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Don't know how? Here's how!
Break a Habit, Stop Smoking, Ease Anxiety, Manage Drinking, Performance Enhancement, Regain Self-Esteem, and Much More.
First-Aid for the Overwhelmed
Getting on with life
I don’t have a great personal success story to give you. I do not claim to have the ability to make a fortune using just the power of my mind and I cannot channel unseen energies to cure illness. I am not a life-long psychology academic. What I can say is that I have experienced a number of tough times in my life, much like most people. Attempting to run my own business for 25 years I have faced bankruptcy more than once. I have experienced long-term relationship breakdown more than once. I have swapped career paths at just the wrong time and I have made things tough for myself at times by doing things ‘my way’. I have also spent the past 10 years learning how to go about things in a different way. During those 10 years I have retrained, I have worked with others, and I have self-supported. Though sometimes swamped with literature, advice, and opinions, I have worked to expose the fundamental pragmatic techniques that enabled my changes to take place and to continue.
I now work as a coach, a trainer, and sometimes a therapist. I also devote some of my time to work as a volunteer for an organisation that supports victims of crime, and I work with victims to help them rapidly deal with the tough challenges that they face.
This book is a summary of some of the methods and approaches that have worked for me and others. These are simple techniques to handle different situations and that can convert a tough time into a time of change.
What do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), emotional counselling, life coaching, cognitive analysis, and all the others have in common? How do they help people move on in their lives, even briefly? What happens in intensive group trainings that gets people acting as if they are very very high? What happens when self-help groups and addiction support groups work well and people make profound life choices and become willing to talk not just of change but of transformation? What is real in the diverse world of psychology, self-help, personal growth, and motivational training?