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This book was recommended to me by a psychologist in the late 80’s, and was very helpful.
This is a book I consider to be “required reading” in the classroom of life.
The title comes from a poem by Robert Frost – see later in the post.
Also see “The Road Less Traveled And Beyond.”
Frankly, it’s been so long since I read it that I don’t remember much of the details. Here are some of the notes I wrote in my copy:
Four Tools of Discipline
- Dedication to the truth (out of denial)
- Accepting Responsibility for whole of life, for my anxiety, depression, what is happening in my life. I may be responsible to someone else, but not for someone, with the exception of a small child I may be caring for.
- Delaying gratification. Pain is a professor, you must be willing to learn from your pain.
- Balancing – Wisdom – Be straight with others. Tell them when they need to be told. If it hurts them instead of helping, don’t tell them.
Underlined:
- All self-discipline might be defined as teaching ourselves to do the unnatural
- I define love thus: the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.
- Love is an act of will – namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
- If an act is not one of work or courage, it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
And many other underlinings.
Get this book. Study it. But beware, it may lead you down the road less traveled, the one of profound spiritual growth similar to what I’ve been on.
The Road Less Traveled
— Robert Frost
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better
Amazon Links:
- Amazon Link: Paperback
Recommended by Catherine Mulvihill of My Happy Insides
Catherine mentioned this book in several conversations:
From the Amazon description:
In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life.
During her multibook investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively.
More than 600,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors, teachers, spouses, and parents already use the framework to help people make significant, lasting change.
The Four Tendencies hold practical answers if you’ve ever thought:
• People can rely on me, but I can’t rely on myself.
• How can I help someone to follow good advice?
• People say I ask too many questions.
• How do I work with someone who refuses to do what I ask—or who keeps telling me what to do?
With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. It’s far easier to succeed when you know what works for you.
Recommended by Bob Proctor
From the Amazon description:
“(This book) presents the great spiritual and psychological truths in a simple manner, making them practical for daily use. You will read inspiring historical stories of those who dared all for Truth — and found wisdom and peace at last. “The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power” is Vernon Howard’s most popular book. This beautiful new 2005 edition belongs in the library of every serious spiritual student.”
I’m providing links to the newer version “The E Myth Revisited.” I’m not sure if it’s this one or the original “The E Myth” that I read, although the cover for the newer book seems more familiar.
This is a great book, required reading for entrepreneurs.
Besides talking about the difference between working on a business rather than working in a business, he covers a lot of good ground about what it means to really WOW your clients/customers. Wowing your customers builds your brand, builds a steady reliable business, and creates the best advertising of all: word of mouth.
This book is the “Bible” of the “Centers for Spiritual Living,” (CSL) spiritual movement, also referred to as “Science of Mind” founded by Dr. Ernest Holmes (1887-1960). It contains the core teaching of CSL. CSL is an offshoot of the New Thought movement of the mid- 1800’s, which included Emerson, Thoreau, and others. Unity is another spiritual movement that came from the same roots, and is very similar to Science of Mind.
I read this book, along with Holmes’ “Love and Law” in the early 2000’s, long before I had discovered Unity or CSL. I only recently discovered CSL through a study group that formed recently in Charlottesville.
This book is pure spirituality – connecting with your spiritual self, with your spiritual reality and the power that comes with that realization. This book teaches you how to create your reality – your health, your happiness, your prosperity. It’s all in your mind.
The “Science” of Science of Mind, is the certain and specific method.
This book is on Paul’s reading list.
From Amazons description:
With the words, “Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change,” Goddard invites us to resist the temptation toward judgment and to look at ourselves for the change we want to see in the world an in others. “God’s promise is unconditional; God’s law is conditional, and comes in its own good time. If you do not experience it in this life,” he said, “You pass through a door, that’s all that death is, and you are restored to life instantly in a world like this, and you go on there with the same problems you had here with no loss of identity.”