Beyond Chicken Soup provides the reader with a multiple-use asset.The division of Beyond Chicken Soup into 52 separate but related parts (one for each week of the year), together with the timeless nature of the content, and the opportunity for active reader participation, renders BCS a multiple-use asset: an inspirational, a change-agent, a meditation, and a daily reflective.Beyond Chicken Soup offers active reader participation.As anyone who keeps a journal knows, the thought process, especially as it relates to personal change, is greatly enhanced by responding to specific inquiries and suggestions. Beyond Chicken Soup, through use of 52 sets of interrogatives, each set linked to a specific reminder message, encourages active reader participation.Beyond Chicken Soup can be partaken of a spoonful at a time.We live in an era of severe time-competition. Few people having a hunger to read and reflect today have the time (or energy) to satisfy that hunger. The reality of their lives requires that information be served up efficiently and manageably.Beyond Chicken Soup in its simplicity, modularity, and brevity, meets today’s harried, time-starved readers where they (for the most part) cannot other than be, for now.Beyond Chicken Soup includes a bonus five delicious recipes contributed by Beth Hensperger author of The Bread Bible.