Language and the Pursuit of Happiness: A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships & Your Results

by Chalmers Brothers

What if one of the most powerful avenues to your achieving a balance of peacefulness and productivity - defined here as happiness - at home and at work, is so close that you may have missed it? What... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974948705
• ISBN13: 9780974948706
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: New Possibilities Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Professionally and personally...User Friendly!

Chalmers intergrates life changing concepts that can be applied to any situation you are faced with. Some difficult concepts are made easy for individuals to immediately bring into their lives and workplace. I personally have followed his format and found it to be superior. He not only writes a good book, but the material is easily applied and the outcome gets delivered in the ways it says it will. I have and will continue sharing this book with others.

A must read for executives and entrepreneurs

Like Napoleon Hills book, Think and Grow Rich, Chalmers Brothers book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness, gets to the point in practical, understandable language. Both books illuminate the key role played by the stories we tell ourselves in our internal dialogue. Brother's provides not only the why, but the how to greatly increase your business, professional and personal relationship skills. Working for many years with many CEOs and entrepreneurs has taught me that, as a group, these people are busy, creative, focused doers. At the end of the day, having invested the time to read a book, they insist a practical return on their investment. Language and the Pursuit of Happiness provides a great return on your investment of time and is a must read for executives and entrepreneurs who know they need every good tool they can acquire to create the outstandingly successful life they aspire to. I never recommend a book to my clients that doesn't meet my own return on investment needs, Chalmers Brothers Language and the Pursuit of Happiness is one of the select few books that I read and reread. - Dr. Sparks Lunney, President, LifeCoachUSA, Inc. www.lifecoachusa.com

The basics of a more powerful way to be in today's world

Chalmers has done a fantastic job of articulating a whole new paradigm for how we can "be" in today's world in order to be more peaceful and effective in our work and personal lives. I'm partial, since I'm his former business partner, but I think he has done an excellent job in capturing the concepts we taught thousands of people in our work together for 3 - 1/2 years. The ontological framework is highly accessible to the layman as it's incredibly simple, yet profoundly powerful. Chalmers' engaging personal style, and optimism, shines through in his writing with his humor and personal stories. A must read, as far as I'm concerned, if you're fed up with the powerless, victim-oriented, external-focused way in which many people are going through life today.

Outstanding Book for Personal and Professional Development

This book represents the cutting edge in personal and professional development. Human beings create through language, both in their speaking and listening. This book breaks through some of the destructive and manipulative myths contained technique-laden communications programs. Combine this book with Robert Hargrove's Masterful Coaching and Your Coach in a Book, as well as the The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss and you've got the best approach for creating a fulfilling life. I cannot recommend this book too highly!

READ THIS FIRST!!!

If I could go back in time to before any of the courses, seminars, workshops, and hard knocks that prepared me as a manager and part of an organization I would read this book first! It provides a much needed context into which all the more technical matters of human interaction fit. Chalmers Brothers explains how language is so much more than a means of communication. Through it we define our limits and potential. Personal happiness and success in any area depend on language and the internal and external conversations we choose. His conversational, often humorous southern writing style presents powerful concepts in a friendly, usable way.