Garbage Rules
About this ebook
• How To Stop Serving Garage
• How To Stop Getting Garbage
• How To Refocus on the Positive
• How to Drop Garbage Through Paradox
Garbage Rules for Recovery
• Are you in early recovery from an addiction?
• Are you just beginning the process of self-discovery?
• Are you willing to laugh at yourself?
• If Yes, then this ebook is for you.
How to Live Better
• Discover how to choose helpful thoughts over hurtful thoughts.
• Discover hundreds of ways that you focus on garbage and thus receive garbage.
• You become aware of this pattern (give garbage and get garbage) through variation and repetition.
• You learn to switch to more effective and fruitful patterns.
Stop Garbage from Running Your Life
• This book is about rules for understanding how garbage runs your life if you let it.
• If your mind is focused on garbage, then you will think more garbage.
• If your soul is focused on garbage, then you will experience more garbage.
• If your heart is focused on garbage, then you will feel more garbage.
Garbage Rules Are Often Restated
• This restatement is helpful for four reasons:
• Repetition aids both learning and memory.
• Sometimes you will miss a concept presented in several formats, but grasp it in another unique format.
• You may be so lost in self-talk that you don’t notice an idea the first few times you encounter it.
• You may finally understand a concept after multiple encounters with it.
What Is Garbage Rules?
• Garbage Rules could be about exposing some terrible rules.
• Garbage Rules could be about some rules for handling garbage.
• Garbage Rules could be about how garbage is in control of our lives.
• Discover how to be paradoxically motivated to switch to healthier and happier thinking and feeling styles by facing the absurdity of focusing on garbage styles.
Garbage Rules Chapters
• The Garbage Rules are organized into categories that serve as chapters.
• This organization is often arbitrary and done only for convenience.
• In total, there are 1,613 rules about garbage.
• We recommend you read this book cover to cover the first time you read it.
• This will prevent you from missing the Garbage Rules you most need to face and surrender.
• Many of the ideas contained in Garbage Rules deserve further exploration and even abstract analysis.
• However, the deep pursuit of ideas is neither the purpose nor the design of this book.
Discover Deep Thoughts
• You can discover the profound philosophy behind most of the rules by reading some of the author’s other books, or by reading some of the books suggested at the end of the book.
• It is the rare person who can use a self-help book to remove and replace rather than just to recognize their self-defeating behaviors.
• Therefore, go to www.albertellis.org and find a certified REBT, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, counselor in your area.
• In any event, this book is not meant to replace counseling, therapy, or medical treatment.
Explore Garbage Rules
• Exploring will help you in many ways and with many issues.
• Here are some of the ways and issues listed alphabetically: acceptance, assertiveness, attitude control, boundaries, charity, communication, compassion, contentment, coping, detachment, ego reduction, emotional responsibility, empathy, equality, forgiveness, happiness, humility, letting-go, motivation, parenting, peace, problem-solving, responsibility, right identity, self-control, self-reliance, serenity, surrender, understanding, universality.
• When you laugh at your thinking, feeling, and acting with garbage, then you can learn to rely less on garbage as your guide.
• Learn to surrender your dependence and devotion to garbage by observing yourself using garbage with garbage results.
• Make this book serve as a mirror so that you can face and drop your faith, hope, and charity for garbage.
• Enjoy the journey! Enjoy laughing at yourself!
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About the author
Be it as a person's counselor or as a founding member of facilities for the homeless, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., NCC, CCMHC, LPC, seeks to make others' lives better by helping others improve how they function. As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others' living conditions. As a counselor, he "counsels" in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging--or pushing--others into facing and resolving their issues.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1300 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs). To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
After more than twenty years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked four years in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fourteen years counseling in private practice. In that time, he has refined many principles for and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. Currently, he has more than twenty books written, most of which are available worldwide as e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Google, Kobo, and Apple.
The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late '60s. It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy. The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism. For example, he read every work of Nietzsche that had been translated into English at that time. From there, he moved to the study of Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and a misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness. He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti. Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover, followed by a formal study of Western psychology. The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice's thinking continue to be Christianity, General Semantics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, and Zen.
Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services - chemical dependency counseling (with honors), from Metropolitan Community College.
National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC); Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC); Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
State Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon; Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa; Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska.
Community Service: One of the original founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities still in operation in Nebraska. Supporter of the following charities: OxFam America, Amnesty International USA, Habitat for Humanity, and Green Peace.
