by M@sterWriter | Jun 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mind Power Into the 21st Century, a New York Times bestseller by John Kehoe, defines the powerful effects of neuroscience –science of the mind, a potentially complicated self-help theory. He explains the science in-depth with great wisdom in a friendly but persuasive tone. Kehoe simplifies the techniques of visualization, seeding, meditation, acknowledging, intuition, affirmations, dreams, conscious, and subconscious that bring about powerful, effective change in individuals.
Written in clear and coherent language, the book appeals to a very wide general audience. Reading this book, it is quite evident that Kehoe is more than an author; he was a student turned teacher and coach living his highest “calling”, which is teaching individuals to improve their lives by seeking the gems that lie in their subconscious mind. Kehoe teaches individuals to live their lives connecting to their higher self and manifesting a life of abundant joy. To live to one’s highest potential, Kehoe teaches how to receive the universal attributes, which are one’s birthright: success, happiness, joy, health, and wealth in all areas of life.
His purpose for writing this book is on the same cord as his own personal calling. He has a great life, and he wants everyone to enjoy and embrace their lives as he does. Kehoe knows everyone is born with two minds, the conscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious is the outer mind; the subconscious is the inner mind. Once the outer being connects with the inner being, the connection is responsible for the transformation in life. Be alive—Live!
This book is a guide and Kehoe is coaching the readers with conviction as he narrates the path to travel on their journey of self actualization. He presents a pragmatic approach toward the applications of the practice of the techniques. Though the steps are easy, Kehoe cautions his readers that in order to benefit, one must be disciplined and practice daily —practice until something happens. He acknowledges that individuals may doubt the process and the inclination to give up may arise because nothing is changing. He carefully chooses his words of encouragement as he reiterates that new habits must be created, and they are formed through continuous practice.
Kehoe cites, “We might be far more willing to learn how to use our mental mechanisms if we imagined for a moment that for every thought we either gained a dollar or lost a dollar, depending on the type of thought. Considering we think thousands of thoughts every day, this is quite a proposition. Imagine an accounting system noting our every thought and recording which ones gained us money and which ones lost us money. How diligent we would be in controlling and directing our thoughts! How enthusiastically we would create those thoughts which made us money, and how carefully we would avoid those which cost us money” (p. 9).
Kehoe’s main point is developing a prosperity consciousness generates more money. Since thoughts create current situations, change thoughts to create desired circumstances.
He uses detailed descriptions and anecdotes to illustrate his principles, such as visualization. To visualize, create a movie featuring the thing you want. Claim it in your mind and place the emotion and the feeling in your feature movie. Sit and visualize this movie every day, twice a day, once in the morning for ten minutes and once in the evening, right before bedtime. Practicing visualization and persistence is the key. Keep practicing until all inner thoughts are actualized. This practice is free and within everyone’s reach. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to enhance and change their life.
Kehoe has studied mind power for over twenty years and travels internationally as well as nationally on speaking tours, workshops and trainings sessions teaching mind control to millions. Kehoe has written over ten books that lend themselves to the workings of mind power. One of his greatest desires is to make a positive change in the lives of others. Kehoe writes these principles in books hoping to reach a wider audience. “You can earn a living by doing what you do not like but you cannot be successful”, says Kehoe. “Repetition is the key to mind power.”
by M@sterWriter | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Lee Evans has written 3 bestseller books in the categories of jobs, career, employment, and job placement, known as the Killer Work from Home series. She embarked on a lifelong mission 30 years ago to help jobseekers move forward in their lives. From her own personal experience and her experiences in educating the public about job placement, she understands the stress involved with being laid off or otherwise being out of work. Evans also is a career coach, and job search expert. Her credibility makes it quite evident that she is the person who can motivate those seeking to journey onto a career path or change their career and lead them to success. She has recently released Killer Success to set people on the success track.
Evans’ primary objective is to have an ordinary person and lead them to do extraordinary things. Evans’ fire, passion, and desire are exposed on every page of her newly released book, Killer Success. Evans informs her readers in a friendly conversational style, that to be a success is in their reach, right now, wherever they may be in their life cycle.
Evans uses a simple step-by-step approach to assist people in finding their passion and purpose. Along the road she is constantly coaching and empowering people to move and to keep moving. This is a motivation self-help book targeted towards women and men in their middle 30’s and 40’s in a transition period with their life’s work. Evans works at releasing the passion and purpose of an individual in order for them to start again.
