A Conspiracy to Love: Living A Life of Joy, Generosity, and Power, By River Smith

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First, this is a self-transformation book. It is a "glass-could-be-half-full" book if you have the courage to (ful) fill it. Refreshingly, any political or otherwise dogmatic agenda you might intuit as subtext is, in fact, not implicit. Smith's text and subtext are both explicitly the project of creating conditions equality and coexistence: for everyone. He addresses the way we eat, speak, move, think and interact with others, suggesting ways not only to make yourself and others happier and more productive, but also to get what you want. So it is altruistic and constructively selfish; or self-empowering is perhaps more appropriate.

Smith cites real examples from his experience as a social activist and a therapist. He provides practical explanations, sometimes with open ended questions meant to provoke thoughtfulness or simply because such self and social transformations can be complex and require the reader to do the work. There are times when these examples spring seemingly out of the blue, yet Smith does so with the useful effect of a re-sensitizing shock to the system; overcoming indifference to the suffering of others, distant or near, is part of his project. Midway through the book, a cogent philosophy emerges as a symbiosis between self and world.

A Conspiracy to Love: Living a Life of Joy, Generosity, and Power is a conspiracy because it threatens the passive way individuals and cultures continue to accept suffering and how we reluctantly or unconsciously pass this ideology on to future generations. In this sense, Smith's book is more than a self-help, make-you-feel-better-about-your-place-in-the-world guide. Smith's project is revolutionary in its call to expose the conditions that make suffering and hate possible; this exposing exposition challenges the reader to change his or her way of thinking and extend that personal transformation to a that of analogous conditions in the world.

Smith's reciprocating, dual process begins with deconstructing the individual, revealing the conditions which prevent the individual from becoming more loving, open and confident. The newly authentic individual is then primed to extend that selfness to others, generosity being, fortuitously, a natural inclination for happier, self-reliant people. This reciprocating dualism is not a dichotomy. The integrated self and social transformations will necessarily reflect on and reconstruct each other, reinscribing conditions more conducive to love than hate in personal and social realms. This self-world progression (paying it forward) is necessarily self-reliant and becoming generous.

For the most part, the book doesn't promote a political ethos, but the book does express the need for social change and the need to end persecution of women, homosexuals, African-Americans, and the list goes on. Yes, he does mention the gross inequality between the 1 and the 99 percent. But, for readers who may cringe at reading anything seemingly antithetical to their beliefs, the book is not inherently political. His analogies stay consistent to the point expressed in the subtitle: constructing and redistributing conditions for joy and generosity. Subsequent redistributions of power and wealth will take care of themselves.

Reviewed by: Nicole Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

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The Magic Of Thinking Big - Book Review

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The Magic Of Thinking Big is probably one of the best motivational books ever written. It is first published in 1959 by David Schwartz. More than 4 million copies have been sold. Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using the ideas written in this book.

It presents a carefully-designed program for getting the most out of your life. It teaches you how to set your goals high and how to achieve them. This is a book about thinking big and setting some big goals for your life because When you set some big goals and take some actions to achieve them, your confidence level goes up, your income goes up and you feel more relaxed and happier. The small goals do not bring all these differences.

But some time when you find yourself surrounded by troubles and worries, your thinking will shrink in size and you will start thinking small. You will think that setting big goals does not make any difference in your life. By reading and using methods described in this book you will find ways for staying big during good and bad times.

No matter what you do in your life, what is your occupation; you can think big and achieve bigger goals by reading this book. This book will give you useful methods, not empty promises.

1. Believe You Can Succeed And You Will

Success means achievement of a worthy goal. Success may mean different to different people as different people may have different goals. Do you want to become Successful? If you want to become successful, first of all you should figure out what are your goals, What are the things that you want to achieve in your life? Don't think small when setting goals. Set Big Goals!

Every human being wants to become successful. The desire to become successful is the prime desire for most people. Do you want to have the best, this life can deliver. Wishing only to achieve success is not enough, you have to believe that you can succeed and achieve your goals. However when you truly believe you can do it, the how to do it will reveal itself.

