Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

Bestselling author and popular national speaker Matthew Kelly delivers a message about the next revolution in personal development. In his travels around the world, where he speaks to more than 250,000 people every year, Matthew Kelly has found time and again that the secret to achieving happiness and success lies in switching our focus from arriving at perfection to making progress. In this inspiring and practical audiobook, Matthew shows us how we can refocus our priorities to achieve happiness, peace and success in the present.

Library Journal

Happiness, for inspirational speaker and best-selling author Kelly (The Seven Levels of Intimacy), is "feeling at home with ourselves, with who we are, and where we are and what we are doing." According to Kelly, we all have a desire to be more perfectly ourselves but are often frustrated by our shortcomings. In this well-written work, Kelly, using familiar examples from the world's religions and philosophies, shares ways to break down goals into manageable steps, celebrate progress, identify and accept personal imperfections, and work to become a better version of oneself. Readers familiar with Kelly's other works will recognize recurring themes: character first, self-discipline and the practice of delayed gratification in character development, and the importance of finding one's unique abilities and gifts and using them for good. Each of the nine lessons concludes with a list of four to five applications written in the first person, which could be used as personal affirmations or goals. Recommended for self-help collections. Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Matthew Kelly is the author of several books, including The Rhythm of Life and The Seven Levels of Intimacy. His books have appeared on multiple bestseller lists including those of The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. For more than a decade Kelly has been traveling the globe, and three million people in more than fifty countries have attended his seminars. One of the great emerging voices of our time, Kelly is the founder of The Matthew Kelly Foundation, whose major charitable work is to help young people discover their mission in life. Kelly is also the president of Dream Manager Consulting, a Chicago-based consulting company that helps corporations and individuals identify and live their dreams.

From the Hardcover edition.