Self Improvement Site
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
Articles from John AOV | Selfgrowth.com
- 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: 730 - 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: 1440 - 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: 893 - 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: 878 - 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: 842 - 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: 2301 - 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: 1303 - 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: 1725 - 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: 872 - 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: 888 - 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: 865 - 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: 3970 - 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: 930 - 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: 1666 - 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: 946 - 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: 3196 - 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 ...
Views: 1150 - Book Review: Living Through the Meantime : Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: The "meantime," according to best-selling author and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant, is that in-between stage of life when you're gathering up strength, evaluating past mishaps, and preparing for the next chapter. Using the metaphor of psyche as house, Vanzant believes ...
Views: 2208 - Book Review: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Remember the phrase "question authority"? Loving What Is is a workbook on questioning authority--but in this case, what is in question is the authority of our own fundamental beliefs about our relationships. Known simply as "The Work," Byron Katie's methods are clean and ...
Views: 818 - Book Review: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Remember the phrase "question authority"? Loving What Is is a workbook on questioning authority--but in this case, what is in question is the authority of our own fundamental beliefs about our relationships. Known simply as "The Work," Byron Katie's methods are clean and ...
Views: 669 - Book Review: Mars and Venus in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting Results at Work - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Effective communication is a crucial life skill, and John Gray's Mars and Venus series has helped millions peacefully sort out emotional issues in their personal relationships. Now he turns his attention to the professional side of life with Mars and Venus in the Workplace. ...
Views: 1101 - Book Review: Meditation as Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than nonmediators, according to a large body of studies. Meditation has been shown to improve sleep and reduce chronic pain. Not all meditation is equally effective, however. Dharma Singh ...
Views: 922 - Book Review: Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Some sports--the solitary ones, in particular--are simply more prone to mysticism and mystery than others. Golf, certainly. Long-distance running, of course. Fishing. Climbing. Each has a literature that confronts the essence of its lonely pursuit and explores the way the ...
Views: 1323 - Book Review: Morrie: In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Preceding the phenomenal success of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, in which Albom discusses his weekly visits with his mentor, Morrie, as Morrie faces death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Morrie Schwartz published his own book, Letting Go: Morrie's Reflections ...
Views: 3142 - Book Review: My Secret: A PostSecret Book - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting strangers to mail him anonymous postcards that made art out of their innermost secrets and then posting a selection of the cards every week on his blog. ...
Views: 802 - Book Review: My Utmost for His Highest - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily ...
Views: 1199 - Book Review: Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: A sequel of sorts to Reeve's bestselling memoir, Still Me, Nothing is Impossible is a concise, meditative companion to the earlier book. Each of its nine chapters is devoted to some aspect of successful living (humor, faith, hope) or addresses a major life issue (parenting, ...
Views: 2616 - Book Review: Nothing's Impossible:: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: This self-described "maniac leader" has written a delightful guide to becoming boss, whether it be in business or your own life. In this case, Lorraine Monroe's line of work is public education--and she possesses some pretty impressive credentials. As founder and principal of ...
Views: 2566 - Book Review: One Degree Beyond: A Reiki Journey Into Energy Medicine: Your 21-Day Step-By-Step Guide to Relax, Open and Celebrat - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Janeanne Narrin's One Degree Beyond is an engaging introduction to Reiki, the rapidly growing art form that has proven to be an avenue for many to alleviate tension, manage stress, and expand powers of perception. Although One Degree Beyond does not claim to be a course in ...
Views: 617 - Book Review: Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Catherine Whitmire's book of contemporary and historic Quaker voices reads like an antidote to consumer-driven despair. We all know the spiritual downfall of compulsively acquiring material goods (or what Quakers refer to as "cumber"); how it leads to a frantic-paced ...
Views: 1234 - Book Review: Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performanc - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Where you start reading this book will probably say a lot about your current station in life. New parents will probably skip right to chapter 12 and the section subtitled "Tips for Exhausted Parents of Newborns, Infants, and Children." Drowsy office workers might go for ...
Views: 1179 - Book Review: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This manual-style book instantly dives into Eckhart Tolle's principles of "living in the moment," which could be a jarring experience for readers who haven't read his preceding book, The Power of Now. For the initiated, though, this makes an excellent companion guide--rich in ...
