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Summary: Nice, soft, easy to read, self based relationship skills
Review: A nice, soft book, and really worth reading for some very powerful relationship insights and skills. Some of the book's themes and ideas i found nice on paper, but useless (for me) in practice. "What can i do right now that will make a positive difference?". Sounds nice. Tried it. It just does not seem to do anything for me. (If you use this skill successfully and profitibly, please write me and let me know how. Maybe i just don't get it.) Other ideas in this book- especially relating to relationship skills- are incredibly powerful, and very well, very clearly, very simply described. I find myself using, relating to, and sharing the ideas and metaphores, years after reading the book. Ideas like "Facade-to-Facade" communication vs. heart to heart communication; "Is it safe for me to be me when I am with you?"; the story of the farmer and his horse. These wonderful gems expressed so gently but so clearly that they have stayed with me, and enriched my relationships for years. For these gems, this relatively short book, is well worth the price, and the time to read it. I promise.
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Summary: Nice, soft, easy to read, self based relationship skills
Review: A nice, soft book, and really worth reading for some very powerful relationship insights and skills. Some of the book's themes and ideas i found nice on paper, but useless (for me) in practice. "What can i do right now that will make a positive difference?". Sounds nice. Tried it. It just does not seem to do anything for me. (If you use this skill successfully and profitibly, please write me and let me know how. Maybe i just don't get it.) Other ideas in this book- especially relating to relationship skills- are incredibly powerful, and very well, very clearly, very simply described. I find myself using, relating to, and sharing the ideas and metaphores, years after reading the book. Ideas like "Facade-to-Facade" communication vs. heart to heart communication; "Is it safe for me to be me when I am with you?"; the story of the farmer and his horse. These wonderful gems expressed so gently but so clearly that they have stayed with me, and enriched my relationships for years. For these gems, this relatively short book, is well worth the price, and the time to read it. I promise.
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Summary: Midlife Medicine to Charge Your Batteries
Review: I happened to read Wake-up Calls and then had the fortune to meet the author at a conference...the early chapters are short and pithy..."Getting Unstuck" and "Resistance" had me hooked to make behavioral changes that are an ongoing battle for us all...but as part of a "positive conspiracy" with a couple of friends, I used the book as a springboard to a more productive, refelective and enjoyable framework for a difficult phase of my life...I'm not into "self-help" or affirmation slogans...but I hope to use what I learned to continue to look for "Wake Up Calls" in life...as an individual, the author is a caring and passionate man whon you'd enjoy knowing...I'd recommend that after reading the book that you write him a note...you'll thank him for sharing his personal life with yours...and for being in better charge of your own...
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Summary: Time to Move On!
Review: This book helped me move on!. There comes a time in life when you take a look around and say "do I stay or do I go". Wake-Up Calls help me see that the moving on wasn't as hard has I had expected it to be. A step by step guide to opening your eyes to what is going on around you is what this was for me. I was a stay at home mother, and very good at it, with great potential to be even more. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your Wake-Up Call.
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Summary: Time to Move On!
Review: This book helped me move on!. There comes a time in life when you take a look around and say "do I stay or do I go". Wake-Up Calls help me see that the moving on wasn't as hard has I had expected it to be. A step by step guide to opening your eyes to what is going on around you is what this was for me. I was a stay at home mother, and very good at it, with great potential to be even more. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your Wake-Up Call.
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Summary: Excellent Beginner's Guide to Getting Unstuck!
