The Adventures of Binder-Man
And How He Changed His World (Kind Of)
by Don Kuhl, MS
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Mar 12 2013 | Archive Date Apr 19 2013
HCI Books | HCI
Description
From the founder of The Change Companies comes a collection of life lessons, true stories, and embarrassing self-disclosures illuminating how small choices made each day can create joy, meaning, and lasting change.
While to-do lists and failed resolutions discourage people from believing that change is possible, Binder-Man (in full cape and with four-color graphics!) proves that change really isn't all that difficult and that sometimes it begins with just a simple step—or a series of missteps.
Binder-Man was born over twenty years ago when the multimillion-dollar Change Companies was just a start-up, developing their signature brand of interactive journals. In those long early days, the staff spent hours on end filling orders by monotonously placing pages into three-ring binders. Hoping to bring much-needed comic relief to his team, company owner Don Kuhl morphed into the eccentric character of Binder-Man, complete with flowing cape and red earmuffs. The spirit of Binder-Man was contagious and The Change Companies thrived, selling more than 20 million journals worldwide.
Based on his years igniting change in others, Kuhl shares brief, engaging narratives on a variety of eclectic topics—the significance of navel-gazing, leaking toilets, tattooed strangers, and a frog named Apples. With humor, honesty, and the essential principles of behavior change, Kuhl invites readers on a highly pictorial and enlightening adventure, inspiring them to make emotional, spiritual, and physical changes in their own lives, and opening a great new world of opportunity and joy.
A Note From the Publisher
Without pretense or preaching, Binder-Man teaches the core principles of how people change.The short vignettes and captivating graphics offer an enticing read that is easily enjoyed, absorbed, and shared. Without overanalyzing, The Adventures of Binder-Man guides readers into a deeper, more pleasurable life.
Advance Praise
If you can’t read, you’ll enjoy the graphics that tell a story. If you can read, you’ll be entertained and enlightened. If you read with your heart, you’ll be touched, moved and inspired.
– David Mee-Lee, MD, Psychiatrist and Chief Editor of The ASAM Criteria (American Society of Addiction Medicine)
With humility, tenderness and an astonishing vulnerability, Don Kuhl delivers healing and hope. Binder-Man carries the glue that will put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.
– Roy H. Williams, Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-selling author of The Wizard of Ads trilogy
Don’s lessons and stories provide me with a time-out that teaches and inspires me. Many times my day has changed direction through a suggestion or a reminder of what is important in life. I have often been moved to action. This is the gift of a true writer.
–Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, author, family therapist and founder of Onsite Workshops
Don’s lifelong lessons about change are a uniquely fun look at how he changed himself, is helping to change the world and inspires readers to change themselves.
– James O. Prochaska, PhD & Janis M. Prochaska, PhD, founders of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc.
This is a book of great wisdom, perspective and humor … traits Binder-Man has no doubt passed on to his friends and family (especially his favorite daughter).
– Kate Calhoon, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist and only daughter of Don Kuhl
Don Kuhl has spent decades developing helpful materials to put into the hands of clients—print materials that are easy to read, graphically appealing and simple—in a sophisticated way. In this book he shares some of his own inspirational story, presented with the colorful pictoral style for which The Change Companies has become famous. It is replete with engaging snapshot life stories, and with the joys, regrets and wisdom that accumulate with years of searching sobriety.
-- William R. Miller, Ph.D. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and co-developer of Motivational Interviewing
Don's stories are amazing. I often feel as if I grew up in his town and his shoes. He helps me appreciate myself with simplicity and humor, much like Mark Twain.
-- Joseph R. Cruse, MD, Addiction Medicine Specialist, Founding Medical Director of The Betty Ford Center, Retired Medical Director of Onsite Workshops and author.
I'll never forget the maiden voyage of Binder-Man—that red-caped silhouette streaking across the parking lot, the shocked neighboring business owners. Over the next 20 years of the company, Binder-Man would ride again (and again!).
--Susan Peterson, Senior Editor of The Change Companies
Marketing Plan
PR through the Change Companies website: www.changecompanies.net.
Kuhl's weekly blog, Mindful Midweek, reaches 8,000 people.
Outreach to more than 4,000 programs and agencies nationwide through networking, conferences, and e-mail promotion.
National PR to consumer and professional media, morning TV shows & national radio programs
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780757317484 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
