Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters Paperback – 19 January 2000

Slightly torn on the reverse cover. Possibly the 25% discount was due to that. Otherwise the book is fine.

The pages of the book seem so old. Looks like a refurbished book.

paper quality is poor but fantastic book

Seller is showing HARDCOVER but sending softcover copies. Have changed it twice. Paper and printing is also bad. Looks like a pirated copy.

Really good book

This book reminds of the power in taking responsibility for our own happiness and success. It is hard hitting but incedibly empowering if you choose to sit up and take notice. The kick up the arse I needed this week anyway!

I think this is an excellent book to help you review your life and try to figure out why you are doing what you are doing so you can start trying to figure out how to change things. Life Lesson 2 - You Create Your Own Experience and Life Lesson 3 - People Do What Works we the big ones with me. My life is perfectly fine and even little quiet but I find that I keep creating drama that is 100% of my own creation over and over and that is a hard fact to face and even harder problem to resolve since not sure why I am doing it. For some reason causing little (but sometimes disruptive) drama in my own life works for me and I get some kind of pay off for causing myself trouble?! Working through the exercises in this book and the work book take time and a commitment. It could take a whole weekend to really do a good job of reviewing your whole like in the first chapter before you even get to the Life Lessons. However, I think this book is very helpful to people who have pattern problems like say procrastination to point of life disruption or yo-yo dieting that is more tied to other things like emotional eating than bad diet and lack of exercise or settling in life or hanging on to lingering anger or regrets that are long past their shelf life. Dr. Phil makes you really roll up your sleeves and take a hard look your past and current life so patterns start to emerge and reasons for why you are doing things that did not seem to obvious are now more clear. Once you have identified the patterns/problems, then you can try to solve them or learn more about them so you can start to heal. I think this book is designed to make the reader start accepting and examining the role they actually might play in creating problems and issues they think they have no control over. I think it is also really helpful for when you just really are not sure what is wrong with your life but you feel like it could be better and something is holding you back and needs to change but your are not really sure what to change or how. But like everything in life, you get little out of this if you put nothing in it. If you do not take the time to do the exercises and really examine your life then you will not learn anything and the Life Lessons might seem little to pat or general. But if you do the work then you might just wake up and realize that you "get it".

This was a book that captured the reader's attention right from the start and held a consistently interesting pace throughout. Well worth the read.

Glancing through the many 5 stars comments you will find enough reasons why to study this book and use the tools.I want to focus your attention on a few specifics of this book: straight talk, dry, provocative, inspiring and convincing; emphasis on the freedom of choices in a world where more and more people claim there is no freedom, no free will; you find a simple strategy planning table to start with; reference to one of the most outstanding books in the area of life management: Man's Search for Meaning written by Dr. Viktor Frankl; on the pages 230-232 you find "Life dimensions and Categories" which you can tailor to your personal needs, chapter 13 provides you with 7 steps to acquiring your goals.The author summarizes the top ten elements consistently present in the successful people he has studied.For 9,99 Euro you get the wisdom of a true expert, for approx. 200 Euros you get an hour of an average coach with an unknown background. The decision is very easy. Go for your future Tool Guide to develop your "Life Strategies". You cannot start too early and it is never too late.