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Start where you are : life lessons in getting from where you are to where you want to be / Chris Gardner with Mim Eichler Rivas.

Summary:

The author shares the life lessons that enabled him to rise from a homeless single father to a millionaire businessman and outlines steps for recovering from professional or physical setbacks and finding the motivation to pursue new challenges.

Record details

  • ISBN: 006153711X
  • ISBN: 9780061537110
  • Physical Description: 300 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Amistad/HarperCollins Pub., [2009]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
1 Start Where You Are: Universal Lessons for Pursuit 9 -- Lesson #1 -Without a Plan, a Dream Is Just a Dream (the C-5 Complex) 14 -- Lesson #2 -We All Have the Power of Choice 24 -- Lesson #3 -The Cavalry Ain't Coming 30 -- Lesson #4 -Start with What You've Got in Your Hand 37 -- Lesson #5 -Baby Steps Count, Too, as Long as You Go Forward 41 -- Lesson #6 -Stop Digging Your Potatoes 46 -- Lesson #7 -What Would the Champ Do? 52 -- Lesson #8 -Say "Peace Be Still" 56 -- Lesson #9 -Even Lewis and Clark Had a Map 62 -- Lesson #10 -Find Your Button 69 -- 2 Thorny and Golden Past: Personal Lessons Drawn from the Past 75 -- Lesson #11 -Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Yesterday? 82 -- Lesson #12 -In Your Library of Resources, Value All Experience 88 -- Lesson #13 -Draw the Line of Your Life 95 -- Lesson #14 -Whose Child Are You? 100 -- Lesson #15 -Check Out Your Own Version of Genesis 104 -- Lesson #16 -Who's Who in Your 'Hood? 107 -- Lesson #17 -The Red or the Yellow Bike? 112 -- Lesson #18 -Sometimes You Gotta Give Up Christmas 116 -- Lesson #19 -No Test, No Testimony 120 -- 3 Hitting the Anvil: Marketplace Lessons for Success 127 -- Lesson #20 -The Law of Hard Work Is No Secret 134 -- Lesson #21 -Core Strengths Forged on Your Anvil 142 -- Lesson #22 -Wizards Begin as Blacksmiths 148 -- Lesson #23 -Are You Bold Enough to Go Back to Basics? 155 -- Lesson #24 -Supply and Demand Ain't Rocket Science 164 -- Lesson #25 -Truth Is a Hit 170 -- Lesson #26 -Learn the Ropes First, Then Conquer Rome 175 -- Lesson #27 -Who's Who at the Office and in Your Spheres of Influence? 180 -- Lesson #28 -It Takes as Much Energy to Bag an Elephant as It Does a Mouse 186 -- Lesson #29 -Share the Wealth 190 -- 4 Your Empowerment Zone: Life-Changing Lessons for Mastery 195 -- Lesson #30 -Seek the Farthest Star 201 -- Lesson #31 -Seeing Ghosts, Reading Signs 206 -- Lesson #32 -Opportunities, Like Pancakes, Are Best Served Hot, but Sometimes You Gotta Set the Table Before You Can Eat 212 -- Lesson #33 -Stay Open, but Don't Wing It 216 -- Lesson #34 -Mo' Money, Mo' Options, Mo'Problems 223 -- Lesson #35 -Money Is the Least Significant Component of Wealth 229 -- Lesson #36 -Conscious Capitalism: A Personal and Global Primer 234 -- Lesson #37 -Make Your Dream Bigger Than Yourself 238 -- 5 Spiritual Genetics: Spiritual Lessons for Connecting to Your Higher Power 243 -- Lesson #38 -Embrace the Best of Your Spiritual Genetics 247 -- Lesson #39 -Breaking Generational Cycles 253 -- Lesson #40 -Your Divine Inheritance 259 -- Lesson #41 -God's in the Details 263 -- Lesson #42 -Passing the Torch, Raising the Bar 268 -- 6 Good Old Everyday: Ordinary Lessons for Happyness 275 -- Lesson #43 -Don't Postpone Joy 277 -- Lesson #44 -Claim Ownership of Your Dreams 282 -- Finale Takeaways: Get 'Em and Go 287.
Subject: Conduct of life.
Self-realization.
Success.

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