Beyond Chicken Soup: Toward a Life Worth All the Considerable Bother, Beyond Chicken Soup: Toward a Life Worth All the Considerable Bother

In this thoughtful and inspiring guide, Fitzgerald offers a refreshing alternative to the self-focused, personal-growth literature that dominates bookstore shelves. Toward moving "beyond chicken soup," Fitzgerald presents 52 weeks of transformative meditations and daily reflections designed to shift the reader’s attention a little more toward ‘other.’Each week features a powerful reminder message followed by seven thought-provoking interrogatives that challenge the reader to examine their beliefs, choices, and priorities. With wisdom that speaks to the soul rather than the ego, Fitzgerald addresses topics that range from forgiveness and humility to courage and authenticity, all the while promoting the idea that true happiness comes not from self-gratification but from making meaning.As University of Pennsylvania Professor Michael Zuckerman notes in his foreword, this is "not an ordinary book but one that keeps company with the seers and sages across time and cultures." Complete with artisan bread recipes that encourage readers to "bake three loaves each day; place one in thy larder; leave two in hunger's way," this unique volume offers practical wisdom for anyone seeking a life of genuine fulfillment rather than fleeting pleasure.“How did Tom Fitzgerald get inside my head and know exactly whatI needed to be told?”RABBI HAROLD KUCHNERAUTHOR OF When Bad Things Happen to Good People“Beyond ‘Chicken Soup’ is a delightfully penetrating book that lays thesteps to wisdom at your feet. Reading Tom Fitzgerald is like havingyour own personal spiritual mentor at your side each day.”MARTIN J. WETHERILLAUTHOR OF Eye of the Storm and You Make a Difference“Anyone in search of a more rewarding and a more fulfilling life, andwho is ready to be challenged head on, will find real nourishment inthese pages.”ROBIN S. SHARMABESTSELLING AUTHOR OF The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari“Beyond ‘Chicken Soup’ reaches out and grabs you by the heart, themind, and the soul.”DAVID A. SHAPIROAUTHOR OF Choosing the Right Thing to Do“Beyond ‘Chicken Soup’ is like having a mentor, a wise elder, in ourmidst. Tom Fitzgerald, the mentor who speaks to us, has the voiceof one who has been through the vagaries of a well-spent life and comethrough his struggles and triumphs with a gentle, helpful wisdom.It is a voice we all yearn for.”CAROLYN NORTHAUTHOR OF The Experience of a Lifetime“If Tom Fitzgerald’s philosophy of living were adopted by everyone, wewould know little of crime or man’s inhumanity to man.”GINNY GOFF GREENAUTHOR OF Watering Wilted Flowers“A fascinating book for anyone who seeks happiness, inner wisdom, orsimply peace and is willing to look in new places to find it. Thoughtful,deep, original, and useful.”MARIAH BURTON NELSONAUTHOR OF The Unburdened Heart: 5 Keys to Forgiveness and Freedom