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A Father shares wisdom drawn from his reading, learning from others and lessons or
decisions, be they good or bad, that he has learned along the way.

These are based on hard experience or from reflection. This is shared so your son or
daughter learns from your Insights, hopefully to not make the same mistakes and
learns from what you believe works.

This unit is a treasure trove! We include the five key learning principles from 52
books, for 52 weeks, from some of the world’s greatest sages, leaders and fathers
who have a mass of wisdom to share. This includes writings from the 6th Century
B.C. to today. Many fathers have not had the opportunity or the time to read the
vast pool of books avaiable to them let alone had time to share these with their
growing child. We provide these in a summary version with our sincere purpose
that you may dip into these, find those that resonate with you and merge them
with your own experiences - a vision to enrich both you and those around you.
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WISDOM OF THE AGES
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR

1 Lao Tzu The Tao te Ching 6th Century B.C.
2 Sun Tzu The Art of War 4th Century B.C.
3 Marcus Aurelius Meditations AD 170
4 Horatio Alger Ragged Dick 1867
5 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Selected Writings of 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 Orison Swett Marden Pushing to the Front, or 1894
Success under Difficulties
7 James Allen As A Man Thinketh 1903
8 Andrew Carnegie Autobiography of Andrew 1920
Carnegie
9 Russell Conwell Acres of Diamonds 1921
10 George Clason The Richest Man in Babylon 1926
11 Napoleon Hill Think & Grow Rich 1937
12 Florence Scovel Schinn The Secret Door to Success 1940
13 Dale Carnegie Stop Worrying And Start Living 1944
14 Vicktor Frankel Man's Search For Meaning 1946
15 Claude Bristol The Magic of Believing 1948
16 Les Giblin How to have Confidence and 1956
Power in Dealing with People
17 David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big 1959
18 Napoleon Hill & Success through a Positive 1960
W. Clement Stone Mental Attitude
19 Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity 1962
20 W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis 1974
21 Zig Ziglar See You At The Top 1975
22 Tom Hopkins The Official Guide 1982
to Success
23 David Reynolds Constructive Loving 1984
24 Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life 1984
25 Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power: The New 1986
Science of Personal Achievement
26 Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader 1989
27 Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective 1989
People
28 Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement 1993
29 Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws Of 1994
Success
30 Warren Buffet Buffet: The Making of an 1995
(by Roger Lowenstein) American Capitalist


WISDOM OF THE AGES
“You cannot do anything AUTHOR TITLE YEAR
about the length of your life
31 Nathaniel Branden The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem 1995
but you can do something
32 Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad 1997
about it’s width and depth” 33 Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreements 1997
34 Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese 1998
~Shira Tehrani 35 Cheryl Richardson Take Time for Your Life 1998
36 Debbie Ford The Dark Side Of The Light 1998
Chasers
37 Michael Dell Direct from Dell 1999
38 Dan Millman Body Mind Mastery 1999
39 Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle 1999
40 Bill Phillips Body For Life 1999
41 Thomas Stanley The Millionaire Mind 2000
42 Robin Sharma The Saint, The Surfer And The 2002
CEO
43 Martin Seligman Authentic Happiness 2002
44 Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor 2003
45 Byron Katie Loving What Is 2003
46 Jack Canfield The Success Principles 2004
47 Wayne Dyer The Power Of Intention 2005
48 Rhonda Byrne The Secret 2006
49 Russell Simmons Do You! 2007
50 Rupert McKerron How To Have A Big Life 2007
51 Marci Shimoff with Happy For No Reason 2008
Carol Kline
52 Esther and Jerry Hicks Money, And The Law Of Attraction 2008

Bonus Extra:

A series of Quotations are included at the back of this Unit. You can use these or your
own favorite quotes to weave into your conversations to enhance your content when
sharing stories and wisdom with your Son.

Read well, think clearly.
Expose his mind to good stuff, eventually good stuff will come out!


WISDOM OF THE AGES
Book 1 Lao Tzu
The Tao te Ching
- 6th Century B.C.

- Philosopher in ancient • I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.
China
• A great nation is like a man. When he makes a mistake, he realizes
- Central figure in Chinese it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it.
culture
• The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings.
- Name of book means
“The Way” • Prevent trouble before it arises.

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to
hold on to.

ELEM E n T
KEY

If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with
yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 2 Sun Tzu
The Art of War
- 4th century B.C.
• Leadership through character: have self knowledge, observe others
- Same era as Confucius and the situation for knowledge is the principal weapon.
in Northern China
• Be attuned to the Tao, the guiding spirit of the Universe.

- Brilliant military strategist • The ultimate warrior is one who wins the war by forcing the enemy to
surrender without fighting any battles.
- Not only about war but
about an approach to life • Take the larger view and see the whole situation clearly, control the
form of engagement without reacting to it.
- Widely used in business
schools and by business • Do not prolong but seek to be a master of timing, if you battle then
leaders build momentum and strike hard and get away quickly.

ELEM E n T
KEY

War is the ultimate form of conflict.

