Three Ways You Get More of What You Want in Life

1. HELP OTHERS GET WHAT THEY WANT ... Practice ultimate service in professional and personal relationships. This shift to the question of "How can I best serve this person right?" is magical. Just think about the last time you were truly served and how it made you feel.

2. RELEASE YOUR ATTACHMENT TO SPECIFIC OUTCOMES ...Believe that as long as you act from personal and profound integrity, the results will always serve your best and highest good. Accept each person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be. This will free you to live in the "flow" and to experience the serendipity that usually marks our most joyful times and events.

3. HAVE FUN! ...Do for pleasure of doing and for no other purpose. Fun is the lightness of spirit that enriches everyone and everything you touch, especially you.

Bob Bone, Personal and Business Coach   

Recommended Books

1. "The E-Myth Manager" Michael E. Gerber "Why Management Doesn't Work ... and What to Do About it." This book is a follow-up to Gerber's The E-Myth, but it stands on its own. Gerber draws on his lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium sized and very large organizations, and reveals the 7 steps to becoming an E-Myth Manager. As Gerber says, this book is "not about how to do the work of an E-myth manager; it's about what to do." An excellent read.
   
   
2. "First Break All The Rules" Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman One of the best books I've read in quite a while about managing! Whether yours is a large corporation or a small real estate office, if you bring an open mind with you, this book hits the mark. The book and the conclusions of the authors are based on in-depth interviews by the Gallup Organization of over 80,000 managers and over 400 companies. 
   
   
3. "Now, Discover Your Strengths" Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. "Now, Discover Your Strengths" is a book based on a Gallup study of over two million people, leading to understanding why working to develop strengths rather than trying to shore up our weaknesses leads to happier, more productive lives....and even provides a revealing, scientific self-test to determine just what our long suits are. An important read for everyone from manager to retiree.
   
   
4. "The Art of Possibility" Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. Rosamund Stone Zander, aæfamily therapist, and Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, have written a truly inspirational book which meets their objective of providing the reader "the means to lift off from the world of struggle and sail into a vast universe of possibility."
   
   
5. "Learned Optimism (How to Change Your Mind and Your Life)" Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. Seligman, an admitted pessimist, has spent most of his professional life studying Optimism, and is the leading authority in the U.S. on the subject. In this book, he points out the many advantages of optimism, as well as a few advantages of pessimism. He offers some self-testing so readers can see where they are on the scale. Most important for those who wish to become more optimistic in their lives, he outlines practical steps one can take to begin seeing the glass half-full as opposed to half-empty. A must read for both pessimists and optimists.