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    Timeless Principles: How to Live a Satisfying and Successful Life Now!
    Timeless Principles: How to Live a Satisfying and Successful Life Now!
    Timeless Principles: How to Live a Satisfying and Successful Life Now!
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    Timeless Principles: How to Live a Satisfying and Successful Life Now!

    By Justin P Lambert

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    This is a self-help book created for the express purpose of eliminating all unnecessary fluff and theory, showing you how to apply time-tested and proven common sense principles to your daily life immediately!
    Author Justin P Lambert has compiled dozens of popular blog posts from the last three years of his Timeless Principles post series, edited and organized them for maximum impact, then included over 30 pages of brand new material to create this powerful self-improvement guide!

    "This book was very much inspirational and tightly woven with truth. It offers a good summation of truths. I loved the fact that it stressed looking within! I liked the format of the book and tone with which the author wrote this book. It offers us a great reminder of what we know to be true, for every seeker and questioner alike this book explains so much! This book is very heartfelt and sincere. I enjoyed this book, and it will boost you and strengthen you as you enjoy it, too!"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin P Lambert
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781370735495
    Timeless Principles: How to Live a Satisfying and Successful Life Now!
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    Justin P Lambert

    I tend toward genre fiction in both my short stories and my novel work. Primarily sci-fi and fantasy, although some other interesting themes occasionally surface. My poetry is almost exclusively what I like to call “speed poems” meaning I’m not agonizing over a space or a comma. I’m dashing out a first draft as fast as possible with a goal of crystallizing a particular moment in time or a feeling. Then, if I look back at it at all, it will be to decide if it makes the cut or not. I’m not going to edit, I’m not going to polish. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like that sucks the life out of a poem. If it does make the cut, I save it and will eventually publish it. I’ve also written quite a few essays under the general topic of Timeless Principles. Basically, these are musings on living a better, more fulfilling and more successful life through basic, time-honored, common sense principles for living. Although I’m a very religious person, I’ve tried hard NOT to make these essays religious in nature because I don’t feel this is the proper format for religious writing. But, you’ll probably recognize many of these principles as appearing in your holy book of choice. That’s not because they’re religious, per se, but because they work. So, relax for a bit and read to your heart’s content. If you’re pleased, leave a friendly comment and I’ll get back to you to thank you for doing so. If you’re REALLY pleased, you’ll find an opportunity to support what I do by purchasing a poetry collection or an e-book at http://justinplambert.wordpress.com/book-store . Rest assured you have my sincere thanks just for making it this far. ENJOY!

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      Timeless Principles - Justin P Lambert

      About Me

      Let me start by making some things clear:

      I am not a guru.

      I am not exceptionally smart or talented.

      I'm not even really good at taking my own advice.

      I'm just a guy who's had about 33 years (so far) to watch, listen to, and interact with my fellow humans, and I happen to enjoy writing things down.

      I write a lot of poetry, fiction, and essays. I also write commercially for businesses. Doing so tends to make me a hair more introspective than the next guy, but it doesn't mean I'm right. Or that I'm good at learning from what I see.

      It just means I think a lot. And when something clicks inside my head like a deadbolt sliding home, I enjoy the fleeting pleasure that goes with getting it, even if it only lasts a few seconds.

      If you read my poetry and fiction, you may catch a hint of sadness, angst or confusion in something I've written, especially if it touches on the autobiographical. There's a good reason for that.

      I'm often a sad, angry and confused man.

      I think most of us are at one point or another, regardless of our circumstances. But that doesn't mean we can't make things better. As a matter of fact, you might be pleasantly surprised to discover that I'm generally a very well-adjusted and cheerful individual, despite what I choose to enter into the permanent record.

      That doesn't mean it's easy, of course. But what worthy goal is?

      The only thing I've ever found to match the pleasure I derive from that getting it feeling is being able to share that feeling with someone else, which is one of the main reasons I started blogging about Timeless Principles back in 2009.

