Ultimate Life Lessons: Take Control of Your Life...instead of Letting Life Control You - Softcover

Grace-kelly, Eve; Grace, Vinden; Repchuk, Tracy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905823924 ISBN 13: 9781905823925

Publisher: Ecademy Pr Ltd / New Planet Books, 2010

Synopsis

The ultimate life guide packed with proven real-life experiences of how experts have taken their lives to success. Ultimate Life Lessons contains an inspiring collection of experiences of people from all walks of life who made great strides to become who they are today. Drawing on a combined set of life experiences, and hence life lessons, of a staggering 1,450 years (give or take a year or two!), everyone within this book is passionate about helping you to: Positively impact the way you experience life, Get the most out of your relationships with people, Achieve the careers you want, Make your business a great success, and Attain your other goals in life, whether in your personal life or related to your career or business. Ultimate Life Lessons is not just about theory - it is packed with practical exercises for you to try.

About this title

From the Author

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons in putting this book together. Eve is forever the optimist and very much a front-loaded task person in that she wants everyone to do everything now! When we, Eve, Vinden and Tracy, first joined forces on our journey in pulling this project together, we thought we'd have it all sewn up within four months. But it's taken a bit longer than that..... well, twice as long, actually! But we think the wait has been worth it. During the process, we have worked with some fabulous, inspiring people, and are really pleased that they also share our passion for enhancing the quality of people's lives.

We hope you get a lot of value out of this book - our combined learning - and that the exercises will help you get more out of both our life's lessons and your own.

What can Life Lessons teach you?

There is a saying: "You are what you eat," meaning that if you feed your body with good quality foods and in the right quantities, you will be healthy and suffer less illness as a result. Well, the same goes for ensuring we have a healthy mind and a healthy and fulfilling experience in life.

But, just as it can be tempting to reach out for the easiest food option when we're busy or tired, we sometimes take the easiest option in our life decisions. We know it's not the best decision but for some reason, whether it's due to elements such as confidence, self-esteem, or beliefs, we make decisions that are not necessarily in our best interest. It could be taking the path of least resistance. Often, though, it's as a result of a lack of understanding an action's implications, or of taking the time to assess what things have gone wrong in the past, and what we can do to improve our future decisions.

Life lessons are the values and views that you acquire over the course of your lifetime based on events in your life. And, within this book, we have a combined set of life experiences, and hence life lessons, of a staggering 1,450 years (give or take a year or two)! Everyone within this book is passionate about:

• helping you to positively impact the way you experience life;
• to help you get the most out of your relationships with people;
• achieve the careers you want;
• make your business a great success and generally help you to attain your goals in life, whether in your personal life or related to your career or business.

We all want to share some of our passion with you through sharing some of our life lessons - our pains, our successes, and our learning from both of these.

With all of the co-authors' combined experiences of life, you would think that, when we are faced with difficult circumstances, there are always lessons that come with them that we could pick up. However, we often don't discern the lessons because our focus is not on the lessons, but on the circumstances or the event itself. When you make a decision to focus on the lesson that comes with the situation, you may well find a desire deep within you to want to go back and change certain things to prevent the event from happening again. You can't: all you can do is learn from the lesson and be mindful of it in future. Why? Well, as Albert Einstein is reputed to have said: "[The definition of] insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." In other words, we must learn from life if we are to improve our lives.

The sad thing is that we may face certain adversities over and over because we don't learn the lesson that we were intended to learn. Sometimes the difficulties may be different but the lesson is generally the same.

We all experience lessons in life every single day of our existence. Some teaching we notice, some we don't, but ultimately, our life lessons help us to prepare for and make better, more informed decisions, the next time we encounter a similar situation.

You have to make a positive choice to take life's lessons, adapt them, run with them, and apply them to your daily existence in order to get more of what you want from life.

Have you faced a problem or situation many times over? Was it due to a lack on your part of learning lessons? Life lessons are hands-on. They provide experience and wisdom. We just need to become more self-aware in order to understand and use them.

To your continued success in life.
Warmest wishes,

Eve Grace-Kelly, Vinden Grace & Tracy Repchuk

From the Inside Flap

What we've assembled here is the combined wisdom of 35 superbly talented co-authors.
The life lessons from all of the contributors are in their own words, expressing their own thoughts and feelings.

Who will you learn from?

* Eve Grace-Kelly: "One of the UK's leading Success Coaches" (Jonathan Jay), a true outside the box thinker and co-author of 5 other books. Co-founder and CEO of a coaching, consulting, training and wellness company, QCCgroup.

* Vinden Grace: A leading Property Coach, teaching people Worldwide how to be successful in selling their homes and making money in property. He's also a Digital Coach, teaching people Worldwide how to be successful in Internet-based business. Co-author of 5 other books. Co-founder of a coaching, consulting, training and wellness company, QCCgroup.

* Tracy Repchuk: #1 Woman Speaker in the World for Internet Marketing. Bestselling author of 31 Days to Millionaire Marketing Miracles, International speaker and motivator and award-winning entrepreneur of over 25 years.

* Jonathan Jay: He founded the UK's largest Life and Business Coach training school, The Coaching Academy, which he later sold for millions! He has now set up and is Chairman of SuccessTrack and the National Association of Business Owners. He's author of three books and star of TV's 'Now I'm The Boss', and the UK's highest paid business consultant.

