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Independence Day : What I Learned About Retirement From Some Who’ve Done It
$19.99Add to cartFour-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application.
Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction.
In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme–people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94–those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can’t because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire.
With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.
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Enneagram Of Emotional Intelligence
$39.99Add to cartEmotional Intelligence (EQ) is one of the biggest predictors of personal and professional success, and the key to effectively developing your EQ is tying it to your own personality type. In this book, certified EQ coach and Enneagram teacher Scott Allender helps you chart a personality-specific path toward lasting emotional intelligence and health. Allender uses the popular Enneagram framework to illuminate how each of the nine personality types aligns with the five essential skills of emotional intelligence: self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal relationships, decision making, and stress management. You’ll discover how to:
* break free from the hidden fears that dictate your choices
* make more intentional decisions
* better understand the emotional dynamics of colleagues, friends, and family
* and moreIn this journey toward radical self-awareness, you’ll learn how to combat the self-limiting beliefs that keep you from living the life you were meant to live all along.
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Enneagram Of Emotional Intelligence
$18.99Add to cartEmotional Intelligence (EQ) is one of the biggest predictors of personal and professional success, and the key to effectively developing your EQ is tying it to your own personality type. In this book, certified EQ coach and Enneagram teacher Scott Allender helps you chart a personality-specific path toward lasting emotional intelligence and health. Allender uses the popular Enneagram framework to illuminate how each of the nine personality types aligns with the five essential skills of emotional intelligence: self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal relationships, decision making, and stress management. You’ll discover how to:
* break free from the hidden fears that dictate your choices
* make more intentional decisions
* better understand the emotional dynamics of colleagues, friends, and family
* and moreIn this journey toward radical self-awareness, you’ll learn how to combat the self-limiting beliefs that keep you from living the life you were meant to live all along.
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16 Undeniable Laws Of Communication
$28.00Add to cartNever Be Afraid to Speak to a Group Again
It’s been said that public speaking is the number one fear of most people, with death being second. “This means,” said comedian Jerry Seinfeld, “if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
How can you overcome fear or ineffectiveness as a speaker? Learn the Laws of Communication!
John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than fifty years. He is one of only eight people on the planet who have been awarded Toastmaster’s Golden Gavel and been inducted into the National Speakers’ Association Hall of Fame. In The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication.
Learn how to:
*Speak from conviction
*Prepare your content and yourself for speaking
*Find and use your personal and communication strengths
*Focus on your audience and connect
*Tell better stories
*Read the room and create energy and anticipation
*Add value to people
*Inspire people to take actionEveryone has a message to share. Whether you want to improve your ability to inspire employees, speak at PTA meetings, report to a board of directors, teach students, deliver a sermon, address a small group, speak from a stage, or communicate to an arena full of people, this book can help you.
Learn from one of the best communicators in the world and start making the most of your message today.
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Switchers : How Smart Professionals Change Careers And Seize Success
$19.99Add to cartAre you stuck in an unsatisfying job or feel like you’re in the wrong profession? An industry that just isn’t a fit? Don’t just settle but succeed in the right career!
Get unstuck and land a new career–one you’re genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated career coach and psychologist Dr. Dawn Graham, the book provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go.
The first step is to recognize that the usual rules and job search tools won’t work for you. Resumes and job boards were designed with traditional applicants in mind. As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your candidacy stands out.
In Switchers, Dr. Graham reveals how to:
*Understand the concerns of hiring managers
*Craft a resume that catches their attention within six seconds
*Spotlight transferable skills that companies covet
*Rebrand yourself–aligning your professional identity with your new aspirations
*Reach decision-makers by recruiting “ambassadors” from within your network
*Nail interviews by turning tough questions to your advantage
*Convince skeptical employers to shelve their assumptions and take a chance on you
*Negotiate a competitive salary and benefits packagePacked with psychological insights, practical exercises, and inspiring success stories, Switchers helps you leap over obstacles and into a whole new field. This guide will help you pull off the most daring–and fulfilling–career move of your life!
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Platform : Get Noticed In A Noisy World – A Step By Step Guide For Anyone W
$19.99Add to cartHow do you turn your social media accounts into viable business opportunities? Michael Hyatt has the blueprint.
Michael Hyatt learned to use his social media platform as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coaching practice. In this straightforward how-to, he offers down-to-earth guidance on crafting an effective and meaningful online platform.
