Personal Transformation
Series in Personal Transformation
Books in Personal Transformation
A Matter of Choice: 25 People Who Transformed Their Lives
Crisis or opportunity? It's all a matter of how you look at it. For some, the dream of a new life is long-held and then finally realized; for others life changes suddenly and irrevocably, forcing them down a completely different path. A Matter of Choice features success stories and cautionary tales in which loneliness, danger, financial realities, and other unexpected consequences caused the original plan to fail or change. A woman rejects the corporate job she worked so hard to secure in favor of leading rafting tours in the wilderness. A young felon begs a judge and her probation officer for the opportunity to enroll in a Habitat for Humanity program and start her life afresh. A middle-aged newsman is forced to embark on a new career path, replete with the gaffes and insecurities he thought were decades behind him. A career soldier finds himself in a different world with very different rules as he follows his dream to become a sculptor. This book offers a realistic, but ultimately optimistic account of the trend that has become increasingly popular, as many Americans have followed up the age-old question, "What should I be doing?" with the more interesting one: "Why?"
Healthiest You Ever
Good health means making good choices every dayand with this book, you can get fit and happy, one choice at a time. With daily advice and tried-and-true tactics for every aspect of health, you'll reach your optimum level of well beingfrom head to toe: Monday: Go meatless on Mondays Tuesday: Do push-ups to strengthen your core Wednesday: Sign up for a foreign language classand stimulate your brain Thursday: Incorporate interval training into your run to build endurance Friday: Take a yoga class to build flexibility Saturday: Play a game of pick-up basketball with your best buds Sunday: Take a nap on the afternoon for some much-needed Zs With this book, you'll have the advice you need to make this the year that you truly do get healthier every day in every way!
Inner Story
Written by award-winning psychologist Dr Tim O’Brien, "wholeheartedly" recommended by Sir Elton John and endorsed by Arsene Wenger, Manager of Arsenal Football Club in the English Premier League, this is a book about you. There are two stories inside your head. One is about your life. The other is controlling your life - that story is your Inner Story. It is created in your mind and controls everything that you think, feel and do. If you want to understand and change how you think, feel and behave or if you want to be more confident, successful and happier you have to know your inner story. If you want to perform better as an individual or as a team you have to know your inner story too - but how much do you know about yours? For years Tim has worked behind-the-scenes in global businesses, elite sport and with high profile public figures. Now he shares his expertise with you so that you can understand your mind and change your world. This book will also help you change the world of others.
Kilimanjaro and Beyond(With: Chris Finlay)
"If you're the kind of person who can usually find any excuse to talk yourself out of a great idea, this book is the inspiration you need to get out of your comfort zone and make things happen."Helen Osler, author of Cameras of Kilimanjaro, Australia It is January 16, 2009, and 60 year-old BARRY FINLAY and his son CHRIS are propped against a rock, struggling to draw a breath on their treacherous climb up Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Their destination is tantalizingly close, yet the weather and -- more importantly -- their health will determine the end result. Barry's backpack holds a Canadian flag with the names of over 200 donors mobilized by the climbers back home. The donors have contributed to providing classrooms and clean water for desperately deserving school children in Tanzania. For Barry, this is a life-changing physical, mental and spiritual adventure. Follow along as he and his son strive to climb one of the World's Seven Summits, meet the children who will benefit from their fundraising, and come to an understanding that one or two people really can make a difference. It is an inspirational journey that leaves the two with the lasting impression that nothing is more satisfying thanreaching a goal and giving others the opportunity to achieve theirs.
Letters to Judy: What Kids Wish They Could Tell You
The author of young people's novels collects some of the many letters she has received from her fans, and does her best to provide some special answers
Life Lessons for Women: 7 Essential Ingredients for a Balanced Life
Addressing women and their everyday concerns and needs, this collection of words of wisdom and inspirational stories offers step-by-step guidelines on how to build a better life, while covering such topics as finding time, balancing priorities, and making ends meet. Original.
