› › The Secret Of Maturity Third Edition

The Secret of Maturity, Third Edition

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 44,7 MB

Release : 2012-11-14

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 187869331X

Get eBook

Book Description

This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms. If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you. If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you. If you want to grow up or know what it means to grow up, this book is for you. With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people? What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity? The research for this book uncovered a myriad of different ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: Maturity is responsibility. Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy.



Secret of Maturity, Fourth Edition

Author : Kevin Evertt FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 12,32 MB

Release : 2017-07-13

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1878693433

Get eBook

Book Description

Read Secret of Maturity to Discover— • How To Live a Mature Life • How To Own the Power of Emotional Responsibility • How To Stop Owning Garbage that Feels Bad • 12 New Tables of Information • More than Twice as Long as the Third Edition Secret of Maturity, Fourth Editon • This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms. • If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you. • If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you. • If you want to grow up or know what it means, this book is for you. Education Lacking • With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people? • What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity? • The research for this book uncovered many ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: maturity is responsibility. • Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy. • The answers are listed or briefly described throughout the text, but you must decide what to do with all the answers. • So be responsible for how you assimilate the answers and put them into practice. Condensed Material • Quite a few of this book’s paragraphs summarize concepts expounded in entire volumes elsewhere. • Since this book is so condensed, it will be most effective after it has been read and studied many times. • Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that are personally relevant? • That will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable. • Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches. • If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed. Great Results • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they are in better health because they can handle stress better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they have a better love life because they can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find a better career or work experience because they can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.



Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, 2nd Ed.

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S.

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 527 pages

File Size : 18,39 MB

Release : 2016-10-04

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1878693425

Get eBook

Book Description

Read Planet Earth: Insane Asylum to Discover— • How to Defeat Destructive Beliefs • How to Recognize Deadly Beliefs • How to Remove Detrimental Beliefs • How to Replace Damaging Beliefs Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition • Includes Lists of 264 Faulty & Deadly Beliefs • Includes Lists of 193 Thinking Errors • Includes a Total of 31 Tables or Images Intercepted Alien Reports • This book consists of intercepted reports sent by aliens visiting Earth back to their home world. • We know neither what aliens are making these reports nor what they are receiving. • Only by accident have these reports been intercepted by our secret SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) project. • This particular project of ours focuses on microwave frequencies because there are few natural sources of emissions in the microwave range. • You can volunteer to be a part of a SETI project (not one of ours) by contacting http://www.setileague.org/. Disturbing Reports by Aliens • There is no doubt that these reports are alarming. • However, we are optimistic that these reports will not be taken seriously by authorities until it is too late to stop their publication. • Still, please make plans now to safeguard your copies by buying and hiding extra copies. • Profits from the publication of this report will be used to fund the publication and release of more reports. • Therefore, after sharing your copy, please encourage others to purchase copies of this report for themselves. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum Is Being Sold as Fiction Please note that this book is being disseminated as fiction for two reasons. First and foremost, we believe that, as fiction, the publication of this book will be neither stopped nor delayed. Second, we would prefer that each human decide what was factual and fictional about these reports. Author of Planet Earth: Insane Asylum • For style and consistency, one of our members has been chosen to be the author of this book. • However, readers will notice that the book still speaks with the voice of “we” because all of us assigned to the SETI project that intercepted these reports have voiced our concerns and approval regarding every page of this book. • The single author of this book apologizes in advance for any mistakes in meaning that have occurred during the transcription of the captured extraterrestrial signals. • The single author of this book is solely responsible for all the mistakes and contents of this book.



The Story of Life

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 153 pages

File Size : 20,86 MB

Release : 2018-11-25

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1878693468

Get eBook

Book Description

Read The Story of Life to Discover— • Why & How Life Exists The Meaning & Purpose of Life • Why & When Life Will End What You Need to Do Now • Why & How Eternal Life Exists The Story of Life • This book explains the story of life from beginning to end, thoroughly revealing the meaning and purpose of life. • Moreover, a timeline is provided for the major events that compose the story of life. • This author has been aware of the story of life for about forty years and shared it only a few times during that period. • While this author still feels unworthy of sharing the story of life, the story of life has been revealed to him, and he is now at an age where any more delay in sharing the story of life might mean that he never publicly shares it. • Please do not confuse the messenger with the message. • Examine the story of life on its own merits. Chapter One • Starts before time begins. • God was alone. • Shares some of the nature of God. • Shares some of the nature of evil. • Shares some of the nature of reality Chapter Two • Shares how God planned to add to Himself. • Shares how, when, and why time began. • Shares how God doubled Himself. • Shares information on the Host of Heaven. Chapter Three • Shares about the Son of God. • Shares about life within life. • Shares about life from outside life. • The purpose of life. • Truth demands knowledge. Chapter Four • The timeline of life. • Life existing within God. • The nature of the universe. • Adam and Eve. • Noah’s Ark. • The chosen people of God. • Jesus, the Son of Man. • The false Armageddon. • Saints and believers persecuted. • The two prophets of God. • Satan cast out of Heaven. • Battle of Armageddon. • Anti-Christ cast into the Second Death. • Jesus rules the Earth for 1,000 years. • Satan returns and is defeated. • Satan is cast into the Second Death. • The New Jerusalem. • The Last Judgement. Chapter Five • Related Biblical quotations. • From the Old Testament. • From the New Testament. Chapter Six • The book of Revelation. Epilogue • This book was written in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2018. • Details are still being revealed, and some updates will be necessary; however, the basics are reliable and true and have not changed for many years. • “Those who are able to see beyond the shadow and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” —Plato