The best way to approach conflict is be detached for the angry general
loses.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 3 Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
- 170 A.D., often translated
• Never confuse yourself by visions of an entire lifetime at once.
- Journal of a Roman
Emperor in a war • The approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own
campaign eyes, has no value for him.

• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in
recovering your self-control and do not remain out of tune longer than
you can help.

• Everything – a horse, a vine – is created for some duty… for what
task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do
the things he was made for.

• Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed
with the color of its thoughts. If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and
this you have the power to revoke at any moment.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 4 Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick
- 1867

- Horatio was admitted to • Be diligent, seek good fortune and you will make your own luck
Harvard at 16 and spoke
four languages • Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability

- He ran away to Paris at • Be a reader
one stage
• Save, but be generous
- Returned to USA, ordained
as a minister and focused • Honesty, never cheat, steal or lie
on plight of disadvantaged
children • Do not drink or smoke

- Novel of a poor boy in New
York in squalid 1800’s
who goes from shining
shoes to respectability
and wealth
tt

ELEM E n T
KEY

Whatever you do, do it honestly and to the best of your ability and you
will make your own luck


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1882

- 19th Century leading • Trust thyself.
American philosopher
• Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a
habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you
reap a destiny.

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail. God will not have his work made manifest by
cowards. Always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do.

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be
executed!

• Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you
do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it
with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and
faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 6 Orison Swett Marden
Pushing To The Front, or Success Under Difficulties
- 1894

- Book has 70 chapters and • Follow your calling – do whatever you choose, yet become a master
900 pages and a seminal at it.
work of its time
• A slow penny is surer than a quick dollar.
- Lived in foster homes after
parents died when he was • Nerve, pluck, persistence and grit.
only 7
• Overcome difficulties for character is built through adversity.
- Several Harvard degrees
• Seize common occasions and make them great.
- He built and subsequently
lost a hotel chain business

- Published on average two
books a year

ELEM E n T
KEY

There are few things that cannot be achieved by sheer determination
and effort.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 7 James Allen
As A Man Thinketh
- 1903, republished several
times and is a small
48-page book • You will be what you will to be. The oak sleeps in the acorn.

- Did not finish school, • A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently
having to work early to cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected,
support family as father it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an
was murdered abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue
to produce their kind.
- At 38, moved to small
cottage to a life of •The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the
contemplation mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically
expressed. With unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease
- Enduring classic for over a and decay.
century
• The dreamers are the saviors of the world. Calmness of mind is one
- Wrote 19 books in of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. Until thought is linked with purpose
Victorian England there is no intelligent accomplishment.

• There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

ELEM E n T
KEY

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. All that a man achieves and all
that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 8 Andrew Carnegie
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- 1920

- In his day, the world’s • Leaders are readers and wealth is created from better knowledge and
richest man better thinking.

- Born 1835, self made he • Master you: master your moods, ensuring a sunny disposition; to be
started as a railway clerk ‘yourself’ you have to have spent time working out who you are; travel
broadens a man.
- Worked his way to building
the largest iron and steel • Talk to people, not at them; enlarge your circle.
factory
• Work with others, using their reputations and spreading risk.
- Donated $100 million to
public libraries • Seek knowledge and value with higher motives, not money alone.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Focus, for ‘I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved prominence in
money-making….who was interested in many concerns’.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 9 Russell Conwell
Acres of Diamonds
- 1921
- Author fought in the Civil • Be open-minded.
War as a commissioned
officer • Great service is basic to prosperity.

- He was a lawyer, travelling • Genuine service is simple.
reporter and pastor,
founding Temple University • Leave time for meditation and contemplation of your diamonds that
in Philadelphia are likely to be so near.

- Fable of man who lived in • Greatest people are always straightforward.
Persia who sold his farm
to go seek his fortune, yet
it ended in death and
tragedy

- On the farm he sold, the
new owner noticed a glint
in the watery sands, acres
of diamonds

ELEM E n T
KEY

Wealth is often close by and folly going off to seek your fortune.

There is no need to look beyond yourself and your immediate
circumstances to find the seeds of your fortune.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 10 George Clason
The Richest Man in Babylon
- 1926

- More than 1.5 million • Law 1: pay yourself first, money comes to those who save 10%
copies sold
• Law 2: money multiplies for those who invest it
- Fable of two poor friends,
a musician and chariot • Law 3: money stays with the person who entrusts it to wise people
builder, in ancient Babylon
who seek a wealthy • Law 4: money is lost when invested in things with which you are not
friend’s advice as wealth familiar
does not create happiness,
it does enhance the • Law 5: money is lost at a fast rate when pursuing get-rich-quick
quality of life schemes

ELEM E n T
KEY

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with
wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 11 Napoleon Hill
Think & Grow Rich
- 1937

