Download or read book Attitude Is All You Need Second Edition written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He is an independent thinker and I would advise you to read some of his books, particularly Attitude Is All You Need! It will help you control your anxiety and overcome other emotional problems”—Albert Ellis, Ph.D. The founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Albert Ellis, was voted the second-most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Ellis devoted a chapter to Attitude Is All You Need! in his book How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You. To be concise, the book is about Attitude Power (AP). From reading it, you will discover how to increase your Attitude Power, and how to decrease your attitude weaknesses and deficiencies. Don’t you think the time and energy spent on improving your mental health is worth the benefits to your relationships and career?
Download or read book We re All Insane Second Edition written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps you to understand how thought becomes a problem when thought replaces reality. You discover enough information and examples to be able to negate thought as reality, which enables you to re-experience “what is”. You can live sanely in an insane world. You just have to choose against the common illusions and delusions of your society and your conditioning. All the common illusions and delusions of the world are constructed through the misunderstanding and misuse of thought. Albert Ellis, voted the second most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA), said of the first edition of We’re All Insane!, “I found it a most unusual book that makes some excellent points, almost all of which I go along with. It sort of brings Alfred Korzybski up-to-date and makes some points which [sic] are not particularly clear in his own writings.
Download or read book Secret of Maturity Fourth Edition written by Kevin Evertt FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Secret of Maturity to Discover— • How To Live a Mature Life • How To Own the Power of Emotional Responsibility • How To Stop Owning Garbage that Feels Bad • 12 New Tables of Information • More than Twice as Long as the Third Edition Secret of Maturity, Fourth Editon • This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms. • If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you. • If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you. • If you want to grow up or know what it means, this book is for you. Education Lacking • With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people? • What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity? • The research for this book uncovered many ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: maturity is responsibility. • Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy. • The answers are listed or briefly described throughout the text, but you must decide what to do with all the answers. • So be responsible for how you assimilate the answers and put them into practice. Condensed Material • Quite a few of this book’s paragraphs summarize concepts expounded in entire volumes elsewhere. • Since this book is so condensed, it will be most effective after it has been read and studied many times. • Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that are personally relevant? • That will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable. • Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches. • If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed. Great Results • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they are in better health because they can handle stress better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they have a better love life because they can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find a better career or work experience because they can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.
Download or read book Planet Earth Insane Asylum for the Universe 2nd Ed written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S. and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Planet Earth: Insane Asylum to Discover— • How to Defeat Destructive Beliefs • How to Recognize Deadly Beliefs • How to Remove Detrimental Beliefs • How to Replace Damaging Beliefs Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition • Includes Lists of 264 Faulty & Deadly Beliefs • Includes Lists of 193 Thinking Errors • Includes a Total of 31 Tables or Images Intercepted Alien Reports • This book consists of intercepted reports sent by aliens visiting Earth back to their home world. • We know neither what aliens are making these reports nor what they are receiving. • Only by accident have these reports been intercepted by our secret SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) project. • This particular project of ours focuses on microwave frequencies because there are few natural sources of emissions in the microwave range. • You can volunteer to be a part of a SETI project (not one of ours) by contacting http://www.setileague.org/. Disturbing Reports by Aliens • There is no doubt that these reports are alarming. • However, we are optimistic that these reports will not be taken seriously by authorities until it is too late to stop their publication. • Still, please make plans now to safeguard your copies by buying and hiding extra copies. • Profits from the publication of this report will be used to fund the publication and release of more reports. • Therefore, after sharing your copy, please encourage others to purchase copies of this report for themselves. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum Is Being Sold as Fiction Please note that this book is being disseminated as fiction for two reasons. First and foremost, we believe that, as fiction, the publication of this book will be neither stopped nor delayed. Second, we would prefer that each human decide what was factual and fictional about these reports. Author of Planet Earth: Insane Asylum • For style and consistency, one of our members has been chosen to be the author of this book. • However, readers will notice that the book still speaks with the voice of “we” because all of us assigned to the SETI project that intercepted these reports have voiced our concerns and approval regarding every page of this book. • The single author of this book apologizes in advance for any mistakes in meaning that have occurred during the transcription of the captured extraterrestrial signals. • The single author of this book is solely responsible for all the mistakes and contents of this book.
Download or read book Stress for Success Second Edition written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why see stress as your enemy when stress can be your best friend? Why fight stress when you can redirect stress to work for you? Why suffer from stress when you can succeed with stress? You will learn helpful ways to make stress work for and not against you. You will learn to recognize five different kinds of stress and seven solutions for stress. You will understand the difference between productive and destructive stress. • The advantages and disadvantages of stress. • The difference between helpful and hurtful stress (and how to easily tell which is which). • How to effectively cope with stress-provoking events. • How to easily use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress. • How stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress. • Simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively. • Effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.
