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Book Review: You Deserve Better: Success in Real-Life Negotiations

July 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Title: You Deserve Better: Success in Real-Life Negotiations
Author: Yossi Maaravi
Genre: Non-Fiction
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

What if you could always get people to do things your way?

You Deserve Better will teach you specific strategies and tactics designed to improve your negotiation and persuasion skills. Contrary to popular belief, intuition and life experience are not enough. Academic studies have shown that concrete knowledge from behavioral and social science can be brought to bear as you learn how to persuade and negotiate better.

Sounds great! But can anybody learn these methods?

Written in a fluent and accessible style, this book addresses the general public and aims to help everyone. It is rich in instructive negotiation scenarios, with which anybody can identify: employees with their employers and colleagues; parents with young children about hours of television permitted and with teenagers about curfews; partners about sharing housework and raising children; businessmen with customers, investors, suppliers and partners; politicians with friends and foes alike.

You Deserve Better is packed with “take-away” power!

As editor, Tami Chapnick, remarked after completing the editing process, “I find myself using at least one of the tools that I learned from this book every week.” The insights and useful strategies that it demonstrates will remain with you long after you have finished reading.

As a lawyer, I’m often confronted with discussions and negotiations, and it’s a real skill to be able to determine when you have to apply which skillset in order to obtain something. Sometimes you have to be indulging, sometimes you have to be strict and firm. Reading the situation is one of the most important starting points for good negotiations.

You Deserve Better: Success in Real-Life Negotiations starts by teaching readers specific skills to improve their negotiation skills; describing several scenarios to give the book a real-life feel. As the book says, intuition and experience aren’t always enough, studies of human behavior can also help you in interpreting certain situations and determining how you can persuade others to follow you in this particular situation.

An interesting book that anyone who often deals with negotiations (and basically, anyone, as we all deal with negotiation-situations sometimes) should read.

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Book Review: How To Be Our Own Psychologists?

May 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

Title: How To Be Our Own Psychologists?
Author: Meirav Harel
Genre: Non-Fiction, Psychology
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Do you want to end the negativity and start being nicer to yourself?

Are you stuck, in pain, or suffering? Do you want to stop berating yourself and begin to love yourself more? If any of your answers to these questions is positive, this book is for you. Whether or not you are in therapy, you can improve your condition, feel better, and begin being nicer to yourself with “The Trilogy” – an analytic method that interweaves a higher spiritual perspective into our daily reality, granting a new viewpoint that facilitates change, gets through internal or external obstructions, and even leverages them into opportunities for personal growth.

Anyone Can Do It!

Designed for the layman, it contains practical tools to map our consciousness and emotions, help us understand why we behave as we do, change our perceptions, and find out who we really are. Once we connect with the part within us that knows and ask the right questions from that place, even a layperson can perform miracles.

How To Be Your Own Psychologist is a life-improvement, self-help book that tackles issues such as: how can we love ourselves more? How can we let go of negativity? How can we gain insight into who we really are? How can we be nicer to ourselves?

Personal growth is key throughout the book, and not only does it offer helpful tips and insights, it also explains how we can get stuck in spirals of negativity and how we can sabotage our own personal growth.

An insightful read that I would recommend to just about everyone! Let’s all stop bringing ourselves down and become our own most passionate supporter.

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Book Review A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent

November 18, 2017 1 Comment

Title: A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent
Authors: Katherine Shears & C.S. Whitehurst
Genre: Nonfiction / Self-Help
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

Just for kicks, have you ever wondered what your parents really want from you in life? Is it you, or do your parents want you to have no real fun? On any given day, do you want to make your parents proud of you and still do what makes you feel really happy within yourself? Of course you do! But the real question has always been, and still is…how? How can we actually get this done?

Well, with A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent, a.k.a “the child-part consoler”, you will get past common misunderstandings by learning how to truly talk, hear, and listen to your parents, guardians or caregivers instead of feeling like you have to run to friends to find some sense of acceptance, understanding, and real connection.

In this book, chock-full of questions and answers gotten directly from the source, you’ll learn what your parents, guardians or caregivers really expect of you—and maybe you’ll even find out how to explain to them what you really expect from them! Not that this book could ever replace a parent, because it can not. But when it comes to openly communicating certain key ideas, this book comes really close.

This tell-all guide contains lots of enlightening explanations and helpful answers to many common kid questions like:

What do my parents really want from me?

Why do my parents do what they do and say what they say?

What do I really need to know about my parents’ parenting skills?

How can I keep my parents happy with me?

How can I help my parents to help me?

How can I get what I want from my parents every time?

A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent is an intro to the secret knowledge of adults which is a set of informations that is mainly covered in the book entitled Surrogate Re-Parenting: A.K.A. Get Your Mind Right, and even more thoroughly covered in the book The Secret Knowledge Of Adults. While this book, A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent is intended for kids 10 and up, the info in this book is beneficial and useful to the intelligent kid parts in all of us. Yes, this means you too.

