Summary Of Cloud's 9 Things You Simply Must Do To Succeed In Love And Life
Practical Book Review
Of
Cloud’s Nine Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life.
By
Joseph VanTrease
23835386
Presented to Dr. Robyn Simmons
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
PACO 500
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Lynchburg, VA
23 June 2013
My Summation
From beginning to end, 9 Things You Simply Must Do to SUCCEED in LOVE and LIFE is Dr. Henry Cloud’s take of how we will be successful in life and love. His findings are not an absolute but his opinions based on his experience as a psychologist. Dr. Cloud has been successful in helping clients and audiences through seminars, connect the dots, see what you usually have trouble seeing or didn’t know existed.
Throughout the book, he refers to these successful people as “déjà vu people”, and brings out there commonalities …show more content…
Cloud speaks of his business venture and almost partner. Dr. Cloud is a wonderful psychologist but as far as business goes, the new partner had become suddenly uninterested in linking up with him. Although I enjoyed the books, I am a little disappointed in Dr. Cloud for not thinking outside of the box, yet he tells the reader and his clients to do so.
APPLICATION
Even though the required book is a duplicate of the book I bought from the hospital floral shop, I can take away one thing from both of them. That one thing is learning to hate in the correct manner. When you have vengeance in your heart, you will be very vindictive in how you treat people.
If your thought is just to merely cause the other person to feel how they have made you feel, you should treat them with kindness. Treating them with disdain in your heart will cause them to go further into being a loon so to speak. In other words, it will cause them to be more horrible to you than they were in the beginning because most people such as me are very defensive when they are
Of
Cloud’s Nine Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life.
By
Joseph VanTrease
23835386
Presented to Dr. Robyn Simmons
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
PACO 500
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Lynchburg, VA
23 June 2013
My Summation
From beginning to end, 9 Things You Simply Must Do to SUCCEED in LOVE and LIFE is Dr. Henry Cloud’s take of how we will be successful in life and love. His findings are not an absolute but his opinions based on his experience as a psychologist. Dr. Cloud has been successful in helping clients and audiences through seminars, connect the dots, see what you usually have trouble seeing or didn’t know existed.
Throughout the book, he refers to these successful people as “déjà vu people”, and brings out there commonalities …show more content…
Cloud speaks of his business venture and almost partner. Dr. Cloud is a wonderful psychologist but as far as business goes, the new partner had become suddenly uninterested in linking up with him. Although I enjoyed the books, I am a little disappointed in Dr. Cloud for not thinking outside of the box, yet he tells the reader and his clients to do so.
APPLICATION
Even though the required book is a duplicate of the book I bought from the hospital floral shop, I can take away one thing from both of them. That one thing is learning to hate in the correct manner. When you have vengeance in your heart, you will be very vindictive in how you treat people.
If your thought is just to merely cause the other person to feel how they have made you feel, you should treat them with kindness. Treating them with disdain in your heart will cause them to go further into being a loon so to speak. In other words, it will cause them to be more horrible to you than they were in the beginning because most people such as me are very defensive when they are