Download or read book 3D Daily Dose of Discernment 2008 written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this book to discover insight by practicing the discernment of sayings, to exercise your mind for greater openness, flexibility, and creativity, and to increase your mental capability by increasing your capacity for understanding, perception, and wisdom. This book is a collection of sayings for each day of the year, originally created in 2008, but the quotations remain appropriate and relevant for any year. The sayings cover various topics important to your emotional health, including psychotherapy, philosophy, psychological skills, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, Eastern philosophy, meditation, flow, identity, authenticity, responsibility, the nature of self, and social commentary. You will discover sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern philosophy is profound and illuminating, and understanding that agreement will deepen your understanding of both. You will find the sayings herein amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought-provoking. Enjoy!
Download or read book 3D Daily Dose of Discernment 2003 2004 written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : This book is a collection of sayings good for all times. Topics include psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, psychological skills, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, meditation, flow, identity, authenticity, responsibility, nature of self, and social commentary among others. You will find the sayings amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought provoking. Many are like Zen koans; if you sit with them, they reveal the other side free of words. New meanings will arrive on different journeys. The same insight shared different ways helps you not to miss deeper felt experiences for simpler surface meanings. It often happens that a slight change in wording allows someone to drop their mind long enough to hear something fresh. One person’s, “That’s obvious,” is another person’s “ah-ha” moment. Let the sayings pass that don’t open to you now. Focus on the sayings that bring stillness. Listen beyond the words. Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.
Download or read book Spiritual Surrender s Seven Steps written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Spiritual System for Surrender— • How To Understand Surrender • How To Surrender to God • How To Avoid Spiritual Ego • How To Use The Seven Steps for Freedom • How To Find Help to Surrender Seven-Step System • This book presents the seven-step system of surrender to God. • The seven-step system is an accurate and reliable map of how surrender to God takes place. Map of Surrender • You can use the map to prepare yourself for the appearance of the seven steps in situations in which they do not yet exist within you. • You can use the map of the seven steps to know if you have surrendered to God or not. Become Aware of Surrender • Using this map, you can become aware of when you are already following the seven steps. • Yes, when you have success and healing, the seven steps are already occurring in you. Understand Surrender • We will first explain the seven steps, and then provide additional information toward the goal of complete understanding. • Further chapters delve deep into some of the individual steps before providing helpful practices for becoming aware of the seven steps in yourself. More Help with Surrender • Related concepts and issues are also explored in order to provide you with a comprehensive understanding and context for opening yourself up to the seven steps. Chapter One • This chapter presents the main focus of the book: the seven steps to surrender. • However, you will need the information in the chapters that follow in order to understand the seven steps and some of their concepts, practices, and terms, so you’ll likely want to return to this chapter later. • Initially, a brief outline of the seven steps is provided, followed by a more developed outline, and then the same seven steps, are presented in two different ways. • Finally, at the end of the chapter, you will find a table outlining the seven steps. Chapter Two • This chapter provides a deeper and more complete understanding of the seven steps of spiritual surrender. • Each step is explained in greater detail. Chapter Three • This chapter provides more detailed information about the parts and processes of the seven steps that were only mentioned or briefly covered in the previous two chapters. • Relevant concepts, such as our two awarenesses and two natures, are introduced and expanded upon. Chapter Four • This chapter first provides some more information about the intricate workings of the seven steps, then goes deeper into steps two, three, and six of the seven steps. Chapter Five • This chapter is about practices that you can use to help bring you closer to experiencing and living in the seven steps.
