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Title: Do It! Let's Get Off Our But's (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0-931580-79-X Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book changed my life!
Comment: Life was pretty bad for me at the time I read this book. A friend loaned it to me on a whim, he said his mother had sent it to him and he didn't hadn't had the chance to read it. So I took it home and I was transformed over night. I started it and couldn't put it down. Four years later, I have to write a paper for a college class and I keep thinking about the book, wishing I still had it so I could quote from it. I figured I'd try searching for it on Amazon.com and amazingly it was there! Thank God, this book is still in print. I highly recommend it to anyone that is feeling "lost" and needing a little direction. Good Luck!
Rating: 5
Summary: Really good "after turning 40 stuff".
Comment: I loved this book but also think I read it at just the right time in my life. At 43 I realized my life had not gone in the directions I had intended and was feeling more and more despair. This book was a life changer in helping me to focus and realize there is always a reason not to perserve towards your goals, but that doesn't mean you should stop! Very readable, very down to Earth advice and comprehension of how most of us wobble through life - and can get back on a more forfiling path! Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quotational
Comment: During my last battle with procrastination, lethargy and anger at not making headway upon my goals, I purchased Peter McWilliams book "Do It!". I had reached a point where I was stagnant, and hoped that this book might do like the title suggest and get me off my butt. The book looks huge, clocking in at over 500 pages, but don't let that fool you. It is barely half of that because there must be 300 quotes blocked out throughout the text. I read the introduction and became interested in what McWilliams had to say.
McWilliams breaks the book up into six larger sections full of small chapters. He tackles his topic quickly and abundantly. The book begins by explaining the reasons why we procrastinate, working through finding a goal, achieving that goal, and what to do after the goal has been achieved. The most helpful section to me was the first as he explains the reasons why many of us do not achieve our goals. His belief is that going against our comfort zone is the hardest thing to do, and it is this comfort zone that prefers us to procrastinate.
I think that the book is above average in motivating you. McWilliams has a way of writing that excites you to the point where you think you can do what you need to accomplish your goals (even if finding a goal is your goal). He provides tips to help you achieve your goal, like needing to work on your goal two hours a day. He uses a handful of exercises to help you identify your goal, but otherwise there is not much interaction for the reader. He also provides a lot of quotes. Some may find quotes motivational. I found them entertaining. There are more quotes than just those that appear in boxes. McWilliams tends to write by using a quote, and then interpreting it and expanding on it to get his point across. So, you need to like quotes before reading this book.
I feel like I got something out of this book. It's not the best motivational book, as it didn't make me dive into achieving my goal, but it did get me to think about my goal and what I need to do about it. It also gave me ways to combat the comfort zone. Overall, I think if you have strayed slightly from your goal this book will help you get back on track, or if you are looking for a goal to pursue it may help you identify one.
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Title: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School--But Didn't by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580781 Publisher: Consolino & Woodward Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580242 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Love 101 : To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580722 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Take-Charge-Of-Your-Life Therapy by Peter McWilliams, R. W. Alley, Lisa O. Engelhardt ISBN: 0870292714 Publisher: Abbey Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: How to Heal Depression by Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580617 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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