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Surviving My Happy Childhood by Jim Carpenter

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Carpenter’s book, Surviving My Happy Childhood was released by Delicti Press on March 1, 2011. ISBN 978-0979852657 and is available in in Suttons Bay at The Business Helper or if you’re not able to shop locally with Leelanau Peninsula booksellers, the option to buy Surviving My Happy Childhood online is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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Heard the taped version of LIVING AN EXTRAORDINARY
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“Living an Extraordinary Life” was written to help you find happiness and fulfillment within your life. It is written around a framework of three concepts that need to be worked on in order for us to achieve our goals. These concepts are: Awareness, Responsibility and Communication. White teaches you how to apply these concepts into your life so that you can find your true purpose and achieve your goals. White uses eye catching chapter titles, lists of the differences between ordinary people and extraordinary

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This book has helped me out tremendously. I love how John Fuhrman uses facts in a life’s standpoint view from his and other peoples experiances to prove that what he’s teaching Is the better, and easier way to live you’re life.

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I have read two of this fellow’s books, including this one, and I found myself wading through the unrelated, and sometimes contrived, soundbytes. I do believe that even a bad book has one or two “good bits” in it, and for that reason perhaps I can be excused for attempting the second book after being disappointed the first time. Plus, it came to me as a book club offering, so I assumed/hoped it would be okay.I could find no thread that lasted more than a couple of sentences and none of them seemed really connected with any other or with any theme as such.I don’t object to pithy, clever phrases, perse. They’re useful hooks and devices to help us retain our focus out there in a negative world. A book of pithy sayings is one thing, but a book which does not call itself such but which is full of barely anything else is quite another thing, and much less good.The style comes across to me like the thing was thrown together in a very short while, a bit like someone dictated into a tape recorder and then had it typed up, but worse because there is no conversational style to speak of.

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The quotations and success lessons are very easy to search. They are categorized by over 90 subjects and page number in the Table of Contents. The printed book (not the ebook) also cross-indexes and groups each quote by its author’s name and page number in a separate Index at the end of the book.

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I’m sure you’ve heart of the book, “Think and Grow Rich”, by Napoleon Hill. Why is it that all of his books are so successful? Born in to poverty in 1883, it seems as though he tapped in to the Universal Secret of becoming successful financially, physically and spiritually.

In his book, The Seventeen Principals of Personal Achievement, Hill lays out the principals in a practical and concrete way. His first chapter speaks about developing a ‘Definiteness of Purpose’; figuring out what it is that you want to achieve, know as much about it as possible and then performing it exceptionally well. After you write out your plan, you then read it out loud to yourself every day.

In the second chapter, he encourages one to form a Mastermind Alliance with two or more like-minded individuals to work in harmony toward a definite purpose. Each member must agree on the contribution that each will contribute toward the goal.

Hill states that an important step in achieving success in life is to form a pleasant personality. He speaks of the PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) as the most important aspect of any pleasant personality. He encourages one to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and emergencies without becoming upset or angry. He feels that having a flexible disposition is helpful in any situation.

Hill speaks of Mahatma Gandhi and how his five sources of power helped him to defeat the British Empire:

- Definiteness of Purpose
- Going the Extra Mile
- Applied Faith
- Mastermind
- Self-Discipline

In Chapter 13, Hill writes of learning from adversity and defeat and how to turn it in to a blessing. He stresses that one’s attitude about defeat is important in mastering it. “You can see it as a loss or as a chance for gain.”

The last chapter deals with habits to be aware of; “Poverty, Laziness, Envy, Greed, Vanity, Cynicism, Irritability, Revenge, Jealousy, Dishonesty and Arrogance.” I’m just sure you might be familiar with one or two. Hill asks that the reader embrace them and replace them with the follow, “Definiteness of Purpose, Faith, Personal Initiative, Enthusiasm, Self-Discipline and Going the Extra Mile”. I believe these are the same habits that Gandhi used in his quest.

After I read one of Napoleon Hill’s books, I usually feel a bit prideful in my awareness of the obvious, but a bit guilty for not applying the principles. I can only hope that it all comes in sync and I become the person that I know I Am.

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Developing a positive attitude is the single most important factor to your success, both in a personal and a financial sense. The importance of being positive and taking what life throws at you and coming back for more cannot be stressed enough. If you carry this throughout your life your chances of success will improve a hundred fold and more.

Napoleon Hill, in his seminal book `Think And Grow Rich`, called it applied faith, you can do it if you believe you can. It is funny how it is very rarely the most talented or cleverest people who get to the top of their chosen profession. It is the ones with a positive attitude, who have the drive and determination to fail, sometimes time and time again, but come back for more because they know in their heart that eventually they will succeed.

And of course success is all the sweeter for it, if you have looked adversity in the face and beaten it you will enjoy it all the more. People who have developed a positive attitude are not put off by setbacks, they just see it as another great challenge to overcome. They know that their will to succeed is far too big for anyone or anything to stand in their way.

I often have watched professional football matches, and seen certain players who had very little skill or technical ability, but keep getting picked by their coach week after week, and wondered why this was.

And now I realize that in every team you need some players who refuse to be beaten. When the team or 2-0 down away from home on a stormy day, with the opposition kicking lumps out of you, you need players who will not accept defeat, and however difficult the situation they fight to the very last minute.

They might not be the best player, but their positive attitude drags the rest of the team along with them, and so they are worth their weight in gold to the coach. The coach knows he can trust them implicitly every time that they go out on the pitch for the team.

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