Download or read book Problem Solved 3Rs written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Problem Solved! 3Rs and You— • Discover How to Problem-Solve Simply • Discover How to Problem-Solve Completely • Discover How to Make Problem-Solving a Life Skill • Results: Let Others Whine While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Worry While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Waste Time While You Fix It Problem-Solve with 3Rs • This book is about problem-solving using the 3Rs (Recognize, Remove, Replace). • There are 31 illustrations counting tables. • The 3Rs is a three-step solution that promotes effective and efficient problem-solving. • While the 3Rs are most natural to apply and understand as a method of problem-solving, the 3Rs are not limited to applications involving problem-solving. 3Rs for Planning • You can use the 3Rs to find closer approximations to some dream or ideal, fix something that is broken or not working, improves current business practices or systems, makes action plans for your life, plan for change or disaster, and cope with difficulties. Chapter Contents • A complete explanation of the 3Rs, along with definitions, is provided in the first chapter. • The second chapter provides examples of the 3Rs in practice. • The third chapter applies the 3Rs as a metatheory for counseling, shows how to use the 3Rs for relapse prevention and recovery, and demonstrates an advanced form of the 3Rs known as the 7Rs. • The fourth chapter applies the 3Rs to the issue of self-esteem and how to thrive despite self-esteem. • The fifth chapter helps with understanding and using emotions constructively. Solutions that Work Long-Term • In this book, you are encouraged to solve problems genuinely by not only removing symptoms but also by removing the underlying intentions, maintainers, payoffs, reinforcements, supports, supporters, and sustainers for problems. • Examples of some of the issues addressed include attitudes, ego, expectations, feelings, mental blocks, self-defeating habits, and self-esteem. Understand Feelings • A new paradigm or model for understanding feelings is also provided. The 3Rs are applied to that model to help you increase and reduce your unhealthy feelings. • Many tables are included throughout the book to simplify and reinforce your discovery, learning, and problem-solving skill development. The tables can remind you of critical insights and the contents of entire sections, if not whole chapters. Better Problem-Solving Now • Better problem-solving produces better living and working. • Solve problems better and live better today with the 3Rs.
Download or read book Discovery Demands 5TP written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Discovery Demands 5TP to— • Open your mind with the 5TP. • Discover more viewpoints using the 5TP. • Increase your creativity with the 5TP. • Improve your coping skills by using the 5TP. • Increase your understanding by practicing the 5TP. • Improve your ability to discover by using the 5TP. • Improve your problem-solving skills by practicing the 5TP. Discover Advanced Perspective-Taking • This book is about discovering, understanding, and using the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) to develop and increase your skill of perspective-taking. • Perspective-taking is learning the skill of looking at difficult issues from various points of view instead of from only one predominant point of view. • Perspective-taking allows you to understand people, places, and things from different viewpoints, expanding your horizons and insights. Practice Perspective-Taking • The 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) teaches an easy and effective method for practicing perspective-taking. • Using a model of five boxes, columns, lists, or positions, you learn how to easily and quickly develop five perspectives on any concern, issue, problem, or topic. • The five positions, boxes, or columns remain constant, retaining their names and usage, making it easy to plug in the opposite, conciliatory, and balanced views into any 5TP diagram for any concern, issue, problem, or topic. Opening Your Mind • Discovering different perspectives on or views of reality in one area often opens your mind to discovering different perspectives or views of reality in other areas. • Persistently practicing perspective-taking will lead to greater mental balance, flexibility, and openness, because perspective-taking, using the 5TP, is a yoga practice for the mind. • And by having a more holistic grasp of the many sources of information available from using the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) to improve your perspective-taking skill, you will also happily discover that your coping, creative, and problem-solving skills have also expanded and increased. Accepting Your Views • Using the 5TP does not require you to change your mind, alter your beliefs, or accept other points of view. • The 5TP does require you to recognize at least five points of view regarding any issue, problem, or topic. • What you do with that understanding is entirely up to you. • However, you might find that recognizing other sides and viewpoints helps you perform better as a boss, companion, leader, listener, and negotiator. Increase Understanding • The 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) will significantly increase your understanding of any issue, problem, or topic, especially if you initially see or think that only one or two points of view exist. • Such new understandings can go a long way to allowing you to find peaceful solutions to real-life problems. Triality Versus Duality • This book will first cover some of the advantages and disadvantages of duality and triality to prepare the reader to understand the distinct benefits of the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) over duality and triality. • Duality can be understood as an improvement over-thinking everything is one-sided because duality sees a two-sided reality. • Triality can be recognized as an improvement in thinking everything is two-sided because triality sees a three-sided reality. • 5TP can be understood as advanced thinking where everything is three-sided because 5TP sees a five-sided reality. Continuum Thinking • The 5TP can be understood as the primary form of a continuum or as a form of continuum thinking instead of as another form of dualistic thinking. • The purpose of using the 5TP is to identify how reality appears from different viewpoints, such as in the duality of the glass-half-empty vs. the glass-half-full scenario, which does not affect how much water is objectively in the glass, just the perspective with which that water is viewed. • Some possible viewpoints are: the glass is half full, the glass is half empty, the glass has room to add other ingredients, half full is more than enough, half full is too much, half full is too little, it is what it is.
Download or read book Literacy with an Attitude Second Edition written by Patrick J. Finn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.
