As television audiences and readers of his bestselling books, Self Matters, Life Strategies, and Relationship Rescue have learned, Dr. Phil has no time or patience for the "everyone's a victim" philosophy that permeates American culture. Instead, he focuses on encouraging people to face life as it really is, avoid denial, inertia, and self-deception, and take control of their own destinies. Distilling his philosophy into 365 factual, compassionate, and sometimes funny insights, Philisms covers everything from relationships to self-esteem to finding your authentic self. There is sage advice on how to create your own life (instead of letting life create you); concise and clever guidelines for discovering your core values, goals, strengths