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July 28, 2005, 6:14 am PDT
Marcia,
Quote From: marcia52Hi, I finished reading Self Matters last APril and I've been spending the time since practicing challenging my thoughts. But I know that I need to focus on my fears & anxieties now.
Have any of you tried to read LIFE STRATEGIES? I know that the first time I read it was back in Jan 04 and I read up thru the 10 Life Laws in a weekend (I was really scared and doing my first ever standing up for myself). I attempted to read it again afterwards but got angry because I kept having to remember that it was written before SELF MATTERS.
Well, I picked it up and I'm reading Life Law #5 (that where I believe I am in life right now) and it seems like I'm okay now with it. But I was wondering if any of you had experienced the same when you picked up LIFE. How did you deal with it?
I'm hoping that I'm over getting the pain like the 2nd reading bought to me and that I can just read and do the exercises.
Marcia Did it bother you to have the read Self Matters first, even though Life Strategies was the first one written? I had to read SM first too. I think when LS was written, Dr Phil understood that there were those of us who weren't ready for it yet, and had to dig deeper. I had read Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People years before, and couldn't get to first base with it. Face it, how can you practice Proactivity, or really understand it, when you have "tapes" in your head telling you your worthless, etc.? Life Strategies is kind of like 7 Habits in that way, it's the next step after you've done the "cleaning house" that Self Matters takes you through. Reading the Life Laws puts you squarely in the driver's seat in dealing with others. You understand the way YOU think after SM, LS helps you to understand how OTHERS think. Good luck on the journey, onward and upward.
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