Review: This book was recommended to me in 1995, by a friend who knew that I was struggling with a difficult marriage and a business that was going nowhere. "Read this!" he said, "it will change your life." So, having little to lose, I bought the book and read it. "Wake-up Calls" perhaps didn't change my LIFE, but it certainly gave me some things to think about. The fundamental idea in this book is that many of us fall into a pattern of "sleepwalking" through our lives, but life also presents us with a large number of so-called "wake-up calls." These can range from major-- divorce, bankruptcy, getting fired-- to relatively minor-- a promotion, an invitation to an important social event. Each wake-up call generally results in us facing a "choice point," and from each choice point, we have the chance to learn and grow. The book is fairly simple and very easy to read, and guides the reader through a step-by-step process of first teaching us to recognize where we may have choice points; then goes on to teach us how to overcome old habits, change direction-- and go on to "stay awake" instead of sleepwalking through life. Almost every chapter is laid out with bullet-point lists, simple exercises to use with your OWN situation; as well as a closing list of "Awareness Checks"-- a list of questions to make readers think about how to apply the current chapter to their own life. The writing is "light" and Allenbaugh uses personal anecdotes to help readers relate "ideas" to "reality." Overall Rating: Highly Recommended (9 bookmarks out of a possible 10) BUT this book is probably best suited to those who are just BEGINNING a journey of self-discovery. It provides some straightforward principles for "getting on with life." Although I have certainly referred back to "Wake-up Calls" from time to time, it is a somewhat basic motivational book, and probably too simplistic for someone who has already spent some time with other self-exploration.
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Summary: Excellent Beginner's Guide to Getting Unstuck!
Review: This book was recommended to me in 1995, by a friend who knew that I was struggling with a difficult marriage and a business that was going nowhere. "Read this!" he said, "it will change your life." So, having little to lose, I bought the book and read it. "Wake-up Calls" perhaps didn't change my LIFE, but it certainly gave me some things to think about. The fundamental idea in this book is that many of us fall into a pattern of "sleepwalking" through our lives, but life also presents us with a large number of so-called "wake-up calls." These can range from major-- divorce, bankruptcy, getting fired-- to relatively minor-- a promotion, an invitation to an important social event. Each wake-up call generally results in us facing a "choice point," and from each choice point, we have the chance to learn and grow. The book is fairly simple and very easy to read, and guides the reader through a step-by-step process of first teaching us to recognize where we may have choice points; then goes on to teach us how to overcome old habits, change direction-- and go on to "stay awake" instead of sleepwalking through life. Almost every chapter is laid out with bullet-point lists, simple exercises to use with your OWN situation; as well as a closing list of "Awareness Checks"-- a list of questions to make readers think about how to apply the current chapter to their own life. The writing is "light" and Allenbaugh uses personal anecdotes to help readers relate "ideas" to "reality." Overall Rating: Highly Recommended (9 bookmarks out of a possible 10) BUT this book is probably best suited to those who are just BEGINNING a journey of self-discovery. It provides some straightforward principles for "getting on with life." Although I have certainly referred back to "Wake-up Calls" from time to time, it is a somewhat basic motivational book, and probably too simplistic for someone who has already spent some time with other self-exploration.
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Summary: Wake-up Calls
Review: This is a great book to really get your mind thinking about life. You have many choices presented daily and this book helps you think about your options and do you want to try something new or keep going in the same direction and repeating the same things you have previously done in your life.
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Summary: Wake-Up Calls: You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life
Review: Wake-Up Calls is highly readable with "real life" examples and humor that engage the reader in the pithier stuff needed for greater effectiveness in all areas of life. What is unique about Dr. Allenbaugh's presentation is his ability to condense his material into very usable principles. Each chapter brings forward a practical, highly effective idea in a way that can readily be understood. The author skillfully unfolds these tried and true principles in a progressive and powerful way from one chapter to the next. By the end of the book, the reader not only has an awareness of these simple, but profound principles, that when applied, create lasting changes for more effective living, but the tools necessary to gain mastery of these principles in all aspects of our life. Dr. Allenbaugh skillfully illustrates these principles and tools with insightful anecdotes. Each chapter also provides the reader with a checklist for thoughtful inquiry into their own life. Thus, making the ideas in this book VERY available. Much more than a self help book. Much broader than a "how to improve your company" book. Wake-Up Calls guides the reader to be able to integrate the personal and professional aspects of living from mastery. We have been working with this material on our staff for over three years. The difference in our "culture" and our effectiveness is remarkable. This book is a "must read" for anyone seeking to bring greater effectiveness into his or her organization.
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