Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control

Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us And How to Let It Go
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What Would Your Life Be Like If You Simply Let Go of Control?
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At work, they oversee every detail of every project and expect nothing less than perfection from their coworkers.
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At home, they obsess over finding the "right" person.Â Then, they criticize their lover or spouse for doingeverything wrong.
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As parents, they practice zero tolerance for their children's preferred studypractices, choice of friends, dress choices, and differing life views.
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Sound familiar?Â Everyone knows the type:micromanagers, nitpickers, and domestic despots.Â Â Yet, most people fail to recognize the signs of acompulsion to control in themselves--or realize the toll of their behavior ontheir career, their family, their friendships, and their own happiness.
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In Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us and How to Let It Go (Ebb and Flow Press, 2011) Daniel Miller pinpoints the dangersof excessive control.Â Â What'smore, he shows those who feel the pressure to control how to break free andreap unexpected gifts.
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Sharing his journey of transformation and personal recovery, Miller reveals what happened when he finallydecided to "surrender": his blinders fell away, new opportunities emerged, and he experienced unprecedented, profound inner peace.
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Drawing on psychological insights, spiritual wisdom, and the real-life stories of acknowledged "control freaks," Losing Control, Finding SerenityÂ guides readers through an honest inventory of their control patterns--whetherprodding, cajoling, withdrawing, playing the martyr, or intimidating--down tothe roots.Â As most controllerswill discover, their compulsion to control is provoked by deep-seated fear, anxieties,and insecurities, then aggravated by anger and resentments.
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Filled with enlightening true stories, Losing Control, Finding Serenity
gives readers the knowledge, the courage, the strategies, and the "decontrol" tools to:
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*Identify and overcome the control triggers of fear, anger, and resentment.
*Reduce co-dependency
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*Become a less domineering parent, build a family democracy, and reduce the struggleswith children.
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*Find and keep the right person by accepting who he or she is rather than trying tochange their romantic partner.
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*Free your creative flow and process.
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*Delegate to and trust coworkers to reap increases in productivity, efficiency, and jobsatisfaction--and reduce conflict and dissension.
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*Learn to be patient and calmly accept "what is," even when adversity strikes, to enjoy a more fulfilling and serene life.Â
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In a chaotic, unpredictable world that's frequently beyond anyone's control, Losing Control, Finding Serenity offers welcome encouragement and validationfor going with the flow of life as it is: an ongoing, every changing mystery.
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Find out how losing control really means gaining control.
FREE! Download preview chapter of Danny's upcoming book, The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People and Things as They Are at danielamiller.com
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Country USA
Brand Ebb and Flow Press
Manufacturer Ebb and Flow Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 17918
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780982893005
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Ebb and Flow Press
Manufacturer	Ebb and Flow Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	17918
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780982893005
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us And How to Let It Go

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