Suggestions for my next book?

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Algernon

Amazon.com: Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values: Fred Kofman: Books

I also saw this when buying a raw milkshake just now:

Sacred Commerce: Business as a Path of Awakening

Reviews don't look so hot though!

[supertom]

I would like a book on purpose also,
"to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace"

"to live consciously and courageously;
to enjoy, increase, and share peace, energy, passion, and abundance;
to resonate with love and compassion;
to awaken the great spirits within others;
and to fully embrace this present moment. "

[Miss Moo]

Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg

There already is one, although it's what you could call "secret Steve content" that you can only see once you see the relationships between all of the content he's made (primarily, articles).

Explaining it is kind of challenging. Implementing the framework is pretty easy, but developing all the components to slot into is challenging.

Secret Steve content? Interesting...

Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg

Steve, if you're looking for something with mass market appeal, you could always write that book about sex that people are always begging you for. I think it's only fair, since you've had adequate time for research (I bet you're all curious what that links to, hehehe) and it's been such a long time since you've written about it.

Title ideas:
- Intercourse for smart people.
- Fornication in alignment with intelligence
- How to have more ahaaaaa moments



(I file this post under the category of "fun to write.")

also interesting...

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg

There already is one, although it's what you could call "secret Steve content" that you can only see once you see the relationships between all of the content he's made (primarily, articles).

thats a cool idea right there, secret site contents,

[evacorges]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Time Management & Productivity - This book would cover personal productivity from the level of life purpose (doing the right thing) all the way down to systems, habits, and daily actions (doing things right).

The topic name only covers half what you say it would include
I would love a book that starts by telling me how to decide what the right thing for me to do would be. That is the one thing time management books exclude.
So frustrating to read books that only cover the bit once you have a goal. In my experience, finding a goal you want to reach is the hard part. After that, there are tons of helpful people and books. But when you say - I don't really know what direction I want to go, what it is I really want to do, people are stumped to help you.

I believe that this is one of the reasons people are stuck in jobs they hate - they don't know how to determine what else they could be doing, much less believe in an alternate future.

btw, loving your first book, feels very empowering.

[richie111]

How To get in a relationship and how to's of relationship
Billions of people from Metros to jungle tribes interested in it.
I also read somewhere 80% of personal happiness comes from relationships a person have.
It could be how to build true deep connections. About social and spiritual growth.

What you think?

[dannielo]

If Hay House wants to go for a similar niche, then be it Time Management & Productivity, but I'd truly preffer a bussines book. The chapters about career and money from PDSP left me wanting more.

[Plato]

My vote goes to the book about Angela! Hahaha.

Have you considered writing a fiction book? I think a fiction book would be the best medium for explaining polarity. People need to step into the polarised perspectives to *get it* and fiction might be the tool for giving people the walk through.

Or how about 1st half fiction, with the 2nd half non-fiction, explaining what the fiction has just taken them through and how to apply it themselves. It could be magnificent.

[Savage]

I've reflected on this a bit more. Doing a book on time management seems aligned with truth and power... but not with love. It seems like a logical choice, but when I ask myself honestly, "Does this path have a heart?" I have to admit that the answer is no.

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage. At this time our planet needs heart-centered people more than it needs greater efficiency and productivity. As Martin Luther King said, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

I'm not sure what the title would be... maybe something like "Becoming Heart-Centered" or "Rediscovering Our Humanity."

I plan to record a podcast on this topic this weekend to see what people think of it.

[Brutha]

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage.

How about:
"Love for smart people
The ultimate guide to the mystery of love."

Okay some people might get the wrong idea from that title and think it's the one issue you previously didn't want to explore

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I've reflected on this a bit more. Doing a book on time management seems aligned with truth and power... but not with love. It seems like a logical choice, but when I ask myself honestly, "Does this path have a heart?" I have to admit that the answer is no.

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage. At this time our planet needs heart-centered people more than it needs greater efficiency and productivity. As Martin Luther King said, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

I'm not sure what the title would be... maybe something like "Becoming Heart-Centered" or "Rediscovering Our Humanity."

