Glossary on Wisdom:

wis·dom: the quality or state of being wise
Finding Wisdom in the age of reason…

Finding Wisdom from others…

Learning From Those Who Are Wise
By Merriam Fields Bleyl, Ph.D.
Where to buy FindingWisdomBook.com
Amazon.com

Finding Wisdom: Learning From Those Who Are Wise looks at wisdom through the lives of nineteen wise individuals from five distinct cultures—Navajo, Japanese, Kenyan, Saami, and Western European. The philosophies of these men and women unfold through their life stories. Traveling the world to meet these extraordinary men and women, the author discovered what the wise have in common, regardless of their cultures.

All of us can benefit from those individuals who generate wise thoughts and actions. Through learning about “wise ones” who live among us, readers will find guidance for navigating through difficult times in their own lives and will learn to recognize the universal attributes of wisdom.

Finding Wisdom explores wisdom as an attribute that men and women can and do attain. The book also addresses the questions:

What is wisdom?
Who is wise?
What makes them so?
How does one seek wisdom?
Can wisdom be taught?
What difference can wisdom make in contemporary society?

Glossary on Inspiration:

Codependent No More

About the Author

Beattie was a struggling single parent of two children and freelance author and journalist cranking out stories for a small-town daily newspaper in 1986 when she came up with a book idea. She wanted to write a book about what happens to people when they love someone who is addicted to alcohol and other drugs.”There were many books out there about how to help an addict or alcoholic. Nobody was talking about how an addict impacts the lives of the people around him or her, and how crazy you can become when you love someone who is addicted,” Beattie said. “Even though I was sober, I didn’t know how crazy I could get until it happened to me.” Twenty publishers turned down Beattie’s book proposal. “It’s a good idea, but we don’t think there’s that many codependents out there,” they wrote back.Hazelden, however, a treatment center and recovery publisher based in Minnesota, saw a need for the book. The publisher understood how families of alcoholics suffer and believed Beattie’s book idea would help people. Beattie marched to the welfare department, asked for enough financial help to make it through the three months it would take her to write the book, then locked herself in a basement office and cranked out Codependent No More. Codependent No More has now sold 3.5 million copies. Beattie has since written nine more books, five for major publishing houses on the east and west coasts. She relocated from Minnesota to California, and she has long-since paid back the welfare department. Beattie has appeared in the pages of Newsweek and People and has been a regular guest on Geraldo and Oprah. Playing It By Heart is Beattie’s first original book for Hazelden since 1990; the book is a return to her recovery roots that first brought her national recognition.

Happiness Now!

Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST

About the Author

Crush It

The social media revolution has changed the way we live our lives and conduct our business. Learn how Crush It will give you the tools to take advantage and WIN.

“If you want an example or a lesson in personal branding and in using all the tools you’ve got, Gary is the poster child.”

“Charging ahead into the information-age and turning early social-media to his advantage, he has not only become one of the most recognizable wine celebrities in the US, but a key-note motivational speaker for small businesses and corporations alike.”

Elizabeth Gilbert:

Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love

There are books that draw you in and don’t let you go until you’ve finished them. Then there are book that grab you through the stomach like a hook and drag you places that you would prefer not to go. These books are rare – I stumble upon one only every few years. They are books that make me examine myself, my life, my past. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert was both for me. I’m far from the first person to write about it. But I have this theory that books that are going to make me think make their way to me when I’m ready to listen to them.

My own personal experience with Eat, Pray, Love was about love and relationships and learning to trust in yourself again. That you can move past the addiction and find your way to a real love. That you can make yourself available and vulnerable without being that woman skinny and shaking in the corner looking for a hit. This book is something that I will carry with me.

I firmly believe I picked up this book at the very moment in my life that I needed its message and was just open enough to it receive it. Her inspiring words are changing my life.
Maria at Back in Skinny Jeans sees the book as much as it was a physical journey.

Some critics may argue the book is a self-absorbed memoir. I’ll argue so what? We all have a story to tell and if yours enriches mine, then I welcome your words with open arms. Gilbert practices what she preaches: any self-improvement practice that makes her a better person will affect others all the more. Healing, prosperity and love on the individual level also has a family, community domino effect. I couldn’t agree more. Maria wasn’t the only one to mention the self-absorbed notion (aren’t memoirs supposed to be self-aborbed?). Thoughts of Joy.

A few times throughout the book, I wanted her to stop being so self-absorbed, but when that happened I would say to myself, “Hey, it’s HER memoir. I think that’s allowed.”

Reading her story is like sitting down for coffee and having a heart-to-heart with your best girlfriend, and getting in both a good laugh and a good cry. Her book makes me want to learn the art of meditation. And travel. But mostly, it makes me want to try and be a better person. And read more books that nourish me…like this one.Nourishing yourself…I think that pretty well sums up what the author sought out to do. She nourished herself physically in Italy, spiritually in India and emotionally in Indonesia. And she nourished readers in their own homes.

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