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Helps to balance your life, create greater insight,
inspire you,
or offer excellent resources on areas that develop a wellness
lifestyle.
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Originally Published June 13, 2005 -- Your Wellness
Guide
2005 Balanced Living Summer Reading List
Other book ideas:
Terra's Additional Book Picks
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At the
start of each summer I recommend a reading list that will help you
balance your life, create greater insight, inspire you, or offer
excellent resources on areas that develop a wellness lifestyle.
This summer is no different. I am pleased to announce my 2005
Balanced Living Summer Reading List. |
I Need Your Love -- Is That True? By Byron Katie
More than a self-help book, I Need Your Love can change your life
and your relationships. So many of us live to be approved of and feel
validated by others when, instead, we need to approve ourselves and be
able to validate ourselves. No one else can give us the level of
satisfaction and contentment we can give ourselves by simply being
comfortable with who we are and what we are doing.
Setting the stage
for how to love and develop more healthy relationships, Katie says We all do
emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny -- just to get what we
already have. And because were doing the gymnastics, we dont see that we
already have it.
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I Need Your
Love
is not the only solution for learning how to forgive or come to terms with a
difficult relationship, but it certainly sheds light on how you can make
happiness yourself -- instead of relying on others to produce it for you --
and perhaps turn around a relationship in the process.
A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn
One of the loveliest celebrity biographies of the summer, Goldie Hawn and
co-author Wendy Holden tell a candid memoir of Hawns memories from
childhood, as an adult, and a star. Not a tell-all, Hollywood book, A
Lotus is about finding herself, wanting to be the best she can be, and
the many ways she has loved and made time for her family.
Early on, in a
self-fulfilled-prophecy chapter called Joy she recommends you smile
everyday because A smile is an indication of a happy heart, and when you
smile it changes your perception. It can create a better day.
If you want to
read an uplifting book this summer that, indeed, makes you smile, then pick
up this book.
Friends Are Everything by BJ Gallagher
This little book is full of quotes, stories, and truisms about friends. We
all need friends -- they bring us joy and love, help us see more clearly,
offer their generosity and care, and provide comfort and support through our
troubles.
This book
is a thoughtful find if you want an easy beachside book that helps you to
reflect on why nurturing your social life is important. It is also a
charming gift book for a special friends summer birthday. |
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A quote noted in
the book from Talk Show Host Arlene Francis says it all Trouble is a sieve
through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our
friends.
Leave The Office Earlier by Laura Stack
Finally, for the workaholic in all of us, this book is the nitty gritty
self-help you are looking for that offers numerous ideas for how to get out of
the office sooner (and perhaps off to your summer vacation!) without sacrificing
results -- those pesky bottom-liners that your job depends on.
Leave the Office
Earlier
explores ten key factors that improve results, lower stress, and save time in
todays workplace. These keys include preparation, order, discipline, and
concentration. If any place is the right environment for better enforcement of
these principles, the workplace is it. For example, in the Concentration
chapter, the author goes through ways we lose precious time by daydreaming at
work and how to put a stop to it or at least manage it (because some daydreaming
leads to creative ideas).
The exciting part
of this book is not that every suggestion is for you but that there are so many
tips and ideas for leaving the office earlier you are bound to find several
helps that will save you time right away.
Terra
Wellington
is a
national authority on creating a wellness lifestyle.
www.terrawellington.com
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Wellington
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