More Miracle Minutes: 52 One Minute Guides to Practical Wisdom
By Dick Warn
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This is Book 2 in a series by Dick Warn. One reader remarked, "It's such a quick read and so full of wisdom. I let my son read it, too. What inspiring reading. Dick Warn is truly a gifted writer."
At 160 to 200 words per chapter, each chapter stands on its own, can be read 60 seconds, and contains powerful insights and transforming truths.
This book is an instant hit with busy people, it helps trainers work smarter, and individuals who rarely read-will read this book.
Written from the depths of experience, Dick Warn attacks bad habits, explores myths, and shares practical wisdom. This book inspires people to worry less, feel better, and have more fun.
The authors first book, The Miracle Minute 52 One Minute Guides to Practical Wisdom, is available through Trafford.
Dick Warn
In 1978, Dick Warn formed Richard S. Warn & Associates to help business owners, managers and leaders achieve greater success in sales, management, and team building. He has written and delivered over 800 custom workshops, 2,000 keynote speeches, and audio versions of these Miracle Minutes can be heard on KTDD-AM (Riverside, California) and KMYT-FM (Temecula, California). You can hear samples by visiting: www.TheMiracleMinute.com. For the past 27 years, Dick Warn has been invited back to deliver the opening keynote speeches at the Association of Washington BusinessÕ Business Week summer programs. Week-long programs sharing with high school students the principles of free enterprise, insights from business leaders, and the skills required for team building. Additional insights available at: www.wbw.org. In 1984, while working at The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Pasco, Washington, Dick began to focus on the connections between success in business and a successful life. His work with people at the center clarified the unbreakable bonds between the two. His own struggles with alcohol strengthened his resolve to help others by sharing what he has discovered. Dick Warn is an author, speaker, consultant, coach and friend. For additional insights into his life and career, please visit: www.TheMiracleMinute.com.
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More Miracle Minutes - Dick Warn
© Copyright 2007 Dick Warn.
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ISBN: 978-1-4251-2764-0
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Contents
Introduction
Author’s Acknowledgements
ONE Frustration Is Your Friend
TWO Making Everything Easier
THREE Perfectionism Is Self-Abuse
FOUR Fear Is a Closed Door
FIVE Defining Moments Demand Action
SIX Examples of Sound Character Needed
SEVEN What Is A Real Friend?
EIGHT Key to Growth
NINE Dare to Be More Daring
TEN Four Simple Truths
ELEVEN Explaining Ethics to a Teenager
TWELVE Key to Happiness
THIRTEEN Our Keys to Freedom
FOURTEEN Clues to Your Success
FIFTEEN Why Wait?
SIXTEEN Dealing With Insults and Grudges
SEVENTEEN The Art of Saying NO
EIGHTEEN Slow Down Your Aging
NINETEEN When Feeling Down
TWENTY Why Belong to a Trade Association?
TWENTY-ONE Students and Music
TWENTY-TWO It’s All About Choices
TWENTY-THREE The Wisest Way to Learn
TWENTY-FOUR Stay Close To Your Best People
TWENTY-FIVE At-Bats, Hits, and Misses
TWENTY-SIX Worry and Stress—A Nation’s Killers
TWENTY-SEVEN Putting Our World Together
TWENTY-EIGHT Follow-Through
TWENTY-NINE Less Stressful Living
THIRTY Ten Two-Letter Words
THIRTY-ONE Persistent Endless Trying
THIRTY-TWO What Words Will You Choose?
THIRTY-THREE We CAN Reinvent Ourselves
THIRTY-FOUR Having A Bird’s-Eye View
THIRTY-FIVE Inch by Inch
THIRTY-SIX The Price of Bad Advice
THIRTY-SEVEN Is It Tiger’s Talent—or Luck?
THIRTY-EIGHT The Substance-Abuse Lie
THIRTY-NINE When a Leaf Falls
FORTY A Pivotal Key
FORTY-ONE Who Do You Hang With?
FORTY-TWO Trust Your Intuitive Feelings
FORTY-THREE Fight-or-Flight Response
FORTY-FOUR Three Myths About Success
FORTY-FIVE Three Myths About Money
FORTY-SIX What It Means to Be Truly Alive
FORTY-SEVEN Making Enough Changes?
FORTY-EIGHT Fran Tarkenton Said
FORTY-NINE Earl Nightingale’s Strangest Secret
FIFTY Two Signs of Meaningful Maturity
FIFTY-ONE The Keys to Getting
FIFTY-TWO Harry S. Truman Said
A Miracle Minute is any moment in time when we see something in a new light and it changes us, allowing us to achieve more than we ever have before.
Some Miracle Minutes will inspire us to laugh; others will poke holes in myths, and a few will remind us of powerful principles we’ve forgotten.
Driven by our desires, guided by our beliefs, and limited by our fears, we wander through a classroom called life. By questioning, searching and reading, we gain new understandings and shafts of light break through.
May your days make room for reading, may your hands have plenty to do, and may