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Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
by Joel Osteen
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Synopses & Reviews Is this as good as it gets? Or can you enjoy more of what life has to offer?Not only can you live happily every day, bestselling author Joel Osteen suggestsyou must discover the potential withinyourself and learn how to use it to live better,and to help others better themselves as well. God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel! You have everything you need to fulfill your God-given destiny, and there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you discover how to be a better you! In Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your LifeEvery Day, Joel Osteen, America's best-known pastor, will inspire and motivate you to live with more joy, hope, and peace — truly a life of victory! Joel will help you look deep inside yourself to become a better spouse and parent, a better boss or employee, a better community leader, a better friend — in short, a better person! Joel Osteen reveals seven simple yet profound principles that when taken to heart will help you become all that God has created you to be. In a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, Osteen explains key biblical values; the text is laced with personal testimonies that will enlighten and uplift you. Each of the seven keys has its own section, complete with a set of practical action points. Thus Become a Better You will guide you in the process of uncovering your hidden resources. Within these pages, Joel Osteen addresses topics such as building your confidence, developing betterrelationships, finding peace within, and staying passionate about life. Become a Better You will encourage you to reach your unique God-given potential, and will help you to enjoy every day of your life, despite your circumstances. As you incorporate Joel's easy-to-grasp principles into your life, you will be pleasantly surprised at how much more God has in store for you, and how quickly you become a better you! Review: "Megachurch pastor and bestselling author Osteen follows up Your Best Life Now with this disappointingly unoriginal Christian self-help book. The seven subtitular steps to improvement include instructions to develop good habits, better relationships and an inner life. Osteen balances mind-over-matter pep talks with claims that God wants to bless faithful people with successes. The future is always promising, because 'God never performs His greatest feats in your yesterdays.' At the same time, in order to receive God's blessing, one must back up prayers with action, obey, maintain a positive attitude toward life and 'do the right thing with the right motives.' Some of Osteen's advice is sound; for example, he suggests that if you are forgiving and kind to colleagues and friends, they'll cut you slack when you have crabby days. Other suggestions — like writing down a big goal and posting it on your mirror or desk — are unremarkable. Laced throughout are anodyne first-person vignettes; Osteen struggled with frustration when his favorite restaurant announced a 45-minute wait. The hurried Osteen went to a nearby burger joint, only to have a brief encounter that changed another customer's life. Voil — God turned Osteen's disappointment into blessing! Though this book is destined for strong sales, it offers nothing innovative." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review: "The theological heft of popular and telegenic Texas preacher Joel Osteen is a matter of debate. But this much is indisputable: His new book, 'Become a Better You,' is a study in how to publish a best-seller. The book, the second by the pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, debuted at No. 1 on major best-seller lists. In a confidential deal with Free Press reported to be worth as ..." Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) much as $13 million, Osteen delivered not only a manuscript but also a guaranteed audience, what publishing people these days call a 'platform.' The nondenominational church he pastors is America's largest congregation; Outreach magazine's 2007 list of megachurches pegs its size at 45,000. Broadcasts of Osteen's weekly services are shown on seven networks in the United States and reach more than 100 countries. His church also has e-mail lists of 750,000 people, and his first book, 'Your Best Life Now,' has sold nearly 5 million copies since 2004. To make ready for 'Become a Better You,' chain bookstores began taking advance orders from customers two months prior to publication. Chances are good that you can also find a copy at your grocery store or while shopping for toys and electronics at your favorite big-box retailer. Advance orders justified a first printing of 3 million copies. For comparison, Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, 'My Life,' and Stephen King's new novel, 'Duma Key,' had first printings half as large. Those are great expectations. So what does the book offer? Its message is hardly new. The seven keys are self-help standbys dressed in nondenominational Christian clothing: Be positive, be passionate, form good habits and relationships, don't get stuck, stay calm, look inside. It's big on God and God's love. ('Tell yourself every day: "I am the apple of God's eye. I'm his most prized possession. I am crowned with glory and