In Platform, you will learn how to:
*Extend your influence, monetize it, and build a sustainable career.
*Get noticed and start earning money in an increasingly noisy world.
*Learn to amplify, update, polish, and organize your content for success.Platform goes behind the scenes into the world of social media success. You’ll discover what bestselling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creatives are doing differently to gain contacts, connections, and followers and win customers in today’s crowded marketplace.
With proven strategies, easy-to-replicate formulas, and practical tips, this book makes it easier, less expensive, and more possible than ever to stand out from the crowd and launch a business.
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Independence Day : What I Learned About Retirement From Some Who’ve Done It
$27.99Add to cartSteve Lopez is 67 years old. He’s the lead metropolitan columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He’s been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize so often that they should create an award solely for him. Steve loves his job and the jolt of energy he gets from writing a column that serves as a catalyst for conversation. But he wonders what it might be like to live without ever-present deadlines hanging over his head. If his knees hold out, he’d like to play more tennis, to travel, to hike. With his daughter going to college in the fall, he and his wife will have an empty house and the time to reshape their newfound freedom.
Lopez realizes that the end of his work life is getting close. It’s hard to accept. And is he ready?
In Independence Day, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme–people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94, or government worker Mary Lee, who is 100 and still goes to the office every day, as she has for 70 years.
However, there are scientific reasons to retire, as outlined by the psychiatrist, two aging scientists, and geriatric specialist (all over the age of 75 themselves) he taps for their insight.
And of course, he talks to people who are happily retired–who have reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work–and those who would like to retire but can’t because of the financial realities of our declining economy and shrinking Social Security safety net.
With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also examines questions of identity, financial limitations, and what to do with your wild and precious life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.
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Called To Care Third Edition
$32.00Add to cartAs nursing and healthcare continue to change, we need nurses who are committed both to a solid understanding of their profession and to caring well for patients and their families. Offering a historically and theologically grounded vision of the nurse’s call, this thoroughly revised third edition of a classic text includes practical features for educators, students, and practitioners.
Nursing is a vocation: a calling from God to care for others. The role of the nurse originally grew out of a holistic Christian understanding of humans as created in the image of God. Yet as nursing and healthcare continue to change, the effects have proven disorienting to many. Now more than ever, we need nurses who are committed both to a solid understanding of their profession and to caring well for patients and their families. For over twenty years, Called to Care has served as a unique and essential resource for nurses. In this third edition Judith Allen Shelly and Arlene B. Miller, now joined by coauthor Kimberly H. Fenstermacher, present a definition for nursing based on a historically and theologically grounded vision of the nurse’s call: Nursing is a ministry of compassionate and restorative care for the whole person, in response to God’s grace, which aims to promote and foster optimum health (shalom) and bring comfort in suffering and death for anyone in need. Focusing on the features of the nursing metaparadigm-person, health, environment, and nursing-they provide a framework for understanding how the Christian faith relates to the many aspects of a nurse’s work, from theory to everyday practice. This new edition of Called to Care is thoroughly revised for today’s nurses, including updated examples and new content on topics such as cultural competency, palliative care, and the current state of healthcare and nursing education. Each chapter features learning objectives, discussion questions, case studies, and theological reflections from Scripture to help readers engage and apply the content. For educators, students, and practitioners throughout the field of nursing, this classic text continues to provide clarity and wisdom for living out their calling.
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Proximity Principle : The Proven Strategy That Will Lead To A Career You Lo
$19.99Add to cartRight now, 70% of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it.
One basic principle–The Proximity Principle–can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love.
In his latest book, The Proximity Principle, national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love.
Forget the traditional career advice you’ve heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You’ll discover the five people you should look for and the four best places to grow, learn, practice, and perform so you can step into the role you were created to fill.
After reading The Proximity Principle, you’ll know how to connect with the right people and put yourself in the right places, so opportunities will come–and you’ll be prepared to take them.
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Real Artists Dont Starve
$16.99Add to cartBestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Now in trade paper.
For centuries, the myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. But the truth is that the world’s most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. In Real Artists Don’t Starve, Jeff Goins debunks the myth of the starving artist by unveiling the ideas that created it and replacing them with timeless strategies for thriving, including:
steal from your influences (don’t wait for inspiration),
collaborate with others (working alone is a surefire way to starve),
take strategic risks (instead of reckless ones),
make money in order to make more art (it’s not selling out), and
apprentice under a master (a “lone genius” can never reach full potential).
