Bøger af James Wegert

"Using the tools in this book can help a person to build a good life." Using his over twenty-five years of experience working with youth, including eleven years as a school counselor, Wegert wrote HOW TO BECOME A STRONG PERSON AND BUILD A GOOD LIFE in a down-to earth encouraging manner to help high school students and young adults develop the tools (character, attitude, responsibility, effort, and self-control) that they need in order to be more successful academically, personally, and socially. It also explains how to use these five tools to build a good life by dealing with negative people in a positive way and by making good choices through respect for your job (which for young people is to be a student), others, and yourself. Over seventy true short stories (some humorous, some sad, some gut-wrenching, some inspiring) bring the book to life and help to illustrate the main points. (Since about fifteen of these stories are intense, and are only appropriate for ages 15 and up, they have been placed in a special section.) The book can also be used by parents and grandparents as they teach their children and grandchildren how to become strong people.

Written by a school counselor who partially messed up his life by making bad dating choices, Straight Talk About Teen Dating communicates important information about a God-centered approach to dating that is an alternative to the devastating selfish approach to dating taught to us by the media and our popular culture. In a down-to-earth way, the author explains how to prepare for dating by becoming the type of person that God wants you to date (a keeper), when and who to date, how to attract a keeper, how to do dating right, how to decide whether or not to continue in a dating relationship, the difference between the feeling of being "in love" and true love, how to one day decide whether or not to get married, and much more. Wegert shares in each of the twenty-five chapters something about dating or something related to dating that he wishes he'd known before dating and during dating - with the hope of helping teens to avoid a broken heart or worse and to one day have a lifelong loving Christian marriage. The themes of how much God loves us, how He wants only the best for us, and His willingness to forgive us regardless of what we've done flow throughout the book. From the Author: We've been taught by the media and our popular culture to believe that there is only one approach to dating. The message that we receive relentlessly every day is that when a person wants to start dating all they need to do is begin searching for a person with looks, personality, and possibly money who they like, who they feel attracted to - so that they can "fall in love" with them. Since we watch people start romantic relationships over and over again on TV and in the movies and see our friends starting romantic relationships using this approach and it seems to work - we really believe the fairy tale that all we have to do is search for a person who has everything we want and be ready to "fall in love and live happily ever after." I made this painful mistake in my life. Unfortunately, this approach has several major problems. The first problem is that it's based upon selfishness. Can you see it? A person using this approach is just trying to get what they want for themselves. The second problem is that the result of using this approach is usually heartbreak or worse. In fact, in history the number of broken hearts from using this approach is in the billions - and sadly even after having their heart broken, most people use the same approach over and over again because they don't know what else to do. The third problem with this approach is that it promotes that being lazy is OK - it basically says that a person doesn't have to do much of anything to prepare themselves for dating - just be searching and be ready because you never know when you are going to "fall in love." Doesn't this approach sound a lot like gambling? - part of it's allure is that it's kind of mysterious and exciting. But just like gambling, the odds of winning (by having a lifelong loving marriage) are stacked against you. But the biggest problem with this approach is that it doesn't include God. Isn't it unbelievably sad that most people use an approach to dating that's based upon a fairy tale, selfishness, and laziness, that's a lot like gambling, that rarely works, and that doesn't include God? Straight Talk About Teen Dating was written to communicate to teens about a better approach to dating - an approach that includes God during the preparation for dating, while dating, and when making the decision of whether or not to get married - an approach that will help them to maximize the possibility that they will have a lifelong loving Christian marriage. Mr. Wegert's new book written from a character perspective for students, young adults, and parents is entitled, HOW TO BECOME A STRONG PERSON AND BUILD A GOOD LIFE.

Written by a school counselor who partially messed up his life and who has seen so many people do the same through making bad dating choices, True Love Lasts communicates crucial information that readers need to know in order to avoid a broken heart and to make it more likely that they will one day have a lifelong loving marriage. In a down-to-earth encouraging manner that teens and young adults can relate to, Wegert gives suggestions about how to prepare for dating by putting in the effort to become a strong person, how to attract a strong person, how to have a healthy dating relationship, how to decide whether or not to continue in a dating relationship, the big difference between having the feeling of being "in love" and true love, how to make a good marriage decision someday, and much more. This book is similar to his other books, Straight Talk About Teen Dating and Straight Talk About Dating, except that it is written with a character emphasis.Here's another description of True Love Lasts: Unfortunately, in today's world it's very difficult to find a strong person to date who has good character, a positive attitude, is responsible, is a hard worker, and has self-control. Millions of teens and young adults are looking for true love in all the wrong places and they make their dating choices mainly based upon on looks and feelings. The massive amount of broken hearts, the number of abusive dating relationships, the large amount of unhappiness in marriage and the high divorce rate are evidence that many teens and young adults don't have enough good information about dating before they start dating and during dating. Due to this lack of good information, they often make bad dating choices - and sometimes these choices affect them negatively for the rest of their lives. Mr. Wegert wrote True Love Lasts to provide readers with information and suggestions that they need in order to maximize the possibility that they will have a healthy dating relationship based upon mutual respect. He tried to pack as much useful information as possible into the book because as a school counselor he couldn't just sit back anymore and watch people damage up their lives without trying to do something about it. The author hopes that the book will help readers to have a healthy dating relationship now and possibly a lifelong loving marriage in the future.Mr. Wegert's latest book for students, young adults, and parents, HOW TO BECOME A STRONG PERSON AND BUILD A GOOD LIFE, includes a more detailed explanation of the five attributes (tools) of a strong person and how a person can use the tools to build a good life. The book is brought to life by the author sharing over seventy true short stories about when he and others have made bad choices (with the hope that the book will help readers to avoid the same ones).