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    Kiss That Frog!

    • Kiss That Frog!

    • By: Brian Tracy; Christina Stein

    • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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    • Print ISBN-13: 978-1-60994-280-9

    • Pages in Print Edition: 192

    • Subscriber Rating: 1 out of 5 rating1 [1 Rating] Subscriber Reviews

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    Overview

    “You are here on this earth to do something wonderful with your life, to experience happiness and joy, wonderful relationships, excellent health, complete prosperity, and total fulfillment,” write bestselling author and speaker Brian Tracy and his daughter Christina Tracy Stein. Most important, they say, all of that and more is within your grasp. Just like the lonely princess in the fairy tale who was reluctant to lock lips with a warty frog and transform him into a handsome prince, something stops many of us short of attaining our dreams. Our negative thoughts, emotions, and attitudes can threaten to keep us from achieving all that we’re capable of. Here bestselling author and speaker Brian Tracy and his daughter, therapist Christina Tracy Stein, provide a set of practical, proven strategies anyone can use to turn those negative frogs into positive princes. Tracy and Stein present a step-by-step plan that addresses the root causes of negativity, helps you uncover blocks that have become mental obstacles, and shows how you can transform them into stepping-stones to achieve your fullest potential. The book distills, in an accessible and immediately useful form, what Tracy has presented in more than 5,000 talks and seminars with more than five million people in fifty-eight countries and what Stein has learned through thousands of hours of counseling people from all walks of life. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” the authors quote Shakespeare. The many powerful techniques and exercises in this book will help you change your mind-set so that you discover something worthwhile in every person and experience, however difficult and challenging they might seem at first. You’ll learn how to develop unshakable self-confidence, become your best self, and begin living an extraordinary life.

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    Average Rating: 1 out of 5 rating Based on 1 Rating

    "Nothing like Eat That Frog!" - by DotNETDev on 07-FEB-2012
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    I should have read the description on Amazon first: "The ideas in this book are based on more than 100 years of writing and research in psychology and psychotherapy".  Instead, I jumped right in having read and enjoyed Eat That Frog!.

    The first couple of chapters are fine (probably written by Brian Tracy), but the moral of the story and rest of the book is that you aren't who you want to be because you were criticized as a child and/or not loved (probably lead/written by his daughter, the psychotherapist).  Additionally, they say it's more than likely your issues have something to do with or involve other people.  These are the things you must overcome through being responsible for these things and so on.

    For me, personally, the reason why I am not yet where I want to be is because I consciously spent a lot of time working and studying to gain experience (and pay bills) and only through the "sponsorship" of someone close to me am I now able to go after my goal.  And I imagine for many other people this is the case.  Furthermore, I disagree with 100 years of psychology and psychotherapy asking adults to accept responsibility for any abuse received in their childhood from their parents.

    This may go down well in the US, for example, where counseling, psychiatry and medication are acceptable.  The fact is, things happen, some people can be cruel/selfish etc, and you have to try to make the most of life and without taking responsible for it or bringing it up with whoever again and making everyone unhappy.

    The repeated focus on other negative people (but then telling you not to blame them) ruined this book for me.  Sometimes it really is just where you are in life, what you've consciously set out to do or have just got caught up in (eg living it up a bit and then having a few pounds to lose as a result - and that's all there is to it).  Indeed, being positive, visualizing and addressing issues are fruitful, but when you know that other (negative) people or trying to dig up and look for negative experiences for an answer are not the reasons for your current situation, then this book doesn't do much for you.

    Re-read Eat That Frog! if you're looking for motivation and positivity.
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