Crazy Good: A Book of CHOICES

155 Pages·2015·0.82 MB·English

by  Steve Chandler

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
The CHOICES
FIRST CHOICE: Crazy good vs. Hard knock
1. A flash goes up and down the spine
2. The most interesting question ever
3. It’s a hard-knock life for me
4. A lonely cell, my only hell
5. Believing her victim thoughts
6. Dying from alcohol and morphine
SECOND CHOICE: Choosing vs. Trying to decide
1. How you can lose your marbles
2. You want it in the bag or with you?
3. What should I commit myself to?
4. How to get the goose out of the bottle
THIRD CHOICE: Verb vs. Noun
1. You must think you’re something
2. Am I that kind of person?
3. Stupid was her favorite adjective
FOURTH CHOICE: Creating vs. Reacting
1. This guy needs to be taught a lesson
2. Coloring the world with my mood
3. How could a problem be good?
4. Now live your life as a poet
5. How can being in love be easy?
FIFTH CHOICE: Something vs. Nothing
1. I remember the time I just fell apart
2. My wild attempts at change
3. No more false magic
4. He was pumping from a dry well
5. I needed to make a big, magical leap
6. Just whose side are you on?
SIXTH CHOICE: Systems vs. Dreams
1. If you can dream it you can do it
2. The dream that led to dysfunction
SEVENTH CHOICE: Serving vs. Pleasing
1. What pleases is not always what serves
2. Pleasing was diluting my energy
3. Now the door is open to hell
4. How dare she keep calling me all day?
5. Remember we used to get in trouble?
6. If I only had a brain
7. The deathbed question
EIGHTH CHOICE: Game vs. Shame
1. Maybe I can shame myself into it
2. Motivation will no longer be necessary
3. It’s time to move your mouse
4. Shouldn’t I take this more seriously?
NINTH CHOICE: The Want-to vs. the How-to
1. A cure for intention deficit disorder
2. You don’t know how to do it?
3. Will you take a carrot or a stick?
4. It’s hard to replace lost people
TENTH CHOICE: Agreement vs. Expectation
1. Relationship problems can be solved
2. This can be a work of art
3. A house built on shouting
4. What have we fallen into?
5. Expectations weigh a lot
6. I want to hear your complaints
7. But what if we are not saints?
8. Learning from the Godfather movies
9. Are you a person of interest?
10. Life as an unexpected pleasure
11. He will not be at your wedding
12. Life beyond just good enough
ELEVENTH CHOICE: Testing vs. Trusting
1. This is what stops us
2. Did you think walking would work?
3. There are people in the water
4. Wanting trust instead of a life
5. Life as a series of experiments
TWELFTH CHOICE: Purpose vs. Personality
1. When I need to get into the kitchen
2. It’s what’s beneath my wings
3. It was like me and John Belushi
4. All we are is dust in the wind
5. Today I question every thought
6. But I saw it on Dr. Phil
7. It’s clouds’ illusions I recall
THIRTEENTH CHOICE: Transformation vs. Information
1. My life was stuck in the mud
2. Transformation means change
3. This can make your life a joke
4. I challenge you to grab this
5. A great leap forward is what stops us
6. Fifteen minutes and then you can bail
7. Afraid to leave my safe house
8. A ridiculously small amount of time
9. Taking that small, embarrassing step
10. You don’t have to motivate yourself
FOURTEENTH CHOICE: Love vs. Fear
1. What do I fear might happen?
2. His journey was from fear to love
3. Learning to love what is
4. The not so serious life
5. The shorter story: no love, no glory
FIFTEENTH CHOICE: Living vs. Dying
1. A podcast host was interviewing me
2. I saw the news today, oh boy
Acknowledgments
About the author
Steve Chandler’s E-MOTIVATORS
Audio by Steve Chandler
Crazy Good: A Book of CHOICES
Copyright © 2015 by Steve Chandler
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Editing by Kathryn McCormick and Chris Nelson
Cover design by Carrie Brito ISBN: 978-1-60025-035-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015914814
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