Help! There’S a Plane in My House: Lessons Learned for Dealing with Stress

By Bette Price

Few people have had an actual airplane crash into their house. But Bette Price did. This unusual incident alone would have been enough to cause any human being a good amount of stress, but the aftermath of dealing with the uncommon insurance claim and an unscrupulous builder merely compounded the ordeal. After being displaced from her home for ten months and hurdling one challenge after another, the author realized that she had discovered some very important lessons about dealing with stress throughout the whole process. She also realized that metaphorically, we all have planes crash into our houses. It just manifests in different forms. With this realization, she decided to share her story of the ordeal and the lessons she learned in hopes that the things that got her through this very stressful time would be of help to others as well.

Help! Theres a Plane in My House is a short easy-to-read, gift-sized book that begins with a synopsis of the fateful event and shares twelve easy tips for dealing with stress, each one supported by the authors own personal experience. These simple yet useful tips helped the author through a very difficult time. She believes they can help you as well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504920957

Bette Price

Bette Price is a marketing and management consultant who combines real-life experiences with sound, practical theory to help companies strengthen their leadership teams and develop growth strategies. Prior to operating her own business, Bette was an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. She was a columnist and feature writer for the Kansas City Star and was part of the team that earned the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the tragic Hyatt Hotel skywalk collapse. Prior to joining the newspaper, she hosted her own news and information television shows in Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City. Bette is the author of True Leaders, which has been published in seven languages and has been quoted in such major publications as the Financial Times, Investors Business Daily, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition to writing her own books, she has authored several business and memoir books for others. For more than twenty years, she was an active member of the National Speakers Association. Bette is the mother of two adult children and the grandmother of four. She resides in the Dallas suburb of Addison, Texas, with her husband, John, and their precious cat, Lucky. To have Bette provide her engaging and motivating speech “Help! There’s a Plane in My House” to your organization, contact her at [e-mail].

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Help!

There’s a Plane in My House

Lessons Learned for Dealing With Stress

Bette Price

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1   Lesson #1: To Have Fear is Natural

Chapter 2   Lesson #2: Fighter Pilots FOCUS and You Must Too

Chapter 3   Lesson #3: Humor Helps

Chapter 4   Lesson #4: We All Need a Flight Plan

Chapter 5   Lesson #5: Little Things do mean a lot

Chapter 6   Lesson #6: We Create Our Own Joy

Chapter 7   Lesson #7: Patience is a Virtue and Persistence Pays Premiums

Chapter 8   Lesson #8: True Friendships Flourish, Others May Fade or Perish

Chapter 9   Lesson #9: Rosanne Roseannadanna Was Right, So Stay Optimistic

Chapter 10   Lesson #10: Let Go of What You Can’t Control, Control What You Can

Chapter 11   #11 Remember—Your Home is More Than a House

Chapter 12   #12: Life May Not Always Be Fair But It IS What You Make It

About the Author

Acknowledgements

It’s been said that when major difficulties happen to you, that’s when you will find out who your true friends are. When my disaster happened I found that to be true. That’s not to say that all those we know don’t care, but it is the true friends that choose to stick with us and support us through the full duration of the ordeal. Like others before me, I found that those who did stick out the duration would be few. But surprisingly there will be another few who step out from the shadows when you least expect it. That happened too. Thus, I would like to acknowledge those wonderful few:

First are my dear friend and former client, Naomi Replogle and her Retired Admiral husband, Tom. I was at their home when I got the word. Their immediate support and help has endured through the years despite the fact that they live miles away. Although we have since lost Tom to a higher good, Naomi continues to be there as a longtime and valued friend.

Jan Hamill, Linda Hanson, Eloise Owens and Cheryl Jensen were among my greatest encouragers making