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June 17, 2009

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Book Review Why don’t we listen better?

Petersen, J. C. (2007). Why don’t we listen better? Communicating and connecting in relationships. Tigard, OR: Petersen Publications. James Petersen uses five parts to illustrate the talking and listening process to help us understand a better way to communicate with each other and understand one another in his book, Why don’t we listen better? Communicating and connecting in relationships. Part One Petersen creates a “Flat-Brain Theory of Emotions” that explains to us how our mind works and what goes on with in us to act the way we do and communicate in the manner that we act. He puts it all together the emotions, the feelings, communication and actions we may have in manner that is expressed through his theory of Flat-Brain. He uses illustrations to get his point across, which he is very creative in showing how it works. Part Two In this part Petersen uses his creative card to get his point across in helping us communicate better. The system of the card is to help us to become...

My Love

Back in May of 2006, I received a friend request from this beautiful, bright woman living in California. Without knowing her interest in me I replied and excepted her as my friend. In that time I was traveling all over climbing the rankings in wheelchair tennis. I would get requests often from women because of my inspiring story of breaking my back from a skydiving accident. She was different I found out in July when we agreed to meet. I set it up to meet her at an outdoor restaurant, I had set it up to go after my tennis practice. I was late meeting because I was in a intense match that lasted longer than I had intended. I ended up being forty-five minutes late but she was still there. When I rolled up to see her she was a bright star shining from her smile. I was melting inside at first sight, and excited at the same time. I didn’t show my excitement to her because I didn’t want her to think I was struck with her beauty. I wanted to come across as someone who was intereste...

Book Review Henry Cloud

Cloud, H. (2004). Nine things you simply must do to succeed in love and life: A psychologist probes the mystery of why some lives really work and others don’t. Brentwood, TN: Integrity Publishers. Cloud points out nine things that we must do in this life if we want to have success in all areas of our lives. The 9 things are: Principle 1: Dig It Up! This chapter is about finding your passion, your dream. Find out what excites you and pursue it. He discusses the problems of doing this and how we pursue other people’s desire for us; especially if we are people pleasers. Principle 2: Pull The Tooth! This chapter suggests that successful people do not hang onto bad things for long. You have got to get rid of it. Our bodies do it naturally, but emotionally we just hang on, and it hurts us. Successful people act and get rid of the bad things right away. Principle 3: Play The Movie! Here is what Cloud says; “Anything you do is only a scene in a larger movie. To understand that action, you ...

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