'Tis the Season For a New, Fresh, Wealthy You
Whatever it is You Want to Achieve This Summer There's a Book For It
May 31, 2009
The Self Help Market is always booming, but this time of year, when bathing suits come out, wallets start to empty, and change is in the air, there are books galore.
Do you want to lose weight before that big vacation to the beach? Check out these books:
- Quantum Wellness Cleanse: The 21 Day Essential Guide by Kathy Freston. Weinstein Books (May 2009). This book will not only help your body, but your mind and spirit too!
- Lessons From the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby. Perigee Trade (May 5, 2009) Harding and Kirby talk about the importance of learning how to work with your body instead of against it, and how to eat for your lifestyle.
- Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight-loss by Gina Kolata. Picador 2008. Kolata takes the reader through the myths of dieting all the way back to the nineteenth century, and also discusses the realities of genetics, bio-chemistry and the hazards of extra weight.
Or, if you are one of the few happy with your weight and body type, do you need financial advice or wisdom? Try these for your wallet and bank account:
- Crash Proof: How To Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter D. Schiff, John Downes, and Sean Pratt. Wiley, 2009. Schiff discusses withthe reader how to invest wisely in difficult economic times.
- Spent: Break the Buying Obsession and Discover Your True Worth by Sally Palaian. Hazeldene May 2009. Palaian takes the reader through the reasons for spending and then beyond them, paying off debt, achieving financial stability and moving forward with a budget, all while learning about your reasons for spending. A good combination of mental self help and financial self help.
Perhaps your weight is perfect, your bank account healthy, and you have no problems with debt. Is it, then, time to deal with your mental health? With your relationships? There are tons of books out there on this topic. Here are the most recent:
- Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Wayne Dyer. This author has written a plethora of books on how to live better through intentions, and this is his latest book in the line. He shows the reader not only that they need to change how they are thinking, but how to make those changes. In this way they can move forward to happiness
- What Is Your Self-Worth?: A Woman's Guide to Validation by Cheryl Saban Ph.D. Hay House 2009. Saban takes on society in this newest version look at the societal depictions of women, and how this effects each and every woman's sense of self worth.
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie. Aliax Merchandise (Kindle Edition) 2009. Here, Carnegie provides logical, precise wax rather than letting it ruin your life. He provides lists of ways of to stop worrying and live the life you want.
Or, maybe you want to hear from the beautiful people? The people on top and what they have to say about life and all it has to offer? Here is a bit of self help from on high:
- Rinnavation: Getting Your Best Life Ever by Lisa Rinna and Maureen O'Neal. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, May 2009. Rinna talks , Dancing with the Stars, and on TV in general while discussing how to make yourself feel beautiful, eat well, make money and have the life you want.
- 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours by Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman. Crown Forum, May 2009. If it is the conservative right that interests you, former politician Newt Gingrich and his daughter Jackie discuss how to create the life you want while revealing memories of family and friends who have done just that.
- Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss by Leeza Gibbons (Author), James HuysmanPsyD LCSW (Author), Rosemary DeAngelis Laird MD (Author) . LaChance Publishing May 2009. This book is designed for those people caring for people with Alzheimer's and other memory loss disorders. Gibbon's goes into detail about caring for her mother for a decade after her diagnosis. Also detailed is nutritional advice, emotional suggestions and mental health tips for the career.
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