Wednesday, September 13, 2023

TABLE of CONTENTS


Volume I

Praise for Self-Action Leadership

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Special Tributes

Foreword by Christopher P. Neck, Ph.D.

Author's Note

It Couldn't Be Done (Poem) by: Edgar A. Guest


VOLUME ISelf-Action Leadership: A Philosophical and Theoretical Framework for Existential Growth

Front & Back Cover Text

BOOK the FIRST:  Life Leadership Begins with Education 

Chapter 1:  A Personal Letter from the Author

Chapter 2:  The Times in which We Live

Chapter 3:  A Textbook for Life

Chapter 4:  Helping You to Help Yourself

Chapter 5:  The SAL Master Challenge

                    SAL Master Challenge #1

Chapter 6:  The Essential Role of Education

Chapter 7:  The Quest for Cultural Literacy

Chapter 8:  The Importance, Power, and Beauty of Language

                    SAL Master Challenge #2

Chapter 9:  Know Thyself  

BOOK the SECONDIn Pursuit of Change, Growth, and Freedom

Chapter 1:  The Freedom to Change & Grow

Chapter 2:  A Formula for Change

Chapter 3:  The PRICE of Change

Chapter 4:  Universal Laws and True Principles

Chapter 5:  The Cause of Freedom

Chapter 6:  Freedom Focused

Chapter 7:  The Age of Authenticism

Chapter 8:  Ask Not

                   SAL Master Challenge #3

Chapter 9:  The Power of IDEALS

Chapter 10:  Ten (10) Shackles of Personal Freedom

Chapter 11:  Emancipation through SAL  

Chapter 12:  The Challenge and Quest to Become

                     SAL Master Challenge #4

Chapter 13:  The Power of Personal Experience

BOOK the THIRDThe Self-Action Leadership Philosophy

Chapter 1:  What is the SAL Philosophy?

Chapter 2:  Academic and Philosophical Roots of SAL

Chapter 3:  What is Self-Action Leadership?

Chapter 4:  Existential Octathletes

Chapter 5:  A New and Fresh Concept of Competition

Chapter 6:  SAL is Not only About You

Chapter 7:  Life Leadership Variables

BOOK the FOURTHThe Self-Action Leadership Theory

Chapter 1:  A Metaphysical Theory of Everything

Chapter 2:  Space Travel: An Existential Analogy and Metaphor

Chapter 3:  Absolute TRUTH with a Capital "T" 

Chapter 4:  TRUTH, or the Way Things Really Are

Chapter 5:  RIGHT and wrong are REAL

Chapter 6:  The Role and Power of Beliefs and Experiences

Chapter 7:  Your SAL Command Center 

Chapter 8:  Making a Complete Commitment to Reality

Chapter 9:  Truth's Greatest Mysteries

Chapter 10:  Your World

Chapter 11:  You are Free to Choose

Chapter 12:  Changing Your World From the Inside-Out

Chapter 13:  Existential Gravity

Chapter 14:  The SAL Hierarchy, Levels 1-3

Chapter 15:  REFINING Stage

Chapter 16:  POLISHING Stage

Chapter 17:  SAL ACTUALIZATION Stage

Chapter 18:  LEADERSHIP Stage

Chapter 19:  SELF-TRANSCENDENCE

Chapter 20:  CREATION Stage

Chapter 21:  SAL Hierarchy Case Studies

Chapter 22:  The PRICE of Existential Growth

Chapter 23:  The SAL Lowerarchy

Chapter 24:  Universal Laws Set the Price

Chapter 25:  HUMILITY precedes Existential Growth

Chapter 26:  Expanding YOUR INFLUENCE through SAL

Chapter 27:  Applying the SAL Theory in Real Life: For Executives, Managers, and Administrators

Chapter 28:  Finding Meaning and Purpose in Your Life

Chapter 29:  Declaring War on the Enemy Within

                    SAL Master Challenge #5

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Volume IISelf-Action Leadership: An Action Research-Based Character Development Model

