"If all else fails, read the directions!"

You know the drill: Adrenaline pumping you unpack that precious equipment you've just purchased, and at the perfect price. Using common sense you try to connect the pieces. Nothing works! "If all else fails, read the directions!" Too often, life's like that. But there is a better way.

Based on the primary principles from the best-selling book of all time, Top Ten: Guidelines for a Great Life explores how humans in the hurried and harried twenty-first century can find meaning and fulfillment in daily life.

The stories and illustrations in this book will enhance your life, whether you need to prioritize your activities, celebrate the value of human life, pause regularly for a peaceful day, make sense of sexuality, become an individual of integrity, or whatever.

How much better the motto: "Before all else fails, read the directions!" Here are the Top Ten: Guidelines for a Great Life. Read them, treasure them, and enjoy life at its best!

Ron du Preez was born and raised in the Republic of South Africa where he earned a ThD in ethics. An ordained pastor of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists he currently serves two churches near Andrews University where he obtained a Doctor of Ministry degree.

A member of the Biblical Research Institute Committee of the General Conference (2000-2006), Dr. du Preez has conducted evangelistic meetings at Loma Linda University and has taught in California at the Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism (AFCOE) and at A Resource Institute for Soul-winning and Evangelism (ARISE) in Michigan.

Elder du Preez has published other books, two of which are currently distributed by the Review and Herald Publishing Association— "No Fear for the Future" and "Morals for Mortals".

He has volunteered for oversees church building projects and archaeological excavations. He is married to Lynda Gill, with whom he enjoys traveling, tandem bicycling and walking.