How to save your own life : 15 lessons on finding hope in unexpected places /
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 downt...
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New York :
Gotham Books,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.