4 comments about The Lemming Dilemma: Living with Purpose, Leading with Vision.

1. Look up "lemming" in the dictionary and you will read: a lemming is a small arctic rodent with a short tail. They also have an annoying habit of being followers, not leaders--thus the cliche, following the other lemmings off a cliff.

   However, even lemmings need purpose. In this colorfully animated , 80 some odd page book, author David Hutchens and illustrator extrordinaire, Bobby Gombert, present some very important life lessons in a most remarkable way--simply, succinctly, and concisely.

   Using clever humor, we read the story of Emmy the lemming. Emmy has an epiphiany and decides not to jump. She also rallies others to be leaders not followers. Through metaphors and muse, people of all ages are reminded--"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"

   As one of Hutchen's other books, "Outlearning The Wolves", this makes an excellent resource guide for teachers, parents, and business managers. Inclusion of probing questions for group discussion is a plus. Highly recommended, even for children.

   other reading suggestions: "You've Earned It, Don't Lose it" by Suze Orman and "Outlearning The Wolves" by David Hutchens

   Your interest & comments are appreciated--CDS




2. Simple, powerful, practical. I had read "The Fith Discipline" by Peter Senge and this book explained to me what was Personal Mastery all about in only a few pages using a powerful methaphor... You'll always remmember the story.. It worked for me... Now I feel that I have found my purpose in life.. I'm able to see want to create.



3. The lemming dilemna
   Lemming life was happy and pathetic until one time. Lemming life was the same each year, with a cliff jumping festival. The festival was filled with fun, and they had many booths that would amuse lemmings and a elvis look alike contest. But then, at the end of the festival, they would jump opff the cliff, at least those who were old enough. At the bottom of the cliff awas so called "happiness and joy". After all of these years, one lemming asked why they jumped. Everyone said it was what their ancestors did, so they must do it too. But she wanted too find an alternative, some way too see that this was not the way too end your life. But she did not know if there were bad things at the bottom of the cliff or not. She had a vidion and mad a catapult to launch herself over the cliff and too the other side. It was a paradise, and she could also see that there were spikes at the bottom of the cliff. Then she founded a travel\airport and lived happily. But there were still some who jumped...



4. Books on vision are often dry and word-intensive. I was amazed at how this author was able to create a truly humorous book, while still communicating some very deep and essential concepts. I laughed my way through this delightful tale, and yet came away motivated to make positive changes in my life and to pursue my dreams. This was very easy to read, so much so that my 9 year old read and enjoyed it...but it is not a children's book per se...the messages are aimed towards adults.

2 comments about Integrity CD: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reali.

1. This CD is an accurate representation of an even better book --- Cloud's voice is easy to listen to as he makes points that are illuminating for anyone interested in understanding the application of the principles of living a complete life.



2. Liked the book, I thought it had some information that will be helpful in business as well as life in general.

5 comments about Get Unstuck! The Simple Guide to Restart Your Life.

1. Wow! If you learn eighty percent of your "programs" (your unconscious behavior patterns) by the time you are 8 years old and another fifteen percent by the time you're 18, you definitely need this book to help you use the other five percent to change the first ninety-five percent. Otherwise, you will often find an 8 year old running your life (this isn't always the best idea). Seriously, pick up this book and put it into action. My copy is so highlighted some pages appear to be printed on yellow paper. Enjoy!



2. In 12 short, easy-to-read chapters John Seeley presents powerful tools to help you get in touch with what you have in your life, what you want more of and what you want less of. Each chapter opens and closes with a famous quote, includes anecdotes, short exercises, and thought-provoking questions that will guide you toward greater awareness and more effective action.
   
   I have read many personal growth books and found this one helpful. I recommend it for people in the healing and helping professions, including life coaches, therapists, and pastors, and anyone who wants to enjoy more and worry less. People seeking coaching could use this to help themselves navigate the challenges of life with greater ease. Great book, inspiring reading!
   
   Rachel Albert-Matesz, Nutrition Educator, Cooking Coach, Personal Chef, and co-author of The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet & Cookbook



3. I read the book in one sitting and thought it was a great way to reinforce the tools needed to re-evaluate your life and move on. The questions at the end of each chapter really makes sure you're focused on the goals. Great for someone like myself whose always on the go.



4. If you are considering a personal coach, you may want to read this book first. I read Get Unstuck in one day, and through this easy to read book gained some valuable insights. Each of the 12 chapters contains practical steps you can take to improve your life. The author talks to you, not at you!



