Banish Bad Habits
Some of the topics covered in this ebook include:

-The six stages in the process of breaking bad habits
-How to replace bad habits with a healthy new lifestyle
-How millions of people have succeeded in breaking a bad habit
-Why you have a better chance of freeing yourself from a bad habit by taking responsibility for your own program
-Why successful preparation for change means that you set goals for yourself
-Why change is not an event, but a process
-Why most successful self-changers fail at least once before they succeed
-Why willpower alone isn’t enough
-Why quitting a habit cold turkey usually doesn’t work
-Why a commitment to a more active lifestyle is one of the keys to breaking a bad habit

This is worth a try, February 22, 2008
This reminds me of those twelve-step programs, though this only has six stages and not steps. This is quite a hopeful and empowering e-book. The first chapter itself opens you to new possibilities – that people can indeed change. You can free yourself from that bad habit. I like that the author also underscores real freedom from the bad habit, and not merely getting into another bad habit to substitute the bad habit that has been given up, as is the case for some people.

The stages here make sense – they sound natural, especially Stages 1 (Denial) and 2 (Awareness). What comes after, though, makes the world of difference. Keeping an active lifestyle while getting rid of a bad habit also makes sense – it is kind of replacing the positive with the negative. This way, you don’t replace the negative with another negative. The quotes at the start of each stage are also apt openers and set the tone for each stage.

This is well worth a shot for anyone who wants to get rid of a bad habit.

Now You Can Take Control Of Your Time!

Accomplish the goals that you have always wanted to, but thought you didn't have the time for, without sacrificing time for anything else you are currently doing.

Time management advice for office workers, March19, 2008
For any office worker, this book can help in managing time better – getting the job done and having a quality life at the same time. In a light and entertaining fashion, it discusses the top time killers and time savers. The advice here on having a to-do list daily, weekly and monthly is particularly good advice to take control of your time.

Gearhart offers useful tips on how to fight procrastination, how to save time in office meetings, and others. It also teaches the reader to value the time of other people.

Though the e-book is already informative as it is, it is too much confined in the office setting. Looking at the title alone, I had expected time management techniques regardless of whatever job you have – an office job, a business, or whatever. The book should be re-titled to avoid misconceptions.

The e-book was a bit dragging at first, with too many examples and flowery words talking about time, but became serious and informative later on. The poem about time at the end of the book is a fitting ending.