Managing The Inner You and The Community Around You: Leads to Better Living

by Linda Murray

People want to see a change in you, they care about your decision to change, but they do not care enough to see you through the transition. Family members, leaders, life coaches, and mentors often give recommendations and encouragement without understanding or sharing the pitfalls and responsibilities associated with the change. Most life changes need aftercare and management, to avoid self- destruction and returning to the things you left or something worse. Change is inescapable if you plan to grow and improve personally, professionally, financially, socially, and mentally. Planning, executing, and managing life changes can lead to success and better living for you, your family, or the community. The key to change and improvement is in the magic mirror, the mirror has no power, but yet it is magical and can reveal what you need to succeed. As stated in my first book, Stop Being The Apple That Fell From The Family Tree; you cannot continue to blame others for your decisions or current status in life. If you make a conscious decision to improve your life or shift to something different, you must be willing to put in the work required to sustain the change. It will not be worry or problem-free, and most likely, you will have to achieve the milestone alone or with restrictive resources and support. With a healthy mind, determination, knowledge, and resources, you can sustain the change as well as create a healthy community around you. The old saying is true; what’s on the inside will show on the outside. The magic mirror will reveal a clearer you while providing the inner strength needed to develop a healthier inner you and create a better living on the outside. This book is intended to present tools and techniques to manage you and the community around you. Now that you have shifted, you need planning, but you also need to get to a place mentally where you can manage yourself. That’s where you’ll find your energy to motivate, encourage, connect, and continue. That’s where you’ll make your contribution to promote community, connections, and building affiliations of health and wellness.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2019

About the author

Linda Murray, née Bramley, was born in Kent in 1913 and died in Farmoor (near Oxford) in 2004.

A Renaissance scholar, she was the daughter of J. F. Bramley, an exporter, and Hélène Marie Blanche Manso di Villa. She was educated principally by her mother, preferring to travel with them rather than attend boarding school. French and English were her native tongues; she rapidly learned Spanish and Italian. She studied painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. During World War II Bramley worked for the U.S. High Command in London where her skill as an artist was put to work drawing maps of the damage from bombing raids on the continent. She moved to Eisenhower’s staff engaged in intelligence. After the war she entered the Courtauld Institute where her classmates included Oliver Millar (q.v.) and Peter Murray (q.v.). She married Murray in 1947. As Linda Murray, she began teaching in London University’s department of extramural studies in 1949. Although she taught a variety of subjects, her medieval architecture classes and tours were especially popular. In 1952 she and her husband, now a lecturer at the Courtauld, channeled their pedagogical energies into two support works of art history, a translation, Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance, by Heinrich Wölfflin (q.v.), and the Dictionary of Art and Artists. The Dictionary established their collaborative working method: dividing the research and write up between them and then passing it to the other for revision. The Dictionary was an immediate success and pair became the most famous "art history couple" in the modern age...

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