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Rodolfo Costa (Author)
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November 30, 2009
A collection of 409 thoughts, quotes, lessons, ideas, suggestions, reminders, and words of advice and encouragement to help you lead a more prosperous, rewarding, peaceful, happy, and fulfilling life.

"Unfortunately, most of us live by default. We all have dreams, ideas, and plans for our lives, for what we want to achieve, for what we want to become, yet a lot of us never accomplish what we dream. For one reason or another, we do not really seem to want what we say we want — although we say we want it — we lack the motivation, enthusiasm, and determination to get it. This may be because we do not see or have an idea as to how we are going to turn our dreams into reality, so we never give ourselves the opportunities to make them happen."

This book is filled with advice, lessons, ideas, reminders, and suggestions for how to live a more rewarding and balanced life. It is about attitude, goals, persistence, success, relationships, planning, personal and spiritual growth, and fulfillment. It is about choices and personal responsibility. It is about creating the drive, the burning desire to achieve what you want. It is about seeing life from a different point of view.

This book is about changing your way of thinking and changing your way of doing things and taking charge of your life. It is about losing the fear that you may have that does not allow you to move forward to create a better life for yourself and your love ones. It is about daring yourself to be successful, no matter what the odds. It is about learning to lead a peaceful, less stressful way of life. No more excuses!


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"409 thought-provoking ideas.Unassuming in its presentation, Advice My Parents Gave Me... is a reminder to readers not to judge something based on its appearance but rather on its content. --Hartford Books Examiner, John Valeri

About the Author

After years of procrastination and making mistakes that would become material for his new manuscript, Rodolfo Costa compiled the ultimate inspirational collection in "Advice My Parents Gave Me and Other Lessons I Learned From My Mistakes".

Rodolfo Costa was born in Lima, Peru. At age nineteen, he said goodbye to his parents and immigrated to the United States. Through the difficulties and joys of life, he learned to be grateful for everything he achieved, and with that gratitude he made it his business to inspire and motivate others, by helping them build the enthusiasm and determination to lead a successful life, whatever their meaning of success is. Now Rodolfo is able to share his learned wisdom in his new thought provoking collection of 409 practical "bite-sized" ideas and quotes of advice and encouragement.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse (November 30, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449025528
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449025526
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,122,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rodolfo Costa was born in Lima, Peru. At age nineteen, without knowing what to expect, he said goodbye to his parents and immigrated to the United States. Through the difficulties and joys of life, with the advice received and the mistakes made, he learned to embrace the world in a different and more positive way, and now with immense gratitude for the knowledge he gained, he is able to share his earned wisdom in his new inspirational and motivational collection "Advice My Parents Gave Me and Other Lessons I Learned From My Mistakes." Today, Rodolfo Costa continues his learning, sharing his knowledge, and evolving as a person and human being. He is a business owner, a Realtor, a teacher, and always a student. He lives in Northern California.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars 409 Fortune Cookies Without the Mess, February 6, 2010
This review is from: Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes (Paperback)
This book is like opening 409 fortune cookies and pulling out a few lines of insight into topics like money, love, success, forgiveness and gratitude... and it's less filling! It's concentrated enlightenment.

What a lucky guy to have parents with so much wisdom. Rodolfo's parents must be a combination of Lao-Tzu, Confucius and the Buddha. My parents never gave me information like this; they'd just slap me and say, "Stop that!"

When I started reading this book, I marked the numbered quotes/thoughts that I wanted to read every day. After a few pages, that list got so long I decided it would be better just to pick the book up every morning and read a few pages.

The thoughts cut through the fluff and get straight to the point. Plus, there are some very clever quotes I'd never read before like this one from Lawrence J. Peter: "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

Great book to open up and read daily. It's nothing new, but things we all need to be reminded of as we are go through life's daily grind.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Advice that can improve your outlook and performance in life..., March 28, 2010
This review is from: Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes (Paperback)
In this short (120 pages), Rodolfo Costa has compiled a list of advice, sayings, and adages that he's learned over the years and that has improved his life... Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes. The style of the book isn't such that you get an in-depth examination of any particular element, nor is this a method to follow to get from A to Z. They're short numbered "bullet points" (409 in all) that will hit you at different levels depending on where you're at during your particular journey in life.

The advice and wisdom is generally grouped into areas such as attitude, goals, patience/moving forward, and confidence. Some of the one-liners are very similar to ones you have heard before, like "Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today." Others don't appear to be so close to Franklin-esque words, like "Do not be embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.' It is amazing how much you can learn just by admitting that." Both types of advice are worth understanding, contemplating, and making part of your mindset, but sometimes familiarity with certain words can cause you to just brush right over the writing without thinking.

I generally hate being told how I should read a book, but this is one of those titles that really does dictate a certain reading style. You can sit down and read the whole thing in less than an hour. Odds are that you'll get little impact that way, though. Taking a page or two a day would be much more effective so you can let the words work their way into your mind and make changes in the way you think and act.

If you get the chance to read Advice My Parents Gave Me, it's worth doing so. Finding two or three gems that talk to you can make all the difference in the world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Judge a Book by its Cover, January 24, 2010
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Were the casual reader to browse the shelves of books in the self help section of either brick and mortar bookstores or online resources such as Amazon.com, this little book would like go unnoticed. The cover is plain, not eye catching in design or in reaching out to the viewer, and would likely be passed over as yet another 'one man's guide to happiness'. And what a mistake that would be! ADVICE MY PARENTS GAVE ME AND OTHER LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MY MISTAKES may not grab the attention readily, but pause and open this little straight forward caring guide, read the tender Introduction by author Rodolfo Costa in which he relates his childhood in Peru and journey to the US at age nineteen to find his place in the world in the USA, and then follow the simple but poignant format of his delivery, and chances are this book will become one of those sources of inspiration to keep by the bedside for years to come. Though he does not dwell on the bumps in the road that brought to the point of wanting to share his discovery of living a successful and fulfilling life, Costa suggests that his journey has not been easy: this lack of whining dialogue about how unfair life has been until he reached a point of enlightenment makes this book even more unique.

What Rodolfo Costa has done is think through all of the steps and missteps we face as we design our own existence. He pauses now and then for some quotes by other writers that magnify the next door of acceptance through which he invites us to step. But it is the simple structure of the book - 409 thoughts in 112 pages - that is so appealing. Some readers may decide to take only a few pages a day to read: the book could easily afford this approach. But for this reader, taking the time to read the entire book in one sitting gives the aura of what Rodolfo Costa is all about - a tender, caring, loving man who genuinely seeks to help the reader find the happiest, most fulling life possible. 'Do not wait any longer. Take charge of your life. Set your mind to start now. Forget about the past - it is gone. Do not worry about the future - it is not here yet. Create the desire to change your current circumstances. Nobody is going to do it for you.'

Once under the very basic but sure guidance of Costa's reasons for wanting to write this book, it then becomes easy to take a few of his ideas at a time, finding that despite the fact that many of the ideas are not original with Costa, the manner in which he describes them, challenges us, and offers a supportive spirit is very real, very now. Looking for inner peace and for a way to find your dreams? Rodolfo Costa is a beneficent guide. Don't pass by the bland cover of this book. It is a treasure. Grady Harp, January 10
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