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M. Gail Woodard, author of Pay Attention, Say Thank You
Book Specs: ISBN: 978-0-9819291-0-1; Paperback; 131 pages; $14.00. Available from this website or Dudley Court Press www.dudleycourtpress.com.
Book Summary: Pay Attention, Say Thank You is a simple guidebook that takes the reader through seven life practices which the author says will bring joyful living to anyone. Woodard suggests that anyone who tries the practices will see the results; there’s nothing to believe except your own experience. The first three rules, Pay Attention, Say Thank You and Be Quiet are easy behaviors to incorporate into your life. The remaining practices – Releasing Resistance and Fear, Heart-Centered Living, Creating Your Own Reality, and Changing the World – are a bit more complex. Woodard describes them as “ongoing, creative approaches to living life with intentional joy.”
Emphasizing that it is “the conscious performance of these practices, the practicing of them, that allows remarkable change and growth to occur,” the author contends that “unless you use them daily, they will remain simply words and concepts, and your life won’t change.” She likens these practices to aerobic conditioning. Increasing your capacity for joy, she says, requires exercise and practice, just like increasing your aerobic capacity requires physical exercise.Woodard points the reader to sources for the science that backs up her claims and she makes the point repeatedly that the reader always has the choice to try out the practices or not. She neither preaches nor demands, but rather invites you to jump in and have your own experience, experimenting bit by bit and even explaining how to reorganize your thinking patterns consciously to overcome your own resistance and patterns of belief.
Woodard’s final, unusual chapter is a call to action - for readers who have moved themselves into joyful living to “take it on the road.” Woodard says “conducting experiments in love to change the world is a delicious practice that the world desperately needs from you. All it requires is conscious effort to shift your thinking and to act intentionally with love.” Doesn’t sound like any heavy lifting is involved. What have you got to lose?
Author Bio: Born in Boston, M. Gail Woodard graduated from Albertus Magnus College and earned an MBA from Yale University. After fifteen years in the corporate world, primarily in commercial banking and real estate, she closed her consulting practice and began a new adventure - home-schooling her three sons, then ages 8, 6 and 3. For the next decade, Woodard and her sons learned and grew together, exploring all their Santa Barbara, CA neighborhood had to offer, traveling around the U.S. and living in both Mexico and France.
Presently, Woodard lives in southern Arizona where she writes, sells real estate (www.headquarterswest.com), and teaches Finance at the University of Arizona South. A certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, Woodard also teaches yoga in Sonoita and Patagonia. Woodard is co-founder and Managing Director of HatBox Journeys (www.hatboxjourneys.com) which produces CD-based inner journeys for women. Pay Attention, Say Thank You – Seven Rules & Practices for Joyful Living is her first published book.
