Product Description

Using the best-selling book Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting as her bible, Marla Martenson teaches readers how to practice the Law of Attraction to find their true soul mates.

Martenson helps her clients and now her readers attract their soul mates using four fundamental steps:

1. Name what you DON'T want.
2. Name what you DO want.
3. Feel what you want
4. Allow it to happen.

With each step, Martenson offers Soul Mate Assignments, practical dating advice and strategies that readers practice so they can magnetize and energize their feelings to attract the perfect partner.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74926 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781571745606
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Professional matchmaker Martenson, who successfully landed her own soul mate, presents a chatty advice book that shows readers how to "stop searching and start attracting" your ideal partner. Though peppy, welcoming and entirely encouraging, there's much here that will ring familiar (you've got to love yourself before you can love someone else, "You cannot change someone"); Martenson also leans heavily on the "law of attraction" most recently popularized in Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, instructing readers to "identify what I do want" and then "expect, listen, and allow it to happen." Throughout, Martenson provides personal stories, anecdotes and exercises that reveal strategies for understanding and making the most of yourself, including plenty of self-affirmation and self-assessment. A Q&A chapter covers overlooked odds and ends and specific problems, such as how to impress over the phone, why sex on the first date is a bad idea, and whether it's permissible to slip out the back door "if my date is creepy." Entirely optimistic, if occasionally self-serving (an appendix on "How a Matchmaking Service Can Help"), this guide makes a dependable cheerleader for those falling behind in the game of love.
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Review

While it might be a tragedy that about 50% of the married divorce, it might be considered somewhat of a miracle that the other 50% stay together. The numbers might be improved, assuming staying together is the more desirable option. If we spent time carefully selecting a mate and could meet a good number of potential partners to choose from, Marla Martenson has lots of suggestions on how we might be more successful. She renders the whole process of choosing a mate more objective. She should know, she has been running a matchmaking service in Los Angeles for years.

Assuming you want to meet a mate, Martenson strongly recommends adopting the four point process of The Secret, The Law of Attraction. In brief: 1. Name what you don t want, 2. Name what you do want. 3. Feel what you want. 4. Allow it to happen.

The book explains how it is important to relate to others for the right reasons and how we can figure out what are the right reasons for us. Better healthy alone than sick together she suggests. She offers suggestions on how we might improve our capacity for love and questions how attractive a soul mate we are. She even talks about how we might get ready for our soul mate when they appear, e.g. setting the dinner table for her before you even know her. Another of her section headings reads "How to give the heave ho" to a "No go."

Finally towards the end of the book, Martenson addresses a variety of questions on such topics as equality, honesty, who pays, how to make a good impression, how to ditch a creepy date, if he s so great why is he single, and many more. She even compares and contrasts internet dating with match-making, to the advantage of the latter of course, her point being you get a lot more feedback and coaching with the latter.

All in all a light book covering a wide waterfront with humor. The approaches to matehood recommended by Martenson would even help to enliven existing marriages. The other aspect of this book is that it points to a happier life even without a soul mate.

Review

"Enjoy this book . . . and let it help you find your own soul mate.” —John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“While Excuse Me, Your Soul Mate Is Waiting can be laugh-out-loud funny, it is a supremely serious guide to creating the kind of life that will attract your perfect mate. Brilliant.” —Victoria Moran, author of Fat, Broke, and Lonely No More

Customer Reviews

positive book about dating and waiting!
i waited until i read the whole book to write my review even though i suspected from the beginning it was going to be a good one. the book has a very positive and upbeat tone. there are a lot of short stories of couples or dating situations thrown in to drive home the author's points. the book is based on the law of attraction but it really just explains how you need to think about dating so that you attract someone good into your life. it teaches you how to talk to yourself about dating so you encourage yourself instead of discourage yourself in the process.

i really loved this book. i did all the exercises and really thought about them, they are spaced throughout the book. i actually felt lighter after reading this book. the author gets you excited about your future and that's what i needed. she also stresses that it's important to be patient and to not get discouraged if finding your soul mate doesn't happen right away. it really is about you being positive and letting the universe send you a mate that is perfect for you. there is so much sincerity that i just feel like it's all going to work out.

the book speaks to men and women as well as those that are younger and older, after all, everyone deserves love! i suggest buying the book, reading it and doing the exercises, reflecting on what the messages mean for you and then just living your life to the fullest as you wait for you and your soul mate cross paths.

Excuse me, Your Soul Mate Is Waiting
Marla Martenson, the well known Match Making authority uses her vast knowledge to take the reader through a journey in self discovery. In "Excuse Me Your Soul Mate Is Waiting", she shares a proven and effective method created by her, to empower the reader so they clearly identify what they want, and how to actually get it!! Marla goes even further, by answering questions which clarify anything from the "why not me?", "why not yet?", "why not him/her?", to the very much awaited answer to the main question asked by anyone single: "How do I make it happen now?". Whether you are in a relationship or not, or just looking to create unprecedented events of any type in your life, you have a good reason to read "Excuse Me Your Soul Mate Is Waiting". Marla Martenson, with a sharp sense of humour has figured out the Law of Attraction, the reason behind the human quest for Love, and YOU! Indeed, as you read her book, you really feel she is speaking directly to you most of the time!! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Excuse Me, Your Soul Mate Is Waiting
I have also just finished your insightful book. I really have a deep admiration and gratitude for you and your wisdom and the clarity I found through your writing.

This book has so many fabulous pearls of insight and wisdom and I have been doing everything wrong on dates. The Soulmate assignments were so clarifying and I think I have been coming from a place of scarcity and and confusion about what I really wanted and now I have all this space to set my dreams free. I am a huge believer in the laws of attraction and feel my lack of clarity may have been keeping me running in cirlcles. I think most profoundly I heard the message to fully live my life and enjoy myself and trust the Universe now that I have clearly defined my Soul Mate. I am so grateful for this book!