LONGWOOD, FL-What do you do when you encounter pests munching on your garden? If your first instinct is to buy a can of bug spray, then you, like many others, are endowed with the ability to identify issues that hinder you from the success you crave. The highly metaphoric Squashing Grasshoppers ($13.99, paperback, 978-1-60034-319-3; $21.99, hardcover, 978-1-60034-320-9), by author D. Bernard Wright, motivates and empowers people to listen to their optimistic inner voice and is designed to attack negative thinking and free them from the prison these thoughts create. Through its in-your-face teaching approach, the book motivates people to pursue and achieve excellence by squashing the "grasshoppers" that may be munching on their foundering self-esteem.
According to Wright, Squashing Grasshoppers is born from 25 years of experience in counseling hundreds of people about life's challenges. The book surpasses the intellectual discussion of success and embraces a more down-to-earth, "human" expression of the difficulties we all face. Wright hopes to "wire" readers with the software necessary to output the kind of life they imagine living. Many inspirational and motivational books list a number of steps one must take to achieve personal dreams. Wright believes that every person is unique, and while seven steps to victory may work for some people, others might require 10 or 12 steps. Packed full of principles and real-life examples, Squashing Grasshoppers takes individuality into account and instructs the reader on how to live his or her own dream. "If we allow others to define what success should look like for us we are again making the mistake of allowing others to create our world for us," says Wright.
D. Bernard Wright is a pioneer, engineer, scientist, pastor, and student of the Bible who has a knack for conveying profound issues in a simple and easy-to-grasp manner.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Squashing Grasshoppers through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007