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Smile UK Store - Change Your Life in Seven Days (Book & CD)
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List Price: £10.99
Our Price: £6.59
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780593050552
ISBN: 059305055X
Label: Bantam Press
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-01-19
Publisher: Bantam Press
Studio: Bantam Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Success and happiness are not accidents that happen to some people and not to others. They are created by specific ways of thinking and acting in the world. Paul McKenna has made a study of highly successful and effective people, and distilled core strategies and techniques that will help the reader to begin to think in the same way as a super-achiever. Learn how to master your emotions and run your own brain, how to have supreme self-confidence and become the person you really want to be. Paul McKenna's simple seven-day plan really will change your life for ever. Brilliantly effective self-improvement, in the bestselling tradition of "Unlimited Power and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".
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Summary: Too much of nothing in too little time...
Comment: I am on the 7th day of this book having read it every day for the last week.
Of course, on day 1 I was very excited about the week ahead and getting to grips with life and taking on a more positive attitude. Although I still feel this is my intention, I found the book overall to be disappointing.
For one, there is too much to read each day! I have not been working this week - I have been on holiday and had a few other things to do but not much and it has taken the best part of all day to read each chapter and do the exercises. I mean it takes an hour to listen to the CD alone. (Half hour in morning, half hour in evening) If I had been doing an 8 hour working day, plus travel time, plus dinner and every other thing life needs, there is no way I could have got through all this in a week!
The exercises become very repetitive after a while. I found myself feeling angry every time I read the next exercise, they all read EXACTLY the same way!
i.e. "Think of a time when you felt really..." (confident, positive, happy) Now, make the colours brighter and richer, the sounds louder, allow your feelings to intensify", "times that feeling by 10" and "step into it now, feel those great feelings" Voila! You are now programming your mind to feel... (confident, positive, happy)
Pick any day - it is the same formula. What's more, it becomes overwhelming. Each day, you have more and more exercises to do before starting the day and as they are so similar it becomes irritating to say the least, that along with the dumbed-down tone of the book.
Yes, the advice is so superficial, written in a catch all style, aimed at mass markets. Paul McKenna makes no secret about loving wealth which is fair enough but it makes the more discerning reader feel like a bit of a mug.
I have not found this CD to be as good as the Confidence CD that was recommended to me by a friend (and that wasn't great)and they are both very similar. The Confidence one seems a little bit more polished. Is Paul McKenna just a one trick pony? Also, I feel he doesn't give you enough time during the trance to get into those feelings.
I personally find it difficult to bring up great feelings on cue, especially if I am feeling down, unmotivated etc... if I didn't, I probably wouldn't be reading books like these, I would just remember a happy time and be done with it! This is true of the exercises and of the CD.
I like what I have seen of Paul McKenna on the television. He has done some miraculous things and I believe them all to be genuine. But I guess that's the power of a one-on-one session with a hypnotherapist; there is feedback.
Felt this all needed saying as the question I emailed to the Paul McKenna website was not answered by any of the team - again, just makes you feel like the sucker who bought the book and was moved on from!
I do aim to have a great life and a lot of simple advice in this book is true and may be useful to some, even a lot but 90% of the book was 'gash' and only 10% was enlightening for me.
Having said all that though, I suppose the week has been good. After a year of not being sure what to do career-wise, I have decided upon a career change and have set aside the next 6 months to learn the new skills and become qualified. Wondering how to get the £500 needed to get the materials and exam entries, I was contacted by my credit-card company saying they refunded all the money on it that was taken off fraudulently and there is an extra £1000 on there which they say I can keep as they don't know where it came from! Law Of Attraction maybe?!
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Summary: This book tells you how to do it. But you must do it yourself.
Comment: I'll start by saying, I have all Paul's books, and I'm a massive admirer of his work and ethos.
There's one massive flaw with this book though. Reading the synopsis, the reviews and even the introductory chapter, you get the impression reading the book will change your life in seven days. If you just read it, you won't. I do feel if I was to knock one mark out of one hundred for this book, it would be that Paul doesn't make it clear enough, you can't just read the book. It's a manual you have to learn from and apply to your life.
Practise, and execution is the key. Paul will show you how to do it, but really you have to do it. I would consider needing 15 mins a day (best in the morning) to go through the exercises.
And when the going gets tough, don't give up. Go back to the methods.
I say this, because I've twice "failed" on the book. I'll go for up to a week, before falling back in bad habits.
Having just split up with my girlfriend, I'm taking on the book again (and Paul's other title 'I Can Mend Your Broken Heart'). And this time I'm going to take on the suggestions, and the life changes religiously. Life I breath air!
And when you do this with the book, its fully worth 5 stars.
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Summary: Change your life ...at your own pace
Comment: I agree wholeheartedly with the rave reviews others have given this book/CD, and I second the notion that the "7 Days" part of the title is quite ambitious. But no one can predict how much reprogramming their own mind will need until the work gets under way. In my first few days of listening and reading, before I noticed any real changes in my outlook or my behaviour, I found myself looking forward to the time I would spend on this. So maybe there were changes already happening that were a bit too subtle for me to recognise them. Within about 3 weeks' time, there was no mistaking that my thought patterns were becoming more positive and now (about 3 months since I first bought the book/CD), it's clear that much of the content has stuck with me and plays itself in my head automatically.
The big message is that you can't just spend 7 days and imagine that your life is "fixed." Buy the book and CD, use it steadily for a week, then come back to it from time to time to make sure you don't take a backward slide into old ways of thinking.
The single most important thing that has stuck with me from this CD is that whatever occupies your attention most is what you will create for yourself. So you are the only one who can decide what that will be, but Paul's book and CD can certainly help make it positive and constructive.
If you find you get tired of listening to the same CD over and over (which did happen to me after about 10 days), try alternating this one with Glenn Harrold's positive thinking CD, which is a bit more relaxing. (I like Paul in the morning and Glenn at night. ;)
So off you go to change your life. Who else is going to do it?
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Summary: Excellent Guide to Self -help
Comment: This book is full of inspirational and easy to read advice, which include many different subjects, and in my opinion, is well worth investing in. The book's advice reminds you that you are in control. It gives clear directions, and it's process really can work very swiftly!
All of the excercises recommended in the book, prepare you to adopt a positive mind frame for your day ahead. My absolute favourite is the 'inner smile' excercise, which when practiced, immediately brings light and helps you to look at situations in your life from a new, relaxed angle.
This is my second review of a book written by Paul McKenna, and along with Elizabeth Bailey's 'SACRED SPACE', I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to improve themselves.
An excellent guide to self-development.
Thank you.
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Summary: well worth the money ..plus free CD :)
Comment: I bought this book having read the positive reviews.
I have to say I am glad I bought this book. Although it was cheap there was a CD stuck in the back of it too :)
It has not changed my life yet..but its soo easy to read and ohh so positive I have to say I am delighted i bought it.
The first chapter threw a whole new perpective on things for me, and did have me thinking in a different manner
I think listening to the CD alone each evening will also help as its all positive.
It may or may not change your life but well worth getting.
7 days is a bit heavy as the chapters (7) are longish but a few weeks might just do it.. One of my best buys on Amazon ! :)
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