Stress for Success, Second Edition

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 12,40 MB

Release : 2013-01-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1878693328

Get eBook

Book Description

Why see stress as your enemy when stress can be your best friend? Why fight stress when you can redirect stress to work for you? Why suffer from stress when you can succeed with stress? You will learn helpful ways to make stress work for and not against you. You will learn to recognize five different kinds of stress and seven solutions for stress. You will understand the difference between productive and destructive stress. • The advantages and disadvantages of stress. • The difference between helpful and hurtful stress (and how to easily tell which is which). • How to effectively cope with stress-provoking events. • How to easily use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress. • How stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress. • Simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively. • Effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.



Sinners Anonymous: Group Rules, 2nd Ed.

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S.

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 85 pages

File Size : 32,66 MB

Release : 2022-09-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1878693573

Get eBook

Book Description

Rediscover Ancient Christianity • How to Practice Christianity • How to Follow Christ’s Teachings • How to Read the Bible • How to Interpret the Bible • How to Find the Right Way Scripture Lists • Scripture Is Easy & True • Scripture Describes Believers • How to Interpret Scripture • How to Hold a Christian Service • Christians & Communism Share Christianity to Make the World Better • Start Support Groups for Christianity • Rules for Support Groups • Skills for Support Groups • Resources for Support Groups • Start Communities for Christianity • Resources for Communities Short Description of the Book from the Book • This book contains instructions for forming and holding support groups for Christians. • The material in this book can also be found in The Seventh Way, Second Edition, which is available on Amazon and Play Google in various formats (ebook, paperback, hardback, audiobook). • This book focuses on evil and sin existing in the form of self-constructions. • The actions of sin are considered the acceptance, sharing, and promotion of self-constructions. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps.



Problem Solved! 3Rs

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 18,57 MB

Release : 2017-11-08

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 187869345X

Get eBook

Book Description

Read Problem Solved! 3Rs and You— • Discover How to Problem-Solve Simply • Discover How to Problem-Solve Completely • Discover How to Make Problem-Solving a Life Skill • Results: Let Others Whine While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Worry While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Waste Time While You Fix It Problem-Solve with 3Rs • This book is about problem-solving using the 3Rs (Recognize, Remove, Replace). • There are 31 illustrations counting tables. • The 3Rs is a three-step solution that promotes effective and efficient problem-solving. • While the 3Rs are most natural to apply and understand as a method of problem-solving, the 3Rs are not limited to applications involving problem-solving. 3Rs for Planning • You can use the 3Rs to find closer approximations to some dream or ideal, fix something that is broken or not working, improves current business practices or systems, makes action plans for your life, plan for change or disaster, and cope with difficulties. Chapter Contents • A complete explanation of the 3Rs, along with definitions, is provided in the first chapter. • The second chapter provides examples of the 3Rs in practice. • The third chapter applies the 3Rs as a metatheory for counseling, shows how to use the 3Rs for relapse prevention and recovery, and demonstrates an advanced form of the 3Rs known as the 7Rs. • The fourth chapter applies the 3Rs to the issue of self-esteem and how to thrive despite self-esteem. • The fifth chapter helps with understanding and using emotions constructively. Solutions that Work Long-Term • In this book, you are encouraged to solve problems genuinely by not only removing symptoms but also by removing the underlying intentions, maintainers, payoffs, reinforcements, supports, supporters, and sustainers for problems. • Examples of some of the issues addressed include attitudes, ego, expectations, feelings, mental blocks, self-defeating habits, and self-esteem. Understand Feelings • A new paradigm or model for understanding feelings is also provided. The 3Rs are applied to that model to help you increase and reduce your unhealthy feelings. • Many tables are included throughout the book to simplify and reinforce your discovery, learning, and problem-solving skill development. The tables can remind you of critical insights and the contents of entire sections, if not whole chapters. Better Problem-Solving Now • Better problem-solving produces better living and working. • Solve problems better and live better today with the 3Rs.



3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2010

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S.