- 15 million copies •Wealth creation is a product of the mind, combining reasoning,
imagination and tenacity
- Born 1883 in a poor one
room cabin •Attuned to Infinite Intelligence is a source of ideas and ultimately
wealth
- Advisor to President
Roosevelt 20 years • Thoughts create their physical equivalent overtime
interviewing wealthy
tycoons including Ford, • Natural sexual energy can be harnessed and channeled
Edison & Andrew Carnegie
•Uniqueness, expressed in a refined idea or product, consistently
- His quest was to focused upon will lead to great monetary reward
understand “how the
wealthy become that way”

ELEM E n T
KEY

Tend to the source of wealth, which is inherently intangible (faith, vision
and persistence)


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 12 Florence Scovel Schinn
The Secret Door to Success
- 1940
• Let go long enough for the law of attraction to operate, you have
never seen an anxious magnet
- Published shortly before
her death
• In a relaxed state of expectancy, expect the best
- Uses Biblical and related
• Prepare for good things and act, prosperously
illustrative stories
• Intuition is the Infinite Intelligence’s magic
- Artistic career and
children’s book illustrator
• Practice faith over fear for success is a system
- Published shortly before
her death

- Author of several
successful books

ELEM E n T
KEY

Have faith and dissolve your barriers through positive expectations.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 13 Dale Carnegie
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
- 1944, republished many
times
• Live in “day-tight compartments”
- More than 6 million copies
sold • Stop going around in circles, arrive at a fixed purpose and make
definite decisions
- Recognized leader in self
improvement teachings • Don’t cry over spilled milk

• Rest often, before you get tired, just learn how to relax

• Realize that people are not thinking about you and rather focus
on getting busy

ELEM E n T
KEY

Worry will make you ill. Given that knowledge isn’t power until applied:

1. Write down what is worrying you
2. Write down what you can do about it
3. Decide what to do
4. Start immediately to carry out that decision


WISDOM OF THE AGES
Book 14 Viktor Frankel
Man’s Search For Meaning
- 1946, republished 1997
• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, to choose one’s
- Holocaust survivor attitude in any given set of circumstance, to choose one’s own way.

- M.D. and PhD •Discover life’s meaning in
(a) having a deed
- Chronicles Nazi (b) experience and encounters with others
concentration camp (c) attitude we adopt to suffering
experiences
• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the
striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

•Logotherapy: man’s main concern is fulfilling a meaning and
actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification of drives.

• Don’t aim at success as a target, for like happiness it cannot be
pursued, it must ensure as an unintended consequence of one’s
personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

• Be unique but it will be difficult – everyone’s task is as unique as is
his specific opportunity to implement it, what is to give light must
endure burning.

ELEM E n T
KEY

We have ultimate responsibility for choosing our responses to
challenges and manifesting our personal meaningful life. Love is the
ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire – a man who
has nothing can still have bliss.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 15 Claude Bristol
The Magic of Believing
- 1948

- Author was a World War I • Belief underpins destiny, your subconscious servant.
soldier, journalist and
speaker eventually • The intensity of your beliefs and thoughts act as a transmitter to
becoming an investment future events.
banker and businessman
• Mental pictures of wealth are as positive as mental pictures of what
- The book is difficult to you fear, are destructive.
read yet simple in its
message • The terrific force of thought repetition, combined with action.

• Developing a ‘knowing’ in your beliefs is the main determinant of
success.

ELEM E n T
KEY

The golden thread is Belief. Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 16 Les Giblin
How to have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
- 1956

- Author of several books • Recognize everyone has a divine spark within them.

- Skills consultant to large • Believe each person you deal with is important.
U.S. companies
• Calmly present the facts, allowing each to make up their own mind,
- Recognized as Salesman do not force the argument.
of the Year (1965)
• Self esteem is important - do not put the other person in a position
where they need to save face, be sarcastic or poke fun.

• Engage and draw forth relaxed friendliness.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Genuinely give appreciation and acceptance of others.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 17 David Schwartz
The Magic of Thinking Big
- 1959

- Several million copies sold • Big ideas and big plans are no more difficult than small plans.

- Author’s belief that a • Plenty of room at the top – enlarge your personal desire and
person is best measured imagination of yourself and act on it.
by the size of their dreams
• Spend time alone with your thoughts and find the quiet route to
- Professor at Georgia State success.
University
• “Excusitis” is failure’s disease, use conscious self-belief.
- Businessman and author
of several bestsellers • Go first class, get advice and spend time with successful people.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Believe Big, the size of your success is determined by the size of your
desires and belief.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 18 Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone
Success through a Positive Mental Attitude
- 1960

- W. Clement Stone, died • “It can be done” philosophy where focus on faith and not fear.
age 100, born in poverty
and self made, donated • Embrace life for wealth is attracted to those who have pleasing
$275 million to charity personalities whose attitude is big, generous and merciful.

- Napoleon Hill was advisor • First 5 Principles: positive mental attitude; definiteness of purpose;
to President Roosevelt going the extra mile; accurate thinking; self discipline.
and for 20 years
interviewed wealthy • The next 5 Principles: the master mind; applied faith; a pleasing
tycoons including Ford, personality; personal initiative; enthusiasm.
Edison & Andrew Carnegie
• The last 7 Principles: controlled attention; teamwork; learning from
defeat; creative vision; budgeting time and money; maintain physical
and mental health; using cosmic or universal force.

