THE EMOTIONAL ENERGY FACTOR --- THE SECRETS HIGH-ENERGY PEOPLE USE
TO BEAT EMOTIONAL FATIGUE by Mira Kirshenbaum. Delacourte Press, 2003
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pvii-ix)

TO MY READER (pxv)

SO --- HOW IS YOUR EMOTIONAL ENERGY? (p1-17)

1) Hell with other people's expectations! (p19-26)

    [1] Too much to live up to (p22)

    [2] You made the jail, and you hold the key! (p22-23)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 1 --- Stop buying into someone else's expectations for you! (p23)

    [3] The gift of freedom (p24-25)

    [4] Setting yourself free (p25-26)

2) Giving yourself a life filled with meaning (p27-36)

    [1] The meaning of your life cannot be taken for granted (p28-29)

    [2] You are in charge of the meaning of your life! (p29-31)

    [3] How to give your life meaning (p32-36)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 2 --- Take responsibility for finding meaning in your life! (p36)

      SPECIAL ISSUE --- HOW EMOTIONAL ENERGY WORKS! (p37-41)

    The battle for emotional energy (p38-41)

3) Prayers that really work (p43-52)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 3 --- When you pray, have a real dialogue with God and talk to Him about the ways in which you would like to be a better person! (p50)

    Why active prayer works! (p50-51)

4) "I did it my way!" (p53-59)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 4 --- Whenever you hit a pocket of freedom and make good use of it, you will feel like a kid let out of school on a warm spring afternoon. The more pockets of freedom you take advantage of, the more energy you will have! (p59)

      SPECIAL ISSUE --- YOU, THE UNIVERSE, AND YOUR EMOTIONAL ENERGY! (p61-63)

5) See yourself having emotional energy (p65-70)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 5--- Give yourself energy by visualizing yourself having emotional energy! (p69)

6) Do something really new! (p71-75)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 6 --- Do something new! (p50)

    Doing something new is the catalyst. It does not really matter what you do that is new, and it does not have to be something big , since doing something big can be scary and difficult.

    The key is this --- If you would not ordinarily do it, it is new enough for you! New things give big hits of emotional energy fast!

      SPECIAL ISSUE --- FIRST AID WHEN YOUR EMOTIONAL ENERGY CRASHES! (p77-81)

    See yourself having emotional energy (p65-70)

    Ten "first-aid" remedies that work to stop your "emotional energy crashes!"

7) What are you looking forward to? --- Emotional Energy Booster #7! (p83-88)

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 7 --- Always have something special to look forward to! (p86)

8) Why should a barrel full of monkeys have more fun than you? (p89-95)

      SPECIAL ISSUE --- EMOTIONAL ENERGY AND WEIGHT LOSS! (p97-100)

9) Don't get stuck with your losses (p101-110)

10) Envy is poison (p111-118)

11) Guilt is stupid (p119-126)

      SPECIAL ISSUE --- FIRST AID WHEN YOUR EMOTIONAL ENERGY CRASHES! (p127-130)

12) Keep your flywheel spinning! (p131-137)

13) If you do not get help, you are doing it wrong! (p139-146)

14) Bring something beautiful into your life (p147-152)

25) The more you give, the more you get! --- Emotional energy booster #25!

      EMOTIONAL ENERGY BOOSTER # 25 --- The most magical way to get emotional energy is by showing your love for the world --- one person at a time, one patch of ground at a time! (p261)

    [1] The magic of giving (p251-252)

    [2] How to get energy by giving love! (p252-254)

APPENDIX --- The physical energy factor! (p255-260)

INDEX (p261-266)

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