This #1 New York Times bestseller offers some useful and understandable advice that can be applied to many situations. The idea of life as a series of lessons can help to put things into perspective and add to anyone's ability to deal with setbacks and reach their full potential.

Rule one - You will receive a body Acceptance or rejection of your body only carries weight in your own mind, and your perception has no bearing on how your body actually looks, so why not choose ease of acceptance rather than pain of rejection? The choice is yours.

Rule two - You will be presented with lessons. Each day in school of life you will be presented with all lessons that you specifically need to learn, whether you choose to learn them or not is entirely up to you. See these lessons as gifts, or guides along your path toward living as your authentic self.

Rule three - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, victories and setbacks. The failed experiments are as much a part of process as experiments that work. Without lessons, it is difficult to convert mistakes into valuable learning opportunities.

Rule four - A lesson is repeated until learned Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to next lesson.

Rule five - Learning does not end

Your journey on earth is constantly unfolding, and while your wisdom grows and your capacity to deal with challenges expands, new lessons will present themselves. Lessons will be around as long as you live.

Talking with Champions

Poor perceptions of ourselves are formed in early childhood and may stay with us for rest of our lives, unless we make an effort to change and have a winning attitude.

Decide to Win

The first step to winning is: You need to Decide to win. Your January 1st marks day you decide to restructure your way of thinking and escape from every cell to which others have confined or limited you.

What is winning?

Winning is acknowledging one of life's greatest truths -"It doesn't matter what happens to you, just what you Do with what happens to you!"- a winner is someone who knows how to overcome adversity.

Goals and Missions

Your mission refers to your reason for being on earth, your purpose in life. All of us need a vision and mission that reflects our unique talents and desires. It is something eating away at us and is inner voice that tells us what we should be doing with our time.

Some of unhappiest people are those that never set goals for themselves and continue working at a job that they hate, or staying in a dead-end relationship. These people cheat themselves of higher personal fulfillment and inner peace.

Attitude - Magic of Mental Coaching

You need to find yourself a coach. Where can you find best coach? Look in mirror. If you are going to be a long-term winner, you have to access your subconscious mind and reprogram it with positive thoughts and experiences that will keep you on top! If you've been programmed to think you are a loser and will never amount to much, chances are that's what you will become. You can re-program yourself to think you are a Winner.

Learning makes it happen

You are responsible to yourself to get best education to prepare you for your dream. Keep in mind that many cases of "overnight success" actually took years to achieve. Remember: Winners never stop learning.

Communicating - hub of wheel

Winners follow these principles of effective communication: 1. Think before you speak. 2. Maintain control of your emotions and be positive, open-minded, and respectful of other's views. 3. When communicating with others: Be polite. Don't interrupt. Be attentive. 4. When you've got something to say, begin by listening. 5. K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Simon! This means great communicators use plain, simple, concise and direct language. Nobody likes a pretentious person who only uses big words and likes to sound superior. 6. Raising your voice unnecessarily can be interpreted as a sign of anger or frustration and is to be avoided in every instance. Keep focused on your goal.

Family and personal relationships