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Have you ever wondered why you feel at home in some places but not in others? Or why you feel uneasy in a room you have never set foot in before? The ancient Chinese art of feng shui - the art of perfect placement - holds the answers to these questions, and many more.
The Feng Shui Kit contains everything you need to benefit from this fascinating art. Find out how the flow of life-giving energy, or ch'i in and around your home and workplace could be affecting your health, wealth and personal happiness. Use the specially designed feng shui compass and ruler to discover your lucky and unlucky directions, forces and colors for every situation. And the pa kua mirror provided will deflect malign forces and spirits. The book contains full instructions and draws upon the wisdom of one of the few fully qualified feng shui masters living in the west, Man-Ho Kwok. Whether it is rearranging a bed or desk, or deciding upon the location of your new home, The Feng Shui Kit will help you feel in complete harmony with your surroundings.
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the most complete kit out there.......2000-08-12
Admittedly, the whole feng shui craze is a little overblown, but when I went looking for a kit to help me understand it, I found that this was the most comprehensive one out there. Easy enough for me--a rookie--to understand, I think that it's the sort of thing that I'll be able to go back to time and time again.
Dissapointing.......1999-07-02
I was excited to buy this book for my wife. She has tried to work with it several times and it is not as easy as it appears. On the other hand, after she decorated our new home, most of it was the way it was suggested. I would suggest to buy something else for your home and maybe a cheaper but more practical handbook.
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Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, A Trip to the Beach, sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, Live What You Love is the Blanchard's warm, engaging, and personal response to the thousands of fans who've asked them, "How did you do it?"
"What happens if life falls outside the expected lines and inside others that are self-defined? Our experiences tell us that living this way is as wonderful as it is odd. We happen to believe that life really is about choices, and we love what happens when interesting ones get paired together."--Bob and Melinda Blanchard
After the Blanchards' published A Trip to the Beach, they found that readers responded personally and passionately, often buying multiple copies to give friends and family. They received countless invitations to lecture and requests for national television appearances, and have been asked to develop a series for PBS. Everyone, it seems, wanted to live their life: during the winter, the couple operate the most popular restaurant in Anguilla, the tiny Caribbean nation hideaway of celebrities, beautiful beaches and luxurious homes, and spend summers in the green hills of Northern Vermont.
Through delightful and moving stories, reflections, notes--and a soupcon of advice--the Blanchards have written a stunning, inspirational manifesto where truly living what you love becomes a revolutionary act, a rebellion against the common life. They show how, through self-trust, personal adjustment, and daily acts of commitment, each of us can live the life we love and make every day a personal treasure. Full of warmth, humor, wisdom, and charm, LWYL is the Blanchard's love letter to life, a celebration of unusual choices, and a thank you gift to all of their fans.
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More Than a "Special Features Disk" to "A Trip to the Beach".......2007-06-24
"Life is to be lived and to be loved", Blanchard writes, which befittingly defines the doctrine of Bob and Melinda's lives, as well as the invaluable message conveyed in "Live What You Love". In an uniquely inspirational companion book to their first triumph, "A Trip to The Beach", Bob and Melinda Blanchard reflect on their extraordinary and anomalous lives full of successes and failures.
The book shares some of their salutary words of wisdom learned from a remarkable life to help you begin to live a life you love. Organized into a series of random intriguing personal short stories, you are provided with tonic quotes and an end to each chapter with a checklist for you to begin striving towards your own aspirations. This book is to be held and carried indefinitely, not rushed through like a novel. It's designed to be read over and over again, consoling a reader like a Tony Robbins or Joel Osteen book.
We've all heard the admonition of, "follow your dreams", but what does it really mean? Where do we begin? I have a steady job and am receiving AARP applications in the mail, is it too late? For anyone who might still hold an unconventional long cherished dream that doesn`t snugly fit into the sequence of an "average American lifestyle", Bob and Melinda do more than tell us how, they show us. To read "A Trip to The Beach" and "Live What You Love" consecutively will have you reflecting on where you are currently and wondering why you haven't begun to fertilize a lifelong dream kept in your backseat.
As Blanchard sums it up, "Our Life is a series of positive acts with purpose." Having lived a life less ordinary; opening eight businesses, residing in two countries, building everything from restaurants to sailboats, to going from six digit debtors to wealthy entrepreneurs has bestowed the Blanchards with a crate full of knowledge on how to live a life for what you are truly passionate for. Despite any atypicalities or the absence of predetermined roadmaps for success, the Blanchards overcame much apprehension in shadowy times to become impelling life motivators.
