Life Strategies &ndash Doing What Works Doing What Matters (Ocean View, CA)

Life Strategies &ndash Doing What Works Doing What Matters

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expense Kingston Books 4 IMG_1147Condition Excellent Author Phillip C. Mcgraw Publisher Hyperion Contents by Chapter Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Get Real 2. You Either Get It or You Don t 3. You Create Your Own Experience 4. People Do What Works 5. You Can t Change What You Don t Acknowledge 6. Life Rewards Action 7. There Is no Reality Only Perception 8. Life Is Managed It Is Not Cured 9. We Teach People How To Treat Us 10. There Is No Power In Forgiveness 11. You Have to Name It to Claim It 12. A Guided Tour of your life 13. The Seven-Step Strategy 14. Finding Your Formula Some people spend their lives reacting to what life hands them while others craft life to fit their goals. Author Phillip C. McGraw who is a psychologist but describes himself as a strategist is determined to make sure that his readers are the creators of their lives not created by their lives. By accepting that you are personally accountable for every element of your life McGraw says you can erase the negative epidemic behaviors (found in all of American society denial false assumptions inertia deceptive masking) in your life and reach your goals.Written in a tough-love sometimes cantankerous tone this self-help book is not for those looking to explore their inner child or visualize away negative energy. No this is pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps advice from someone who s done just that. McGraw opens with a scene describing how he helped Oprah Winfrey survive--and win--the 1998 Mad Cow lawsuit in Texas when she was having difficulty coping with the reality of what was happening to her. He helped her face the facts about the lawsuit after which she was better able to participate in crafting a strategy to win it. McGraw first forces you to take a good hard look at who you are by dissecting your personality. It may be painful to realize that you fall into the Porcupine or Perfecto or any of the other personality types McGraw delineates but here it s true that there s no gain without pain because (Life Law No. 4) You Can t Change What You Don t Acknowledge. He then describes in depth all 10 Life Laws --the rules by which the world plays--that he learned the hard way. Laws such as You Either Get It or You Don t Life Is Managed It Is Not Cured and You Have to Name It to Claim It make up the bulk of the book and McGraw s realist philosophy. If you learn and abide by the Life Laws and go on to create a Life Strategy McGraw claims you will not only know yourself better and eliminate negative behaviors you will also know how to reach any goal you set for yourself. Paperback 304 pages ISBN 078688459-2