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Front-Ranger:
We love our two guys so much that I'm always on the lookout for some self-help books that will  help them understand themselves and each other better and turn that tragedy into a happily-ever-after. Here's my beginning on a required reading booklist for Jack (cause he's my favourite, if you haven't figured that out yet after 7,000-odd posts!!)

The Myth of More by Joseph Novello
When Misery Is Company: Ending Self-Sabotage and Misery Addiction by Anne Katherine
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel P. Goleman
Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life by Teri Hatcher

Kelda:
Some of you guys might know that I love love love the Amazing Race - I love travelling and wish I could do more - so I enjoy living vicariously through this show.

Anyway, I bought a book from the shows presenter - Phil Keoghan. About how to set yourself personal goals.

No Opportunity Wasted

No Opportunity Wasted is a philosophy about turning thought into action. No more shoulda, coulda, woulda. Think big, challenge yourself, ditch the excuses, ... live life NOW. He describes 8 ways to create a list for the life you want.

This is because as a teenager he had a near death experience.

--- Quote ---Aged 19, on one of his first TV shoots, Phil was exploring by scuba a sunken cruise liner in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds. In one of the upturned interior cabins he became trapped and couldn't find his way out. In the nearly pitch-black fjord water he became disorientated. His scuba tank had little air left. He began to panic. He couldn't find the way out in the dark unfamiliar upside-down space. In the support boat above no one was aware of Phil's increasing desperation. As breath by breath the air expired from his tank he was beginning to sense that his next breathe might be his last. The support crew on the surface began to worry. A rescue diver was sent down to find Phil. With hope almost gone, he was frantically pulled to the surface.

After the shock Phil reflected on where he was at and on how precious life is. He sucked in the O2 and the next day went back to the wreck and repeated his nearly fatal dive. He also began to write a list of all the things he wanted to achieve before he died. As he worked through the initial list of 100 Things To Do, other lists evolved, which he did too. This has led to a life filled with adventure and few regrets. A life shaped by the mantra: 'No Opportunity Wasted.'
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He splits the list into 8:

1. Face your Fear

2. Aim for the Heart:

3. Rediscover your childhood:

4. Get lost:

5. Test your limits:

6. Leap of Faith:

7. Shed your inhibitions/Express yourself:

8. Break new ground:

http://www.noopportunitywasted.com/

Wishes:
I'm not so sure I have ever thought self help books worked but these all do sound worth looking into. Thanks And I have loved the A R also.

Kelda:

--- Quote from: Wishes on August 22, 2007, 03:54:32 pm ---I'm not so sure I have ever thought self help books worked but these all do sound worth looking into. Thanks And I have loved the A R also.

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Yes - NOW is my first 'self help' book, but I think I might try out dry toast too.

Wishes - I think we were actually seperated at birth!!! such similar tastes thoughts etc!

Front-Ranger:
Self-help books probably wouldn't work for Ennis. All he ever read was Hamley's saddle catalog. Too far-sighted. Sometimes I used to read to him tho. I read a passage from The Virginian, and he seemed to like it very much.

Now, Jack was always reading. The newspaper, handbills on telephone polls, second-hand books. I know cause he was always trying to use those high-falutin words but mispronouncing them, like vertebrates, orientate, etc.

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