Saturday, September 4, 2010

Your Best Life Now - 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen

A lot of people share identical opinions when it comes to Joel Osteen's talent in his book Your Best Life Now. They all say that is more than just the stunning effect of his trademark smile. Indeed, because Your Best Life Now is said to promise to give anyone a good look at what it really is like to live life to the fullest.

Your Best Life Now is compiled by stating 7 seven steps: Enlarge Your Vision, Develop a Healthy Self-Image, Discover the Power of Your Thoughts, Let Go of the Past, Find Strength Through Adversity, Live to Give, and Choose to be Happy. The books starts off in the form of Osteen telling a story about him and a friend as they talk of a certain vacation spot in Hawaii. His friend states that he could not think of himself being able to live in such a good place. This statement is then opposed by Osteen by saying that the first step of all things starts by creating a vision of them actually happening.

It was a great start for the book, and a good way for Osteen to open the minds of his readers. By giving readers this quick advice, he imparts a knowledge already for them to go by, but he also prepares them for all the issues and messages that he plans to say further on. The next sections of the book follows on with the same structure of thoughts. However, in one specific chapter, Osteen gives a message about giving our power to God. And even if Osteen obviously hoped to give a good advice with this, his arrangement of words unintentionally says that people should just wait for God to do everything. Over-all, Your Best Life Now does contain a lot of inspirational context.

But then, the massive support that this book has received could obviously be traced from the very large population of followers that Osteen has. In fact, some of them are also known personalities themselves. For example, there is Rudy Tomjanovich, the coach of NBA team Los Angeles Lakers. And then there is also Chuck Norris, one of the most admired actors by the present generation.

Osteen has had his fair share of television and various mass media exposures, which have definitely had been a part of lives all over the globe. No wonder these regular audiences who acquired themselves a copy of Your Best Life Now will understand Osteen's message in its fullest form. Then again, what if you are not one of Osteen's supporters? What if this is the first time you heard of his name? Do you think you will have the same opinions as those of Osteen's supporters? There's only one way to find out: grab a copy of Your Best Life Now and judge for yourself.

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