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Summary: Bravo Dr. Phil! You deserve your success
Review: I was too busy being jealous of Dr. Phil's success to read his books, to see if he deserves it. Then I read SELF MATTERS and I realized how much he deserves it and why he deserves it. It is a rare book that motivates (pumps you up) and inspires (lifts you up) and SELF MATTERS does both. Dr. Phil's having been there (living a life where his self didn't matter), done that (for ten years), and wanting to prevent readers from wasting precious time in their lives as he had qualifies Dr. Phil to be your guide.Being an author (of GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior and THE 6 SECRETS OF A LASTING RELATIONSHIP: How to Fall in Love Again-and Stay There), and letting go of my Dr. Phil envy I still find myself competitive with a sound bite. These are the lessons I took away-as can you-from Dr. Phil's wonderful new book: - Don't confuse making a living with living
- Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you want to do it, or have to do it.
- What helps you survive the first half of your life, can prevent you from living the second half.
- It takes a lot of courage to stop doing something that you're good at (and paid well to do) and start doing something that's good for you.
- If you do what you do to prove, show, please or hide something; you don't own your life.
- You can't live for others without losing yourself.
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Summary: Almost but Did Not make it
Review: Idea is sound but he seems to jump around a bit too much. Should have focused on the 10-7-5 questions and brought them successfully to the end point. He could have left all the other ideas for another less interactive book. If you only think of this book as just another self-help book - your read will be enjoyed.
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Summary: self matters
Review: Ordering from you people is a disaster. I wanted to order 3 copies of Self Matters, 1 copy of Big stone gap and 1 copy of Big Cherry hollar. I think I requested them but have no way of knowing. THERE IS NO WAY TO CONTACT YOU, OTHER THAN THIS--AND I HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING IF THIS IS GETTING THROUGH. Would someone please let me know what I ordered and how much it is going to cost me?
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Summary: Self Matters, Understanding Matters
Review: This book was fascinating. Phillip C. McGraw's "Self Matters" offers priceless insight into the subjects of character and self improvement. Take this book seriously. Practice what it preaches. It will be a life changing experience. If you are serious about this, you should also read Norman Thomas Remick's book ("West Point: Character, Leadership...") on understanding the philosophical basics of every thing that "Self Matters" talks about.
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Summary: House cleaning for spring-McGraw's Self Review
Review: lively and quick to read. When you reach the point, you have something. And that something is tangible in the form of your own interesting reactions that you keep to yourself totally(and no one knows why-how you got renewed). Or -you can see yourself in writing, where your answers to some questions are plainly available to refer to. 10 critical events made in your life that most influenced you can be a list. And as well, it can be a write up in a long detailed form of paragraphs and then even a whole story scenario. 7 pivotal people in your life-well you get to see there were that many. and 5 critical decisions that determind roads your life took is yet another dig deep, just do it method advocated. The feeling remaining from reading this how to helper-housecleaning done. And a good job done too.
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Summary: Loved It!!
Review: I like Dr Phil's unique perspective and the off-beat approach he takes to reach people. It is a refreshing change from the boring counseling books that litter that bookshelves of stores. For more books that take an off-beat approach to the self, I recommend "A Way of Being" by Carl Rogers and "Dynamic Becoming" by James Bishop.
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: I had to stop reading. I found some of his anecdotes to be unrelated to his points and too wordy. It took half the book to say what could have been summed up in the first chapter or two. The search for defining moments became drudgery and a tedious task. You need an inordinate amount of time to dig up your past and follow his steps.Unfortunately,I was turned off by the assignments, the most important part. Also, he could have been more specific with the details about the defining moments and five pivotal people. That info was a bit vague. To me, it was just like psych 101 only with more assignments! I walked away from the book with more problems that I began with.
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Summary: I love Doctor Phil!
Review: This is the first self help book I feel can really make a diference! Get It!! Use it!! You won't be sorry if you really do the work.
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Summary: Mr. McGraw's self matters
Review: I saw him interviewed on TV, bought the book and was disappointed. In fairness, I didn't complete the book, after I gave him the benefit of slugging through half of it. It is his idiosyncractic, personal, anecdotal view of life as told through a seeming stream-of-consciousness and seen through his experiences and, too often, his anger. Too many good guys and bad guys for me.
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Summary: Journaling Dr Phil's Freewrites
Review: Dr Phil I thought you could do better than talk about yourself incessantly. A lot of fluff left no room for concrete concepts and strategies as promised. Continuous streams of Dr Phil's life experiences smothered whatever point he was trying to make. One ancedote per point would have sufficed. Unable to take any new fresh ideas or vocabulary away from reading this book has left me disappointed. I feel this book was therapy for Dr Phil, how he got it published is beyond me. "Life Matters" was much more beneficial.
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