Through inspiring anecdotes of successful creatives both past and present, Goins shows that living by these rules is not only doable but it’s also a fulfilling way to thrive.From graphic designers and writers to artists and business professionals, creatives already know that no one is born an artist. Goins’s revolutionary rules celebrate the process of becoming an artist, a person who utilizes the imagination in fundamental ways. He reminds creatives that business and art are not mutually exclusive pursuits. In fact, success in business and in life flow from a healthy exercise of creativity.
Expanding upon the groundbreaking work in his previous bestseller The Art of Work, Goins explores the tension every creative person and organization faces in an effort to blend the inspired life with a practical path to success. Being creative isn’t a disadvantage for success; rather, it is a powerful tool to be harnessed.
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Developing Clinicians Of Character
$50.00Add to cartPreface
1. Contemporary Clinical Supervision: An Overview
2. A Christian Integrative Framework For Clinical Supervision
3. Faith: Belief And Trust
4. Hope: A Steadfast Turning
5. Love: Relational Competence
6. Practical Wisdom: Competence And Ethical Decision Making
7. Justice: Diversity Competence, Hospitality, And Openness To The Other
8. Temperance: Reflective Practice
9. Courage: Professional Endurance And Integrity
10. Personal And Spiritual Formation In Counseling, Psychology, And MFT Education
Appendix A: Sample Supervision Contract For Group Supervision In An Educational Context
Appendix B: Supervision Documentation Form
Appendix C: Collaborative Professional Development Plan
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture IndexAdditional Info
Is there more to clinical supervision than our current theories and methods can provide? Whether we intend them to be or not, our mentoring practices are personally formative for supervisees and supervisors alike. Developing Clinicians of Character grounds our thinking in the historic and contemporary wisdom of virtue ethics and grows out of a love for the practice of clinical supervision. It aims to identify and strengthen supervision’s important role for character formation in the classroom, in continuing education for practitioners, and in clinical settings.After an overview of the role of character formation in clinical supervision, Developing Clinicians of Character examines each classical Christian virtue in turn, its corresponding professional ethical aspiration, and how we can use the practices of clinical supervision and spiritual formation together to foster character formation for Christian maturity and Christlikeness.
Dr. Terri S. Watson welcomes and equips you to excel in “the helping profession within a helping profession” as you provide clinical supervision for other mental health workers in counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. This book will shape your own character through spiritual disciplines in the classical virtues-and outward in expanding circles of encouragement, formation, and healing.
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CliftonStrengths For Students
$29.99Add to cartDiscover and Develop Your Strengths – in College and Beyond
College is a chance for you to start fresh. You get to learn and grow in ways that will amaze you. You get to write your own story.
So what do you want your college story to be?
As a student, you have the opportunity every day to search for patterns in your actions, learn from them and use them to make the most of your life experiences, now and in the future. To do that, you need a solid understanding of where and when you’re at your best: your strengths.
CliftonStrengths for Students will help you discover and develop your strengths – and reach your full potential.
This book includes an access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment. After you take the assessment, you’ll get a list of your top five themes of talent, which are the themes you lead with. Once you know what your leading themes are, you can begin to turn them into strengths.
CliftonStrengths for Students will also give you suggestions for developing and using your strengths in college and in the real world. If you understand and apply your strengths, your college journey – and the rest of your life – will be happier, more fulfilling and more successful. That’s the point of developing your strengths. When you do more of what you do best, you build your life around your areas of greatness.
So let’s get started. Your strengths journey begins here!
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Writing Deep Viewpoint
$15.99Add to cartThe Key to Great Fiction
Why is deep viewpoint vital for hooking and holding your readers?
Who is narrating each scene of your story?
What are readers really looking for when they pick up a novel?
Where does the real action of a written story take place?
What are the two most important rules of storytelling?
When should viewpoint be established?
