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Google the words release your potential and enter into a world of possibilities ranging from spiritual to spasticity to weight loss to financial prowess to numerology to business ventures to releasing your conscious and subconscious mind power to mystic powers to whatever else one conjures up to help you realize your goal or uncover the goals you're capable of achieving.
Self-help books and programs convince us that we can realize our potential or perhaps they release us to enter into a conversation with our innermost desires. And those desires may not be for mystic powers or more money in stocks or even a deeper spiritual path.
They may be how to decorate a four foot high wedding cake or how to brew beer or how to read tea leaves. Yes, Reading Tea Leaves, according to Amazon is "the oldest book on the subject in English" and is written by a Highland Seer for the Highland Scots.
If you desire to realize a life long dream to build a ladder bookshelf there are a number of how-to articles purporting to take you by the hand and help you turn a dream into reality.
Roaming in a good bookstore, a favorite activity, means wandering in all the aisles—even the self-help book and the how-to book aisle. Yet often the how-to books sit smugly in other aisles—art books, music, dance,writing and reference. Diet and exercise books, cookbooks—take up shelves and shelves of space.
On one day I discovered books on how-to make rag rugs, create mixed media murals, play the harmonica. One book promised that learning to play will open up a new world for me. There's even an Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica. I found a book on belly dancing, but passed that one because you really need long hair to toss your hair the way belly dancers do and my hair is too short to toss.
Yoga to the Rescue: Remedies for Real Girls even has an IPhone app and a free button when purchased.
I looked through thirty-four writing books—some merely by checking the title—and found that if I wanted to write a novel in a year there were authors who would sculpt my week to make each week count in the trudge to completion. How-to books on writing science-fiction, horror, mysteries, short-stories, creative non-fiction, playwriting, writing for television, essays, poetry, and flash fiction fill shelf after shelf.
Weeks could be spent checking out the creation of characters, plots that move, triggers, events, scenes, conflicts and chapters that strive to remind me of the importance of place. ( This is being written at the Boston Bean Coffee House. It's 11:15 and soon the lunch crowd will begin arriving and I'll move from my window table for four to a smaller darker table).
Roget's Thesaurus citation 558.3 NEWS lists the following words message, advice, release, petit bleu, dispatch, communication.
These books and articles all purport to send a message—to communicate—to dispatch a petit bleu, to advise on how you can release your potential to accomplish the tasks within their books or articles.
I bought a book called Memento:My Life in Stories. The heavy paper well suited for old fashioned ink pens. Each page contains a question or statement.
I did quite well when asked to describe my childhood home, but faltered when the next four pages asked me to describe situations with my siblings. Only children can't make up siblings or adopt siblings from friends.
Only two possibilities—cross out the question and reword it so that it's applicable, but I don't like the idea of crossing out so I will have to reword the question. Of course I now question the authenticity and commitment to the task by the author. According to some data at the time of my birth only children represented 10% of children under 18, today that percent is 20% or 14 million.
When an author eliminates 10% of the population I feel "other" —left out. Perhaps I'll skip those pages and go on with the rest of the book.
How to writing books also include books of prompts. I couldn't stay away from a large format book titled 642 Things to Write About. It joins the book I purchased the previous year 642 Things to Draw. Both books have been called inspirational—imagine sketching the sound of girlish laughter?
I even found a book called One Perfect Word by Debbie Macomber. She focuses on one word for the year. She says, "The surprising thing is that when we decide to focus on one word for the year...God takes part in the choosing. That's why the word is perfect for us." This may not be a traditional how-to book, but it sounds like it fits into a similar category.
So my journey isn't unique — but what I learn will be unique for me.
Self-help books and programs convince us that we can realize our potential or perhaps they release us to enter into a conversation with our innermost desires. And those desires may not be for mystic powers or more money in stocks or even a deeper spiritual path.
They may be how to decorate a four foot high wedding cake or how to brew beer or how to read tea leaves. Yes, Reading Tea Leaves, according to Amazon is "the oldest book on the subject in English" and is written by a Highland Seer for the Highland Scots.
If you desire to realize a life long dream to build a ladder bookshelf there are a number of how-to articles purporting to take you by the hand and help you turn a dream into reality.
Roaming in a good bookstore, a favorite activity, means wandering in all the aisles—even the self-help book and the how-to book aisle. Yet often the how-to books sit smugly in other aisles—art books, music, dance,writing and reference. Diet and exercise books, cookbooks—take up shelves and shelves of space.
On one day I discovered books on how-to make rag rugs, create mixed media murals, play the harmonica. One book promised that learning to play will open up a new world for me. There's even an Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica. I found a book on belly dancing, but passed that one because you really need long hair to toss your hair the way belly dancers do and my hair is too short to toss.
Yoga to the Rescue: Remedies for Real Girls even has an IPhone app and a free button when purchased.
I looked through thirty-four writing books—some merely by checking the title—and found that if I wanted to write a novel in a year there were authors who would sculpt my week to make each week count in the trudge to completion. How-to books on writing science-fiction, horror, mysteries, short-stories, creative non-fiction, playwriting, writing for television, essays, poetry, and flash fiction fill shelf after shelf.
Weeks could be spent checking out the creation of characters, plots that move, triggers, events, scenes, conflicts and chapters that strive to remind me of the importance of place. ( This is being written at the Boston Bean Coffee House. It's 11:15 and soon the lunch crowd will begin arriving and I'll move from my window table for four to a smaller darker table).
Roget's Thesaurus citation 558.3 NEWS lists the following words message, advice, release, petit bleu, dispatch, communication.
These books and articles all purport to send a message—to communicate—to dispatch a petit bleu, to advise on how you can release your potential to accomplish the tasks within their books or articles.
I bought a book called Memento:My Life in Stories. The heavy paper well suited for old fashioned ink pens. Each page contains a question or statement.
I did quite well when asked to describe my childhood home, but faltered when the next four pages asked me to describe situations with my siblings. Only children can't make up siblings or adopt siblings from friends.
Only two possibilities—cross out the question and reword it so that it's applicable, but I don't like the idea of crossing out so I will have to reword the question. Of course I now question the authenticity and commitment to the task by the author. According to some data at the time of my birth only children represented 10% of children under 18, today that percent is 20% or 14 million.
When an author eliminates 10% of the population I feel "other" —left out. Perhaps I'll skip those pages and go on with the rest of the book.
How to writing books also include books of prompts. I couldn't stay away from a large format book titled 642 Things to Write About. It joins the book I purchased the previous year 642 Things to Draw. Both books have been called inspirational—imagine sketching the sound of girlish laughter?
I even found a book called One Perfect Word by Debbie Macomber. She focuses on one word for the year. She says, "The surprising thing is that when we decide to focus on one word for the year...God takes part in the choosing. That's why the word is perfect for us." This may not be a traditional how-to book, but it sounds like it fits into a similar category.
So my journey isn't unique — but what I learn will be unique for me.
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