How To Save Your Own Life

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Title: How To Save Your Own Life
Author: Michael Gates Gill
Publisher: Gotham Books
ISBN: 9781592405213

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The author of the New York Times bestseller How Startbucks Saved My Life shares inspiring lessons on finding true happiness at any age and any stage of life.

 In his heartwarming memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill shared the story of starting life over in his fifties. As he travelled the country speaking about his first book. he found that certain parts of his story especially resonated with readers. the response he got wan overwhelming and some people even thanked him bu saying, "mike, your story literally saved my life."

In How to Save Your Own Life, Michael has distilled his wisdom into fifteen meaningful lessons on weathering downturns at any age, including:

• Leap...with Faith - When Crystal, a young Starbucks manager, approached Michael as he was hiding behind his briefcase in her store and offered him a job he replied "Yes!" without thinking. That very small word was the key to turning his life around. 
• Look..with Respect at Every Individual You See - As a a boy growing up in Mew York City, Mike was told, "Don't make eye contact." But Mike's Starbucks experience opened his eyes to the possibility that every individual you meet, no matter how outwardly different, has the potential to uplift your life. 
• Lose..Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA) - Many of us literally never stop working, checking the PDA for e-mails and surfing the Web for news that affects our businesses at all times of the day. Slow down! Our time on earth is limited and we need to find balance.

Michael shows readers how he discovered true happiness and how they can do the same. It lies not in yielding to 'fate', but in finding the strength to reach out and help others and to start our lives anew.

Michael Gates Gill also wrote the book How Starbucks Saved My Life