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    Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

    Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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    by Chris Gardner, Decibels A Go-Go

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      ISBN-13: 9780061879371
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 05/12/2009
    • Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 336
    • Sales rank: 359,675
    • File size: 589 KB

    Chris Gardner is the chief executive officer of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. An avid philanthropist and motivational speaker, Gardner is a recipient of the Father of the Year Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative. He has two children and resides in Chicago and New York.


    Mim Eichler Rivas is the author of the acclaimed Beautiful Jim Key, as well as the coauthor of more than eighteen books, including The Pursuit of Happyness and Finding Fish with Antwone Fisher.

    Table of Contents

    Author's Note xiii

    Overture-C'mon In 1

    1 Start Where You Are 9

    Universal Lessons for Pursuit

    Lesson #1 Without a Plan, a Dream Is Just a Dream (the C-5 Complex) 14

    Lesson #2 We All Have the Power of Choice 24

    Lesson #3 The Cavalry Ain't Coming 30

    Lesson #4 Start with What You've Got in Your Hand 37

    Lesson #5 Baby Steps Count, Too, as Long as You Go Forward 41

    Lesson #6 Stop Digging Your Potatoes 46

    Lesson #7 What Would the Champ Do? 52

    Lesson #8 Say "Peace Be Still" 56

    Lesson #9 Even Lewis and Clark Had a Map 62

    Lesson #10 Find Your Button 69

    2 The Thorny and Golden Past 75

    Personal Lessons Drawn from the Past

    Lesson #11 Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Yesterday? 82

    Lesson #12 In Your Library of Resources, Value All Experience 88

    Lesson #13 Draw the Line of Your Life 95

    Lesson #14 Whose Child Are You? 100

    Lesson #15 Check Out Your Own Version of Genesis 104

    Lesson #16 Who's Who in Your 'Hood? 107

    Lesson #17 The Red or the Yellow Bike? 112

    Lesson #18 Sometimes You Gotta Give Up Christmas 116

    Lesson #19 No Test, No Testimony 120

    3 Hitting the Anvil 127

    Marketplace Lessons for Success

    Lesson #20 The Law of Hard Work Is No Secret 134

    Lesson #21 Core Strengths Forged on Your Anvil 142

    Lesson #22 Wizards Begin as Blacksmiths 148

    Lesson #23 Are You Bold Enough to Go Back to Basics? 155

    Lesson #24 Supply and Demand Ain't Rocket Science 164

    Lesson #25 Truth Is a Hit 170

    Lesson #26 Learn the Ropes First, Then Conquer Rome 175

    Lesson #27 Who's Who at the Office and in Your Spheres of Influence? 180

    Lesson #28 It Takes as Much Energy to Bag an Elephant as It Does a Mouse 186

    Lesson #29 Share the Wealth 190

    4 Your Empowerment Zone 195

    Life-Changing Lessons for Mastery

    Lesson #30 Seek the Farthest Star 201

    Lesson #31 Seeing Ghosts, Reading Signs 206

    Lesson #32 Opportunities, Like Pancakes, Are Best Served Hot, but Sometimes You Gotta Set the Table Before You Can Eat 212

    Lesson #33 Stay Open, but Don't Wing It 216

    Lesson #34 Mo' Money, Mo' Options, Mo' Problems 223

    Lesson #35 Money Is the Least Significant Component of Wealth 229

    Lesson #36 Conscious Capitalism: A Personal and Global Primer 234

    Lesson #37 Make Your Dream Bigger Than Yourself 238

    5 Spiritual Genetics 243

    Spiritual Lessons for Connecting to Your Higher Power

    Lesson #38 Embrace the Best of Your Spiritual Genetics 247

    Lesson #39 Breaking Generational Cycles 253

    Lesson #40 Your Divine Inheritance 259

    Lesson #41 God's in the Details 263

    Lesson #42 Passing the Torch, Raising the Bar 268

    6 The Good Old Everyday 275

    Ordinary Lessons for Happyness

    Lesson #43 Don't Postpone Joy 277

    Lesson #44 Claim Ownership of Your Dreams 282

    Finale / Takeaways: Get 'Em and Go 287

    Creating Your Own Start Where You Are Notebook 299

    Acknowledgments 311

    What People are Saying About This

    Quincy Jones

    “Start Where You Are is a must-have, must-read guide to pursuing happiness in changing times. It’s not just about surviving as an individual or business in the current economic environment, but about thriving — personally, collectively, and globally.”

    Sidney Poitier

    “A book that teaches you how to transform the impossible into the possible.”

    Maya Angelou

    “With . . . Start Where You Are, he is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knock out!”

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    “Gardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knockout!”

    —Maya Angelou

     

     Chris Gardner’s astonishing memoir—the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Pursuit of Happyness, which inspired the film of the same name starring Will Smith—served as a shining beacon of hope for countless people. In Start Where You Are, “a book that teaches you how to transform the impossible into the possible” (Sidney Poitier), Gardner offers indispensible life lessons in getting from where you are to where you want to be.

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    Library Journal
    Gardner follows his best-selling memoir, The Pursuit of Happyness, with a collection of 44 lessons that he feels helped make his life successful and that he hopes will help others. Gardner explains that this is the book he originally intended to write, but he first had to deal with his past; he recommends that all his readers do the same. His memoir is the perfect setup for this new self-help book, in which he shares his philosophy and the lessons he learned, which took him from an abusive childhood to homelessness and finally to being the chief executive of his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm. This smart and well-written guide includes excellent suggestions for both everyday life and work, with the last sentence summing up Gardner's message: "Accepting responsibility is accepting that your dreams really can come true." The result is hopeful and uplifting-not a bad thing to see in these days of economic turmoil.
    —Mary E. Jones
    Sidney Poitier
    A book that teaches you how to transform the impossible into the possible.
    Quincy Jones
    Start Where You Are is a must-have, must-read guide to pursuing happiness in changing times. It’s not just about surviving as an individual or business in the current economic environment, but about thriving — personally, collectively, and globally.
    Maya Angelou
    With . . . Start Where You Are, he is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better. Chris Gardner is a knock out!
    Ebony
    Gardner offers practical advice and pragmatic suggestions for tackling life’s problems. . . In 44 ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ chapters. . .Gardner provides a blueprint for navigating tumultuous times.
    BookPage
    Start Where You Are represents the next phase in Gardner’s career, offering hope and sound advice in this tough economic climate. . . .Transformative and inspirational.
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