Synopsis
A renowned psychologist offers 101 reflections with practical steps for achieving life's dreams.
Known throughout the country as "Dr. Noelle," Noelle Nelson, Ph.D. specializes in helping people gain the insights and skills to live a life rich in success through her unique "compassionate psychotherapy." In EVERYDAY MIRACLES, she presents 101 vignettes that cut to the heart of common dilemmas and self-defeating behaviors. Dr. Noelle offers distinctive, practical and encouraging ways to resolving problems, overcoming obstacles, and attaining the pinnacle of personal fulfillment. Through step-by-step action plans she shows us how to: * Speak up and transform "I shouldn't have to ask" into "All I have to do is ask!" * Stop playing the blame game...and break the "I'm Sorry" syndrome * Set limits without guilt...and redefine failure * Give and receive with joy * Take control of destiny * Change--for real Each essay culminates with an illuminating quote from a notable, whether W. Somerset Maugham, Dr. Robert Schuller, Margaret Young, or Stevie Wonder. EVERYDAY MIRACLES is an inspirational book with a difference: concrete tactics to help make personal miracles happen.
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Noelle Nelson, Ph.D. is a nationally respected psychologist, consultant, seminar leader and author based in Encino, California. Her books include: "Winner Takes All: Exceptional People Teach Us How to Find Career and Personal Success in the 21st Century"; "Get Your Way: Put a lawyer's Power of Persuasion to Use in Your Everyday Life", and "Dangerous Relationships." She has appeared frequently as an expert on national television programs including "The Montel Williams Show," "The View," and "CNN."
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"Everyday Miracles opens the door to everyday happiness. It's inspiring, helpful and full of practical do-ables that make life the best it can be." (Gary and Joy Lundberg, co-authors, "I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better")
"Dr. Nelson brings the divine to earth with a practical roadmap to becoming your own angel. Read this book and you'll empower yourself to work miracles." (Rick Foster, co-author,"How We Choose to Be Happy")
"When you live life anticipating miracles, they seem to happen. Noelle Nelson opens the door for miracles in our daily lives." (Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., author, "If Life is a Game, These are the Rules")
"Everyday Miracles helps people take modest, loving steps toward creating the life they yearn for while at the same time accepting themselves as they are. Enliveningly pragmatic." (Jennifer Louden, author, "The Woman's Comfort Book" and "The Comfort Queen's Guide to Life")
"Fatigue, a sense of being overwhelmed, abuse and depression--these are the 'biggies' that weigh women down. Nelson has addressed them all in Everyday Miracles. Clever writing that cuts to the heart--and the head." (Dianna Booher, author, "The Worth of a Woman's Words" and "Communicate with Confidence!")
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From Chapter 1: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FAILURE
Babies have a wonderful gift for success. Before a certain age, we tackle all our goals with utter delight, great energy and unstoppable enthusiasm. Watch a baby learning to feed itself: the baby grabs the utensil wherever it can - middle, end, it doesn't matter, PLOW! into the mashed carrots the spoon goes, splattering carrots all over the walls, the baby, Mom, so what? The baby doesn't care, all the baby knows is WOW! sheer joy - "How about that, I got the spoon in!" Next step: find the mouth, this can take a bunch of tries, but does the baby carefully plot out where the spoon should go, no, the baby pretty much shoves the spoon anywhere in the general vicinity of its face, and somewhere along the line some of the carrots actually come in contact with the mouth, and ZOOWIE! the baby shrieks with ecstatic abandon - SUCCESS!!!
Notice that nowhere along this adventuresome path, does the baby stop and say: "Hey, kid, you're not getting this fast enough, it took you 17 tries to find your mouth, little Janie down the street did it in 12," nor does the baby stop at try #14 and say: "I give up, I'll never get this, I'm a loser, it's all downhill from here." No. The baby has no concept of failure, neither in terms of the goal (feeding itself), nor in terms of itself as being able/unable to meet the challenge.
What the baby does have is something tremendously important that we all would do well to remember: a completely positive attitude towards its efforts, and committed focus. Let's take a look at each of these. 1) A completely positive attitude: babies do not beat on themselves, that's a talent we acquire later. You don't see a baby stop, spoon in mid liftoff, saying "Rats, I should have done that better, I'm just such a stupid slow learner." The baby lifts the spoon, smacks itself a load of carrots on the nose, and simply goes: "Woops! Wrong hole - no sweat, let's do it again!"
Consistently reward yourself for your efforts, evaluate what didn't work purely in terms of how you can get closer to your goal on the next try, and go for it. Soon enough, you'll find your mouth.
2) Committed focus: committed focus is when you choose your goal (focus), and then are 100% committed to achieving that goal. When you are 100% committed to achieving your goal, you cannot fail, you can only succeed to varying degrees. The baby may not feed itself brilliantly, but it feeds itself. For example, if you want to learn computers (focus), commit yourself 100% to that task, and you will learn computers. You may never be particularly fast at it, you may never invent any ground breaking software, but you will know how to operate a computer. Your success is only limited by the limits of your creativity, and if you stop and think about it, that's hardly a limitation at all.
You cannot fail. It is utterly impossible, given committed focus, to fail. You may have a more limited success than you desire, but you cannot fail. So grab your spoon and go for it - success is so much fun! "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" Dr. Robert Schuller
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