Books like A Handbook for Constructive Living

I was intrigued by Morita therapy because I think many of my issues stem from being overly reflective and self-aware. Most therapies I'd previously encountered seemed to encourage me to delve deeper into the habits of thought that were the very problem. Constructive living takes the opposite approach - encouraging attentive action.I was not going to give this book more than 3 stars until I got to the exercises section, maybe because I was easily sold on the underlying theory and found the initial "sell" unnecessary. Once the advice became more concrete, I found it straight-forward and sensible, structured enough to be approachable, flexible enough to be realistic. I am excited to put the method to work (though I hold no illusions that the simplicity will make it easy to execute). If nothing else, I appreciated the refrain that there are no neurotics, only neurotic moments. I had come to think of myself as innately neurotic, and I hadn't really considered the effects of that fixed mindset. It is freeing to think of those tendencies as states of mind that come and go and are influenced by my behavior rather than an inherent part of my personality.