Make Your Life Prime Time

How to Have It All Without Losing Your Soul

María Celeste Arrarás

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781416585824
• eBook ISBN: 9781416585916
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

Award-winning journalist, television personality, and author, Maria Celeste Arrarás shares advice through personal reflections.

In spite of the difficult obstacles she has confronted in her life, María Celeste Arrarás has been able to move forward and triumph against all odds as a woman, a mother, and a professional. Through a series of autobiographical anecdotes, María shares with her fans the formula to achieve fame, fortune, and emotional fulfillment, all at the same time.

María tells of the lessons she learned from her parents’ divorce, the adoption of one of her sons in Russia and the abuse that her other son suffered at the hands of a nanny. She talks about the betrayal of her unfaithful husband and making peace with the “other woman.” And she reveals how her personal assistant stole her identity and thousands of dollars in the midst of her divorce.

Make Your Life Prime Time is funny and moving, inspiring and powerful. It’s a lesson on the power of forgiveness and the importance of striving for excellence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1 Love shouldn’t be the sole master of your destiny.
• 2 Be the best of the best or the worst of the worst. Never mediocre.
• 3 People are neither good nor bad, just products of circumstance.
• 4 In times of trouble, hold on to your integrity.
• 5 Better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.
• 6 Where others see obstacles, you can find opportunities.
• 7 When your dignity is at stake, always stand your ground.
• 8 If you want to go places, don’t let the word “no” stand in your way.
• 9 Even your mistakes can show the best of you.
• 10 Sour lemons make the best lemonade.
• 11 If you can’t climb over an obstacle, dig a tunnel under it.
• 12 Sometimes a side road is the fastest path to reach your goals. And beyond.
• 13 Hesitation is for the timid. And the dead.
• 14 Random acts of kindness are often rewarded with a real treat.
• 15 Forgoing grudges is not just in good taste. It’s good karma.
• 16 Your mind is a powerful tool. Don’t let it work against you.
• 17 You have only one life to live. Live it a little dangerously.
• 18 Listen to your sixth sense.
• 19 Sometimes love finds you. Other times, you will find it in hidden places.
• 20 Your name is your most prized possession.
• 21 Your word is your contract. Break it and risk losing your soul.
• 22 If you want to keep something secret, don’t even tell your mother.
• 23 Be gracious when others have harmed you.
• 24 Prejudice will blind you from seeing the world as it really is.
• 25 Changing the world for the better should be its own reward.
• 26 Resentment is a heavy anchor that can weigh you down and drown you.
• 27 Nothing is harder than the softness of indifference.
• 28 Never let a bad experience rob you of your faith in humanity.
• 29 Even if you want to sell magazines, don’t sell your soul.
• 30 You know it’s real love when you’re willing to sacrifice lobster for tuna fish.
• 31 It’s the little people who can make the biggest difference.
• 32 Trust your mother. She’ll always tell it like it is.
• 33 You must understand the consequences of your actions before being forgiven.
• 34 It costs nothing to be unforgettable.
• A Final Lesson A compass for your life.
• A Letter to My Children
• Acknowledgments
• Photographic Insert