Hal Urban – författare

LIFE'S GREATEST LESSONS is a wise, wonderful book. In it, Hal Urban, a parent and an award-winning teacher, presents twenty principles that are as deeply rooted in common sense as they are in compassion. The topics, gathered from a lifetime of teaching both children and adults, span a wide range of readily understood concepts, including attitudes about money, understanding the real meaning of 'success' and the importance of having fun. The book will help you find the best - in the world, in others, and in yourself. Classic in its simplicity and enduring in its appeal, LIFE'S GREATEST LESSONS helps us all rediscover that the desire to live a good life is timeless.

Hal Urban brings a lifetime of experience as a leading figure in the Character Education movement to this follow-up to LIFE'S GREATEST LESSONS, his phenonenal word-of-mouth bestseller that put him on the self-help map. POSITIVE WORDS, POWERFUL RESULTS reveals the awesome potential of a fundamental tool we all have at our fingertips: language. With his down-to-earth approach that blends clear-headed guidance with gentle humour, Urban reveals concrete strategies for how we can use words to heal and strengthen, build lasting relationships, improve performance, enhance morale, celebrate our emotions and transform our lives and the lives of those around us. Both prescriptive and uplifting, POSITIVE WORDS, POWERFUL RESULTS share simple truths about the many ways in which words make us human. As Mark Twain once said, 'I can live for two months on one good compliment.'

'You are the sum total of your choices' -- Wayne Dyer. Hal Urban's message in CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES is as simple and as profound as Wayne Dyer's life-altering quote. Through our daily actions, we create a pattern for living. Before every action we make a choice and, in that moment of free will, we have the ability to change our lives. When you are stressed, pressured or threatened you will often move toward your weakest character traits, creating a pattern that does not support joyful, moral living. CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES helps readers build a fortress of character traits that they can rely on when faced with any decision. These choices support Hal's inspirational message of positive living, peace of mind, fewer regrets, embracing outcomes and seeing beyond your weaknesses to make better choices over time. Throughout the book, Hal presents qualities that lay the foundation for the dynamic choices that give birth to joy-based living. This inspirational book reminds readers about what it takes to make fruitful choices, the importance of being a person of good character and that we can choose to be better, happier and wiser at any time.

Hal Urban's latest book poses a challenge. It challenges us to break through the notion of religious barriers to embrace faith in any form. And within that faith, it asks us to honour the teachings of wisdom and character, and encourages us to put those teachings into practice. We all know the 10 Commandments. Most of us have no problem avoiding murder, theft or adultery. We don't need to recommit ourselves to following these commandments and we do continue to honour them. They're sacred. The 10 Commandments of Common Senselooks more closely at some of the Bible's other "commandments": five things we should devote ourselves to doing because they can enrich our lives and the lives of others. Many of them are far more challenging than the original ten, but they provide wise and practical advice for all of us, no matter what we believe.