Product Description

Rick Carson's Taming Your Gremlin^® has helped hundreds of thousands of people combat the inner saboteur lurking in the recesses of every human mind. Now Rick takes you to the next level by revealing new ways to escape your gremlin. Rick shows how to access the "natural you"—a place of clear feelings and pure potential. He also shares his powerful I CREATE method: seven keys for creating rewarding relationships, which our gremlins love to mess with. With wit, wisdom, and plenty of real-life vignettes, Rick helps gremlin-tamers at all levels give gremlins less than the time of day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119376 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-01
• Released on: 2008-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780061148408
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming has a subtle and powerful effect." -- --Michael Port, national best-selling author of Book Yourself Solid

"A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming(R) has a subtle and powerful effect." -- --Michael Port, national best-selling author of Book Yourself Solid

"A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming(R) is filled with insightful, power-packed wisdom. It opened up many perspectives for me." -- --Craig Hall, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author of The Responsible Entrepreneur, and 2007 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award

"A must-read. . .for professionals. . .[and] for ANYONE interested in a satisfying journey through life." -- --Mary Olk, Ph.D., CPCC, Personal Development Coach and Psychologist

"Carson’s strategies refuse to dwell on the past and free us to live in the moment: to breathe, to enjoy, and to be true to our heart. Fans of positive psychology will find a friend in this thought-provoking book." -- --Library Journal

"Gremlin-taming is a most worthy ambition, and Rick Carson is a most worthy advocate and ally." -- --Jimmie Dale Gilmore, singer, songwriter, and three-time Grammy Award nominee

"This new book will be even more helpful in taming that nasty little Gremlin that...all performers carry around." -- --John Mahon, Percussionist and Vocalist, The Elton John Band

Review
"Carson's strategies refuse to dwell on the past and free us to live in the moment: to breathe, to enjoy, and to be true to our heart. Fans of positive psychology will find a friend in this thought-provoking book." (--Library Journal )

"A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming(R) has a subtle and powerful effect." (--Michael Port, national best-selling author of Book Yourself Solid )

"A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming(R) is filled with insightful, power-packed wisdom. It opened up many perspectives for me." (--Craig Hall, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author of The Responsible Entrepreneur, and 2007 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award )

"Gremlin-taming is a most worthy ambition, and Rick Carson is a most worthy advocate and ally." (--Jimmie Dale Gilmore, singer, songwriter, and three-time Grammy Award nominee )

"A must-read. . .for professionals. . .[and] for ANYONE interested in a satisfying journey through life." (--Mary Olk, Ph.D., CPCC, Personal Development Coach and Psychologist )

"This new book will be even more helpful in taming that nasty little Gremlin that...all performers carry around." (--John Mahon, Percussionist and Vocalist, The Elton John Band )

About the Author

This is Rick Carson's fourth book for HarperCollins. His seminal work, Taming Your Gremlin^®, has had a remarkable track record. Translated into several languages, Taming Your Gremlin has been a consistent seller since 1984. For thousands in a cross-section of cultures and circumstances, the Gremlin-Taming Method serves as a foundation for responding to everyday challenges and for living a satisfying life.

For over thirty-five years Rick has been a counselor, personal and executive coach, and trainer for mental health professionals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. His work is used in the training of psychotherapists, personal and executive coaches, substance abuse specialists, corrections personnel, teachers, corporate executives, clergy, and others. He is a former faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and a clinical member and approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Rick is the founder of the Gremlin Taming Institute in Dallas, Texas.

Customer Reviews

This Book is a Gift
I have been reading and re-reading Rick Carson's gremlin books for twenty years. It is not an overstatement to say that they have radically changed my life, from helping me manage some significant anxiety issues, to taking healthy risks, to letting go of crippling habits that blocked my happiness and hurt my relationships. So I was excited to find A Master Class and dive in, but I assumed it would be mostly a refresher-course with a few new twists for an old hand like me. Instead, I was blown away by Carson's ability to send me deeper than ever into my heart of hearts (at what seemed like warp speed), where clarity rules the day and gremlins take a powder. There was something new and illuminating on every page. As big a fan as I am, I did not realize gremlin-taming could take me that much further into the love-filled existence he introduced me to so long ago. I can't say enough about this book. It's a gift.

Good advice on creating rewarding relationships!
The book explains that the gremlin is the monster in your mind that makes you miserable by keeping you stuck in your head and thus diverting you from the peace and contentment in your heart. The author notes the gremlin-training method was fully explained in his original work, Taming the Gremlin.

This new book on A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming is primarily about how to create rewarding relationships, primarily through a method described in his acronym, I CREATE, which stands for:

I = Intention
C = Connection
R = Respect
E = Environment
A = Authenticity
T = Trust
E = Experience

He then goes on to elaborate on each of the above 7 keys for creating good relationships. For instance, in speaking of Respect, he provides ways in which we can inadvertently demonstrate a lack of respect for people, including such actions as:

- Interrupting
- Rushing to share a similar experience
- Habitual lateness
- Jumping to conclusions, and many more.

The book is an easy, fun read and offers some really good advice on relationships. The one thing I would note is that if you haven't read his earlier books, "Taming Your Gremlin" and/or "Taming Your Gremlin, revised edition," you might want to read them first. Throughout the book, he continually references the earlier books, even noting what page numbers certain topics were discussed on. If you haven't read the earlier books (I hadn't), you can feel like you're at a disadvantage due to the continual references to the earlier books.

Transformative
Written with great wit and deceptive simplicity, this book goes directly to the heart of self-awareness, as opposed to analysis and judgment. Carson's guidance in getting a sliver of light between your mind's nay-sayer and your true self is insightful and practical. The freedom I experience by practicing his method of "just noticing" has enhanced relationship with self, family, friends, and counseling clients. The Zen Theory of Change--I change not by trying to change but by noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the moment--is effective and transformative.