life, from paying attention to the present moment, to the process of living.” There is not a page in HAPPY AT LAST that hasn’t given me something of value; it hasn’t “given” me happiness, but it has been helping me achieve it for myself. It is a gift I have been passing on–sometimes by giving the book itself, sometimes through what I have been learning.
5 Stars Intelligent and Useful Find
This latest work by psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, author of the acclaimed Undoing Depression, is about how we can teach ourselves to feel happy more often. Written for a wide audience, it is highly readable. Explaining how consumer culture, instinctual urges, and unnecessary miseries such as addiction act as powerful obstacles to happiness that must be acknowledged and faced, O’Connor suggests that we need to look at our thoughts and develop what he calls “mindfulness” toward them. The goal is to view our mental habits more objectively so that we can consciously change and direct them rather than letting them overwhelm us. By changing our inner orientation to ourselves and the outside world, O’Connor suggests, we can learn to be more satisfied with life and optimistic about the future. Definitely worthwhile.
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