I plan to record a podcast on this topic this weekend to see what people think of it.

Feeling Blessed

For me, i feel that this was your best heart-centered post, felt connected to you

[RRR]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I've reflected on this a bit more. Doing a book on time management seems aligned with truth and power... but not with love. It seems like a logical choice, but when I ask myself honestly, "Does this path have a heart?" I have to admit that the answer is no.

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage. At this time our planet needs heart-centered people more than it needs greater efficiency and productivity. As Martin Luther King said, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

I'm not sure what the title would be... maybe something like "Becoming Heart-Centered" or "Rediscovering Our Humanity."

I plan to record a podcast on this topic this weekend to see what people think of it.

Would it be possible to write a book on Time Management which was in balance with love? Does the path of writing about love, oneness, and courage align itself with Truth, Power, and Love in balance?

A big part about Time Management is Love if you think about it. For example: Health: Polarity and Health

Is polarity not simply an expression of love?

Time Management, Polarity, and Love do not have to be seperated, they are intrinsically connected. I feel to write seperate books may invalidate the books as they aren't aligned intelligently with love. Time management can be written from a viewpoint of oneness, courage, and love as easily as it can from

I suppose you could view the areas as dominant towards a certain trait. I could see how Time Management is a tool to increase your Power. But I view another aspect of it as how to spend your time. I guess that is the difference between Time Management and Productivity.

[CroMagna]

I would enjoy a book on careers

[Thomas H]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I've reflected on this a bit more. Doing a book on time management seems aligned with truth and power... but not with love. It seems like a logical choice, but when I ask myself honestly, "Does this path have a heart?" I have to admit that the answer is no.

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage. At this time our planet needs heart-centered people more than it needs greater efficiency and productivity. As Martin Luther King said, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

I'm not sure what the title would be... maybe something like "Becoming Heart-Centered" or "Rediscovering Our Humanity."

I plan to record a podcast on this topic this weekend to see what people think of it.

Interesting, I will enjoy learning your viewpoints on that topic. I'm looking forward to the podcast too.

For a title, how about, Heart-centeredness for Humanity. Then you could have a subtitle like: a guide to following the path with heart.

It will be interesting to make a connection between heart-centeredness on an individual level and on a societal level.

[supertom]

offcourse a book on heart-centered has more heart lols

[Dan.Linehan]

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Heart Centered Living.

[Dev]

I would suggest a sequel to your first baby. The second one would actually suggest,recommend,guide and advice on how to LIVE each Fundamental Principle & its subsets in all Areas of life.

For eg. Steve could actually tell his readers this time how to apply Truth & its key components i.e. predictions, accuracy, self-awareness etc. in each area of life like Finance, Relationships, Careers etc. Other Principles and its sub-sets can be taken up in subsequest chapters.
Steve can use the feedback & review of readers of his first book & genuine queries from the forum as basis for this sequel.
He could use wisdom of the East, proverbs of communities & nations, quotes etc.
Suggestive title could be "Practising/Living PDSF".

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Dev

I would suggest a sequel to your first baby. The second one would actually suggest,recommend,guide and advice on how to LIVE each Fundamental Principle & its subsets in all Areas of life.

Sorry I haven't received the book yet so I don't know what's in it, but isn't that exactly what Part II is about?

[RohanMitchell]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I've reflected on this a bit more. Doing a book on time management seems aligned with truth and power... but not with love. It seems like a logical choice, but when I ask myself honestly, "Does this path have a heart?" I have to admit that the answer is no.

For me the path with a heart would be a write a book about becoming heart-centered, going deeper into the subjects of love, oneness, and courage. At this time our planet needs heart-centered people more than it needs greater efficiency and productivity. As Martin Luther King said, "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

I'm not sure what the title would be... maybe something like "Becoming Heart-Centered" or "Rediscovering Our Humanity."

I plan to record a podcast on this topic this weekend to see what people think of it.

