Bestselling author and marketing guru Joe Vitale offers insights and life lessons for achieving success
In the simple, straightforward tone of an instructional manual, this little book offers big wisdom and little-known secrets for living a better life. Packed with life lessons most people will wish they'd learned earlier, Life's Missing Instruction Manual uses humor and anecdote to present practical steps readers can use to take control of their lives, overcome any obstacle, and find fulfillment. Each simple lesson is explained and brought into focus with real-life examples and includes practical steps on putting those lessons to work every day. Full of uncommon wisdom and lighthearted humor, this book will help readers develop confidence, create a plan for success, get ahead at work, build rapport with others, develop time-management skills, and find wealth and happiness.
Readers will learn how to live life to the fullest when they discover how to:
* Take chances that lead to success
* Get through the tough times
* Be themselves and like it
* Find their purpose
* Work as a team
* Create their own blueprint for success
* Believe in themselves
* Lead a good and moral life
* Accept their mistakes and move on
* Define success for themselves
Joe Vitale (Wimberley, TX) is President of Hypnotic Marketing, Inc., and author of The Attractor Factor (0-471-70604-3) and The E-Code (0-471-71855-6). He has been called "the Buddha of the Internet" for his combination of spirituality and marketing acumen. His professional clients include the Red Cross, PBS, Hermann Children's Hospital, and many other small and large international businesses.
FOREWORD Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
Introduction: How to Use This Manual
Introduction 3
You: Congratulations on Your Life
Your Point of Power Is Now 7
I Wish I Had Learned . . . ~ Jim Edwards 9
You Can Be Happy Now 9
Life Doesnt Have to Be Hard 10
You Are Behind Your Eyes 10
Your Feelings Are Hidden Thoughts 11
Everything Is Energy Directed by Your Thoughts 12
You Cant Stop Your Thoughts but You Dont Have to Listen to Them, Either 12
Everything Is a Projection from Inside You 13
Your Nature Is Your Current Act 14
How to Know What You Want 14
You Get More of Whatever You Focus on 15
Whatever You Say after I Am Defines Who You Become 15
What You Love or What You Hate Will Be Drawn to You 16
Your Body Requires No Assembly 16
Great Hair, Great Day 16
Your Memory Will Never Be Accurate 17
Love 17
Sex 18
Food 18
Exercise 18
Three Life Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Earlier ~ Dr. Paul Hartunian 19
Internal Capabilities: Understanding Your Lifes Potential
Anything Is Possible 23
You Create Your Future with a Pen 23
Achieving Your Goals Is Easy 24
Your Mind Operates under Its Own Conception 24
How to Feel Better in One Minute 25
A Smile Is Universally Understood 25
Exercise: Laugh Like a Child with Milk Coming Out Your Nose 26
Your Language Can Create Attractors 26
Behind Every Behavior Is a Belief 27
Reclaim Your Self-Esteem: Transform Your Self-Talk from Negative to Positive ~ Dr. Joe Rubino 27
Three Secrets to Manage Your Time 33
Naps Are Good 34
Letting Go of Your Fears ~ Cindy Cashman 34
How to Break Through the Hidden Obstacle Holding You Back from What You Truly Want
~ Craig Perrine 38
Who You See Is Who You Will Be . . . ~ Kevin Hogan 42
To Everything, Turn! Turn! Turn! ~ Alan R. Bechtold 44
What I Wish Id Learned When I Was Younger ~ Bob Scheinfeld 48
The Great Philosophers Were Only Giving You Their Views 49
External Connections: Caring for Others in Your Life
The Most Valuable Life Lesson Youll Ever Learn ~ Chip Tarver 53
Your Relationships Are for Your Growth 54
Your Parents Did the Best They Could 54
Your Children Will Become What They Become 55
You Can Achieve Anything with Support 55
Listening ~ John Milton Fogg 56
What You Do Influences People Down the Chain 57
People Like Nice People 58
People Want to Be Loved 58
Having a Role Model Can Bring Out the Best in You 58
How to End an Argument 59
How to Deal with an Enemy 59
The Man Who Offered to Beat Me Up 59
Everyone Is Going through Something 61
Failing Life ~ Bill Harris 61
