In his trademark "down-home," tell-it-like-it-is style, Dr. Phil McGraw presents an enlightening and entertaining lecture on how to "get real"-in relationships and in life.
Dr. Phil explains how to live by design, as opposed to living reactively. He illustrates how easy it is to become lazy in life and just settle for situations that, deep-down, make you unhappy. He urges you to "step out of the comfort zone," and to evaluate everything in your life based on whether it's working or not.
Readers of Dr. Phil's bestsellers, Relationship Rescue and Life Strategies, will recognize the "Laws of Life". He also includes "The Three Truths," which are new concepts not available in his books. These truths offer a fascinating window into why and how people set up the problems they encounter in life, and how you can free yourself from old habits and patterns.
Dr. Phil tackles the first Law of Life-"you either get it or you don't"-as a way to show how choices made in your behavior lead to particular consequences. Dr. Phil hilariously recalls how he came upon this extremely important lesson when he was just 16 years old . . . and how time and time again, this law has proven itself to him.
Dr. Phil takes audience questions and effectively drives home the point that your relationship with yourself should be the most important one in your life.
Each one of us is either contributing to or contaminating our partnerships all the time. Phil shares his "personal relationship values," which are tips for helping you make your relationships as positive and mutually fulfilling as they can be.
Phil points out that intimacy has very little to do with physical acts-it's based on making your own needs known, risking being vulnerable, and working to discover and meet the needs of your partner. Phil says you can "behave your way to success."
Dr. Phil's fans seem to like having someone with absolute confidence tell them who's responsible for their problems--they are. In the studio recordings of his previous books, what you hear is the sheer intelligence of his ideas. He's a fabulously lucid writer whose lexicon of advice on living is as good as it gets. In this live seminar recording, he promises to pick up where the two books left off, and he does break out some new ideas here and there. But with an audience, his ideas have more of a strong-arm quality, and too much time is spent hitting individual audience members over the head with them. Entertaining and powerful, yes, but this will probably appeal to a narrower range of sensibilities than the studio readings. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
Dr. Phil McGraw is a life strategist and the bestselling author of Self Matters- 074322423X, Life Strategies- 0786884592, and Relationship Rescue- 0786866314."Tuesdays with Dr. Phil" on Oprah has made him a household name to millions of viewers. He is the resident expert on human behavior for the The Oprah Winfrey Show, a #1 New York Times best-selling author and co-founder of Courtroom Sciences, Inc., the world's leading litigation consulting firm. Drawing on 25 years experience in psychology and human functioning, Dr. Phil deals with real issues that arise in the real world with his signature "tell it like it is" style. In concert with his books and television work, Dr. Phil provides strategic guidance for millions of Americans through his monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine. He is also one of the world's most sought after public speakers. As a professional psychologist, he has published numerous scholarly articles and has practiced in the fields of clinical psychology and behavioral medicine. McGraw lives with his family in Dallas, Texas.
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