After reading Chandler’s 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back, you will be making your own motivational speeches to yourself in your inner monologue. In 17 concrete examples of insightful and well-informed practical psychology, it answers the question, what to do when thrown off balance by circumstances? The answer is, "Recover your balance." When you are thrown off balance, the circumstances contol what happens. Minimize the effects, and regain control of the situation, starting from something you always have — control of yourself.

As accessibly as a counselor or therapist might speak to a client or patient, Chandler explains to anyone, especially those caught up in hectic affairs of business or family, "left without a paddle" so to speak, a method of coping. More than that, it gives clues on how to apply the same method to problems everyone faces, and thereby how to be of service to humanity.

Citing sources of wisdom and insight from Aristotle to The Fugs, this book aims to transform your life by removing accepted limits, opening paths to greater success.

What it owes to Dale Carnegie’s How To Stop Worrying And Start Living and Norman Vincent Peale’s Power of Positive Thinking may be more a matter of gaining an established platform and being given speaking dates than of content, because the message is simply true insight into human nature.

Ronald Jump runs The Institute of Formal Social Sciences

Categories: SelfHelp, General