Some books, filled with quotations, are designed to inspire. Others, filled with
thought-provoking questions, are designed to enliven. Give It Some Thought
couples these two favorite gift-book formats into one engaging package.
With the goal of merging introspection with entertainment, authors Bret
Nicholaus and Paul Lowrie combine 100 of their favorite quotations with their
unique style of interactive questions. Each quote is paired with three questions
that encourage readers to apply the quote’s wisdom to their lives.
Every day at our Foundation's
Blog we provide a special GOLDEN Thought, our belief that if you THINK
better, you will FEEL better? (Learn more about this REBT life
adjusting attitude by
clicking here.) That is why we are so in love with this positive
self-help book.
Here are
some of the book's quotes and then questions to ponder:
"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way
you take it." — Ellen Glasgow
- Are you generally an optimist or a pessimist?
- What do you think contributes most to your particular
disposition?
- If you were to give yourself an attitude adjustment, what
would be the first thing you would want to change?
"I make myself rich by making my wants few." — Henry
David Thoreau
- In what ways do people actually become "rich" by making
their wants few?
- Have you ever given something up and found, as a result,
that you felt liberated or freer than before?
- How do you personally differentiate between wants and needs?
Do you consider some things as needs that others would consider
wants?
- Be honest: On a scale of one to ten, where one is
unimportant and ten very important, how important is it that you
acquire more and more things as you continue through life?
- In what ways do you feel "richer" than other people you
know?
- How much easier and simpler would your life be if you were
willing to part with some of your current "wants"?
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Bret Nicholaus and Paul Lowrie are the best-selling authors of
The Conversation Piece: Creative Questions to Tickle the Mind. The
authors of twelve books, they have nearly half a million books in print, and are
full-time writers and book developers. Believing the best way to reach the most
people with their books is to go out and make friends with their readers, the
authors have, between them, visited more than 500 bookstores in the last four
years. Nicholaus lives in Chicago and Lowrie lives in South Dakota.
