by Lee Davy on May 13, 2012
Give me a topic that I think can transform my life, include some easy to follow steps and some real-life success stories and I am anybody’s. I don’t care who you are, this book has all three and it ranks right up there as one of the most influential pieces of literature I have ever read. If you want to transform your life then you need to have your financial house in order and this book addresses just that
In my last blog post The Pick of The Week: Debt and Divorce I told you that debt had been dominating my thoughts and this book is the reason why. I have been in debt all of my life but when I created my 2012 goals one of them was to become debt free. During my quarterly goals review I wrote this: [click to continue…]
by Lee Davy on May 7, 2012
As is so often the case, I purchased
Man’s Search For Meaning after it was recommended from the pages of another piece of literary genius. In the fantastic book
Embracing Uncertainty Susan Jeffers refers to Viktor E. Frankl as one of her heroes; and after reading his book, it is easy to understand why.
Before his death in 1997, Viktor E. Frankl was a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. He is the author of thirty-two books, the creator of the psychotherapy known as Logotherapy and survivor of the World War II concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
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by Lee Davy on April 30, 2012
The first thing that I noticed were scratches on the forehead and I was told that they were a result of some vicious sleep scratching. The sight and thought quickly seeped through my mind until one day I noticed them again…and again…and again. This person was very close to my heart and so I asked them what was going on? It must have taken tremendous courage and strength to tell me that they were self-harming. It’s a shame that my reaction did not deliver the feedback their courage and strength deserved.
Are you mad! Are you stupid!
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by Lee Davy on April 19, 2012
Yesterday I picked my son up from school and as we walked through the sodden valley I asked him how his day had been. I was acting mechanically and was expecting a mechanical answer but received anything but. He turned his head to look at me; his eyes wide with a beaming smile on his face. When he spoke his voice was much louder than normal and the pace quickened. His teacher had chosen six children to take care of some dignitaries that had visited the school and Jude was one of the six. Each of them had been told that they were selected because they had all displayed acts of maturity, throughout the year, that had impressed the teachers. Those physical changes were all connected to a feeling of pride. My son felt pride when his teacher chose him, and he also felt pride when he told me. Pride is the biggest boost that the ego can receive. He feels this way because he is programmed to feel this way. By feeling pride he feels like he not only belongs in the community, but also is an upstanding member of it. These feelings date back 50,000 years with the advent of the Conceptual Revolution. Back then things were simple, if you were a member of a group – and an upstanding one at that – then you increased your chances of survival. If you were alone then you died alone.
EGO is a book that takes you on journey of human evolution. A journey that has a beginning but has no end, and the final chapters cover our next stage of evolution – enlightenment. The authors have decided to intertwine stories associated with the events of 9/11 and so you find yourself being educated on two fronts; but why intertwine an event as tragic as 9/11 with human evolution in a book about ego? It is an interesting concept and one that worked for me as the reader. Simply put, the events of 9/11 were all about the ego and you learn to understand this as you read.
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by Lee Davy on April 10, 2012
When I was a teenager I didn’t give relationships much thought. I can’t remember even pining for a girlfriend, and I certainly didn’t have many relationships that lasted more than a few weeks. Back then my main goal was to cram as many sexual experiences in as I could. I would go out on the weekend, get drunk and then choose a girl to end the night with.
Then I got married and had a single relationship for the next 15-years. In the beginning I didn’t give the relationship much thought. I do distinctly remember being fearful that she would leave me and I felt very vulnerable. If I am being honest I don’t think I thought I was good enough for her. But we got married very quickly and as I slipped that ring on my finger all my worries vanished. I suppose, in my mind, being married meant it would be more difficult for her to leave me, hence the loss of vulnerability. But in terms of the nuts and bolts of the relationship I went with the flow and didn’t poke about in the machinery that much.
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by Lee Davy on March 28, 2012
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea is a children’s book written by Michael Morpurgo. After reading that sentence you might well be thinking, where have I heard that name before? Michael Morpurgo is the author of the children’s novel The War Horse, which was made into a West End stage show and eventually into a hit Steven Spielberg movie.
So why are you reading about a children’s book on a website designed to provide inspiration for positive change?
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by Lee Davy on March 13, 2012
Brian Wansink has been called
The Sherlock Holmes of food. When he was 8-years old he used to spend time on his uncle and aunt’s farm in Correctionville Iowa. At the end of each summer his aunt and uncle would take him into town to see a movie. In 1968, there was no movie and Wansink innocently asked his uncle why?
“We would watch a movie if people ate more corn,” said his Uncle.
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by Lee Davy on March 1, 2012
Eckhart Tolle has been a spiritual guide for millions of people around the world. His first book
The Power of Now sold an estimated 3 million copies in North America alone, and the ink in those pages has been responsible for some of the greatest of changes in people’s lives.
The book was first published in 1997 with only 3,000 of the first edition being published. Then Tolle had his big break when Oprah Winfrey recommended the book; and by August 2000 it had become a New York Times Best Seller. In 2008, after the release of his third book A New Earth, Tolle and Winfrey held a series of live webinars that attracted the attention of 35 million people worldwide! It is safe to say that the teachings of Eckhart Tolle have reached the minds of an awful lot of people – then why wasn’t I one of them? [click to continue…]
by Lee Davy on February 22, 2012
After I had finished reading People Skills by Robert Bolton Ph.D. I felt an immediate urge to give him a big hug, say thank you and sign up for a training course that very day. I used to think that I was an amazing communicator and that everyone that interacted with me needed help. As my marriage started to collapse I questioned this logic and then when it broke down irretrievably I decided to buy books like the one Bolton had created. After filing the final page to my memory banks, I understand that I have an incredible amount of work to do if I am going to improve as a communicator.
In the next few weeks I am going to start writing about my ten most influential books and although this book has not made the cut (because I have just read it), something tells me that it is going to be somewhere near the top spot should I repeat the exercise in a few years time.
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by Lee Davy on February 14, 2012
If somebody told you in advance how your life would pan out would you really want to know?
I ponder my own question and know immediately that I wouldn’t. I view my life as a wonderful story, and I have a host of writers all taking turns to pick up the quill and bleed their own bit of ink over my future. I create most of my plot lines but the ghostwriters exist. I haven’t a clue what stories they have woven for me, but I like that, because I want my life to include a little bit of mystery. [click to continue…]
