Successful Failures

by Joyce M. Knudsen

Have you had a nightmare experience in high school or college? Have you ever been labeled lazy, stupid, slow, or uneducable and incompetent? I was and I refused to listen!!! Nobody has the right to tell you that you cannot learn. Everyone can learn; we just all learn in a different way.Do you want to be successful? You can be you know. If you set your mind to it and begin to believe in yourself, it is just amazing you will be able to do.Did you that that former First Lady Barbara Bush dropped out of Smith College and went on to form a Family Literacy Foundation?Did you know that former President Gerald Ford lost his election in high school?Did you know that Bruce Springsteen felt he "wasn't there" in his high school?Successful Failures was written for people who may have been misunderstood and who have been given little or no respect for who they are and what they want to accomplish. The book not only contains words that tell you how to gain self-esteem but has pages of exercises for you to actually fill out and work on putting these words into action.Successful Failures Table of Contents * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * INTRODUCTION * SELF-IMAGE, ATTITUDE AND SUCCESS * SELF-ESTEEM AND SUCCESS * BUILDING SELF ESTEEM * STORIES OF SUCCESSFUL FAILURES * QUOTES, STORIES AND LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS TO INSPIRE YOU * AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS * EXERCISE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS * SOURCES

110 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2002