Quicklet on Rhonda Byrne's The Secret


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ABOUT THE BOOK The book has sold more than 19 million copies since its publication in 2006. Byrne also wrote and produced a documentary for The Secret, which went directly to video and sold more than 2 million copies to date. The book earned a spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for 146 consecutive weeks after gaining popularity thanks to Oprah Winfrey, who promoted it on her TV show. The Secret has been translated into 44 languages including Macedonian, Afrikaans, and Icelandic. The book has been criticized for its unrealistic premise, but the controversy has actually fueled sales, making The Secret one of the most popular books of the last decade. MEET THE AUTHOR Diana Bocco is a full-time freelance writer and author. Her publishing credits include over 200 articles for national, international and online publications such as Men's Health, Marie Claire, Adirondack Life, Writer's Digest, and Self. She was also a contributor to the bestselling book Vegetarian New York: The Essential Dining, Shopping, and Lodging Guide, edited by Suzanne Gerber and with a foreword by Paul McCartney. You can find more about her work by visiting her website at www.dianabocco.com. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK The Secret is a self-help book about the power of positive thinking by Rhonda Byrne. The book is based on a pseudo-scientific theory called the law of attraction the principle that like attracts like. Specifically, Byrne focuses on the idea that your dreams do in fact come true thinking about money and wealth will attract these very things, causing them to manifest in your life. Likewise, fretting over a worst-case scenario will only cause your fears to be realized. Hence the importance of positive thinking. There are no accidents and bad luck. Instead Byrne writes, Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. Throughout the book, Byrne intersperses quotes from proponents of the law of attraction, such as Jack Canfield, creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. These experts believe the law to be supported by quantum physics, arguing that it is a law of nature like gravity. According to Byrne, the mind is a magnet, emitting and receiving frequencies to and from the Universe. Each thought sends out a signal, which is turn gathers similar frequencies due to the law of attraction before returning back to you. In this fashion, your mind can bring you anything you desire dream of a new house, and somehow, someway, it will come to you. On the flip side, dwelling on war and poverty will only perpetuate these evils. Byrne even proposes that too much negative thinking can put you in the path of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. The rest of the book explores different methods of using the law of attraction to your advantage. The primary technique is ask, believe, receive. This process involves imagining what you desire and pretending that you already have it. For example, Byrne suggests filling out a fake check and pretending to buy all the things youve always wanted. Doing so, she says, will make you wealthy. Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction + Background Information for “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne + Overall Summary of “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne + Important Characters in “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne + Key Takeaways for “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne Chapter Summaries + "The Secret" Summary, Chapter 1: The Secret Revealed + "The Secret" Summary, Chapter 2: The Secret Made Simple + "The Secret" Summary, Chapter 3: How to Use the Secret + "The Secret" Summary, Chapter 4: Powerful Processes + ...and much more Additional Reading + Related Online Content for “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne + Trivia for “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne Quicklet on The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Book Summary)




Quicklet on Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich


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ABOUT THE BOOK Think and Grow Rich, originally published in 1937, is a book that helped launch the personal development genre. Written by Napoleon Hill, the book outlines thirteen principles to achieving success and is considered a classic by business and success gurus. It is also consistently listed in Business Week's list of best selling business books. The book idea came from Andrew Carnegie who believed there was a formula to success and challenged Hill to interview or analyze 500 successful people and compile the information into an easy-to-read strategy. Although not sure he was up to the task, Hill completed the interviews and organized the results into the Laws of Success (1928) and eventually into Think and Grow Rich. MEET THE AUTHOR Leslie Truex is an online entrepreneur and freelance writer. She is the author of The Work-At-Home Success Bible (Adams Media) and Jobs Online (self-published). Her small business articles appear on Lenovo's Small Business Insights, the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com, and eHow. She's written several hundred articles on fitness and nutrition for LIVESTRONG.com. Since 1998, she has provided work-at-home information through her website, WorkAtHomeSuccess.com. She teaches work-at-home and writing related courses through Piedmont Virginia Community College. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Willamette University and an MSW from California State University, Sacramento. Her social work experience includes school counseling, public health and adoptions. She is also an AFAA certified aerobics instructor. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Think and Grow Rich is a blueprint for achieving wealth and personal success. But the book doesn't discuss how to start a business or invest money. Instead, it focuses on psychological, emotional and spiritual growth required for achievement. The original 1937 edition contains sixteen chapters, thirteen of which outline his steps toward riches such as Desire, Faith and Persistence. The book uses the material Hill collected over many years of interviewing successful people and synthesizes it into a philosophy of success. It contains the personal stories and anecdotes of early twentieth century millionaires including Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Alexander Graham Bell. Along with personal stories of successful businessmen, the book provides steps to developing each of the personal attributes needed for success. For example, in the Desire chapter, Hill gives six steps setting and working towards goals.




