Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Agreed

I have to second Raven's comment. These books (and the others similar, Leadership and Self Deception, The Peacegiver, ect.) all focus on one thing: Finding peace happiness in your own life. Finally someone is saying you can stop blaming your boss for your crappy pay, your bad childhood for your unhappy marriage ect., and take responsibility for your own peace and happienss. Heavenly Father didn't send us here to be acted upon, he sent us here to act, and that means we are responsible for how we feel, our relationships with others, and where we are going in life.
I wish I had the book in front of me to do it more justice, but I really liked the overall focus on personal accountability. Sure these people had really difficult children, but they were taught that only once we recognize what we can do to change ourselves can we start to see our challenges in a different light. The difficult part is constantly evaluating our responses to our trials and recognizing how we are either acting as a reactive or proactive person.
I think this book does a good job of helping you to recognize and look out for ways that we can recognize more clearly how we are responding -- I'm sure we'll have some good discussion on the chapter about the "boxes" when we all get there.
-Marcie

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