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Law of Attraction: Going Beyond the 3-Step Formula

Posted by Erich on July 4th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t, by Michael Losier, the seventeenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

In the final part of the book, Losier goes beyond the 3-step [...]

Law of Attraction: Deliberate Attraction

Posted by Erich on July 3rd, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t, by Michael Losier, the seventeenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

In the second part of the book, Losier goes into detail on [...]

Law of Attraction: Understanding the Law

Posted by Erich on July 2nd, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t, by Michael Losier, the seventeenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

The History of the Law of Attraction
The book begins with a brief [...]

Law of Attraction

Posted by Erich on June 30th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t, by Michael Losier, the seventeenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Ever since the incredible success of The Secret, the law of attraction [...]

Flow: Final Thoughts

Posted by Erich on June 30th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the sixteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Flow is such a remarkable book. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes with a clear, easy-to-read style that is not typical of books about psychological studies. If [...]

Flow: Chapters 7 - 10

Posted by Erich on June 29th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the sixteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Work as Flow
Unfortunately, calories don’t mysteriously appear on our dinner tables, and our houses, cars, and other wants and needs don’t spontaneously pop out [...]

Flow: Chapters 4 - 6

Posted by Erich on June 28th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the sixteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

The Conditions of Flow
We’ve seen, in the last post, how people describe the experience of “flow.” But how do these optimal experiences happen? In [...]

Flow: Chapters 1 - 3

Posted by Erich on June 22nd, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the sixteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Happiness Revisited
Happiness is not found by searching for it — the more you aim at it Mihaly says, the more you are going to [...]

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Posted by Erich on June 18th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the sixteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle discovered that more than anything else, men and women just want to be happy. If Aristotle would look [...]

The Power of Intention: Final Thoughts

Posted by Erich on June 17th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing The Power of Intention, by Wayne W. Dyer, the fifteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

This week’s reading was enjoyable for me. This is admittedly the first book I’ve read by Wayne Dyer so I can’t say I’ve been able [...]

The Power of Intention: Chapters 7 - 15

Posted by Erich on June 17th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing The Power of Intention, by Wayne W. Dyer, the fifteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

In the second part of the book, Dyer sets forth a series of chapters describing how to put your connection to intention to work in [...]

The Power of Intention: Chapters 1 - 6

Posted by Erich on June 16th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing The Power of Intention, by Wayne W. Dyer, the fifteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Viewing Intention from a New Perspective
In his more recent works as a writer, Dyer has made a shift in his thinking from a purely psychological [...]

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing The Power of Intention, by Wayne W. Dyer, the fifteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Usually when one thinks of intention, it is generally referred to as a strong purpose or aim that is driven by determination to produce the [...]

Why Your Life Sucks: Final Thoughts

Posted by Erich on June 9th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Why Your Life Sucks (and what you can do about it), by Alan Cohen, the fourteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

I have to say when I first started reading this book I was a little annoyed with Cohen’s anecdotes [...]

Why Your Life Sucks: Chapters 6 - 10

Posted by Erich on June 8th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Why Your Life Sucks (and what you can do about it), by Alan Cohen, the fourteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Continuing with the rest of this week’s review, let’s take a look at the final five reasons why your [...]

Why Your Life Sucks: Chapters 1 - 5

Posted by Erich on June 5th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Why Your Life Sucks (and what you can do about it), by Alan Cohen, the fourteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Basically this book is organized into 10 reasons (chapters) why your life sucks. Here are the ten:

You give your [...]

Why Your Life Sucks

Posted by Erich on June 4th, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Why Your Life Sucks (and what you can do about it), by Alan Cohen, the fourteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

I saw this book while hanging out at the local bookstore last week and I have to say the [...]

The 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks Update

Posted by Erich on June 4th, 2007

I’ve been receiving quite a few emails about my lack of normal posting. It’s true, because I’ve been so busy with my job these last few months, for almost two months now I’ve been focusing exclusively on this 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks project. With that, it hasn’t left much time for writing [...]

Man’s Search for Meaning: Final Thoughts

Posted by Erich on June 2nd, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, the thirteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

Sigmund Freud believed that if you were to deprive a group of people of food, their individuality would disappear and there would only be a single [...]

Man’s Search for Meaning: Parts 2 & 3

Posted by Erich on June 1st, 2007

This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, the thirteenth of fifty-two books in the 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks series.

After continual questions from his readers about his form of psychology called “Logotherapy”, Frankl responded by writing the second part of his book, “Logotherapy in a [...]