Elaine La Monica Rigolosi

Unlock Your Cage Elaine La Monica Rigolosi

Publisher Marketing: Life involves choices - you can choose to paint a positive position and grab your own powers to achieve, or you can proceed feeling caged and helpless. For anyone looking to make transformative life changes, Unlock Your Cage will demonstrate how to lead yourself to where you wish to be. This revelatory and instructive story written as an allegorical fable presents insight and ideas that are refreshing and inspiring. By demonstrating the process and power of directed self-control, Unlock Your Cage will help you become aware of life changes you may wish to make - from conquering a bad habit or losing weight, to securing a promotion, or enhancing your athletic training. Unlock Your Cage guides you through a process of becoming aware of your thoughts, drives, and inner strengths, and focusing them toward goals using the powers of imagery. It demonstrates that improvement can be achieved by everyone; that optimal is reachable; and perfection is doing one's best in any situation. Following the instruction of The Great Wizard of The Lakes, Gretchen and Hans learn these lessons presented in a succession of four key concepts: Commitment, Awareness, Goals, and Exercise. This playful and engaging narrative brings to life these transformative focal points, with each section culminating with a Memory Leaf: a clear, readily referenced outline of the ideas and processes shared in the story. Taken together, the four chapters read consecutively will lead you on a path that will enable you to unlock your "C-A-G-E" from within. Unlock Your Cage will make clear that life is a series of choices set against your own unique blend of reality. What you do with your gifts and circumstances is and should be accomplished by conscious choices, using your own powers from within. You have everything necessary to choose to successfully make changes in your life and to view life positively, if your goals are realistic and if you have the desire to achieve them Contributor Bio:  Rigolosi, Elaine La Monica Elaine La Monica Rigolosi, EdD, JD, FAAN, is Professor of Education and Program Coordinator of the Executive Program for Nurses, and is a past Chair of the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teacher's College, Columbia University. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York; a Doctor of Education degree in Human Relations and Counseling from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; a Masters in Nursing in Medical and Surgical Nursing Administration from the University of Florida, Gainesville; and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland. Dr. Rigolosi maintains a private consulting practice in management for healthcare organizations and other public and private industries throughout the United States and Canada, and conducts training programs on organizational behavior and legal issues in healthcare both nationally and internationally. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Board of Directors of Hooper Holmes, Inc., Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Dr. Rigolosi is also a practicing attorney, admitted to the State of New York, State of New Jersey, and District of Columbia Bars. Dr. Rigolosi has published six books, including "Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care: An Experiential Approach, " Second Edition (2005), "Management in Health Care: A Theoretical and Experiential Approach" (1994), "Management in Nursing: An Experiential Approach That Makes Theory Work For You "(1990), "Nursing Leadership and Management: An Experiential Approach" (1986), "The Humanistic Nursing Process" (1985), and "The Nursing Process: A Humanistic Approach" (1979). Dr. Rigolosi developed the "La Monica Empathy Profile (1986) and the Empathy Construct Rating Scale "(1996), and published two other instruments: the "La Monica Patient Satisfaction Scale "(1986), and the Pharmaceutical Care Questionnaire with D. Gourley and G. Gourley (2001). Additional scholarly activities include serving as the Management Briefs Editor for "The Journal of Nursing Administration "and as a frequent author on management, empathy, research, and related topics. Dr. Rigolosi is an elected Associate-in-Law of The American College of Legal Medicine.