Book Review: Get Your Self Straight

Book Review:
Get Your Self Straight
By Rebecca Halstead (a.k.a. J.D. Rhodes)

The world was handing out navigational tools for me the year this set of matter-of-fact, quick read books wrote themselves. That was 2006, and they were the tools I needed to answer some pretty common questions in life. Things like: “Why do I feel like I’m going in circles?” “Why am I not truly happy more often?” “Where am I going in my life?” and “What happened to me?”

I have found those to be the types of questions that precede awareness. When you start asking those questions, rather than making statements such as, “He makes my life miserable,” “I don’t deserve this,” “Someone should fix the problem,” then you know you’re starting on (or getting back to) your true path in life. It’s the navigation that takes figuring and, if you accept the navigational tools when the world hands them to you, it makes the jou
ey much more inspiring and fun.

The black and white of Get Your Self Straight’s tools continue to inspire, remind, and encourage me on my path to purposeful happiness and focused clarity. Each time I read them, I am reminded of my greatest experiences in life, the ones that straightened out my path of circles and taught me all five basic concepts to grasp and hold onto the purpose of my life. They also continually reconfirm the fact that showing and doing is much better than telling and directing.

The biggest impact of these books is their difference from the standard personal growth book’s norm. Their brevity does not allow for a lack of action. It keeps the concepts up front, then pushes you to go live those concepts; to cement them into your positive habits and override the negative ones.

With this series:

• I discovered the power of Awareness, and the truth that nothing in life should be taken personally.
• I Balanced my life’s intentions and stopped going in circles.
• I take responsibility for all of my Choices, even those that take me off my path to re-teach me a lesson already learned.
• I practice silence with my negative Ego, and expression with my positive Ego.
• I look at All Things Considered … and acknowledge my failures and weaknesses, then realize my progress and success, and accept that there are many more experiences to come.

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