The information in this book will help you and yours to start to see your parents, not as the enemy, but as the caring human beings they really are, and take the first step toward family unity, understanding, growth, success, and happiness! Both you and your parents really deserve this, and with this book, A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent, you and your parents can actually achieve this.

A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent is a nonfiction / self-help book aimed at, surprisingly, kids. The book talks about why parents do certain things, and help kids understand their parents behavior. In that viewpoint, it’s quite unique. I’ve read several books for parents on how to understand their kids, and I’m sure it’s a common enough subject in nonfiction books, but to have it the other way around? That was new to me.

The book gives key insights to kids in ways that are easy to understand for how they can talk to their parents, and actually hear what their parents have to say, to understand why sometimes parents say “no”, even though in the kids’ viewpoint, that “no” may seem very unjust.

I enjoyed reading the book, and I’m sure it will be really helpful for kids. However, it’s quite long and sometimes quite complicated, so it’s not for very young kids. The kids have to be a little older before they’ll understand the content of the book.

Bewaren

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Book Review: Listen to Your Soul and Heal Your Body of Chronic Disease

November 8, 2017 Leave a Comment

Title: Listen to Your Soul and Heal Your Body of Chronic Disease
Author: Meirav Harel
Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Help
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Do you have the courage to discover the true reason that you are ill?

Do you want to recover from your diseases and end the pain once and for all? Do you want to get rid of all those pills? If you answered “yes” to these questions, then this book is absolutely mandatory for you. In simple and flowing language, the author will tell you what you must do in order to embark on a voyage of self-healing, about the connection between body and soul, and how disease is actually a message from the soul.

Acquire practical tools and inspiration to truly heal yourself!

You will discover the four channels that lead to true and holistic healing and how they are linked to the divine concert that frames our lives. Using the eight practical keys to self-healing, your renewed hope, and the story of the author’s own journey of recovery from seven different supposedly incurable illnesses, you will be inspired to change your life forever.

So, I’ll start by saying that it’s tough for me to imagine what people who are in chronic pain, who take medicine on a daily basis are going through because (thankfully) I haven’t experienced anything of the sort. What I did experience once, for many years, was an addicted to nasal sprays. I used an entire bottle about every two weeks. Now, I’ve recovered thanks to going to the doctor’s, using medication for about a month, and a lot of willpower too.

However, this is quite similar to what Meirav Harel describes here, in Listen to Your Soul and Heal Your Body of Chronic Disease, although this book focuses on chronic pain and pill addiction instead. The book focuses on self-healing, about the connection between body and soul, and how diseases can be a message from the soul. As you can guess, the book is all about holistic healing, but it’s actually quite interesting. I do believe some diseases are outings of our soul, our soul screaming for help or attention, but I don’t believe all illnesses are, or can be healed this way.

I’m still quite skeptic after reading, but I wouldn’t mind using some of these techniques on simple diseases like a common cold, or the flu, or something like that.

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Book Review: It Feels Good to Feel Good by Cheryl Meyer

November 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

Title: It Feels Good to Feel Good
Author: Cheryl Meyer
Genre: Non-Fiction / Health
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

Got Pain?

This book is for anyone with chronic pain looking for answers. It will give you a place to start. You don’t have to resign yourself to a life of pain and pills.

In this book you will learn:
* What is causing your pain and how to eliminate it.
* How to find a practitioner that will help you gain back your health.
* What’s in your food? Organic, conventional, GMOs processed, fast, canned, dairy, factory farmed meat, soy, water. Identify your sensitivities and heal your leaky gut.
* Identify the toxins in your life. in your cosmetics, over the counter drugs,in you kitchen, in your body. Learn how to purge them.
* 34 stress busting ideas, and four simple exercises to reduce your stress.
* 32 suggestions from leading functional experts on how to get a good night’s sleep..
* How to recognize a toxic relationship and make it work or walk away.
* How to tame Anxious Negative Thoughts “ANTs”.
* The importance of movement, even for people who don’t like to move
* How to take control of your health, reduce your inflammation and feel great again!

In It Feels Good to Feel Good, author Cheryl Meyer talks about how to eliminate toxins from your life, how to (hopefully) avoid chronic pain, how to burst stress and get some good night’s sleep. In short, how to live a healthier life. Cheryl Meyer knows what chronic pain is, having suffered through it herself, and wrote this guide because she wished that when she first suffered from chronic pain, a guide like this would be available to her, yet it wasn’t – so, she wrote it herself. All the tips and tricks, guidelines and information she uncovered over the years on how to live with pain, how to diminish your pain, and erase toxins, is all combined in this one book.

The book talks about what is causing your pain, how you can eliminate it, how you can eat healthier and avoid toxins, how to lower your stress levels, how to get a decent amount of sleep. The book is filled with valuable information that will come in handy for anyone, whether you suffer from chronic pain or not. A very valuable resource, marked down in chapters so you can easily go back to the chapters you need or the information you’re looking for.

