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Common Cents: How to Live a Happy Life Without Money? It?s Simple, Just Live!
Common Cents focuses on the fundamental and common sense methodology of how to achieve a life fulfilled with happiness by simply focusing on life itself. It teaches you how to center your life on things that actually make a difference; like feeling alive, manifesting your dreams, gaining self-love and building relationships. Society molds you to believe that you have to have materialistic substance in order to value life. Well, Common Cents says otherwise. Common Cents says you can live a happy life without money you just have to start LIVING!
156 pages, Paperback
Published May 6, 2017
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Did Not Finish
July 31, 2017No rating, I DNFed at about 50 pages. (There are no pages numbers, so I can't be sure.) Though not why I quit, the formatting is a mess. The font is HUGE, it is double spaced, margins are often widened or paragraphs bullet pointed, and there are frequent quotes and headings (that are even BIGGER) that take up even more space. The end result is that the 156 page book might be 50 if normally formatted. There are very few words on pages is what I'm getting at. Those words are in need of some editing too. This annoyed me before I even started, but since the author obviously has good intentions I decided to look past it.
Here's the thing, I don't know Danise. I don't know her age or anything about her. But this book makes her sound about 21. At 21 we all think we have the world figured out. Cliff notes on reality: We don't. The book starts out telling the reader how wonderful and successful she's been and then goes on to talk about the power of positive thoughts. That's as far as I got.
Even at this point I'd have stuck with it, except for three problems. One, I kept encountering instances in which Danise would do things like present a list of questions, then state that if the answer to any of them is no then the reader should ask themselves the following question. That question would logically only follow from the last on the list, having nothing to do with the previous half dozen. Thus, the argument was compromised before it could even start.
Two, though the author does occasionally say things like, "God, or whatever higher power you believe in," it leaves no room for atheists. More frequently she references God and spirituality as certainties and forgets to mitigate the statements. It's not a religious book, as far as I can tell, but the author isn't able to separate out her own religion from her advice to readers.
Third and most egregiously, the author references karma, spirituality, power of positivity, etc, but neither centers nor defines the ideas. Such words are embodied because they have meaning within a certain context, they are part and parcel of particular belief systems. Karma, for example, isn't just a random idea that someone can spout off, it's part of the Hindu, Jain and/or Buddhist belief systems. Danise seems to be snatching terms from others' beliefs to suite her argument that we can control our destiny by remaining positive and determined. What's more, I don't believe that she has any more than a media-induced understanding of them.
I didn't get far enough to figure out how Danise's argument about controlling your thoughts goes from good practice to living without money. And I honestly think she has good intentions and there will be readers who are happy enough to have her ideas shouted at them. (This is how I interpreted the HUGE font, as enthusiastic yelling.) Some will be inspired, probably not educated, but I can see inspiration. But I, personally, need a lot more substance in a self-help book.
I'm really sorry to do this. I hate writing bad reviews when books don't have other reviews.
Here's the thing, I don't know Danise. I don't know her age or anything about her. But this book makes her sound about 21. At 21 we all think we have the world figured out. Cliff notes on reality: We don't. The book starts out telling the reader how wonderful and successful she's been and then goes on to talk about the power of positive thoughts. That's as far as I got.
Even at this point I'd have stuck with it, except for three problems. One, I kept encountering instances in which Danise would do things like present a list of questions, then state that if the answer to any of them is no then the reader should ask themselves the following question. That question would logically only follow from the last on the list, having nothing to do with the previous half dozen. Thus, the argument was compromised before it could even start.
Two, though the author does occasionally say things like, "God, or whatever higher power you believe in," it leaves no room for atheists. More frequently she references God and spirituality as certainties and forgets to mitigate the statements. It's not a religious book, as far as I can tell, but the author isn't able to separate out her own religion from her advice to readers.
Third and most egregiously, the author references karma, spirituality, power of positivity, etc, but neither centers nor defines the ideas. Such words are embodied because they have meaning within a certain context, they are part and parcel of particular belief systems. Karma, for example, isn't just a random idea that someone can spout off, it's part of the Hindu, Jain and/or Buddhist belief systems. Danise seems to be snatching terms from others' beliefs to suite her argument that we can control our destiny by remaining positive and determined. What's more, I don't believe that she has any more than a media-induced understanding of them.
I didn't get far enough to figure out how Danise's argument about controlling your thoughts goes from good practice to living without money. And I honestly think she has good intentions and there will be readers who are happy enough to have her ideas shouted at them. (This is how I interpreted the HUGE font, as enthusiastic yelling.) Some will be inspired, probably not educated, but I can see inspiration. But I, personally, need a lot more substance in a self-help book.
I'm really sorry to do this. I hate writing bad reviews when books don't have other reviews.
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