Live What You Love.......2006-06-30
This book was amazing. I had bought 10 copies to provide to my guests at our destination wedding to Anguilla and everyone loved the books. I personally read it on the plane ride down there and found it to be quite inspirational. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to begin enjoying life to the fullest
Big disappointment........2006-03-03
I was disappointed. The Blanchards sound like very nice, fun, hard-working people who embrace change and roll with the punches. They see opportunities and they seize those opportunities. I admire that and would probably like them in person.
The book, however, annoyed me. Aside from its Trump-like self-congratulatory tone and phoney sounding dialogue, there was a bigger issue that I could not get past.
The book talks about how the Blanchards live out their dreams after coming back from the brink of financial ruin, following the long-term hospitalization of their very prematurely born son. They do this by "following their hearts." I don't dispute the importance of that, but maybe the fact that the hospital decided to pick up the tab for the Blanchards had just a LITTLE something to do with it.
I was so happy for the Blanchards when I read about the hospital's kindness to them. I could not wait to read about how the Blanchards would be inspired by that act and someday do something kind for someone else... how they would incorporate that kindness into their lives and business ventures. What goes around, comes around, right? Maybe they'd donate a percentage of book profits toward medical research? Or do restaurant promotions to support families with sick children? I was disappointed that there is never any mention of them doing anything to help anyone but themselves.
Then, there's the "financial struggles." At times, they are legitimate. But then, when they miss Vermont and want to get back somehow, it sounds as though the Blanchards scrimp and save to buy a piece of property in hopes of "someday" building a small house they could retreat to for 2-3 months a year. A few pages later, they're building the house and struggling to make it happen on a tight budget. I'm not sure their definition of "budget" is the same as most people's, considering it's a majestically situated 6400 square foot home and art studio.
For all I know, the Blanchards may be two of the most generous, philanthropic people around but that never comes across in the book. Perhaps it was the book's "preachy" tone that made the absence of any mention of selflessness so conspicuous. My impression of this book is that it is nothing more than a marketing tool to promote their other books, restaurant, and possibly upcoming resort. They seem to view themselves as free-spirits, but what comes across in the book is that they are really good salespeople.
Not what they seem (as usual).......2006-02-01
First, a few confessions. I did not read this book, I only skimmed parts of it while in a bookstore. Also, I am naturally cynical, though I want to believe in people (an idealist at heart hidden beneath a cynic's clothing). Normally, I would never consider writing a review for something I never read-- a big pet peeve of mine. However, skimming this book and reading the reviews of the other book by the Blanchard's, "A Trip to the Beach : Living on Island Time in the Caribbean", compelled me to balance out the five star reviews. What I did read of this book seemed very shallow, self-congratulatory, and generally obnoxious and annoying. My feelings were lent further validity when I saw the negative reviews of "A Trip to the Beach : Living on Island Time in the Caribbean" (overall, it does have a four and a half-star rating, though the several negative reviews had a lot of merit). Those reviews pointed out that the Blanchard's were rich before they moved to the Caribbean and they had owned eight businesses previously (one of which was a restaurant in Anguilla before they opened "Blanchard's"). Yet the Blanchards portray themselves as free spirits who on a whim and against logic took a risk to follow their dreams. They write a misleading book ("A Trip...") and then follow it up this disingenous crap. In addition, the Blanchards have a condescending tone towards the natives on the island, and seem to be more concerned about themselves and their business than other people. So basically, they fall into the all-too-prevalent stereotype of rich, old, white people who don't realize how lucky they are (financially, anyway) and who do not appreciate or respect others. Publishing several books about their "heroic" and "inspiring" tales is even more callous and fake. They should run for political office in Anguilla.
If none of this matters to you and all you want is regurgitated, BS fluff to inspire you to do something that the the authors didn't do, buy and read this book. Otherwise, abstain.
A most uplifting book.......2006-01-09
I finished this book in two hours. Very encouraging and uplifting. If you need a little emotional boost or support when you are in the early stages of starting a new business, read this!
But hold on -- not only does it offer emotional support, I find that it also offers the budding entrepreneur quite a few good advice and examples if you read carefully. On the whole, I find this book more useful than Martha Stewart's recent book on starting a business. Martha's advice is too impractical sometimes for cash-strapped entrepreneurs ('get the best lawyers !!' or something to that effect).
