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Summary: Finally, the answer to my purpose in life!!!!!
Review: I picked out this book at the library six years ago. It was small and in ten minutes "The Precious Present" changed my life. It provided answers to my lifelong search as to what my purpose in life was after experiencing a near death experience three years earlier. I needed a way to explain why I was living my life the way I was...and Spencer Johnson expressed it for me in this tiny book. I had changed from my experience. Realizing that my life was precious, I began to enjoy the precious present even more because it was all BONUS for me. I started to take more time for friends, family and total strangers who needed someone to listen to them or just to acknowledge them because I could empathize with most of their problems. I brought the book home from the library and tried to order copies. None were to be found in my small town, so I called each of my sisters (I have four) and read it to each of them over the phone. That evening I read it to my husband. We talked about how important it was to live in the now and to let the past go as it can make many of us so miserable; like repaying a house payment that you already paid....it is silly to keep going back hurting each time. We discussed the future and how so many things we worry about never happen. Little did I to know that three days later, my darling husband, Michael, would die of a heart attack in my arms. I was so happy that we had had the discussion just days earlier. I knew we were living in the precious present and that is all that mattered. Now I am a senior at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. I will graduate in May of next year - 33 years after completing high school - and finally fulfilling my goal of so long ago. Yes, once a month I get this book out and read it - just to remember why I am still here and to help myself cope with the new stresses I have placed upon myself to complete my Organizational Communications degree. It is with great joy that I recommend this wonderful little book. Rick Pattino reads it to his college basketball players before each season....it helps us realize our reasons for being here. I have given copies to many of my friends after I could finally get copies and enjoy just reading it with new friends. Give yourself a present - read this little book and see what I am talking about! Cherie Schubeck
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Summary: Finally, the answer to my purpose in life!!!!!
Review: I picked out this book at the library six years ago. It was small and in ten minutes "The Precious Present" changed my life. It provided answers to my lifelong search as to what my purpose in life was after experiencing a near death experience three years earlier. I needed a way to explain why I was living my life the way I was...and Spencer Johnson expressed it for me in this tiny book. I had changed from my experience. Realizing that my life was precious, I began to enjoy the precious present even more because it was all BONUS for me. I started to take more time for friends, family and total strangers who needed someone to listen to them or just to acknowledge them because I could empathize with most of their problems. I brought the book home from the library and tried to order copies. None were to be found in my small town, so I called each of my sisters (I have four) and read it to each of them over the phone. That evening I read it to my husband. We talked about how important it was to live in the now and to let the past go as it can make many of us so miserable; like repaying a house payment that you already paid....it is silly to keep going back hurting each time. We discussed the future and how so many things we worry about never happen. Little did I to know that three days later, my darling husband, Michael, would die of a heart attack in my arms. I was so happy that we had had the discussion just days earlier. I knew we were living in the precious present and that is all that mattered. Now I am a senior at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. I will graduate in May of next year - 33 years after completing high school - and finally fulfilling my goal of so long ago. Yes, once a month I get this book out and read it - just to remember why I am still here and to help myself cope with the new stresses I have placed upon myself to complete my Organizational Communications degree. It is with great joy that I recommend this wonderful little book. Rick Pattino reads it to his college basketball players before each season....it helps us realize our reasons for being here. I have given copies to many of my friends after I could finally get copies and enjoy just reading it with new friends. Give yourself a present - read this little book and see what I am talking about! Cherie Schubeck
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Summary: Just Be Happy With Yourself...
Review: I read this book back in 1989 when a friend gave it to me as present. She new I was struggling with something in my life and I would not discuss the issue with her. I read the book quit a few times and got the message. I just need to be happy with who i am..Lori has ment so much to me as a friend. The issue that I struggled with was dealing with my sexuality. Once I realized that i need to focus on being happy with myself it made dealing with my sexuality much easier!!Lori holds a special place in my heart. She is what friendship is all about!!.
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Summary: A roadmap to happiness (complete with all the the detours)..
Review: I read this book thirteen years ago when a friend was in a coma in a hospital in Texas. Wherever you are in life, I think we could all use a little enlightenment that we are doing the 'right' things- or some direction on where to find these sought after 'untarnishable treasures' that make the joys more joyous and the pain worth it all in the adventure we call the human experience. This is a book for the handicapped, for the lost, the lonely, the numb, the bewildered, the confused, and yes... even for those who consider themselves to be well rounded and sucessful. Spencer Johnson has lived it, or he couldn't write it at the third grade reading level. He brings us all a little closer to that elusive me-I'm-glad-to-be person whether you are young or, old, rich or poor, happy or sad. You may be divorced, married, widowed/widower or single ...but the one thing you cannot remain after reading this book, is INDIFFERENT. After reading this book and incorporating it's message listen closely, and you'll likely hear someone say "Wow, I hope somday some one gives me..." well, you know. :-)
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Summary: The Precious Present...Life is short...love it!
