VerAegis Relationships: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone by James M. Haden

I am reading an interesting non-fiction book, VerAegis Relationships: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone by James M. Haden.  This is book 1 of a three-part series.  The other books include, VerAegis-Contributions, VerAegis-Spirit, and VerAegis-Lifeline.  The author wrote this book using his experiences while balancing his family with his work life. According to James, “the key to our effectiveness and ultimately our happiness is responding to life in a manner that balances relationships, contribution and spirit.”  He is right.  We do need a balance in our life or we won’t be effective.  

He does mention why he named his book VerAegis and he explains the other three books that he has written.  He touches on many relationships and he uses his own experience, research and Bible verses to get his points across.  This book talks about what motivates us; His Actions- Her Actions as a couple; the emotional maturity; manage thought from the parent, adult and child; effective thinking; different situations require different thoughts; being a family; raising strong sons and daughters; and the crazy cycle of parent-child. The author conveys ways that we can change our relationships.

I love reading self-help books because there is always something that I can do to improve in my life.  And this book is perfect because it is on relationships.   I love reading self-help books when the author uses his experiences with that of his research.  Another wonderful thing about this book is that it is well researched, compact and concise. It all comes together to make a fantastic book that we as readers can read and understand.