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Each week in my ezine, Authentic Promotion®, I recommend books that will help you market wisely, live well, and be a whole and happy person. Here are ten that have stood the test of time. |
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The Life We Are Given, A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul. George Leonard and Michael Murphy Outlines a pragmatic, holistic, balanced practice that addresses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual development and provides research and analysis to substantiate it. |
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How the Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work: The Seven Languages of Transformation, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. This book offers a structure for transforming the language of problems into the language of solutions. It’s more than a trick of semantics; it’s a practice that can connect radically change your approach to life’s challenges and that can restore your sense of meaning and purpose. |
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You Are What You Say, Matthew Budd. Highly readable and packed with exercises that will help you to transform your use of language and the worlds that are open to you. |
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Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman Seligman blasts through the haze and sludge of traditional psychoanalytic approaches to depression and outlines powerful exercises and assessments to defuse and reverse habitual pessimism or what the author calls learned helplessness. Seligman does not oversimplify or recommend "positive thinking" as a nostrum, rather he promotes accurate assessment as a replacement for habitual negative thinking. Includes excellent material on training and performance enhancement. (audio tape) |
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Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn This is a book about discernment, a way of listening to your heart and taking care to hear the truth about what moves you forward or holds you back, and of getting past the distractions of fear and attachment. It is based in the Catholic spiritual tradition, however the practice outlined here can be readily adapted for clients of any background. |
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey This book was born of Covey's review of a two centuries of self help literature and makes an essential distinction between personality based and character based approaches to personal development. Covey writes about the latter with intelligence, commitment and clarity. A classic and you really should read it. |
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Your Money or Your Life, Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin Learn what money means to you and what that means for how you earn it, how you spend it, and how you measure your satisfaction. A path to real financial freedom. |
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Awakening the Heroes Within Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform the World, Carol S. Pearson This is one of the more flexible and adaptable workbooks I own. I go back to it time and again, especially when I feel like I'm going through a fundamental shift such that my old bearings and soundings are of little help. I've always found it a useful way to start navigating in that transitional space that can be so uncomfortable to work in. |
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The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron An essential workbook for enriching and recommitting to the creative life and a virtually foolproof antidote for artist's block. I have used this with many clients, including non-artists, with more success than I dared dream of. Whether you are an underachiever or an overachiever, a perfectionist or a cutter-of-corners you will find working through this with a group or a coach superior to trying it solo. |
| Co-Active Coaching, Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Philip Sandahl Whitworth and House are cofounders of the Coaches Training Institute in San Raphael. This book captures the essence of their experience and understanding of coaching. |
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Looking for a tool or technique to help you complete a task, change your behavior or develop your resources? Hunting for the perfect gift? If the book you want is not listed in my Recommended Reading, simply use the convenient search box below to find any book in print at Amazon.com. |
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