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New Book offers Workable Solutions to the Ravages of Failure MONTCLAIR, NJ � June 1, 2000 � Failure�an issue everyone has to face. From the toddler who falls while learning to walk, to the person facing retirement not having met his or her financial goals, failure is universal. People react to personal failures in ways that can debilitate their future efforts. Author David Ireland provides practical and comforting solutions to the ravages of failure. In Failure is Written in Pencil, his third book, Ireland shares lessons learned from his own life as well as from the lives of notable men and women to help hurting people discover that failure is not permanent�it�s erasable. A former civil engineer, Ireland relays the poignant story of his struggle with failure after attending a high-ranking graduate school. His humbling experience with rejection taught him that failure didn�t have to be his undertaker, but could serve as his teacher. Today he is the senior pastor of a thriving multi-racial congregation of over 2,000 members in northern New Jersey. �One of my goals in writing this book, is to get people to laugh,� Ireland says. �The shame and power of failure are broken when you can find humor in your past mistakes and bad judgments.� Through Failure is Written in Pencil, a powerhouse of practical inspiration, Ireland skillfully lays a workable approach to limiting the affects of failure. In a chapter he calls �Reject the Rejection,� he cites the dynamic revitalization of the lives of world changers such as George Washington, Albert Einstein, and Michael Jordan. The revelation that failure can become a back door to success gives hope to people caught in failure�s web. Failure is Written in Pencil is available for $13.00 through IMPACT Publishing House (800) 850-6522 or at our online bookstore. Contact Cinda Gaskin @ (973) 857-8086. |