honor. I'm valuable. I'm attractive."') But it's much less big on Jesus, a sore point with some Christian critics of Osteen's style. They want more talk of sin and salvation and the uncompromising teaching that Jesus is the truth, the life and the only way to heaven. Osteen's not that kind of preacher, though. He says he has made a deliberate choice to keep his message simple and encouraging. What he sees as pastoral, his critics see as pandering. The pejorative label most often thrown at him is 'Christianity lite,' and it is true that his core message of self-acceptance seems, at first glance, to be more psychological than theological. But the book also has a strong scriptural flavor, with frequent references to biblical figures and 66 footnoted citations from the Bible. And Osteen insists that self-acceptance flows from God's acceptance of humans, warts (or sins) included. So maybe it is simple but solid theology, after all. If Osteen's message is familiar, the Christian self-help genre is even more so. This has been the decade of it. Bruce Wilkinson's 'The Prayer of Jabez,' based on an obscure biblical verse, was on Publishers Weekly best-selling lists for 44 weeks in 2001; a guide to 'increasing one's territory,' interpreted as a promise of prosperity, it blazed a trail out of the Christian bookstore ghetto that has become a well-traveled road. Beginning in 2003, 'The Purpose-Driven Life,' by California pastor Rick Warren, topped best-selling lists for three years. Warren maintained emphatically that it was not a self-help book. But its goal of life improvement, and advice for doing so, made it walk and talk like a self-help duck. Its chief rival for the top-selling rank in 2005, the last year of its unprecedented sales dominance? Osteen's 'Your Best Life Now.' The pervasiveness of Christian self-help is relatively new, but it has both recent and distant antecedents in U.S. religious history. Presbyterian minister Charlie Shedd's Christian diet book 'The Weight Is in Your Head' remained on best-seller lists for 23 months after its 1972 publication. The 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' series of inspirational books now numbers over 100 titles, with more than 100 million copies in print. Princeton religion historian Leigh Eric Schmidt, who charts the commingling of self-seeking and spiritual seeking in 'Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah,' contends that today's spiritually oriented self-help literature is rooted in the American religious tradition that emphasizes individual search and introspection. That tradition includes such figures as Max Ehrmann, who in 1927 composed 'Desiderata,' a prayer that has lasted long enough to make e-mail rounds. 'Be gentle with yourself,' it urges. 'You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and stars.' Ehrmann echoes in Osteen. Not just in Osteen, of course: Similar inspiration can be found at the greeting card store as well as the church, temple, mosque and bookstore. But with a basic grounding in scripture and a lot of TV know-how (acquired over 17 years of producing the televised sermons of his father, John Osteen), a preacher's kid who inherited a congregation now holds the keys to America's self-help impulse. Marcia Z. Nelson is the author of 'The Gospel According to Oprah.'" Reviewed by Marcia Z. Nelson, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
(hide most of this review)Synopsis: Osteen, pastor to 60,000 in Houston and bestselling author of "Your Best Life Now," returns with his latest work that weaves in biblical lessons and personal stories that both educate and enlighten, inspiring readers to look within themselves for their authentic soul. Synopsis: Incorporating biblical lessons with personal stories, the bestselling author of "Your Best Life Now" offers seven action steps to help readers discover the better things they were born for: their individual purpose and destiny. Synopsis: Joel Osteen is America's pastor. With his weekly televised services and his travels throughout the country, no one has more influence in spiritual matters than Pastor Osteen. His book, Your Best Life Now, has sold over 3 million copies and his ministry continues to grow. His four weekend services in Houston bring 40-60,000 people weekly and his show is watched by millions around the world. Your Best Life Now offered readers guidance for living a good life. In Become a Better You, he'll guide readers to look within themselves for their authentic soul. This new book will help readers conduct an examination within so they can uncover the core of who they really are. Beatific and inspiring on the page as he is in person, Pastor Osteen weaves in Biblical lessons and personal stories that both educate and enlighten.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780743296885
- Subtitle:
- 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
- Author:
- Osteen, Joel
- Publisher:
- Free Press
- Subject:
- Christian Life
- Subject:
- Inspirational
- Subject:
- Christianity
- Subject:
- Motivational & Inspirational
- Subject:
- General Religion
- Subject:
- Christian Life - General
- Subject:
- Christian Life - Inspirational - Protestant Self Help
- Edition Description:
- Free Press Hard
- Publication Date:
- October 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 379
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 in
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