5. This "simple" little book is powerful and to the point. The author writes with an openness, humor and generosity that imbues the book with a sense of "You can do it!" And do it with grace and ease. It is easy to read, easy to engage and easy to absorb the concept of not being STUCK! There is a humility in the writing that includes you in the life of the author, letting you know that he comes from experience and not just intellect. It is real and deceptively profound.
   
   Thank you John Seeley.

No comments about El secreto de la Ley de la atraccion/ Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction.

No comments about Making Your Dreams Come True: A Plan for Easily Discovering and Achieving the Life You Want!.

1 comments about The Sexual Ecstasy Workbook.

1. This is a clearly-written little book with fun suggestions for exercises in intimacy. I highly recommend it!

3 comments about The Power of a Positive Attitude: Discovering the Key to Success.

1. Author Roger Fritz has penned a rather bland but inoffensive short book on the power of positive attitude. His focus is on the workplace, but the ideas he offers are equally applicable to one's personal life. The text is sprinkled with a variety of self-diagnostic quizzes.
   
   On one level, it is hard to imagine how a book like this got accepted by a publishing house and written. It's not that it's bad -it isn't - but there is very little here that has not been said or written before. Certainly nothing novel.
   
   But then, maybe I need a more positive attitude!
   
   One of the best things you can say about this book is that it is short, a quick read weighing in at about 110 pages.



2. In an effort to improve a seemingly negative attitude in the workplace, I was tasked to read some books on having a positive attitude. Naturally I did not do so with a good attitude . . . but this book was actually very well written and relatively motivational. The author has some great concepts and techniques for improving your attitude that are not quite as absurd as you might think. Was it worth the money? Yeah . . . and I got to check off an item on my development plan for the year. Double bonus for me!



3. Attitude affects all facets of our lives, from how we handle stress and communicate at work to how we view difficulties. This book is for any library strong in business and conflict resolution: it translates a positive attitude to a business pursuit and shows how to achieve by becoming a better listeners, handling bosses and subordinates better, and how to conquer factors that work against positive results.

No comments about The 7 Habits Signature Series Set.

4 comments about Intuitive Power: Your Natural Resource.

1. According to author and lecturer Caroline Myss, intuition is the ability to take multiple systems of knowledge and make sense of them. Courage is a fundamental part to becoming intuitive-that is, taking action based on the guidance that's received. In fact, Myss says that the intuitive journey is actually the journey to self-esteem.
   
   Intuitive Power - Your Natural Resource is a live Caroline Myss workshop on 4 CD's. The theme of this workshop is the role of intuition, the nature of intuitive blocks, the importance of personal power and self-esteem in hearing and following intuitive guidance, and the interior spiritual life.
   
   CD 1
   
   In CD 1, Myss discusses intuition "American style" which includes the myth that we deserved to have our life "settled"-that the Mystery of who we are is something to be "solved" rather than lived. She also discusses the propensity of many American spiritual seekers to elevate roles like "healers", believing they are of utmost importance to the Divine-and how they sneer at "blue collar intuition" and grounded occupations (like accountant, for example) believing they're "just jobs" that don't require intuition. She goes on to dispel the myth that intuitive skill and the spiritual life are one in the same, as well as the idea that intuition is a "gift"-only bestowed on those who are "good" or "light enough candles". Survival intuition, that of the first three chakras, is *not* spiritual guidance or higher revelation; in fact, this type of intuition has a private agenda built into it.
   
   CD 2
   
   Funny stories are peppered throughout this workshop, and Myss begins Disc 2 telling the story of a Puella Eternis who was in her 30's and still lived with her Dad. Myss was discussing how God can "wipe you out" in an instant-with or without a prayer of surrender-and mentioned that as she was teaching this concept at another workshop, especially as it related to finances, this Puella called out "God can't take my money because my Dad put it in a Trust Fund." The audience roars with laughter at this story. Myss also goes on to admit that she has changed positions of a lot of things as she read and learned more, including the concept that illness is caused by negativity. Stating that she "doesn't buy it anymore" and that it's a "cruel thought", she acknowledges that while negativity can enhance illness, it doesn't cause it. Myss also says that she will teach, until the day she disincarnates, that the great skill or power in the human experience is not love, but self-esteem.
   
   CD 3
   
   Myss explains how our physical body is the "caboose" on the intuitive train-it is not the engine. She explains how we are always doing "energetic readings" by scanning people-an unconscious process that lights up all 7 of the chakras. As she has taught in other workshops, Myss talks about how meeting new people is often an exercise in gathering energetic data-starting with 1st chakra questions like "Where are you from?", and working upwards to the other chakras. For example, a 2nd chakra question would be "Are you married? Do you have any kids?" Unfortunately, as often happens in her workshops, Myss doesn't go beyond the first three chakras so we can see how questions from the upper chakras would be posed to others, and what exactly we're assessing from chakras 4-7.
   
