There Must Be More Than This : Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions

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Summary: solid advice for those who seek greater self-harmony
Review: Motivational speaker and writer Judith Wright insists that the minor harmless habits are the dangerous ones that hold people prisoners within "soft addictions" that keep an individual from enjoying love and meaningfulness in life. These time filling disillusioned ruts like watching TV or surfing the Internet typically leave a person unfulfilled. Ms. Wright offers a program to eliminate or at least reduce the "soft addictions" in order to gain a more harmonic lifestyle shared with loved ones. The author espouses live everyday with the expressed purpose of achieving your goals and stepping closer to attaining one's vision rather than hide within the socially acceptable rut.

This self-help book is well written and easy to follow once the reader understands the underlying hypothesis fostered by Ms. Wright, who makes a strong anecdotal case defending her belief. The difficult part remains disciplining one's self because these "soft addictions" are so hypnotic even when one is left feeling empty afterward, but Ms. Wright offers small steps as a plan to achieve a more satiated life shared with loved ones. THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS: FINDING MORE LIFE, LOVE, AND MEANING BY OVERCOMING YOUR SOFT ADDICTIONS is solid advice for those who seek greater harmony within themselves.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Not So Harmless Habits
Review: Who'd have thought I could be "addicted" to my gloomy moods? This book helped me understand something I always knew but couldn't articulate: I want more out of life, and don't know how to get it. Or at least I didn't know how before I read the book. With everyone around me seeming to be chronically cynical or lazy or despairing about how anything could be different, who was I to be wanting more? Judith Wright's book identifies that yearning as a "spiritual hunger" and explains it in a way that helps me feed that hunger and feel more fulfilled. I have practicied the "seemingly harmless habits" of soft addictions like daydreaming through stacks of catalogs or eating to feel better or going over and over in my head about what I should have done. And now I see those habits for what they are: distractions from feelings. Through anecdotes and exercises, this book will shift your thinking, and put you on a path toward making bettter choices about how you spend your time. It will help you stop wasting time on things that are unfulfilling, and start living a life filled with what really matters.