Lifeology: Things You Can Count on Besides Your Fingers

By Jay Payleitner

Welcome to the mind-expanding world of Lifeology!

It is beautiful to have the right thing to say at just the right time. Lifeology contains more than 750 words of wisdom learned the hard way, stumbled over, heard in passing, or generated out of thin air—all ready for you to share, quote, whisper, or tweet.

Lifeology is divided into more than two-dozen surprising and eclectic categories, including...

- Relationship lifeology
- Do-great-things lifeology
- Heartwarming lifeology
- Amusing-fact lifeology
- Lifeology for parents and kids
- Business lifeology
- Unexpected lifeology
- And much moreYou are allowed to have a favorite category, but do not miss the others. Feeling overwhelmed by numbskulls? Is it your job to rally the troops? Need your own inspirational nudge? You now have hundreds of trustworthy truths at your fingertips— ready to apply to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Release date: Jul 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781424552665

Jay Payleitner

Jay Payleitner is one of the top freelance Christian radio producers in the United States. He has worked on Josh McDowell Radio, Today's Father, Jesus Freaks Radio for the Voice of the Martyrs, Project Angel Tree with Chuck Colson, and many others. He’s also a popular speaker on parenting and marriage and the author of dozen-plus books, including the bestselling 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad, 52 Things Wives Need from a Husband, and 52 Things Sons Need from Their Dad; he also created “The Dad Manifesto.” Jay has also served as an AWANA director, a wrestling coach, and the executive director of the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative; he now partners with the National Center for Fathering, whose efforts he fosters and promotes. He and his wife, Rita, live near Chicago, where they’ve raised five great kids and loved on ten foster babies.

Book preview

This is not a book of famous quotations from famous people. You won’t find any witticisms from Abe Lincoln, Mark Twain, or Oscar Wilde.

What you will find are Lifeology truths you can actually use. More than 750 words of wisdom learned the hard way, stumbled over, heard in passing, or generated out of thin air.

These precepts have been gathered for one purpose: to be shared. So use them. Tweet them. Pin them. Post them. If it feels right, shove your favorite Lifeology truism down the throat of your most annoying adversary. After all, sometimes the truth hurts.

Actually, the best use of this book might be to equip you to rise majestically above your friends and foes. It’s a beautiful thing to have just the right thing to say at just the right time.

For your convenience, we’ve divided Lifeology into more than two dozen surprising and eclectic categories. You are allowed to have a favorite category, but don’t miss the others. In two categories, we identify an undeniable source—William Shakespeare and the Bible. The words of the bard and the Creator of the universe, respectively, were just too invaluable to pass up.

But what about the other categories? Who was the first to grunt or speak the other Lifeology truths? Who was the first to chisel them in stone, scribble them on a yellow pad, or clack them out on a typewriter, laptop, or iPad? In quite a few cases, it was the author of this book. In many others, the phrase can only be attributed to some anonymous, incognito individual. Or maybe we should simply give credit to the collective genius of the universe.

As you read, if you believe you can identify a specific writer or speaker who first delivered any of these truths, track us down at lifeologybook.com. We want to give credit where credit is due.

In any case, keep this book handy. When you feel overwhelmed and surrounded by ignoramuses, numbskulls, and the ill-informed, know that you have hundreds of trustworthy truths at your fingertips—ready to apply to life.

Welcome to the mind-expanding world of Lifeology.

People are more important than things.

A friend is one who walks in

when the rest of the world walks out.

He who throws mud loses ground.

Make friends before you need them.

If you don’t believe in yourself,

neither will anyone else.

People don’t care how much you know,

until they know how much you care.

Courtesy is free.

If you hold something against someone,

there’s a good chance they’re holding

something against you.

A bad temper gets you