Troubleshooting: Taking Care of Yourself
The Universe Always Says Yes 67
Once You Get the Lesson, You Dont Need the Experience 67
Give What You Want to Receive 67
You Get the Results Youre Supposed to Get 68
This, Too, Will Pass 68
Be Not Afraid 69
What You Fear May Contain What You Seek 69
Be Willing to Delay Gratification to Achieve Astonishing Results 70
The Lesson That Takes a Lot of the Speed Bumps Out of Life ~ Ann Taylor 70
Miracles Happen All the TimeNo Exceptions 75
Confusion Is the Wonderful State before Clarity 75
The More Clutter around You, the More Clutter in You 75
The Night Window Is Your Chance to Place Your Order 76
Welcome Ghosts 76
Do Not Strive for Perfection 78
Perfect As Is ~ John Burton 79
How You Feel Really Does Matter ~ Mandy Evans 80
Forgiveness ~ Jeremy Likness 83
Logic Doesnt Exist 84
How to Make a Decision 85
You Will Always Want to Be Right and Rarely Will Be 86
Everything You Hear Isnt True 86
Judgment Is Not Evil ~ Bruce M. Burns 87
Names Do Hurt 87
Predicting the End of the World Will Make You Look Bad 87
All Time Happens Now 88
What Time Is It For? 88
Optimum Performance: Getting the Best Out of Your Life
Indian Wisdom: Two Wolves 91
Dont Be Afraid to Ask for Help 91
To Change, Burn Your Bridges 92
What to Do When You Are Afraid ~ Dr. Larina Kase 92
My Inherited Fear of Financial Ruin ~ Dr. Robert Anthony 93
Are You Playing the Role of Victim? ~ Nerissa Oden 98
How to Get a Job 99
Get a Pet 100
Illness Is a Call from Your Body 100
Pay Your Taxes 101
The Favorite Question of Your Mind Can Drive You Batty 101
Specifications: What You Need to Know About Others
People Idolize the Past, Complain about the Present, and Fear the Future 105
People Never Question Their Own Beliefs, so Dont Try to Change Them 105
People Will Tend to Say Yes If You Start Them Saying Yes 106
People Do Things Only for the Good Feelings They Get 106
People Will Pay Any Amount of Money to Have Their Inner States Changed 107
People Want to Be HappyPeriod 107
People Respond to Flattery 107
People Will Never Argue with You If You Never Make Them Wrong 108
People Always Act for Positive Reasons, Even If the Behavior Is Negative 108
People Will Respond to You If You Get Out of Your Ego and into Theirs 109
People Want to Be Recognized 109
People Universally Feel Deprived 109
People Are Collectors of Something, Whether of Books, Thimbles, or Recipes, Though They May Deny It 110
People Will Continue with a Bad Habit until It Hurts 110
People Will Do Whatever You Want as Long as They Dont Have a Counterthought to Your Request.
Handle the Objection and They Will Comply 110
People Feel That Someone Else Is in Control and Desperately Seek Ways to Have Power Again 111
People Will Follow Commands That Make Them Feel Superior 111
People Are Deeply Affected by What Others Think 112
People Only Act for Self-Serving Reasons,
No Matter What They Say or What You Think 112
People Unconsciously Respond to Your Unconscious Intentions 113
People Will Never Change Their Human Emotions or Basic DesiresOnly Their Dress and Their Tools Will Change 113
Proper Usage: Defining Your Lifes Purpose
You Can Have Whatever You Want as Long as You Dont Want It 117
Rags to Rages ~ Mark Joyner 117
Crazy Wisdom ~ Blair Warren 118
Growing Old May Be a Choice 119
Money Is Energy 120
Marketing Is Not Evil 120
Failure Is Not Death 123
How to Handle Death 123
The Only Thing You Can Count On 123
The Healers SecretHow Can This Secret Transform Your Relationships? ~ William Wittmann, M.Ed., LMP 127
Three Secrets ~ Marc Gitterle, M.D. 130
Assembly Required: Creating Your Future
Almost All First Steps Are Awkward 137
Dont Fall Back ~ Bill Hibbler 137
A New Way to Easily Achieve Your Goals 140
Spinning the Roulette Wheel to Self-Fulfillment ~ Dr. Rick Barrett 142
The Top 10 Destructive Money Beliefs (and How to Overcome Them) ~ Dan Klatt 147
Your Mind Is an Instrument for Poverty or Prosperity ~ Randy Gage 150
When Bad Things Happen to Good People 150
Everything You Do Will Be a Success 151
Life is Short ~ Jillian Coleman 152
The Owners Manual I Wish I Had Gotten at Birth ~ Pat OBryan 153
Aude aliquid dignum 157
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 158
