Review by Sukey Howard
Integrative medicine maven Dr. Andrew Weil offers "8 Weeks to Optimum Health," a program aimed at keeping your body's healing system in top-notch working order with advice on diet, and physical and mental exercise.
Don't have eight weeks? Here's a quick fix, a fast fast from Pamela Serure who claims that "The Three Day Energy Fast" will detoxify your body, mind and spirit, purging not only the toxins and chemicals, but also negative ideas and destructive behavior patterns. Serure includes instruction and guidance for a 72-hour juice fast, meditation, breathing and journal writing.
From super-selling author Stephen R. Covey, whose "7 Habits" have affected millions, comes "First Things First Everyday," a distillation of his highly effective and popular "First Things First." Covey, with A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca A. Merrill, helps you understand what's most important in your demanding, over-scheduled life, where you're headed and shows you how this knowledge can lead to deeper relationships, inner peace and confidence.
In "How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together," Susan Page delves into low-stress, solo strategies for improving a dual relationship, whether it's on the rocks or just a little rocky. Departing from the traditional, Page proposes that working alone on a relationship gives you enormous leeway, that by taking individual action you can get through frustrations, overcome resentment, move beyond blame, recapture lost intimacy and ultimately create the harmony that a deep and lasting partnership must have.
John Marks Templeton, mega-successful investor, financier and philanthropist, believes that his attainments are integrally connected to his moral convictions. Here, in "The Templeton Plan: 21 Steps to Personal Success and Real Happiness," he shares those convictions. With Templeton's principles, his "laws of life" -- truthfulness, perseverance, thrift, enthusiasm, humility and altruism -- you can't go very wrong and you could go very right, redirecting your attitudes and individual development toward new heights of positive achievement, personally and professionally.
Few of us are free from financial anxieties, but perhaps we could be. Suze Orman's "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" takes an innovative look at managing money in the broadest sense -- the nitty-gritty, practicalities in specific, concrete terms, the psychological power money has in our lives and the rarely discussed spiritual side of money. Orman urges us to get control of our attitudes about money, get beyond the anxieties and stop worrying. Maybe, maybe, maybe!
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Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's "Sunday Morning."
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