Make Your Own Good Fortune: How to Seize Life's Opportunities - Couverture souple

Miller, Douglas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0563520035 ISBN 13 : 9780563520030

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2006

Synopsis

‘At the end of my life I want to still be standing up rather than on my knees.  To say that I stood up to the world and had a go rather than letting all the opportunities I had slip through my hands’.

 

In this poignant opening to this powerful book on spotting and taking opportunities Douglas Miller starts a journey that captures a world of potential rather than a world whose riches (metaphorical) we often chose to hide away from. His advice on how to take opportunities stretches from building stronger personal relationships to setting up a business to hobbies and even how to meet Mr or Mrs Right.  Opportunities really can come from anywhere.  And we get the chance to meet many people young and old, male and female who have seized opportunities and enriched their own lives.  From Europe’s youngest female commercial airline pilot to a man who fled Kosovo during the Serbian war in 1999 and came back to become Kosovo’s biggest TV star to a retiree who became a historian and published her own books to Specsavers and Woodworm cricket bats the book has many inspiring case studies that we can learn from.

 

The book explores the psychology and practicalities involved in spotting and seizing opportunities – breaking the thin line which says ‘I wish I had done that’ and taking us into more fertile territory where we make the most of what is a very short life.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Miller is an established author, speaker and trainer. He specializes in Postitive Thinking, motivation, working under pressure and dealing with stress for organisations around the world including the UN and OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Kosovo and manyprivate and public sector organisations in the UK.

In his book Positive Thinking, Postive Action for BBC Active, Douglas Miller showed us how an optimistic turn of mind is essential both as a basis of happiness and in providing the momentum we need to fulfil our potential in our personal and professional lives.

Praise for Positive Thinking, Postive Action :

In today's fast moving world it is very easy to become demotivated and thereby negative for those of us who are not natuaral optimists. The trouble with demotivation and negativity is that we bring it home from our workplace and this enhances the our downward spiral.

Doug Miller's book helps to reverse this processby teaching us the benefits of positivity. We all know people who appear postive and with such positivity goes success. Not necessarily always in their work but in their lives. The book draws upon the experiences of self motivated people whose lives have taken off because of their attitude and their postive approach to everything they do.

There are plenty of techniques with the 192 pages to help the most stubborn pessimist. An ideal present for a disaffected offspring going through an identity crisis.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Do you think you could be missing out on opportunities that could transform your life? Are you keen to find the chances that could give you fulfilment? Opportunities are everywhere in our lives yet we often let them pass us by. However, seizing opportunities isn’t about luck: it’s about putting ourselves in the right position to spot and create them, and understanding the routes to turn them into realities. Here, Douglas Miller guides us step by step from the first stages of being alert to chances through to realizing and living with them. In the opportunity toolkit he sets out twelve practical techniques that we can adopt to suit our circumstances and preferences so we can each maximise our potential and achieve fulfilment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0563520035
• ISBN 13: 9780563520030
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie