Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: 52 Life-Changing Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, Inspired by Ben Franklin

By Andrea Rains Waggener

As great philosophers and leaders throughout the ages have observed, a life of joy, balance, and fulfillment is developed rather than bestowed. Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise helps readers put this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592851541
• ISBN13: 9781592851546
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise 52 Life Changing Lessons for the Tw

I totally appreciate the format of this helpful & inspiring book. I love the way the author succinctly describes each attribute and her daily steps to achieve them. The four to five pages you need to read to start working on each area you find yourself lacking in is manageable in even the busiest life (like mine!) The authors' use of stories from her own life experiences are a really nice addition to an already well written and useful book.

Buy this book!

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise--Surely these are qualities we all wish for. This easy to read, easy to understand book lays out all the ways we can improve all three. There are many great things about this book--one being that you can pick it up at any place and work on the area you feel you need to, or just feel like working on. You would like to be more independent--go to page 109, You think you might be lacking an adventurous spirit, start at page 17. With warmth, insight, and humor, this author offers encouragement, guidance and motivation. A book to study, savor and respond to. A keeper for sure.

This book inspired me to committment to changing my life.

I like Andrea Raines Waggener's fresh approach to taking responsibility for changing my life. Inspired by Ben Franklin's 13 virtues for positive living, Andrea expands and redefines those virtues and calls them 'qualities,' then offers a weekly format for developing those qualities within one's self. She also illustrates with personal glimpses how she acquired the qualities which improved her own life. Sharing our stories allows others to relate and feel less alone, and structuring ourselves to meet a daily task commands committment. Some of us need that structure, and this book affords the opportunity with a coach in the background who has lived the experiences herself. Isa "Kitty" Mady, writer/artist

Bootstrap to Success

A refreshing book that lays out a common sense approach to developing a positive outlook on life. The author thankfully avoided psychobabble and wrote for anyone wanting to pull themselves out of a mental pit by their bootstraps. I liked the book. You will too.

Inspiring Book

Andrea takes making some deep meaning changes in your life and makes them easy, simple things that anyone can incorporate in their lives. Our society is looking for ways to have deeper meaning in their lives - this book makes it easy for anyone to add some depth to their life. All too often books of this nature are so into the psychology of things, it makes it impossible for the average joe to read and implement changes. Andrea has done an excellent job in making this book not only easy to read, but also easy to adapt and make life changes that will have an impact on all of society.