ELEM E n T
KEY

A clear goal matched with a consistent Positive Mental Attitude can
transform your life.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 19 Catherine Ponder
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
- 1962

- She studied business • Poverty is not a virtue, it is a vice
before becoming an
ordained minister • Desire + visualization + affirmation = success

- Has written twelve books • Prosperity is circulation, not congestion, and make way for growth

- Sought after lecturer • Systematic giving
across the nation
• Prosperity thinking is a healthy state of mind that has a positive
attitude to money

ELEM E n T
KEY

Appreciate universe’s abundance and your right to prosperity.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 20 W. Timothy Gallwey
The Inner Game of Tennis
- 1974

- Harvard University tennis • Conscious trying too hard often produces negative results.
captain
• Watching success is more impactful than critical instruction.
- Professional coach
• Your two selves, the mental coach and the one who actually plays.
- Inner Game series for
tennis, golf, skiing, music • Quiet your mind and mental clutter, do not judge a shot or yourself.
and work
• Reward is not winning, the larger game is calmly playing to the best of
your ability.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Secret is not to try too hard – keep the mind calm, trusting the body to
get into spontaneous flow.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 21 Zig Ziglar
See You At The Top
- 1975

- Sold over 2 million copies • You are born to win, create goals and you must commit them to
and re-issued in 2000 paper.

- Book is timeless yet • You are what you take in for they will manifest in your personality, be
rambles with many stories it television, pornography or good reading, seek out the best. Best
and old-fashion views guide to your conduct is the people you spend time with.

- Poor childhood in Great • Success builds upon a solid marriage, the key to that is loyalty.
Depression, one of 12
siblings • Keep life fresh by avoid the hardening of attitudes and seek out good
habits.
- From cookware salesman
to top motivational • Do not be ‘phoney’, build strong values of hard work, spiritual faith
speaker and service based on taking care of the physical, spiritual and
mental.
- Spoken alongside USA
Presidents and active in
youth drug avoidance

- Author of several books
ELEM E n T
KEY

You can have everything in life if you will just help others get what they
want.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 22 Tom Hopkins
The Official Guide to Success
- 1982

- Dropped out of college • Successful men are ruthless with their time.

- Author of 12 Bestsellers • Winners do the most productive thing possible at each given
moment.
- International Top Sales
Trainer • Choose to flip your switch from lose to win.

• Continually grow and create new goals and expectations.

• Go beyond goals and have a greater aim.

ELEM E n T
KEY

The most valuable thing you can ever own is your image of yourself as a
winner in the great game of life – act as if you are marked out for great
things.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 23 David Reynolds
Constructive Living
- 1984

- Authority on Japanese • Accept and listen to your feelings. The best way to influence how you
psychotherapies feel is by your consistent behavior.

- World Health Organization • Ask in every moment “now, what needs to be done”.
advisor in China
• Feelings Follow Behavior: do not DO depression, slumping your body,
- Published in university and repeating same negative phrases.
popular press in multiple
languages • Miserable people tend to be self-focused, we do then we feel!

• Our behavior is controllable in a way our feelings are not. Work on the
self by developing control of our actions.

• Accept fear as a healthy emotion yet keep it in check, accept life as it
is now with no need to wish it were otherwise.

ELEM E n T
KEY

We cannot control our feelings directly, do what needs to be done
regardless of whether you feel terrible or great.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 24 Louise Hay
You Can Heal Your Life
- 1984
• Turn “I should” into “I could choose to”.
- 30 million copies in
35 countries
• Some things and some thoughts will not serve you so let them go, do
mental house cleaning.
- She founded Hay House
Publishing Company
• Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem.

• Do not worry about money, a bill means some-one trusted you .

• Do not be critical of yourself, lovingly see yourself as the child you
were. Think thoughts that make you happy.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Approve of yourself, exactly as you are.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 25 Anthony Robbins
Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
- 1986

- Recognized motivational • Model successful people’s behavior and habits.
and self-help leader
• Success lies in your simple ability to take action.
- Based on principles of NLP
(neuro-linguistic • Run your brain, manipulate out negative films and reframe events
programming) positively.

- His foundation does • Great goals produce great action.
substantial charity work
• Build rapport skills with others as a conscious skill.
- His company is a prolific
producer of coaching and
life-skills material

ELEM E n T
KEY

Success leaves clues, model successful people and act upon this.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 26 Warren Bennis
On Becoming a Leader
- 1989

- Bennis fought in World • Life is not a competition, but a flowering of seeking your potential.
War II and has a PhD from
MIT • Leadership is the act of becoming more true to yourself, an
engagement with life itself.
- Leading figure in
academic research in • Heroes are made, not borne, and it is a conscious decision.
leadership
• Personal integrity, a compelling vision and ability to enjoy risk and
- He is on the board of uncertainty define leadership.
several renown
Universities • Amazon the Internet retailer: “Word hard, play hard, change the
world”.
- He interviewed many U.S.
leaders, including Neil
Armstrong who went to
the moon and Ray Kroc,
founder of McDonalds

