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- Book Review: Don Aslett's Clutter-Free!: Finally & Forever - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stuff, stuff and more stuff! Facing towering piles of your own accumulated artifacts, all out of storage space, and feeling you can never get organized and out from under it?!? Here's a common sense book about how to organize and do away with the unnecessary stuff in your ...
Views: 1048 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos From T - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "While it's easy to allow little things to take over our lives, there are things we can do to make life around the house less stressful," writes Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chores ...
Views: 1037 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is ...
Views: 1213 - Book Review: Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2016 from Emily LimaHaving read several pages of The Goldfinch, you may get the impression it will become one of your favorite books. Chances are that this impression will not deceive you. What is it that keeps you reading? What is it that makes you consider reading the novel once again? People and ...
Views: 981 - Book Review: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2014 from Dean OrnishDr. Dean Ornish is the first clinician to offer documented proof that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your lifestyle. Based on his internationally acclaimed scientific study, which has now been ongoing for years, Dr. Ornish's program has yielded amazing results. ...
Views: 1857 - Book Review: Emotional Alchemy : How the Mind Can Heal the Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And ...
Views: 818 - Book Review: Emotional Intelligence - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2014 from Daniel GolemanEveryone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the ...
Views: 1225 - Book Review: Every Second Counts - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second ...
Views: 2282 - Book Review: Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When Sue Bender proudly announced to a friend that her first book, Plain and Simple had made it to the New York Times bestseller list, her friend immediately shot back, "But what number on the list are you?" Bender was shocked, realizing that nothing we accomplish seems like ...
Views: 1316 - Book Review: Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2008 from Shelly WalkerThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Book Reviews. In the modern over-saturated media market, book reviews play a vital role in helping us decide which books are worth our investment in time and money. Reader Views is the Official Guide to Book Reviews. Faint ...
Views: 1099 - Book Review: Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you're a woman over 40, you are undergoing physical and emotional changes, declining metabolism, fat deposits at your waistline, decreased energy, mood swings, food cravings--do we need to continue this list? Now pile on chronic, long-term stress (which the author terms ...
Views: 661 - Book Review: Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure--At Work, In Sports, On Stage - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Renowned performance coach Don Greene, Ph.D., leads readers on a strategic, goal-reaching mission in this compact, powerful, and often fascinating handbook. A former Airborne Ranger and Green Beret (among a long list of other impressive credentials), Greene believes fear is ...
Views: 1760 - Book Review: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Put the telescope away; the North Star mentioned here is a human body, not a heavenly one. And like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide a wayward soul back to his or her "essential self." In this absorbing ...
Views: 2015 - Book Review: First Things First - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review What are the most important things in your life? Do they get as much care, emphasis, and time as you'd like to give them? Far from the traditional "be-more-efficient" time-management book with shortcut techniques, First Things First shows you how to look at your use of time ...
Views: 980 - Book Review: Fish! Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!--their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! Tales the authors show ...
Views: 3784 - Book Review: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified ...
Views: 2061 - Book Review: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2015 from Daniel GolemanIn Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical ...
Views: 1291 - Book Review: Freeing the Soul from Fear - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Robert Sardello is considered a leading philosopher on the soul, having inspired both Thomas Moore's and James Hillman's writings. Once again he departs from common spiritual assumptions in this intelligent and smoothly written handbook, Freeing the Soul from Fear. One of the ...
Views: 1179 - Book Review: From Beginning to End - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Fulghum, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, turns his inspirational ponderings to the rituals that fill and inform our daily lives, from brushing our teeth to the grand rituals responding to birth, life, and death. --This text refers to the Mass ...
Views: 842 - Book Review: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Jon Kabat-ZinnAmazon.com Review Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba the Greek in which the ...
Views: 2448 - Book Review: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, ...
Views: 686 - Book Review: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of ...
Views: 636 - Book Review: Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Mia Hamm, star of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Cup champion, and five-time National Player of the Year, has a simple take on her talents that also explains her success: "Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't ...
Views: 3424 - Book Review: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," has written a modern-day parable about a young man and an unlikely mentor. God's Debris starts with a young deliveryman trying to hand over a package to a man with a San Francisco address. But delivering the package ...
Views: 1328 - Book Review: Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change--A Positive Psychology for the West - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Can you remember the childhood feeling of living happily moment to moment, without intrusive aims or fears? Psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott called it the state of "going on being." Bestselling author Mark Epstein sees a similarity with the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, of ...
Views: 755 - Book Review: Golf in the Kingdom - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Esalen Institute founder Michael Murphy's divine meditation on the royal and ancient game defied categorization when it was first published in 1972, and it still does. Instantly hailed as a classic, Golf in the Kingdom is an altogether unique confluence of fiction, ...
Views: 1846 - Book Review: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: World-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall earned her fame by studying chimpanzee feeding habits. But in Harvest for Hope, she scrutinizes human eating behaviors, and the colossal food industries that force-feed some cultures' self-destructive habits for mass ...
Views: 1723 - Book Review: Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Women are infected with negative self images and stereotypes which can wreak havoc on their ability to stay well and recover from illness. Dr. Domar discusses the connection between psychological suffering, physical illness and healing. Her book contains a section on general ...