Review: If you can live in the precious present you can truely live, this book it a life practice for any of us die hard career professionals who project tomorrow and forget that life is so precious. Enjoy each moment and really LIVE. Don't wait for the tomorrow's and would if's. I love the message in this book and think everyone should try to practice passion in the present!
I have know people who inspire me and I have said "what do they have" it is the precious present!!! Great gift, great read!
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Summary: The Precious Present...Life is short...love it!
Review: If you can live in the precious present you can truely live, this book it a life practice for any of us die hard career professionals who project tomorrow and forget that life is so precious. Enjoy each moment and really LIVE. Don't wait for the tomorrow's and would if's. I love the message in this book and think everyone should try to practice passion in the present!
I have know people who inspire me and I have said "what do they have" it is the precious present!!! Great gift, great read!
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Summary: Learning to live in the present, Sweet and Simple
Review: Meditation has long been a traditional way of helping the mind calm itself and focus on the inner self rather than the incessant chatting of the ego. Successfully experienced, everything around us becomes the basis of bliss and joyous epiphanies. Spencer Johnson has created a simple tale to create a similar experience without benefit of the meditation discipline. The story upholds the happiness of a young boy playing as a model for what each of us can experience all of the time. The analogy is carried out over a lifetime so that we see what happens and think with the boy as he goes from youth to old age. Here are a few of the meditations in the book: "He realized that the present moment is always precious. Not because it is absolutely flawless, which it often seems not to be. But because it is absolutely everything it is mean to be . . . at the moment." We are wise to learn from the past and plan for the future, but if we become lost in the past or the future, we will lose ourselves. "I can choose to be happy now or I can try to be happy when . . . or if . . . ." As you can imagine, any parent would hope their child would choose the first alternative. But we have to learn to make that choice for ourselves. The only thing I did not like about the book was an annoying tendency to put every first letter of each word in a meditation in capital letters. This Made The Meditations Hard To Follow And Feel Peaceful About. Use this wonderful book to overcome your stalled thinking about the sources of happiness and the finest ways to enjoy life! If the insights help, consider taking on meditation to deepen and reinforce the experience. Overcome the stalled thinking that equates busyness with doing the right thing!
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Summary: A Waking Meditation on the Potential of Being Present Now
Review: Meditation has long been a traditional way of helping the mind calm itself and focus on the inner self rather than the incessant chatting of the ego. Successfully experienced, everything around us becomes the basis of bliss and joyous epiphanies.
Spencer Johnson has created a simple tale to create a similar experience without benefit of the meditation discipline. The story upholds the happiness of a young boy playing as a model for what each of us can experience all of the time. The analogy is carried out over a lifetime so that we see what happens and think with the boy as he goes from youth to old age. Here are a few of the meditations in the book: "He realized that the present moment is always precious. Not because it is absolutely flawless, which it often seems not to be. But because it is absolutely everything it is mean to be . . . at the moment." We are wise to learn from the past and plan for the future, but if we become lost in the past or the future, we will lose ourselves. "I can choose to be happy now or I can try to be happy when . . . or if . . . ." As you can imagine, any parent would hope their child would choose the first alternative. But we have to learn to make that choice for ourselves. The only thing I did not like about the book was an annoying tendency to put every first letter of each word in a meditation in capital letters. This Made The Meditations Hard To Follow And Feel Peaceful About. Use this wonderful book to overcome your stalled thinking about the sources of happiness and the finest ways to enjoy life! If the insights help, consider taking on meditation to deepen and reinforce the experience. Overcome the stalled thinking that equates busyness with doing the right thing!
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Summary: IT HELPS ME PUT LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE
Review: My sister introduced me to this book about 10 years ago and since then I have shared it with countless friends. Whenever I have a problem, concern, worry, etc. I go to this book and it never fails to put my life in perspective. I enjoy it because it only takes about 10 minutes read and it suddenly makes me feel better. I highly recommend this book. It makes a great gift.
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Summary: A little book with a huge profound message.
Review: One of the greatest books I've ever read. It can help us place life events in perspective. Very straightforward and simply written, yet eloquent in its simplicity. A must read.
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