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Intuition @ Work: & at Home and at Play
James Wanless
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Intuition @ Work is full of James Wanless's tried and true wisdom on how to wring success from life at all levels. Using the workplace as his main focus, he reveals the inner workings of intuition and how it can be utilized to create an authentic life by first "feeling the feeling." Businesspeople must look to the future, be innovative, make difficult decisions in uncertain conditions, be adroit at handling relationships, and keep moving with action and energy under the pressure of performance - all qualities that intuition feeds. Wanless introduces techniques he's developed: • symbolic picture taking • strategic story telling • creative walking • deliberate dreaming • truth humming • intellectual loafing Intuitive fitness is ours when we follow these practices daily. Wanless shows how intuition can improve careers and relationships, and make decisions that ring true to intention. The book is punctuated with quotes from thinkers like Einstein, Paul Gauguin, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, and Emily Dickinson, among many others.
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Don't Wait for a Cricket.......2002-05-16
If I correctly understand Wanless' core ideas in this book, intuition is always "@ work." The challenge is to access it, nourish it, and be guided by it...usually in combination with one or more other resources such as emotional intelligence which Daniel Goleman discusses so brilliantly in Emotional Intelligence, Working With Emotional Intelligence, and most recently published Primal Leadership, co-authored with Annie McKee and Richard E. Boyatzis.
How to describe Wanless' book? First of all, extensive research (his and others') has convinced him that intuition may well be the single most important, and potentially the most valuable, of all resources available to human beings as they struggle to understand themselves and the world in which they live and work. For most of us, we prefer to rely on our powers of reasoning, our personal experiences, and the judgment of others to make decisions, to assign value, and to select goals to pursue. As a result, we can sometimes deny or ignore what Wanless characterizes as a "life force" within each of us and thereby forfeit "extraordinary, perhaps even revolutionary, ways of comprehending ourselves." I am reminded of the key point Ernest Becker makes in Denial of Death: Although no one can deny physical death, there is another death which we can deny. That is the death which occurs when we become wholly preoccupied with fulfilling others' expectations of us. Wanless asserts (and I agree) that trusting one's intuition can help us to identify and then fulfill what we expect of ourselves.
This book also provides a wealth of carefully selected quotations from various sources which are strategically placed within chapters which examine the potential "rewards" of intuition; what Wanless calls "the intuitive imperative"; intuitive decision-making, action, intention, vision, innovation, communication, fitness, and energy; and finally, "The Intuitive Future Life: A New Way of Being." Obviously, the purpose of including the quotations is to reassure the reader that, for many of the most thoughtful and influential persons, intuition is given great value. Among all the hundreds of quotations, my personal favorites include:
"There is something within you that knows more than you know." (Rochelle Myers)
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." (Audre Lorde)
"A great many think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James)
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." (Anais Nin)
"I shut my eyes in order to see." (Paul Gauguin)
This is a book which increases in value each time it is re-read. Although it has direct and practical relevance to the workplace, it can also help its reader (if receptive) to use the power of intuition to guide, nourish, and enrich her or his personal life. Wanless includes several hundred specific suggestions, drills, insights, and reassurances which -- collectively -- reveal and inform the potential power of intuition. The adjective "potential" is crucial to realizing the responsibility each person must assume. Wanless seems absolutely convinced that each and every reader can fulfill what is for most of us a latent and under-developed but nonetheless immensely promising source of wisdom and (yes) strength.
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- The POWER of Humor makes for POWERFUL reading
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The Fun Factor: Unleashing the Power of Humor at Home and on the Job
M.D., Clifford Kuhn , and
Clifford Kuhn M.D.
Manufacturer: Minerva Books
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Insisting that "we are humor beings," this celebration of the healing power of laughter provides detailed instructions on finding humor in everyday life and becoming joyful. The health benefits of laughter, the business application of humor, and the role of fun in family life are discussed, driven by the contention that human beings are predisposed to delight. The tenets of the "fun factor" attitude are presented, including having fun above all, always going the extra smile, laughing at oneself first, and listening carefully for the punch line.
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The POWER of Humor makes for POWERFUL reading.......2003-11-05
I came to Dr. Kuhn's book with reservations, prepared to read another self-help book where the author tells me how to be a better version of myself (perhaps more like him or her). The reality of the experience of reading this book proved to be unique and powerful. Dr. Kuhn insists that we already hold within us an enormous capacity for joy and healing and his arguement for unleashing this capacity is convincing and timely. He believes that our potential for joy is directly linked to our relationship with our own unique sense of humor. Unleashing the "humor being" within you enables you to more fully, without guilt or worry, experience the joy which constantly surrounds you. Dr. Kuhn not only gives us permission, but insists that we explore the terrain of our own humor history and indulge in the unique coping mechanism of laughter. Everything from a smile to a titter to a belly laugh is fair game, each bringing abundant health benefits. Dr. Kuhn shares personal stories of his own explorations with humor and shares humor's role in his own childhood (his father was instrumental in helping him create and nurture his own sense of humor), his work (working with critically ill patients, their families and with chronic pain patients), and his family (humor was the best and most acceptable way his children dealt with him as an alcoholic father). Dr. Kuhn is brutally honest in passages which brought me to tears and made me laugh out loud. In my work with Alzheimer's patients, humor is a valuable tool for improving the quality of both their lives and mine. This book has become a resource for care providers, family members and friends. If you've ever wondered when it's okay to laugh, Dr. Kuhn can answer that question. In the most dire of circumstances, there is joy to be experienced. Dr. Kuhn not only gives you permission to do so, but provides you with the tools you need to reconnect with your unique "humor being."