How To Develop The Power Of Belief

• You become what you think most of the time. If you think about success and your goals most of the time, You will surely become successful but if you think about failures most of the time that's what you will get most of the time. When you face a difficult situation, think about your goals and say to yourself "I will win", don't say to yourself that "I will probably lose."

• This is magical quote and boosts a lot of confidence in you. Always remind yourself regularly that "I am better than I think I am."

• The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Successful people are not superman. They just dream big and have belief in themselves to turn their dreams into reality.

2. Cure Yourself Of Excusitics, The Failure Disease

Have you ever seen a person who blames others for his failure? Whenever you find someone who blames politicians and taxes for his poverty, you must understand that this person is suffering with the disease of making excuses for the failures.

The author calls this disease "Excusitics." All the unsuccessful people have this disease but it is rare to find this disease in the successful people. The more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. If you think you too are suffering with the disease of making excuses for your failures then to cure yourself from this disease, Follow the below written tips:

• Do not think that you have a bad health. Do not talk with your friends about your health. Do some health exercise daily.

• If you are not happy with your life then set some goals and make an action plan. Do some hard work to improve your life. Remind yourself regularly that "it is better to wear out than rust out."

• When you see other successful people you think they are more intelligent than you but it is not true. They are just focusing on some of the best things of their life; they are working hard to improve their skills. You can also do the same. Don't underestimate your brain power. Try to focus on few important things.

• You are using less than 10% of your brain power. The more you use your brain, the sharper it will become. Never underestimate your own intelligence and never overestimate the intelligence of others.

• Adopt the good habits and think about only good things. In few days you will have a positive mental attitude. Your attitude is more important than your intelligence.

• Don't think that you are old and can't start your life from Zero. Always look at your present age positively. Think "I am still Young." A person of 40 years of age has 60% of productive life ahead of him.

• This is the law that you must accept if you want to become successful. The law of cause and effect says that anything good or bad that is happening in your life is the result of previous actions. You are responsible for your life. You will reap whatever you are sowing.

3. Build Confidence And Destroy Fear

To build confidence and destroy fear, first of all you have to identify what are your fears. You must recognize your fear to conquer them. For example if you have fear of losing your job, you should improve your working skills and save some money in the bank.

To conquer fear you need to develop your confidence and remember no one is born with confidence. You can develop your confidence by setting some goals and achieving them. You Can Convert Your Fears In Confidence By Taking Following Actions

• If you are in sales business and you fear of losing an important client then work doubly hard to give him better service.

• If you have fear of failing in exams then study hard and get good grades.

• If your appearance is not good, then go to a barbershop or beauty saloon. Shine your shoes. Wear good quality clothes.

• If you are afraid of making wrong investments, Consult with professional advisors, Analyze all the factors then make a decision and stick with it.

Apply These 5 Confidence-Building Techniques -

1) Be a front seater. In every class and seminar, try to sit in the front row. It will boost your confidence and you will understand better what the speaker is explaining.

2) Practice making eye contact. You need to make eye contact with other person to show him that you are confident and honest. If you don't make eye contact with other person it means you are hiding something or you feel inferior.

3) Walk 25% Faster. You can develop confidence by walking 25% faster than your normal speed. When you walk faster other people think that you are confident and you know what you are doing.

4) Practice speaking up. In every condition when you are afraid of speaking, you must speak. The more you speak up, the more you add to your confidence and it will be easier to speak up next time.

5) Smile Big. When you have a big smile on your face it means that you are an important person and you like other people. A big smile will make you feel happier and relax. Try to smile big now and you will feel better.

Final Thoughts On This Book

This book is a very beautifully written with short stories. It is worth ten times more than what you will pay to buy it. This book will be one of the best books you will ever read to achieve success in any area of your life.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in developing self confidence, setting big goals and achieving them. It will make you think big and improve your life.

About the Author

Lakhvir invites you to read more similar articles at http://www.readtoawake.com/ where he publishes short summaries of Best-selling books. So visit his blog because you can Read a Best-seller Book in only 10 minutes and you can also download Free E-books.

