The Soup of Possibilities Bookshelf!
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This book was recommended by Bradley Hill of Foothill Irrigation:
From Amazons description:
The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. In this guide, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to:
• Overcome barriers to meaningful communication
• Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family
• Increase clarity and improve understanding
• Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table
• Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep level
Recommended by our friend Kent Ladewig.
I am currently studying this book, Ann has already read it.
Judo is a martial art, but it is the martial art that is based on deflecting aggression with the least pain and injury to both parties. The book is a really good exercise in avoiding “the greatest speech you’ll ever live to regret.” But more so than that, it provides very easy methods of both speech and thought to bridge difficult interpersonal situations, to help people down from emotionally stressful situations, to talk your own way out of tough situations. In short, it provides the tools you need to be a really effective communicator. As my mentor Raymond Aaron says, your ability to earn is based on your ability to communicate.
From the Amazon description:
Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.
Verbal Judo offers a creative look at conflict that will help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation from your spouse, your boss, and even your teenager. As the author says, “when you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control.”
This is a must-read book about how Timothy Ferriss built an online business. But that’s not why you should read it. Along with the internet business he covers things such as the 80/20 rule, as it applies to customers and time spent supporting them, i.e. 20% of your customers take 80% of your time. 20% of your customers produce 80% of your income. So, it’s worth really focusing on who you want to do business with, and maybe let some of the high maintenance customers go. It’s chock full of ideas of how you can work smarter rather than harder. Don’t be the fly in the window, described in the opening of You² by Price Pritchett
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.
Ann originally came across this book.
It’s a total Jedi mind trick, an observation that what appears real, maybe isn’t so real. By adjusting your concept of what is reality, you can change reality. As I frequently say: “Reality is fluid.” Take the red pill. Exit the Matrix.
One of the concepts in the book that I liked is the idea that money is a way of expressing gratitude. In other words, the money isn’t important, it’s the gratitude.
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Maxwell Maltz MD was a plastic surgeon who learned that the big effect of the cosmetic surgery was the self-image of his patients. This book describes what he learned about self-image and our ability to decide and define what our self-image is. He describes the technique of practicing running the “movie” in your mind of how you want things to be – which enable you to actually create that in your life.
The Language We Use