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Book Tours: Starter Day Party A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent

November 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for nonfiction self-help “A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent”. The tour runs from November 6 to January 6.

Tour Schedule

November 6th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

November 6th: Promo Post @ Stormy Night Reviewing

November 8^th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

November 10th: Promo Post @ Author C.A. Milson’s Blog

November 12^th: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness

November 14^th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian

November 16^th: Book Excerpt @ Lisa Queen of Random

November 18^th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

November 21st: Promo Post @ Nesie’s Place

November 23^rd: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

November 25^th: Author Interview @ Kim Knight Author

November 27^th: Promo Post @ Hollow Readers

November 29^th: Book Excerpt @ Books, Dreams, Life

December 1^st: Book Review @ Books are Forever

December 3^rd: Author Interview @ Mythical Books

December 6^th: Promo Post @ Bedazzled Reading

December 9^th: Book Excerpt @ T’s Stuff

December 12th: Author Interview @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

December 15^th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

December 17^th: Promo Post @ Bookaholic Ramblings

December 20th: Book Excerpt @ Nesie’s Place

December 23^rd: Book Excerpt @ The Resistance

December 27^th: Book Review @ Bookish Madness

December 30^th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

January 2^nd: Book Review @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

January 4^th: Book Review @ The Single Librarian

January 6^th: Book Excerpt @ Silver Dagger Scriptorium

About the Book

Title: A-C-T Like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K Like a Parent

Author: C.S. Whitehurst

Genre: Nonfiction self-help

Just for kicks, have you ever wondered what your parents really want from you in life? Is it you, or do your parents want you to have no real fun? On any given day, do you want to make your parents proud of you and still do what makes you feel really happy within yourself? Of course you do! But the real question has always been, and still is…how? How can we actually get this done?

Well, with A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent, a.k.a “the child-part consoler”, you will get past common misunderstandings by learning how to truly talk, hear, and listen to your parents, guardians or caregivers instead of feeling like you have to run to friends to find some sense of acceptance, understanding, and real connection.

In this book, chock-full of questions and answers gotten directly from the source, you’ll learn what your parents, guardians or caregivers really expect of you—and maybe you’ll even find out how to explain to them what you really expect from them! Not that this book could ever replace a parent, because it can not. But when it comes to openly communicating certain key ideas, this book comes really close.

This tell-all guide contains lots of enlightening explanations and helpful answers to many common kid questions like:

What do my parents really want from me?
Why do my parents do what they do and say what they say?
What do I really need to know about my parents’ parenting skills?
How can I keep my parents happy with me?
How can I help my parents to help me?
How can I get what I want from my parents every time?

A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent is an intro to the secret knowledge of adults which is a set of informations that is mainly covered in the book entitled Surrogate Re-Parenting: A.K.A. Get Your Mind Right, and even more thoroughly covered in the book The Secret Knowledge Of Adults. While this book, A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent is intended for kids 10 and up, the info in this book is beneficial and useful to the intelligent kid parts in all of us. Yes, this means you too.

The information in this book will help you and yours to start to see your parents, not as the enemy, but as the caring human beings they really are, and take the first step toward family unity, understanding, growth, success, and happiness! Both you and your parents really deserve this, and with this book, A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent, you and your parents can actually achieve this.

Author Bios

Katherine Shears is a mom, graduate of Strayer University, and an executive consultant, who is dedicated to bettering the social function and overall visibility of all she encounters. She is a deep thinker with an open mind who stays on the cutting edge of learning, having read over one hundred self-help titles and counting.

C.S. Whitehurst is a psychology-based UX/UI designer/tester, computer programmer, IT Project Manager, and self-help enthusiast, who is a student of science, philosophy, life, and NYU. As a native of New York, having been exposed to social diversity, he has been coached by life to respond to the issues plaguing inner-city youth.

Links

http://www.katherineshears.com/

http://www.cswhitehurst.com/

Amazon

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Book Review and Giveaway Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity

October 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

Title: Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity
Author: LeNae Goolsby
Genre: Nonfiction (Body, Mind & Spirit)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity provides an experiential journey where mental and emotional vibrations rise and conscious awareness expands. Personal power is reclaimed and peace restored with each chapter and each sweet serenity tip.

Have you ever wanted to feel at peace? I’m sure nearly everyone has, but it’s a lot more difficult than it sounds, isn’t it? Well, Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity provides helpful tips and tricks to accomplish a peaceful, serene state of mind. Author LeNae Goolsby shares her own journey and her own experience that she went through to expand her conscious awareness and reclaim her personal power.

At 58 pages in EPUB format, the book is a quick read, yet one that will change your outlook and perspective when you read it. Each chapter focuses on a sunday, from sunday one to sunday seven, and is filled with helpful experiences and tips on how to reclaim your personal power and restore peace within your own mind.