How Successful People. . . Keep Their Lives Out of the Toilet: Five Fundamental Principles

by Sandra Phillips

The book that will blow you out of the water! Five Fundamental Principles Successful People live by that keep them far away from the drips and dousings of a sad toilet life. Checklists encourage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880759756
• ISBN13: 9781880759752
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Inhomevations
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

No Easy Answers

They've helped us clean our closets, our bathrooms, and our garages. Now, in How Successful People...Keep Their Lives out of the Toilet, cleaning experts Sandra Phillips and Don Aslett tackle the ultimate challenge: cleaning up our lives. Almost everybody lands "in the toilet" sometime--a sickness, a financial reversal, hard times. Some of these situations are our own fault; some are beyond our control. Successful people may occasionally land in the toilet, but they don't stay there. Phillips and Aslett have identified the five main areas that can contribute to keeping our lives flush free. 1. RELATIONSHIPS, say the authors, "are a source of ruin or rescue." Successful people build quality relationships--in friendships, family, business, and with their Creator. Step one is to put away the score pad and quit comparing ourselves with others. We have to choose to spend time with the people we want to be like. (Not a bad thing to consider when helping our children establish relationships too.) The authors show how the words we speak determine the kind of people we attract. 2. RULES. Successful people aren't looking for loopholes and ways to beat the system. They don't use fuzz busters, and they aren't always nervously checking their rearview mirrors. They play by the rules in sports, in the home, in business--even when nobody is looking. 3. TIME. Why do some people seem to have plenty of time while others are always "behind"? "Success takes time--the intelligent, sacred, careful use of it," say Phillips and Aslett, and they have good ideas about decluttering our day-planners. They propose that the problem is usually not too much to do--because accomplishment energizes us--but rather the habit of leaving things unsettled or undecided. Procrastination is a destiny thief; successful people face their problems head on. HEALTH. The authors don't sugarcoat the truth about healthy eating. They admit that temptation is everywhere: "Taste is so now and cholesterol so later" that we can easily run our bodies into nutritional bankruptcy. Whether we like it or not, self-control and healthy habits are the answer--not Dr. Lo-Carb's glitzy diet video. But the rewards of discipline are amazing: more energy, better quality of life, and longevity--things that money can't buy. FINANCES. Who hasn't fantasized about all the great things we would do with a million dollar windfall? We seem to think that money would fix most of our problems: "If I had more, I would be more." But until we learn how to manage our money--until we learn how to spend, save, and give--more money isn't going to help us. It might actually make matters worse. How Successful People...Keep Their Lives Out of the Toilet came to me at just the right time, because I'm trying to come up a level or two in several areas of my life. The book is informative and entertaining, challenging and inspiring. You can read it in an hour or two, but. . .living it out? That will take a lifetime. A

Good living

One of my favorite books, gives very simple things you overlook in day to day life. Well written and just good all-around knowledge.

Goldmine of Insight

These authors have the ability to change people's consciousness and make a difference in each of our lives. Their examples and stories make this an easy and motivational read. This book is entertaining, fun and instructional!

Inspiring and Entertaining

Phillips and Aslett share five simple concepts to be successful, and they enhance their well written advice with humor and entertaining anecdotes. I loved the uplifting tone of the book -- and after reading it, I was motivated to re-evaluate what "successful" means to me! They encouraged me overcome my "success inferiority complex" and to eliminate the need to constantly compare myself to others! This is a warm, inspiring book that is sure to delight readers from all walks of life.