101 Really Important Things You Already Know, but Keep Forgetting
, by ZELINSKI ERNIE J.
- ISBN: 9780969419488 | 0969419481
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2007
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.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI has an Engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Alberta. Because he is truly organizationally averse, he has not had a real job for over twenty-five years. Ernie speaks professionally on the subjects of real success, retirement, and applying creativity to business and leisure.
| Preface | p. 1 |
| You Don't Have to Know the Meaning of Life to Enjoy It Fully | p. 3 |
| Life Is Tough - But Then Again, Compared to What? | p. 5 |
| Life's a Breeze When You Work As Hard at Simplifying It As You Do at Complicating It | p. 7 |
| Happiness Doesn't Care How You Get There | p. 9 |
| Slow Down in Your Pursuit of Happiness and It's More Likely to Catch up with You | p. 11 |
| Predict Your Failures and You Will Become a Highly Successful Prophet | p. 13 |
| The Pain of Unfulfilled Dreams Can Be the Worst Ache You Will Ever Experience | p. 15 |
| If You Want to Be a Star, It's Best Not to Bother with Other Things | p. 17 |
| Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life | p. 20 |
| Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! | p. 23 |
| Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies | p. 25 |
| To Know and Not to Do Is Not Yet to Know | p. 27 |
| Always Expect the Unexpected Because the Only Certainty Is Uncertainty | p. 29 |
| Too Much Safety Is Dangerous for Your Well-Being | p. 31 |
| You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching | p. 33 |
| Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You | p. 35 |
| If You Don't Want to Accomplish Something Important, Any Excuse Will Do | p. 37 |
| Self-Pity Costs Nothing and It Is Worth Just As Much | p. 39 |
| You Can Be a Victim or You Can Be Successful - You Can't Be Both, However | p. 41 |
| If Something Is Boring You, It's Probably You | p. 43 |
| All Worry Is Wasted | p. 45 |
| Procrastination Is the Art of Keeping Up with Yesterday | p. 47 |
| Don't Buy Expensive Socks If You Can Never Find Them | p. 49 |
| Book Smart Does Not Mean Life Smart | p. 51 |
| Contrary to Popular Belief, Time Is Not Money | p. 53 |
| Slow Down and the Rest of the World Will Slow Down for You | p. 55 |
| A Good Friend Is Much Cheaper than Therapy - and Ten Times As Helpful! | p. 57 |
| Ten Million Dollars Cannot Buy What Great Friendship Can | p. 59 |
| One True Friend Is Worth More than 10,000 Superficial Ones | p. 61 |
| If You Can Be Happy Only with Others - and Not Alone - You Are Not a Very Happy Person | p. 63 |
| People Are Only Human - If They Weren't, Life Would Be Different | p. 65 |
| It's All Too Easy to Overestimate Your Ability to Change Others | p. 67 |
| Giving Advice to Anyone Means That You Either Lose or Break Even | p. 69 |
| Don't Walk away from Negative People - Run! | p. 71 |
| If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, You Will Become One Yourself | p. 73 |
| There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot | p. 75 |
| The Best Way to Impress People Is by Not Trying to Impress Them | p. 77 |
| Nice People Are Often Not Good People and Good People Are Often Not Nice People | p. 79 |
| Everyone in This World - Including You and Me - Is Selfish | p. 81 |
| When Someone Fails to Keep a Commitment, There Is a 95 Percent Chance That It Will Happen Again | p. 83 |
| Good Deeds Are Seldom Remembered; Bad Deeds Are Seldom Forgotten | p. 85 |
| The Surest Way to Failure Is Trying to Please Everyone | p. 87 |
| It's Always Easier to Stay Out of Trouble than to Get Out of Trouble | p. 89 |
| Don't Take It Personally; They Are Doing It to Everyone Else | p. 91 |
| The More Important It Is, the Less Chance That Anybody Is Going to Do It for You | p. 93 |
| Belief Is a Disease | p. 95 |
| Beware of Experts - Particularly Those with the Most Knowledge and Experience | p. 97 |
| Being Reasonable Wins Us the Booby Prize of Life | p. 99 |
| Wise People Learn More from Fools than Fools Learn from Wise People | p. 101 |
| Be Careful with Your Heroes; Don't Put Any of Them on a Pedestal | p. 103 |
| It Doesn't Cost Much to Be Kind, But It Can Be Very Costly Being Too kind | p. 105 |