The book is comprised of 38 chapters and each chapter begins with a quote from a famous and inspirational individual that has lived the particular quote and then moves into a narrative describing how the reader can practice the message in the quote themselves. Each chapter also has a success affirmation that can be tailored to each reader’s passion. The chapter ends with journal work, prompting the reader to take action for the next step in their career.
This book is a road map to success of all kinds. Her purpose with this book has been to re-activate dreams, re-energize passions, and rejuvenate life. She identifies that every person has made business mistakes in their past, but this book re-builds confidence and the fire to push forward. Evans connects the example of an alchemist turning metals into gold with turning mistakes into successes. No matter what a person’s situation is, the book gives guidance on how to empower themselves to greatness.
Despite the content of the book, the title Killer Success is ambiguous. The subtitle Awaken Your Inner Power is more effective in relaying the book’s purpose. However, because of the negative title and dull book cover, her empowering information may be missed by those not willing to read further.
People familiar with Evan’s work and the press surrounding her bestselling books are her target audience and will take the extra step to purchase Killer Success. For this audience, the content ensures the reader’s aim for success.
by M@sterWriter | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Unspoken is Jesi Lee’s first book and the first of an amazing romance trilogy. Written from main character Jane’s point of view, this 219-page book is a page-turner written in an informal style. Lee takes her readers on a melodramatic journey, set in New York City, about the lives of her protagonists Jane and William. Lee set the story up with a typical structure of a novel. From the onset, we see Jane has some emotional issues she believes can be solved by engaging with men who have jagged backgrounds.
The reader needs to be open to a bit of profanity the author uses to distinguish different character’s personalities, such as Gianni, one of Jane’s best friends, who is a free spirit and homosexual, and has an ‘I don’t give a hoot about what others think’ attitude.
Lee also gives a very descriptive account of Elle, her other best friend. Elle is a personal assistant for a wealthy wine business and art gallery. Jane is an artist and she has had very little success selling her work, yet Elle loves her work; therefore, she took the opportunity nd introduced Jane to William, Elle’s boss and owner of the art gallery.
Lee did not hesitate to set up the torrid love affair between married Jane and Elle’s boss, William. The conflict unfolds at the onset of their romance; Jane is too busy having fun to tell William she is in a loveless marriage. Elle is very unhappy with Jane and she urges her to tell William about her husband and break off the relationship. Meanwhile, Gianni is cheering her on.
Though Jane agrees with her friend Elle, she cannot stop herself from having this affair with this wonderful man. She likes the manner in which he loves her and makes love to her, and it reminds her of the man who rescued her the night she was beaten. In the prologue of the book, there is a scene where Jane’s boyfriend, Mike Barrett, beat her and left her for dead. A man rescued her and took her to the hospital, and since then, Jane has been dreaming of her savior. The author uses an interesting plot device, since the audience knows William is her rescuer, but Jane does not have a clue.
Being with William takes away her loneliness and fears. Lee twists the plot three quarters of the way into the book; she tears the loving couple apart so they can deal with their individual issues of worthlessness, which derived from their childhoods. They both wanted to be loved and saved but fear continued to live in their spirits, keeping them in turmoil. Should they be with each other or not?
Also at this time, Jane’s husband recognized there is a problem in their marriage and thinks Jane will leave him. He makes promises to stop drinking, being lazy, and taking Jane for granted. Before Jane can make a decision about a committed relationship, she explores her worth and value as a woman.
The imagery of the book is symbolic and represents the title, Unspoken, but the colors are gloomy and bland. However, do not let that stop you from reading it. Lee uses metaphors beautifully to help the reader move through the story and create tension. The pace moves pretty quickly as Lee throws hints and clues to the conclusion of the affair.
How will it end?
by M@sterWriter | Jun 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ford County by John Grisham
Book review by Diane Williams
Ford County is John Grisham’s first book of short stories. Its a collection of seven stories , each set in Ford County, Mississippi. It is a measure of Grisham’s audacious talent that he manages to make his protagonist’s story work on so many levels. As with Grisham’s legal thrillers, his short stories are page-turners as well.
