Life Lessons: A Guide to Creating and Living Your Best Life

by Brian E. Bartes

What are the most important lessons that every child should learn, and every parent and grandparent should teach? Those contained in Life Lessons . By learning and applying the lessons contained in this book, you will greatly increase your likelihood of achieving success. Life Lessons is written for two groups of people. The first group is children, who are the future of the world. Author Brian Bartes began writing Life Lessons to gather in one place the most important lessons he wanted his own children to learn. As much as it started out as a book for young people, though, Bartes quickly realized that it also provides an opportunity for adults to learn these important principles for success. Whether you are a teenager, a recent high school or college graduate, or an adult looking to create greater success in your life, Life Lessons will help you to achieve success... however you define it.

Genres: Self Help

304 pages, Hardcover

First published May 12, 2011

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Life Lessons is a pretty good book. I received it through the First Reads Giveaways lottery. I think that some of the suggestions (although common in a lot of books that are self-help and give advice) are unrealistic. I'm sure the author would disagree. For instance the suggestion of writing goals down as a way to improving success rate. While this is great and dandy in concept many peoples lives are filled with tiny daily goals that need not be written down, but yet are always in their heart. A lot of people's realities do not work unless they change their environment first. In my opinion making a list of goals is a waste of time and oftentimes more stressful than practical or helpful. All of Bartes's suggestions (the author) seem great and dandy in an idealistic world or situation. The quotes are a wonderful addition to the narrative especially because they make more sense and they come from very "common" well-known people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Dave Ramsey, to name a few. Overall good book, but nothing to write home about. People's faults and frailties are way too focused on in a lot of self-help books, saying what we should and shouldn't do - I just don't like that - too indulgent, too much pressure to be perfect and ideal, and too many contradictions (don't be materialistic, but be financially savvy and independent). Just too much for trying to be a simple book.