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How to save your own life : 15 lessons on finding hope in unexpected places / by Michael Gates Gill.

Summary:

Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons. Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, Gill provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, he discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781592405213
ISBN: 1592405215
Physical Description: xxi, 182 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, 2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Blessings in disguise -- Listen to others who have suffered and survived -- Listen to your own heart to find true happiness -- Leap with faith -- Let yourself be helped -- Look with respect at every individual you see -- Learn from your children -- Learn from your father -- Learn from your mother -- Lose your watch (and cell phone and PDA!) -- Let go and let God -- Laugh with new insight -- Live each day with gratitude like it might be your last -- Late bloomers: the last of life can be the best -- Less is more: lose all your "stuff" and find freedom -- Love the ride and let your light shine -- One concluding hopeful wish.