Comments on: The Power of Who by Bob Beaudine http://www.lettersonpages.com/2009/03/the-power-of-who-by-bob-beaudine/ The Best Non-Fiction Book Reviews...Ever Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:46:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Rose City Reader http://www.lettersonpages.com/2009/03/the-power-of-who-by-bob-beaudine/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Rose City Reader Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:19:42 +0000 http://www.lettersonpages.com/?p=464#comment-535 The bad economy must have everyone looking for ways to make things better -- I just read about affirmations too, in a book called Water the Bamboo. Maybe the appeal of the affirmations is that you can feel like you are doing something to reach a goal, even if you have no real plan in place. I know the idea appealed to me a lot. I even posted the affirmations I came up with, although they might be a little tongue-in-cheek. http://rosecityreader.blogspot.com/2009/03/bamboo-and-barcelona.html As for Beaudine's theory, my reaction is, NO DUH. The people who know you and like you are more likely to help you then some extenuated, six-degrees-of-separation acquaintance? You don't say! The bad economy must have everyone looking for ways to make things better — I just read about affirmations too, in a book called Water the Bamboo.

Maybe the appeal of the affirmations is that you can feel like you are doing something to reach a goal, even if you have no real plan in place. I know the idea appealed to me a lot. I even posted the affirmations I came up with, although they might be a little tongue-in-cheek.

http://rosecityreader.blogspot.com/2009/03/bamboo-and-barcelona.html

As for Beaudine’s theory, my reaction is, NO DUH. The people who know you and like you are more likely to help you then some extenuated, six-degrees-of-separation acquaintance? You don’t say!

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