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Clifton http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1595620036/selfimprovemeonlA/ 2) Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life � By Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard (Foreword) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0399144463/selfimprovemeonlA/ 3) Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People � By Stephen R. Covey http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0671708635/selfimprovemeonlA/ 4) Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High � By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0071401946/selfimprovemeonlA/ 5) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide � By Sean Covey http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684856093/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------- *** BOOK EXCERPT: Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity � By Julia Cameron *** ------------------------------------------- You say you want to make art. You want to begin or you want to continue. This is good. We need a more artful world, and that means we need you and the specific contribution that you and you alone can make. But to make it you must start somewhere, and that is often the sticking point. "It's too late." "I'm not good enough." "I'll never be able to pull this off." We all have our fears, and they feel as real as the chair you are sitting in. Like that chair, they can be slouched into or left behind. Sometimes we need to sit up and ignore the cricks in our back and shoulders and just begin. That's how it is with art. We just need to begin. Begin where you are, with who you are. In order to go where you want to go creatively, you have to start somewhere. And the best place to start is precisely where you are. This is true whether you are a beginning artist or someone with long miles down the track. In fact, seasoned artists can waste time and energy mulling the dignity of their acquired position in the field when the truth is, they still need to just start again. Writing doesn't really care about where you do it. It cares that you do it. The same is true for drawing. I watched a friend of mine waste a solid year because he "couldn't work without a studio." When he did get a studio and went back to work, what he made were a few largish paintings but a great many beautiful miniature charcoal and pencil drawings that he could have done on a TV table had he been so inclined. No, he didn't work-not because he didn't have a studio but because he didn't work. There is room for art in any life we have-any life, no matter how crowded or overstuffed, no matter how arid or empty. We are the "block" we perceive. If you are a beginning musician and want to learn piano, sit down at the piano and touch the keys. Great. Tomorrow you can sit down at the piano and touch the keys again. Five minutes a day is better than no minutes a day. Five minutes might lead to ten, just as a tentative embrace leads to something more passionate. Making art is making love with life. We open ourselves to art as to love. Instead of thinking about conquering an art form, think instead of kissing it hello, wooing it, exploring it in small, enticing steps. How many of us have burned through promising relationships by moving too swiftly? How many of us have burned out in new creative ventures by setting goals too high? Most of us. Doing any large creative work is like driving coast to coast, New York to Los Angeles. First you must get into the car. You must begin the trip, or you will never get there. Even a night in New Jersey is a night across the Hudson and on your way. A small beginning is exactly that: a beginning. Rather than focus on large jumps-which may strike us as terrifying and unjumpable-we do better to focus on the first small step, and then the next small step after that. "Oh, dear," you might be sniffing, "where's the drama in such baby steps?" Think about that for a minute. When a baby takes its first step, it is very dramatic. Today my mail contained a manila envelope from a friend, a born storyteller who spent years wanting to write and not writing. Last June, on a perfectly ordinary day, Larry did an extraordinary thing for him: He picked up a pen and started writing. I now have a fat sheaf of stories in my hand. All he needed to do was begin. And then begin again the next day. Often, when we yearn for a more creative life, we cue up the sound track for high drama. With great dissonant chords crashing in our heads, we play out the scenario of leaving those we love and going somewhere lonely and perhaps exotic, where we will be Artists with a capital A. When I hear this plan, I think, Okay. You do it. Experience has taught me that my artist performs best when the stakes are lower. When I keep the drama on the page, pages accumulate. I hate to say this, but making art is a little like dieting. One day you just have to start and what you do that day is the beginning of success or failure. I cannot write an entire book today, but I can write one page. I cannot become an accomplished pianist, but I can put in fifteen minutes of piano time. Today you may not get a one-woman show in SoHo, but you can sketch the battered leather chair with your cocker spaniel sprawled in splendid comfort or you can sketch the curve of your lover's arm. You can begin. Creativity is inspiration coupled with initiative. It is an act of faith and, in that phrase, the word "act" looms as large as the "faith" that it requires. The list price for this book is $15.95. To purchase it for $6.38 at a 60% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1585422614/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------- *** BOOK EXCERPT: Find a Husband After 35 Using What I learned at Harvard Business School � By Rachel Greenwald *** -------------------------------------------- Women frequently ask me how to change their patterns of the past. They spend too much time on the job, they are attracted to the wrong types of men, they can't get over a lost love, their dates don't turn into committed relationships, their committed relationships always fizzle, or a dozen other common patterns. These are areas that The Program does not address in its 15 Steps. The Program is about action and moving forward: It will