101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Powell's Books
Synopsis:
This inspirational guide is about all those really important life lessons that virtually all of us have already learned -- but for some mysterious reason -- keep forgetting.
Adopting even one of these sometimes basic -- sometimes profound -- 101 concepts of living will help you experience a more meaningful, more relaxed lifestyle filled with happiness and fulfillment.
What You Will Discover -- or Rediscover -- by Reading This Book
- Too much safety is dangerous for your well-being.
- Predict your failures and you will become a highly successful prophet.
- Don't buy expensive socks if you can never find them.
- Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.
- It's always easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.
- Being right at all costs is like being a dead hero -- there is no payoff!
- Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
- To double your success rate, just double your failure rate.
- Ten million dollars cannot buy what great friendship can.
- If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.
Above all, 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting presents commonsense advice to help you live a happier, healthier, and wealthier life!
From a Review by Herb Denenberg in the Philadelphia Bulletin
Here's a book you can fall in love with just by reading the table of contents. It's entitled 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski.
The table of contents listing those 101 things, plus a bonus of five more, is masterful, but so is each of the chapters expanding on each table of contents entry. If you are like most of us and have forgotten these lessons, I suspect you'll remember them after reading the book.
I flipped over the book because each lesson struck me as important and because reading the explanatory chapter convinced me in a persuasive and entertaining way that the lesson was important.
So first take a sample from the table of contents:
- One true friend is worth more than 10,000 superficial ones.
- Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
- The surest way to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Your past is always going to be the way it was - so stop trying to change it.
- A walk or run in nature is the best medicine for many of your ailments.
- The shortcut to being truly fit and trim is long-term rigorous action.
- Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
- If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.
- No matter how successful you become, the size of your funeral will still depend on the weather.
- Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time dead.
I don't know about you, but I think those lessons of life are not only central to a good life but are also well stated. This Zelinski guy knows how to write prose that has the potential to become those old proverbs everyone repeats.
- From a Review by Herb Denenberg in the Philadelphia Bulletin
Purchase 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting directly at:
Amazon.com
Book Excerpt:
Have you ever noticed how history has a habit of repeating itself? Many situations in which you find yourself today are likely similar to ones you have experienced sometime in the past. The other participants, as well as the stage, may have changed along the way — the deep-laid plot and intriguing drama are all too familiar, however. Through each of the scenes, you get to learnseveral important concepts of living that you have already learned several times — but keep forgetting. You may have first encountered some of these life principles when you were in grade school. Nevertheless, you have had to relearn them from time to time, in some cases too many times to count. Keep in mind that it is all too easy to carry the baggage of your youth into your later years. You don’t want to be sixty or seventy years old and saying, "Any day now, I am going to get my act together and stop making this same costly mistake over and over again." This is the reason that this book focuses on many of those life lessons that most of us have already learned — but for some mysterious reason keep consigning to oblivion. Sometimes it’s not all that mysterious; it’s just a case of our acting out of emotion instead of consulting our intellect. Knowing which situations to avoid and which principles to follow is important for a full, rewarding, happy, and enlightened life. Indeed, failure to abide by these life lessons can drastically affect our personal and vocational success. In large measure this book is autobiographical. Even while writing it, I occasionally found myself promptly violating one of the principles about which I had just written. In one case, it was somewhat embarrassing when it cost me some money and my pride. I thought of the graffiti writer who claimed, "I learn from my mistakes — I can make the same mistake with greater ease the second time around." You will notice that much of the content in this book is just plain common sense. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once said, "We all need an education in the obvious." In the same vein, a Latin proverb states that common sense is not all that common. What’s more, philosophers tell us common sense in an unusual amount leads to wisdom. I hope that this book will also give you an insight or two instead of just reminding you of what you already know. There may indeed be a few life lessons that you previously haven’t learned. Martin Vanbee warned us, "Learn from the mistakes of others — you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." After reading this book you may finally get the message about some of life’s important principles so that you don’t have to relearn them the hard way. Perish the thought of never violating all the lessons in this book, however. There will always be moments of weakness in your life during which you repeat some mistake you have made several times before. Your goal should be to minimize the number of important lessons you keep forgetting and the number of times you forget them. Try to read this book with an open heart and an open mind. Apply the principles that resonate with you and discard those that don’t. Whenever working on a new project, I always keep in mind the words of Thomas Carlyle: "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." My wish is that the life lessons in this book infect you with the inspiration, motivation, and commitment needed to attain your dream of having a full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life.
101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting
Download the Free E-book of 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting with 17 free chapters at Ernie Zelinski's Creative Free E-Books Website.
Purchase 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting at:
or:
About Ernie Zelinski, the Author
Ernie J. Zelinski is a leading authority on early retirement and solo-entrepreneurship. He is the author of the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor), which has sold over 110,000 copies sold and has been published in 7 foreign languages.
Ernie is also author of the unconventional Career Success Without a Real Job (The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations). Ernie Z.'s latest works are The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why Retirement Rocks (and Work Sucks) and Look Ma, Life's Easy.
Download the Creative Free E-book Editions of Ernie Zelinski's The Joy of Not Working and How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free at:
Author Comment:
Dedicated to My Wonderful Mother Violet Zelinski (Waselyna Gordychuk) August 5, 1921 – February 8, 2007 Who passed away while I was completing this book — and meant so much to her friends, her relatives, and me for so many years. We all love you and miss you dearly.
Topics/Categories:
Type of Work:
Publishers:
Purchase From:
Amazon.com
BarnesandNoble.com
Free E-book Gift Version
Sandhill Book Marketing
Amazon.ca
Chapters / Indigo
Original Publish Date:
September 1, 2007
Formats:
Paperback
- Share With:
