Balcony People

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Summary: Yoo-hoo, I'm up here, now a BALCONY PERSON !!!
Review: After reading this book, I have loaned it out to many people. Many seem to be touched by this book. It made me aware of how I can affect others with my attitude and my encouragement. It is a short, simple book that has impacted my life. I believe that reading this book is the start of changing one's life. But, one also has to make that "choice" to be a balcony person vs. a basement person.

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Summary: Best advice I've received in years. Absolutely outstanding!
Review: Concise advice on how to change from being a negative force on others to becoming a builder of souls. Received this book from my mother-in-law. Best thing she has shared with me since I married her son. I plan to share this book with as many people as I can. Highly recommended reading for parents, and for sharing with your children. Special graduation gift when you add your own inscription. Don't miss this one.

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Summary: Understanding the Nature of God's Love.
Review: Excellent book that helped me to become an encourager to other people. Explains the difference between evaluators(basement people) and encouragers(balcony people). Explains how to use the power of God's love to identify and heal emotional damage caused by critical people in yourself and how to help others suffering the same damage. Shows how to identify the encouragers in your life(and in scripture) and gives examples on how you can be in someone elses "balcony". I read this book once a year to help me in my ongoing quest to become a more compassionate and caring person. A beautifully written guide that carries you into the loving arms of God.

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Summary: Empathy and compassion are not traits limited to fundamental
Review: For the basic message, I would have given this book 5 stars: there is a need to encourage people to think outside of themselves and consider the needs and desires of others. It is also valuable to point out that those who help others end up helping themselves in many ways. Unfortunately, Joyce Heatherly has established herself as one of my 'basement people'. I find it incredibly crass to maintain that only fundamentalist Christians are capable of empathy, compassion, generosity and love. Given this regrettable attitude, I would reduce my rating to 2 stars. I might have suggested that the reader might see beyond the very sectarian approach for which I am faulting the book and gain from the basic message. Unfortunately, the recommendations Ms. Heatherly offers for identifying one's own balcony people is to look for devout Christians, and to become someone else's balcony person is to become a devout Christian. There is no other help or instruction offered and, for that deficit, I must reduce my rating to a single star. By the way, I was motivated to think about who may have been balcony people in my own personal history, and I identify at least 4 individuals. Not once did I ever get any mythological insights from them, whether concerning God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Zeus, Apollo, Ra, or any other. I would like to read a book that helped people develop characteristics similar to these very dear people in my life.

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Summary: Balcony People
Review: I found the book to be suprisingly helpful and interesting. I would recommend it to anyone. It hope to view relationships in a different light and ask myself if I am a evaluator or an affirmer. The book is an easy read but the author does a good job of making some effective points.

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Summary: Balcony People
Review: I found the book to be suprisingly helpful and interesting. I would recommend it to anyone. It hope to view relationships in a different light and ask myself if I am a evaluator or an affirmer. The book is an easy read but the author does a good job of making some effective points.

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Summary: wonderful gift book
Review: I had this book on my shelf a few years before I read it. However, once I opened it and soaked in the pages, I saw all my relationships differently. This is a great gift book for parents,children,husbands, co-workers, and those in the ministry. The concept is so simple. Harsh words can do permanent damage while encouraging words will lift someone's spirit forever! Read it and give it!

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Summary: The world needs more of this!
Review: Let's face it, we hear negativity way too often and we're all hungry for something positive. The author of Balconey People gets a big thumbs up for her insightful and motivating message. I was given the book as a gift 8 years ago and have bought numerous copies to give away every since. My kids teachers at times needed a reminder to be encouraging and this book is a great way to do it. I was not only compelled to be more encouraging myself, but I also took a good look at who have been my greatest encouragers. I recommend this book to everyone!

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Summary: Great gift to pass on to your balcony people!
Review: This is an easy-to-read book that even people who hate to read can enjoy. Reading this book helped me to realize that some people are not really "telling you the truth" they are telling you "their" truth and that they often think that they are protecting you from harm's way by being negative about your ideas, projects, plans, etc. I learned to identify the uplifting, supportive people in my life who I can count on to cheer for me from the balcony, and to identify others who discourage my efforts as basement people trying to pull me down to their level. This book helped me to take action for myself more easily and to stop listening to the nay-sayers. I gave this book out to my balcony people friends. It's a great gift.

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Summary: Great gift to pass on to your balcony people!
Review: This is an easy-to-read book that even people who hate to read can enjoy. Reading this book helped me to realize that some people are not really "telling you the truth" they are telling you "their" truth and that they often think that they are protecting you from harm's way by being negative about your ideas, projects, plans, etc. I learned to identify the uplifting, supportive people in my life who I can count on to cheer for me from the balcony, and to identify others who discourage my efforts as basement people trying to pull me down to their level. This book helped me to take action for myself more easily and to stop listening to the nay-sayers. I gave this book out to my balcony people friends. It's a great gift.