In Grisham’s story, “Michael’s Room”, he so deftly demonstrates the protagonist’s radar for status distinctions, and in these pages he provides an acerbic sense of how corruption increases the profits of the rich and decimates the profits of the impoverished. In Michael’s court case, the family felt duped by the rich, educated attorney who wins the case for the wealthy plaintiff; they both increased their profits, and enriched their lifestyle. Meanwhile, the poor defendant was left broken and living life with his son, an invalid. The writer shows the results of the resentment of a family filled with pain, frustration, and despair at the hands of a clever rich attorney winning a corporate medical case.
However, Grisham puts a surprising twist on the story. The writer allows the simple man a reward; the satisfaction of witnessing the sorrow and brokenness that the rich man lives with every day because of his arrogance and money. Grisham allowed the simple man to use his street wisdom to confront the upperclassman, leaving with him questioning himself and his Integrity. Simply put, the clever attorney looked like a babbling idiot.
Grisham continues the suspense in the following six stories. “Casino” tells the story of a rich, flamboyant, egotistical hustler, who was once respected, revered and, in some situations, feared by the towns’ people. The hustler was being sued and all the community came to the courtroom. The works of the simple conservative man made the people rejoice at the results; the hustler fell from his throne, leaving him penniless and babbling like an imbecile.
In “Fish Files”, the main character struggles with his family and his law business, and he wants to remove himself from both situations. He uses his lawyering skills in a scrupulous manner to collect some unwarranted funds, which he then uses to start a new life.
Though “Blood Drive” is a serious tale, Grisham uses humor to tell it. A man was in a accident the hospital, and needed blood. The message was sent to his community and some of his friends gave their consent to provide the blood.
“Quiet Haven” shows the shrewd attorney and his bigoted partner in crime, “the caring giver”, manipulate and rob the owners of the nursing facility and the hidden senior citizens, closed away and forgotten.
“Fetching Raymond” tells the tale of a typical dysfunctional poor white trash, “PWT”, family. The community had alienated the mother’s children. Unfortunately, all three of her sons became residents of the criminal justice system.
“Funny Boy” records the behavior of a typical Caucasian family in the 80’s.Their solution upon discovering that their son was homosexual was to send him away. He decides to go to San Francisco. However after several years, he returns home with AIDS. The family deemed him an unacceptable human being and placed him into the hands of an African American woman, who took care of him until his demise.
Though the stories are written in a coherent, simple language, the plot and characters are interesting and relative. The purpose of this book was to entertain, and Grisham does not disappoint his readers. Therefore, a general target audience can relate and enjoy each story.
In Ford County, Grisham reaffirms his place as one of this generation’s most inventive and gifted writers. Grisham has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest storytellers of the 21th century.
by M@sterWriter | Jun 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek
Book review by Diane Williams
Mattie Stepanek’s book, Heartsongs, tells a deeply moving and poetic tale of love, peace and ambition, and his personal plight defying adversity. There’s something intrinsically serene about Mattie’s approach to life. From the onset, the reader can infer Mattie possessed a ravenous appetite for life, for the poems he writes are effervescent and inchoate in his peaceful spirit, and his plainspoken mannerism is diplomatic and poetic in equal measure.
Mattie had a taste for excellent communication and excellent artwork. In his book, Heartsongs, Mattie welcomed us into his world, and gave us his worldview through his 19 poems and 5 illustrations.
Mattie had an outsize life to match his outsize talent. It was filled with the extremities of joy and sorrow. Mattie was born with a rare form of mitochondrial myopathy disease. He had many treatments but in the end there was no treatment; he had to learn to live with all the challenges the disease carried in tow. Also, Mattie had three siblings born with the same disease, and he witnessed the demise of them all. His life challenges pointed him into the direction of maturity; Mattie had to make sense of the world at a very early age. He gave his life purpose, passion and meaning. He spoke about his dreams, “When I grow up I plan to become a daddy, a writer, a public speaker and most of all a peacemaker.”
Each poem addresses peace, love, and heart. The poems are written very simply, and he drifted in some poems, resembling the education and knowledge of a youngster, yet they deliver a powerful adult message.
Mattie was a public speaker. He caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, and she gave him a platform to speak to millions of people. Mattie shared his philosophy as a peacemaker, as he cites, “Always remember, play after every storm.”
Heartsongs, though written by an 11 year old, makes way to reach a large older population. The innocence of this youngster targets a general population, which includes persons with special needs, and/or anyone going through an unmanageable, life-threatening situation. This book speaks to the heart and appeals to our inner beings.
