Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters - Softcover

McGraw, Phillip C., Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786890983 ISBN 13: 9780786890989

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2006

Synopsis

If you are:

• capable of more than you are accomplishing;
• frustrated that you are not making more money;
• stuck in a rut and not getting what you want;
• bored with yourself;
• silently enduring an emotionally barren life or marriage;
• trudging, zombie-like, through an unchallenging career;
• just "going through the motions" of your life;
• living in a comfort zone that yields too little challenge;
• living a lonely existence with little hope for change;

then hold on as Dr. Phillip McGraw takes you on a guided tour of your life to honestly label the problems and causes that control your destiny.

Life Strategies will give you the most honest explanation of your life and how you got where you are that has ever been published. Dr. McGraw is results-based and measures success in terms of changed lives, not rhetoric. This book is a plain-talk, entertaining way to learn to take control of your life, right now. Dr. Phil introduces you to the ten Laws of Life that every person needs to know. Learn them, use them, and improve virtually every aspect of your life, from work to home to spiritual to physical. Ignore them and you'll continue to pay the price.

With Life Strategies, Dr. McGraw tells you how to strategically control your life, rather than continue as a frustrated passenger.

About this title

Review

Dr. Philip McGraw will be a familiar figure to those who watch Oprah Winfrey. He's the psychotherapist on Oprah's new "Change Your Life" TV show, and the trial scientist who helped Oprah win the Amarillo beef trial in 1997. But even without his TV personality tag, Dr. McGraw is a formidable figure with over 15 years experience in the psycho-legal system, and now head of a litigation firm consisting of a team of experts from various specialisms. As such, Dr. McGraw's Life Strategies is a punchy, no nonsense guide to shaping and reshaping your life.

There are certain Life Laws that are necessary to succeed, McGraw explains, and these include: You create your own experience; Life rewards action; Life is managed, not cured; and We teach people how to treat us. Each chapter, most of them headed by one of the Life Laws, brims with sharp-shooting advice, insightful commentary, case-studies and assignments to test and measure your progress. And be warned, McGraw is a brilliant observer of human foibles. He knows all the excuses we tend to make about bad relationships, unsatisfying jobs and negative behaviour, and he offers the kind of straightforward advice that makes mincemeat of every excuse. So, if you don't intend to make active or dramatic changes in your life, this is not the book for you!--Lucas LoBlack

Review

"If you're allergic to buzz words and jargon, Dr Phil is your man" (Mail on Sunday)

Edition details

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786890983
• ISBN 13: 9780786890989
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 362