WIT Kit Tools for Managing Misfortune
CHAPTER TWO LEARNING TO LOVE MISTAKES
8. Be willing to make great mistakes.
9. Give up thinking that you can do it all.
11. Never underestimate yourself.
12. Don't wait until you are depressed or desperate (or both) to network.
13. Don't believe that to succeed you must be “more like a man.”
14. Move on, move up, or move out.
15. Trust in God, but row away from rocks.
16. Listen to your inner voice.
17. Realize that risks are part of the package.
WIT Kit Tools for Learning to Love Mistakes
CHAPTER THREE MAKE COURAGE AN EVERYDAY COMPANION
18. Know it's the obstacles in the stream that make it sing.
19. Realize that courage often means letting go.
21. Walk through fields of fear.
22. Be brave on your own behalf.
23. Earn your own red badge of courage.
24. Let yourself cry when Tinker Bell dies.
26. Know that courage isn't only for heroes.
WIT Kit Tools for Making Courage an Everyday Companion
CHAPTER FOUR UNDERSTANDING MONEY
27. When you are short on dollars, be rich in spirit.
28. Learn the lessons from the dream house on Chateau Drive.
29. Don't wait until your financial DNA is on life support.
30. Realize that Ozzie and Harriet are long gone.
31. Follow your cash so it doesn't end up in someone else's pocket.
WIT Kit Tools for Understanding Money
CHAPTER FIVE WHEN LIFE IS NOT WHAT YOU ORDERED, BEGIN AGAIN
34. Invent a secret language for change.
WIT Kit Tools for When Life Is Not What You Ordered
CHAPTER SIX REINVENTING YOURSELF
36. Recognize that chocolate has to melt in order to take a new form.
37. When dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
38. Don't take the crumbs; you're here for the whole cake.
39. Be grateful the dog didn't pee on the carpet.
WIT Kit Tools for Reinventing Yourself
CHAPTER SEVEN CARRYING WHAT CANNOT BE FIXED
The Club No One Wished to Join
43. Build your own “kitchen cabinet.”
45. Change your environment, change your life.
WIT Kit Tools for Carrying What Cannot Be Fixed
CHAPTER EIGHT FACING NAYSAYERS
48. Listen to your beliefs, not your doubts.
50. Refuse to be imprisoned by your past.
WIT Kit Tools for Facing Naysayers