Life Is An Attitude
Dottie Billington, Ph.D. (Guest reviewer - Virginia Sink)
2001 Lowell Leigh Books, Sammamish WA
ISBN: 0967183707 Amazon's price is: $12.95
How to Grow Forever Better.
Guest Reviewer Virginia Sink writes:
If you want to feel better about yourself & life in general, get a copy of Life is an Attitude by Dottie Billington, Ph.D. & read it through. Read it through several times. It's an easy read, & an interesting one!
& I guarantee your life will change for the better. If you follow the instructions in this book, it will affect you positively, whether you are as young as springtime or old as Methuselah.
In an introduction, the author tells how she came to write the book. In her mid-life, with her children almost reared, she went back to work. But she puzzled at how people reacted to life & its problems, & why some reacted differently to problems & thrived, while for others life's problems overcame them. Finally, she enrolled in graduate school to study adult development. She earned her masters degree in this relatively new field of psychology, then began work on a Ph.D.
For seven years she studied, & this book is the result of what she learned. The catalyst for it was when a dynamic, attractive 37-year-old friend admitted she was afraid of the future; afraid she would grow narrow & bitter as she grew older. Dottie decided this book was needed.
The instructions are easy to follow on this path to growing better in one's life. The author encourages the reader to keep a notebook or journal & keep notes on your progress. In her first suggestion she says, “Write a detailed description of the kind of person you would like to be 10 years from now.”
Chapter headings are titillating -- Your Time is Now; Discover Your Best Self; Positive is Better; Your Winning Attitude; Habits of Growing Adults; Health is Wealth; The Process of Growing; The Power of Communicating Well; Treat Feedback as a Precious Gift; Friends and Lovers; How Do You Know If You're Growing? Scattered throughout the book are helpful & wise quotations from many sources.
You'll find that reading this little book & applying its suggestions to your own life will make all the difference in the world to you. You'll be more alive, happier & more aware of good things that abound around us. & isn't that what we all need in order to live successfully & happily?
Life is an Attitude is a 2001 National Mature Media Awards Gold Award Winner.
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