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Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits

Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking HabitsAuthor: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Publisher: Hay House
Category: eBooks


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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 161 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,593

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1

Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1

Publication Date: May 1, 2009

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Within the pages of this transformational book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking habits that have been with you since childhood might be somewhat challenging.

If I changed, it would create family dramas . . . I’m too old or too young . . . I’m far too busy and tired . . . I can’t afford the things I truly want . . . It would be very difficult for me to do things differently . . . and I’ve always been this way . . . may all seem to be true, but they’re in fact just excuses. So the business of modifying habituated thinking patterns really comes down to tossing out the same tired old excuses and examining your beliefs in a new and truthful light.

In this groundbreaking work, Wayne presents a compendium of conscious and subconscious crutches employed by virtually everyone, along with ways to cast them aside once and for all. You’ll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse, and then proceed through the steps of a new paradigm. The old, habituated ways of thinking will melt away as you experience the absurdity of hanging on to them.

You’ll ultimately realize that there are no excuses worth defending, ever, even if they’ve always been part of your life—and the joy of releasing them will resonate throughout your very being. When you eliminate the need to explain your shortcomings or failures, you’ll awaken to the life of your dreams.

Excuses . . . Begone!




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4 out of 5 stars Changing Habits   August 30, 2010
Joan Robertson (Oroville, CA, United States)
I think Wayne Dyer has introduced a process for changing negative, unproductive patterns. It is not something you can listen to once and "zap" yourself into a new paradigm. To me, this is like a class to which you return many times and pick up the content slowly adding it to your way of approaching life, both internally and externally. Maybe the addition of a spiral-bound workbook would reinforce the principles put forth in the book. When people actually write things in the workbook, it would help to cement the new habits in place. Overall, I love what is suggested in the book and hope that I will continue to re-listen and change my way of living.


3 out of 5 stars Ok, but Dyer has a huge EGO himself!   August 25, 2010
K. Smith (San Diego CA)
So this is my third venture into Dyer's books...and on the positive side I have to say that there is some good info here. I purchased this as an audio book, which I don't recommend because Dyer's delivery is BORING and monotone. Tried to listen to in the car but it was putting me to sleep so I had to stop. Anyhow, while there is some really good info in here...I kept getting irritated by Dyer's repeated sneaky ways of reminding us of just how successful he is and how much money he has. So he has not lost his own ego at all...which makes his recommendation to all of us to let go of our ego ring just a bit shallow!

Sometimes he comes right out and tells you that he has so much money he is just swimming in it and it just keeps coming in (I guess so, from unsuspecting people like me!), and other times he just slides in the references to his homes on Maui, his TV shows and meetings, etc. Yawn. For example, instead of just saying something like he had some guests over to his home, and going from there to make his point, he has to make sure he tells you that he was having some important guests over to his home on Maui. Really? The only reason to say it that way is to shove once again in our faces how much money and fortune and THINGS he has. He is still all full of EGO and that makes his message, which is ultimately a good one, ring a bit shallow coming from him. He comes off just sounding incredibly pompous and self-centered, which made me decide never to buy any of his books again. Oh I'm sure he'll be just fine...out there on his home on Maui entertaining all of his famous TV producer friends......



1 out of 5 stars Ideas way too similar to "The Magic Of Thinking Big"   August 10, 2010
Bill Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Canada)
This book reminds me of an excellent book called "The Magic Of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz. In TMOTB, Schwartz talks about "the disease of excusitis" that prevents you from thinking big and from achieving your dreams. I hate to say it, but it almost looks like Dyer took this chapter from TMOTB, added a bunch of his stories about some spiritual people from history, and made a book out of it.

I like Dr. Dyer, but all these new age people are really beginning to annoy me when they rehash other people's work and call it a spiritual awakening. I'm not writing this out of hate or maliciousness. I'm doing it in the spirit of fairness and justice to give credit where credit is due.

Peace



3 out of 5 stars Nothing new. Recycled.   August 1, 2010
SarCol
I think my subject line of my review says it. The more Dyer writes the more it starts sounding recycled from his earlier writings and I'm noticing what feels like some not so unnoticible borrowings from other speakers, gurus, writers, or basic wisdom our grandmothers gave us. I don't know, I like Dyer a lot but he's starting to bore me and I'm not sure how many more dollars I have to go toward buying his books. Lately I can read his new book by simply reading his old one.


5 out of 5 stars On the right track - worth reading   July 26, 2010
JAW (The beach)
Dr. Dyer provides a useful strategy to question whether excuses are valid and shows us how to eliminate those that are not. This work is in alignment with that of Katie Byron's I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead and Dr. Rosalene Glickman's Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self. i recommend all three books, if you want to make the most of your life and career.

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