Product Description

In relationships, there are two kinds of people: reactors and creators. If you want stronger personal and professional connections the keys to a happy, successful life you need to stop responding to other people's shortcomings and start forming the relationships you want for yourself. In 50 Ways to Create Great Relationships, bestselling author and relationship guru Steve Chandler offers more of the warm, witty, practical advise he's famous for proven tips, strategies, and insights that can help you build and maintain loyal, meaningful relationships. You'll learn how to shift your energy from taking to giving, how to use innovation and imagination, how to be a creative listener instead of a passive listener, and much more. Expanded from the audio-only 35 Ways to Create Great Relationships, 50 Ways will open the door to new opportunities for loyalty, friendship, and support in your personal life and the workplace.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1038724 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-31
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

From AudioFile
Audio is a great format for lists, especially when they're coupled with the ideas of a thoughtful expert. In this case, the author of 100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF and REINVENTING YOURSELF tells us how to turn relationship intentions into actions. The principles here are clear enough--taking responsibility for oneself, giving not receiving, looking for others' needs and problems--but Chandler's gift is spelling out action steps that have just enough context and rationale to make them attractive and digestible. The slow pace and deep resonance of his voice make it easy to absorb the best part of his message: Be an activist in your relationships, instead of waiting for problems, and you'll gain everything you want in your connections with others. T.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
STEVE CHANDLER is a consultant, trainer, author,and keynote speaker whose clients include over 100 Fortune 500 companies.

STEVE CHANDLER is a consultant, trainer, author,and keynote speaker whose clients include over 100 Fortune 500 companies.

Customer Reviews

It has helped me
A couple years ago the author of this book (who didn't know me, nor I him) sent me a free copy. I have no idea why...

...but I am thankful now that he did. It sat on my shelf for about two years. But I eventually picked it up with the desire to become more "relationship oriented."

The chapters are nice and short -- they can be ingested in about twenty minutes. That's very convenient for me. He also does a fine job making profound relationship-truths simple to understand.

This books has been a great help to me.

Like a little seed that Steve planted in my life, it is now shooting up and bringing forth good fruit.

Thanks for the book, Steve!

Treat your relationships like the work of art they can be
Funny, smart, erudite, Steve Chandler affirms that our biggest and most powerful erogenous zone is our brain. Chandler deflates the myth that love just happens---true love, whether of a friend or a spouse or a pet, is cultivated and created, over and over again. Great stuff.

50 Ways to Create Great Relationships is an eye-opener!
How to Stop Taking & Start Giving helps you gain a brand-new sense of ownership for all your relationships. Learn how great relationships offer unlimited opportunities for support & sharing.

In Chapter #1 we are invited to think back through our lives on what are the best gifts we ever received. What did they have in common? The Element of Surprise<, right? In your relationships this element of surprise works wonders. Try it & see!

Steve Chandler offers us a light touch, a common thread of common sense; takes us on a tour of how we live our relationships - both intimate & formal - & allows us to get an idea of who we really are; how others see us & ultimately, how we affect our relationship to our own lives. The ripples are given names like: Magnetize Yourself; Rise Above Yourself; Give the Gift of Silence; Bring It With You When You Come; Satisfy a Deep Craving; Relax With Money; Think and Thank; Be a Servant; Build the Love In; Make a Difference; Eliminate Prejudice; Learn to Say No; Give from the Spirit & many, many more.

Eminently readable, profoundly life-changing, engaging & authentic, 50 Ways to Create Great Relationships could just as easily have been 50 Ways to Love Your Life or 50 Ways to Build a Happy Business or 50 Ways to a Enjoy Your Friends, even 50 Ways to Confound Your Enemies.

Nothing new yet Steve Chandler does have a way with words & ideas. He offers us healthy mental exercises as vital as any we perform with our body to keep ourselves flexible, lose the fat of fate, strengthen the muscles of our minds & allow humor & affection their rightful quota in this thing we call Life.

If you can't catch Steve Chandler's seminars, then grab his books! Give them to every one of your friends. They will surely make a difference to you & your relationship to everyone in your life, from the person in the Complaint Department to your boss to your children to your spouse to your parents to their parents to the policeman who just pulled you over or the messenger with your pink slip! Do check out my eInterview with this author - you'll find it quite enlightening!