A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living by J. Douglas Bottorff © 2009

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When ReviewTheBook dot come offered me this wonderful book to review, I knew I was missing something concerning my own life and my own beliefs about prosperity.  Bottorff’s book helped me to organize my life in a way to balance my wrong beliefs about prosperity to better utilize his tools for my future benefit.  This book will do the same for you.

J. Douglas Bottorff’s book will give you the tools, guidelines and the practical information you need to understand the principles of prosperity and how to put them to work in your own life.  If you want to open new doors of prosperity and deepen your spiritual life, this is one book you will want to read. 

The author’s goal with his book is to awaken to your true potential as a prosperous person in a real world of confusion. He will show you the way to evolve your prosperity from the inside out, to touch your inmost truth and to live your life the way it’s intended to be.  To better understand how to do this Bottorff’s book clearly defines three modes of consciousness that we see expressed thought-out the human family. These are basic survival, creative survival and artistic expression. Without spoiling this book you must read it in order to fully understand that prosperity is for everyone who wishes to pursue their dreams and learn from others.  They say that when the student is ready the teacher will appear, and J. Douglas Bottorff is the teacher we all need in our lives I the 21^st century.

© 2012 Written by Jackie Paulson

Reviewed on 04/29/2012 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Jackie Paulson

          A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living is about being true to the real you. It’s about finding out who you are completely, which will give you a better life. J Douglas Bottorf explains how people hide who they are when in certain situations and until you learn to be true to whom you are you will not be very happy with what you have. Bottorf also helps you to understand your goals and how to make them work for you and what you want them to be. Like the saying goes” no two people are exactly the same,” so why try being like your friends?

            A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living helped me to understand that although I may be happy with what I have, I am not truly happy with. I know that I want more for my life and that of my daughters, but until I know exactly who I am and what I want in life I will never be as happy as I could be. Bottorf talks about how people who experience life or death situations also experience the feeling of true happiness. They experience the real them for just a little while before they come back. I think that we should all be able to feel like, except without the near death experience.

            In my opinion this book by J Douglas Bottorf is very helpful in finding out how to be true to who you really are. There are many different exercises that will help to achieve that goal. Bottorf’s book is also an inspiration to make me want to find my inner happiness and joy and bring it to the real world. By doing so, I believe that it would also improve how one lives their life.

            I think that everyone should read A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living. I think that it would be very helpful for everyone that wants to be as happy as they can be. No one disserves to be unhappy, even if they think that they are happy, they probably are not. So I recommend that everyone go out and find A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living.

Reviewed on 12/12/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Charity Nadeau

     I apologize for the delay in this review. It is for a good reason that it is late. I re-read this book twice because I was so fascinated and astounded by events and experiences that took place in the life of minister and author, J. Douglas Bottoroff. I re-read the book not because it was difficult to read or to comprehend but I wanted to experience at the time of reading what I need to do in order to have a prosperous life. This book, A Pratical Guide to Prosperous Living digs deep inside the soul. However, it has practical solutions to a question that people of all walks of life have asked themselves and perhaps others. 
   The reality is one must be totally true to himself or herself. This is vital to the road of complete happiness and secondly, you must in anyway you can follow your dreams. 
    There is a point in life when you and I will have to step away from the crowd of cheers with everyone else doing the same thing and step back all by ourselves and say honestly and truthfully to yourself and myself, that these is not the road for me. I don't think I will find my happiness with all of you. It is not personal but for me, I need to develop my own way of saying and doing things.
   While reading this book, my heart and mind opened up a lot and I began to ask myself  those questions that I never wanted to approach due to fear and disapproval by others.
    This book will total change your mind and eventually your life in an instant. Mr. Bottorff writes with a caring heart and true honesty because he had to walk those milestones himself to understand what does it mean to be prosperous?     I highly recommend this book for anyone you know who is seeking a transformation in their lives or looking to close one chapter and open another one in their lives,  A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living is the best book I have read on this subject. .

Reviewed on 01/15/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Felicia M. Hazzard