101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting

Cover......Page 1
101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting......Page 2
OTHER NOTABLE BOOKS BY ERNIE J. ZELINSKI......Page 3
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Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 12
1 You Don't Have to Know the Meaning of Life to Enjoy It Fully......Page 14
2 Life Is Tough - But Then Again, Compared to What?......Page 16
3 Life's a Breeze When You Work As Hard at Simplifying It As You Do at Complicating It......Page 18
4 Happiness Doesn't Care How You Get There......Page 20
5 Slow Down in Your Pursuit of Happiness and It's More Likely to Catch Up with You......Page 22
6 Predict Your Failures and You Will Become a Highly Successful Prophet......Page 24
7 The Pain of Unfulfilled Dreams Can Be the Worst Ache You Will Ever Experience......Page 26
8 If You Want to Be aStar, It's Best Not to Bother with Other Things......Page 28
9 Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life......Page 31
10 Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!......Page 34
11 Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies......Page 36
12 To Know and Not to Do Is Not Yet to Know......Page 38
13 Always Expect the Unexpected Because the Only Certainty Is Uncertainty......Page 40
14 Too Much Safety Is Dangerous for Your Well-Being......Page 42
15 You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watehing......Page 44
16 Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You......Page 46
17 If You Don't Want to Accomplish Something Important, Any Excuse Will Do......Page 48
18 Self-Pity Costs Nothing and It Is Worth Just As Much......Page 50
19 You Can Be a Victim or You Can Be Successful You Can't Be Both, However......Page 52
20 If Something Is Boring You, It's Probably You......Page 54
21 All Worry Is Wasted......Page 56
22 Procrastination Is the Art of Keeping Up with Yesterday......Page 58
23 Don't Buy Expensive Socks If You Can Never Find Them......Page 60
24 Book Smart Does Not Mean Life Smart......Page 62
25 Contrary to Popular Belief, Time Is  Not Money......Page 64
26 Slow Down end the Rest of the World Will Siow Down for You......Page 66
27 A Good Friend Is Much Cheaper than Therapy - and Ten Times As Helpful!......Page 68
28 Ten Million Dollars Cannot Buy What Great Friendship Can......Page 70
29 One True Friend Is Worth Moreth on 10,000 Superficiol Ones......Page 72
30 If You Can Be Happy Only with Others - and Not Alone - You Are Not a Very Happy Person......Page 74
31 People Are Only Human - If They Weren't, Life Would Be Different......Page 76
32 It's All Too Easy to Overestimate Your Ability to Change Others......Page 78
33 Giving Advice to Anyone Means That You Either Lose or Break Even......Page 80
34 Don't Walk away from Negative People - Run!......Page 82
35 If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, You Will Become One Yourself......Page 84
36 There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot......Page 86
37 The Best Way to Impress Other People Is by Not Trying to Impress Them......Page 88
38 Nice People Are Often Not Good People and Good People Are Often Not Nice People......Page 90
39 Everyone in This World - Including You and Me - Is Selfish......Page 92
40When Someone Fails to Keep a Commitment, There Is a 95 Percent Chance That It Will Happen Again......Page 94
41 Good Deeds Are Seidom Remembered; Bad Deeds Are Seidom Forgotten......Page 96
42 The Surest Way "to Failure Is Trying to Please Everyone......Page 98
43 It's Alwoys Eosier to Stay Out of Troubleth on to Get Out of Trouble......Page 100
44 Don't Take It Personally; They Are Doing It to Everyone Else......Page 102
45 The More 1mportant It Is, the Less Chance That Anybody Is Going to Do It for You......Page 104
46 Bel ief Is a Disease......Page 106
47 Beware of Experts - Particularly Those with the Most Knowledge and Experience......Page 108
48 Being Reasonable Wins Us the Booby Prize of Life......Page 110
49 Wise People Leorn More trom Foolsth on Fools Leorn trom Wise People......Page 112
50 Be Careful with Your Heroes; Don't Put Any of Them on a Pedestal......Page 114
51 It Doesn't Cost Much to Be Kind, But It Can Be Very Costly Being Too Kind......Page 116
52 Being Right at All Costs Is Like Being a Dead Hero - There Is No Payoff......Page 118
53 The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You......Page 120
