Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You - 40 Stories on Getting Started, How Exercise Can Be Fun, To Err is Human, and Regaining Control

Written by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark and Richard Simmons

Narrated by Joyce Bean and Buck Schirner

40 Stories on Getting Started, How Exercise Can Be Fun, To Err is Human, and Regaining Control

Through the Doors of Slimmons by Richard Simmons

Getting Started

Exercise Can Be Fun

To Err is Human

Regaining Control

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Jan 11, 2011
• ISBN: 9781611060553

Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Reviews for Chicken Soup for the Soul

[merrymary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This first one is probably the best one. The stories are touching and can be inspiring. But too much of a good thing can be cloying.

[mazda502001 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book helps us remember the important things in life - very inspirational.Back Cover Blurb:Two of America's best-loved inspirational speakers share the very best of their collected stories, favourite tales that have touched the hearts of people everywhere. Canfield and Hansen bring you wit and wisdom, hope and empowerment to buoy you up through life's dark moments. Their carefully selected stories provide models for what is possible and illuminate the path we all walk.Whenever you wish to make a point, inspire a friend, or teach a child, you'll find just the right story in this heartwarming treasury.

[steve55_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In keeping with the series this volume contains 101 short stories demonstrating compassion, generosity, kindness and belief. The stories are grouped under the seven headings of On Love, Learning to Love Yourself, On Parenting, On Learning, Live your Dream, Overcoming Obstacles and Eclectic Wisdom. The stories provide a mix of insight and inspiration and are able to make you feel humbled and empowered. Many of the stories create an emotional reaction and connect with our humanity. Many also provide solid guidance and support and ready access to experience that we can benefit from with relevance to our improvement efforts. By way of example if you find the temptation to use failure as an excuse to give up trying, the story of Abraham Lincoln may prove very instructive. Before becoming US president in 1860, he overcame a long list of failure and setback including bankruptcy, mental breakdown, failure to get in to Law School, repeated failure when running for the state legislature, the senate and congress and received only 100 votes when running for vice presidency .Most of the stories are not of the well known or famous but are guaranteed to be thought provoking. What I like is that you can carry the book with you and read it when you have little more than a spare minute. The stories are really good at giving a kick start to your emotions and your thinking, often in unexpected ways.

[markdeo · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I personally think is a classic. Does really warm your soul and is heart warming, even if it sounds cliche. One of the most inspirational books I have read.

[tloeffler_3 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I must be really pathetic. I don't like these books, yet so many people have given them to me. I swear I don't need them. Cute stories, but then what? I fail to be inspired...

[foof2you · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The first and by far the best of all the books.

[brose72 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

collection of motivational and emotional stories