   Myss explains why some people and situations "gut" us, how to call our power back and how to keep energetically "contained"-which is the object of health. She goes on to tell a story about reaming out a guy when she was on safari in South Africa, despite "knowing better". She begins taking questions from audience members and someone asks Myss if she felt it was her place to do so. "No, I wanted it to be my place", she answers.
   
   CD 4
   
   Myss continues to take questions from the audience about her safari experience. She is asked: "Is it better to do that (chew someone out) then hold it in?" She answers: "You know, what I did is never the better path. He didn't come there to be attacked by me." Myss admonishes the audience on the importance of being hard-core honest with themselves and ask "What is the real reason I want to do what I'm about to do? What's the real reason I want to say _____?" Myss also talks about the back-lash of the new age, saying we've become "hyper-responsible" about illness and the concept of creating your own reality. She argues that we influence our reality, but we don't create it.
   
   She is then asked about archetypes and if they are actual entities. She replies that they are, in fact, actual entities and that a person can be "possessed" by an archetype by identifying so strongly with an archetypal patterns that the pattern becomes more real than they are. According to Myss, comments like "That's just the way I am" are important clues to your archetypal patterns, and she correlates Julie Andrews' real life nun archetype and Andrew's role in The Sound of Music.
   
   In Conclusion
   
   Myss spends a good amount of time hitting home the importance of self-esteem and the containment of our personal power in this audio workshop. I have the Myss CD workshop series on Self Esteem, but haven't listened to it yet, so I don't know how much of this information from this series is covered in that workshop. If you're unfamiliar with chakras, you'd likely be lost, so I'd recommend reading Anatomy of the Spirit by Myss first. For hard-core Myss fans, there's really not a whole lot new here in my opinion, but as is always the case with her workshops, there are many nuggets wisdom that bear repeating and will help you on your journey towards becoming more conscious.
   
   Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book: Picture the Past, Experience the Cards, Understand the Present (coming Fall 2008 from Hampton Roads Publishing)



2. If you already have an extensive Caroline Myss library, no need to purchase this-it's nothing you haven't heard before. I was hoping that it would draw in some new insights into harnessing intuitive powers but it was more of a lecture on "getting over yourself" and a loose interpretation on recognizing your wake-up calls. Although you got to love Caroline Myss-she really de-mystifies mystical journeys and grounds you squarely back into our real world with our real dramas. Do I feel more intuitive as a result of listening to the workshop?-Good question, can't really answer that. The results aren't in yet.



3. As always Caroline Myss is direct, to the point and informative. I have recommended this to friends and family and will continue to do so.



4. On these CDs, Caroline shares some of her insights related to intuitive power. She states that what prevents people from becoming more aware of their intuitive impulses is fear and suggests that the more self-esteem and the more courage you have the greater intuitive power will you have. She has tossed love out the window, perhaps because to her love represents loss of power, and insists that intuitive power doesn't come from love, it comes from self-esteem.
   
   To me and to just about anyone else I've ever come across who teaches how to access intuition, intuitive power does come from love (for that matter even self-esteem comes out of love), but then again perhaps the rest of us view love through a different lens than Caroline. For me, love is a unifying power, that which removes barriers and opens doors, that which dissolves fear and that which says "The Infinite Spirit in me honors the (same) Infinite Spirit in you". Through love we see our holiness (wholeness which arises out of one Spirit expressing through everyone and everything) reflected in another. Love is that which recognizes the omnipresence of that which is divine, immortal, and infinite. For me, love has nothing to do with fulfilling the whims of another or losing power, instead, it has everything to do with expressing your true spiritual nature - allowing the Spiritual Self to shine through you.
   
   Caroline further suggests that you can increase your intuitive awareness by paying attention to the energy within you and all around you. This is a good point and at the same time, if you are already familiar with exercising your intuitive awareness, this may not be new to you.
   
   While I do appreciate some of Caroline's insights, I find her language and attitude off-putting at time, and personally find authors like Sonia Choquette, Judith Orloff, Penney Pierce, Laura Alden Kamm, John Holland, and others, more palatable.

1 comments about Actitud De Vencedor.

1. Why do some people succeed at everything they attempt while others just seem to continually have problems? Could it be just an "attitude problem"? Read this book and finally understand what successful coaches, teachers and leaders have always known: your attitude determines your success. This book will help you pin-point the areas of your life that are holding you back from being the best you can be! Read it today!