Quicklet on Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich


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ABOUT THE BOOK "The law of attraction is that our thinking creates and brings to us whatever we think about, it's as though every time we think a thought, every time we speak a word, the universe is listening and responding to us." Louise Hay With the rise of the positive thinking and positive psychology movement, many supposed “gurus” have emerged.Napoleon Hill wrote his classic book, Think and Grow Rich, in one of the most difficult times of America’s history (the Depression), and the book is still in circulation today. Other promoters of positive thought run the gamut from Norman Vincent Peale to modern day pastors such as Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, who preaches the new ‘Prosperity Gospel.’ We might ask ourselves, how can optimism hurt? Many of the people who follow these positive thought ideologies find themselves subjected to a regimen of self-hypnosis-like visualizations and verbalizations. MEET THE AUTHOR Coralie McCormick would really like to travel constantly. When she's not travelling, she's planning new trips, taking photographs, playing with my nephews, or writing. She have a day job that helps her pay the bills and a degree in Economics. She is also obsessed with Haruki Murakami novels and his 'words as pictures' style where sheep can talk, and you can always check yourself into the Dolphin Hotel when you need a break. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Going back to Ehrenreich’s ideal, breast cancer sufferers face an onerous battle for their very survival, full of trials and very real ordeals, and pain. The pressure is to assume a sunny demeanour, partly out of the concern of sparing their family and friends the real role they should be hoping to fulfill: that of supporting the person who is ill, rather than the other way around. The pressure is on the person with cancer to radiate positivity because without this positivity, they believe they lower their chances of survival.. Imagine the pressure! Should their health take a turn for the worse, their burden trebles, as they only have themselves to blame, their attitude was not positive enough. There are similarities in the job market, or in those facing mortgage foreclosures. According to the Law of Attraction, summed up in the quote at the beginning of this section, it is your thoughts which determine your future. No matter what circumstances dictate, a mortgage payment that is 133% of your actual income, or downsizing at your corporation, your fate is in your hands. Fate is never capricious... Buy a copy to keep reading!




How to Be Wildly Wealthy Fast


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Do you long for Unlimited Prosperity? Does your soul yearn for Financial Freedom? Are you ready to consistently experience diving into an ocean of Abundance? Then stop dreaming, and learn how to start living the life of your dreams, TODAY! It's possible to experience the Prosperity you desire when you discover the easy, fun and effortless way to attract Money and Wealth into your life. In How to Be Wildly Wealthy FAST, you will learn simple but powerful steps to create your dream of unlimited prosperity STARTING TODAY!




Blaming the Brain


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In Blaming the Brain Elliott Valenstein exposes the many weaknesses inherent in the scientific arguments supporting the widely accepted theory that biochemical imbalances are the main cause of mental illness. He lays bare the commercial motives of drug companies and their huge stake in expanding their markets. This provocative book will force patients, practitioners, and prescribers alike to rethink the causes of mental illness and the methods by which we treat it.




Mental Health Made Easy


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Healthy habits of thought lead to the outcomes you want including great relationships, good health, and academic, career, and sporting success. You can know, in each moment, if the thoughts you are thinking are healthy. When you know you are thinking an unhealthy thought, you can use the empowering strategies in this book to change your thoughts to healthier ones. When it comes to coping skills, only Advanced and Transformational Stress Management Skills permanently reduce stress and make your life better every day. Almost all mental and physical illnesses can be traced back to chronic stress. Dr. Joy's groundbreaking work takes stress management to a new level. Moving away from defining emotions as positive and negative, Dr. Joy takes the conversation to the thoughts that cause the emotional response. Dr. Joy's work puts Advanced Stress Management Strategies in everyone's toolkit. Advanced Stress Management Strategies are quick, pro-active, healthy ways to reduce stress as it occurs. Transformational Stress Management Strategies change the way your automatic thoughts process the events in your life so that your initial thoughts are less stressful. Before this breakthrough, the most common stress management strategies didn't do anything more than give your mind a break. They didn't change the stress the situation created. Stress Management skills are critical because life is stressful and people who do not have good skills will use what is available, which often includes Dysfunctional strategies that quickly make things worse and Maladaptive strategies that slowly make things worse. Think of your thoughts as seeds. If you want to grow corn you don't want your thoughts to plant brussel sprouts. Everything you care about, including relationships, health, wealth, fun, and success turns out the way it does because of the thoughts you think. Good mental health no longer has to be random. Replace habits of thought that make your life more difficult than it has to be with habits of thought that make your life more fun. Dr. Joy has helped thousands of people reduce stress and improve their mental health using the same strategies you'll learn in this book. Her evidence-based, experience-informed methods integrate many scientific disciplines including emotion regulation, motivation, organizational behavior, positive psychology, organizational behavior, teams, resilience, self-determination, and self-control. She developed The Smart Way(tm) which is the name she uses to describe the combination of knowledge and skills you'll learn in this book. Dr. Joy is the founder and CEO of Happiness 1st Institute, a Thrive More Now Company. This book will make your life better every day. Why wait another day? Start enjoying life more now.