Several of the TV stars of the UK's C4 and America's FOX network series Secret Millionaire.
˙ Gill Fielding: An international public speaker, writer and a presenter on e.g. the BBC, ITV, and CNBC. A self-made millionaire who has been also featured on BBC's The Apprentice series. She acts as a UK Government adviser and as a mentor in James Caan's (of BBC TV's Dragons' Den fame) and Bev James' Entrepreneurs' Business Academy.

˙ Emma Harrison, who also starred in a TV program recently about getting jobs for people and who founded and runs A4e, a company in that field generating income of over £145 million.

˙ Kevin Green: Wales's most successful residential landlord, a self-made millionaire with a property portfolio of £29 million. Kevin runs a property investment training business.

˙ Seema Sharma: Multiple award winner, CEO of Smile Impressions Dental Practices, and founder of Medibyte and Dentabyte - medical and dental management and training consultancies. Better known to many as Channel 4's 'Slumdog Secret Millionaire'!

˙ Caroline Marsh: A highly successful buy-to-let property investor with a personal and business development coaching business.

˙ Gurbaksh Chahal: An award-wining entrepreneur, he sold his Internet advertising company to Yahoo! He's also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

* Penny Power: Social Networking Expert, Author, Entrepreneur and founder of Ecademy, with over half a million subscribers in her world-wide network of 200+ countries. She is a mentor in James Caan's (of BBC TV's Dragons' Den fame) and Bev James' Entrepreneurs' Business Academy.

* Dr William Davey: Former Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Cutting-edge researcher and innovator in diet and lifestyle, leading his clients to longer and healthier lives.

* Bev James: MD of the UK's largest Life and Business Coach training school, The Coaching Academy and co-founder of the Entrepreneurs' Business Academy with James Caan of the BBC series Dragons' Den.

* Stephanie J Hale: A publishing expert and writing coach, helping authors to write, promote and pitch their books

*    Susanne Jorgensen: A psychologist, coach, author and a leading Dating and Relationships Coach.

* Katie Moore: Entrepreneur and investor who built an online community of 70,000 entrepreneurs.

* Mindy Gibbins-Klein: An international speaker and author, who is founder and director of REAL Thought Leaders, The Book Midwife® and Ecademy Press business publishing.

* Curly Martin: An international speaker, a pioneer of life coaching in Europe and the founder of a very successful coach training company.

* Peter Thomson: One of the UK's leading strategists on business and personal growth.

* Marie O'Riordan: Worked on radio and TV (e.g. CNN journalist) and award-winning short film-maker. She has interviewed many Hollywood stars and was the last person to interview Mother Theresa.

* Debbie Allen: One of the world's leading authorities on innovative marketing and the author of five books.

* Kathleen Ronald: Expert on Business Networking and Follow-up, Speaker/Trainer, Business Consultant, and founder of Speaktacular!

* Janet Beckers: Founder of a successful and dynamic online community; an international speaker, best-selling author and mentor. Recently voted Australian Marketer of The Year.

* Andy Harrington: One of the world's premier authorities on the psychology of peak performance, personal achievement and the art of influence.

* John Lees: One of the UK's best-known career strategists. He regularly tops the list with the best-selling careers book by a British author.

* Glenn Harrold: The UK's best selling self-help audio author, who has recovered from serious drug and alcohol abuse.

*    Nick James: Internationally acclaimed Internet marketing guru, business coach and speaker.

* Amanda van der Gulik: A home-schooling mom-preneur, passionate about empowering kids with life-skills, self-esteem building skills, and teaching children and teens about money.

* Paul Avins: Author of Business SOS and founder of The Business Wealth Club Franchise whose track record includes generating over £100 million in new sales and profits for the businesses he's coached.

* Toby Garbett: An Olympian and two-time World Champion rower. A fitness consultant and Pilates instructor, providing training to corporate and private clients.

* Emma Tiebens: She teaches entrepreneurs how to create a powerful online presence for their business using technology to build and foster business relationships with people.

What can Life Lessons teach you?

There is a saying: "You are what you eat," meaning that if you feed your body with good quality foods and in the right quantities, you will be healthy and suffer less illness as a result. Well, the same goes for ensuring we have a healthy mind and a healthy and fulfilling experience in life.

Life lessons are the values and views that you acquire over the course of your lifetime based on events in your life. And, within this book, we have a combined set of life experiences, and hence life lessons, of a staggering 1,450 years (give or take a year or two)! Everyone within this book is passionate about helping you to positively impact the way you experience life; to help you get the most out of your relationships with people; achieve the careers you want; make your business a great success and generally help you to attain your goals in life, whether in your personal life or related to your career or business.

We all experience lessons in life every single day of our existence. Some teaching we notice, some we don't, but ultimately, our life lessons help us to prepare for and make better, more informed decisions, the next time we encounter a similar situation.

You have to make a positive choice to take life's lessons, adapt them, run with them, and apply them to your daily existence in order to get more of what you want from life.

We hope you get a lot of value out of this book - our combined learning - and that the exercises will help you get more out of both our life's lessons and your own.

Eve Grace-Kelly, Vinden Grace and Tracy Repchuk

Edition details

• Publisher: Ecademy Pr Ltd / New Planet Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905823924
• ISBN 13: 9781905823925
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234