KISS YOUR...KIDS: Keep It Super Simple...57 Easy-to-Read Life Lessons

By Bill Vergantino

If you are a parent, guardian or friend that is participating in the raising of a young person, have you considered what messages—what life lessons, you want to share with them?

KISS YOUR…Kids encourages you to consider the value of identifying and documenting lessons of life that you feel are critical for the important people in your life to understand.

It contains 57 life lessons in bite-sized, easy to read, thought-provoking chunks, written primarily for the author’s children and family members, but published so that other children (and adults alike) may benefit from the nuggets of wisdom herein:
• Use this book for your own benefit,
• Give it to someone in your life that you care for, or
• Simply use it as a springboard for preparing your own version of life lessons to pass along.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781483587967

Book preview

LESSONS

CHAPTER 1

Objectives & Goals

You can’t make plans to accomplish anything until you’ve set an objective and goals. Each unique objective calls for a different plan of action and associated goals to help guide you.

How is an objective different from a goal? These two words are often used interchangeably but are in fact very different. There are many books written about what an objective is versus what a goal is, and how to set them. Put simply, an objective is what you are trying to accomplish and a goal is something that gets you closer to accomplishing your objective.

There are two analogies that I’ll share that help to drive home what an objective is compared to a goal, and what the value is in setting an objective and goals.

First, let’s consider ice hockey. The objective for an ice hockey team is to win the game. That is the objective—to defeat the other team and win the game. One of the team’s goals is to score as many goals as possible. With each goal met, the team is that much closer to accomplishing the objective of winning the