Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head: Your Guide to Living Well, Overcoming Obstacles, and Winning at Everything in Life - Hardcover

Coxe, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471746932 ISBN 13: 9780471746935

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

Praise for Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head

"Gary offers rich advice for anyone who wishes to succeed in spite of his or her failures. Four simple steps may be all that stand in the way of your dreams becoming a reality. Here's to the good life! Cheers!"
--Robin Leech, TV host

"Gary has developed an uncanny ability to take people to the next level. A must-read for everyone, whether you want to improve your life, your sales, or your business. Gary definitely has it figured out. Well done!"
--Harvey MacKay, New York Times bestselling author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

"Gary's thought process is one to admire and to achieve. Handling big business means changing your mindset, and Gary leads the way. An enjoyable book with great concepts for everyone in business and in personal life. A book you'll want to read twice."
--Gordon "Butch" Stewart, owner of Sandals Resorts

"A powerful and practical approach from someone who truly knows what he's talking about. You will be unstoppable after reading Gary's no-nonsense ideas on never giving up and becoming more successful."
--Ron Rice, founder, President, and CEO of Hawaiian Tropics

"Gary's book will take you beyond positive thinking and change your life for the better."
--Ron Garl, President of Ron Garl Golf Design

About this title

About the Author

GARY COXE is a personal growth expert and life strategist. Internationally recognized as an expert in personal growth, he speaks to hundreds of thousands of people and countless organizations about improving their professional and personal lives.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head

"Gary offers rich advice for anyone who wishes to succeed in spite of his or her failures. Four simple steps may be all that stand in the way of your dreams becoming a reality. Here's to the good life! Cheers!"
―Robin Leech, TV host

"Gary has developed an uncanny ability to take people to the next level. A must-read for everyone, whether you want to improve your life, your sales, or your business. Gary definitely has it figured out. Well done!"
―Harvey MacKay, New York Times bestselling author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

"Gary's thought process is one to admire and to achieve. Handling big business means changing your mindset, and Gary leads the way. An enjoyable book with great concepts for everyone in business and in personal life. A book you'll want to read twice."
―Gordon "Butch" Stewart, owner of Sandals Resorts

"A powerful and practical approach from someone who truly knows what he's talking about. You will be unstoppable after reading Gary's no-nonsense ideas on never giving up and becoming more successful."
―Ron Rice, founder, President, and CEO of Hawaiian Tropics

"Gary's book will take you beyond positive thinking and change your life for the better."
―Ron Garl, President of Ron Garl Golf Design

From the Inside Flap

Life is a series of challenges and roadblocks that you must overcome to achieve your dreams. It's a hard road, but you can't let temporary setbacks and failures get you down which is easier said than done. But this book gives you the tools you need to get over the rough spots and keep progressing toward your goals.

This one-of-a-kind guide offers much more than the simplistic motivational material out there; it includes real tools and real solutions for real people who are ready to improve their lives. It's not just about overcoming depression or trying times, and it's not just about becoming rich and successful though it will help you accomplish all of those things. What makes this book special is its combination of a message that inspires your soul and a set of tools that will help you achieve success no matter how you define it.

This is an actionable guide to self-improvement that will help you overcome whatever is holding you back, feel better about yourself, and move forward toward the goals you want to reach. The first step is written right on the cover: Don't Let Others Rent Space in Your Head. That means you have to stop letting other people and other things fill you with negativity. If you burden your mind with your own doubt or the naysaying of others, you can't focus on what you really want to accomplish and you won't accomplish it at all.

Gary Coxe knows what he's talking about. An internationally renowned expert in personal growth, Gary's own story of overcoming life's challenges has inspired thousands of others and it also inspired him to find out what makes high-achievers so successful. His research showed one thing that most successful people have in common: they don't listen to the negativity of others they don't let others rent space in their head!

It sounds easy, but it's not. That's because this book isn't just about motivating yourself; it's about the real things you can do every day to make progress toward your goals. You just have to do them. With Coxe's four-step process backed by proven strategies, powerful examples, real-world stories, and helpful tips you'll find out who you are, what you want, and what you can do to get it.

Life is hard. Achievement is difficult. Words are not enough. But with the right motivation, the right tools and strategies, the right goals, and the right amount of effort, you'll get wherever you want to go and this book will take you there.

Reviews

In this argumentative, sometimes counterintuitive self-help book, first-time author Coxe declares that "positive thinking is a lie and it doesn't work!" It doesn't create lasting results; it is very difficult if you're emotionally spent; and when it fails, you just feel worse. Instead of avoiding negative thoughts and emotions, he says, you should acknowledge and manipulate them to attain success. The key to using negative feelings constructively is learning "to play games with our minds instead of our minds playing games with us." Coxe, who rails against other "pop-psychologists" and attributes his own expertise to life experience, offers a few basic tools, such as scenario planning, emotion control techniques and the book's centerpiece, "The 4-Step Process," a series of reframing exercises that identify readers' "empowering beliefs and thoughts" and their "limiting" ones. (Explaining why his 4-Step Process includes a step on positive thinking, Coxe does some reframing of his own, arguing that "it's not so much positive thinking itself that's the hoax, it's the way it is presented.") Coxe declares that his process can cure people of longtime phobias "in less than an hour." Readers intrigued by his multiple appearances on television's Maury Povich Show may want to pick up this book. (Dec.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471746932
• ISBN 13: 9780471746935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272