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The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die | 
| Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 4102
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 178
Dewey Decimal Number: 170.44
ASIN: B001BU8K32
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Product Description
What are the secrets to finding happiness? Why do some people live well and die happy? John Izzo asked thousands of people to identify the wisest person they knew. "The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die" shares what he learned from over 200 people aged 60-106 whom others said had found the meaning in life. From town barbers to Holocaust survivors, from aboriginal chiefs to CEO's, these people had over 18,000 years of life experience. With warmth and wit, this book shares the "Five Secrets" to a happy and purpose-filled life which Izzo distilled from listening to these stories. Dr. Izzo also shows the reader how to put these secrets into practice in our lives. This book will make you laugh, bring you to tears, and inspire you to discover what matters long before you die. Based on a highly acclaimed TV series appearing on public television, this book takes the reader on a heart-warming and profound journey to find lasting happiness.
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 Great Hook and Fabulous Follow-through August 21, 2008
You can go to the contents page to discover the five secrets of living well. But what you find there are straightforward principles that you probably already sense are good values for gracious living. John Izzo and his associates interviewed 235 people who seemed to have learned how to live well. They found that people who were respected had lived through most of their life experiences. What they learned were not so much secrets, as common insights that these people shared about how to make the most of life. The pages are full of insight and advice that is inspiring reading, well written, and very much worth your time and attention.
 Good spur to tackling the Big Picture components of a life well-lived July 19, 2008
No one ever said on their deathbed, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."
I saw this book at an airport bookstore and was intrigued by the title. Author John Izzo, a former Presbyterian minister, undertook to interview about 200 people (mostly elderly) about the ingredients for living a fulfilled life. The results he has distilled into five separate precepts.
These may not necessarily be "secrets," in that we have all likely heard them expounded from time to time. Still, the reinforcement is helpful. Each chapter on one of the "secrets" closes with a short list of practical tips and questions for how to implement these steps into your daily life. That is the kicker - not knowing but doing.
"Five Secrets" is a useful spur for all of us to slow down, step back from our busy-ness and to invest time and effort in those things in our lives that really matter.
Well Written, Excellent Book July 1, 2008
This book has been beautifully written and is a great reminder of something that most of us know already but sometimes can't see. In the busy-ness of everyday life, we forget the truths written here and the author uses language that tugs at the heartstrings.
I love this book!
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die May 8, 2008
Although the "secrets" are all things you should have learned in kindergarden, the book really does cause you to stop and think about how short and precious time can be. It gives the reader valid thoughts to relect upon and also recalls into mind those who have departed before us.
If you've attended some funerals or memorial services, it helps to realize how the life the person has lived is relected by those who were touched by the deceased.
 A Good Day to Die April 22, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What are the secrets to finding happiness and living wisely? This second line of the first chapter captures the purpose of Dr. John Izzo's new book The Five Serects You Must Discover Before You Die (2008 Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.). The book is an urgent plea to the reader to embrace life--in ever encounter, every experience, every emotion every single day.
Izzo proposes we do that by accepting that life is limited to an unknown amount of time for each of us but that within this limited time we have unlimited opportunities to choose to find meaning by living a purposeful life and thereby find happiness.
He interviewed several hundred older people--"wise elders"--based on the recommendations of persons who recognized them as sources of wisdom. In this way, Izzo turns to ordinary folks who have lived full lives for the wisdom necessary to do the same. If other great teachers of our time and previous times have said it before, so be it. Now we receive the wisdom from the local barber, the Holocaust survivor, the grandma on the porch rocker.....All of Izzo's sources are over 60 because, the author said, this is the age at which most people tend to reflect on life. They're done having and getting; they are looking back on all that they have done.
This diverse group offered insights that came down to these five points:
1. Be true to yourself by living with intention. Know your heart's desire and seek it.
2. Live with no regrets. Regrets, Izzo said, are most persons' biggest fear--not dying itself. So mend fences, make peace, and move your life into a place of peace. The best way to live without regret, Izzo says, is to take chances, pursue those dreams, and accept the failure that might be your way. Rather than be crushed by failure, learn from it.
3. Become love. Love is not an emotion but a choice, a way of being that involves seeing ourselves and others with kindness and compassion. That love creates the opportunities to follow your bliss, heal hurts in yourself and others, and to find peace despite challenges and hardships.
4. Live in the moment. Right here right. That's all.
5. Give more than you take. Izzo explores that wonderful idea of finding yourself and then losing yourself. Once you identify your heart's desire and live your life pursuing it, the chance of accumulating any regrets is reduced. Once you become love, kindness itself becomes part of your purpose, and each moment offers all the joy of a lifetime. This creates an abundance of resources in the forms of love, trust, hope, joy, kindness, compassion. Draw from this deep well and give it away. Leave the campsite better than you found it, as one wise elder put it.
And then, as the saying goes, you will wake each day knowing it is a good day to die.
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