| Being Right at All Costs Is like Being a Dead Hero - There Is No Payoff | p. 107 |
| The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You | p. 109 |
| Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It? | p. 111 |
| Your Past Is Always Going to Be the Way It Was - So Stop Trying to Change It! | p. 113 |
| All You Can Experience Is the Now, So Why Aren't You There? | p. 115 |
| If Your House Is on Fire, Warm Yourself by It | p. 117 |
| Living Well Is the Best Revenge | p. 119 |
| You Don't Have to Watch One Minute of TV to Be Happy - and Perhaps You Shouldn't | p. 121 |
| You Are the Biggest Cause of Problems in Your Life | p. 123 |
| Many of the Things You Want Will Give You More Problems than You Can Ever Imagine | p. 125 |
| You Can Change the Quality of Your Life Instantaneously | p. 127 |
| The Severity of Your Problems Is a Matter of Perspective | p. 129 |
| You Aren't Going to Solve the Problem If You Don't Identify It Properly | p. 131 |
| No One Can Give You Wiser Advice than You Can | p. 133 |
| Take Special Care of Yourself - Because No One Else Will! | p. 135 |
| A Walk or Run in Nature Is the Best Medicine for Many of Your Ailments | p. 137 |
| The Shortcut to Being Truly Fit and Trim Is Long-Term Rigorous Action | p. 139 |
| Your Mind Needs a Good Run Too | p. 141 |
| Life Isn't Fair and It Will Continue to Be That Way | p. 143 |
| There Is No One Big Deal in Life That Will Save Your Hide | p. 145 |
| The World Doesn't Owe You or Me or Anyone else a Living | p. 147 |
| You Can't Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get a Lot More than You Think You Can | p. 149 |
| There Is More to Positive Thinking than Thinking Positive Thoughts | p. 151 |
| What Will Keep You from Getting What You Want Is Not Knowing What You Truly Want | p. 153 |
| You Aren't Going to Get Much of What You Want Unless You Ask for It | p. 155 |
| Getting Rid of Your Desire for Something Is As Good As Possessing It | p. 157 |
| Want What You Have and You Will Always Get What You Want | p. 159 |
| You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So | p. 161 |
| If Patience Is Just the Art of Concealing Your Impatience, You Better Be Very Good at It | p. 163 |
| Opportunity Knocks Often - How Often Are You Home? | p. 165 |
| To Double Your Success Rate, Just Double Your Failure Rate | p. 167 |
| Compromising Your Integrity for Money, Power, or Fame Will Come Back to Haunt You Big Time | p. 169 |
| There Are Many Fascinating Worlds Without Money | p. 171 |
| More Money Won't Bring You More Happiness - It Works the Other Way Around! | p. 173 |
| True Prosperity Is Living Easily and Happily Whether You Have Lots of Money or Not | p. 175 |
| Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me | p. 177 |
| Spend More Money on Your Personal Development than on Your Next Hairstyle | p. 179 |
| To Have a Good Grasp of Money, Try Joyfully Parting with a Fair Portion of It! | p. 181 |
| Being a Success at Work Is Irrelevant If You Are a Failure at Home | p. 183 |
| The Work Ethic Is a Terrible Mistake | p. 185 |
| Work As Hard As You Have to for a Comfortable Living - and As Little As You Can Get Away With | p. 187 |
| It's Best to Leave Perfection for the Misfits of this World to Pursue | p. 189 |
| Most Activities Worth Doing Should Be Done in the Most Haphazardly Fashion Possible | p. 191 |
| If You Are What You Ain't, Then You Ain't What You Truly Should Be | p. 193 |
| You Can't Make a Big Difference in This World Unless You Are Different | p. 195 |
| Look Inside and You Will Find More Outside | p. 197 |
| Your Envy Is the Satisfaction and Happiness That You Think Others Are Experiencing | p. 199 |
| If the Grass on the Other Side of the Fence Is Greener, Try Watering Your Side | p. 201 |
| No Matter How Successful You Become, the Size of Your Funeral Will Still Depend upon the Weather | p. 203 |
| Be Happy While You Are Alive Because You Are a Long Time Dead | p. 207 |
| Additional Life Lessons | |
| Thank Your Mother a Lot While She Is Still Alive | p. 213 |
| Flowers, Cards, and Candy Are Not the Essence of Mother's Day | p. 219 |
| Fortune Resides on the Other Side of Fear | p. 221 |
| Forget How Old You Are - This Becomes More Important the Older You Get | p. 223 |
| Flat Out - Great Friends Rock! | p. 225 |
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