Book Review: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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This book was a highly recommended to me by someone very close to me. Evidently she had determined that I was not at that time living my life very effectively.

It's difficult to admit, but she was right. Therefore I embarked on a journey through this book with an open mind and an eagerness to learn absorb anything I possible could from this book. I managed to plow through it in an a day or too.

The primary reason for that is that most of the book is filler. While the basic concepts are sound, the author spends a gratuitous amount of time hammering the point home. He accomplishes this mainly by sharing stories from her personal life in which he applied the principles to obtain positive results. Some of these stories, such as one in which he relates teaching his young son about responsibility are endearing and entertaining to read. While others, quite frankly, make the author seem impossibly arrogant.

A strong focus of the book is on time management, but I can't say I agree with the authors thoughts on this matter. He present and impractically (and needlessly) complex version of a day-planner, and it is this writers opinion that his justification for why it is superior to any other standard day planner are flimsy at best. Further to that, despite the book having been supposedly revised and updated, this information is horribly out of date in the days of Google calender and the ilk.

On thing I really did like, however, is the authors use of the "time management matix." The matrix is a group of four quadrants which are: important and urgent, important but not urgent, unimportant and urgent, and unimportant and not urgent.

Covey argues that we has humans have great difficult doing anything that is important unless it is also urgent, while at the same time we excel at doing things that are not important and not urgent. An example of the former category would be meetings, deadlines, etc., while examples of the latter are playing games or watching TV.

Consequently, he argues, important but non- urgent activities go by the wayside, such as personal planning and development, relationships, etc.

He has a point, but I don't necessarily agree with his assessment of what activities are time wasters. I think the purpose of life is to enjoy it, and the only truly wasted time is time spent doing things we don't want to do and don't enjoy. Sadly we don't live in a perfect world and out survival depends on us wasting at least some of our time on this earth.

I was also put off with the author's pushing of Christianity throughout the book. The book itself is not sold in the religion section, and it seemed off and unnecessary for the author to share his religion at all. It just wasn't relevant.

Overall I wouldn't go so far as to *not* recommend this book. I can see a lot of people benefiting from it. For me, however, it was derivative, and in the end, kind of boring.

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Psycho Cybernetics Book Review

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Psycho-Cybernetics is a classical Self-Help book written by Maxwell Maltz in 1960. Most of the current authors and speakers are highly influenced by the wisdom of this book. Most Olympic players have accepted in interviews that they followed the psychological training of this book to perform better and achieve their goals.

Who Is Maxwell Maltz?

Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon, he found an amazing thing about "Self-Image", he found that everyone of us has an self-Image of ourselves and we treat others accordingly. When you change a man's face by plastic surgery, you almost invariably change his personality, his behavior and sometime even his talents and abilities.

But some patients showed no change in personality after surgery, they continued to feel inadequate and inferior. They continued acting as if they still have an ugly face.

What Is "Self-Image"?

The Self-image is the individual's mental and spiritual concept or picture about himself. It includes your beliefs, your abilities and deficiencies. The Self-image defines what you can and cannot do. You can develop your Self-image and thus the development of the Self-image can bring new capabilities, talents and literally the capacity to turn failure into success.

According to this theory, ideas which are inconsistent with our system are rejected and not acted upon by our mind due to our self-created Self-image. Only the ideas which are consistent with the system are accepted. For example if a student has trouble learning math, it is because he has created a Self-image that I don't have a mathematical mind. If you could change students' beliefs about math and teach him some simple methods to solve the math problems. His attitude would change towards that subject and he would start learning math.

According to the survey, there are 35-45 year-old women who are convinced that they look Old even though their appearance is perfectly normal. 90% of the college students are dissatisfied with their appearance. The reason is the Self-image. They have created a false self-image of themselves.

If you want to improve your life, you must know about your self-image, To create a better self-image of yourself, you must know your strengths and weaknesses. You must be honest when evaluating your strengths and weaknesses. Your Self-image must be reasonable approximation of you, Being neither more than you are, nor less than you are.

How The Sub-Conscious Mind Works?

