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Leaving Secrets: How to Create a
Personal
Instruction Manual for Your Life
By Dr. Joe Vitale
Imagine if your great, great grandfather or
grandmother had left you a book with their
secrets for living. Maybe it contained nuggets of
wisdom, yummy recipes, favorite jokes, or just
insights for how to lead a good life. Ever since
people learned of my next book, "Life's Missing
Instruction Manual", people are curious how to
create their own "manual" for life.
You can leave such a book for your own family.
What are the key lessons you've learned in your
life? Are you ready to share them with your
children and grandchildren - or with your friend,
siblings, parents, and grandparents?
What you've gleaned from your life experiences
can make things easier for your children or your
relatives. In fact, the lessons you've earned
from trial and error can be the perfect gift for
everyone in your life - or for one person who
matters to you. Here's how to commit your
insights to writing and share them with your
fellow life travelers.
- Carry a pad of paper around with you
everywhere
for a week
- Jot down your thoughts and observations as
they
occur to you. Don't judge them. Just make note of
them
- Add personal stories and memories, as they
come
to mind. Again, don't edit your thoughts. Just
commit them to paper
- Take a few days to go through your notes, and
underline the most important passages, and make
additional comments in the margins
- From this, distill the lessons you most want
to
share with others: your perspective, your values,
what matters most to you, and your reactions to
the world around you
- Find a beautiful journal or blank book - one
that you feel a strong connection with. You might
find it at a bookstore, an antique store, an
online auction site, a craft store, or even a
flea market. Where you find it doesn't matter.
How you feel about it does
- Fill the journal with your own instruction
manual for life. Make sure to include a title and
your name
- Find a special person to share it with, and
turn the presentation of the journal into a
celebration.
If you don't feel comfortable writing your notes
and stories, you can dictate them into a portable
tape recorder, and later, you can transcribe them
into a journal. You don't have to be a
bestselling author, academic, or philosopher to
create a instruction manual that can helped your
loved ones every day of their lives . . . and be
passed on to future generations as well.
Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of the forthcoming book,
"Life's Missing Instruction Manual" (Wiley, March
2006). Read more about it at
http://www.missingmanual.blogspot.com
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