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Bloom!: Defeat Negativity, Overcome Bad Advice, Love Yourself, and (finally) Become the Happy Person You Want to Be
Global entrepreneur and writer Case Lane's answer might surprise you. Start with turning off the negative thoughts about the way you think your life is supposed to work.
Beyond destroying popular myths and beliefs about who you have been told to be, Lane uses ancient words and personal experience to give you stunning insights into the possibilities of your own future.
Why do people want to put you down at your most successful moments? Can women really not have it all? What drives your family's decision to protect you by keeping you restrained?
Frank, direct, deeply personal and globally enlightening, Case takes you through the steps for reclaiming your own life by first understanding the external influences trying to adapt you to their agenda. Following your awareness of your situation, to absorbing the teachings of others, to transforming to your goals, Bloom! upends your comfortable understandings to refocus the lens of negativity and bad advice away from you.
This book will have you thinking first and foremost about how you can strive to be happy in a rapidly changing world.
Beyond destroying popular myths and beliefs about who you have been told to be, Lane uses ancient words and personal experience to give you stunning insights into the possibilities of your own future.
Why do people want to put you down at your most successful moments? Can women really not have it all? What drives your family's decision to protect you by keeping you restrained?
Frank, direct, deeply personal and globally enlightening, Case takes you through the steps for reclaiming your own life by first understanding the external influences trying to adapt you to their agenda. Following your awareness of your situation, to absorbing the teachings of others, to transforming to your goals, Bloom! upends your comfortable understandings to refocus the lens of negativity and bad advice away from you.
This book will have you thinking first and foremost about how you can strive to be happy in a rapidly changing world.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 14, 2018
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About the author
Case Lane
16 books3 followers"I believe that in the near future, the essential battle will be between the benefits of omnipresent technology, and the struggles of our battered humanity...I disagree with those who believe we will naturally reconcile these challenges. We should take concrete action to be more alert and aware of the changes to come."
For more than a decade, Case Lane had a front-row-seat in Hollywood to the transformation from physical to digital media in the entertainment industry. Seeing the struggle and potential of new technology, her motto quickly became prepare for the future.
Case is a global writer, traveler, entrepreneur and observer to the future. She transitioned her incredible hands-on experience and insight into writing fiction and non-fiction focused on the challenges and potential of our global high tech future.
Case is the author of the riveting future tech Life Online thriller series, the Laker Taylor political thriller series, and the Ravencross romance thrillers (under the pen name E. Avalon). Her books encourage readers to make up their own minds through informed storytelling and enlightening self-help inspiration.
Educated in communications, political science, business, law and economics, Case has worked as a reporter, diplomat, consultant, digital media corporate executive and lawyer. She has lived, worked or studied in 11 different countries, and visited nearly 100 others.
You will find her books filled with fun facts, history, travel, anecdotes from her work experience and education, and of course engaging characters and compelling stories.
For more than a decade, Case Lane had a front-row-seat in Hollywood to the transformation from physical to digital media in the entertainment industry. Seeing the struggle and potential of new technology, her motto quickly became prepare for the future.
Case is a global writer, traveler, entrepreneur and observer to the future. She transitioned her incredible hands-on experience and insight into writing fiction and non-fiction focused on the challenges and potential of our global high tech future.
Case is the author of the riveting future tech Life Online thriller series, the Laker Taylor political thriller series, and the Ravencross romance thrillers (under the pen name E. Avalon). Her books encourage readers to make up their own minds through informed storytelling and enlightening self-help inspiration.
Educated in communications, political science, business, law and economics, Case has worked as a reporter, diplomat, consultant, digital media corporate executive and lawyer. She has lived, worked or studied in 11 different countries, and visited nearly 100 others.
You will find her books filled with fun facts, history, travel, anecdotes from her work experience and education, and of course engaging characters and compelling stories.
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December 6, 2018
In Bloom! Defeat Negativity, Overcome Bad Advice, Love Yourself, and (finally) Become the Happy Person You Want to Be by Case Lane, Lane's focus is on driving away the discouragement and negative feedback that holds many people back from achieving their dreams.
