Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True (Hardcover)

by Gay Hendricks (Author), Neale Donald Walsch (Foreword)
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"Five Wishes offers a timeless approach to living an authentic and fulfilling life." -- From Body+Soul

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“With brilliance and clarity, Gay Hendricks shares this inspirational story from the heart. Five Wishes can help anyone find the power within to change their life.”
— John Gray, PhD author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“It is time to make all your wishes come true. Gay Hendricks’s brilliant, easy-to-understand five questions will take you the distance to happy wish-fulfillment. I wish everyone would read, absorb, and apply the wisdom of this great and inspiring book.”
— Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (September 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577315987
• ISBN-13: 978-1577315988
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,292 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wish I hadn't bought this book, December 11, 2007

By	lamdon (Orange County, California) - See all my reviews

The central idea in this book is to get you to view your own life from the perspective of your deathbed, and from there you'd be better abled to really determine what's important in life. The idea is good, and the four questions that the author presents in order to deepen your perspective work well enough, but this by all means is anything but new or groundbreaking. These ideas have been around for ages.

I agree with the reviewer that said this book could have been easily condensed into a chapter and the main idea would be illustrated just as well. I regret paying $18 dollars for this. If you are still curious please check this out at the library or buy it used.

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Wishes - a great approach, October 23, 2007

By	Happy Camper - See all my reviews

This book is on how to discover five wishes that will give you a fulfilled life beginning from the perspective of looking back. A stranger had asked the author to imagine himself on his deathbed and to consider this question: "Was your life a complete success?" If not, "What would be the things you'd wish had happened that would have made it a success?" This is a great technique for unlocking the power of "tricking" ourselves into figuring out what is truly most important to us and what is our destiny. How sad to live our whole life and never really ask ourselves, "What is my destiny?" This book reminds me to focus on pursuing what is most important in life. If you want to focus on both body and mind, also check out "THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams".

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Write Your Deathbed Wishes! , November 5, 2007

By	Akemi "gratitude-magic.com" (USA) - See all my reviews

This small book offers fresh insight and clarity in the process of creation, especially in the first step of knowing what you want. From the perspective of your deathbed, look at your life - is it a complete success? If not, what do you wish you have accomplished?

I realize I am often so wrapped up in the current situation that I lose sight of the big picture. It is like running a business from day to day without the mission and vision. I may make my end meet (highly unlikely in a poorly planned business, but I may get lucky . . .) but will I have the contentment and the sense of success?

When I think about life from the perspective of death, small things like having a nice car and house just fall off the picture. It is not like I don't want them - I do intend to have a good life and be wealthy - but there are far more important things, and I know small things will come along when I work on the big things. As the character in the book points out, we tend to aim too low. I was living to make a living and have some good time along the way. He was "merely wishing for a meaningful life." He continues saying "Why not wish for a magnificent life of complete fulfillment?"

Big wishes I embrace wholeheartedly and feel enthusiastic about ignite the magic power of creation. They send out strong messages to the Universe. Petty wishes, on the other hand, fail to inspire us and just don't summon the magic energy within us.

The book describes the author's five wishes and how they have manifested. Even if his wishes are different from yours, I strongly recommend reading it through because he presents great spiritual guides in a simple easy-to-understand manner. For example, do you identify with his anxiety of wanting to do something else while doing one thing, never really savoring the thing you are doing?

I devoured the book in a day and wrote and re-wrote my five wishes in my journal. Then I read my wishes aloud many times until I really got the hung of them. Try it for yourself and feel what energetic difference it brings!

(I must warn you this book is only good if you actually take the question seriously and write down your wishes. It is a very practical book for spiritual growth.)