Adam's Reviews > Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Can't remember anything memorable from this book 2 months later. Maybe I need to get out of my own way and overcome self defeating behavior.

Excerpts my 👂 picked up on....👇

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in
Turn your self contempt into self determination
Like vampires these people maintain power by sucking it from others
I'm not threatened by anyone else's success
Just because you act hurt doesn't mean I'm hurting you
Feeling is more powerful then meaning
Anger is a short madness
Close your eyes get in touch with your inner vision and start going where it leads you
Don't look where you're going go where you're looking
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears
Clarify my expectations
Violence in the voice is often the death rattle of reason in the throat
We cannot shake hands with a clenched fist
The only thing I hate worse then hating my wife is hating her
Relationships end not because you stopped loving but because you can't stop hating one another
I love you but this bothers me and I hope it'll change
Is there anything about me that you hope I can change?
If you can name it you can tame it...name how you are feeling
When your feeling bad tell yourself
It's not a slam at you when people are rude it's a slam at the people they met before you
Don't take it personally take is seriously
It's fine to be a big thinker if you're a bid doer
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion
Woe is me is not compatible with hope
Envy creates a gap within you
Love means you always have to show your sorry
The experience crystallize something I've known for a long time
What soap is for the body tears are for the soul
The key to success is tolerating boredom
Failure isn't falling down but staying down
I regard you as a phony
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
Consider the challenges of building a life with another person
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom
Actions speak louder then fear
Grief is the agony of an instant the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a life
Your a prisoner of the past trapped in a hypnotic trance of ongoing grief
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn
I've spent my days stringing and un stringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung
This is a losing venture
You don't have to ask for what you need as long as you don't mind not getting it