Wednesday, September 22, 2010

You Changed My Life: Stories of Real People with Remarkable Hearts




How many times did we look back at our life and feel “what if he/she hadn’t helped me?” And almost we all feel like giving back something significant to those who have led their hands to us when we were in need of one or we were having hard times. This book “You Changed My Life” is a perfect gift for those for whom you would want to give something back.

This book is a compilation of series of short stories of people who changed the lives of those around them positively. This has stories on how people changed the fellow human being’s lives through Love, Kindness, Commitment, Courage, Compassion, Hope, Wisdom and friendship.

This is a perfect gift for that special person that changed your life. The help may be of any kind, a question, a timely monetary benefit, a consolation, or any action that changed your life for good.

A quote in the book says “None of us can help everyone, but all of us can help someone”. If we can follow this quote, who knows you might end up having multiple copies of this fantastic book.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Butterfly Effect By Andy Andrews

We, the people who belong to a generation which leads a fast forward life, always have some kind of tests running within us when we perform our daily activities, be it chatting with our office colleagues or our parents, kids or our daily routines at office. We generally act based on the results of those tests, say,if the result is Red (i.e., unexciting, monotonous or not useful for us), we care a damn about it. If the result is otherwise, we give our heart and soul to it and get it done. This is purely unintended, and normal.


Now, how many times have you thought how your activities as an individual makes an effect on other people around you or perhaps even people of future generations irrespective of the result of the above said test? The answer may be negative, because we have little time to think about all these things.

“The Butterfly Effect” from the New York Times Bestselling Author Andy Andrews makes us think in those lines and in due course changes our thought process as well. It explains how a simple word or gesture or work can have ripple effects spanning not years but few generations. You need to read it to believe it. It’s a small book whose effect lasts longer than expected.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”