Deep viewpoint can convince your readers that they have become your characters. This powerful writing-craft skill set includes showing instead of telling, maintaining story flow, attributing dialogue effectively, and showing characters interact with convincing antagonists and believable settings. -
Power Of Character In Leadership
$16.99Add to cartHow to Protect Your Leadership Influence and Power
You’ve worked hard to achieve your dreams and goals. Many others have done the same-only to lose it all in the end. Every day, we read about successful people in various walks of life who have lost their power and influence. They’ve been fired, forced to resign, or shamed out of public life. They no longer have a market for their gifts, and they may even face criminal proceedings. These leaders have lost the trust of their companies, constituents, nations, followers, and families. Many were surprised to discover that their talents alone were not enough to prevent their downfall.
Why did they fail in the end? Because they lacked the one quality that would have protected their leadership and given them enduring influence. Ironically, this quality is seldom taught to leaders today, either formally or informally. It is the quality of moral force, or character.
Every human being is a leader over some domain as he or she exercises gifts and influence. That domain might be the halls of government, the boardroom, the classroom, the community, or the home. In The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders, you will discover what character is, what it means to develop moral force, and how to preserve your leadership influence so that it is both effective and enduring.
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Calling In Todays World
$28.99Add to cartComparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation
The concept of “vocation” or “calling” is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation?
In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling in these various faith traditions. The contributors each search their respective tradition’s sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation. By seeking comparative insights from diverse faith traditions, say Kathleen Cahalan and Douglas Schuurman, we can all increase and improve our efforts to build a better, more humane world.
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Pastor : The Theology And Practice Of Ordained Ministry (Revised)
$34.99Add to cartOrdained ministry, says Willimon, is a gift of God to the church–but that doesn’t mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging. Is the pastor primarily a preacher, a professional caregiver, an administrator? Given the call of all Christians to be ministers to the world, what is the distinctive ministry of the ordained? When does one’s ministry take on the character of prophet, and when does it become that of priest? What are the special ethical obligations and disciplines of the ordained? In this book, Willimon explores these and other central questions about the vocation of ordained ministry. He begins with a discussion of who pastors are, asking about the theological underpinnings of ordained ministry, and then moves on to what pastors do, looking at the distinctive roles the pastor must fulfill. The book also draws on great teachers of the Christian tradition to demonstrate that, while much about Christian ministry has changed, its core concerns–preaching the word, the care of souls, the sacramental life of congregations–remains the same. Ordained ministry is a vocation to which we are called, not a profession that we choose. To answer that call is to open oneself to heartache and sometimes hardship; yet, given the one who calls, it is to make oneself available to deep and profound joy as well.
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Powerful Choices For Mid Career Women
$9.99Add to cartIs your current job ho-hum? Does it make you wonder “is that all there is?” Would you like to be inspired again by your work, but nervous or uncertain about making a change? You’re not alone. We all know that changing jobs at mid-career is healthy from a skills, spirit and energy standpoint. But somehow past a certain chronological age, our sense of confidence can be missing in action.
This book will help you sort out fears, confusion and interests to find work that naturally matches you and provides financial rewards that can last for decades. Written by an organizational psychologist, woman professional and executive coach specializing in successful career transitions, Powerful Choices for Mid-Career Women is a story-filled, conversational book that gets you ready, step by step, to CRUSH this challenging task.
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Gift Of Being Yourself (Expanded)
$17.00Add to cartForeword By M. Basil Pennington
Preface: Identity And Authenticity
1. Transformational Knowing Of Self And God
2. Knowing God
3. First Steps Toward Knowing Yourself
4. Knowing Yourself As You Really Are
5. Unmasking Your False Self
6. Becoming Your True Self
Epilogue: Identity And The Spiritual JourneyAppendix: For Reflection And Discussion
A Six-Session Discussion Guide To The Gift Of Being Yourself
A One-Session Discussion Guide To The Gift Of Being Yourself
NotesAdditional Info
“Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.” -AugustineMuch is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge of the self. Discerning your true self is inextricably related to discerning God’s purposes for you. Paradoxically, the more you become like Christ, the more you become authentically yourself.
In this profound exploration of Christian identity, psychologist and spiritual director David G. Benner illuminates the spirituality of self-discovery. He exposes the false selves that you may hide behind and calls you to discover the true self that emerges from your uniqueness in Christ. Freeing you from illusions about yourself, Benner shows that self-understanding leads to the fulfillment of your God-given destiny and vocation.
Rest assured, you need not try to be someone you are not. But you will deepen your experience of God through discovering the gift of being yourself.
