Creating Extraordinary Joy: A Guide to Authenticity, Connection, and Self-Transformation
January 30th, 2010 by admin | Filed under self improvement.
For 20 years, Chris Alexander has worked with business professionals and others, studying their interpersonal connection. He’s found that emotional and spiritual connection is just as important as intellectual and physical connection. In this book, Alexander explains how to connect with others at all four levels, thereby empowering people to create the ultimate connection: love. In Creating Extraordinary Joy, Alexander takes readers on a journey of discovery. His ten Synergy Life Mastery Steps help readers discover who they are, where they are in life, and what they value highly, ultimately uncovering their authentic selves and true purpose.
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As a kid, I dreamed about one day finding Aladdin’s lamp and presenting the Genie with the perfect wish…something that wouldn’t later backfire on me in some unexpected way. Finally, I hit upon the one truly foolproof wish - JOY! What could be simpler? So, to that extent at least, I was already on my way. I knew WHERE I wanted to be. My only question was HOW? Chris Alexander provided a clear, step-by-step process describing exactly how to not only get there but also how to stay there…connected to that newfound sense of joy.
CREATING EXTRAORDINARY JOY moves the reader towards the synergy found in creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The different steps along the way, the various excerises and the many people you meet through a sharing of their individual stories combine to form a kind of road map. The journey revisits family and friends, goals and passions, guilts and fears. The destination is finally reached when you realize you’re back where you started. The Genie is not out there…he’s inside you…waiting to be freed.
An intelligent and insightful work, Chris Alexander has something for everyone at every point along their personal path to creating extraordinary joy.
If you’ve ever wanted to just read a well written book with simple, practical advise on how to improve your life - this is it. Chris Alexander is an excellent writer who manages to get to the heart of a matter and make sense. Much emphasis is placed on a person’s synergy and if that sounds too mystical to you - it’s not. It’s simply about the way one chooses to think and act everyday. Practical methods that you can use everyday will soon have you realize that much of the stress we put ourselves through is wasteful and unnecessary. This is a fast read and one that seems almost too simple and too good to be true. Well, I can only suggest reading it, but I found it to be very practical.
This is a bit of an unorthodox review, because I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet. But here is why I still feel qualified to comment: I got a copy of this book HOT off the press, right after it was released. I was staying at my parents for the holidays at the time so I took it home and showed it to my mom, (72) expressing how much I was looking forward to reading it. Well…she started reading it right there on the spot, ohing and awing and taking notes and I didn’t have the heart to take it away from her. I decided to be patient and read it after she was done. What I didn’t anticipate was being able to see the visible results of JOY that were created in her as she read it. Every morning during my visit as we shared a cup of coffee she raved about Chris’s book with such exuberance, enthusiasm and truly, extraordinary joy, that I feel compelled to spread the word. I would have paid 100x more than the price of the book to be able to enjoy my mom’s elation as she told me about the what she learned, discovered and was reminded of-smiling all the while. I got the vicarious experience of Creating Extraordinary Joy and will return to write a review when I get the book back and have a first hand experience with it.
Thank you Chris…for allowing me to give the gift of joy to my mom.