The book starts with comparisons in how dodgeball is much like life in how we go about surviving challenges that come our way.
The book looks at the need to change assumptions, acquire new knowledge and to take on the tools to be happy by understanding who we are and what we want out of life.
Lane explains that we still operate on the survival instinct and shows how we can go about refreshening our thinking to achieve our own identity because each individual has value.
A copy of this book was provided to me by the generosity of the author for my honest review.
The book starts with comparisons in how dodgeball is much like life in how we go about surviving challenges that come our way.
The book looks at the need to change assumptions, acquire new knowledge and to take on the tools to be happy by understanding who we are and what we want out of life.
Lane explains that we still operate on the survival instinct and shows how we can go about refreshening our thinking to achieve our own identity because each individual has value.
A copy of this book was provided to me by the generosity of the author for my honest review.
August 4, 2018
Not my cup of coffee
I'm all for individuals using their very own skills gifts and talents to control a happy life. I found this perspective of the world and society to be extreme negativity. I don't have true friends who give me "bad advice". I attract what I put out there. I don't deal with the society described in this book because I don't buy into its theories. I skimmed this book after the first few chapters. I wasn't getting a good feeling from the language of the book. Perhaps the author's language speaks to other pockets of culture and people, but not to me. I cannot recommend it as helpful.
I'm all for individuals using their very own skills gifts and talents to control a happy life. I found this perspective of the world and society to be extreme negativity. I don't have true friends who give me "bad advice". I attract what I put out there. I don't deal with the society described in this book because I don't buy into its theories. I skimmed this book after the first few chapters. I wasn't getting a good feeling from the language of the book. Perhaps the author's language speaks to other pockets of culture and people, but not to me. I cannot recommend it as helpful.
dnf
April 26, 2023DNF @ 29%. For a book that's about negativity, she has an extremely negative view of society. It didn't feel like she was promoting happiness as much as anarchy.
October 21, 2018
Subtitle:
DEFEAT NEGATIVITY,
OVERCOME BAD ADVICE,
LOVE YOURSELF,
and (finally)
BECOME THE HAPPY PERSON YOU WANT TO BE
This writer hates the world. And want to change it. That intrigued me and so I read the book. The writer did have the right idea. She could have done a smash job with it. Instead of just beating around the bush. And leaving a scar.
The problem begins with the title. Long winded. And, frankly, makes no sense. But forgive that and open the book. She says she will tell you how to be happy. And how to bloom. Ya, Bloom. So I wanted to be happy and bloom. And read this book. What a waste of time. The whole book is a preface and I was hoping it was going to start. But no.
Silently, she drops hints that she has a high net worth. More than once. Me think that that is the only point she wanted to communicate thru this book. But I make my point. The point is that this is a rant. A rant similar to that of Charlie Sheen's. Only difference is that Charlie was entertaining.
If this review doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because the book didn’t make any sense to me.
And if I have to hazard a guess it's all because her parents didn’t hug her as a kid. Or a lover dumped her unceremoniously.
DEFEAT NEGATIVITY,
OVERCOME BAD ADVICE,
LOVE YOURSELF,
and (finally)
BECOME THE HAPPY PERSON YOU WANT TO BE
This writer hates the world. And want to change it. That intrigued me and so I read the book. The writer did have the right idea. She could have done a smash job with it. Instead of just beating around the bush. And leaving a scar.
The problem begins with the title. Long winded. And, frankly, makes no sense. But forgive that and open the book. She says she will tell you how to be happy. And how to bloom. Ya, Bloom. So I wanted to be happy and bloom. And read this book. What a waste of time. The whole book is a preface and I was hoping it was going to start. But no.
Silently, she drops hints that she has a high net worth. More than once. Me think that that is the only point she wanted to communicate thru this book. But I make my point. The point is that this is a rant. A rant similar to that of Charlie Sheen's. Only difference is that Charlie was entertaining.
If this review doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because the book didn’t make any sense to me.
And if I have to hazard a guess it's all because her parents didn’t hug her as a kid. Or a lover dumped her unceremoniously.
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