No Excuses

Take Responsibility for Your Own Success

David Neenan, Eric Lucas

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781614480273
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614480280
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

In a lifetime of achievement---creating a major commercial construction company, raising a family, traveling the world and teaching the principles of success to thousands---David Neenan treasures most his mistakes, failures and troubles. When his company faced a loss greater than his net worth, David learned how to lead an effective organization. When an immune disorder made it almost impossible to stand, he learned how to heal himself. When he was 10,000 miles from home doing mindless work, he learned how to gain vision. These lessons are the keys to accomplishment and meaning. In each case, David found there are no shortcuts to success. Meaningful happiness derives from taking responsibility for your own life---and accomplishment has value only when it is reached with integrity, love, humor and faith in the wonderful dance of life. "No Excuses" describes David's challenges, failures and lessons through personal stories that portray a colorful life. Readers will hear how a simple pair of shoes led to a crucial realization at an early age. How he made peace with a childhood catastrophe at his father's grave. And how only embracing life's struggles every day brings meaning and joy. David believes we all want that---and we are the only ones responsible for achieving it.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction - Don't Be a Sea Squirt
• Chapter 1 - Beginnings: It's time to grow up
• Chapter 2 - Go For It: The only failure is not to participate
• Chapter 3 - Responsibility: Be the hero of your own life
• Chapter 4 - The Stone Wall: Four things you can do
• Chapter 5 - Growth: You can't learn less
• Chapter 6 - Purpose: Clarity is the key
• Chapter 7 - Preparation: Action must be based on good foundations
• Chapter 8 - Prosperity: Persistence, observation, imagination, innovation
• Chapter 9 - Patience: Wealth is accumulation, not compensation
• Chapter 10 - Perturbation: Make change your ally
• Chapter 11 - Human Dynamics: Communication is the response you get
• Chapter 12 - Love: I now allow others to love and support me
• Chapter 13 - Partners: Your companions are your most precious assets
• Chapter 14 - Precession: In search of the great Perhaps
• Chapter 15 - Integrity: Principles come before profit
• Chapter 16 - Values: Ideas that guide action
• Chapter 17 - Abundance: An attitude that shapes your reality
• Chapter 18 - Excuses: The “reasons” we duck responsibility
• Chapter 19 - Sustainability: Waste is the problem
• Chapter 20 - Legacy: Spreading the opportunity
• Chapter 21 - Health: The best treatment is taking action
• Chapter 22 - Meaning: Only you can answer the big Why
• Further Reading
• About the Author