Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day by Joel Osteen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
Book Review: Become a better you
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best positive books I have read and I have read a lot. If you are not into smiling faces, look past that. This guy is for real, and I don't care for tv evangelists. Don't throw out the baby with the water. You will be inspired to change your life.Book Review: Osteen useful--with limitations
Summary: 4 Stars
We're using the book to guide our discussions on the topic in our adult Sunday School class. I find it interesting and helpful. However, as several of our members pointed out, they feel like Joel is saying the same thing over and over - a lot of repetition that gets boring. It is taking a lot longer to go through than I had anticipated.
Book Review: Its just good psychology.
Summary: 3 Stars
Respect to Osteen for preaching something practical: cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. Optimism makes people happy, of course. Avoiding self defeating and discouraging thinking makes people happy. Its basic. And what's wrong with it, really? He leaves out most of the metaphysical and theological mumbo jumbo and gets to the meat: forgiveness, encouragement, and optimism. All things that actually make you feel happier and increase your mental health. Just don't cross the line into denial or magical thinking. Of course he's making out like a bandit regurgitating rational emotive therapy and Shakti Gawain, but again, at least its stuff that's actually helpful. Book Review: Don't preach at me
Summary: 1 Stars
This type of self-help book turns me off. I don't wish to be "preached" to or sermonized at and I don't like televangelists which is exactly what I thought of the minute he started speaking. I don't like books that lean heavily towards pushing the religion of their view points or expect me to believe in their God. I have my own beliefs and ways I do that.
The author is a pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston Texas. His sermonizing immediately had me turning a deaf ear to what he was saying. I believe you can be A Better You but not in the way he preached to do it.
If you need to find a belief system, this book will give you one way to do that. If you have your own, then you will find this book as irritating as I did.
Book Review: Joel Osteen is the man
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched Joel's weekly TV broadcast and decided to get his new book on cd. This is a 5 cd set and its about 6 hours long. I listened to 1 cd a day. Joel's words are very inspirational and you walk away with a lot from each cd. Even long after you finished listening to the cd set, his words of hope echo in your mind as you go about your everyday life. Joel Osteen is one of the good influences in my life and he can be a good influence in your life as well.