The mind is divided in two parts - conscious mind and sub-conscious. The "Sub-conscious Mind" is a goal-striving servo-mechanism that we all have. It works automatically to achieve goals of success and happiness or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it.

Once you have set some goals for yourself, your sub-conscious mind will find the ways to achieve them. You can set goals in your "Sub-conscious Mind" only by mental pictures through visualization.

To set your goals in the sub-conscious mind, you must visualize how you would feel after achieving your goals, what you would do, what type of job or business you would be doing and in which city you would be living? The "Sub-conscious Mind" seeks to achieve the mental images or mental pictures which we create by the use of imagination.

To Bring Success And Happiness In Your Life You Need To Do These Two Things-

1. Develop an adequate and realistic "Self-image".

2. Use your "Sub-conscious Mind" to achieve your goals.

Animals cannot select their goals, their goals are pre-set. We all human being has this amazing gift given by god. We have goal-striving device called sub-conscious mind that help us achieve our goals. But it has one problem that it does not know the difference between good and bad. It will give you exactly what you think most of the time whether it is something good or bad.

Sub-Conscious Mind Works Like A Machine

The god has given this power to man to create anything by directing his sub-conscious mind with his imaginations. You have this incredible machine (Sub-Conscious Mind) which will help you to achieve your goals, you just need to learn how to use it. This machine accomplishes its goals by going forward, making mistakes and continually correcting them till it achieves its goals.

Science Can Build Man's Brain

If the scientist want to build a man's brain they would need at least ten billion electronic cells to build a man's brain. These cells would occupy about a half a million cubic feet and several millions of cubic feet would be needed for wiring. Power required to operate it would be one billion watts.

In the future Scientists may be able to build a man's brain but this brain would lack the power of imagination. It would not be able to set goals, an operator would be needed to feed the data and to run it like today's computer.

Infinite Storehouse Of Ideas

This thing that you are going to read is amazing, many great thinker have believed that man's stored information is not limited to its own memories of past experiences, and learned facts but there is one mind common to all individual men.

It means all the brains are connected with one major brains. You have access to get the knowledge and ideas from other people's brain just by staying with them. We all are being literally engineered for success by the god. We just create a low self-image and think that we can not achieve our goals but in fact we all have sub-conscious already installed by goal that is able to achieve any goal. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.

To Achieve Any Goal Of Your Life You Must Follow These Steps:

1. You must give a well defined goal to your sub-conscious. You should not be confused about what you want.

2. To set your goal in the sub-conscious you must visualize how would you feel once you have achieved your goal. You must act as you have already achieved your goal.

3. You should not care about how your sub-conscious will achieve your goals. You must have full faith that your success mechanism will find ways to achieve its target.

4. Your sub-conscious mind will make some mistakes but don't be afraid. It is the process of sub-conscious mind to achieve its goal by making mistakes and correcting them continually.

5. You must learn to trust your success mechanism to do its work and not "jam it" with doubtful thoughts.

Final Thoughts On This Book

This book will help you to deprogram yourself from self-doubts and negative beliefs. It will show you a clear way to develop your "Self-image" and reprogram yourself for success. I highly recommend this book if you have any goal that you want to achieve in your life.

By reading this book, you will learn how to use the tools that are needed to achieve your goal, these tools you already have but you are not using them. This book will teach you how to use your success-mechanism to achieve whatever you want in your life.

About the Author

Lakhvir invites you to read more similar articles at http://www.readtoawake.com/ where he publishes short summaries of Best-selling books. So visit his blog because you can Read a Best-seller Book in only 10 minutes and you can also download Free E-books.

The Lasting Happiness and Success Formula Review

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Let's get started! To begin with, I want to introduce you to the idea that Joe Rubino will present to you in The Lasting Happiness and Success Formula, the idea is very basic, very easy to grasp but yet hard to reach. Sounds strange that I just pretty much contradicted myself, doesn't it?

It's about self esteem, we all possess the ability to master it. Many of us don't, though. We are lead into a pretty much narrow confidence pattern, well, most of us are. This begins when we're young. We learn how things work and how hard you must work in order to become the best! To become the best, though, everyone tells you that you need the grades and so forth.

