Archive for December, 2009


Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life

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The companion to the blockbuster bestseller, Getting Things Done.

Since its publication in 2001, Getting Things Done has become, as Time magazine put it, “the defining self-help business book” of the decade. Having inspired millions of readers around the world, it clearly spoke to an urgent need in an increasingly time-pressured society. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel Making It All Work, Allen unlocks the full power of his methods across the entire span of life and work. While Getting Things Done functioned as an essential tool kit, Making It All Work is an invaluable road map, providing both bearings to help you determine where you are in life and directions on how to get to where you want to go.

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Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

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Finding one s calling is not just about finding something we can do it is about finding what we can t not do. Let your life speak is a time-honored Quaker admonition to live one s life as witness to the deepest truths one knows. But as Parker Palmer explains, those words can also mean listen to your life, and let it tell you what your truth is. Vocation, he writes, comes not from external demands but from listening to the true self, a listening that will always call us into some form of service to others. Though the details of our journey are singular, we draw from it that which is universal.This book is a moving and illuminating guide for anyone who seeks not just a job but a calling and companionship along the way.Amazon.com Review
The old Quaker adage, “Let your life speak,” spoke to author Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s. It summoned him to a higher purpose, so he decided that henceforth he would live a nobler life. “I lin… More >>

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

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This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated – how we can be liberated – to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and… More >>

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

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Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health? THE SURVIVORS CLUB Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it’s a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the kind of person who survives and thrives? The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in THE SURVIVORS CLUB. In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, this book reveals the hidden side of survival by combining astonishing true stories, gripping scientific research, and the author’s adventures inside the U.S. military’s elite survival schools and the government’s airplane crash evacuation course. With THE SURV… More >>

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

The Ultimate Gift

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What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall’s The Ultimate Gift. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family. “Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire.” What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless tale to heart…. More >>

The Ultimate Gift

Taming Your Gremlin : A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

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This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming? Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom, the Zen Theory of Change, and sound psychology in an easy-to-understand, unique, and practical system for banishing the nemesis within. Among the things you will learn are:Techniques for getting a sliver of light between the natural you and the monster of your mind.The extraordinary power of simply noticing and playing with options.Six keys to maintaining emotional balance amid upheaval…. More >>

Taming Your Gremlin : A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About

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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author Kevin Trudeau comes the last diet you will ever need. Imagine, you will lose at least 30 pounds in 30 days…with no hunger…no exercise…and no surgery! An absolute cure for obesity was discovered almost fifty years ago by a British medical doctor. Tens of thousands of people used this simple, inexpensive, safe medical treatment and achieved miraculous, fast, and permanent weight loss. Stubborn area fat deposits melted away. Body reshaping of the hips, thighs, buttocks, and waist was so dramatic it appeared as if the patients received liposuction! Amazingly, this medical breakthrough has been debunked, discredited, and suppressed by the American Medical Association, the Food and Drug Administration, and other medical establishments throughout the world. Now, for the first time in fifty years, this revolutionary breakthrough discovery, which permanently cures the condition of obesi… More >>

The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About

Get Off Your “But”: How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself

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“Sean is an amazing person with an important message.”
—President Bill Clinton “Sean Stephenson is the Yoda of personal development, with less pointy ears.”
—Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live “As we struggle with inertia to become the best that we can be, Sean Stephenson’s book informs and inspires us to stand up and keep moving forward. Thank you, Sean, for your life, your work, and your abundant sharing.”
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager “Sean Stephenson is a hero to me. When you read his book, he will be a hero to you as well. His moving stories about himself and others who have found the gifts in their pain will teach you so much about courage and, just as important, you will learn how to build your own sense of confidence when it comes to health, career, relationships, and more. Do yourself a favor read this book! “
—Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author, Feel the Fear and Do … More >>

Get Off Your “But”: How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

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Captures the missing link as to why some people create financial success while others do not…. More >>

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen presents his signature multi-million copy book in trade paperback.Amazon.com Review
Houston televangelist Joel Osteen is well qualified to write this book, having used the seven principles he shares to achieve his own “rags-to-riches” story. At the heart of Osteen’s message is that achieving a successful, prosperous life of fulfillment can only occur when we stop worrying about the past or future to make the most of each present moment by using our God-given strengths and talents to achieve our goals. The key to doing so are the seven steps Osteen outlines: Enlarge Your Vision, Develop a Healthy Self-Image, Discover the Power of Your Thoughts and Words, Let go of the Past, Find Strength Through Adversity, Live to Give, and Choose to Be Happy. Mixing biblical teachings with his own personal experiences, Osteen explains each of these seven steps in an encouraging, optimistic manner that makes the… More >>

Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential