101 Really Important Things You Already Know, but Keep Forgetting

by ZELINSKI ERNIE J.

• ISBN13: 9780969419488
• ISBN10: 0969419481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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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