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Within the pages of this transformational book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking habits that have been with you since childhood might be somewhat challenging.
If I changed, it would create family dramas . . . I’m too old or too young . . . I’m far too busy and tired . . . I can’t afford the things I truly want . . . It would be very difficult for me to do things differently . . . and I’ve always been this way . . . may all seem to be true, but they’re in fact just excuses. So the business of modifying habituated thinking patterns really comes down to tossing out the same tired old excuses and examining your beliefs in a new and truthful light.
In this groundbreaking work, Wayne presents a compendium of conscious and subconscious crutches employed by virtually everyone, along with ways to cast them aside once and for all. You’ll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse, and then proceed through the steps of a new paradigm. The old, habituated ways of thinking will melt away as you experience the absurdity of hanging on to them.
You’ll ultimately realize that there are no excuses worth defending, ever, even if they’ve always been part of your life—and the joy of releasing them will resonate throughout your very being. When you eliminate the need to explain your shortcomings or failures, you’ll awaken to the life of your dreams.
Excuses . . . Begone!
TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFEReviewed by Juan Jose Pardo Mora, 2010-02-26
Great book. Always a pleasure to read Mr.Wayne Dyer. Read it and you will find the real one that is in you.
Good general philosophy, but not really a self help bookReviewed by Gabriel Oak, 2010-02-25
You should read this book if you want to get a perspective on
personal responsibility and reinforcement of the idea that one can
work to overcome habitual behavior.
I find this book hard to review since, on the one hand, it presents
a positive philosophy of life in which we can make conscious
choices to improve our lives and cast off habits and excuses that
prevent us from achieving our goals, while, on the other hand, the
book contains a lot of new age psychobabble. There is not much new
here, but one can draw inspiration and motivation from Dyer's ideas
and his very positive presentation. It is a good quick read as a
refresher for understanding that we should strive to adopt more
positive and active thoughts to help us act and to achieve our
goals.
The book contains no practical advice on getting rid of excuses.
Dyer provides a few affirmations, but nothing to really assist in
overcoming excuses; these affirmations are useful but not
particularly imaginative.
The biggest criticism I have of this book is his consistent
reference to God as the source for a mysterious energy that will
align an enlightened, "excuses begone" practitioner, with the
universe such that anything can be accomplished. His persistent
reference to God, or universal energy, is tiresome and is a way to
abdicate responsibility. OK, I agree that having more positive
thoughts will encourage constructive action that is likely to
improve one's chances of success in a given activity, but it is a
cop out for Dyer to tell the reader that he or she is a "divine
being" and that is why some things will work out. Faith in oneself
is essential to success, but Dyer loses credibility by exhibiting
the religious fervor of a new age guru.
Nonetheless, I give the book three stars because the basic
philosophy (good self esteem) is sound and Dyer does provide
inspiration.
So sensible, yet so wise.Reviewed by Annna, 2010-02-21
I loved this book. Dyer takes the woo-woo out of spirituality and makes it doable, approachable and sensible. I was so inspired by his treatment of memes and mind viruses that I bought the books he refers to when explaining them. His list of the eighteen common excuses that we all use, and how to think about them in order to change whether we're willing to continue to give power to them or not, was enormously helpful to me. He brings things to light that I had pretended not to know, and in a gentle, kind manner, shows how to rethink thoughts that had kept me stuck for years. I am so grateful for his work, for his clarity and loving spirit.
Excuses BegoneReviewed by C. D. Ashley, 2010-02-18
This is an excellence book. I normally do not like to read, but I
found this book so hard to put down.
The title is so defined, and the examples and paradigms used were
significantly related to our everyday lives and thought patterns. I
identified with some of the examples that he used, and upon reading
them I said to myself -'Wow, I do that, or say that'. After reading
this book I am now conscious of how I look at life and I re-examine
putting off things or not doing what I know I should be doing to
make me a happier person; who can create the possibilities of being
who I want to be, with endless opportunities for self-growth by
empowering myself with positive actions and thoughts.
Not a helpful self-help bookReviewed by C. Greer, 2010-02-14
Pretentious and unconventional. Not a great self help choice, at least not for me.