The Magic Lantern : A Fable About Leadership, Personal Excellence and Empowerment

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Summary: Marvelous and Amazing is "The Magic Lantern"
Review: "The Magic Lantern" is a definite MUST READ book! It is exciting, entertaining, and filled with insights that are easy to understand. It is a fast and pleasurable book to read. I found it hard to put down and found myself going back to reread the simple but life-changing perspectives that it provided. A fabulous book to relax with or read before bed. Don't miss this one!

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Summary: My intention in writing The Magic Lantern
Review: As a personal success and effectiveness coach, my commitment is to empower people to possess the fundamental success principles that will support them to be most effective in their communications and relationships while being most productive and abundant in their business and lives. I wrote The Magic Lantern to give people an easy to understand access to being happy and successful while realizing their magnificence. The principles highlighted in the book are the same ones we support people to fully understand and manifest in their lives through our 3-day Conversations for Success Courses, which have been described by many as life-changing and responsible for countless business breakthroughs.

Though an interesting fable about dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards, the book shows people how they can be the best they can be and take on a leadership role in their own life, work and with their family and friends. The book's message is simple. If we live our lives from a decision to create empowering interpretations about all of life's events, strive for excellence and contribute to others with a firm belief that we can impact people and the world around us, we will step into leadership and make a difference. The book also provides the secrets to achieving business success, impacting people effectively with our communication, increasing our charisma and leading ourselves and others to achieve a life of harmony and happiness. The Magic Lantern shows how putting yourself in the other person’s world while attaching meaning to words and events so that they empower you and your relationships instead of making you angry, sad or afraid can cause your relationships and business success to skyrocket.

The Magic Lantern is a book about the art of leadership. Leadership stems from a decision to lead and contribute first of all. It is an act of courage. No prior evidence is required to give one the right to lead. Leaders are always self-appointed. Leadership means acting from your values and honoring your commitments at every moment that requires a decision. It is about standing at a fork in the road and choosing between actions that honor your excellence and your decision to contribute to others, to risk and do the right thing as opposed to doing what is convenient at the time, acting in a self-serving way, taking the easy way out, playing it safe or selling yourself and others out because of weakness.

When readers decide to take on the lessons and success principles outlined in The Magic Lantern, their lives and businesses will transform. Life will work as they will possess the skills necessary to bring about the rich relationships and material abundance that naturally comes about as a result of living in harmony with these proven principles.

--Dr. Joe Rubino CEO

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Summary: Groundbreaker!
Review: Dr. Rubino breaks new ground by combining a fictional adventure story with aspects of leadership and other desirable human traits. The qualities of leaders are explicitly stated, so it's a very clear message. What I enjoyed even more than the leadership rules were the poetic declarations, which make the dialogue, come alive. As with any new groundbreaker, it is very difficult combining two categories of books, so my children and I found it difficult to get into the story. Nevertheless, this is the kind of book I would prefer my children to read, as there are some valuable lessons in it.

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Summary: It awaken me and I wasn't asleep
Review: I picked the book up after seeing it lay around for several days. I didn't put it down until I was finished. The story telling process really made me look at the ways I'd been seeing and holding things. What a relief that we are able to change our thoughts and paradigms.

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Summary: It awaken me and I wasn't asleep
Review: I picked the book up after seeing it lay around for several days. I didn't put it down until I was finished. The story telling process really made me look at the ways I'd been seeing and holding things. What a relief that we are able to change our thoughts and paradigms.

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Summary: A quick Read with jewels of info
Review: If you are in an MLM, this is a must read.

I read it in less than 2 hours, and was very pleased with the messages contained within.

Want to be a leader to your downline? Read this book!

Scott Cook
Home Business System
Fire your boss! Work From Home!
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Summary: A fable that examines true leadership
Review: Joe Rubino's The Magic Lantern: A Fable About Leadership, Personal Excellence And Empowerment is a fable that examines just what it means to take on true leadership and become maximally effective with everyone you meet. Rubino draws upon his years of experience and expertise as a Personal Development Trainer to provide the reader with accessible and effective lessons regarding the power of forgiveness, the meaning of responsibility and commitment, what leadership is really all about, the transforming power of belief and positive expectations, the value of listening as an art, the secret to mastering emotions and actions, and a great deal more. The Magic Lantern is enthusiastically recommended reading for anyone seeking self-help, self-improvement insights and understandings for themselves and for their relationships with others.

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Summary: Powerful Messaging Inside!
Review: Rubino takes the approach of a fable to instruct and guide us in seven key principles which can make one's life full of happiness and prosperity. This book contains much of the same message as in any good personal development book. Yet it's presented in a format which is refreshing. An easy read, I found it to be enjoyable. I thought of children reading this as I read. I think it's a great potential read for the 10 - 18 year old, as well as for adults.