You already know how to throw away the garbage that you don’t need anymore. Wouldn’t it be great to do the same for the thoughts, beliefs, and opinions in your head that tear you down and hold you back? Now you can! With The Garbageman’s Guide to Life: How To Get out of the Dumps , you can get rid of that trash once and for all. With it’s relaxed tone and real-life stories, The Garbageman’s Guide to Life teaches you how to clear the extra clutter out of your mind. There are no complicated terms or elaborate concepts; just eight practical steps to keep you laser-focused on what you want and how to get you there. And best of all: since you already know how to throw physical garbage away, you already have the skills you need to spring clean your mind! Are you caught up in toxic relationships? Do you hoard too many negative thoughts? Read The Garbageman’s Guide to Life and learn how to push this rubbish out of your life. Remember: if you can drag your can to the curb, you can toss your mental trash---for good! The book The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps offers a practical yet impressive message - get rid of the trash that gets in the way of your relationships, your work and your dreams. As a psychotherapist, I feel their book offers some sound advice. ---Amy Morin, LCSW - college professor, published author, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker Burned out bulbs. Banana peels. Broken mugs. You already know how to get rid of these: Throw them into the garbage can. Why not do the same thing with the junk in your head? Let The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps show you how! No jargon. No baloney. Just honest, boots-on-the-street advice on how to haul way your own mental trash. Learn the secret of the garbageman: If you can toss it into the can, you can toss it out of your life! Co-authors Norm LeMay and Steven Kaufman are two guys who love talking trash. Norm LeMay is an entrepreneur, educator and philosopher. Thanks to his unique approach to management, he spent thirty years of his storied career helping to convert his family's business--a waste management company that his father picked in a swap for an  an old truck--into an asset worth more than $300 million. Through hard work and foresight, LeMay became a pioneer in recycling, converting the State of Washington into one of the most efficient recycling areas in the United States. Steven Kaufman, known amongst friends as a brainiac with an incessant curiosity, graduated with honors from Stanford University.  He spent the first twenty years of his varied career with companies like Wang and Intel, tackling assignments in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2000, he shifted lanes and became an entrepreneur and a consultant, helping to launch a high tech company that developed an automated route tracking system for the waste industry.  Working with garbage every day taught Norm and Steven that we all carry trash in our heads that gets in the way of our relationships, our jobs, and our dreams. By taking the basics of the trash business--the truck, the landfill, the can--Norm and Steven--the Disposal Dream TeamTM--developed a down-to-earth philosophy to toss that trash and go on to live an extraordinary life. The Garbageman's Guide to Life How to Get Out of the Dumps By Norm LeMay, Steven Kaufman Morgan James Publishing Copyright © 2014 Norm LeMay and Steven Kaufman All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-61448-793-7 Contents Introduction, How to Use This Book, Start Here: It's Time to Act, Step 1: Find the Value and Toss That Trash, The Central Role of Value, Is It Treasure or Is It Trash?, Are You Stepping on the Accelerator or the Brake?, Short-Term and Long-Term Value, Finding Gold in the Garbage, The Value Service Plan, Use Caution, Taking It to the Street, Step 2: Keep It Empty, What Is Emptiness?, Why Emptiness Is Hard to Work With, Why We Don't Like Emptiness, The Myth of Collecting, The Power of Emptiness, The Empty and Return Action Plan, Use Caution, Taking It to the Street, Step 3: Create Your Route, Nothing Stays the Same, The Curse of the Comfort Zone, Where Change Happens, The Solution: Creating a Route, Expanding the Comfort Zone, Route Management System, Use Caution, Taking It to the Street, Step 4: Park Your Ego, The Perfect Garbageman, Let's Talk Ego, Early Origins, The Masks of Ego, The Dangers of an Unchecked Ego, The Inner Garbageman, Ego, Inner Garbageman, and Perception, A Big Shift in Gears, The ParkSafe Action Plan, Use Caution, Taking It to the Street, Step 5: Leave It in the Landfill, About Mental Contracts, Why Trash Comes Out of the Landfill, The Danger of Clinging Trash, Forgiveness and Dumping Persistent TBOs, The Benefits of Forgiveness, The Landfill Management Program, Use Caution, Taking It to the Street, Step 6: Get Away From Toxic Waste, Low-Level Toxic Waste, High-Level Toxic Waste, Where Does Toxic Waste Come From