Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement without effort.
Personal Development for Smart People reveals the unvarnished truth about what it takes to consciously grow as a human being. As you read, you’ll learn the seven universal principles behind all successful growth efforts (truth, love, power, oneness, authority, courage, and intelligence); as well as practical, insightful methods for improving your health, relationships, career, finances, and more.
You’ll see how to become the conscious creator of your life instead of feeling hopelessly adrift, enjoy a fulfilling career that honors your unique self-expression, attract empowering relationships with loving, compatible partners, wake up early feeling motivated, energized, and enthusiastic, achieve inspiring goals with disciplined daily habits and much more!
With its refreshingly honest yet highly motivating style, this fascinating book will help you courageously explore, creatively express, and consciously embrace your extraordinary human journey.
What is happiness? Does true happiness even exist? For most of us--regardless of age, income, or occupation--the search for "happiness" is our most coveted goal. Indeed, our entitlement to its pursuit is even written into our Declaration of Independence. But for all of its universal appeal, there seems to be little agreement on how best to achieve happiness. Or even how to properly define it.
Fortunately, happiness need not be the fleeting pot of gold at the end of our emotional rainbow. Utilizing his groundbreaking development of the field of subjective well-being, Dr. Ed Diener--recognized as the world's leading expert on happiness--challenges our modern assumptions about the causes and consequences of happiness. Ed and his son Robert Biswas-Diener share the results of three decades of research on happiness to help unlock the mysteries of this elusive Holy Grail. In this fascinating book the father and son team presents scientific evidence revealing that happiness is not overrated, and is good for people's health, social relationships, job success, longevity, and altruism.
Happiness describes the new concept of Psychological Wealth, which extends beyond material riches, and beyond popular concepts like emotional intelligence and social capital. Psychological wealth is your true total net worth, and includes your attitudes towards life, social support, spiritual development, material resources, health, and activities in which you engage.
Happiness is an intellectual and entertaining journey to help us understand the pursuit of one of our most defining and elusive ideals.
"Richard Bandler has made an extraordinary contribution to people's lives across the planet. His highly powerful personal change techniques have enabled millions to feel better about themselves and improve their lives and the lives of others around them. He gets results that nobody else can. Every time I read a book by Richard Bandler my life somehow changes for the better. As you read this book I sincerely believe yours will, too!" ---Paul McKenna, Ph.D, author of I Can Make You Thin and host of The Learning Channel's I Can Make You Thin.
When conventional therapy and drugs fail, Richard Bandler delivers, often with miraculous results. When clients and therapists alike have a phobia that needs fixing, they call Richard Bandler, the man who mesmerizes audiences in standing-room-only seminars around the globe and rids people of lifelong fears in a single session. Richard Bandler co-created the field of NLP with John Grinder in the early 1970s. Since then, Bandler's work revolutionized the field of personal change, and his models and methods have been widely adopted and used successfully in colleges and universities, therapists' offices, professional sports teams, and businesses across the globe.While many people have written books on NLP, much of what has been written is based on Bandler's ideas and methods.
Richard Bandler's Guide to Personal Change shares "the how" from Bandler himself, with remarkable insights into some of his greatest and most advanced work to date, including how he approaches patients' problems and compelling true examples from client sessions. With more than thirty exercises that promise rapid relief from any problem or habit, this is by far one of the most practical books Bandler has ever written, a culmination of a lifetime of work written in a simple, engaging style that both clinicians and laypeople will find effective.
This book is a collection of 15 dialogues that occurred throughout the United States and Europe with Byron Katie. Some of the people who worked with Katie have painful illnesses, others are lovelorn or in messy divorces. Some are simply irritated with a co-worker or worried about money. What they all have in common is a willingness to question, with Katie’s help, the painful thoughts that are the true cause of their suffering. In every case we see how Katie’s acute mind and fierce kindness helps each person dismantle for themselves what is felt to be unshakable reality.
Although these dialogues make fascinating reading—some are both hilarious and deeply moving at once—they are intended primarily as teaching tools. Each took place in front of an audience, and Katie never lost connection with that audience, repeatedly reminding each person in the room to follow the dialogues inwardly, asking themselves the questions the participant must ask. The dialogue between Katie and these volunteers is an external enactment of precisely the kind of dialogue each person can have with their own thoughts. The results, even in the seemingly most dire situation, can be unimagined freedom and joy.
Over the years, conditioning—both internal and external—has taught you to suppress emotions, suspect others, live in a stilted manner, create dis-ease, and above all, inhibit yourself. Crafty culprits such as worry, fear, guilt, regret, anger, “nonforgiveness,” self-pity, and hurt regularly trap you and trick you into joylessness. The ego delights in your inability to get rid of these negative emotions and plays games that drain you. The mind—like the cell phone you feel incomplete without—beeps, buzzes, vibrates, and sends you messages that tear you away from whatever you happen to be doing. Your concentration and focus are overwhelmed with too much data!
If you’re afflicted by any of these conditions, you’re living in a disempowered manner and are leading an unsatisfying life. In this book, Rohini Singh will help you change all that. She explains how to keep the base of your well-being—the energy system—clean and clear, teaching you how to listen to your body and maintain your physical health. You’ll learn how to plug emotional leaks, stay away from emotional traps, and recognize the ego’s manipulations . . . and avoid them. You’ll discover the wisdom of “switching off” your mind in order to recharge it, realizing that the only way out is within.
To thine own self be true. But can you do that while still being a valued part of the wider community? Or must you always sacrifice your own inclinations and desires to fit in? For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider at work, in groups, in school, or even in your own extended family, help is on the way. Bestselling author Leonard Felder, PhD, has written the first book with advice on how to be successful personally and professionally when you think differently, live differently, create differently, or solve problems differently than those around you.
This wise and perceptive guide is neither about withdrawing into isolation and passivity, nor about spending every waking hour battling with others. Rather, it’s about choosing wisely when to speak your truth and saying it in a way that gets positive results. Dr. Felder shows exactly how creative, thoughtful, unique individuals can survive and thrive in situations that used to make them shut down or retreat into a shell. He provides actual examples from his own practice and precise techniques that will assure your good ideas, outsider perspective, and innovative solutions are respected and taken seriously, even by rigid people.
Both inspiring and practical, it offers soothing balm and useful answers for everyone who heard too often during adolescence or young adulthood that “you just don’t fit in”—and for the ones who love and counsel them, too. Even more important, it reveals how the very qualities that made you different can become your greatest strengths and most important gifts to the world.
Do you want more from your job, your man, your life? In this insightful guide, Amy DuBois Barnett, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar and Teen People, shows you how to GET YOURS . . . today, this year, and forever! With humor and honesty, Amy shares her own story of transformation from awkward, insecure people-pleaser to strong, independent woman. She reveals the personal philosophy that has allowed her to look and feel amazing, find love, and achieve history-making professional success.
Because You Can't Take It With You is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that will walk readers through every aspect of getting their affairs in order and planning responsibly for those they'll leave behind. It takes a thoughtful, straightforward approach to showing how to coordinate, organize, and keep track of important documents and information to ensure that one's family and estate will be protected.
