FROM THE PUBLISHER
Whether it's a bad relationship, a dead-end career, or a harmful habit, Dr. McGraw's 10 Life Laws will empower you to take responsibility for your own actions and break free from self-destructive patterns. Drawing upon more than fifteen years of experience, Dr. McGraw explores each of the 10 Life Laws necessary to succeed:
- Life Law #1: You either get it, or you don't.
Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.
- Life Law #2: You create your own experience.
Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life.
- Life Law #3: People do what works.
Strategy: Identify payoffs that drive your's and others' behaviors.
- Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.
Strategy: Get real with yourself about your life and everybody in it.
- Life Law #5: Life rewards action.
Strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger.
- Life Law #6: There is no reality; only perception.
Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world.
- Life Law #7: Life is managed; it is not cured.
Strategy: Learn to take charge of your life.
- Life Law #8: We teach people how to treat us.
Strategy: Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you.
- Life Law #9: There is power in forgiveness.
Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are
doing to you.
- Life Law #10: You have to name it before you can claim it.
Strategy: Get clear about what you want and take your turn.
Oprah credits trial consultant and behavioral scientist Phillip McGraw with helping her win the Amarillo beef trial. His secret? Helping people take responsibility for their own life path through understanding the reality of why people behave the way they do. In his new book, Life Strategies, McGraw pinpoints the ten Life Laws — from "Life rewards action" to "People do what works" — that can help us pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, banish self-pity, and finally achieve success and fulfillment in business, in love, and in life.
In the process of working on my marriage with Daniel Robuck, it became apparent that I had several issues which needed addressing individually.
You may think you know yourself well, but working with Daniel Robuck using Life Strategies showed me that I had unrecognized traits and misconceptions about the events of my past life that had a major influence on my current attitudes and behaviors. This kind of guided introspection is invaluable in getting to know the true self.
The kind of personal knowledge and growth I experienced would be difficult to achieve without the professional know-how of Daniel Robuck skillfully using the Life Strategies methodology.
-- Found My True Self