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Crammed with good ideas! One page at a time!.......2002-10-16
As a psychotherapist, I don't often turn to business authors or management consultants. This book is an exception.
It is great for the one-page reader who wants help quickly. Deep and Sussman take some of the best psychological reasearch and bring the core down to a pithy statement, easily entertained, and place 7-10 or so of these on each page. The reader takes a topic of interest and finds just one page of pearls of wisdom. Topics range from the individual: "Insomnia" or Avoid Negative Self Talk" or "Forgive Your Mistakes" to business areas like "Accept Criticism" "Make Good Use of Time", to relationships and communicating effectively, then to prospering at work and at home: "Survive a Job Loss" "Raise Positive, Successful Children." One then reads the 7 to 10 Yes-you-can suggestions (many from bona fide research) written in simple sentences.
Amazing. I show and suggest this book in my stress reduction and relaxation training group and many buy it.
One holiday season I bought it as a gift for my favorite people. I highly recommend this!
Bite-sized inspiration!.......2001-02-10
I love this neat little book. It distills some of the most effective advice on work, health, family, and service into easily understandable and applicable blurbs. I love the inspiring quotations and the positive tone with which Deep and Sussman address the topics discussed in the book. Some of the information is just plain common sense, but there seems to be a shortage of that these days, making this book all the more necessary. Give it to the new graduate or as a gift to a new employee. They'll thank you later.
Don't let negativity stop you from reaching your goals!.......2001-01-23
"Yes, You Can!" not only gives excellent advice, it explains how you can make that advice part of your daily life. This book covers more than 125 personal goals and is an inspiring guide! It is set up so you can read just a few pages each day and improve your life incrementally. The focus is on developing a positive attitude in life and by doing this, you are ensured success in all areas of your life.
You will find 1,200 inspiring ideas for work, home and happiness. This book contains all the information you may ever need on how to think positively, act powerfully, communicate effectively, build great relationships, motivate others and prosper at work and at home.
Whether you are thinking, speaking, listening, planning, managing, leading, working, parenting, loving, or serving...the "advisements" will help you to make your life more fulfilling. You might enjoy the "advisement" of "Increase Your Job Security" or "Increase Your Creativity." This is then followed by a list of ideas to accomplish this goal. One idea under the creativity advisement said: "Experience your innate creativity by doing something for the sheer joy of it without worrying about results."
Each day you will want to reach for this book and read a few pages. You might even want to check off the goals you have reached or write one of the ideas contained in this book on a chalk board. This will help you keep focused and take these ideas, and make them a reality in your life.
You can do anything you decide you can...YES..you can :).
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- This book is a great compass for a homebased business.
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Home Business Happiness: Secrets on Keeping the Family Ship Afloat--From Entrepreneurs Who Made It
Cheri Fuller
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Various profiles pave the way for readers interested in establishing a home office or business.
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This book is a great compass for a homebased business........1998-01-01
I initially borrowed this book from my public library to make sure it lived up to its description. Cheri Fuller has done a great job by using case studies, advice from successful homebased business people, and it has steered me in my homebased career.
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on August 2, 2004. The length of the article is 800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Date: August 2, 2004
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Volume: 43
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Stop Worrying About Money
Mitch Gallon
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Everyone worries about money and the fear of finances prevents millions of people from addressing their money woes - leading to overwhelming debt and an inability to save money. Stop Worrying About Money! provides an innovative, step-by-step program designed to take the fear and mystery out of managing your money. It will help you feel more confident about yourself and teach you to handle your personal finances without fear or pain.
Stop Worrying About Money!will show you how to:
* Stop buying on impulse
* Set aside a nest egg for a rainy day or even a sunny day
* Perform plastic surgery on those credit card bills
* Set realistic financial goals...and stick to them
* Reduce stress and feel good about yourself Become the captain of your own financial ship with Stop Worrying About Money!
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