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LIFE SKILLS BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Make Your Footprints is a collection of 18 short parables for young adults who are ready to tackle the next challenge in their lives. Each chapter provides insights into topics that are not typically taught in the classroom, giving readers a chance to develop and enhance tools necessary to make their own footprints. This witty, insightful book is perfect for any graduate or young adult making their way through life.

Let's get honest. Our life's journey is just that, our journey. Make Your Footprints is in no way a manual for life. However, it simply hopes to help open doors, get ideas to emerge, and have thoughts become actions for young adults. We hope the reader takes an idea, adapts it to their own specific situation, and then brings to life concepts that will make their day or their situation better than it was the day before. Whether or not you want to know more about life skills or you are a parent wanting your child to get more information about the world around them, Make Your Footprints, is a practical and insightful book for the young adult ready to tackle the world.

Sherryl Woods, #1 New York Times Best-selling Author of the Sweet Magnolias and Chesapeake Shores series says, “Put Make Your Footprints into the hands of every student and recent graduate you know. Maybe their parents’ and grandparents’ hands, too. It’s filled with wit and wisdom that reminds all of us of important life lessons, no matter how old we are.”

Chapters include:
1. How Long Will Your Footprints Last?
(Making a difference by teaching everlasting life lessons)
2. Find Joy Each and Every Day
(Setting aside time each day to find happiness)
3. The Cracker Industry Has Lied to You
(“Being you” even if that means you are different from the masses)
4. The Scariest Four-Letter Word: Debt
(What is debt and how to avoid its consequences)
5. When You Fail, What’s Your First Question?
(Failure is a chance for growth, not disappointment)
6. How My Dishwasher Helped My Marriage
(Relationships require 100% effort)
7. Anything Worth Doing, Is Worth Doing Badly
(Participate in activities that you enjoy regardless of your skill)
8. How Access to the Internet Made Annoying People Tolerable
(Understanding how life is filled with delayed gratification)
9. How a Roll of Toilet Paper Changed My Life
(Beliefs matching your actions)
10. Compound Interest as the Great Equalizer
(What is compound interest and how to utilize its potential)
11. Talking to Yourself in the Car Can Lead to Your Dream Job
(How to practice for your big moment)
12. How to Buy a Used Car
(Steps to utilize when “haggling” for a used car)
13. Nothing Is Certain Except for Death and Taxes
(Exploring the basics of taxes and how to file with the IRS)
14. Who You Are Will Be Defined in the Grocery Store Parking Lot
(Leave a place or organization better than you found it)
15. Either You Can Do Something or You Can’t: Your GPA Won’t Matter
(Giving your best on every task)
16. When Hate Rears Its Ugly Head
(Exploring what to do when someone sends you a hateful message)
17. Rings, Dings and Vibrations
(Understanding the distractions our phones create)
18. Leaving Your Bubble
(Establishing relationships with people from diverse backgrounds)