1 Phoenix Rising brings a fresh approach to dealing with failure. Drawing on methods from the fields of psychology, human potential, business and coaching, Russ Volckmann, PhD, has created a challenging and entertaining pathway. In addition, he brings the views of many great thinkers to bear on the phenomena of failure from Calvin and Hobbes to Oprah to Einstein. He invites you to stop living in the mire of failure. And he provides a means for truly embracing your failures and including them in a process of creating successes.
Having feelings of failure is optional. You don’t have to believe me. Lots of people have spoken and written about this. And I’ll bet that you know it in your gut that you don’t have to have feelings of failure.
If you want to cleanse your heart and mind and spirit of the heavy weight of accumulated failures in your life AND move forward in creating the life you want, this may be the most important book you will ever read.
Here’s why:
• Feelings of failure drain your energy.
• Feelings of failure poison your relationships.
• Feelings of failure shatter your will.
• Feelings of failure destroy your creativity.
• Feelings of failure cause you to lose hope.
• Feelings of failure can affect your physical health.
• Feelings of failure undermine your participation in community.
• Feelings of failure prevent you from building on successes.
• Feelings of failure distract you from learning.
• Feelings of failure weaken your capacity for giving love to others.
• Feelings of failure weaken your ability to receive love from others.
And if that isn’t enough,
• Feelings of failure can lead to deep depression.
• Feelings of failure can lead to behaviors that can shorten your life.
• Feelings of failure can result in your sustaining self-destructive habits.
• Feelings of failure are part of a vicious circle of cause and effect leading to more failure.
• Feelings of failure create energy that others can sense…and they don’t like it.
• Feelings of failure attract pity.
• Feelings of failure keep us close to sadness and pain.
• Feelings of failure trigger anger.
• Feelings of failure can lead to bottling up our emotions.
• Feelings of failure can increase the stress in our bodies.
But not having feelings of failure isn’t about deadening the feelings. How do you deaden your feelings? Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, television? What’s your narcotic of choice that deadens your pain from feelings of failure?
Not having feelings of failure isn’t about denial. Actually, and here is an important hint about what you can do for yourself, getting rid of feelings of failure is far more about facing these feelings and owning them.
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Who we are guides the choices we make in our life that lead to both our failures and our successes. This sense of identity involves the things that we use to define not just ourselves but life itself. We define what it means to be alive, what life is, what it means, what alternative action would mean, all of that. We create this stream of meaning in which we swim through life. Sometimes our swimming is strong and graceful as we move rapidly to where we want to go. Other times we struggle against the current of meaning just to keep our heads above water.
Admiral Robert Sheppard and his starship, the Phoenix, are back for their latest interplanetary adventure. Mysteries, new alien civilizations, and danger await the intrepid Star Knight and his loyal allies.
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Todd, detective lieutenant, has retired from St. Louis, Missouri and has moved to Ford Valley, Arizona. When Todd’s ex-wife is killed in a car accident, Todd fights for custody of his teenage