Download or read book Garbage Rules written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about rules for understanding how mental garbage rules your life if you let it. If your mind is focused on garbage, then you will think garbage. If your soul is focused on garbage, then you will experience garbage. If your heart is focused on garbage, then you will feel garbage. Discover hundreds of ways that you focus on garbage, and thus receive garbage. If you become aware of this pattern, then you can learn to switch to more effective and fruitful patterns. Rules are restated for four reasons: (1) repetition aids both learning and memory; (2) sometimes you will miss a concept presented in several formats, but grasp it in another unique format; (3) you may be so lost in self-talk that you don’t notice a concept the first few times you encounter it; (4) you may finally understand a concept after multiple encounters with it.
Download or read book The Story of Life written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read The Story of Life to Discover— • Why & How Life Exists The Meaning & Purpose of Life • Why & When Life Will End What You Need to Do Now • Why & How Eternal Life Exists The Story of Life • This book explains the story of life from beginning to end, thoroughly revealing the meaning and purpose of life. • Moreover, a timeline is provided for the major events that compose the story of life. • This author has been aware of the story of life for about forty years and shared it only a few times during that period. • While this author still feels unworthy of sharing the story of life, the story of life has been revealed to him, and he is now at an age where any more delay in sharing the story of life might mean that he never publicly shares it. • Please do not confuse the messenger with the message. • Examine the story of life on its own merits. Chapter One • Starts before time begins. • God was alone. • Shares some of the nature of God. • Shares some of the nature of evil. • Shares some of the nature of reality Chapter Two • Shares how God planned to add to Himself. • Shares how, when, and why time began. • Shares how God doubled Himself. • Shares information on the Host of Heaven. Chapter Three • Shares about the Son of God. • Shares about life within life. • Shares about life from outside life. • The purpose of life. • Truth demands knowledge. Chapter Four • The timeline of life. • Life existing within God. • The nature of the universe. • Adam and Eve. • Noah’s Ark. • The chosen people of God. • Jesus, the Son of Man. • The false Armageddon. • Saints and believers persecuted. • The two prophets of God. • Satan cast out of Heaven. • Battle of Armageddon. • Anti-Christ cast into the Second Death. • Jesus rules the Earth for 1,000 years. • Satan returns and is defeated. • Satan is cast into the Second Death. • The New Jerusalem. • The Last Judgement. Chapter Five • Related Biblical quotations. • From the Old Testament. • From the New Testament. Chapter Six • The book of Revelation. Epilogue • This book was written in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2018. • Details are still being revealed, and some updates will be necessary; however, the basics are reliable and true and have not changed for many years. • “Those who are able to see beyond the shadow and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” —Plato
Download or read book 3D Daily Dose of Discernment 2007 written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of sayings for each day of the year, originally created in 2007, but the quotations remain appropriate and relevant for any year. The sayings cover various topics important to your emotional health, including psychotherapy, philosophy, psychological skills, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, Eastern philosophy, meditation, flow, identity, authenticity, responsibility, the nature of self, and social commentary. You will discover sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern philosophy is profound and illuminating, and understanding that agreement will deepen your understanding of both. You will find the sayings herein amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought-provoking. Many of the sayings are like Zen koans: If you sit with them, they reveal the “other side”, free of words. Many of the sayings are open to multiple interpretations and meanings. New meanings will occur to you on your different journeys through this book.
Download or read book Journal Journey from Ego written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S. and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Journal Journey from Ego to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego Processes • How To Remove Ego Processes • How To Replace Ego Processes • How To Journal for Freedom from Ego • 32 Charts Available to Help You Journal to Freedom • This book is about how to journal to improve counseling outcomes, gains, and results. • The journaling methods described in this book can be used with any counseling theory. • However, this book is designed to be used by people in counseling who work to reduce and eliminate their ego. • Such persons will have become aware that removing the underlying factors that cause and maintain problems means removing the ego. • Specifically, this book is best suited for those using Mind Your Ego or Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to reduce and remove their ego from their lives. 15 Questions to Repeatedly Ask Yourself • This journaling system is based on your following and processing 15 Questions related to the nature of self and ego. • Included are explanations and examples of the 15 Questions and how to practice them. • The bulk of your journaling practice will be recording your understanding and application of these 15 Questions. • In using the system, you will emphasize some questions more than others, and which questions you emphasize will vary and change at different times. • You may also find yourself rewriting, adapting, adjusting, and modifying the questions to suit your particular issues and needs. More on Ego Creation • This book also includes information on scripting and how scripting is used to form ego identities. • The chapter after scripting covers ways that we maintain our ego identities. • Further chapters help with the three processes of recognizing, removing, and replacing ego identities. • Some discussion follows those chapters on the nature of positive ego and spiritual pride. • Finally, there is more information in the Appendixes on such topics as the 3Rs, defense mechanisms, and basic fundamental skills. Check with Your Counselor • Consult with your counselor to see if you and your counseling can benefit from the use of this book. • Your counselor may have an approach not mentioned that is entirely compatible with this book, or your counselor may perceive this book as a distraction or a hindrance to the work you are currently engaged in. Companion to Mind Your Ego • You can consider this book a companion piece to Mind Your Ego by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. • Mind Your Ego provides a system with specific plans to Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • This book provides a system to journal your progress in recognizing, removing, and replacing your ego. • The more you reduce the ego in your life, the more you will reduce negative stress, unneeded problems, and ego-created problems and conflicts in your life.