You Never Call! You Never Write!


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Continually revised and reinvented, the Jewish Mother archetype becomes in Antler's expert hands a unique lens with which to examine vital concerns of American Jews and the culture at large.




Conversations with Millionaires


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Discover the amazing secrets of nine successful self-made millionaires that can get you all the success and happiness you could ever want. Plus, these secrets can help you eliminate years of struggle and wasted effort and make you an absolute fortune ... Just like they already have for thousands of others! These millionaires include: the co-Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down, The E-Myth, Guerrilla Marketing, plus Jim McCann (the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS), Jim Rohn (Tony Robbins' mentor), and even the king of Chocolate Chip Cookies, Wally Famous Amos! Discover secrets like: The two best ways to triple your income and double your time off, simple success secrets that launched a billion dollar empire, and how to set up a business so it gives you freedom to live your dreams. From Mark Victor Hanson and Jack Canfield to Robert Allen and Michael Gerber, Conversations with Millionaires can help you get more of what you want in life because you'll be learning the same methods, techniques, and secrets that have already been time-tested and proven to work in the real world. Conversations with Millionaires is exactly that. A book jam-packed with the actual fast-paced interviews between real-world entrepreneur Mike Litman (Host of The Mike Litman Radio Show) and each of these self-made millionaires. Mike's world-reknowned style of getting each millionaire to cut-to-the-chase and reveal exactly how they do what they do makes this book a 'behind the scenes' look at how these millionaires became so rich and successful. -- Product Description.




By Design Or by Chance


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O'Leary provides by far the broadast overview yet of the ID movement. she quotes ID leaders such as Phillip Johnson, William Dembski and Michael Behe. she also quotes their sternest critics, including Richard Dawkins, Stephen J. Gould and Michael Ruse. She writes about the Wedge movement, DNA, the age of the Earth, the search for extraterrestrial life, the teaching of ID in schools, and the monarch butterfly. She anticipates the culmination of the ID revolution by writing that Darwinism "was part of our folklore." Yet the evolutionary tales she relates are still widely taught as fact in many schools. This well organized guidebook of O'Leary's journey through the world of Intelligent Design has the potential to lead many of the next generation away from the evolutionary fables that now pass for science. Her book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the history and significance of the Intelligent Design movement. It also belongs in college and even high school classrooms. Forrest M. Mims III, U.S. science journalist Denyse O'Leary has been a freelance writer since 1971. She specializes in science news of interest to faith communities for such publications as Christianity Today, Faith Today, and the Christian Times. She is the author of several titles including Faith@Science: Why Science Needs Faith in the Twenty-First Century, and it the Faith and Science columnist for ChristianWeek. She has written for newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and trade jounals, including the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, and Canadian Living.




Atheist Universe


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Is there really a God? Or does God exist only in our heads? Is the Bible truly God's Word, or a jumble of fanciful myths? This book is your front-row ticket to mankind's most enthralling debate. An atheist for thirty years, David Mills argues that God is unnecessary to explain the universe and life's diversity, organization and beauty. This unique and captivating book rebuts every argument ever offered to "prove" God's existence and the Bible's credibility - arguments from logic, common sense, Christian apologetics, philosophy, ethics, history, and up-to-the-minute science. It's all here for you in one richly entertaining, comprehensive, and easy-to-read volume. Few other books provide such spellbinding inquiry and arrive at such a controversial and well-documented conclusion. ""The publication of David's work on the dangers and disadvantages of devout religiosity will be very useful for anyone with harmful religious beliefs. Honest, frank, and right to the point! I found it very fine reading."" - Albert Ellis, Ph.D., father of modern psychotherapy, author of "A Guide to Rational Living" and 53 other books. ""I like this material very much. David Mills says very ably and clearly all that needs to be said."" - Ashley Montagu, Ph.D., Harvard and Princeton anthropologist, author of "The Elephant Man." (Commenting on Chapter 3) What's on the Cover? Introduction: Is This Book an Outrage? Chapter 1: Fifty Famous People Who Criticized Religion Chapter 2: Interview with an Atheist