How to Save Your Own Life

1 About this book

Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor).

In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including:Leap...With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim).Let Yourself...Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear.

Look...with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path. Lose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, happiness, and self-improvement.

• Biography & autobiography
• Happiness
• Hope
• Self-help
• Life skills