Las grandes lecciones de la vida (Life's Greatest Lessons)

Aprendiendo lo que es realmente importante a partir de la experiencia

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Las grandes lecciones de la vida:
Cómo aprender lo que es realmente importante
basado en nuestras experiencias


Se ha detenido a reflexionar alguna vez en que:
- El tener éxito es mucho más que ganar dinero.
- La vida es dura...y no siempre justa.
- La vida también es diversión...e increíblemente divertida.
- Los hábitos son las claves de todo éxito.
- El mejor hábito que usted tendrá en la vida es la práctica de sentir agradecimiento.
- Las buenas personas construyen sus vidas sobre una base de respeto.
- La vida es más sencilla cuando sabemos lo que es esencial.

Este libro le recordará veinte reglas sencillas que puestas en práctica le propocionarán el equilibrio y la serenidad imprescindibles para enfrentarse a todos los acontecimientos buenos y malos, que sin duda, se cruzarán en su camino. Con el talante y el espíritu adecuados, le ayudará a superar con éxito cualquier obstáculo. ¡Y recuerde! La regla esencial es ser una buena persona.
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  • Touchstone | 
  • 176 pages | 
  • ISBN 9781416551560 | 
  • January 2008
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Chapter 1


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Than Making Money


Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph.

Wynn Davis


Life's Most Important Discovery


I was thirty-nine when I first understood what it meant to be successful. What did I do? Become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company? Drive home in my first Mercedes? Win the lottery? Take home the grand prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? None of the above. I just made a simple, yet profound, discovery. I discovered how life works and what its essentials...

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I Wrote This Book

for Four Reasons


1. Because We're Never Too Young or Too Old to Learn Life's Greatest Lessons...and the Time Is Always Right


I was a teacher for thirty-five years and loved virtually every minute of it. I had the best of all worlds -- I taught kids in a public high school, adults in a Jesuit university, and spoke often to children at the elementary- and middle-school levels. I discovered long ago that regardless of age, people are eager to learn when it means understanding life more deeply and living it more fully. The letters and e-mails I receive from young children,...

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