Life's Little Black Book
The Little Black Book series is designed the enlighten and entertain. Handy for everyone and a great gift, especially for young people. Topics in safety, first aid, computing, auto, survival and more. From how to limit a Wikipedia search to certain years to how to treat shock. From what to do if you get lost to how to when is the best day of the week to get surgery From which essential documents to scan and store safely to how to put ICE on your phone. 101 tips and information that will, indeed save you time and money and could possibly save your life. Given in bite-sized snippets, these range from the mundane and perhaps trivial, to how to prepare for and deal with life-threatening situations. Everyone will find something useful that they didn’t know in these pages.
Living on Purpose
Written by a former world-champion athlete, coach, and educator, Dan Millman's books present practical ways to transform daily challenges into vehicles of spiritual growth. In Living on Purpose, Millman tackles some of the toughest questions, and in the process, refines and expands on the teachings of his other books. Millman applies timeless principles to questions about metaphysics, destiny and free will, control and surrender, goal-making, marriage, child-rearing, money and work, sexuality, priority setting, and simplifying life. He combines hard-won personal wisdom with common sense to shed light on real-world problems.
Lolita
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
Modern Day Miracles
Once upon a time there was an online social network called Facebook, and it brought together people from all over the globe, helping them to reignite romances, launch careers, and even find organ donors. Modern Day Miracles brings to light inspirational "miracles" stemming from the increasingly popular social-networking site. Author Emily Liebert crafts captivating narratives of real-life stories from interviews with Facebook users who have used the site's many applications to find biological parents, relay messages to loved ones during the Mumbai terrorist attacks, donate money to Chinese orphanages, and try to hunt down a hit-and-run criminal. Readers will relate to these tales and, simultaneously, be charmed by the little spark of magic that sets them apart from your everyday success stories. Liebert also interviews and shares the story of Chris Hughes, Facebook cofounder who worked on the Obama new-media campaign, revolutionizing the use of social-networking sites as a political tool. Complete with an introductory interview with Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Modern Day Miracles is a collection of tales that will inspire you to seek out you’re your own miracles on the world's most popular social-networking site..
Moments of Grace and Beauty
Every day around the globe there are billions of acts of kindness, courage, generosity, and grace, but we rarely get to hear much about them. It’s easier to write about the evil in the world than about the good. Writers who focus on violence, greed, ugliness, and hypocrisy can appear more sophisticated, more intelligent, more mature, more aware of the world's true nature. Roland Merullo recognizes these challenges to humankind as clearly as anyone, but he also believes they get more than their share of coverage, and that cargo of bad news can act as an oppressive weight on the mind. At the start of a recent gray, cold, New England winter, Merullo decided to make a list of some of the remarkable acts he has witnessed, and the generous, kind, and brave people he has had the good fortune to know. Moments of Grace and Beauty: Forty Stories of Kindness, Courage, and Generosity in a Troubled World is intended to serve as a counterweight to the abundance of trouble in the news, and is offered as evidence of the good will still present on earth.
Personal Encounters(As:Ralph Hammond)
As a U.S. Army military correspondent in the European theater during World War II, Ralph Hammond interviewed some of the most notable artistic individuals in the twentieth century, including Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and T.S. Eliot - the latter two at their studio and home, respectively. And he worked beside Ernest Hemingway, who was also writing as a correspondent. Then, during the following decade serving as the press secretary for Governor Jim Folsom of Alabama, Hammond interviewed William Faulkner, escorted Carl Sandburg throughout the state for nearly a week, and escorted the world-famous silversmith William Spratling as he received his honorary doctorate from Auburn. The memories of Hammond include a tete a tete between Alabama's governor and Carl Sandburg as they swap Lincoln stories, a visit to Spratling's Taxco silver shop and house, and a tea-time chat with T.S. Eliot about his book of practical cats - all these sung in a Whitmanesque paean.