Once we grow up and start understanding life a little better, that whole idea of "work and you will succeed" pattern just shatters for many of us - we find ourselves in doubt, we think to ourselves "how am I going to get these types of grades in order to get that education I want? And even if I do, how in the world am I supposed to land that job which I so much want?" That is pretty much the breaking point of many peoples lives. We form a self destructive pattern, well, not as extreme as it might sound but we more or less set our minds to failure mode and that is why many of us, yes, fails.

The Lasting Happiness and Success Formula brings up these matters so that you, yourself can reflect on the matters that are important for you. You can focus on locating your "breaking point" and finding out how you can best argue against the subconscious decision you made that very day you reached your "breaking point".

The Lasting Happiness and Success formula introduces you to several steps and pointers which will in detail describe how you can overcome mental obstacles in your everyday life, how you can boost your confidence and set your mind to success instead of failure, which many of us are set to since that day I earlier in this post mentioned, the "breaking point".

The human brain works in mysterious ways, most of our brainpower is used for the subconscious - and that is exactly why it's so important to understand and locate the most important decisions your subconsciousness is responsible for.

With learning everything in The Lasting Happiness and Success Formula, you'll be well on your way to a more successful life, you might land that job you've always wanted, you might get that girl of your dreams. The opportunities are endless, your only obstacle is your mind! Yes, your own mind can be your enemy unless you understand it!

To learn more about The Lasting Happiness and Success Formula, see this Lasting Happiness Success Formula Review

My Fire's Gone Out! By Liam O'Connell

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MY FIRE'S GONE OUT! is an excellent parable for our times! Best little book! Half hour read, common sense, inspiration, motivation!! Reminds us 'change'=opportunity. Focus on what matters!

Billed as the NEW 'Who Moved My Cheese', Liam O'Connell uses 'fire' as a metaphor for setting a new focus on what is really important to you, in your life and your work so that you can handle change in whatever guise it presents to you.

Through the device of four aptly named little devils, (read the book..) stoking the fires of hell, the story tells how differently each reacts when sudden and dramatic change interrupts the normal flow of their lives.

Coaches and others will recognise what is happening here but there's great value to be had from sharing this book as a tool to get some key messages across to other people.

Condenses the spirit of self-belief and reinforces in 81 enjoyable pages the timeless truth that with change comes opportunity, provided you take a little time to think, spot it and confidently work it through! Inspirational and Motivational. Peppered with common sense and realism. A refreshingly light treatment of a sometimes all too heavy topic! (More please!!)

'Thoughts from the flames' is a neat device to pr?cis and remind us all of the fundamentals of change and the positive action we can take to keep our fire (and our passion) alive.

Handy pocket sized self-help or help others little book you can take anywhere anytime, delightfully illustrated pages also reveals the moving and inspiring story around the team behind the book. I can't wait for the imminent video!

Promoted as the NEW 'Who Moved My Cheese' and a One Hour read, during my lunch I finished this in 30 enjoyable minutes, my 'Best Little Read' so far of 2010. I still cannot explain it but I felt so energised after reading My Fire's Gone Out! I'm a highly motivated, positive and optimistic individual and yet there was still something 'je ne sais quoi' for me!

We know that it's not change per se that's necessarily the challenge but definitely how we react to it that matters. For example, when faced with serious illness that has no cure but can be 'managed', my own reaction has been to say, 'I will not look or behave like I am ill' because I know this would have a negative impact for me and adverse effects on other people. But also by taking this attitude we manage to summon up from somewhere deep within us resources that no-one would believe possible. And we all have this innate ability - it's a personal choice whether or not we use it to achieve our potential. I'd love young people to read this before they get too set in their ways! Buy and read My Fire's Gone Out! Enjoy it! Refresh the parts that other little devils cannot! Do family, friends, schools, everyone, a favour. Share it! Get the spark back to relight your fire, and remember to keep your fire burning!

Highly Recommended

Valerie Dwyer, the author is the founder of My Wonderful Life Coach(tm) http://www.mywonderfullifecoach.co.uk/.

Brain Regles a book review

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