Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good by Bruce D. Weinstein

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What do you do when the cashier accidentally gives you change for a twenty instead of a ten? If your teenaged daughter leaves her journal on the kitchen counter, is it OK to take a peek? Should you be honest with a friend even if it means hurting his or her feelings?

Ethical dilemmas, both large and small, come at us every day. Nationally known ethics expert Bruce Weinstein’s five deceptively simple principles of ethics can guide you in making decisions that affect your relationships, your career, and your quality of life.

• Do no harm
• Make things better
• Respect others
• Be fair
• Be loving

They sound easy, but when the pressure rises, we may take the path of least resistance. Despite the fact that every religious tradition supports them and parents and schools teach them, these straightforward standards are often forgotten. Taking some time for mindful thought before you find yourself in a sticky situation can make it much easier for you to make the right choice—and you’ll feel better about yourself afterward.

In the tradition of The Road Less Traveled, Dr. Weinstein shows you how the Life Principles will lead you to a successful career and a satisfying personal life—all while helping to make the world a better place.

Author Bio: Bruce Weinstein, PhD, is the professional ethicist known as The Ethics Guy. He appears weekly on CNN for “Ask the Ethics Guy,” a question-and-answer segment modeled after his Knight Ridder/Tribune syndicated column of the same name. He gives interactive talks across the country to show how living an ethical life makes us happier, healthier, and more prosperous.

Dr. Weinstein is the author or editor of four previous books. His writings have appeared in, or he has been featured in, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Observer, Time, Investor’s Business Daily, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Family Circle, Woman’s World, and Men’s Fitness.

Dr. Weinstein has appeared as an ethics analyst on ABC TV’s Good Morning America, NBC TV’s Early Today, the Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, MSNBC Live, CNBC’s Capital Report, Bloomberg Television’s Personal Finance, Fox TV’s Good Day New York, and other programs. He is a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow and lives in New York.

What People Are Saying

Frances Hesselbein
Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute; Former President, Girl Scouts of America; Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dr. Bruce Weinstein's Life Principles distills a powerful philosophy in a simple and unforgettable handbook for living the ethical life.

Jeffrey Moses
An indispensable book with an important message.
—[Jeffrey Moses, Author, Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions, Revised and Expanded Edition]

John McConnell
John McConnell, Senior Vice President of Programming, ABC Radio Networks
Read this book and re-read it again and again. What a great roadmap to living and doing well.

Ellis Henican
Ellis Henican, Columnist, Newsday; Political Analyst, Fox News Channel
Bruce has me convinced: It's not just right to do right. It's smart to do right, too.

Wendy Zang
Wendy Zang, Lifestyle Editor, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Bruce Weinstein provides us with an easy road map to doing the right thing.

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