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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Susan Jeffers
Genre : Self-Help
One of my favorite books about decision-making. Susan Jeffers asks this question? Do you fear . . . public speaking, asserting yourself, making decisions, intimacy, changing jobs, being alone, aging, driving, losing a loved one, ending a relationship? Whatever the fear, the book will give you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to handle any given situation. You can move from a place of uncertainty and paralysis to one of energy, clarity, and excitement.
As you read, underline those sections of the book that “speak” to you, so that later you can easily find critical passages to help you face new situations in your life. This will help you reinforce new concepts into your behavior. The trick is to feel the fear and move ahead anyway.
“Let’s talk about power. The kind of power I’m talking about is entirely different from how it’s used in the world—control over others. In fact, it makes you less manipulative of those around you, and certainly more loving. I am talking about power within the self. This means power over your perceptions of the world, power over how you react to situations i your life, power to do what is necessary for your own self-growth, power to create joy and satisfaction in your life, power to act and power to love.”
“Certain words are destructive. ‘I can’t” implies you have no control over your lif, whereas, ‘I won’t” puts a situation in the realm of choice. From this moment on, strike ‘I can’t’ from our vocabulary. When you give you subconscious the message, ‘I can’t,’ your subconscious really believes you and registers on its computer: weak . . . weak . . . weak. Your subconscious believes only what it hears, not what is true. You might be saying ‘I can’t’ simply to get out of a dinner invitation. In fact, ‘I can’t come to dinner is an untruth. The truth is that ‘I can come to dinner, but I am choosing to do something that has a higher priority at the moment.’
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