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.
Move 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.