Released on = December 29, 2005, 7:25 am

Press Release Author = Stacey J. Miller, Book Publicist

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Imagine if your great, great grandfather or grandmother had
left you a book with their secrets for living. Maybe it contained nuggets of wisdom,
yummy recipes, favorite jokes, or just insights for how to lead a good life. You can
leave such a book for your own family.

Press Release Body = Imagine if your great, great grandfather or grandmother had
left you a book with their secrets for living. Maybe it contained nuggets of wisdom,
yummy recipes, favorite jokes, or just insights for how to lead a good life.

You can leave such a book for your own family. Joe Vitale, author of John Wiley &
Sons new book, Life's Missing Instruction Manual, can teach your readers how to
distill the key lessons they've learned, and how to share them with children and
grandchildren - or with friends, siblings, parents, and grandparents.

What you've gleaned from your life experiences can make things easier for your
children or your relatives. In fact, the lessons you've earned from trial and error
can be the perfect gift for everyone in your life - or for one person who matters to
you.

Here's how to commit your insights to writing and share them with your fellow life
travelers.

. Carry a pad of paper around with you everywhere for a week.
. Jot down your thoughts and observations as they occur to you. Don't judge them.
Just make note of them.
. Add personal stories and memories, as they come to mind. Again, don't edit your
thoughts. Just commit them to paper.
. Take a few days to go through your notes, and underline the most important
passages, and make additional comments in the margins.
. From this, distill the lessons you most want to share with others: your
perspective, your values, what matters most to you, and your reactions to the world
around you.
. Find a beautiful journal or blank book - one that you feel a strong connection
with. You might find it at a bookstore, an antique store, an online auction site, a
craft store, or even a flea market. Where you find it doesn't matter. How you feel
about it does.
. Fill the journal with your own instruction manual for life. Make sure to include a
title and your name.
. Find a special person to share it with, and turn the presentation of the journal
into a celebration.

If you don't feel comfortable writing your notes and stories, you can dictate them
into a portable tape recorder, and later, you can transcribe them into a journal.
You don't have to be a bestselling author, academic, or philosopher to create a
instruction manual that can helped your loved ones every day of their lives . . .
and be passed on to future generations as well.


Life's Missing Instruction Manual
By Joe Vitale
John Wiley & Sons
March 2006
http://www.missingmanual.blogspot.com



Web Site = http://www.missingmanual.blogspot.com

Contact Details = Stacey J. Miller
S. J. Miller Communications
P.O. Box 834
Randolph, MA 02368
telephone: 781-986-0732
Email: sjmiller@bookpr.com