Great Decisions, Perfect Timing by Paul O'brien

Great Decisions, Perfect Timing by Paul O'brien

From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life.

Now On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer.

Then Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. At home he looks after his depressed father--when surely it should be the other way round--and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.

But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.

In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.

Now Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

Paul O'Brien is a visionary entrepreneur who invented a new category of software in 1989, which evolved to become the world's largest astrology and divination website. He sold the company in 2007 and has since authored three books. Paul is a sought-after speaker, philanthropist and founder of the educational Divination Foundation (Divination.com). For 30 years, he has hosted the Pathways radio show, an interview program focused on personal and cultural transformation. Paul's book The Visionary I Ching: The Book of Changes for the 21st Century, (Visionary Networks Press, October 2012) is a beautifully illustrated eBook that offers the reader insights into current conditions in their lives, and tools for managing change. The Visionary I Ching is a non-sexist, non-militarist interpretation of the oldest of humanity's classical divination systems. The book is illustrated with inspirational art for each of the I Ching hexagrams. This modern version renders this ancient divination system truly useful as an enlightened decision-making tool for modern times and forms the backbone of Tarot.com's online I-Ching features. Paul's first book Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God (Visionary Networks Press, July 2007) showed how authentic divination systems (like the I Ching) help people make better decisions for better relationships, greater success and less stress. Paul teaches how you can use divination tools to stimulate your intuition to think outside the box around problems that logic can't handle -- especially strategic personal and professional decisions we now have to make more quickly than ever. The book illustrates how divination systems work, their history, psychology, and how to apply these tools for optimal results.

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ISBN 13	9780988494237
ISBN 10	098849423X
Title	Great Decisions, Perfect Timing
Author	Paul O'brien
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Divination Foundation Press
Year published	2015-02-05
Number of pages	252
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