54 Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?......Page 122
55 Your Past Is Always Going to Be the Way It Was - 50 5top Trying to Change It!......Page 124
56 All You Can Experience Is the Now, So Why Aren't You There?......Page 126
57 If Your House Is on Fire, Warm Yourself by It......Page 128
58 Living Weil Is the Best Revenge......Page 130
59 You Don't Have to Watch One Minute of TV to Be Happy - and Perhaps You Shouldn't......Page 132
60 You Are the Biggest Cause of Problems in Your Life......Page 134
61 Many of the Things You Want Will Give You More Problems than You Can Ever Imagine......Page 136
62 You Can Change the Quality of Your Life rnstantaneously......Page 138
63 The Severity of Your Problems Is a Matter of Perspective......Page 140
64 You Aren't Going to Solve the Problem If You Don't Identify It Properly......Page 142
65 No One Can Give You Wiser Advice than You Can......Page 144
66 Take Special Care of Yourself- Because No One Else Will!......Page 146
67 A Walk or Run in Nature Is the Best Medicine for Most of Your Ailments......Page 148
68 The Shortcut to Being Truly Fit and Trim Is Long-Term Rigorous Action......Page 150
69 Your Mind Needs a Good Run Too......Page 152
70 Life Isn't Fair and It Will Continue to Be That Way......Page 154
71 There I5 No One Big Deal in Life That Will Save Your Hide......Page 156
72 The World Doesn't Owe You or Me or Anyone Else a Comfortable Living......Page 158
73 You CanIt Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get a Lot More than You Think You Can......Page 160
74 There Is More to Positive Thinking than Thinking Positive Thoughts......Page 162
75 What Will Keep You from Getting What You Want Is Not Knowing What You Truly Want......Page 164
76 You Aren't Going to Get Much of What You Want Urlless You Ask for It......Page 166
77 Getting Rid of Your Desire for Something Is As Good As Possessing It......Page 168
78 Want What You Have and You Will Always Get What You Want......Page 170
79 You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So......Page 172
80 If Patience Is Just the Art of Concealing Your Impatience, You Better Be Very Good at It......Page 174
81 Opportunity Knocks Often - How Often Are You Home?......Page 176
82 To Double Your Success Rate, Just Double Your Failure Rate......Page 178
83 Compromising Your Integrity for Money, Power, or Fame Will Come Back to Haunt You Big Time......Page 180
84 There Are Many Fascinating Worlds Without Money......Page 182
85 More Money Won't Bring You More Happiness - It Works the Other Way Around!......Page 185
86 True Prosperity Is Living Easily and Happily Whether You Have Lots of Money or Not......Page 188
87 Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me......Page 190
88 Spend More Money on Your Personal Development than on Your Next Hairstyle......Page 192
89 To Have a Good Grasp of Money, Try Joyfully Parting with a Fair Portion of It!......Page 194
90 Being a Success at Work Is Irrelevant If You Are a Failure at Home......Page 196
91 The Work Ethic Is a Terrible Mistake......Page 198
92 Work As Hard As You Have to for a Comfortable Living - and As Little As You Can Get Away With......Page 200
93 It's Best to Leave Perfection for the Misfits of This World to Pursue......Page 202
94 Most Activities Worth Doing Should Be Done in the Most Haphazardly Fashion Possible......Page 204
95 If You Are What You Ain't, Then You Ain't What You Truly Should Be......Page 206
96 You Can't Make a Big Difference in This World Unless You Are Different......Page 208
97 Look Inside and You Will Find More Outside......Page 210
98 Your Envy Is the Satisfaction and Happiness That You Think Others Are Experiencing......Page 212
99 If the Grass on the Other Side of the Fence Is Greener, Try Watering Your Side......Page 214
100 No Matter How Successful You Become, the Size of Your Funeral Will Still Depend upon the Weather......Page 216
101 Be Happy While You Are Alive Because You Are A Long Time Dead!......Page 218
Additional Life Lessons......Page 222
Life Lesson A-1:Thank Your Mother a Lot While She Is Still Alive......Page 223
Life Lesson A-2: Flowers, Cards, and Candy Are Not the Essence of Mother's Day......Page 229
Life Lesson A-3: Fortune Resides on the OtherSide of Fear......Page 231
Life Lesson A-4: Forget How Old You Are - This Becomes More Important the Older You Get......Page 233
Life Lesson A-5: Flat Out - Great Friends Rock!......Page 235
About the Author......Page 237
BackCover......Page 238