Psychologist and educator Dr. Sidney Simon presents a system to help the average person change. Readers first discover why they resist change. Then, when a specific roadblock is identified, the book outlines exercises that offer solutions to specific problems.

Getting Unstuck: Breaking Through Your Barriers to Change

Self-Help

Simon, Dr. Sidney B.

Personal Transformation

Grand Central Publishing

Simon contends that the more we understand our own values, the better equipped we are to make the best choices for a happy and productive life. In a dynamic tool for personal growth--a companion to Values Clarification--he provides guided exercises to help readers determine what really counts.

In Search of Values: 31 Strategies for Finding Out What Really Matters Most to You

Are you getting what you want out of life? Do you know where you draw the line when it comes to sex, money, cheating on your income tax ... or accepting an indecent proposal? Becoming aware of your values is the key to making wise choices in all aspects of your life, from picking a partner to buying a house. Created by Dr. Sidney Simon, coauthor of the bestselling Getting Unstuck, and two other leading professionals, this workbook has already had an impact on hundreds of thousands of lives. Its scores of intriguing, interactive exercises were designed to uncover the hidden beliefs that reveal what matters most to you, how you deal with life-changing conflicts, which career choices will make you happiest, what leisure time activities provide you with the most pleasure, where you honestly stand on controversial issues, what day-to-day events are likely to make you angry ... excited ... anxious ... confident, how best to motivate yourself, and what beliefs can cause conflict in your family or love relationship.

Values Clarification

Business & Money

KIRSCHENBAUM, Howard

Howe, Leland W.

Business Culture

You can break through your internal barriers to change.  The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs now brings you an inside look at how to take control of your life.  Nearly all of us get stuck at some point in our personal and professional lives. Feeling trapped in a dead-end job, a painful relationship or by the harmful habits of smoking or overeating can be frightening and frustrating -- but the situation is never hopeless. Getting Unstuck, designed by Sidney B. Simon, Ed.D., is the powerful program that has taught thousands of people to recognize, confront and overcome their internal roadblocks to success and happiness. Listen as Dr. Simon tells you how to:   Dismantle the trap of low self-esteem  Discover what you really want and value  Exercise your willpower to turn a dream into a plan   Getting Unstuck is all you need to get beyond life's crises and crossroads and seize control of your life.

GETTING UNSTUCK BREAKING THROUGH THE BARRIERS TO CHANGE

Nightingale-Conant

Cheap Grampa is a loveable, adorable, completely unique character who his grand kids just admire to pieces for his flamboyance, his brilliant ideas, and the sheer fun he is.   "You can't help loving the old curmudgeon."  Dr. Sidney B. Simon is Professor Emritus,  University of Massachusetts,  and is internationally known for his work in VALUES CLARIFICATION.   Those books sold amost 700,000 copies.  Since retirment,  Simon lives the Winter months on Sanibel Island.  There he is the Host of the famous Sanibel Island First Friday Stories for Grownups.  One of the must "get-to" event each month for  Islanders and tourists alike.  Some of these Cheap Grampa stories were hits at Stories for Grownups.   Audiences eat them up. One they love is the Profile Cheap Grampa worked out with the help of one of his Grand daughters for one of the Match.Com programs.  The Grand daughter argues that he can't say in the first sentence,  "Woman must not want to be taken to restaurants."   Grampa,  that will eliminate 90 % of the candidates.   He says back to her,  "That's just the ones I want to eliminate."  Simon says he'll be eager to hear which of the stories is your favorite in this delightful collection. You can reach him at:  compdr1@juno.com  Trust me.  You've never had a Grampa like Cheap Gramps,  and I bet you'll  wish you did have one who could learn a thing from old Cheapo.      Dr. Simon has appeard on the Oprah Show and was a guest along with his son, John Simon,  on a Phil Donahue show about Fathers and Sons.

Cheap Grampa in Action: Stories of a grampa and his grand kids making sense out of life

Parenting & Relationships

Family Activities

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform