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Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
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An inspiring and helpful life-change book. Shows how people must take responsibility for their own life path through understanding the reality of why they behave the way they do.
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Detailed Description
By Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
Written by the author whom Oprah credits with helping her win the Amarillo beef trial. Shows how people must take responsibility for their own life path through understanding the reality of why they behave the way they do. Outlines 10 Life Laws from "Life rewards action" to "People do what works." An inspiring and helpful life-change book.
Dr. McGraw explores each of the 10 Life Laws necessary to succeed:
- Life Law #1: You either get it, or you don't. Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.
- Life Law #2: You create your own experience. Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life.
- Life Law #3: People do what works. Strategy: Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.
- Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. Strategy: Get real with yourself about your life and everybody in it.
- Life Law #5: Life rewards action. Strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger.
- Life Law #6: There is no reality; only perception. Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world.
- Life Law #7: Life is managed; it is not cured. Strategy: Learn to take charge of your life.
- Life Law #8: We teach people how to treat us. Strategy: Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you.
- Life Law #9: There is power in forgiveness. Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you.
- Life Law #10: You have to name it before you can claim it. Strategy: Get clear about what you want and take your turn.
304 pages. Softcover. 2000.
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