Enough is Enough!: Stop Enduring and Start Living Your Extraordinary Life (Hardcover)

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"Jane Straus reveals a simple, liberating truth: if you’re enduring then you’re not really living. Enough is Enough! reverberates with wonderful stories of human courage that will inspire you to move forward with your life."
-- Susan Jeffers, author, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Life Is Huge!

"Jane Straus has written a deceptively simple book with profound implications. Read the first chapter, and if it does not prompt a deep desire to read the rest of the book and practice her procedures, you may be ready for sainthood and probably don’t need to eat either. This is truly a fine book."
-- Peter Coyote, actor; author, Sleeping Where I Fall

"I have the privilege of inside knowledge. I brought my pain and confusion to Jane Straus and learned from her firsthand. For those who can’t meet her personally, at last you have this book. The clarity, honesty, and integrity of this wise woman’s practice illuminate every page. Read and understand. It’s not her book. It’s yours."
--Rob Nilsson, filmmaker; winner, Camera d’Or, Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize, Sundance Film Festival

 "Jane Straus writes with great compassion. She makes a crucial connection between living a life of truth and experiencing love, forgiveness, and a wisdom of the heart."
-- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M. D., author, Love is Letting Go of Fear

"Enough Is Enough! awakens us to the wisdom of our own integrity and conscience. It skillfully shows us how living in truth can bless our life."
-- Jack Kornfield, author, A Path With Heart

"In this day and age when endurance is tolerated and even extolled, our society needs to return to some basic values—living in our truth, being one. Jane Straus’s Enough Is Enough! needs to be read by every man and woman who wants to find a life of authenticity and inspiration. This book will immediately turn you in that direction."
-- Daniel Jay Sonkin, Ph.D., psychotherapist, Sausalito, California; author, Wounded Boys/Heroic Men

 "Truly an inspirational book. The author speaks from the heart in a clear, articulate way, weaving examples from clients in many diverse circumstances to bring the reader a message about paying attention to our deepest truth and its healing power. This sounds deceptively simple, but the author aptly describes the psychological and bodily distortions that we humans can go through when in fear and provides a path to connect with the extraordinary within each of us."
-- Mindy S. Rosenberg, psychologist; coauthor, Children and Interparental Violence

"Jane Straus tackles a complex human dynamic with simplicity and clarity. This book has lessons that most of us need to learn."
-- The Reverend Dr. Kikanza Nuri Robins, Presbyterian pastor; author, Unspoken Visions

"Enough Is Enough! reaches into the reader's heart with poignant stories of courage and the author's own candid history, inspiring us to embrace life with enthusiasm, joy and intimacy."--John Gray Ph.D.
Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Product Description

Break free of fear and let your inner truth inspire you to thrive and get the life you really want

What keeps us enduring an unsatisfying life? How can we break free of our fear-based patterns to live an inspiring and unique life that is aligned with our deepest personal truth? Written by the highly successful seminar leader and life coach Jane Straus, Enough Is Enough delves into the spiritual, emotional, and intellectual aspects of an extraordinary life. Using a practical approach that includes a wealth of exercises, Straus helps readers break free of fear and learn to lead a life of integrity that is filled with joy.

Jane Straus (Mill Valley, CA) is a seminar leader, coach, motivational speaker, and the founder and CEO of two companies, one for business seminars and one for intensive personal growth workshops.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787979880
• ISBN-13: 978-0787979881
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #399,351 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An empowering book that will take you in the direction of your dreams!, November 7, 2005

By	Rev. Marie (Rev. Marie Jones) - See all my reviews

So all this time I've been "enduring," I could have been thriving! That's the lesson of "Enough is Enough!" by life coach and consulting expert Jane Straus, who tells us that just enduring life is no way to happiness.

In this powerful and truly empowering book, Straus shows how we let our fears, limitations and beliefs lead us into a life where we are just going through the motions. Until we break the bonds of just "enduring," we cannot get to that marvelous place where we aren't just surviving, we are truly thriving, and this book is chock full of tips, tools and techniques for getting us there.

Using plenty of personal experience, plus that of clients she's coached to happiness and success, Straus takes us on a journey that begins by identifying the symptoms of endurance, which include not believing you have enough talent or time, ignoring your feelings, hoping things will change someday, distracting yourself with food or busywork, and more. Once we know HOW we endure, we can then work to change our habits and live a life with more integrity and authenticity.

The chapters help us to find ways to drop our "acts" and find our real inner drives, how to let our heart be free to tell us what it wants, how to forgive ourselves and others so we can move past the past, how to think outside of our comfort zone, and how to constantly find inspiration around us to keep us going in the direction of our dreams.

The author's use of her own personal journey and those of her clients really add so much depth and insight, and reading about how others reached their "enough is enough" point is inspiring and motivating. This is a book that can change so many aspects of your life, as it focuses on getting out of the "just getting by" mode and into a more proactive and enthusiastic way of being in the world.

"Enough is Enough!" is a book that will change the way you look at the life you are now living, and help you shape it into the life you've always wanted to live.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice that can help you impact your daily life immediately, November 27, 2005

By	LeeB "Avid reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

I found this book very easy to read and, as strange as this might sound, I felt better immediately after reading it--like I really could change specific aspects of my life NOW if I was willing to see myself truthfully. The author uses personal experience, and the experiences of people she has coached in her professional life, to demonstrate how to stop enduring people, things, etc., in your life and start choosing to live a life that is aligned with your higher truth. While some books require extensive exercises and cumbersome companion workbooks, this book is much less threatening and provides thoughtful questions (she titles these "Time In") for your own consideration after she provides important "food for thought". One thing in particular that I appreciated about the author's approach is that living your life to the fullest is a process that can be started today, no matter what your situation. For example, one of her chapters is titled, "Daily Tonic for an Extraordinary Life" and she offers the following, "Living our truth cannot be for some future goal or noble end; our commitment to releasing judgment and limiting beliefs, practicing positive affirmation, honoring our emotions, and striving for win-win is the daily tonic for breaking free of our endurance." Wonderful stuff that I highly recommend to any reader!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical Approach! , October 5, 2005

By	Mary Stuart Thomas (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

Finally! A practical self help type book with scenarios and ideas for self reflection that urge you to go deeper into your patterns and prior choices. Easy reading and (yippee) a sense of humor about the human condition!