How to Get a Life, Vol. 1: Empowering Wisdom for the Heart and Soul

Practical tips on how to live a meaningful Life come alive in lessons from some of the world’s great thinkers and religious leaders, present and past. "How to Get a Life" offers life views from several of history's most important and powerful people, put forth in an easy-to digest format with an uplifting message.Written in an engaging style by college professors Lawrence Baines and Daniel McBrayer, each chapter contains a brief biographical sketch with that luminary's advice for daily living.In "How to Get a Life," you'll get easy-to-understand advice from some of the world's greatest thinkers on:-The importance of relationships-How to get over misunderstandings-How to rise above mediocrity-What to do when things go wrongInsight into topics from God and the universe, to conceptions of love, sex, and death comes from historical figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Joseph Campbell, Bill Wilson, Gerda Weissman Klein, Albert Schweitzer, Oprah Winfrey, Buddha, Leo Buscaglia, Jane Goodall, the Dalai Lama, Muhammad, Confucius, and Richard of St. Victor.

Lawrence Baines writes on creative approaches to teaching and living.
Dan McBrayer has been a college professor, husband, father and mentor for more than thirty years. Having served as an academic dean, a department head, and in an endowed chair in psychology, Dan has received multiple awards for teaching excellence. He has made hundreds of presentations around the country, and for the last twenty-four years has taught at Berry College in Rome, GA.