Going Nowhere Fast

Step Off Life's Treadmills and Find Peace of Mind

By: Melvyn Kinder

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Paperback | 8 October 1991 | Edition Number 1

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The bestselling coauthor of Smart Women, Foolish Choices offers his insights on the never-ending quest to finding fulfillment.

Are you caught on an endless treadmill of success? In Going Nowhere Fast, Dr. Melvyn Kinder, bestselling author of Women Men Love, Women Men Leave, identifies the essential issues we build treadmills around: money, romance, marriage, and parenting. By pursuing perfection in these areas, we create incessant demands on our time and attention. The energy we expend in satisfying these demands takes away from answering our real needs. The results are anxiety, chronic dissatisfaction, exhaustion, and loss of self-esteem—the very things we’re trying to avoid.

In Going Nowhere Fast, Dr. Kinder shows us how to break the treadmill cycle and learn to tap into our inner selves to enjoy the life we have worked so hard to create—a life with the potential to be much richer and more deeply rewarding than any we could have set out to capture.

“Just the right outlook for Recession-era reading. Dr. Melvyn Kinder redefines the notion of settling for less—whether the commodity be money, looks, powers, or a handful of other things people strive for—and talks about giving up the destructive quest for the Perfect Self.”—Los Angeles Times

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Introduction	p. ix
The Treadmill Mentality
Blindly Searching for Happiness	p. 3
Self-Improvement or Self-Rejection?	p. 19
Is a "Real Me" Possible?	p. 35
Overcoming Society's Seductions
Reaching Ever Higher: The Ambition Treadmill	p. 51
Never Having Enough: The Money Treadmill	p. 75
Looking Just Right: The Appearance Treadmill	p. 103
Having to Perform: The Sexuality Treadmill	p. 127
Waiting for Love: The Singles Treadmill	p. 147
Changing Your Mate: The Marriage Treadmill	p. 169
Raising Perfect Children: The Parenting Treadmill	p. 191
Life on Your Own Terms
Plateaus: The Secret to Self-Acceptance	p. 213
Individuality: The Courage of Your Convictions	p. 235
Beyond the Self: Spirituality and Connectedness	p. 255
Epilogue: Peace of Mind, Just the Way You Are	p. 275
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