Friends Are Everything

BJ Gallagher is a prolific author and popular speaker. She writes business books that educate and empower, women's books that enlighten and entertain, and gift books that inspire and inform. Whether her audience is corporate executives, working women, or college students, her message is “The Power of Positive DOING.” She motivates and teaches with empathy, understanding, and more than a little humor. BJ's international business best-seller, A Peacock in the Land of Penguins (Berrett-Koehler), has sold over 400,000 copies in 23 languages. It is THE best-selling diversity book in the world. Her other business books include: Leadership Secrets from Oz (Simple Truths), YES Lives in the Land of NO (Berrett-Koehler), The Best Way Out Is Always Through: The Power of Perseverence (Simple Truths); and The Power of Positive DOING (Simple Truths). Her self-help books include: Why Don’t I Do the Things I Know Are Good for Me? (Berkley) and It's Never Too Late to be What You Might Have Been (Viva Editions). Her spiritual books include: If God Is Your Co-Pilot, Switch Seats (Hampton Roads) and Being Buddha at Work (Berrett-Koehler). BJ has been featured on CBS Evening News, the Today Show, Fox News, PBS, CNN, and other television and radio programs. She is quoted almost weekly in various newspapers, women's magazines, and websites, including: O the Oprah magazine, Redbook, Woman's World, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Orlando Sentinel, Financial Times (U.K.), Guardian (U.K.), MSNBC.com, CareerBuilder.com, CNN.com, Forbes.com, among others. In addition to writing books, BJ also conducts seminars and delivers keynotes at conferences and professional meetings across the country. Her corporate clients include: US Veteran's Administration hospitals, Butterworth Hospital, IBM, Chevron, John Deere Credit Canada, Volkswagen, Farm Credit Services of America, Raytheon, US Department of Interior, Phoenix Newspapers Inc., the American Press Institute, Atlanta Journal Constitution, among others.

ContentsIntroduction

True Friends:

1 Understand that the little things can make a BIG difference

2 Laugh together . . . often!

3 Help us see ourselves more clearly

4 Love us unconditionally, just as we are

5 Teach and inspire us to be our best selves

6 Extend themselves with generosity and love

7 Comfort and support us through struggles and disappointments

8 Forgive us when we hurt them, just as we forgive them

9 Let us love them back

10 Know the power of community. . . . Together we can do almost anything!

And Finally . . .

Thank You!

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