Lessons in Lifemanship
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How to Improve Relationships and Enjoy Them More.Improve Relationships and Enjoy Them More; Principles in the Family, the Workplace, and Other Areas of Life for Your Benefit and the Benefit of Others; Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur, Get a Job and Handle an Interview; Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them; Improve Board Meetings
How to Use Principles in the Family, in the Workplace,
and in Other Areas of Life for Your Benefit and the
Benefit of Others.
also,
How to Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur,
Get a Job and Handle a Job Interview

also,
How to Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them
also,
Fourteen Ways to Improve Board Meetings

Successful parenting your children, Improving relationships in your family free online book: How to improve relationships and enjoy them, principles in family, workplace, and other areas of life for your benefit and the benefit of others; choose a vocation, become an entrepreneur, get a job, handle a job interview; choose volunteer activities, improve board meetings Lessons in Lifemanship A book about How to Improve Relationships and Enjoy Them More; How to Use Principles in the Family, in the Workplace, and in Other Areas of Life for Your Benefit and the Benefit of Others; How to Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur, Get a Job and Handle a Job Interview; How to Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them; Ways to Improve Board Meetings

CONTENTS

  1. Lifemanship and Relationships

    • Part II
    How to Improve Personal and Family
    Relationships and Enjoy Them More


  2. Listening
  3. Active Listening with Children and Young People
  4. Good Advice and Help
  5. Don't Look for Someone to Blame Concentrate on Solutions
  6. Do the Important, Not Just the Urgent
  7. Accepting a Compliment
  8. Planning a Special Occasion
  9. What Are Your Goals and How Can I Help You to Achieve Them
  10. Forgiveness
  11. Conditional Love
  12. The Family Inheritance
  13. Anger as Control
  14. Don't Let Someone Else Determine How You Feel or How You Treat Others
  15. Praise
  16. Expressing Gratitude
  17. The Considerate Way to Communicate Bad News
  18. Influencing Attitudes toward Work
  19. Avoiding Controversies
  20. Settling Disputes Using a Mediator
  21. Answers Emerge

    • Part III
    How to Improve Relationships and
    Achieve Success in the Workplace


  22. The Art of Negotiation
  23. Solving the Problem One on One
  24. Summarizing
  25. Overcoming the Objection, "It's against Our Policy"
  26. Motivating Others
  27. Locating the Authority Who Can Help You

    • Part IV
    How to Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur,
    Get a Job and Handle an Interview


  28. Choosing a Vocation
  29. The Influence of Temperament in Vocational Choice
  30. Becoming an Entrepreneur
  31. "I've Just Got to Get a Job"
  32. Interviewing for a Job

    • Part V
    How to Find Potential Employees and to Evaluate Them

  33. Seeking Potential Employees
  34. Evaluating Employee Applicants

    • Part VI
    How to Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them.
    How to Make Boards and Committees More Effective


  35. Deriving Pleasure and Satisfaction from Volunteer Activities
  36. Serving on a Board
  37. Improving Boards and Board Meetings
  38. The Search Committee

    • Part VII
    How to Share Success and Motivation

  39. Sharing Success
  40. Valuable Lessons
  41. My Belief and Motivation
relationships, dependence upon and concern for one another, Lifemanship, Seamanship, Statesmanship, Experience Determination,  mutual dependence

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book was written with the help of what could be called a Committee.  The contributions of eight people were such that they deserve more than the usual expression of gratitude, or dedication of a book.Lessons in Lifemanship A book about How to Improve Relationships and Enjoy Them More; How to Use Principles in the Family, in the Workplace, and in Other Areas of Life for Your Benefit and the Benefit of Others; How to Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur, Get a Job and Handle a Job Interview; How to Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them; Ways to Improve Board Meetings

First is my wife Rubie.  It is great to have a personal counselor in life, and it is most convenient if that counselor is also your very compatible roommate.  My five children, four daughters and a son, now all adults, take active parts in the book.  You will recognize them because their first names all begin with "B".  My loyal friend Dotty Palmintier, who runs my office, is fortunately an expert in grammar and spelling.  And how can you do better than a sister, Helen Wagner, who, as a university English teacher, has corrected thousands of themes?

I sincerely asked the committee to be very forthright in criticisms of grammar, spelling, and especially content.  And they were.  A misused word was circled with "Ugh" written beside it.  In another place a marginal note stated, "There's too much going on here."  (There was.)  But they also made very helpful and constructive suggestions, positive in nature, not just corrective.

More than anything, they were encouragers, and for this I am very grateful.  Encouragement is an important subject in this book.

Lessons in Lifemanship A book about How to Improve Relationships and Enjoy Them More; How to Use Principles in the Family, in the Workplace, and in Other Areas of Life for Your Benefit and the Benefit of Others family relationships, dependence upon and concern for one another, lifemanship, seamanship, statesmanship, mutual dependence How to Choose a Vocation, Become an Entrepreneur, Get a Job and Handle a Job Interview; How to Choose Volunteer Activities and Enjoy Them; Ways to Improve Board Meetings
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