some of our clients:
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • YPO
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • US Army
  • Air New Zealand
  • WB
  • Red Bull
  • Frito Lay
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Delta Airlines
  • bp
some of our clients:
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • YPO
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • US Army
  • Air New Zealand
  • WB
  • Red Bull
  • Frito Lay
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Delta Airlines
  • bp

Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self Book

John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471414646, 256 pages.


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Endorsed by Dr. Stephen Covey, Dr. Ken Blanchard, Dr. Edward De Bono, Brian Tracy,
Mark Victor Hansen, Robin Leech, Dr. Nathaniel Branden, other experts, media, celebrities and more than 6500 corporations.


Optimal Thinking Book CoverMove over Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Optimal Thinking has become the successor to positive thinking. Hailed by academia and the media as “the essential step above positive thinking,” Optimal Thinking empowers us to be our best in any circumstance. It stops us from settling for second best!

Created by Dr. Rosalene Glickman, repeatedly honored by the media as “Australia’s Most Successful Woman,” Optimal Thinking programs throughout the world are replacing the “think positive!” motto which has been with us for decades.

An evergreen, the book ranked among Amazon.com’s top 10 books in the Applied Psychology, Leadership, Success, Personal Transformation, and Career Guides categories for six years.

Optimal Thinking is the language of our best self. It empowers our highest self to take charge. We ask the best questions, obtain the best solutions, and make the most constructive decisions in every situation — and eliminate “if only..” from our lives!

In today’s competitive world, many positive thinkers still think in mediocre terms and settle for second best. Whenever you think suboptimally, it costs you time, energy, joy and money. You function at your peak when you think in optimal terms. Optimal Thinking — not positive thinking — is the mental basis of peak performance.

What’s most exciting about Optimal Thinking is that everybody can use it. It doesn’t matter what stage of life you are in, or in what circumstance you find yourself — you can use Optimal Thinking to instantly make the most of your life.

This revolutionary book truly empowers you to experience the full power of your mind. You will eliminate self-sabotage, master disturbing emotions, minimize unwanted behaviors, bring out the best in others, and much more. Take the ultimate quantum leap — enjoy the style of thinking that gives you the best chance of having everything you want.

Author, Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D. received the I.R.W.I.N. Award (Industry Recognition for Writers In The News) in the Best Non-Fiction category for Optimal Thinking by the Book Publicists of Southern California.

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Part One: Help Yourself to Optimal Thinking

Rate Your level of Thinking

  • CHAPTER 1
    Optimal Thinking: The Next Step Beyond Positive Thinking
    Suboptimal thinking
    What is Optimal Thinking?
    Who thinks Optimally?
    Do you recognize these Optimal Thinkers?
    Book Take the quantum leap!
    Why positive thinking falls short
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 2
    What Does “Optimal” Mean To You?
    Use your whole brain
    Left-brain decisions
    Right-brain decisions
    What does “Optimal” really mean?
    The key to the Optimal answer is… the Optimal question
    Design your Optimal life
    Five Optimal questions to start your day
    Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 3
    How To Use Optimal Thinking Consistently
    Using Optimal Thinking consistently is a process
    Consciously choose Optimal Thinking
    Monitor yourself
    Overcome your limiting core beliefs
    Norma’s story
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps

Part Two: Optimize Yourself

Rate Your Self-Esteem, Purpose and Goals

  • CHAPTER 4
    Achieve Optimal Self-Esteem
    Self-esteem: What’s it all about?
    Our internal voices
    How do you value and rate yourself now?
    Your best self
    Marry your best self
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 5
    Discover Your Ultimate Direction
    The value of a life purpose
    Identify your life purpose
    The value of a purposeful career
    Identify your career purpose
    Ready to commit
    Optimal questions Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 6
    Plan Your Best Life
    Set SUPREME goals
    Why plan Optimally?
    Write down your SUPREME goals
    Modes of Optimal planning
    Alternative plans of action
    Make the best use of a calendar
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 7
    Optimize Your Feelings
    The value of emotions
    Overpowered by emotions?
    How to master disturbing feelings
    Optimization signals
    How do you relate to your feelings?
    How to optimize your feelings
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps

Part Three: Optimize Others

Rate Your Communications and Work

  • CHAPTER 8
    Maximize Your Communications
    Suboptimal communication
    Optimal Communication
    Listen for Optimal communication
    Nonverbal communication
    Optimal verbal communication
    Optimal verbal assertion
    Conflict is a part of life
    Optimal conflict resolution
    How well do you communicate?
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps
  • CHAPTER 9
    Optimal Thinking at Work
    A new Optimal paradigm
    AnyBiz versus OptiBiz
    Optimal leaders and Optimal visions
    Optimal leaders and reality
    Motivating others to do their best
    Characteristics of Optimal leaders
    Optimal questions
    Optimal action steps
  • Epilogue
    Optimal Exercises
    Optimal Affirmations
    Optimal Questions
    Bibliography
    Index

What the Experts Say About Optimal Thinking

A superb treatment of the idea of Personal Best.”
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

“Optimal Thinking has a little bit for everyone and will help people be the best self they can be.”
Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D., Author, The One Minute Manager.

“I must endorse Optimal Thinking as the mental foundation for peak performance in all fields. Optimal Thinking is a quantum leap beyond rhetorical positive thinking ideology.”
Dr. Gregory H. Tefft, Triple Crown Mr. America, Olympics Sports Medicine Staff.

“To fast create an optimal life, lifestyle and future, read, digest and use Optimal Thinking.”
Mark Victor Hansen, #1 New York Times best selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul®.

“A lucid, well-reasoned, and eminently practical guide to raising the quality of one’s thinking and thereby the quality of one’s life.”
Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D., Author, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem.

“This powerful, practical, most inspiring book gives you the ideas and tools you need to become an optimally productive and powerful person – in every area of your life.”
Brian Tracy, Author, Psychology of Achievement.

“Optimal Thinking” is a wonderful book filled with practical ideas and strategies that will assist people to lead a more satisfying, successful life. Dr. Glickman’s warmth and empathy are apparent on every page and the reader will be able to identify with her many informative case examples. This is a book that will be read and re-read as each of us strives to achieve an “optimal” lifestyle.”
Robert Brooks, Ph.D., Faculty, Harvard Medical School and co-author, The Power of Resilience.

“Many people at times think about actions and decisions in regard to the best choice, the most fulfilling, etc., but your ‘optimal thinking’ formalizes these thoughts, actions and decisions.”
Gordon Patzer, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business and Public Administration, Roosevelt University, Chicago.

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