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Noted author and business expert Ana Weber shares an expanded exploration of her strategy for succeeding in all of life’s endeavors. Her DOXA Method has four essential elements: D – Desire; O – Outstanding; X - X out the impossible; and A – Allow you to be you. Weber advocates making the choice to be an outstanding individual based on who you really are (and you know yourself better than anyone). Eliminate what stands in your way using intuition, meditation, and prayer. Though she does not specify any particular religion, she strongly recommends connection with a higher power and describes her own encounters with prayer and inner peace found in both churches and synagogues.
An important element of her philosophy is the need to recognize your fears. Having done so, she believes you can then overcome them by “befriending” them, keeping them in their place so that they don’t interfere with your higher purpose. She recommends that you ask yourself what you would change about your life if you could. The answers that arise can give clarity to next steps toward fulfilling important goals.
In explicating her method, the author uses significant situations from her own life. Daughter of parents who had survived the labor camps, including Auschwitz, in WWII Europe, she was raised in poverty in Romania, and then, with her mother, immigrated to Israel before finally coming to the United States. So as a “double immigrant” she had to start her life completely over, twice. English is her fourth language. Based on these trying experiences, she urges readers to live authentically and “feel time” rather than “fill time.” She wishes to assure readers of The DOXA Method that, by using the techniques she advocates, they can attract, believe, and create. It’s never too late, she states, to make things better.
A wise teacher who has helped many people to improve their circumstances, Weber, who holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, is known for her journalism, with articles in such noted publications as Parents Magazine, Lifestyle, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. She is a motivational speaker who has presented her ideas to audiences at Harvard Business School, New York University, University of Delaware, West Point Military Academy, Canyon Ranch, and elsewhere. Despite not having learned English until early adulthood, she writes with accuracy, presenting her ideas in an organized fashion. Her book exudes the confidence she seeks to share with others.
A self-described “people person,” Weber presents her DOXA recommendations in an engaging style, presenting both objective and subjective examples. She offers a replicable format for projecting 3- and 5-year emotional, physical, and financial goals. Building on her own attainments as an author of nineteen books on personal improvement, a business consultant, and motivational coach, she has created this book to inspire, deftly underpinning her challenge to others by recounting her own difficult path to success. She gives a personal web/email address and invites readers to contact her for further advice. The DOXA Method is profound yet simple, providing a new way to look at one’s progress through life, change what can be changed, resolve to have a positive future and live without regrets.
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