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Index
Praise for Dad’s Little Book of Wisdom
Introduction
Chapter 1: Start with Your Desire
1.1 Be Yourself
1.2 Get to the Finish Line
1.3 Use a Magic Book
1.4 Read Inspiring Books
1.5 Find Your Secret Motivation
1.6 Dream the Impossible Dream
1.7 Learn from My National Championship Story
1.8 Instructions — Think on Paper
1.9 Decide to Believe
Take Action
Chapter 2: Clarify Your Goal
2.1 Instructions — Create a Goal
2.2 Act Courageously
2.3 Don’t Tell the World. Show It
2.4 Make Yourself Known
2.5 Set Goals in Different Areas
2.6 Instructions — List Your Be, Do & Have Goals
2.7 Become a Millionaire
2.8 Tend Your Garden
2.9 Schedule Your Goal
2.10 Keep Going
2.11 Overcome Your Obstacles
2.12 Instructions — Use Affirmations
2.13 Get to the Finish Line — Part II
Take Action
Chapter 3: Adjust Your Attitude
3.1 Welcome Hard Work
3.2 Exercise Self-Discipline
3.3 Do or Do Not
3.4 Work to the Best of Your Ability
3.5 Maintain Integrity and Build Trust
3.6 GOYA!
3.7 Subordinate Your Dislike for Your Purpose
3.8 Persist
3.9 Face Your Fears
3.10 Find Your Right Fit
3.11 Get Better
3.12 Adopt Successful Habits
3.13 Seek Mentors
3.14 Tips for Interviewing for a Job
3.15 Instructions — How to Negotiate a Higher Salary
Take Action
Chapter 4: Value Your Time
4.1 Get Started
4.2 Make Time to Think
4.3 Put Your Big Rocks in First
4.4 Focus on One Thing
4.5 Take Your Goal in Small Steps
4.6 Instructions — Write Down Your Daily Activities
4.7 Schedule Your Weekly Goals
4.8 Invest in Your Education
4.9 Take Time for Solitude
4.10 Invest Your Time Until You Succeed
4.11 Stick to It
4.12 Get “Unstuck”
4.13 Maintain Consistency
4.14 Control What You Can Control
4.15 Calculate Your Hourly Rate
4.16 When Not to Invest Your Time
Take Action
Chapter 5: Manage Your Finances
5.1 Develop a Long-Time Perspective
5.2 Adopt a Healthy Attitude about Money
5.3 Give like the Good Samaritan
5.4 Be a Producer
5.5 Learn to Save
5.6 Instructions — How to Budget Expenses
5.7 Pay Off Your Student Loans the Smart Way
5.8 Instructions — The Debt Snowball
5.9 Manage Credit with Care
5.10 Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps, Including Developing an Emergency Fund
5.11 How Not to Buy a Car
5.12 How to Buy a Car
5.13 Invest in the Stock Market
5.14 Don’t Attempt to Look Rich
5.15 Learn the 4 Percent Rule
5.16 Instructions — Calculate Your Financial Independence Number
5.17 Increase Income by Increasing Value
Take Action
Chapter 6: Sell Your Ideas
6.1 Influence Others
6.2 Seek First to Understand
6.3 Employ Effective Communication
6.4 Ask for What You Want
6.5 Leverage Meetings
6.6 Learn from Bill Clinton’s Speaking Example
6.7 Public Speaking
6.8 Instructions — Create Your Talk
6.9 Select the Appropriate Sales Fit
6.10 Use Sales Tools to Succeed
6.11 Overcome Obstacles
Take Action
Chapter 7: Think Through Your Decisions
7.1 Know Where You Are Going
7.2 Instructions — Think on Paper
7.3 Be Congruent
7.4 Trust Your Gut
7.5 Overcome Doubt with Decision
7.6 Know When Not to Decide
7.7 Ask for Help
Take Action
Chapter 8: Connect with Your Family and Friends
8.1 Cultivate Relationships
8.2 Help Others Get What They Want
8.3 Select Close Friends Wisely
8.4 Choose to Grow for Others
8.5 Learn from My Story — Speaking as Best Man
8.6 Be the Right Spouse
8.7 Bring Out the Best in Others
8.8 Learn from the Story of Edison, Ford, and Firestone
8.9 My Dad
Take Action
Chapter 9: Foster Your Faith
9.1 Listen
9.2 Act as a Conduit
9.3 The Attitude of Gratitude
9.4 Connect to the Universe’s Energy
9.5 Act in Faith
9.6 Let Your Light Shine
9.7 Do Small Things with Great Love
9.8 Attain Peace of Mind
9.9 Instructions — Use a Mass or Worship Journal
9.10 Learn from My Sales Partner, Jesus
Take Action
Chapter 10: Lead by Your Example
10.1 Lead Yourself First
10.2 Keep a Journal
10.3 Lead with Initiative
10.4 Get in the Game
10.5 Learn from Seth Godin on Being Unique
10.6 Care Personally and Challenge Directly
10.7 Enter into Uncomfortable Conversations
10.8 Teach Others to Fish
10.9 Transform from Lone Nut into Leader
10.10 Overcome Resistance to Change
Take Action
Concluding Thought
Reading List
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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