Views: 1154 - Book Review: Reach for the Summit - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Pat Summitt has been called a living legend. As head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, Summitt has taken her NCAA Division 1 women's basketball team to back-to-back national championships in 1996 and 1997, and five titles in a 10-year span. In Reach for the ...
Views: 3678 - Book Review: Reading People: How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior--Anytime, Anyplace - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review It's true that politicians blink much more frequently when they're lying, but what other behavior clues do people inadvertently give off? If you want to know if you're being boondoggled, how to tell if your date is interested in a serious relationship, or if you should take ...
Views: 1966 - Book Review: Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Why do so many seemingly successful professionals hit the wall in middle age, and decide to either radically scale back their careers or set off in an entirely new direction? Clinical psychologist Steven Berglas, a specialist in success-induced burnout, believes it stems from ...
Views: 1328 - Book Review: Relationship Rescue Workbook, The: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Reconnect with Your Partner - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Most Oprah viewers are well aware of Dr. Phil's book Relationship Rescue, which presents a seven-step program for salvaging troubled relationships. McGraw would be the first to tell you that watching Oprah or reading about his program are all fine and good, but if you really ...
Views: 2403 - Book Review: Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively As You Care for Everyone Else - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One of the greatest challenges women face is learning how to nurture themselves. The tendency, of course, is for women to put themselves last on the list--taking care of everyone and everything else before they tend to their own emotional, physical, or spiritual needs, ...
Views: 1620 - Book Review: Simple Words: Thinking About What Really Matters in Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Simple words are by no means simple," states Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in his introduction to Simple Words. This is certainly true of the words he has teased out from contemporary spirituality to expound upon here. Each chapter is dedicated to so-called simple words such as ...
Views: 1064 - Book Review: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the ...
Views: 765 - Book Review: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the ...
Views: 2313 - Book Review: Stages of Meditation - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stages of Meditation is a commentary by the Dalai Lama on a rare text by ninth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Kamalashila, written in Tibet to correct some Chinese misinterpretations of Buddhism that were influential at the time. Kamalashila's short work is not widely known ...
Views: 832 - Book Review: Stop Screaming at the Microwave: How to Connect Your Disconnected Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review While many self-help books focus on how to organize, prioritize, and manage your time in order to operate at top efficiency, Stop Screaming at the Microwave takes a refreshingly different tack--slow down, start connecting with people, and learn how to feel good. This short ...
Views: 797 - Book Review: Stop Whining, Start Living - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Dr. Laura Schlessinger agrees that there are things worth whining about! A certain amount of whining allows for some venting of reasonable pain, disappointment, fear, frustration, or frank rage. However, staying stuck in whining mode can become a life-long problem. This is ...
Views: 1492 - Book Review: Stress for Success: Jim Loehr's Program for Transforming Stress into Energy at Work - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stress for Success: Jim Loehr's Program for Transforming Stress into Positive Energy at Work, by James E. Loehr, expands upon the author's 20 years of experience in preparing high-level executives and world-class athletes for the "stress of competition." It is built upon his ...
Views: 1771 - Book Review: Tao Te Ching - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Scholars say that the original Tao Te Ching is a poem. Like a poem, this version of the Tao Te Ching is not meant to be read in one breath from front to back, but is to be at intervals internalized and contemplated. Jane English's haunting black-and-white photos that undulate ...
Views: 961 - Book Review: Teachings on Love - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review For venerated Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, love is more than an emotion. Drawing on millennia of Buddhist wisdom and his own therapeutic methods, Teachings on Love further develops his practical notion of interbeing in terms of love. If all things are interrelated, ...
Views: 775 - Book Review: Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Everything will be okay ... once you admit that Dr. Laura's always right. This companion volume to the radio advice factory's 1994 bestseller (which tackled the stupid things women do) serves up plenty of the no-nonsense, old-fashioned morality that her legions of listeners ...
Views: 1315 - Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "What is 'effectiveness' in a family?" asks author Steven R. Covey. He promptly answers with four words: "a beautiful family culture." Building this culture is the primary theme of Covey's parenting guide, a manual based on concepts introduced in his blockbuster, The 7 ...
Views: 1242 - Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey's bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is a shortcut to reading the book has another thing coming. As a preview, the cassette is worth every one of its 90 minutes; as a substitute for the ...
Views: 689 - Book Review: The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Based on his father's bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he "stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories ...
Views: 2495