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    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life
    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life
    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life
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    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life

    By Bryan Curtis

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    The Professional Life.

    In the simplest of meanings, it is the part of your day or week or year or entire life that you spend working to make a living. Everyone knows that the way you spend those hours of your day can very easily carry over into every other aspect of your life.

    Do you know someone lucky enough to love what they do to support themselves? That happiness, pride, and satisfaction doesn’t just stop when they leave the office. It finds its way into their personal relationships and into their community activities. Loving your work is the biggest bonus you can give yourself.

    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life has words of wisdom from some of the world’s preeminent business, political, and cultural leaders. Paying heed to one or one hundred of these quotes that really speaks to you can make a difference not only in the way you earn a paycheck now, but also in how you forge a career path for yourself.

    Be one of the lucky few who knows that a happy professional life is one huge part of really living the good life

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMay 3, 2010
    ISBN9781418555245
    Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life
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    Bryan Curtis

    Bryan Curtis is an author and the president of Dance Floor Books. He is the author/coauthor and editor of more than 25 books, including My South, My Southern Food, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life, Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life, and the popular GentleManners series.

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      Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life - Bryan Curtis

      CLASSIC WISDOM

      —FOR THE—

      PROFESSIONAL

      LIFE

      Title page with Thomas Nelson logo

      © 2010 by Bryan Curtis

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Page design by Stacy Clark

      Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      ISBN 978-1-59555-126-9

      08 09 10 11 12 [ PRINTER CODE ] 6 5 4 3 2 1

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      The Professional Life

      The Professional Life

      It really is true.

      Once you get out of school, you will spend more hours working than almost any other thing you do. You will work more hours than you eat, watch television, or probably even sleep.

      One very important lesson I learned a long time ago is that if you are going to spend eight or more hours, five or more days a week doing something, you better enjoy doing it. And it also helps if along the way you get good at doing it. That is the message of this book—find something you love doing and get good at it.

      Some of you will receive this book as a gift. Maybe you just graduated from college and a loved one wrapped this book up and presented it to you. I hope they also included a nice check or a gift card. But even if there was no cash with the book, you are still lucky. You have someone in your life who wants you to succeed and be happy. Those are some pretty big shoulders you can climb onto as you begin your professional life.

      Some of you purchased this book with the wages of your labor. In this case the lucky person or persons are your employers and/or employees. Anyone who wants to improve their professional skills—be it leadership skills, communication skills, or even listening skills, will be both a better boss and a better worker. Isn’t it great when your boss is also a good worker?

      Maybe you are trying to get the courage to start your own business. Maybe you are trying to become a better worker so you can get that promotion and earn more money. Or maybe you are just looking for some positive reinforcement— that you deserve to enjoy your job.

      But however you received this book, I hope you will spend some time

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