Book Description

"Hanley has given us a surprisingly inspiring self-help book, an adventure in being. Informal, energetic and wise, Full-Tilt Boogie has the look and feel of a winner." George Leonard, author of Mastery and The Way of Aikido "Hanley has composed a "self-help" book that really delivers. Written in an accessible style, Full-Tilt Boogie provides insight into and advice about a host of important issues that face everyone. Without denying the difficulties involved in living life fully, Hanley offers a plausible recipe for doing so. Highly recommended." Michael E. Zimmerman, Ph.D., author of Eclipse of the Self and Contesting Earth's Future From our earliest days, each of us assembles a life based on what we see it is possible to be. From our frame of reference, we do the best we can, gaining competence in many areas, even mastery in a few. We fill our days with fleeting pleasures and momentary rewards. Our external success acts as a protective buffer against the demands of an inner turmoil characterized by a troubling inability to be fully whole and complete, fully at home with ourselves. The sum total of our accomplishments, both personal and professional, is assembled as an attempt to adapt to a negative self-assessment we take to be true. Most of us, at some point in our adult lives, take steps to address this inner dimension. We hire therapists, go to seminars, read books, or, perhaps, simply go on vacation. While temporarily blessed by distraction, most of us find ourselves right back where we started, not to mention a few dollars short. The problem is that most of our attempts to feel better about ourselves begin with and ultimately perpetuate the premise that something is fundamentally wrong with who we are. Our underlying turmoil stems from a fundamentally negative self-assessment. Once marked with the assessment, "I'm not right - Something is wrong with me," no amount of accomplishment or improvement can overcome the underlying negativity. Even in the midst of times when things appear to be going our way, there remains a nagging sense that, still, something isn't right, that something is missing. There is no path to power, joy, and fulfillment that does not intersect with the way we've constructed ourselves. Full-Tilt Boogie will show adults searching for personal power, joy, and fulfillment how to dismantle their negative self-identity and replace it with a new possibility of their own design. Full-Tilt Boogie avoids the platitudinous approach of most self-help books for a thoughtful presentation of the conceptual insights and behavior changes inherent in a legitimate process of personal transformation. Full-Tilt Boogie focuses on the conceptual understanding necessary for bringing about a legitimate personal transformation. The reader will explore the depth and breadth of the negative "reality" they find themselves in before considering the alternative possibility called full-tilt boogie living. In addition the book delineates essential practices one must follow in order to integrate their conceptual transformational into their everyday way of being and behavior. The author, John Hanley, Jr., is an experienced transformational trainer and coach whose 15 years of experience working with over 15,000 individuals around the world have prepared him well to capture in writing the ultimate transformational guide. Full-Tilt Boogie is a book that will give the reader the keys to the life they have always wanted to live. What's unique about the book is that it approaches self-help with the depth and rigor of a classic existentialist essay recalibrated into a 21st century, mainstream style. Full-Tilt Boogie, with its unique emphasis on inviting the reader to confront his or her underlying negative self-assessment on the way toward creating a personal identity founded in