Customer Reviews

Triggers: a New Approach to Self-Motivation

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If you need a major breakthrough in an important area of your life, this book is a must read. If you read it, you'll try the techniques. If you try it, you'll get results.

Examples? Ok, here's just a couple:

Weight Maintenance - for years I have been on the old roller coaster - gain 20 pounds, lose 20 pounds, gain 30 pounds, etc.

We have a bridge group. One evening I started to reach for the peanuts - our host always has some kind of fattening goodies on the table. At the point of no return (you just can't have one handful), I remembered what I learned in Triggers. I DID NOT EAT A SINGLE PEANUT - NONE!!

I've maintained my weight since that evening two years ago, under a lot of tempting situations.

Peak Performance - you've probably read the books and listened to topics on how to pull up a peak performance anytime you want to. This was difficult for me.

Example: OK, I was preparing a speech of introduction for a nationally-known motivational speaker. My rule - no more than 2-3 minutes, if that. I knew I could do a good job, but good was not enough for me.

Once again, I used a technique from Triggers. The audience was pleased, the speaker appreciative and I was feeling great!

If you are committed to continuous improvement in your personal and/or your professional life, buy Triggers today.END

From: "Chris & Christy" <lakesell1@cox.net>

To:

Subject: Thank you Stan Mann

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:33:41 -0700

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437

Thank you for writing the book Triggers. Thank you Thank you Thank you.

This book is what I have been searching for to help motivate myself. I have read a number of other self motivating books. They have not worked for me.

It is hard to get motivated to help yourself (through words of motivation by some else) if you are NOT MOTIVATED.

But Triggers takes a whole new approach. It's not about motivation through motivation, it's about reprogramming the way we motivate ourselves.

I am a stay at home mom with two kids. My house is always a mess, my kids are grumpy by the end of the day and losing the baby fat I gained, HA, NO TIME OR ENERGY.

I needed motivation to start reclaiming myself and my family. I am not done reading Triggers as of yet, though I can't put it down, and already my life has changed.

For example I tried the "Double Trigger" method to help me get motivated to clean my house. I am not kidding when I say it worked with in 30 minutes. I went from the sick feeling of having to clean my MESS of a house to completely cleaning my stove (top to bottom) and everything else that needed to be pickup, dusted, vacuumed or wiped down. Just 30 minutes after performing the "Double Trigger" method on my self.

Today is September 10, 2004 and this book was published in 1987. Almost twenty years later you are still helping people through this tough process of self motivation. All I can say is, "Stan you are the Mann!" Thank you, and I can not wait to finish this book and start living the way I want to live.

Sincerely,

Christy Mikesell

I love this book. I first bought this book about 1992. I paid about four times this amount, because I bought it from Prentice Hall. I loaned it out and never thought I would find it again. I bought it again from Amazon last year.

I use Self-Hypnosis, but this is the most effective way of removing bad habits. With Triggers you use something that you like in your life to override the bad habit. You can use something that has happened in your life, or create something. Your mind doesn't know the difference. If it is an extremely bad habit, you can use more than one thing, called double triggering to make it more effective.

This book can be used to overcome fears, to make you do things better.

This book is well written. I would recommend reading the book through, and reading again as you find the things that you want to change.

I do still use self-hypnosis, but I couldn't live without this book.

Thank you Stanley Mann for writing this book.

Coaching Is for Everyone: Learn How to Be Your Own Coach at Any Age

This is an EXTRAordinary book written in so that you almost hear the author speaking to you! Stan Mann takes all the heady stuff about self help and languages it so that you can make sense of it and quickly put it to use. His secrets are real gems and The Trigger technique is an anchor that truly works. His technique is effective and I can vouch for it after using it with thousands of clients as a coaching expert. Great book and a must read for all who are interested in self improvement and/or who help others in that field.

I found this book in a used bookstore and flipped through it for insight into how to break a bad case of writer's block. (I'm a freelance writer, so it's important that I be able to sit down at the keyboard and pound out words at will!)

The very first anecdote in the book was about how the author/therapist used himself as a guinea pig and applied "triggers" (simple, ingenious techniques) to motivate himself to write the book in my hand. Perfect!, I thought, and bought the book, hopeful, but not convinced that I could achieve the same results. Know what? I did, and quickly became a writing fool, sitting for long stretches at the keyboard, churning out good work, easily and enjoyably. Thank you, Stanley Mann!

Here's the back page copy, so that you can get a feel for whether this book can help you, too....

Product Description:

One of the most exciting and dramatic breakthroughs in self-motivation techniques is the development of TRIGGERS - a mind-programming, psychological system for acquiring new capabilities and talents. From totally erasing fears and phobias to healing illness and maintaining vigorous health to expanding your creativity up to five times...here is a simple self-help system that can help you fulfill your every goal and desire.

Highlights of the Contents:

1. How to motivate yourself to do anything with TRIGGERS

2. Fast and easy TRIGGERS for erasing fears that are running your life

3. Breakthrough TRIGGERS techniques that dramatically improve your learning ability

4. How to expand your creativity yup to five times with multichannel thinking

5. How to use TRIGGERS to improve your sports performance and master new skills

6. How to use TRIGGERS to help heal illness and maintain vigorous health

7. Gain new relief from emotional pain using the triple split technique

8. How to erase messages and open the way to your full potential

9. How to harness the power hidden in your negative personality traits

10. How to turn conflict into personal power

11. How to reprogram your mind to replace bad habits with positive action

12. How you can use the new hypnosis to make TRIGGERS even more potent

About the Author:

Stanley Mann, ACSW, has been a certified psychiatric social worker, family therapist, transactional analyst, hypnotherapist, marriage counselor, and teacher for over fifteen years at the VA Mental Health Clinic in Allen Park, MI, and in private practice in Livonia, MI. A member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, he is also a clinical member of the International Assoc. of Transactional Analysis and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

In his introduction, Mann quickly and quietly admits that the techniques put forth in his book were taught to him at a seminar. He does not mention the name of the techniques, the teachers, or the fact that anyone, not just therapists, can attend such a seminar and learn these for him/herself. Thereafter the book is written in a way that tacitly gives Mann full credit for the techniques and results.

The field is NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Look it up if you haven't heard of it. It's a huge, dynamic field in which this book is not even known. The 'triggers' he writes of are ANCHORS, and while anchoring is a very useful tool it is just a small part of NLP.

Now, if Mann had actually accomplished something new or had extraordinary results using anchors I would not begrudge his attempt to take credit for others' discoveries, because we are all standing on the shoulders of giants to some degree. But the results are not special, and his use of anchors is not new or unique. In fact, much of the information is misleading or incomplete, leading to inferior results.

By limiting his clients and readers just to anchors, instead of the whole spectrum of NLP methods, Mann is stunting their growth. Trying to use anchoring as a one-size fits-all solution is like driving a car only in first gear: it's a lot faster than walking, but a lot slower than using the full range of speeds.

Mann intentionally and maliciously keeps readers ignorant of the full spectrum of NLP methods and practitioners by never naming NLP, by disguising anchors as "triggers", and by omitting any details about his own training or the huge number of other books on the subject. My guess is this was an attempt to feature him as the sole source of information and products about 'triggers.'