Synopsis
What is your purpose in life? Do you have a dream about how your life should be? How do you make that dream come true? Have you read books, attended lectures, or listened to podcasts, with the goal of figuring out how to make your dream come true? Hopefully, this is not just another self-help workbook. There are already so many self-help workbooks. You don't have to spend much time reviewing them to discover all the contradictions. How do you know which workbook got it right? Do you put stock in the workbook by a famous author or an author you have read before? If you take this approach, you are taking the great person approach. You believe what you believe because a great person told you what to believe. In case you are wondering, the great person approach to knowledge is called faith. It is nice to have faith in someone or something but that is not the way to build knowledge, especially about complex topics like emotions, relationships, thinking and self-management. The best way to build knowledge is to use the scientific method. There is a better chance that facts produced by the scientific method are more accurate than the opinions offered by a great person. In this self-help workbook, the scientific method was the basis for lessons that address four important topics: emotional functioning, thinking, relationships and self-management. For example, research by Paul Ekman, PhD. and his colleagues provided the foundation for many lessons on emotions. Martin Seligman, PhD. and other positive psychologists provided the scientific foundation for the lessons on happiness and optimism. John Gottman, PhD. and his colleagues' research was used for many of the lessons on relationships. Check the Endnotes in this workbook for a listing of authors and researchers whose finings provide the basis for this workbook. The goal of this workbook is to help you improve the quality of your life. Many people have already used this workbook and have said, "I wish I knew this information when I was growing-up." Whether you are fixing a personal problem or just trying to maximize your life, I hope this workbook can help you. Above all, enjoy your life., What is your purpose in life? Do you have a goal for your life? If you don't have a goal, you might want to consider the goal that is the basis of this workbook. This workbook is based on the idea that the best goal in life anyone can have is to love and be loved. Love is defined as the act of caring, for the purpose of creating happiness and success. There are three basic types of love: self-love, love of another, and social love. The assignments in this workbook are all about self-love, love of another and social love. You will probably notice that there are assignments that deal directly with love and relationships. It will be obvious how these assignments help you reach your life goal of loving better. There are other assignments in this workbook that do not look like they are about love. For example, there are assignments about being responsible for managing your time. You might wonder how these articles are about love. The answer is easy. Love is an action. Sure, love might start with a feeling. But until it is expressed, it is an idea waiting to happen. The assignments that don't seem directly related to love are indirectly related to love - these assignments help you take care of personal matters that might interfere with your ability to love. Please be aware that if you are expecting flowery, mushy, romantic assignments on love, you won't find them in this workbook. In this workbook, love is defined as an action with the specific goal of creating something: happiness and success. Love takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of hard work. This workbook is a blueprint for all the hard work you can do to put more love in your life. Follow the blueprint and you can be more happy and successful. ., What is your purpose in life? Do you have a goal for your life? If you don't have a goal, you might want to consider the goal that is the basis of this workbook.This workbook is based on the idea that the best goal in life anyone can have is to love and be loved. Love is defined as the act of caring, for the purpose of creating happiness and success. There are three basic types of love: self-love, love of another, and social love. The assignments in this workbook are all about self-love, love of another and social love. You will probably notice that there are assignments that deal directly with love and relationships. It will be obvious how these assignments help you reach your life goal of loving better. There are other assignments in this workbook that do not look like they are about love. For example, there are assignments about being responsible for managing your time. You might wonder how these articles are about love.The answer is easy. Love is an action. Sure, love might start with a feeling. But until it is expressed, it is an idea waiting to happen. The assignments that don't seem directly related to love are indirectly related to love - these assignments help you take care of personal matters that might interfere with your ability to love. Please be aware that if you are expecting flowery, mushy, romantic assignments on love, you won't find them in this workbook. In this workbook, love is defined as an action with the specific goal of creating something: happiness and success. Love takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of hard work. This workbook is a blueprint for all the hard work you can do to put more love in your life. Follow the blueprint and you can be more happy and successful. .
