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Summary: Self Matters
Review: According to Frank Perdue it takes a Tough man to make a tender chicken. According to Dr. Phil's book "Self Matters" by Phillip C. McGraw Ph.D., it takes some tough talk and some mighty hard self-examination to snap people out of their "fictional selves" and into their "authentic selves". Question everything you think you know about you, every belief, every thought you tell yourself, every limiting behavior you exhibit. Track down the origin, learn how it effects you and if it isn't part of your authentic self, toss it. Junk it. It's a gigantic psychological spring-cleaning. All this is hard work according to Dr. Phil. Hard, hard work, but worth it in the end. I enjoyed the Dr's tough talk, it is entertaining, motivating and energizing, I like the idea of questioning my beliefs about who I am taking a good look at what is really true for me.
As I read this book, I kept flashing in my mind to a book that I have read on a number of occasions that has had a profound and lasting impact in my life, entitled "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work", by Ariel and Shya Kane. While both books invite you to question your limiting beliefs and look at yourself honestly and courageously, the Kanes encourage you not to judge what you see or to try and fix or change it. Instantaneous Transformation, how the Kanes refer to their work, rests on the principle that awareness, the nonjudgmental seeing of what is, is all that is needed to unwind the habitual, unquestioned behaviors of a lifetime. No struggle, no hard work, just some courage and honesty and the willingness to step into one's greatness.
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: I've read some of the bad reviews and it just seems crazy that it's so hard for people to get it. It is that simple and it does take work. Whether you like the man as a person or not he does offer good insightful information about how to get to that authenic self many have let get stripped away by life. If you really want to change and find the better you then this is the book.
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Summary: I love Dr. Phil's style!
Review: Dr. Phil doesn't mess around - you take an honest look at life and make changes. I'm gonna keep listening to it over and over - it's that good! Dr. Laura Hall's 'Conquer Emotional Eating' is another book that doesn't beat around the bush and helps you get real results. I love them both!
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Summary: Full of Phil
Review: After plodding through page after page, chapter after chapter of excruciatingly critical self examination, I am exhausted! Phil really carries on and on in an attempt to help strip away ones unauthentic self and find happiness. Although peppered with his colorfully redundant Texan talk, I found this reading/learning experience pretty worthless. After all of his rhetoric about being more real with themselves, Phil does not seem to follow his own advice. In the few closing paragraphs, Phil attributes his success (at breaking away to a better life) to having a great wife....So maybe we all ought to do is go out and buy one of those instead of the book.
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Summary: Love this book
Review: Of the many inspirational books I've read this year, this one is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! If you know anybody who needs a little changing, a little lift, do them a favour and buy them this book. It did me a lot of good. I swear by it, a thousand times. Another uplifting, life-changing book my wife recently picked up and won't stop raving about is the new fable by Jay Singh, The Butterfly. It's more of a children's book, but sometimes these books have many deep hidden meanings. I think there are some in the fable.
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Summary: An Interesting Book.
Review: Here we have advice from a psychologist praised by "Oprah" as a "walking, talking, in-your-face reality check" for those who feel lost in their lives. What McGraw does is diagnose a problem - discontentment and unhappiness, and he offers the cure - look within yourself for the keys to understanding past bad choices and rotten self images. This is where readers will discover their true selves and find personal happiness. This is an interesting book, however, as an option, I would encourage readers that instead of "self-esteem," try "Christ esteem." That's far more valuable and eternal. Christ Jesus paid the price to save your soul, and if you seek His forgiveness for your sins, your soul will find rest. This goes way past self-help cures. You'll find yourself when you lose yourself in Christ.
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Summary: More of the same...
Review: I received the book as a gift. The title put me off to begin with...in a world so much in distress, it says a lot about the western world's inwardness and self-obssession. The book is more of the same psycho-babble that has been pouring off the shelves since the 1970's; offering no more than silly answers to a deeply neurotic, isolated society. The book however, could be used successfully as a model of how to exploit one's professional field to a large and needy audience-- and become very, very wealthy in the process.
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Summary: Banal psychology
Review: While this book had something to say it truly doesn't divulge anything earth shattering or original. I knew where the doc was going by the end of the second CD. All this book did for me was to reaffirm what I already know about myself. I guess it can be helpful to those who feel lost or find themselves trapped in relationships or situations they really don't want but it did very little for me. As well the doc's preachy voice got to be annoying after a while and his good old boy attitude just turned me right off. Like most self help books out there the people who right them assume everybody is the same, they come from the same background, socioeconomic status, race, sexual orientation and so on. In short, if you are more or less close to the lifestyle the doc lives this book might be helpful. I borrowed this one from my library and I'm glad I did. My recommendation, do the same. Its nothing exemplary.
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Summary: Therapy For Your Soul!
Review: Are you tired of lying to yourself? Do you find it hard to face the life that you have created up to this moment? Are you rushing around to avoid looking at what you have become? If yes, this book will help you take a long, hard look at your goals,decisions, relationships, values and the lies that you are telling yourself in an effort to feel "ok". If you are struggling to figure out how to create a life that is more in line with what you once set out to accomplish, then Dr. Phil's advice is the perfect roadmap to put you back on track. I liked this book so much I included it in the suggested reading list of my own book titled, Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life.
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Summary: This book will change your life !!!!
Review: M. D. Gray, author of "Smilosophy: Getting More Smileage Out of Life gives this book a definite thumbs up. This is a book that will allow readers to examine their own life and then gives specific directions to make life what a person wants and desires it to be. Phillip McGraw hits home where everyone lives. Life is much too short to have a life that has been patterned by others rather than our own selves. McGraw gives step by step instructions on how a person can make their lives truly fulfilled and happy. A must have book for all.
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