This idea resonates with me. I'd be particularly interested in a book that covered the wider process to discovering your purpose. As was hinted at in the Meaning of Life series, this can involve a lot of work clarifying your context before you can start to see your purpose. I've had a lot of difficulty with this, but I've fumbled my way through most of this process, and I'd love to have advice on how to consciously guide and accelerate it.

Cheers,
Rohan

[Buttercat Apocalypse]

All of the bullets in the OP would make very interesting books, but for me subjective reality and polarization are most intriguing. A book on those subjects I would definitely buy.

[akshay01]

In my opinion, from the first list Steve posted, it would be most interesting to read a book by him on polarity. I'm sure he has lots of profound things to write about in fields like time management and business, but I feel that the area in which Steve would do the best job would be polarity. And, as Steve said, there is a much greater need for us right now to be concerned about ethical progress (being heart-centered).

Actually, more than polarity, I would really love to read a book on philosophy by Steve. One that presents his views on the various topics like skepticism, openness/willingness, and metaphysics in general. He has, of course, written much about this on his blog, but a more detailed exposition would definitely be wonderful. Steve could in fact even write the next book together with his wife.

[Gene]

The book is pretty complete and provides tools for people to explore the path to change. One thing I do see other successful authors do is to create a workbook as a companion to the main book.

Creating a workbook would be relatively easy and would provide value to some readers. The workbook could even be bundled with the journal software and with templates already installed.

[rosegold]

Time Management & Productivity - This book would cover personal productivity from the level of life purpose (doing the right thing) all the way down to systems, habits, and daily actions (doing things right). This is a crowded field with well-established experts like David Allen, so I wouldn't want to put a new spin on other people's ideas or merely create an alternate expression of Getting Things Done or Covey's First Things First. PDSP is very unique in its field, so if I write a time management book, I'd want it to be equally unique and insightful. That won't be easy, but it seems like a fun challenge. I obviously have some credibility here due to my productivity articles and my high-speed college experience, so this book could do fairly well commercially. This topic appeals to me, and I've been getting a lot of synchronicities about it, so I feel like I'm being nudged in this direction.

What is PDSP?

[Erin Pavlina]

Personal Development for Smart People

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Suggestions for my next book?

An index would be nice

[Dan.Linehan]

I had another idea for this, last night while showing someone your article on Fluoride.

How about a book that takes your values of TL&P and holds them up to today's default social contructs? The medical industry, nutrition, business, agriculture, diet, government, etc.

The fluoride article was very strong. It has really stuck with me for two years now. There are a lot of things a wider audience should probably know similar to that, that they probably won't unless someone publishes it.

[Jack Christopher]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

IMO creating a book for a niche audience defeats the purpose of working with a mass market publisher. Better off self-publishing in that situation.

Since this thread started with the idea of doing another book for Hay House, that was the context. However, I have no problem doing an ebook on a topic that may not appeal to a smaller number of people buy which could still be very impactful for its readers.

Right now, however, I'm thinking about what sort of book might be good for mass market distribution.

Do you want to write a book next?

Hay Houses' suggestion may be clouding your desires. And since you're antsy to connect with a mass audience, and it's worked before, you might be forcing it as a way of expression again.

Your desire--is to connect with more people and make a great impact. How do you want to do that? Forget about what Hay House wants, and stop trying to model (or asking us to model) what messages "the masses" want. That's much harder than you think.

How do you want to connect with people next? Design for that.

But the problem *could be* at a higher level than that; Or lower. The juice-feast detox may be killing your clarity.

Maybe you should wait on the problem.

[supertom]

Amazon.com: Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: Patricia Aburdene: Books

[Ron Stoppable]

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

If you could only write one book, and you knew (which you don't) that you would die in some fluke accident next year, which book would you write?

Mightn't Erin (or Steve's guides) be able to give Steve an approx date? In any event, wonderfully sharp perspective.

Whichever book that is,

Originally Posted by a certain screensaver

Do it now! Do it now! Do it now!

[Savage]

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

If you could only write one book, and you knew (which you don't) that you would die in some fluke accident next year, which book would you write?

That book was PDSP, and I've already written it. So as far as books go, there's no other book I feel I must write before I die. I can die at peace with what I've already written.