by J. Craig ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 6, 2014
Well-worn advice repackaged for personal success.
A debut guide to help achieve success in life by discovering and living your personal truth.
“To thine own self be true,” Polonious famously advised in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. So too was the advice of Craig’s grandfather, his most influential mentor. Building on his grandfather’s wisdom, Craig offers a guide to finding one’s own truth using strategic mentors. After all, he writes, “one man’s truth may be another man’s lie,” something he calls “truthlies.” In Part I, Craig devotes a chapter to each of the five components that can “help you live your best life.” First, he defines “lifeline” as those personal beliefs which guide an individual through life, adding, “you will always do what you believe.” With that in mind, it’s essential to “find out what you believe.” The second key is “mental disposition,” or attitude. A positive attitude marked by gratitude and kindness leads to tranquility, Craig says. In Chapter 5, the author describes “passion action” as doing what one loves, and he suggests that individuals give themselves a “core score” by deciding whether their personal beliefs, attitude, and life-work are in alignment. If they are, one may then define how to live and pursue his or her version of a good life. In Part II, Craig offers practical applications of the truthlies approach, with common self-help platitudes: “start with your core purpose; the ideal is not real; and begin with the end in mind.” Much of this material may be familiar within the self-help genre—think Robert Schuller, Wayne Dyer, Stephen Covey, etc.—and the truthlies concept, like the word itself, seems somewhat forced, but there are still valuable lessons here worth hearing again. The text is well-written, a bright spot being Craig’s “seminars in a sentence”—e.g., “God first, others second, yourself last,” “It might be their personality, so don’t take it personally”—based on his belief that “you can live your life off a sentence.” Of course, that’s a truthlie readers will have to discover for themselves.
Well-worn advice repackaged for personal success.Pub Date: Nov. 6, 2014
ISBN: 978-1460251270
Page Count: 256
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: May 7, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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