ELEM E n T
KEY

Leadership is being interested in expressing yourself, not proving
yourself.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 27 Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- 1989

- Time voted him one of top • Habit 1 Be proactive (Personal Choice)
25 most influential
Americans • Habit 2 Begin with the end in mind (Personal Vision)

- University Professor • Habit 3 Put first things first (Integrity & Execution)

- His company does over • Habit 4 Think Win/Win (Mutual Benefit)
$500 million revenue
in Leadership and • Habit 5 Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Performance (Mutual Understanding)

- Author fought in the Civil • Habit 6 Synergize (Mutual Creation)
War as a commissioned
officer • Habit 7 Renewal (Balanced Self-Renewal)

ELEM E n T
KEY

Good character, balance and effort – you reap what you sow.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 28 Brian Tracy
Maximum Achievement
- 2000

- Grew up in poverty • Become an expert of setting and writing goals for we are shaped by
wearing charity store our ambitions.
clothes
• Less than 3% of people have written goals.
- Worked on Norwegian
freighter and travelled the • No unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
world
• Goals to be congruent with what brings you inner peace.
- Wanderer to a focused
person with an MBA and a • Loving relationships and acquiring knowledge through reading should
top salesman feature high on your goal setting.

ELEM E n T
KEY

The Master Skill is written, clear goals.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 29 Deepak Chopra
The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success
- 1994

- Several International • Law of Karma: listen with the heart and witness choices each
Bestsellers moment.

- Seminars and workshops • Law of Least Effort: practice acceptance and take responsibility.
with attendees who travel
from all over the world • Law of Giving & Receiving: circulation is abundance in all things.

• Law of Pure Potentiality: meditate, commune with nature and practice
non-judgment.

• Law of Intention & Desire: be silent, list your desires and give them
over to the Universe.

• Law of Detachment: no rigid or forced solutions, be open to
uncertainty and infinite possibilities.

• Law of Dharma: discover the higher self, use your unique talents and
serve others.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Success is finding joy and the ability to fulfill desires with effortless
ease.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 30 Warren Buffet (by Roger Lowenstein)
The Making of an American Capitalist
- 1995

- World’s second most • ‘Value investing” emphasizing research, analysis and looking only to
wealthiest man the facts of fundamental business value.

- Self made $100,000 into • Frugal
over $35 billion
• Take risks based on research, do not gamble.
- Poor upbringing made him
obsess over how to create • Long term magic of compounding interest.
wealth, starting with paper
delivery routes • Hold on to good investments for the long term.

- Still lives in same small
home bought in 1950’s in
Omaha Nebraska, publicly
has wife and a girlfriend

- Donates billions of dollars
to charity

ELEM E n T
KEY

Success requires perseverance and courage to stick to your decisions.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 31 Nathaniel Branden
The Six Pillar’s Of Self-Esteem
- 1995

- Author of 20 books, • Practice means a way of behaving that is also a way of being. Small
4 million copies in improvements make a big difference.
18 languages
• The Practice of Living Consciously
- PhD, lecturer, psychologist
and International leading • The Practice of Self-Acceptance
figure in self-esteem
• The Practice of Self-Responsibility

• The Practice of Self-Assertiveness

• The Practice of Living Purposefully

• The Practice of Personal Integrity

ELEM E n T
KEY

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one
we pass on ourself. Refuse to be in an adversarial relationship with
yourself or what makes you happy.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 32 Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - What The Rich Teach Their Children
- 1997

- Born in Hawaii • The rat race working for a pay check is a fear based mind set.

- A Marine and ex-Xerox • Specialization and working for money is better served by
salesman, made his accumulating assets and let the money work for you.
fortune as entrepreneur
and investing • Be educated, put effort into becoming financially literate.

- Born in Hawaii • Be disciplined, control your money through controlling your emotions
and separate greed from sound financial decisions.
- His firm produces finance
educational products and • Opportunities come from new ideas.
book series

ELEM E n T
KEY

The key knowledge of the wealthy lies in understanding that anything
that does not grow or generate a return, is a liability.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 33 Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
- 1997

- Grew up in rural Mexico in • First Agreement: Be Impeccable With Your Word
a family of healers
• Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally
- Bestselling author and
surgeon • Third Agreement: Don’t Make Assumptions

• Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best

ELEM E n T
KEY

The first step toward personal freedom is awareness.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 34 Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese
- 1998

- 12 million copies • There will be other cheeses

- Medical doctor and author • Loss through change can devastate, or can choose to laugh and
of several bestsellers move on

- Fable of mice in a maze • What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
confronted with change,
someone moved their • Creatively visualize finding new cheese
cheese
• Feel the fear and do it anyway
- Fable of dealing with loss
and change generally,
think relationships,
savings, jobs

ELEM E n T
KEY

When life happens and your cheese is moved, move on and accept the
next challenge, it is about perspective.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 35 Cheryl Richardson
Take Time for Your Life
- 1998

- Book was a New York • Slowing down to succeed
Times Bestseller
• Put yourself first
- On Oprah and Today
Shows •Your schedule should reflect your priorities

- Professional Speaker • Pay others to do tasks to free your valuable time

• Take responsibility for your financial health

ELEM E n T
KEY

Regular ‘downtime’ and reflection is important for your sanity and
success.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 36 Debbie Ford
The Dark Side Of The Light Chasers
- 1998

- Five times New York Times • The shadow inside is the person you would rather not be.
bestseller
• White, like perfect love, is not the absence of color but the inclusion
- Coach and TV appearance of all color.
personality
• The divine and the diabolical lie dormant within us, look within to your
own psyche, integrate and see this is OK to become whole.

