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What to Say When you Talk To Yourself | 
 enlarge | Author: Shad Helmstetter
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 4874
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0671708821
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780671708825
ASIN: 0671708821
Publication Date: January 15, 1990
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 Very cool book December 1, 2008
The best Jen yet!
The title really gets your attention and then the book pays off. Very nice work. I would also recommend, Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
 One of the best on the subject November 12, 2008
John Han (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book, one of my favorites in the self-help/change your mental programming area. Although it's an old book, it was very innovative. The content is just as applicable back then as it is right now. In fact a lot of other books on the subject seem to be a rehash of this.
The only drawback is it's over 200 pages long. It feels like the 1st half he's just talking and talking. The author, Shad Helmstetter, is saying good things about how the mind works and the importance of changing our mental programming, but he says the same thing 4 different ways in about a half a dozen chapters.
The second half really gets into the nitty gritty of Self-Talk. This is what makes this book great. He explains in detail how you can use Self-talk to improve different areas of your life, and he uses clear examples to illustrate his points. However, like the first half, he could cut down on the dialogue a bit.
If you want a book that is not as long in conversation and more to the point, check out his other book Who Are You Really, and What Do You Want?. The first third of the book is about Self-Talk and it covers the same information and in a similar manner, but with 1/3 the pages. The second and third parts of this book are about goal setting and hiring a personal coach. The goal setting section goes hand in hand with self-talk; the personal coach thing I don't know, I think he was just trying to fill some pages.
If you are really into this area and into personal change, another good book and I don't know who the author is as they haven't listed it, but their site is selfmadeeasy[...], is Self-talk Your Way to Success. The problem is, for the price, it's a really short book, but it's a quick read and it gets into heart of self-talk. The two authors' approaches are different, but the message is the same, which is that the conversations in our mind, what we say and think to ourselves, have a profound influence on our life. So in order to improve our life, we must first improve our inner thoughts and that means changing our self-talk.
Hope this helps.
Best Book October 30, 2008
Mama Kontis
This is an amazing book. I read it long ago and am reading again and decided that I must share the information by buying copies for all my friends and family. My husband recently read it and it has changed our lives. Happiness is a state of mind and this books tells you how to achieve it. It sounds simple and it is simple. Don't be fooled about the simplicity....it works! Read it.
On of my favorites!! September 18, 2008
SL Bock (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Definitely on my recommended book list. A must read for women in business.
Susan Bock
The Success Coach for Women in Business
www.SusanBockSolutions.com
 Good, but repetitive... July 30, 2008
D. Kanigan (CT, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The essence of this book can be captured in the following excerpts:
P 70
"We believe what we are programmed to believe. Our conditioning, from the day we are born, has created, reinforced, and nearly permanently cemented most of what we believe about ourselves and what we believe about most of what goes on around us. Whether the programming was right or wrong, true or false, the result of it is what we believe. It all starts with programming! What we have accepted from the outside world or fed to ourselves, has initiated a nature cause and effect chain reaction sequence which cannot fail to lead us to successful self-management, or to the unsuccessful mismanagement of ourselves, our resources and our futures. It is our programming that sets up our beliefs, and the chain reaction begins. In logical progression, what we believe determines our attitudes, affects our feelings, directs our behavior, and determines our success or failure:
1) Programming creates beliefs
2) Beliefs create attitudes
3) Attitudes create feelings
4) Feelings determine actions
5) Actions create results
P 72>
Self talk is a way to override our past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with conscious, positive new directions.
P 212
Just the simple act of telling yourself that you are going to have a "good day", as an example, not only helps convince you mentally, its sets off chemical/electrical triggers in your brain which affect your mental state which in turn affects you physiologically, which in turn affects how you think. It is a self generating cycle: thought, emotional response, physiological response, thought, emotional response and so on until something breaks or changes the cycle. That is why one negative incident first thing in the morning, can cause a chain reaction throughout the day. It affects our energy and our enthusiasm, our initiative and our spirit.
Overall, I thought the author's message was thoughtful, clear and important (but not concise). I do think that the essence of the recommendations could have been presented in half the pages as there was considerable repetition.
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