Views: 695 - Book Review: Health Journeys: A Meditation To Promote General Wellness - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review There is no one right way to go with Belleruth Naparstek on a journey, no one right way to "visualize." That may sound too basic a directive, but Naparstek encourages listeners to linger over any given image or rearrange her words and phrases into something that works more ...
Views: 690 - Book Review: How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Laura Schlessinger takes the quotation marks off the phrase "bad behavior," and makes an impassioned argument against the self-indulgent subjective morality rampant in our society. Following her previous New York Times bestseller, 10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their ...
Views: 1367 - Book Review: How to Meditate - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, ...
Views: 836 - Book Review: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder ...
Views: 825 - Book Review: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2013 from Barbara SherIf you suspect there could be more to life than what you're getting...if you always knew you could do anything if you only knew what it was, this extraordinary book is about to prove you right! A life without direction is a life without passion. The dynamic follow-up to the phenomenal ...
Views: 2271 - Book Review: If Life Is a Game, These are the Rules - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Before Cherie Carter-Scott discovered her true calling as a writer of inspirational books, she worked as a teacher. As she reads, her experience and talents as an instructor are evident. She carefully outlines her rules and lessons, frequently slowing her cadence to verbally ...
Views: 784 - Book Review: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: If you loved "The Rules for Being Human" attributed to "Anonymous" in the bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul, you're in luck. The author--corporate trainer Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.--has stepped forward and written a follow-up book: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. ...
Views: 2235 - Book Review: In the Checklist of Life: A Working Book to Help You Live & Leave Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Death is certain. Life is not." So begins this commonsensical, infinitely useful workbook that's aimed at helping your survivors handle the requisite legal and household affairs after your death. Author Lynn McPhelimy was inspired to write the book when her parents were both ...
Views: 1240 - Book Review: In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Many listeners will recognize relationship fairy-godmother Iyanla Vanzant's positively charged style from her frequent appearances on Oprah®. She infuses this reading of her own book with the cadences of a revival preacher on a Sunday morning. (It's no surprise, then, to find ...
Views: 1674 - Book Review: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Arguably the best book ever on what is increasingly becoming the science of persuasion. Whether you're a mere consumer or someone weaving the web of persuasion to urge others to buy or vote for your product, this is an essential book for understanding the psychological ...
Views: 815 - Book Review: It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from Barbara SherAmazon.com Review: As baby boomers hit their 40s and 50s in record numbers, they're beginning to realize that middle age isn't what it used to be--that the old assumptions about these difficult years just aren't true anymore. Barbara Sher, the author of such motivational bestsellers as Live ...
Views: 1112 - Book Review: Jesus Christ-Self-Denial or Self-Esteem? by Dr. David Tyler - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2008 from Johnny KicklighterIf one didn’t look at the title of Dr. Tyler’s book, “Jesus Christ: Self-Denial or Self-Esteem,” they might think they were reading a book about the life of Christ instead of a refutation of the self-esteem movement. Dr. Tyler takes a different approach that’s ...
Views: 1203 - Book Review: Kisses from Katie - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2012 from Brenda StephensModern Day Mother Teresa I’m not sure how long I’ve admired Mother Teresa and people like her. People who have a deep desire to help mankind far beyond the average person’s desire. They have a longing, an ache really that cannot be satisfied any other way. Their passion for their mission far ...
Views: 1133 - Book Review: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in her introduction to Kitchen Table Wisdom. "It is the way wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worth remembering." Remen, a physician, therapist, ...
Views: 831 - Book Review: Learn to Relax : A Practical Guide to Easing Tension and Conquering Stress - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review While the idea that relaxation is a skill that needs to be learned may strike some as odd, the fact remains that with today's demanding schedules and hectic paces, most people don't dedicate the time necessary to maintain their own mental well-being. Daily we abuse our bodies ...
Views: 823 - Book Review: Life Strategies for Teens - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "Are you as tired as I am of books constantly telling you the same old Brady Bunch, Beaver Cleaver, goody-two-shoes BS about doing your best to understand your parents, doing your homework, making curfew, getting a haircut, dropping that hemline, and blah blah blah?" So ...
Views: 3903 - Book Review: Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Author and reader Phillip McGraw is at the forefront of a group of self-help gurus rethinking Americans' decade-plus-long celebration of victimhood. Calling himself a realist, he outlines 10 ways to take responsibility for and change your life. His reading mirrors the style ...
Views: 862 - Book Review: Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: This book is the dramatic followup to I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you can make your ...
Views: 1596 - Book Review: Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Few people other than Oprah can count Bono, Alicia Keys, Sen. Barack Obama, and award-winning authors Amy Bloom and Ann Patchett among her buddies. Oprah's rightfully tapped these friendships over the years for contributions to O, The Oprah Magazine, for Q & A's and ...
Views: 905 - Book Review: Living in the Light - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2015 from Shakti GawainAre you searching for deeper meaning and purpose in your life? Do you sense that you have an inner wisdom that can be a guiding force for you, yet wonder how to connect with that intuitive self? How do you know which inner voices to listen to? For over thirty years, Shakti Gawain has helped ...
Views: 1042 - Book Review: Living the 7 Habits : The Courage to Change - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of ...
Views: 3124 - Book Review: Living The Seven Habits: Stories Of Courage And Inspiration - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of ...
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