You Dont Have to Sit on a Mountaintop for 30 Years To Discover the Secret of a Good Life

It's more important today than ever before to understand how fear of the unfamiliar governs the choices we make in building relationships, neighborhoods, societies, governments and, ultimately, global political ideologies. In their new book, Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee, Keller and Sheldon encourage readers to reflect on specific areas of their lives that sabotage personal evolution and intimacy.

SANTA BARBARA, CA -- We live in an increasingly unstable and volatile world of dangerous polarities that regularly flare into conflicts, local and global. Our weapons capabilities are evolving as gangs and survivalists tote automatic weapons and our smart" war machinery becomes more and more impersonal in its destructive accuracy. Along with advanced killing capacity we are developing a deeper and deeper sense of fear. Its more important today than ever before to understand how our verbal and non-verbal communication, our inherited and fear-based scripts and behaviors impact our personal safety and comfort.

At any point in our lives, we can take a reflective moment to assess where we are and to realize that we have arrived at this point as a result of the choices we made in every moment leading up to now. Too many people live lives of fear, dissatisfaction or resignation. Too many people try to fix" other people or to adjust their personal behaviors to measure up to someone elses yardstick rather than taking responsibility for living a good life from their own unique point of view. Far too many people let fear of the unfamiliar govern the choices they make in building relationships, neighborhoods, societies, governments and, ultimately, global political ideologies.

Valli Keller and Brooke Leigh Sheldon have each spent more than 20 years teaching people to step away from the frantic activity of daily life and to reflect on how personal choices in communication, thought patterns and behaviors impact relationships between individuals, neighbors and nations.

In their new book, Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee, Keller and Sheldon encourage readers to clear their bustling schedules, grab a cup of coffee and a journal or a good and trusted friend, and reflect on specific areas of their lives that sabotage personal evolution and intimacy. Through probing and insightful questions they provide readers with the same tools they have taught to thousands of business groups, students and clients; the tools to seize each moment as an opportunity to grow, change, start afresh and always to create an individual and intentional life.

Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee
ISBN 0595260020
126 pages,
December 2002
List price: $10.95
Available in bookstores and through Barnes&Noble.com, Amazon.com and all major online book retailers.

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