Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life

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Simon and Schuster, 2003 - 276 pages
Naomi Judd, affectionately known as the Star Next Door, is the mother of two talented daughters and an icon of the American heartland, but readers of her bestselling memoir, "Love Can Build a Bridge," know that she's also a survivor. Her admirers always ask: How did a woman who missed her high school graduation to deliver her first child, who endured domestic abuse, lived on welfare, and overcame a life-threatening illness, find the inner strength to persevere? As Naomi puts it, "a dead end is just a good place to turn around." Now in "Naomi's Breakthrough Guide" she shares with readers the hard-won wisdom that helped her turn potential breakdowns into life-altering breakthroughs.

Awareness and responsibility are the foundations of Naomi's approach to personal transformation. As she'll tell you, change is the true nature of the universe, but it is how we choose to respond to change that determines whether or not we lead healthy, happy lives. In these pages Naomi outlines the twenty most important life choices that will help us become aware of the control we have over our lives and achieve life's greatest reward: peace of mind.

Informed by both personal experience and the latest mind/body research, Naomi's principles will help anyone looking to improve relationships, family life, career, health, or other areas of life. Naomi shows how to focus on your ultimate goal, know forgiveness, trust your intuition, embrace risk, free your body and mind from worry, and resign as the General Manager of the Universe. In her typically down-to-earth, practical style, Naomi reminds us that it's not until we decide to take responsibility for our own lives that we, like pebbles that make ripplesas they hit the water, can affect the lives of others.

Blending candid personal stories and practical exercises with anecdotes about well-known friends and family, "Naomi's Breakthrough Guide" will act as an essential companion and mentor for all those seeking to revolutionize their lives.

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Contents

Peace of Mind Is the Goal
1
Change Your Mind Change Your World
13
Life Is a Series of MultipleChoice Questions
21
You Can Reverse Any Curse
35
You Can Be Anything You Want but First You Have to Understand Whats Standing in Your Way
49
Become a Detective and Investigate Your Past
67
Its All Relative
79
Know Forgiveness Know Peace No Forgiveness No Peace
89
You Become Whatever You Think About All Day
151
Your Mind Is in Every Cell of Your Body
167
Worry and Fear Are Dispensable Parasites on Your Brain
183
Resign as General Manager of the Universe
197
Find a New Stronger Life Urge
207
You and I May Not Have It All Together But Together We Can Have It All
219
Develop the Eight Characteristics of a Survivor Personality
231
Love Heals the Giver as Well as the Receiver
251

Your Strengths and Passions Are the Essence of Your Happiness
99
Intuition Is Your Secret Guidance System
111
Risk Allows You to Become
123
Youve Got to Love That Person in the Mirror
137
Parting Thoughts
261
Acknowledgments
265
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Laura Morton is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Writer and Producer. She has written over thirty books with a range of celebrities including, Danica Patrick, Criss Angel, Usher, Joan Lunden, Marilu Henner, Jerry Springer, Susan Lucci and Al Roker.

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