      It was a new experience for me: writing about how to improve yourself, your relationships, your self-esteem and your level of satisfaction and success in life. Even as I hit publish on each blog post, I was constantly concerned that someone, somewhere would realize I was just a huge faker who was throwing this stuff together off the top of his head.

      But, I did it any way. And it felt right. Which is why I've kept it up for nearly three years already, and why I've decided to compile this book too.

      It's not because I'm trying to change your mind, or change the world. I guess it's just because if you've never thought about something that I have thought about, and it can help you out at some point, it's good for both of us for me to share it with you.

      And I've stuck with the whole throwing it together off the top of my head formula the whole time because, frankly, words are like food: the more heavily processed they are, the worse they are for you.

      About the Timeless Principles

      So, as you've no doubt guessed from the title, Timeless Principles: How to Live a More Satisfying and Successful Life Now is technically a self-help book. But, hopefully, you'll see that it's not like other self-improvement hype you've run across in the past.

      There are literally thousands of self-help books, websites, courses, podcasts and seminars. You can spend the rest of your life just reading about how to make your life better, or you can do something about it now!

      You see, the actual basics of living better are not difficult to learn. They really require very little learning, because they are based for the most part on common sense.

      As your grandmother probably told you, common sense is anything but common these days, so some simple reminders are in order. And that’s why I've put together a quick reference list of what I call Timeless Principles.

      To facilitate your doing something about it right now, you'll note that the chapters are very short. The whole book runs just over 100 pages because I've purposely removed all the unnecessary fluff. You're getting exactly what you need from a self-help text: a bird's eye view of the principles, and hard-hitting practical application to your own life. No more, no less.

      I hope to help others with this book because I believe this world is tough enough without struggling against ourselves along the way. So my hope is that something I write about here helps you see things just a little clearer.

      I want to make a point of this too:

      These principles are NOT religious.

      Although I’m a very religious person, and I feel there’s a time and place to discuss religious matters, it’s not the time or place in this book.

      But, many of the principles I discuss may also be discussed by your preferred religious teachers or in your preferred holy books. That’s not because they are religious themselves, but because THEY WORK. Therefore, they form the basic tenets of most if not all of the faiths common to man.

      Think about that.

      An Overview

      Each section of the book builds on the last, so reading from beginning to end will give you the best overall grounding in what the Timeless Principles are all about and how they can be applied.

      The first section is called The Basics.

      This includes general personality traits and ways of thinking that will slowly mold your outlook on life, on others, and on yourself. Some of them probably sound old-fashioned and quaint, maybe even ridiculous, depending on how you were raised and what kind of life you are currently leading.

      But don't mistake old-fashioned for out-dated. They are two completely different concepts. Generally speaking, if something has been around long enough to be considered old-fashioned, it's because it was made to last.

      It's not going to be easy to instill The Basics into your life if you're not already doing so. But the rewards are going to be immediate and intense. So, as you work your way through this section, keep that in mind, and don't give up!

      Section Two is called Next Steps. These are Timeless Principles that add tremendous value to the basics you learned in Section One. Like the framing that goes up on top of a solid foundation, these principles help your self-improvement goals to take shape and grow even stronger.

      Since these go beyond the basics, they lean more heavily toward specific interactions with others and how you make decisions that will have an impact on those around you. Again, these are not easy concepts, some may even require a complete paradigm shift for you.

      But you're going to love it once you make it happen.

      Finally, Section Three is called Practical Application. This is where the tires really meet the road because each chapter discusses exactly how the Timeless Principles introduced in the first two sections can be used in everyday interactions such as at work, at school, in the home, on the road, and so forth.

      So, without further ado, let's get started with The Basics.

      WORDS TO REMEMBER:

      No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. - Natasha Bedingfield

      Section One:

      The Basics

      Every sturdy building has to be built on a strong foundation. This section contains the Timeless Principles that will form that foundation for you.

      Love

      This topic is, of course, far too large for one essay. But my point in bringing it up is not to touch on every aspect of the grand emotion, or to try to boil it all down to one or two pithy comments.

      In actuality, love is one of those words in the English language that carries so many connotations

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