Improving Our "Signals" and "Beings"

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou, poet and actress “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.” – Mark Twain, highly quoted writer “You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to [...]

This is a book review of Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field, and Kate Thompson. Writing Works specifically deals with writing in various forms, mostly poetry, for a therapeutic effect of self-awareness. It contains many contributions of exercises and stories from over 40 experts [...]

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles, 496-406 B.C. “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things.” – Author Unknown. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not [...]

We fear being alone; we fear being crowded. We fear the doctor; we fear living with health problems. We fear the opposite sex; we fear not knowing the opposite sex. We fear making decisions; we fear of not making an impact. We fear problems; we fear opportunities. We fear failure; we fear success. We fear [...]

This is a book review of Michael Hall and Bobby Bodenhamer’s Mind-lines: Lines for Changing Minds. You’ve been to told to see the glass as half full, but how do you do it? Have you ever wondered how your worries, fears, disagreements, interpersonal conflict, anger, and misunderstandings can be reinterpreted so that they empower you; [...]

Alexander Graham Bell said, “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” Napoleon Hill said, “The [...]

This is a book review of Mel Helitzer’s Comedy Writing Secrets: The best-selling book on how to think funny, write funny, act funny, and get paid for it. Mel Helitzer is a professor at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Though a humorous professor seems like a bit of an oxymoron, he has been described [...]

This is a book review of Richard Bandler and John Grinder’s Frogs Into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. It has been referred by many as the book to read for somebody starting out in neuro-linguistic programming and rightfully so. Richard Bandler and John Grinder are the founders of neuro-linguistic programming so you can expect a fair [...]

This is a review of Brian Tracy’s Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement. He is best selling author of Create Your Own Future. Straight off, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life needs to be in your personal library. It has been hailed by many people [...]

This is a review of Brian Tracy’s Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success. Brian Tracy is known for his simple, concise, and easy to understand books. Create Your Own Future is no exception. Every chapter is explained in a simple manner that makes learning the principles Brian [...]