 | Price Comparisons: Rental | | Sorry, the textbook you were looking for is not available as Rental, at any of the stores we searched. | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | What if one of the most powerful avenues to your achieving a balance of peacefulness and productivity - defined here as happiness - at home and at work, is so close that you may have missed it? What if by taking a new look here you can open truly unprecedented possibilities for yourself and your effectiveness, the quality of your relationships, as well as your emotional and physical well-being? And what if an incredible variety of your experiences and results – personally and professionally – have for years been connected to this, whether you’ve been aware of it or not? This is the promise of this compelling new book by veteran consultant, certified personal coach and seminar leader Chalmers Brothers: A new way of understanding language provides a powerful new foundation and a new set of tools for literally designing your life, at home and at work and everywhere in between. This is especially relevant for anyone seeking to break free from repetitive and ineffective patterns, actions and outcomes. It’s immediately valuable for everyone for whom building and maintaining mutually-beneficial relationships is important. And it’s particularly useful for leaders, managers, administrators and anyone else who "gets paid to have effective conversations!" In this book, the author leads you on an eye-opening exploration of yourself, your language, your conversations and their connections to your physical and emotional well-being. He introduces you to an emerging and thought-provoking way of thinking, one with very old and very new roots. You will see clearly that our collective common-sense understanding of language as merely a "tool for communicating" or "a way we describe how things are" is only a small and limited part of the full story. Having nothing at all to do with grammar, sentence structure or nouns and verbs, this book instead takes you on a journey through the many ways in which your internal and external conversations – fully inter-twined and braided together with your moods, emotions and physical body – are incredibly active, creative and generative (vs. merely passive and descriptive). Our language and our conversations are an ongoing force, a key causal element influencing and impacting virtually everything we do and how we do it, as well as every result we achieve and how we achieve it. In a very real way, we speak ourselves into the world! Full of humor, real-life examples and practical how-to’s, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness is essential reading if you’re seeking to improve your openness and ability to continue learning, as well as to bring about desired changes in your life. It can be a source of new understanding and new practices that enable you to create and sustain healthier personal and professional relationships. It can support you in improving your effectiveness and productivity as a leader or manager (at any level), as well as your ability to influence and design your own moods and emotions. And it does all of this out of a sincere invitation for you to become a more powerful observer of the one person you can actually change anyway: yourself! |
Average Customer Rating:   An Ontological Masterpiece This book is a must read for anyone interested in true, sustainable, deep change. Chalmers so accurately communicates the power of language to shape our present and future. If you are a coach, you must purchase a copy of this book. It will not only enhance your coaching skills, but also enhance the lives of your clients. Uncommon Wisdom Presented Humanely When I have the time I want to write a more detailed review, but for now I want to commend "Language and the Pursuit of Happiness" not only for its content but also for its style. It's content is transformational and insightful, and the material is warmly presented.
It is certainly not the only book on Ontological Coaching out there, but I especially like this one because it treats its subject in depth, uses good anecdotal illustrations and exercises, because it is humbly and politely presented, and because it works. Some of the other books in the genre come across as to triumphalistic, absolutist, authoritarian, and/or narcissistic.
The book, as others in its genre, is rooted in the theorizing of the brilliant Fernando Flores, who also influenced Werner Ehrhardt and est. Flores parted company with Erhardt early on. The book also parallels what one learns from the Landmark Forum. However, in no way is this book self-promoting, nor does it present itself as the only gospel which will save the multitudes. And again, in style the book exudes the charm of its southern gentleman author. Warm. respectful, gently accented, spoken over the top of a mint julep.
Of those I have read in this vein, I also favor Tracy Goss's "The Last Word on Power: Exsecutive Reinvention For Leaders Who Must Make the Impossible Happen," also one of the most helpful books I have read in the past ten years. Goss is more in your face in her approach, and speaks with a small "m" messianic fervor, but the concepts are truly transformational and succinctly presented. On soft touch side of the equation, more about transforming one's personal life than one's corporate life (which is the focus of Goss), is Matthew Budd's and Larry Rothstein's "You Are What You Say." Budd is a physician and the architect of the first Behavior Medicien depeartment at the Harvard Community Health Plan, so he writes with authority and clinical concern, addressing more how such concepts impact one's personal and relational life.
This one by Chalmers Brothers is both personally and corporately pitched, and combines the transformational insights of Goss with the pastoral tone of Budd. I read all the time, and buy books constantly. This is one of the most helpful I have read in the past ten years.
It doesn't pretend to be a new Bible, but neither is it bunk. Buy it. A Valuable Tool to Understand How Language Creates Your Life This book is a valuable tool for learning how we create our lives through language. I had learned many of the distinctions before reading the book, but I had never seen them written in black and white, all in one place. I will use this book as a resource for sure! Absolutely Powerful! This book is very powerful. I really acknowledge Mr. Chalmers Brothers for writing such powerful book and for only about $25?!
I really recommend this book to anyone committed to making their life work. If you are the type who have attended hundreds of seminars or have read hundreds of self-help books and yet you still produce the same results in your life, read this book and prepare to be surprised. Absolutely Essential In my ten years of professional/personal coaching, this book stands out as the most radical, useful, and universally applicable book I have yet to read. A useful read for anyone consciously engaged in their own personal growth and development, and especially for those who are helping others to be more empowered in their lives. Highly, highly, recommended! Thank you, Chalmers Brothers, for bringing this book to market!!
DP Waldman, PCC
The DP Waldman Group, Inc.
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