BOOK the FIFTH: The Self-Action Leadership Model

Chapter 1:  The Builders

Chapter 2:  The Seeds of Self-Help

Chapter 3:  A Construction Metaphor and Analogy

Chapter 4:  Planning and Preparation Stage

Chapter 5:  Self-EDUCATION

                    SAL Master Challenge #6

Chapter 6:  Building Relationships

                    SAL Master Challenge #7

Chapter 7:  Self-AWARENESS

                    SAL Master Challenge #8

Chapter 8:  Self-ORGANIZATION

Chapter 9:  Self-RECORDING 

                    SAL Master Challenge #9 

CHAPTER 10:  Self-ONENESS

                    SAL Master Challenge #10

                    SAL Master Challenge #11

Chapter 11:  Existential BLUEPRINTS

Chapter 12:  Drafting a SAL Declaration of Independence

                    SAL Master Challenge #12

Chapter 13:  Drafting a SAL Constitution

                    SAL Master Challenge #13

                    SAL Master Challenge #14

Chapter 14:  S.M.A.R.T.I.E.S Goals

Chapter 15:  SAL Daily Task Trackers

                    SAL Master Challenge #15

Chapter 16:  Developing an Integrity-Based Character

Chapter 17:  Honesty

                    SAL Master Challenge #16

Chapter 18:  Humility

                    SAL Master Challenge #17

Chapter 19:  Reverence

                    SAL Master Challenge #18

Chapter 20:  Rectification

                    SAL Master Challenge #19

Chapter 21:  Service

                    SAL Master Challenge #20

Chapter 22:  Freedom Tower Foundation

Chapter 23:  Taking ACTION

                    SAL Master Challenge #21

Chapter 24:  Self-Discipline

                    SAL Master Challenge #22

Chapter 25:  Actions in Public and Private

Chapter 26:  World-Altering Strategies

                    SAL Master Challenge #23

Chapter 27:  SELF-Rewards and NATURAL Rewards

                    SAL Master Challenge #24

Chapter 28:  Observation, Analysis, and Change

Chapter 29:  Self-Observation and Self-Analysis

Chapter 30:  Self-Renewal

Chapter 31:  Purpose Examination

Chapter 32:  External Feedback

Chapter 33:  Self-Alterations

Chapter 34:  Repeating the Cycle

Chapter 35:  Implementing the SAL Model into Your Life


BOOK the SIXTHSAL Success Stories

Chapter 1:  The Power of Real Life SAL Stories

Chapter 2:  Dr. JJ's Story

Chapter 3:  My Malaise of Mental Illness

Chapter 4:  A Rocky Road of Romance

Chapter 5:  Career Crucibles

Chapter 6:  From Orphan to Executive: The Nat Williams Story

Chapter 7:  Creating Your Own Career: The Jason Miner Story

Chapter 8:  A First Generation American Goes to West Point: The Pete Frometa Story

Chapter 9:  From South Side to Six Figures: The Felicia Cockrell Story

Chapter 10:  Paying the Price Over a Lifetime: The Charlie and Muriel Pierson Story

Chapter 11:  Grow Where You are Planted: The Fred and Marlene Hawryluk Story

Chapter 12:  Famous Examples of Self-Action Leadership

BOOK the SEVENTHPedagogy of Personal Leadership and Character Development

Chapter 1:  The Great Education Gap of Our Time

Chapter 2:  The Great Debate Over Character Education in the West

Chapter 3:  Good Examples from East Asia

Chapter 4:  The Miracle of SAL in Underprivileged Communities

Chapter 5:  The Morning Announcements: The Lynnda Crowder-Eagle Story

Chapter 6:  A Great Day at Campbell: The Kehl Arnson Story

Chapter 7:  Aphorisms for Athletes: The Campbell High School Weightlifting Room Story

Chapter 8:  I am Special: The Thresa Brooks Story

Chapter 9:  I am Sovereign in the Classroom: Dr. JJ's Teaching Story

Chapter 10:  A General Template for PPLCDs

BOOK the LAST: A Key to Everything

Chapter 1:  Now What?

Chapter 2:  Becoming a Conduit of Serendipity

Chapter 3:  You are Sovereign

Chapter 4:  The Art of Being Alive

Chapter 5:  A Key to Everything

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POSTSCRIPT

AFTERWORD by David G. Anthony, Ed.D.

About the Author

About Freedom Focused

Appendices Table of Contents

APPENDIX A:  Definitions of KEY TERMS

APPENDIX B:  Self-Action Leadership THEORY in Brief

APPENDIX C:  Self-Action Leadership MODEL in Brief

APPENDIX D:  SAL Master Challenge Requirements

APPENDIX E:  SAL Task Tracker Templates

APPENDIX F:  INTENDED AUDIENCES

APPENDIX G:  SAL Library of Recommended Reading

APPENDIX H:  SAL Mantras

APPENDIX I:  SAL Quotes

APPENDIX J:  SAL Poems

APPENDIX K:  SAL Essays

APPENDIX L:  SAL Speeches

APPENDIX M:  Freedom Focused Declaration of Independence

APPENDIX N:  Freedom Focused Corporate Constitution

Author's Note About Previous Editions of the SAL Textbook


Dr. JJ

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA


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