• List your least favorite attributes, play with them until you can see the
gifts in these. Divine is not perfect, it is being whole.

• Be gentle with others and do not judge harshly, gently watching for
some of your attributes in others.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Whether you like it or not, if you are human you have a shadow or
attributes you do not like. Become whole by seeing them and their gift
to you.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 37 Michael Dell
Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry
- 1999

- Started Dell, computers • Think unconventionally
direct to consumers
• Despise the status quo
- Loved taking computers
apart, idea germinated in • Set big goals that may just be do-able
freshman year
• Love change
- Multi-billion dollar
company with over 40,000 • Focus on your possibilities
employees

- Self-made

ELEM E n T
KEY

Do fewer things, better. The simpler you make life for people, the more
valuable you will be.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 38 Dan Millman
Body Mind Mastery
- 1999

- Former world champion
athlete • You reshape your life by being aware and integrating your body, mind
and emotions through training.
- College Professor
• Fear of failure generates vicious circles that create what you fear.
- Bestselling author Make peace with failure, treating as an old friend playing a practical
published in more than joke.
20 languages
• Be free of self-criticism, just keep practicing and be gentle with
yourself.

• Stay relaxed and focus on constructive action.

• Your body will sculpt over time with daily habits of exercise and diet
so keep your desire for change strong.

ELEM E n T
KEY

This, and every moment, is the moment of truth. Freedom from mental
distractions equals power.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 39 Richard Koch
The 80/20 Principle
- 1999

- Author, businessman and • Pareto Principle of 80/20 is everywhere – 20% of people own 80% of
consultant wealth; 20% of criminals commit 80% of crimes.

- Several International • 20% of what you do yields 80% of results, with 80% of your effort
bestsellers yielding very little, the Principle of Least Effort.

• Applies to goals, business, friends, diet, relationships and all areas of
your life.

• Be unreasonable and go after big, but few, focused goals.

• Spend time and emotional energy only those things that are
important to you.

ELEM E n T
KEY

20% of effort gets 80% of results. Target a limited number of activities
and goals and ruthlessly focus - do less to achieve more!


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 40 Bill Phillips
Body For Life
- 1999

- A New York Times • Identify reasons to change, get a future vision of yourself and decide
Bestseller to change.

- 12 week training and diet • Identify 3 old habits holding you back and 3 new empowering habits.
regimen
• Eat 6 small healthy meals per day having carbohydrates and protein,
- Hundreds of thousands including vegetables with at least two of the meals.
used the program
• Muscle is 70% water, drink 10 glasses per day.
- Inspirational personal case
stories • Alternate days, 20 minutes aerobic exercise and 45 minute strength
training (Sunday’s free). Repetitions not as important as building to
High Points (maximum intensity) per muscle group.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Can transform your body in 12 weeks, when you gain control of your
body, you will gain control of your life.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 41 Thomas Stanley
The Millionaire Mind
- 2000

- Author interviewed and • Wealth is linked to courage and belief in their ability to generate
questioned over wealth.
700 wealthy people
• Do a variety of jobs, then settle to do work that you love to do.
- Part of successful
bestseller Millionaire • The harder you work, the luckier you get.
series
• Millionaire’s are frugal yet don’t do DIY, control you finances from the
- Holds a business start and do not be reliant on credit.
doctorate and was a
Professor at Georgia • A successful marriage is a significant factor in success.
University

ELEM E n T
KEY

Millionaire minds are not born, they are a set of habits and attitudes
anyone can cultivate.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 42 Robin Sharma
The Saint, The Surfer And The CEO
- 2002

- Former lawyer, now • Saint’s insight: trust and open up to how the world really works. To
bestselling author and thine own self be true, direct yourself at what you love to do.
professional speaker
• Surfer’s insight: reflect, if your inner world is healthy and complete,
- Fictional work of Jack the simplest basic things will fill your heart and soul.
Valentine who meets his
Dad’s mentors • Surfer’s insight: live with a greater sense of perspective and
appreciation of life and the truth.
- Also wrote, The Monk Who
Sold His Ferrari, an • Surfer’s insight: live your best life.
International bestseller
• CEO insight: the one who gives the most, wins (do the best you can
and serve others).

