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"Why Not Be 'Great! All the time!'?"
Learn how to be more, do more, and have more in life. Here is a parable that will teach you the truth about living up to your maximum potential for what is truly important to you.
Your will discover:
- How to find your own "cha-ching" - the things in life that ring your personal cash register
- How to marshal your own life's personal resources of self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people
- That in order to succeed you must "Get to it, now!"
- How to use your work to gain wisdom, knowledge, and joy
- That our relationships with the people, places, things, and ideas around us are what really support us in life
- How to determine what is the "Right Thing" to do in all circumstances
- What is our purpose in life
Great! All the Time! Enjoy reading this paradigm-shifting experience, as an old sporty psychologist shows a frustrated man not only how to win at racquetball, but also, and more importantly, how to win at the bigger game called life. Putting together the pieces and picking them apart again, the old dog teaches the young student new tricks to discover for himself his most important reasons for living and how to enjoy the sublime feeling of lasting peace and satisfaction, by teaching him the full and true meaning of "Greatness!"
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Arnie Carver
and the Plague of Demeverde
Arnie Carver was once Thayne Davidson Miller, III, who hated his very existence as a billionaire couple's speed-reading child prodigy. His parents' security guards kept him safe from harm, but only at the high price of keeping him far from everything else a kid wanted to do. Constantly flying around the world on their private jet tending to fifty family-owned companies in their international conglomerate could have been fun, but he only got to be locked up in the executive offices or plants with no one but adults.
He hated his life as the billionaires' kid, until, of course, on his thirteenth birthday, when he became a billionaire orphan. Terrorists supposedly claimed to have killed Thayne's folks because they were successful American imperialists who exploited the masses around the world, but Thayne is suspicious as no definitive murderers can be found. He sets out on a quest to somehow learn what really happened. Doing so as himself, however, would be impossible.
Fearing for his own life and wanting to become a part of the world instead of apart from it, he replaces himself with a lifelike robot made by one of his inherited companies and then adopts an alter-ego to prepare for his new life and mission by attending a tropical island based international high school, the Global Optimum Development Academy, in
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Lawyer seeks Congress's help to find examples of "American Greatness!" Ask 'recovering lawyer' Kenneth R. Besser how he is and he'll tell you, "I'm great! All the time! So great in fact, I wrote a book about it." The book, Great! All the Time!, tells a parable of a man's racquetball games-cum-counseling sessions with an old mentor, who teaches people not only how to win at the sport, but also how to win at the bigger game called life. And Besser is sending a copy to every member of Congress, seeking their help in finding local examples of what he calls "American Greatness!"
Besser's simple definition of "Greatness!" is obtaining peace and satisfaction through the value-driven use of life's precious resources. A fuller explanation of the idea takes 117 pages, the last of which is where his idea to seek Congressional help in finding examples of "Greatness!" comes in. The author is asking all senators and representatives to send him information on people from their states and districts for consideration to receive an award he wants to give them, the American Greatness Awards.
Why? Because, he says, there are so many unsung heroes all over America altruistically doing great things for others who get little help, recognition, or reward for it and he would like to help change all that. How? By giving select ones of them some national exposure, a medal, and some cash. How much cash? Well, that depends on how well his book sells.
To maximize the amount of money available for the winners, Besser has set up his own publishing company, RTMC Organization. RTMC is the acronym for "Reaching to motivate change," the mantra by which he wants to run the enterprise. "We're setting aside a minimum of a buck a book to use for the American Greatness! Awards," Besser says, "but hopefully we will be able to use even more of each sale for it."
If the book sells well enough, the funds available to give each state finalist, five national finalists, and one winner of the American Greatness! Award will be substantial. Besser hopes to sell a hundred thousand copies over 2007, so on New Year's Day 2008, he can give at least $1,000 to each state finalist, $5,000 each to five national finalists, and $25,000 to the national winner of the American Greatness! Award.
Over the coming year, Besser will be touring all fifty states, writing a blog of all of the stories he receives recommending people for consideration for the American Greatness! Award and, writing about some select examples of Greatness! in a weekly column for subscribing newspapers.
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