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                                                                                  Your Road Map to a Better Life

1.   90 Money-Saving Ideas - save money and use the savings to pay bills or for more things that you need or want. 17 pages covering food, health, housing, energy and finances. $15

2.   25 Important Thoughts to a Better Life – become a better person, more successful in business, make more friends, live stress-free and longer, enjoy life more. Succinct, pithy statements provide much food for thought. Many of us will place this on our bulletin boards, read them each morning at breakfast or repeat them before bedtime. Such repetition instills positive thoughts for easier sleep, increased school and job productivity and happier attitudes around the house. $10 

3.   How to Turn Your Household “Junk” Into a Small Fortune – don’t throw out that old “junk” – make more money than you thought possible by selling it or trading it.

How much is that funny looking glass figurine that grandmother left actually worth? Or the old TV Guides piling up in the closet or basement? Or the old books and records up in the attic? Even the old hubcaps lying around the yard or garage may have value. Usually most people, when space is needed or a move imminent, hold a garage or house or yard sale and make a few dollars or give all that "junk" to their school, religious organization or youth group for their rummage sale. Those items, plus dozens more, can be turned into sometimes substantial cash with a minimum of effort. Almost all old things have value if you know how to sell them.

     It could be worth a small fortune. Almost anything old has value to someone. Most of us would not know what household items are valuable and, even if we did, we would not know how to sell them at the highest possible price and without incurring advertising and other expenses and wasting many fruitless hours. Now there is a document that tells you how what may be sellable, how to determine the value of your items and how is the best and most inexpensive way to sell your items.  $15

 4.  101 Tips on Fund Raising – for your school, religious organization, community group, arts organization, charitable organization - any not-for-profit organization.

With the economy in a downward spiral, funding for not-for-profit organizations will suffer as much as any other sector of our society. More expertise will be required to raise money for even the most basic of needs. Experience and proven success in the field will be required. Many organizations may not survive the current economic climate. Therefore, time is of the essence.

     There are resources that can provide significant insight to the sometimes-onerous task of raising money.

     Howard Fischer has produced a fund raising tool that he has developed over many years of trial and error that has helped him raise significant funds for the organizations with which he was associated. 101 Tips on Fund Raising is a concise tool that can aid any kind of not-for-profit organization. Just one tip may lead to significant funding. This tool can also save time and expensive consultant fees and it can speed up the funding cycle. It can help in organizing the fund raising team, preparing funding proposals, recruiting the best possible Board of Directors and Board of Advisors, indicate important techniques and resources and show how to plan a simple or an intricate fund raising program from the beginning.  $15

5.   Success Secrets of the Rich and Famous plus Essential Elements For Success – just one of these secrets can change your life. There must have been some principles that they established that contributed to their success. Sometimes, how they employed these principles can spur you to also employ them in your life. You might want to examine their lives to see how these secrets impacted their lives. $10

6.   The Secret of Self Renewal - A pithy, succinct one-page statement that can significantly change your life. $10

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7.   Important Things to Learn - we are never too old to learn new things and things that will make our lives better. This document provides a process as to how to think about things that occur in our daily lives and how to make things easier and better and help you become more successful in all aspects of life. $10  

8.   How to Reduce Stress and Save Your Life

MNNAGING STRESS is important to you because stress, if it remains unchecked for a period of time may lead to physical, emotional and psychological illness. According to the U.S. Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information, U.S. industry reported reports huge annual productivity losses as a result of stress-related disorders.

      Accidents and disabilities caused by stress have become a major cost for both the public and private sectors. But cost, as high as it is, is not as important and as dramatic as the loss in human health, peace, and life. You cannot put a dollar value on these.

      As affluent as our society is—one that has achieved the highest standard of living in the world—we, nevertheless, have become victims to stress. The very same affluence and prosperity has led to it. We have revved our society, industry and our minds into high speeds and have arrived at the present state of stress-besieged world. Medical researchers are becoming more and more convinced that most of the killer diseases in the Western World— heart attack, cancer, strokes—is related to stress. The Stress Institute at the University of Montreal has provided considerable evidence that heart diseases are related to stress.

      Forty million Americans suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure) which is a major cause of heart disease causing 70,000 deaths a year. Actuarial tables indicate that a man in his thirties with a blood pressure of 150/100 will have a life expectancy of 16 fewer years than one with a reading of 120/80. At any age, the higher the blood pressure, the shorter the life.  $10

9.   How and Where to Sell Old Phonograph Records – remove those old discs from attics, basements and closets and turn them into cash. A collector and dealer of old records for over 30 years, has prepared a primer for those who want to find treasure in their old records - 78rpm, 45rpm and 33 1/3rpm(LP) records.

      First, you must learn your ABCs – search your Attics, Basements and Closets - and determine what you have. This primer can earn you monetary rewards and provide more space in your home. It tells you How to Recognize Value, Who Will Buy Your Records, What They Will Pay and How to Find a Buyer.  $10

He also purchases your records if you live in the NYC area.

