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ISBN13: 9780061143960 |
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"From Richard Simmons to Stephen Covey, Lisick spends a month on each self-improvement task and distills it all, very wittily, for our reading pleasure. What is most surprising about Lisick's record of her experiences is her complete lack of guile. While exposing some of the most absurd or ineffective advice of our most famous self-help gurus, Lisick seems to genuinely try to follow their precepts in earnest..." Danielle Marshall, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
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Instead of turning to advice from the abundant pool of local life coaches, therapists, and healers readily available on her home turf of northern California, Beth confronts her fears head-on. She consults the multimillion-dollar-earning pros and national experts, not only reading their bestselling books but also attending their seminars and classes. In Chicago, she gets proactive with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In Atlanta, she tries to get a handle on exactly why "women are from Venus," and in a highly comedic bout on the high seas of the Caribbean, she gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons.
Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas, ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting. Beth doesn't think of herself as the typical self-help victim. But is she?
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Nick Chapman, January 30, 2008 (view all comments by Nick Chapman)
Beth Lisick is always a treasure - quirky, irreverent, unpredictable and intelligent. What's amazing about her is that she is so much the same in her writing as her music. Her album, pass, as The Beth Lisick Ordeal is a perennial favorite of mine.
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Julia Callahan, January 27, 2008 (view all comments by Julia Callahan)
I'm a huge fan of all of Beth's work, but this goes above and beyond. Of course it is completely hilarious and had me laughing out-loud on multiple occasions, but it also gives some good advice about how to choose who to take advice from. She's up front and honest and it is clear that she took this project seriously, as she rarely goes into a seminar or author with a prejudice of any kind. My favorite section was her experiences on Richard Simmons' 'Cruise to Lose,' priceless!
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takingadayoff, December 4, 2007 (view all comments by takingadayoff)
Just in time for the New Year! Beth Lisick decides to improve her life in every way by turning to the experts: Suze Orman, Richard Simmons, the guy who wrote the Chicken Soup series, the guy who wrote Men are From Mars... She is determined to take this project seriously, but fortunately for us, doesn't quite succeed. Very funny!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780061143960
- Subtitle:
- One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- William Morrow & Company
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Personal Memoirs
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Personal Growth - General
- Publication Date:
- January 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 264
- Dimensions:
- 9.22x6.42x1.02 in. 1.08 lbs.