Download or read book 3D Daily Dose of Discernment 2005 written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of sayings good for all times. Topics include psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, psychological skills, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, meditation, flow, identity, authenticity, responsibility, nature of self, and social commentary among others. You will find the sayings amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought provoking. Many are like Zen koans; if you sit with them, they reveal the other side free of words. New meanings will arrive on different journeys. The same insight shared different ways helps you not to miss deeper felt experiences for simpler surface meanings. It often happens that a slight change in wording allows someone to drop their mind long enough to hear something fresh. One person’s, “That’s obvious,” is another person’s “ah-ha” moment. Let the sayings pass that don’t open to you now. Focus on the sayings that bring stillness. Listen beyond the words. Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.
Download or read book Games Ego Plays written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Games Ego Plays To to Discover— • How To Win at Social Games • How To End & Exit Social Games • How To Relate Without Social Games • How To Map Social Games & Strategies • How To Know Game Players & Their Moves • Over 40 Diagrams Make it Easy Psychological Games in Your Life • This book is about the psychological or ego games that people play with each other, both in private and in their social relationships. • Wouldn’t it be great to be able to get out of ego games, without conflict, when others intend to play them at your expense? • Wouldn’t it be great to be able to recognize an ego game from the start, so that you might either redirect the interaction in a healthy way or avoid being locked into a stressful and unproductive ego game? • Wouldn’t it be great to learn ways of relating that don’t involve ego games, even though we are all conditioned and trained to play psychological games? Be Aware of Games in Your Life • Once you understand the structure and style of ego games, you will find them clear and straightforward enough to see in everyday life. • You will discover the fundamental roles, moves, and motives in psychological games. • You will become aware of how to play ego games, so everyone wins, how to get out of ego games, and how to avoid playing ego games. • Don’t you want to become more aware of when you are in an ego game? • Don’t you want to see the motives of others who engage you in ego games? • Don’t you want to learn how to avoid entering or starting an ego game? • Instead of wondering what just happened in an uncomfortable interaction, you can learn to analyze the ego game and better prepare for it the next time it rears its ugly head. Live Game Free • This book will stimulate, enlighten, and challenge you to live ego-game-free. • Discover how to identify ego games before they suck you in, why people play ego games, who plays ego games, and when they play them. • It’s not just the people you love, hate, or know who play these ego games you’ll find that you do, too. • And you’ll learn how to free yourself of your favorite ego games in order to be more effective and authentic in your relationships and career. Beyond Pride & Shame from Social Games • While exposing the foolish ego games of another person brings pride, there is also shame in detecting your own ego games. • Part of the aim of this book is to get you beyond the pride and shame that result from playing ego games. • This book also presents another style defined as “Cooperation” as a way to relate without ego games. • This book includes some materials from a counselor-training workshop previously presented by this author. Read Games Ego Plays To Have the Advantage— • The benefit of Using the Map of Social Games & Strategies • The benefit of Knowing the Players & Roles in Games • The benefit of Knowing the Rules of Games & Strategies • The benefit of Knowing the Agenda, Intentions, Motives & Payoffs • While this book is designed to stand alone, you might find it more easily digested if you first read FitzMaurice’s Mind Your Ego. Answer these Questions for Yourself • How can I avoid or end social games? • How can I get out of a game? • How can I keep from losing at games? • How can I play games to win? • How do I handle people’s games? • How do I know if I am in a game? • How do I stop games? • How do I stop playing games? • What are social games? • What are the payoffs for social games? • What are the rules of social games? • What social games do people play? • Why do people play games? You Can Discover and Learn • How To Win at Social Games • How To End & Exit Social Games • How To Relate Without Social Games