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 32,35 MB

Release : 2015-01-24

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1878693395

Get eBook

Book Description

Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about a wide variety of ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to have your thinking challenged, this book is for you. • If you enjoy the wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include: professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, • Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. The focus varies yearly, month to month, and day to day. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations that this author posted to his website and blog during 2010. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in 2022. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. Fitzmaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. • Read and enjoy!



What’s Your Story?

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 121 pages

File Size : 33,9 MB

Release : 2015-03-12

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1878693409

Get eBook

Book Description

Read What’s Your Story? to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego-Story • How To Remove Ego-Story • How To Replace Ego-Story • How To use the 3Rs for Freedom from Ego How Story Shapes Ego • This book is about how story shapes, defines, and guides your self. • This book is about understanding the power and control the story has over your definition of self, your mental life of self-talk, and how you respond to life. • By discovering how story manipulates and controls your life, you will learn how to live free of ego-story. Ego Is Your Problem • Ego is the underlying problem in both personal and social plights. • Learning to see your ego as your real problem begins your journey to sanity. • Solving your problems by working on the reduction of your ego until it is eliminated is the practice of sanity. • Helping others do the same is love, compassion, and kindness. Purpose of Book and Chapters • The story or purpose of this book is to explain the relationships between story, self-talk, and ego. • Such understanding is necessary to realize the book’s goal, which is to help people discover how to live free of ego-story. • The first two chapters explore the nature and structure of the story to help you achieve the goal of freedom from ego. • The following chapter explores the ego’s relationship to self-talk and story. • These together lead to the most important chapter that explores the means and methods for living free of ego-story. Books Expose and Reduce Ego • In Ego, FitzMaurice introduced self-talk as the workings of the ego. • In Games Ego Plays, FitzMaurice introduced social and psychological relationship issues as ego games. • In What’s Your Story?, FitzMaurice introduces the human obsession with the story as the human obsession with ego. • The more ways you have to recognize ego, the more ways you have to begin the process of reducing and eliminating the ego from your life. Uproot Ego and Uproot Misery • Once you recognize ego, you begin to remove and replace your ego. • Most of the many books written by FitzMaurice provide insights and tools to help you Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • While not prerequisites for reading this book, most readers would do well to read both “Garden” and “Ego” before reading “What’s Your Story?” • “Garden” will teach you how to track, process, and improve your thinking, feeling, and reaction. • “Ego” will teach you to focus on your thinking as self-talk to maintain your ego. • Stop being a slave and victim of your ego. • Take charge now of how ego-story controls you and your life. • Choose freedom and authenticity now over ego. • Read and Enjoy Now!



Journal Journey from Ego

Author : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S.

Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 42,23 MB

Release : 2014-09-23

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1878693379

Get eBook

Book Description

Read Journal Journey from Ego to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego Processes • How To Remove Ego Processes • How To Replace Ego Processes • How To Journal for Freedom from Ego • 32 Charts Available to Help You Journal to Freedom • This book is about how to journal to improve counseling outcomes, gains, and results. • The journaling methods described in this book can be used with any counseling theory. • However, this book is designed to be used by people in counseling who work to reduce and eliminate their ego. • Such persons will have become aware that removing the underlying factors that cause and maintain problems means removing the ego. • Specifically, this book is best suited for those using Mind Your Ego or Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to reduce and remove their ego from their lives. 15 Questions to Repeatedly Ask Yourself • This journaling system is based on your following and processing 15 Questions related to the nature of self and ego. • Included are explanations and examples of the 15 Questions and how to practice them. • The bulk of your journaling practice will be recording your understanding and application of these 15 Questions. • In using the system, you will emphasize some questions more than others, and which questions you emphasize will vary and change at different times. • You may also find yourself rewriting, adapting, adjusting, and modifying the questions to suit your particular issues and needs. More on Ego Creation • This book also includes information on scripting and how scripting is used to form ego identities. • The chapter after scripting covers ways that we maintain our ego identities. • Further chapters help with the three processes of recognizing, removing, and replacing ego identities. • Some discussion follows those chapters on the nature of positive ego and spiritual pride. • Finally, there is more information in the Appendixes on such topics as the 3Rs, defense mechanisms, and basic fundamental skills. Check with Your Counselor • Consult with your counselor to see if you and your counseling can benefit from the use of this book. • Your counselor may have an approach not mentioned that is entirely compatible with this book, or your counselor may perceive this book as a distraction or a hindrance to the work you are currently engaged in. Companion to Mind Your Ego • You can consider this book a companion piece to Mind Your Ego by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. • Mind Your Ego provides a system with specific plans to Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • This book provides a system to journal your progress in recognizing, removing, and replacing your ego. • The more you reduce the ego in your life, the more you will reduce negative stress, unneeded problems, and ego-created problems and conflicts in your life.