The Compliment Quotient: Boost Your Spirits, Spark Your Relationships and Uplift the World

by Monica Strobel

Want simple practices to feel more joyful during your busy days?
Would you like to rekindle your romantic relationship-- or have more positive influence with your children?
Want more career success while you make a difference in the world around you?

In the new book, The Compliment Quotient, expert complimentologist Monica Strobel details why and how learning one simple practice will transform your relationships and rally your attitude for success-- for more health, happiness influence and even income.

Strobel takes you on a light-hearted journey to understand the life-changing power of giving more and better compliments, with easy-to-follow strategies to powerfully boost your own joy and sustain and enliven all of your relationships.

Many books discuss the road to happiness but few offer the humorous, warm-hearted step-by-step simplicity that uplifts others in the process.

In The Compliment Quotient, you'll

* why compliments are so powerful for the giver as well as the receiver;
* what are genuine compliments versus flattery or brown-nosing;
* how to accept compliments better;
* how to give compliments to lift one's own flagging spirits, shore up friendships, enhance parenting, and even ramp up dwindling romance.
* And more!

Want an attitude and approach that yields a greater sense of well-being and joy in day-to-day doings?
Deeper connections with loved ones and a rekindled romantic relationship?
More ease and success in social situations and in life?

Follow author, speaker, communications professional and working mother Monica Strobel's "complimentology" tips and exercises to raise your compliment quotient and be the loving presence you desire in the world.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 22, 2011

About the author

Monica Strobel is a passionate mom-preneur, seasoned writer and charismatic speaker, dedicated to empowering busy women to get more joy into and out of their lives and relationships.

She draws on a wealth of professional expertise, practical optimism and passion for making a difference in the world, in her new book, The Compliment Quotient, and all of her creative endeavors. She has long been recognized for her inspiring, can-do attitude and uplift-others approach, throughout a 25-year communications career in small business, governmental service and nonprofits in environmental, older adults and children’s issues.

Monica leveraged saying nice things (“or don’t say anything at all”) into personal and career success, going from shy and reserved to interested and engaging. She learned to keep her positive attitude while maneuvering through life’s triumphant and chaotic times alike–growing up in a family of eight, enduring “dumb Pollack” and dumb blonde jokes, raising children long-distance from family, going through divorce, and as a busy working mother of three. People find themselves telling her all kinds of things as she makes others feel at home and appreciated!

She is also the founder of Generations In Touch and Sammy the Mail Snail Club, designed to enhance connections between kids and grandparents, www.generationsintouch.com.

Monica grew up in the Chicago metro area, graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder, and resides in the Denver area, loving the Rocky Mountain lifestyle and inspiring her three children to put their best foot forward, find something positive to say and always know which way is west.