ELEM E n T
KEY

There is a sleeping giant inside everyone, miracles happen when you
open your inner self and that giant awakes.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 43 Martin Seligman
Authentic Happiness
- 2002

- Former President of the • Happiness and well-being are the desired outcomes of Positive
American Psychological Psychology.
Association
• Through the ages, the six core virtues are : (1) wisdom and
- Bestselling author knowledge (2) courage (3) love and humanity (4) sense of justice (5)
temperance (6) spirituality and transcendence.
- University Professor
• Do not devote overly much effort to correcting your weaknesses, build
and use your signature strengths.

• Wealth creates a ‘pleasant life’, a good life is using your signature
strengths daily to produce authentic happiness and abundance.

• Beyond a job or career, for if you can find a way to use your signature
strengths at work often, and they also contribute to the greater good,
you have a calling.

ELEM E n T
KEY

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature
strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life
adds one more component: using these strengths to forward
knowledge, power or goodness.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 44 Richard Wiseman
The Luck Factor
- 2003

- Started as a professional • The lucky personality creates, notices and acts upon chance
magician opportunities in their lives to manufacture their luck.

- Doctorate from Edinburgh • Have a relaxed attitude to people and life, the openness to
University new experiences allows you see what is there.

- Book followed an eight • Trust your intuition and foster a better relationship with
year study your unconscious.

- Several scholarly articles • Expect the best, believe and persevere as this becomes
and television self-fulfilling.
appearances business
advisor and lecturer • Lucky people also have bad times, yet they seek out the
learning experience and never believe that their bad times
are permanent.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Luck is less related to chance than we may think, it is about a lucky
mindset and approach to life.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 45 Byron Katie
Loving What Is
- 2003

- Several bestsellers • When I argue with reality, I lose.

- Her mission is to end • Stay in your business and out of others, see everything as a friend.
suffering due to stressful
beliefs and see reality • Do not be overwhelmed by stressful thoughts but they are
compassionate alarm clocks alerting us.

• Problems often misperception in wrong thinking.

• Throw “should” away, stress comes from the stories we tell
ourselves.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Take a stressful thought and ask

- Is it true?
- Can I absolutely know it is true?
- How do I react when I think that thought?
- Who would I be without the thought?
- Turn it around and state it as an opposite and reflect!


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 46 Jack Canfield
The Success Principles
- 2004

- He has sold more than • Take 100% responsibility
100 million copies,
including Chicken Soup • Get a purpose and be clear why you are here, believing the world and
for the Soul series events will conspire to help you achieve.

- Success coach with • Make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have
audiences across and 30 things you want to be, before you die.
20 countries
• It is all about attitude and being prepared to do your own push-ups.

• Focus on your goals and remember that others are not thinking about
you but are too busy worrying about their own lives.

ELEM E n T
KEY

If you are clear where you are going and take several steps in that
direction everyday, you eventually have to get there.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 47 Wayne Dyer
The Power Of Intention
- 2005

- Holds a PhD • Act as if everything you desire is already here.

- Internationally acclaimed • Four steps of intention are Discipline, Wisdom, Love and Surrender.
speaker and author of
more than 30 books • Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

• Contemplate what you want instead of what you don’t have.

• Say ‘Yes’ to life, you must be what it is you are seeking; if you want
peace, start by being peace.

ELEM E n T
KEY

Surrender, there is a force greater than you guiding the universe and
manifesting your desires. Relax and trust this power of intention.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 48 Rhonda Byrne
The Secret
- 2006

- Many thought leaders • Law of Attraction means ‘like attracts like’, so when you think a
contributed to book thought, you are also attracting ‘like’ thoughts and events to you.

- Global phenomena and • Nothing, good or bad, can come into your experience unless you
International summon it through persistent thoughts.
accompanying film
release • Step 1: Ask

- Record rate of sales for • Step 2: Believe
the first 5 million copies
sold •Step 3: Receive

• To receive, you must be open and feel good.

stiEM E n T
EL ons
QE e
KuY

The Great Secret of Life is the Law of Attraction.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 49 Russell Simmons
Do You!
- 2007

- “Innovative and influential • See your vision and stick with it. Focus on your effort instead of
figure” - New York Times results of that effort.

- Hip-hop mogul • Focus on Doing You, meditate for a clear and focused mind and it will
last a lifetime.
- Uses inspiring stories to
teach the lessons • Start each day by reflecting on all the things you can be grateful for,
love the world!
- Spiritual entrepreneur
• Use your talents and do not stall for the pain of avoiding work is more
than the actual work itself.

• Age ain’t nothing but a number and the biggest thing that separates
you from the success you seek is fear.

stiEM E n T
EL ons
QE e
KuY

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your
dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 50 Rupert McKerron
How To Have A Big Life
- 2007

- Merchant Banker and • Your talent brings you joy and points to your purpose in life, so listen
entrepreneur to your feelings and intuition to follow your dreams.

- Left London due to • Control and mock the anxious little voice of your conscious mind.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
to pursue his dreams in • Daily repetition of positive affirmation statements, even if not feel
South Africa right initially, to guide the subconscious.