help you find a husband, but it assumes that at your stage in life, you have a pretty good idea about why you're still single. For some of you, being single has been by choice. You are fundamentally happy except for the frustration you feel about not having met a great partner. You've had other priorities and you have a full life with your friends, family, activities, and career. You have been too busy to focus on getting married. If you are reading this book now, perhaps you're ready to shift your focus. For others of you, being single has not been by choice for any number of reasons. To understand those reasons, you may have tried therapy, read self-help books, or had friends and family counsel you on your issues. Hopefully, you are now enlightened and ready to break out of any damaging patterns. You want action, not more psychoanalysis. Of course, you don't want to find just any husband. You probably could have done that by now. You want a wonderful husband, whatever that means to you individually. This is understood throughout The Program. When I say that these tactics will help find your husband, know that I mean "your wonderful husband." And those wonderful husbands are out there. Every time I go to a new city to teach my seminar "Find a Husband After 35," the seminar registration operator inevitably calls me in advance to ask, "Do you allow men in your class? We've had so many calls from men who want to attend your seminar." I've called back many of those men, and I can promise you they're not looking to "hit on" the single women in my class. They genuinely want to learn how to find a wife. Some are shy, some are busy with their jobs, some are busy with single parenting, and most just don't know where the wonderful single women are. These men are lonely and out there looking for love, too. You're going to learn how to find them in this book. The Program allows you to take matters into your own hands with 15 action steps. It is designed for women later in life with unique challenges, such as fewer eligible men and more insular lifestyles. Let me be clear. This is not a program for the uncommitted. At times, you will feel this plan requires too much effort and is too contrived. But reading this book is like dialing "Marriage 911": It's an emergency. And you do what you have to do. You're lonely, maybe your biological clock is ticking, and you want a loving husband more than anything else. If you were searching for a job, you would devote enormous time and effort to finding the right one. Finding the right husband is certainly more important than a job, since hopefully the husband will be with you for a lifetime. If you wanted to lose weight, you'd abide by the required sacrifices and rules. The Program is like a combination job search and strict diet: There are commitments, sacrifices, and rules involved. What is The Program? Throughout this book I will frequently refer to "The Program." The Program is a simple 15-Step action program to help you find a husband that uses marketing tactics I learned at Harvard Business School and honed in my professional marketing career. You, the reader, are the "product," and The Program is a "strategic plan" to help you "market" yourself to find your future husband. When you first hear the words product, strategic plan, and marketing applied to you and your dating efforts, perhaps you will bristle. This is normal. You are learning about a radical new approach. I assure you that The Program will be an empowering experience for you. It will allow you to take control of your unmarried situation and learn how you can do something smart and effective to change it. You may recognize some tactics in this book that you've already put into practice. But my guess is that you've been doing only a few of these things, and doing them sporadically. Most of the dating activities that women initiate lack focus and coordination. They pull in different directions and don't produce the desired result. The trick is pulling them all together into a comprehensive and systematic strategic program. This is key. Just as in an orchestra, you may have violins and flutes playing, but until a conductor comes along and brings all the instrument sections together, the music doesn't deliver impact. There are several tried-and-true methods by which 35+ singles meet each other today: fix-ups, organized activities, parties, "chance" meetings, and many kinds of dating services. While several of the 15 Steps advocate these familiar methods, what you'll find in The Program is an abundance of new and creative tactics to make them effective for you. I don't want to change you, I want to change what you do. The list price for this book is $14.95. To purchase it for $10.47 at a 30% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345466268/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------------- *** BOOK REVIEW: Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles � By Caroline Myss *** ------------------------------------------------- Bestselling author Myss (Sacred Contracts; Anatomy of the Spirit) began preparing for this book with two small acts of kindness involving simple assistance with literal baggage. They inspired her to muse, "What really takes place when you respond to someone in need?... the action itself, the lifting of a heavy piece of luggage... may be small. But the energy that is channeled through that action is the high-voltage current of grace." The multiplied strength of the aid she received prompted her to explore stories of like kind. Soliciting through her e-newsletter and Web site, she received over 1,200 responses in six days from people all over the world who had either given or provided some form of grace or assistance. After a cogent introduction, Myss organizes these stories around the "seven classic stages of spiritual development," expressed in the body's seven chakras or energy centers. She devotes chapters to gifts of the earth; financial and creative support; self-esteem; the heart; choice; wisdom; and the Spirit. Chapters conclude with questions to aid life assessment and prayers. The multicultural references throughout strengthen this universal, timely message that can be enjoyed and utilized by people everywhere. The list price for this book is $24.00. 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