This expanded edition, one of three titles in The Spiritual Journey trilogy, includes a new epilogue and an experiential guide with questions for individual reflection or group discussion.
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Mapping Your Academic Career
$20.00Add to cartPreface
Introduction: Mapping Our Lives Cohort
1: Will I Find Security?
Addendum: Mentoring Cohort
2: Will I Find Success?
Addendum: A Financial Plan
Addendum: Sabbaticals Cohort
3: Will I Find Significance?
Addendum: Retirement
Select Annotated Bibliography
Subject IndexAdditional Info
You’re finishing your first year of teaching. It’s been exciting and gratifying, but some wobbly episodes too. How will you carve out a space to flourish? You’re feeling secure in mid-career, with some accomplishments to be proud of. But what should success really look like? You’re nearing the end of your career, and sometimes apprehensive about the blank slate of retirement. What might it look like to finish well? In Mapping Your Academic Career Gary Burge speaks from decades of teaching, writing and mentoring. Along the way he has experienced and observed the challenges and tensions, the successes and failures of the academic pilgrimage. Now, with discerning wisdom and apt examples, he hosts the conversation he wishes he’d had when he started out as a college professor. Wherever you are in your teaching life, this is a book that will reward reading, reflection and discussion. -
New 1 Minute Manager
$23.99Add to cartA new edition based on the timeless business classic updated to help today s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.
For decades, The One Minute Manager(r) has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less including resources, funding, and staff have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.
Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have written The New One Minute Manager to introduce the book s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.
As compelling today as the original was thirty years ago, this classic parable of a young man looking for an effective manager is more relevant and useful than ever.
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I Was Busy Now Im Not
$39.99Add to cartDo you know time is your life?
When you waste your time, you waste your life.Does your time seem to be in short supply?
Have you had enough of feeling overwhelmed?
Are you ready to find time for what matters most? If so, this book will help you discover how to:
* simplify your complicated life,
* make time for what matters most, and
* live your big dreams!
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Art Of Work
$16.99Add to cartJeff Goins, a brilliant new voice counting Seth Godin and Jon Acuff among his fans, explains how to abandon the status quo and live a life that matters with true passion and purpose.
The path to your life’s work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life’s work, that treasure of immeasurable worth we all long for. It’s about the task you were born to do. As Jeff Goins explains, the search begins with passion but does not end there. Only when our interests connect with the needs of the world do we begin living for a larger purpose. Those who experience this intersection experience something exceptional and enviable. Though it is rare, such a life is attainable by anyone brave enough to try. Through personal experience, compelling case studies, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows readers how to find their vocation and what to expect along the way.
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De Las Ideas A La Accion – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartWhether you’re just a creative type, or the leader of an organization, you must figure out a creative process and develop an infrastructure for implementing your ideas. Good Idea. Now What? offers systematic advice for moving your ideas to execution. It will show you: The fundamental elements of a good idea
Tangible pathways to follow after initial inspiration
The importance of branding and its impact on ideasPractical advice for developing a loyal tribe of supporters who will take your idea to a whole new level It’s not enough to be inspired. Learn how to follow through on your ideas and discover how great an impact you can have!
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Visions Of Vocation
$17.00Add to cartIntroduction. On Learning To Be Implicated
Chapter 1. The Most Difficult Task
Chapter 2. If You Have Eyes, Then See
Chapter 3. The Landscape Of Our Lives
Chapter 4. Knowing Is Doing
Chapter 5. Come And See
Chapter 6. Vocation As Implication
Chapter 7. The Great Temptations
Chapter 8. Learning To Live Proximately
Epilogue. But Are You Happy?Read More: Http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/toc/code=3666#ixzz2fBExKaIb
Additional Info
Can my life matter? How can I thrive? The answer to both questions is vocation. Vocation is more than our job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. For decades Steve Garber has traveled the world, coming alongside a wide range of people as they seek to make sense of their world and their lives. We meet, with Garber, leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest in China and a group of musicians who called themselves Jars of Clay. And we meet ordinary people too, like: Jonathan who learned he would rather build houses than study historyTodd and Maria who adopted creative schedules so they could parent better and practice medicineD.J. who helped Congress move into the Internet AgeSusan who built a home business of hand-printing stationary using a letterpressSantiago who works with majority-world nations in need of capitalClaudius and Deirdre whose openhearted home has always been a place for people Vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain, and still love it. Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. And in helping it to flourish, we find that we flourish too. Garber offers here a book for parents, for those in the arts, in the academy, in public service, in the trades and in commerce–for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation. -
Secrets Of Dynamic Communications (Revised)
$15.99Add to cartWhat is the most important ingredient for an effective speech or presentation?
