Why Your Life Sucks - And What You Can Do About It

Informationen zum Autor Alan H. Cohen is the author of 18 popular inspirational titles, including The Dragon Doesn't Lives Here Anymore and Dare to be Yourself. A frequent guest on television and radio, he conducts life mastery seminars in Hawaii and on-line, and is an acclaimed keynote speaker for educational, health, church, and corporate groups. He lives on Maui, Hawaii. Visit www.alancohen.com to learn more. Klappentext The in-your-face, no-hype guide to getting happy... Your life sucks if... • You routinely make someone or something more important than you • The life you are living on the outside doesn't match who you are on the inside • You say yes when you mean no • You try to fix other people • You've forgotten to enjoy the ride When your life sucks, it's a wake-up call. Now self-help guru and bestselling author Alan Cohen invites you to answer that call, change your course, and enjoy the life you were meant to live. In ten compelling chapters, Cohen shows you how to stop wasting your energy on people and things that deaden you-and use it for things you love. With great humor, great examples, and exhilarating directness, Why Your Life Sucks doesn't just spell out the ways in which you undermine your power, purpose, and creativity-it shows you how to reverse the damage. Here is an encouraging but loud-and-clear reminder that in every moment we generate our own experience by the choices we make, and that today is the best day to begin your new life. Leseprobe You Give Your Power Away Before baseball star Mickey Mantle died, he faced and came to terms with his lifelong alcoholism. As he was withering of liver disease, Mickey held a press conference at the Betty Ford Center. A reporter asked him, "How would you like people to remember Mickey Mantle?" Pale and gaunt, still sporting his Yankee cap, he replied, "I would like them to think that I finally made something of myself." I was shocked. One of the most loved and celebrated sports heroes of all time--my hero--did not respect himself until he took back the power he had given to his addiction. A few months later, Mickey Mantle died. Soon afterward I saw a touching newspaper cartoon showing Mickey meeting God, depicted as a person. As the two ambled down a long road in heaven, God placed his arm around Mickey's shoulder. Mickey turned to God and wistfully remarked, "I can't believe all the errors I made." God turned to Mickey and answered, "But you gave them a ninth inning they'll never forget." We have all given our power away to something--many things--and our lives have sucked for it. We have bestowed undue power to lovers, money, bosses, addictive substances, fame, dream homes, religious dogma, parents, children, doctors, lawyers, agents, therapists, psychics, teachers, policemen, politicians, sports heroes, movie stars, gorgeous men and women, business moguls, the news, and occult sciences. The list goes on; you can add more of your own. You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you. If you do not value who and what you are, you will seek to borrow worth from the outer world. You will look for validation from people whom you believe know or have more than you. But since everything you need is inside you and no one can know more about your path and purpose than you do, any power you ascribe to external authorities must eventually explode in your face and leave you feeling worse than when you started. The question is not, "Have you given your power away?" The question is, "How can you get it back?" Unsucking your life is an inside job. You do not need to import power, for you were born with it; you just need to plug the holes in your bucket through which it is leaking. The quest is about peeling away the lies and illusions you have been told--and...

Product details

• Authors: Alan Cohen, Alan H. Cohen
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2005
• EAN: 9780553383621
• ISBN: 978-0-553-38362-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics