Jim W Newman - Release Your Brakes!

"Five stars.... A proved system that explains and demonstrates, in a fascinating and easy-to-read manner, how to use what you already possess to perform at your maximum.... In 20 powerful chapters, you will learn how your self-image acts very much like the setting of a thermostat, how your inner feelings of worth and value as a person have a direct impact on your ability to function effectively, how to use the talents you already have to communicate better with others, how to allow your innate creative abilities to flow more easily and how to respond to the real pressures of your life in a positive way. You will also be shown the qualities which help you function more effectively and a simple technique for learning how to relax whenever you want to do so. There are two chapters, 'Constructive Imagination and 'How

to Use Constructive Imagination,' which by themselves are worth 50 times the price of this book."

Og Mandino, Success Unlimited

About the Author James W. Newman spent most of his early years in the Mid-West. Born in Jacksonville, Illinois, he moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, at an early age. He attended Washington University, Iowa State College, and Westminster College; his formal education was interrupted by three years of active duty as a Naval Officer in World War II.

His chief interests in school were psychology and philosophy, with special fascination focused on the area of healthy, effective human behavior.

That interest and study continued through Mr.

Newman's business career as a radio and television announcer, salesman, and marketing executive, culminating in 1961 with his creation of the PACE Seminar, PACE Youth Conferences, and other PACE educational programs. He is now Chairman of the Board of the J. W. Newman Corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles.

Mr. Newman is an officer and director of the Thomas Jefferson Research Center, and a member of MENSA, the American Society for Training and Development, the International Society for General Semantics, the Institute for General Semantics, and the National Speakers Association.

He served on the President's National Private Resources Advisory Committee for the Office of Economic Opportunity and was a Founding Trustee of the Psychoendocrine Research Foundation.

Mr. Newman's hobbies are photography, tennis and magiche is a member of Hollywood's famous Magic Castle. He has two grown children, Colby and Jim, Jr., and makes his home with his wife, Nan, in Studio City, California.

JAMES W. NEWMAN

THE PACEOWNER-OPERATOR

MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN SYSTEM

A Warner Communications Company

Dedicated to Nanconstantly changing,growing, adventuringand alwaysexciting, loving and encouraging. Thebest person that's ever happened to me!

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Foreword

I first met Jim Newman when my wife, Lois, and I enrolled in a PACE Seminar a few years ago. At the time I was starring in two of the longest running series in broadcast history, serving on the boards of directors of seven national corporations, actively heading up a half dozen businesses of my own, and enjoying life with a family of five. In short, I was financially successful, professionally secure, and socially responsible. So what was I doing in middle age going "back to school"? And, most surprising to most of my associates, what was I doing at this point in my life trying to learn how to be more effective?

It's really quite simple.

I believe none of us should ever stop growing, learning, changing, and being curious about what's going to happen next. None of us is perfect, so we should be eager to learn more and try to be more effective persons in every part of our lives.

Nobody grows old by living a certain number of years.

People can grow old at sixteen if they desert their ideals, let their thinking become clouded with pessimism, or permit worry, self-doubt, fear, and anxiety to prevent them from taking risks. Therefore, I believe that this book could be a "fountain of youth"keeping one's thinking alive, elastic, and expanding, no matter what the calendar says. This book could easily be one of the most important events of your life. It is not a compilation of high-flown phrases, noble-sounding philosophy, and ego-soothing cliches. Hundreds of thousands of men and women have attended PACE Seminars over the years and personally validated the concepts and techniques about which Jim writes. Each chapter is a sort of roadmap for a more effective life, helping you to decide where you want to go and how to get there.

The chances are that you have attended some kind of a "how to" seminar. No doubt you have read at least one

book dedicated to rekindling your enthusiasm for life.

You may think you've heard it all before. Buttake my word for itTHIS book can change your life. And, since change and growth are essential to a rewarding life, release YOUR brakes and start right now to accelerate your movement through the years ahead.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by Art Linkletter - 5

• Chapter 1
  Take charge of your life

  Change, in your self and in your life, is inevitable. You are guiding that process of change, and you have been doing so all of your life, by intent or by default. Now is the time to decide what you want to accomplish, what kind of person you want to become and make it happen, deliberately, intentionally.

• Chapter 2
  A system of release

  A new approach to increased effectiveness and success. Instead of "pressing"

  trying harder to do better release the wealth of unused potential which is available to you.

• Chapter 3
  Potential and performance

  The key to more effective, productive use of your potential is to be found in the emotional patterns which you have adoptedhow you feel about yourself, your job, your family, and the rest of the world which surrounds you.

• Chapter 4

  The whole person system

  The human mechanism is a complex system of complex systems. Every change in any part of the Whole Person causes reactions or adjustments throughout die entire system.

• Chapter 5
  The conscious mental processes

  Four primarily conscious processes which account for a major segment of your behavior, and which function as the "programmer" in the development of your subconscious "REALITY" structure.