Whether you are one who speaks only on rare occasions or you find yourself addressing an audience every day, this book will be an invaluable tool. Beneficial to the experienced pro as well as the new beginner,Secrets of Dynamic Communication is a practical and effective handbook for powerful presentations of all kinds. It takes the reader through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience. The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery.
Author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and he is now bringing those concepts to the wider community as well. No abstract theories here, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results! You’ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field.
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Poder Del Caracter En El Lider – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartHow to Protect Your Leadership Influence and Power
You’ve worked hard to achieve your dreams and goals. Many others have done the same-only to lose it all in the end. Every day, we read about successful people in various walks of life who have lost their power and influence. They’ve been fired, forced to resign, or shamed out of public life. They no longer have a market for their gifts, and they may even face criminal proceedings. These leaders have lost the trust of their companies, constituents, nations, followers, and families. Many were surprised to discover that their talents alone were not enough to prevent their downfall.
Why did they fail in the end? Because they lacked the one quality that would have protected their leadership and given them enduring influence. Ironically, this quality is seldom taught to leaders today, either formally or informally. It is the quality of moral force, or character.
Every human being is a leader over some domain as he or she exercises gifts and influence. That domain might be the halls of government, the boardroom, the classroom, the community, or the home. In The Power of Character in Leadership, you will discover what character is, what it means to develop moral force, and how to preserve your leadership influence so that it is both effective and enduring.
Como proteger la influencia y el poder de su liderazgo
Usted ha trabajado duro para lograr sus sueos y metas. Muchos otros han hecho lo mismo, solo para perderlo todo al final. Cada dia, leemos sobre personas exitosas en varios ambitos de la vida que han perdido su poder y su influencia. Han sido despedidos, obligados a renunciar, o sacados con verguenza de la vida publica. Ya no tienen un mercado para sus dones, y puede que incluso se enfrenten a acciones judiciales. Esos lideres han perdido la confianza de sus empresas, electores, naciones, seguidores y familias. Muchos quedaron sorprendidos al descubrir que sus talentos por si solos no fueron suficientes para evitar su caida.
Por que fracasaron al final? Porque carecian de la unica cualidad que habria protegido su liderazgo y les habria dado influencia perdurable. Ironicamente, esta cualidad rara vez se ensea a los lideres actualmente, ya sea formalmente o informalmente. Es la cualidad de la fuerza moral, o caracter.
Todo ser humano es un lider sobre algun dominio en el que el o ella ejercita dones e influencia. Ese dominio podria ser los pasillos del gobierno, la sala de juntas, el salo
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Fred 2.0 : New Ideas On How To Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results
$15.99Add to cartNine years ago, bestselling author and business consultant Mark Sanborn introduced the world to Fred, his postman, who delivered extraordinary service in simple but remarkable ways. Fred’s story inspired millions. Companies-even, cities-were inspired to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary each day.Today, with stiff competition from the networked global economy, delivering extraordinary results is more important than ever. With Fred 2.0, Mark not only revisits the original Fred to gain new insights, but also equips all of us with new strategies to achieve more. You’ll not only be inspired by Fred 2.0, you’ll also have the tools and strategies to aim higher and achieve the extraordinary.
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21st Century Keys To Employment
$22.99Add to cartThis book is the result of 14 years working directly with people who have lost jobs, homes, financial freedom, and hope. “21st Century Keys to Employment” will guide you through the steps necessary to stand out from the competition to land that next job!
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Christian Teachers In Public Schools
$12.99Add to cartWorking in the public school system can be a terrifying prospect for teachers, both veteran and rookie. And for a Christian working in the public schools, the waters in which he or she strives to teach, set a positive example, and ultimately be a witness for Christ in can become murky.
Christian Teachers in the Public Schools: 13 Essentials for the Classroom strives to clear those waters up a bit. This collection of anecdotes, tips, practical insight, scriptures, and even legal resources will serve to inspire and enlighten educators, no matter what grade they teach. More importantly, it will show them practical ways in which they can shine the light of Christ within America s public schools.
