Larry Lange - The Beatles Way: Fab Wisdom for Everyday Life

theBeatles Way

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Copyright 2001, 2007 by Larry Lange

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Lange, Larry.

The Beatles way : fab wisdom for everyday life / Larry Lange.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Conduct of life. 2. BeatlesMiscellanea. I. Title.

BF637.C5 L36 2001

158.1dc21

2001037451

ISBN-13: 978-1-58270-061-8

ISBN-10: 1-58270-061-3

eISBN-13: 978-1-4391-1681-4

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For Josh and Naomi. You are the halves of my heart.

The Beatles way of life was like a young kid entering the big world, entering it with friends and conquering it totally. And that was fantastic. An incredible experience.

Paul McCartney

The Beatles as personal-growth gurus? I say unequivocally, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Certainly, the music of the Beatles means so much to so many around the world, even thirty years after the group disbanded. But lets take a closer look at the full Beatle success phenomenonand how it can directly benefit you, your dreams, your work, your family, and your search for personal fulfillment, inner peace, and sheer unadulterated joy.

If ever four people adhered adamantly to the successand self-helpprinciples espoused by Anthony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, or Deepak Chopra, they would surely be those world-renowned lads from LiverpoolJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

Though all four Beatles have stated they never consciously practiced any formal goal-setting plan during their rocket-ride to success, by making a study of their well-documented rise, we can piece together how the Beatles did achieve their wildest, and even their most unanticipated, unimaginable dreams. And in this book, youll see how their wisdom can be distilled into seven clear, precise, and understandable principles that you can use in your life. And youll learn how to consciously incorporate these principles into your own life, enabling you, like the Beatles, to manifest your dreams into exciting realities.

The Seven Fab Wisdom Principles

In My Life

(Rubber Soul, 1965)

As a Beatlemaniac, Ive been around long enough to have seen the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, but I am still young enough to be thrilled when She Loves You leaps off the radio even today. Additionally, Ive had Beatlesque experience as a songwriter for a major music publisher as well as several years as a journalist covering the successes and failures of corporations on the bleeding-edge of technology. This triple perspective of fan, colleague, and critic gives me a unique vantage point in translating the Beatles success principles into a practical and user-friendly format.

I call these seven wisdom principles fab because the Beatles were known around the world as the Fab Four. They created something even more important than an incredible legacy of music and filma model of freedom from inhibition and convention, a freedom defined by one simple Liverpudlian word: fab!

The Beatles Way is being creative, original, elegant, intelligent, fearless, humorous, daring, inventive, relevant, versatile, accessible, and honest as well as staying focused on your unique and worthwhile dreams.

If youre looking to start a small business, realize a personal dream, or perhaps even point your children toward a challenging and creative lifestyle, the fab wisdom of the Beatles will clearly light your way.

The Beatles Way shows how to live the life youve been dreaming of. Or if you simply desire to add more joy, more peace, or even more fun into your daily routine, this book has the answers.

This book is packed with anecdotes and little-known quotes from the Beatles and those in their inner circle. These principles highlight the major thought-processes of the Beatles from their ragged beginnings as a rough-and-tumble beat group, through their time as unofficial world princes, to their canonization as cultural icons.

The Impact of the Beatles on the World

The act youve known for all these years

(Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)

To set the stage, lets take a look at just how big an impact the Beatles have had on our lives and how they continue to affect us today. Take a look at some of these statistics of the Beatles legacy:

The Beatles have sold over one billion records worldwide.

Their CD, 1, a compilation of the groups biggest hits, is expected to become the biggest-selling recording in history. In the weeks after its 2000 release, it was number one on the charts in thirty countries.

Thirty years after the Beatles disbanded, the finance magazine Forbes placed the group third in its annual table of entertainment profit-makers, behind only movie and sports moguls Tom Cruise and Tiger Woods.

The television series Anthology, which aired in 1995 (twenty-five years after the group broke up) was seen by 420 million people in ninety-four countries. The first double-CD in the Anthology series sold 8.9 million copies in the first seven weeks, landing the Number One spot in