5 WORDS AND THEN SOME

About the Book

Do you feel like you’re on the brink of success, but you’re not sure how to overcome that last hurdle? Perhaps you’ve just graduated from high school or college, or you’ve been discharged from the armed forces, and you want a roadmap to help you through the game of life. All you need to propel you to success are five simple words:

1. Hard work
2. Attitude
3. Enthusiasm
4. Perseverance
5. Fun

With 5 Words and Then Some! How to Succeed in This Big Game We Call Life, you’ll significantly increase your chances of accomplishing whatever endeavors you pursue. These five words apply to anyone regardless of family background, wealth, race, intelligence, education, or social status.

Author Fran Larkin offers advice, helpful hints, and quotations on a variety of topics that include public speaking, volunteering, finances, physical fitness, diversity, personal mission statements, and much more. Using Larkin’s personal experiences, anecdotes, and stories, 5 Words and Then Some! will inspire you to improve your life and bring you the success and happiness you deserve!

"I love this book! Fran Larkin brilliantly captures the essence of what is needed to succeed in today's world. His down home wisdom, humor and choice of quotations captures what's best in American culture today."
Jon Barb, author of Do What Works and Keynote Speaker, Danbury, CT

" 5 Words and Then Some acted as my guide while I successfully navigated the uncharted waters of college, graduate school and the workplace. Years later I still find myself pouring over the wonderful insights and humorous prose found within these pages."

Adam Niles, schoolteacher
Billerica, MA

About the Author

Fran Larkin has been happily married for more than thirty-nine years and had a successful thirty-five year career at IBM. He lives in Newburyport, MA where he is working on his second book, a memoir of growing up on Cape Cod and the United States in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.