Please call (212) 579-0689 (Monday through Friday 9am to 12noon or 1pm to 3pm)

10.    Success Creed – of the Holland Avenue Boys (subjects of the acclaimed video and book THE HOLLAND AVENUE BOYS: A SUCCESS STORY – see below). A way of life that has resulted in personal growth, satisfying careers, comfortable lifestyles and rewarding relationships. (see www.HollandAvenueBoys.com)

       For anyone who wants to succeed. A motivational, inspirational, poignant and revealing tool developed for youngsters, parents, students, educators and all those seeking success.

Great for schools, colleges, libraries, religious institutions, youth groups and bulletin boards everywhere.  Inspirational, motivational tool. Can be framed and mounted on the wall to serve as a regular reminder of the kind of daily outlook that will aid in a youngster’s development. It can result in the mantra of the young.  $10

11.     The Holland Avenue Boys: A Success Story

By Howard E. Fischer

ISBN 1-59744-059-0

Softcover, 176 pages with illustrations

Teaching Kids Values - Success Stories Teach Success

Includes Pointers for Parents and Teachers’-Facilitators’ Guide

The book is based on the acclaimed film of the same name that has played on over 50 PBS stations around the United States. (Please see www.A1documentaries.com)

The Bronx Times said about the Holland Avenue Boys’ story, " It is a revealing portrait with ups and downs, heartbreak and hardship, camaraderie and conflict, joy and passion, love and reverence for a bygone era and spanning more than (60) years."

This is a different kind of success story. Success is not always about wealth or fame.

For most, success is achieved through personal growth, satisfying careers, comfortable lifestyles and rewarding relationships.

This is a story for people of all ages -

- to provide something positive and uplifting

- to provide inspiration, not by famous movie, TV or sports stars, but by ordinary people

- to provide examples of the significance in ordinary lives so people can feel better about their own lives

- to provide youngsters with direction, motivation and experiences that illustrate how people order their lives and how parents can have more of an impact on the lives of their children

- to provide an understanding of what values, traits and thought processes are essential to the development of successful lives.

     It is hoped that this book will change some habits, nudge people of all ages in the right direction and encourage them to explore ways to make their lives successful.

     It is a positive, upbeat, revealing portrait of 11 men from Holland Avenue in the Bronx, New York spanning more than 60 years. An emotional, passionate, psychological portrayal it shows how each of these Boys, from working class backgrounds, has developed with respect to personal growth, careers, lifestyles and relationships while maintaining a camaraderie, brotherhood and intimacy through interaction and support for each other. The story vividly reflects character traits that have contributed to their successes and helped them overcome obstacles. It shows genuine feelings for each other, recounts poignant memories of their early lifestyle, informs as to how their successes have impacted on wives, children, parents and others and tells how they see their futures developing.

     The book reveals much about human relationships and also evidences the effect on the Boys' growth of environment, education, recreation, religion, societal and social pressures, family and peers. It captures important aspects of their development, such as competition engendered by street games, reunions, role models and career, personal and educational choices. Readers will be able to gain an insight into urban life of a bygone era in terms of values, support systems, opportunities and obstacles to success. This story also suggests how we can recapture some of these values and resources for current and future generations.

     Holland Avenue in the Bronx, New York may have been like thousands of other streets in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. But some of its former residents have forged a rare bond and lived the good life for more than six decades. Their individual successes are not so different from millions of other big city natives. However, how they achieved these successes and the ties that among such a large group have endured and flourished over such a long period of time make this a compelling, revealing and instructive story.

It is a piece of history that reaches across generational lines.

ABOUT THE BOYS

• One man's daughter proudly proclaimed that her father could "read a book and build a house." (He did.)

• Another loved his wife so much that he married her twice.

• One man helped develop the granola bar and Uncle Ben's Rice after he almost didn't make it through college.

• Another was told by his high school guidance counselor that he should not try to become an engineer because it was difficult for Jews at that time - even though he had built the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks at the age of nine.

• One man had an "ideal" divorce.

• Another man founded a museum of jazz even though he never played a lick.

• One of the Boys became a distinguished cancer doctor even after having been diagnosed with a debilitating muscle disease.

• A college dropout became a jet pilot in the Viet Nam war, U.S. Presidents' travel advance man and Air Attaché to Morocco, where his daughter played at the palace with the niece of the King.

• One of the Boys became a world-renowned physicist - in Israel, but passed away before his time.

• Another built a newspaper about antiques and collectibles topping 40 pages and 292 advertisers without any employees.

• One of the Boys overcame a devastating business loss and resulting depression to rebuild his life and a new business.

• Another built a 70-employee garment business, retired at age 48, but could tell people only that he was "semi-retired."

• One of the Boys' father said, "Every one of them, The Holland Avenue Boys, I would be proud to call my son."

• One of the Boys' wives had only one regret - "that I was not one of the Holland Avenue Boys.”

$18.95 (includes shipping in USA)

How to Order

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