Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way [Paperback]

Judith Sills (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 2004

The author of How to Stop Looking for Someone Perfect and Find Someone to Love helps readers discover what about themselves keeps them from getting what they want. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Sills offers an entertaining but simplistic typology of psychological weaknesses, which she calls "excess baggage," in this nine-week PW bestseller. Author tour.
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From Library Journal

According to Sills, a psychologist and author of A Fine Romance ( LJ 9/15/87) and How To Stop Looking for Someone Perfect and Find Someone To Love (Ballantine, 1985), many people overdevelop their strongest traits. Eventually, these traits get in a person's way and make relationships difficult. The author describes five personality types that often accompany one's excess emotional baggage and suggests tips and activities to provide more balance. Since most people can recognize a little of themselves and a lot of others in the personality profiles, this clear, easy - to - follow analysis will be popular with patrons looking for self-help books. For popular psychology collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/92.
- Marguerite Mroz, Baltimore Cty. P.L.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (January 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0142004197
• ISBN-13: 978-0142004197
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Work on the Self-Help Shelf, September 8, 1997

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This review is from: Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way (Paperback)

This is the most useful book I have ever owned. Where other self-help classics catch a piece of the internal puzzle, Sills somehow sees the greater picture. Most importantly, Sills understands that basic human truth-- that what we are is sometimes our greatest blessing and sometimes our greatest curse. The book offers understanding and practical advice for finding balance, rather than offering abstract notions for "fixing" some personality flaw. Buy this book and Scott Peck's The Road Not Taken, and you won't need any other self-help book in the store

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll see yourself here, October 22, 2005

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Catherine S. Vodrey (East Liverpool, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way (Paperback)

Judith Sills' astonishing EXCESS BAGGAGE will make you think the author has been spying on you. In describing the five major personality types, she provides such a wealth of detail that you'll find yourself gasping or whooping as you recognize yourself, your family members, friends and colleagues.

Best of all, she provides real, concrete ways to "get out of your own way" and modify your behavior in a variety of situations. The lessons can be difficult (isn't change always hard?), but are well worth applying if you're interested in making fundamental changes.

HIGHLY recommended for anyone interested in learning more about themselves and others. The advice Sills offers comes from years of counseling experience, and is provided in a nonsensical, easily understood way that maximizes your chances of putting these lessons to work in your own life.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Find the real you and why you are that way, April 16, 2000

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Jimi Pearsall (Fairview Heights, Il.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way (Paperback)

The BEST self help book I have ever read. It not only tells you, who you are, but why you are that way. Great for those who think they have to be in total control,because no matter how much you want control, you can't have total control, and have a productive life