Alphatudes Virtual Book Tour March 2010
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on January 24, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Join Michele Wahlder, author of the self-help/inspirational book, Alphatudes – The Alphabet of Gratitude (Life Possibilites Publishing January 2010), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in March on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion!
About Michele Wahlder
Michele Wahlder, MS, LPC, PCC, is an internationally recognized life coach, career counselor, speaker and gratitude enthusiast. She is the founder of Life Possibilities, LLC, a company that champions people to become the highest vision they hold for themselves in their lives, careers and relationships through the vehicles of coaching, seminars and books.
Wahlder delights in helping her clients discover their strengths, passions and purpose so that their outer lives authentically reflect their hearts’ desires. She has worked with numerous organizations, including Match.com, Fitness magazine, Lucent Technologies and Girls, Inc., to improve individual performance and organizational effectiveness.
Wahlder is a popular guest on television and radio, including WFAA-TV’s Good Morning Texas, KDAF-TV’s The 33 News and CBS and CNN Radio. Wahlder received a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Tulane University, holds a master’s degree in Counseling Education from Texas Woman’s University, is licensed by the state of Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor and is certified through the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. She has been honored as the Global Career Spokesperson for Bayer’s Global MS Awareness Campaign.
Wahlder understands firsthand the challenges associated with surviving a life-threatening illness and has allowed the experience to make her a stronger, more compassionate and grateful person. She continues to volunteer for several nonprofit organizations that offer adults and children opportunities to enhance their lives and pursue their dreams. A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Michele Wahlder lives in Dallas, TX, with her fiancé Michael, “bonus daughter” Zoe, and Portuguese water dog Moses.
You can visit Michele online at www.lifepossibilities.com and www.alphatudes.com
Alphatudes by Michele Wahlder (click on cover to purchase at Amazon)
About Alphatudes
Alphatudes reveals the unexpected and simple secret of living a joyful life – gratitude. In a world obsessed with negativity, we must deliberately choose to focus on the positive. The good news is that the homework is already done!
Alphatudes utilizes our earliest grade school victory—the ABCs— to achieve an even greater victory: a sustainable shift in your thinking that leads to contentment, optimism and peace of mind. An alphatude is defined as: a person, place or thing for which one alphabetically expresses gratitude.
Filled with vibrant illustrations, Alphatudes takes you on an inspiring 26-step journey where you’ll discover how to: heighten your awareness of life’s daily gifts; attract opportunities with a positive mind-set; find blessings in difficult situations; and free yourself from worry, negativity and resentment.
Legendary recording artist Olivia Newton-John has graciously provided a free download of her beautiful song, “Grace and Gratitude”, with the purchase of this extraordinary book.
Read an Excerpt!
“As we choose to practice gratitude over a period of time, we are able to significantly increase our personal range of happiness.”
Becoming truly appreciative of our lives requires us to replace our negative, limiting thoughts with positive, affirming words that strengthen our feeling of optimism. Language is one of the primary ways we perceive and understand our world and one of the key tools we rely on to connect to others. Each word we use has an emotional charge that either nurtures our well-being or creates a sense of discord within our essence.
Alphatudes: The Alphabet of Gratitude helps us become aware of how our vocabulary forms the language through which we experience our lives. When we consciously choose to use words of gratitude to describe our human journey and the world we live in, we assume responsibility for our own happiness.
We often exert our energy—physically, emotionally and intellectually—to obtain more of what we think we want and need to make us happy. Our society bombards us with messages that reinforce the notion that we are deficient in some way and desperately need to upgrade ourselves and our lifestyles. Eventually, many of us succumb to the seductive “new and improved” marketing strategies that are so pervasive in our culture, resulting in the mistaken belief that if we could only have a particular thing, circumstance or relationship, we would then be happy and fulfilled.
This belief that our happiness is contingent upon something outside of ourselves keeps us in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction.
By relying on the equation If only _____, then I would be happy, we actually strengthen the inaccurate perception that we are not enough: If only I lost weight, had fewer wrinkles, made more money, had more confidence . . . then I would be happy. We keep postponing our happiness, waiting for “one day” when we will have achieved all that we falsely believe makes us worthy of fully enjoying our lives. The problem is that “one day” rarely comes; and if it does, the pleasure derived from our accomplishment is usually fleeting as we quickly set our sights on our next “happiness goal.”
Through the conscious practice of gratitude, we are able to find within ourselves a deep well of joyful appreciation for what we already have. The Hebrew term for the word “gratitude” is hakarat ha’tov, literally translated as “recognizing the good.” When we recognize and focus on the good in our lives, we are making the choice to embrace the sweetness of life and live fully aware of our divine abundance. When we take time to be grateful for our daily bounty, we begin to feel a warm, enveloping sense of appreciation. This is the essence of gratitude.
Read the Reviews
“In this, her first book, Wahlder takes readers on an extraordinary trip through 26 alphatudes drawn from spiritual principles and universal human concepts. (Acceptance, Beauty, Choices, etc.) Lovely illustrations, heartfelt prayers, affirmations, and quotes combine for a thought-provoking and life-changing exercise that is as powerful as it is simple.” – Independent Publisher Online
“I really loved this book. Its presentation is so simple and it drew me in immediately. Then I began reading the many alphatudes and realized how valuable they can be to one’s daily life, helping anyone keep focused on truth and life itself. It’s a must on everyone’s bookshelf.” – James Twyman, best-selling author of The Moses Code
“Alphatudes: The Alphabet of Gratitude demonstrates just how easy it really is to count your blessings. This book provides a fun and practical method for increasing your awareness of the many opportunities for gratitude that exist in your life right now.” —Mike Robbins, author of Focus on the Good Stuff
“Michele Wahlder has created a practical and delightful method for opening the heart to the joy and benefits of gratitude. Whether in the simplest experiences of everyday life or in the most elevated spiritual encounters, it is up to us to choose to find the good, and then to turn our hearts to that gift in gratitude. Alphatudes shows us how to accomplish that in a systematic way that solidly roots the attitude of gratitude in the depths of consciousness and soul. This book is a gift to all who would lift and open their hearts to the blessings concealed within.”
—Alan Morinis, author of Everyday Holiness & founder of The Mussar Institute
“This book will make you feel better! You will love Alphatudes from the moment it enters your life. Opening it will fill you with gratitude to be holding such a beautiful, inspiring book, filled with encouraging words and images.”
—Jana Stanfield, recording artist
“Michele Wahlder presents a simple tool in which a powerful meditation on gratitude can be structured using the ABCs. The delectably transporting illustrations, along with the well-worded affirmations and prayers that accompany each of the twenty-six entries, support the book’s luminous bouquet. It is recommended without reservation!” —Mount Shasta Magazine
“In Alphatudes, Michele Wahlder gives us a rich palette of truths. Each of her twenty-six reflections, matched with vibrant illustrations, allows us to transform ingrained neural patterns so that gratitude becomes our natural response to life’s gifts.”
—Brother David Steindl-Rast, author of Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer & co-founder of Gratefulness.org
Michele Wahdler’s ALPHATUDES VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR will officially begin on March 1st and end on March 26th. You can visit Michele’s blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ during the month of March to find out more about this great book and talented author!
If you are interested in participating in his tour, please contact Cheryl Malandrinos at cg20pm00(at)gmail(dot)com. A limited number of copies will be offered for bloggers to use as giveaways. These will be available on a first come, first serve basis.
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My own sibling was initially trying to find this information. I feel I need to make her read this on her approaching Birthday.