Get To Be Happy: Stories and Secrets to Loving the Sh*t Out Of Life
By Ted Larkins
Genre: Autobiography/Self Help
The secret to my happiness started during my high school days (yes, drugs were involved) and continued through hitchhiking across the country, through the suicide of my girlfriend, through bartending in many cities around the country and then a move to Japan. I lived there for nine years, helping start a $500 million business, including a LARKINS (my last name) line of product, finding enlightenment and meditating in Zen temples in the mountains of Hiroshima, meeting Mother Teresa in Calcutta, partying with Bon Jovi, experiencing the death of my business partner and then the loss of my daughter, and all the life lessons that come with the following statement: I Get To do this!
My Review:
I believe everything falls into our laps at just the right moment! Get to be Happy entered my life in just that manner. Author Ted Larkin has composed a literary piece about perspective – outlook – how you choose to react to heartbreaking situations. It’s a relief to read a self-help style book from someone who has actually suffered tragedy in their life. You know that they have really walked the walk and speak from that vista.
Each passage includes a small exercise to do after read. I found this to be a group of wonderful teachings that I can return to again and again, as needed. Great job, Mr. Larkin.
I give this one 5 stars!
About the Author
Ted Larkins is an author, speaker and accomplished business executive and entrepreneur. Through his book and keynote talks, he shares the powerful Get To Principle, the ability to say "I Get To" as opposed to "I have to". Ted also co-developed a leading entertainment licensing company in Tokyo, representing major movie studios that included Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. He’s worked on projects with Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Nicklaus, Mariah Carey, and many other artists. He is former Senior Vice President of the North American division of CPLG, one of the world’s leading entertainment, sport and brand licensing agencies. He is on the board of directors of the Licensing Industry Merchandise Association (LIMA), co-chairing the charity committee and sitting on the executive committee. He is a guest lecturer for the UCLAx Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts program.
Over the last year and a half, during his daily 4 hour train commute to work in Hollywood, he wrote the book, “Get To Be Happy: Stories and Secrets On Loving the Sh*t Out of Life." Ted lives with his wife of 22 years and their two children in Southern California.
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