If I'd Known Then What I Know Now: Why Not Learn from the Mistakes of Others? You Can't Afford to Make Them All Yourself!

If I'd Known Then What I Know Now is an inspiring, Pay It Forward-type manifesto for achieving success and happiness from childhood to retirement. Equally suitable for anyone from eight to eighty, it is actually a life guide or map that will help the reader traverse the roads of life, showing how to avoid the mindfields and grab the gold ring by making the best choices when facing life's most important decisions. The great value for readers is that they get the answers on what to do before they need to make the decision. So, the thirteen-year-old gets to learn the do's and don'ts of successful dating before ever going out on that first date. The newlywed learns about parenting before actually becoming one. This handbook for life will remain with readers year after year, helping them with life's most important decisions at just the time when they need the information. iParenting Award winner.

Aided by his mentors, and without benefit of a college education, J. R. Parrish rose from living on a dirt street in Macon, Georgia to being top salesman in the USA for a Fortune 500 company. After founding and operating one of the most successful commercial real estate firms in Silicon Valley, he retired to Hawaii at age fifty-five. He then wrote this book to help all those who might not be lucky enough to have their own personal mentor. His next goal is to get the subject of "Human Relations" taught in every school in America as the fourth "R."