Self-help Book reviews and recommendations

"this is an inspirational book indeed. personally, loving the work we were born to do is simply loving how to work within oneself and others. this book has built me to grow as a young and responsible gentleman, not just financially but as well with character. success is being able to conqure difficulties and not running away from fear. success is YOU, without U there is no success. "SCCESS" this word should read SUCCESS but without U its not."

"I see THE NOTICER as an intelligent, sunny child's introduction to Socrates, especially the shorter dialogs by Plato such as MENO. Like Socrates, author Andy Andrews's hero, "Jones," wanders around a restricted area (Orange Beach, Alabama to Socrates's Athens) asking people questions and drawing "correct" answers from them. Unlike Socrates, however, Jones is in season and out of season congenial, non-confrontational, bland, corny. Jones's message is always upbeat, sunny of the "I think I can, I think I can" variety. *** Decade after decades this man who never seems to age wanders under Orange Beach's great pier, sits on benches near the canal and dispenses homely, folksy, generally unsolicited advice. "Make people feel good to be around you. If you make a mistake, apologize. If, on the other hand, you make an avoidably bad choice you had better show real contrition and make amends, in some cases even make restitution." *** And so it goes. Saccharin. Often corny. Always congenial. Rarely deep. Usually practical. Motherhood and apple pie. Who dares argue against Jones? Oh, I amost forgot: local Hispanics, sometimes rich, often illegals, call Jones Garcia. Want to find out why? -OOO-"

" Drawing on more than 20 years of learning about and treating the disfunctional behaviors of troubled individuals, the psychologist Dr. Lee Jampolsky has produced, in his book "Healing the Addictive Personality," released last year (2008), a worthy successor to his widely read and popular "Healing the Addictive Mind." As the two titles suggest, he has gone beyond thought processes alone to show how ALL aspects of our personality can have addictive tendencies, which are not necessarily limited to any substance, thing, activity or preoccupation. The commonality of behaviors which characterize the addictive personalities which all or most of us possess to some degree, lend us the possibility of being healed by applying truth-based, love- and relationship-oriented principles to all aspects of our personality. Dr. Jampolsky concludes his book with a series of twenty-one daily lessons, and an eleven-week program for ongoing healing. This compact but powerful work (171 pages) should be read with thoughtful consideration by every person who wants to live better and happier."