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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK

INDIVIDUAL

Courage to Change

How Could I Waste My Life?

Moving Out to the Country

It's Never Too Late to Change

Living for Today

My Flower Shop

My Living Nightmare

You're Successful...but Are You Happy?

A Prisoner's Story

Seeking Life Balance

Room 602 of the Oncology Critical Care Unit

Daddy, I Want You to Be Healthy

Wednesday Evening: My Time with Mom

I Looked in the Mirror and Saw a Control Freak

The Surprise Visit

Stephanie's Recovery Plan

FAMILY

Raising Young Children

Because...

The Head-Butt

I Can Choose My Life

Our Family Poster

I'm Not Going to School Ever Again

Daddy, I Gotta Go Potty

Off to Bed!

Grandpa's Lap

The Journal

Raising Teens (Or Is It Being Raised by Them?)

My First Broken Heart

Wrestlemania

Silence Is Golden

The Worst Game of My Life!

Soft-Spiked Golf Shoes

The Destructive Teen

The Heart-to-Heart Talk I Almost Missed

You Always Say "No"!

Ever Tried Communicating with a Sixteen-Year-Old Who Talks in One-Word Sentences?

Raising Boys on Lawns

You'd Really Do That for Me, Dad?

Marriage: Valuing the Differences

Celebrating the Differences

SportsCenter

Love Is a Verb

The Greenhouse

My Free-Spirited Husband

Merging Missions

Miss Superwasherwoman

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION

Building Community

Brenda Krause Eheart, Founder, Hope for the Children Foundation

Stone

The Rabbi

Leaving a Legacy of Service and Humility

Synergy of a Coach

Saving a Historical Treasure

South Bend, Indiana: Reaching Across Generations to Better a Community

Back to School

Sharlee Doxey-Stockdale, Sixth-Grade Teacher,

Monte Vista Elementary School

Facing Tragedy

Just Cut Through the Bull

Students: The Customer?

Just Try Dismissing a Tenured Teacher

This Classroom Belongs to...Me!

WORKPLACE

Increasing Your Influence

Ninety Days

If Looks Could Kill

I've Tried for Months to Offend You

Do You Just Not Like Working Here?

Gossip Addiction

Managing: Think Win-Win

Fifty Years of Loyalty

Be Patient...They're Learning

The Million-Dollar Question

Shape Up or Ship Out

Closing Down the Plant

The Troubled Employee

Bill Phifer, General Manager, Cosmo's Fine Foods

The Deal Is Off

Finding the Third Alternative

Leading Organizations

Colin Hall, Executive Chairman, Wooltru Limited, South Africa

Doug Conant, President, Nabisco U.S. Foods Group

Pete Beaudrault, COO, Hard Rock Cafe

Chris Turner, Learning Person, Xerox Business Services

Jack Little, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company

Michael Bassis, President, Olivet College

Wood Dickinson, CEO, Dickinson Theatres

John Noel, CEO, Noel Group

SHARING YOUR STORY

QUESTIONS I AM OFTEN ASKED

MEASURING THE IMPACT

ABOUT FRANKLIN COVEY CO.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR