From: Experience Life Magazine May/June 2003
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything, by Cheri Huber
(Keep It Simple Books, 2001)
"It is not possible to do this workbook wrong," ensures our favorite Zen teacher, Cheri Huber, in the introduction to this collection of surprisingly powerful exercises designed to help you know and understand yourself better. And that's a relief, because even a quick glimpse through the contents of this "hands-on write-draw-color-paint-cut-paste workbook" will tell you that you don't know nearly as much about yourself as you think—at least not off the top of your head.
The funny thing is, though, once you start in on these exercises, you begin to discover that you really do possess most of the answers you need. You know far more than you realized: about what ignites and drains your energy, about how you undermine and punish yourself, about how your beliefs about love and family and duty can inspire you—or conspire to create depressing illusions about who and what you have to be. You just need to slow down a little and think about it, and for that, this book is a terrific tool.
"How You Do Anything ..." has long been popular with counselors, therapists and wisdom-seekers of all kinds. Whether you're struggling to overcome less-than-sterling eating habits and anti-exercise instincts, seeking to get a better grasp on why certain parts of your life feel unmanageable, or just eager to know what makes you tick, you're likely to get all the "aha" moments you could ever hope for by completing this book—or even by looking closely at how you avoid it. As Huber writes, "If you observed how you do this workbook, you would probably learn more about who and how you are than you could learn from the content of the exercises. How you do anything is how you do everything."
