Not
About this ebook
• How To Live a Positive Life
• How To End the #1 Cause of Failure and Error
• How To Motivate More Efficiently and Effectively
• How To Stop Doing the Opposite of What You Want to Do
• How To Practice REBT More Efficiently and Effectively
One Simple Change Works Wonders
• Don’t feel a need for therapy?
• Don’t have time for self-improvement programs?
• You can change your life by changing one thing now!
• Read Not to change your life by changing your relationship to no-ts.
• Not will give you twelve principles to improve the central-life-issue of how you deal with no-ts.
• Improving this one issue will positively impact every area of your life.
Improve Relationships
• If you want to improve your relationships, health, and happiness, then purchase and read Not today!
• Enjoy the ongoing benefits of improving your relationship to one constant life-issue.
• Not can help with parenting, teaching, coaching, managing, relationships, addictions, codependency, relaxation, problem-solving, emotions, anxiety, anger, depression, and stress coping, among other issues.
What Is No-ting?
• “No-t” is defined as a thought that contains some form of a not-based word or phrase in it.
• Examples of nots include cannot or can’t, do not or don’t, have not or haven’t, must not or mustn’t, ought not or oughtn’t, should not or shouldn’t, will not or won’t, would not or wouldn’t.
• No-t is used for when the word not is treated as a thing or subject, and no-ts is simply the plural form of no-t
• No-ting is used for when the word not is treated as a verb or for the transfer of energy.
• While this takes some getting used to, its advantages in maintaining the difference between the word not and the use of the word not as more than a word are necessary.
How and When to Use Not
• Correct and incorrect no-t usage is the focus of this book.
• Twelve principles of no-t usage are presented and explained.
• No-t principles are ordered from simple to complex.
• The twelve principles overlap, so repetition and redundancy exist.
• Repetition is beneficial to learning the principles, understanding the principles, remembering the principles, the right practice of the principles, and making the principles your new habits.
• The no-t principles require your testing and proving in order to be effective for you.
• Fearlessly challenge them for the greatest benefit.
Change One Thing, Change Your Life
• Not is your opportunity to change one thing to change your life and impact all those around you. Read Not today!
• REBT practitioners use Not to understand how to update and refine your practice of REBT for greater effectiveness.
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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.