• Have big written goals that are unique for you, understanding you will
not get there in a straight line – just do it!

• Enjoy living in the present and choose to see the world, not as tough
or unfair, but abundant and full of opportunities.

stiEM E n T
EL ons
QE e
KuY

Do what is right for YOU.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 51 Marci Shimoff with Carol Kline
Happy For No Reason
- 2008

- New York Times • Depression is a global illness. Do not pursue happiness, make a
bestselling author habit of it.

- Co-author of five Chicken • Internal “happiness setpoint” that is 50% genetic, 10%
Soup for the Soul Series circumstances and wealth but 40% habitual thoughts and feelings.
Increase your setpoint by looking at your habits.
- Featured in The Secret
sensation • Respond to events in a way that supports your inner peace, quieten
your mind and Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs), authentically be
- Prolific International velcro for positivity and teflon for negativity.
speaker
• Cherokee Indian story – inside each person are two battling wolves,
Unhappiness and Happiness. Which will win? The one that you feed.

• Actively remove “blaming” and have the true intention to notice
everything good.

stiEM E n T
EL ons
QE e
KuY

Happy for no reason is not a grinning fool. It is about an underlying
state of well-being where you live from happiness rather than for
happiness.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
BOOK 52 Esther and Jerry Hicks
Money, And The Law Of Attraction
- 2008

- International Bestseller • Most valuable skill is directing your thoughts to what you want, then
giving undivided attention to that.
- Claims to channel from
spiritual link • Consciously pivot out of negative thoughts to positive when they
arise.
- Abraham-Hicks teachings
Hold workshops in 60 • There is nothing you cannot be or do and your work here is to seek
cities per year joy.

• Shortage of a connection to the Energy that creates the world is at
the heart of any shortage you experience in other areas.

• For when you feel good, you are in harmony with your greater intent.

stiEM E n T
EL ons
QE e
KuY

Nothing more detrimental to positively attract the life you want, are
negative emotions and thoughts.


WISDOM OF THE AGES
H E R S I N M O T IO N
FA T

QUOTES - WISDOM SOUND BITES

Kernels of truth are often evident in short quotations

I call it Bumper Sticker insight

Read through some of these, if any resonant or catch your eye, think on why that is
and what truth lies within the quote that would enhance your life if acted upon

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“We judge ourselves by “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds”
what we feel capable of ~Joseph Conrad - Achievement
doing, while others judge us “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts”
by what we have already ~John Locke - Achievement
done”
“Action is eloquence”
~ Henry Longfellow ~Shakespeare - Achievement

“Better to wear out than rust out”
~Anonymous - Action

“Nothing accomplishes nothing”
~Bahya Paguda - Action

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be looking for it the rest of the day”
~Lord Chesterfield - Action

“To be or not to be, that is your decision”
~Pat Paradwoski - Action

“There is only one proof of ability - results. Men with ability in action get results”
~Harry Banks - Action

“Adventures are to the adventurous”
~Benjamin Disraeli - Adventure

“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain”
~Dolly Parton - Adversity

“Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records”
~William Arthur Ward - Adversity

“It is difficulties that show what men are”
~Epictetus - Adversity

“Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold”
~Alain de Lille - Appearances


WISDOM OF THE AGES
“Excellence can be attained “We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own”
if you…care more than the ~Joseph Joubert - Arguments
others think is wise; risk “Your attitude determines your altitude”
more than the others think ~Zig Ziglar - Attitude
is safe; dream more than
others think is practical and “A new attitude…invariable creates a new result”
expect more than others ~Anonymous - Attitude
think is possible” “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
~Anonymous - Attitude Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
~ Mark Twain - Attitude

“If you think you can, or if you think you cannot; You are probably right”
~Henry Ford - Beliefs

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
~T.S Elliot - Boldness

“A life in fear is a life half lived”
~Anonymous - Boldness

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”
~Dolores Ibarruri - Boldness

“Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few word”
~The Bible - Ecclesiasticus 32:8 Brevity

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Business

“Good bargains are pick-pockets”
~Thomas Fuller - Business

“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one”
~George Herbet - Business

“Be ever watchful of advice where the giver stands to gain”
~Anonymous - Business


WISDOM OF THE AGES
“When one's character “The only certainty is that nothing is certain”
begins to fall under ~Pliny the Elder - Certainty
suspicion and disfavour, “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one”
how swift, then, is the work ~Voltaire - Certainty
of disintegration and
destruction.” “Things are not to happen to you, they must happen because of you”
~Anon - Change
~Mark Twain “The easiest way to manage change is to create it”
~Dr. Molapo - Change

“A prisoner of the past; or pioneer of the future”
~Anon - Change

“If you want something that you have never had before; You must do something you
have never done before”
~Anon - Change

“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit
and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”
~Mark Twain - Character

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in
conversation.
~Mark Twain - Character

”As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”
~James Allen - Character

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others”
~Hasidic saying - Confidence

“They can because they think they can”
~Virgil - Confidence

“You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences”
~W. Somerset Maugham - Consequences


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