Life Makeovers

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Summary: A Helping Hand to a Fantastic Life!
Review: "Life Makeovers" helps you to take action in your life in your own unique way. Cheryl Richardson gives you examples with exercises week by week on how to create positively long lasting change in your life. I began looking at all the positive aspects in my life and times that I have done the right thing. With her "take action challenges" the book helped me to develop qualities about myself that I am proud of now I can focus on the more positive things instead of the negative and recognize who my true self really is. I have become more satisfied in my life taking it one day at a time and not rushing through it. I have become more aware of the people I keep around me and my surroundings.

It feels like I have found a fresh start in my life. I have been able to clear the clutter and drains from my life so I can feel more invigorated and energized to keep moving forward. I would recommend this book for anyone who has ever felt exhausted and overwhelmed with your life. This book holds the key to freeing yourself from the automatic ways of being you were born into and to experience who you really are.

There is another book, which I highly recommend, titled- "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work- A Book About Instantaneous Transformation" by Ariel & Shya Kane. Through their 3 principles of Transformation you can have the life you've always dreamt about and more.

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Summary: Decent book for beginners
Review: Depending on how many self-help books you've already read, this book could be a huge disappointment, or heaven. I think it'd be great for someone just entering the world of self-help. It compiles everything I've read in other books in short, easy-to-read paragraphs with a Take Action section at the end of each week. Most self-help books could care less if you take action or not. This one at least gets you to start. However I think anyone who needs the reason why to do anything or how it would affect your life to get motivated on taking action will be disappointed, and thats why I gave the book only 3 stars, because it lacks the substance and reasoning to get moving.

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Summary: If it's good enough for Oprah, it's good enough for you!
Review: Oprah Winfrey not only takes her responsibility to her viewers and fans seriously, she takes it personally. She would never want to betray their trust by giving them information that doesn't significantly make their lives better. She also doesn't suffer fools gladly. Cheryl Richardson in this book as in her previous book more than passes the Oprah "sniff" test. And for good reason. Cheryl doesn't need your permission to tell you exactly how it is in your life, why you're stuck and most importantly what you need to do to get unstuck. She obviously knows that time doesn't heal. Truth heals. Cheryl knows the truth and to her credit knows that until you know specifically in a step by step way how to change, that you probably won't. She gives you those steps. Unlike so many self-help books that seem to be missing something, it's easy to fully "buy in" to her message, because it feels right, makes sense and is doable. Who could ask for anything more? Buy, read and use this book to get more of what you want, sooner--- that is of course unless you're happy settling for getting less (or nothing at all), later.

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Summary: Excellent Tool To improve your life
Review: This "book" is excellent if you look to it and use it as a self help "tool" or "mannual" and not as a book for spiritual guidance or merely an enjoyable read. It is simply written but very well written .Precise and to the point and this is why it is so effective.However, to improve your life using this book you must be willing to work with it over a long period of time and not to just read it over a couple of hours or a couple of days.It should be used slowly to affect change and you're supposed to work with one chapter at a time over a period of a year.I think this makes lots of sense as old habits die hard and good new habits take time to set in.For example: the first week you're supposed to write 25 things you are most proud of accomplishing over the past year.It took me about 4 days to find all 25 things , but at the end I really felt good about myself, before that I used to (negatively)think that my time flew without getting anything done.Many books will spend pages and pages telling you about the benefits of positive thinking,and how to achieve it. This book actually fostered positive thinking with one very simple exercise. This is the beauty of this book! Another example:The next week I found one goal that I felt I needed to focus on and then wrote three actions that I will take each week to achieve this goal.Prior to that I used to set so many goals to work on at the same time , with no clear plan of action as to exactly how to achieve these goals. Over the past few months this book made me feel good about myself, introduced me to the satisfaction of self-care , made me respect my priorities and now I have a schedule that reflect these priorities, it helped me find time slots for doing things that really matter to me like excersising and spending quality time with my family, and helped me create a much needed balance between my different roles in life.I finally achieved some goals I've been talking about wanting to achieve for years. Highly recommended.Two other highly recommended books for a better life are: The seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey and the 10 dumbest mistakes smart people make and how to avoid them by Arther Freeman and Rose Dewolf.

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Summary: Already changed my life, not even half-way into it!!!!!!
Review: This is an AWESOME book! I'm in a group that meets about our progress, and it's really teaching me to put ME ahead of work and other aspects of life. Cheryl Richardson is a life-saver, and will surely change many people's lives (maybe YOURS) if they'll only go through this book. The chapters are only 3 pages long with an action for the week. I'm currently trying to learn not to live off adrenaline by driving the speed limit (actually) and taking deep breaths. I discovered that putting off writing my second true crime book was "holding me back" and "taking my energy away" because I felt so guilty. So I started working on it every morning and finished it! My goal this year is to feel good and worthwhile without my job being my self-esteem thermometer. And the 25 great accomplishments over the past year are astonishing!! To write and to remember. Just awesome, this book. HIGHLY recommend to ANYONE, male or female! Go Cheryl!!!!!

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Summary: You've Got Work to Do!
Review: You can't sit around on your hands and expect your life to change. That's the basic message of LIFE MAKEOVERS. If you truly want to make over you life, you need to take ACTION, and author Cheryl Richardson (a "life coach" and frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show) provides readers with plenty of action steps that will jump start a life makeover. Written in a format of weekly exercises, assignments, and thought-provoking essays, this book offers readers who may be "feeling stuck" a way to get started on making the changes they want in their lives. The "figuring out what to do" part is taken care of for you. Richardson sees to it that you know exactly where to begin and how to follow through. The author does tend to over-do the "self-care" portions of the book (her enthusiasm for maximum self-care sometimes seems more tiring than encouraging), and she's a little overboard on the "positive thinking" aspects of change, as well. But, in general, she has the right idea. If you like "to-do" lists and the feeling of accomplishment that comes from completing exercises and crossing things off such lists, then you'll like Richardson's approach to making over your life.