Bøker av Rodney Williams

Shut The F**** Up: Quieting Your Ego Do you ever feel like your own worst enemy? As if there's a loud, persistent voice inside you, constantly trying to sabotage your happiness, peace, and success? That's your ego talking. And it's high time we told it to shut the f*** up. "Shut The F***UP: 'Quieting Your Ego'" is a frank, funny, and profoundly insightful guide on silencing the noise of our egos and uncovering the authentic, contented selves hiding beneath. This isn't some dry, academic treatise. It's a relatable, real-world manual, filled with personal anecdotes, engaging activities, and practical advice, all delivered in a conversational tone that's as refreshing as it is effective. Through 15 comprehensive chapters, the book takes you on an enlightening journey, revealing the many masks your ego wears, its outsized role in your life, and the detrimental effects of leaving it unchecked. It then teaches you how to listen to your ego, unmask it, and understand its impact on your emotional health and self-esteem. The second half of the book is all about transformation - it offers effective strategies for quieting your ego and cultivating healthier mindsets, like mindfulness, self-compassion, and empathy. You'll learn how to build ego-quieting habits, celebrate your progress (however imperfect), manage ego in your relationships, and visualize a life beyond the quiet ego. Each chapter comes with interactive activities and a dedicated note-taking section, allowing you to reflect on your thoughts, observations, and insights, making it not just a read but an experience. With "Shut The F***UP: 'Quieting Your Ego'," you'll embark on a transformative journey towards self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-growth. So, are you ready to tell your ego to pipe down, embrace your authentic self, and lead a life of greater calm, compassion, and fulfillment? If so, this book is for you!

Exploring issues like the need to respect a fragile environment and the rights of marginalised people (with quite a focus placed on migration), this collection is underpinned by the belief we should show greater care for fellow humans; for our world; for other living things.

A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka collects haiku, tanka, haibun, tanka prose and sequences from a variety of locations and experiences. Rodney Williams' poems have a thoughtful musicality and romance, a sense of humour and sadness to which many people will relate. The poems are carefully crafted, honest and unsentimental, working well on many levels and eliciting a variety of genuine emotions in the reader. They have such sharp details that one can immediately visualise the context. Here we encounter poems that readers living in Australia will be able to interpret with their direct knowledge of local birds, beaches, forests and wildlife. But this is not to say that international readers will not also enjoy the poems, as many are broadly relevant to life.' - Patricia Prime, editor Kokako (NZ)