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Money And Work (Student/Study Guide)
$12.00Add to cartGetting The Most Out Of Money And Work
1. What Is My Time Worth? Ecclesiastes 3:1-14; 12:1-14
2. Use Or Lose? Matthew 25:14-30
3. Why Work? 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
4. Trustworthy? Luke 16:1-15
5. What’s Tempting About Power? Matthew 20:1-28
6. How Much Is Enough? Ecclesiastes 5:8-20
7. Does My Property Own Me? Luke 12:13-34
8. How Much Is Too Much? 1 Timothy 6:3-10, 17-20
9. Why Give? 1 Chronicles 29:1-20
10. What If I Lose It All? Job 1:1-22; 19:17-27
Leader’s NotesAdditional Info
Money and work: just the words themselves can cause anxiety. Mortgages, saving for retirement and bottom lines can easily overwhelm us to the point of despair. But God, who “gives us richly all things to enjoy,” wants his people to live in freedom, trusting him and learning to manage our gifts wisely and generously. By pointing to his trustworthiness and generosity, these studies can help you rest in the peace he offers. -
Courage And Calling Revised And Expanded
$22.00Add to cart1. Stewards Of Our Lives
2. The Meaning Of Our Work
3. Seeking Congruence
4. Chapters In Our Lives
5. As Unto The Lord
6. Thinking Vocationally
7. Four Callings
8. Courage And Character
9. The Capacity For Continuous Learning
10. The Cross We Bear
11. Working With And Within Organizations
12. The Ordered LifeAdditional Info
God calls us first to himself, to know and follow him, and also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call or “vocation” has implications not only for our work or occupation, but also includes our giftedness, our weaknesses, our life in community and what we do day to day. In this book Gordon Smith invites us to discover our vocation by listening to God and becoming coworkers with him.
What is my calling?
How do I live it out in the midst of difficult relationships or moral challenges?
Will my vocation change as I enter a new stage of life?
With competing needs and demands, how can I craft a balanced way of living?
In the pages of this book, these questions and many more are addressed. This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. The first two chapters are expanded, with a new chapter on four specific areas of calling. Here is rich insight for all who long for the ears to hear and the courage to follow God’s call. -
Writing The Christian Nonfiction Book
$16.95Add to cart“There are three rules for writing a book,” a famous author once said. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are!” To some extent, the process of writing a book is shrouded in mystery. Writing the Christian Nonfiction Book: Concept to Contract takes the confusion out of the writing and publishing process. Based on Dave Fessenden’s regular column in Cross & Quill magazine and the seminars he teaches at Christian writers’ conferences across the country, this book presents eight steps every author must take to be successfully published.
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Catholics On Call
$19.95Add to cartWhat do you really want to do with your life? Who do you want to be in your life? How does God speak to you about your life? This volume, like the Catholics on Call program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, raises these important questions. The highly respected essayists shed light on the variety of vocational paths in the church while providing insights about discernment, ministry, and prayer. They seek to offer young men and women information, guidance, and inspiration as they discern a life of ministry-and help them to discover that discerning a vocation is not a matter of choosing the more appealing of a variety of options; rather, it is an openness to discovering God’s will.
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Wellbeing The Five Essential Elements
$25.95Add to cartWellbeing isn’t just about being happy, wealthy or successful. Gallup’s comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries revealed five universal, interconnected elements that shape our lives: Career Wellbeing, Social Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing. Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements provides you with a holistic view of what contributes to your wellbeing over a lifetime. Written in a conversational style, this book is filled with fascinating research and novel ideas for boosting wellbeing in each of these five areas. This book includes access to the Wellbeing Finder assessment.
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Vocacion – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartEn nuestro peregrinaje cristiano todas las personas hemos oido la llamada de Dios para estar a su servicio y divulgar sus buenas nuevas. El autor de esta obra nos ayuda a prestar mejor atencion a esta llamada divina y sus implicaciones. In our Christian journey, we have heard God’s call to serve others and to share His good news. Jose Rodriguez helps readers to better understand and identify this divine call to make thoughtful career choices.
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How Successful People Think
$12.00Add to cartThe perfect, compact listen for today’s fast-paced world, How Successful People Think (derived from Maxwell’s previous book, Thinking for a Change) will teach listeners the 11 secrets successful people know. Arranged in an easy-to-follow format, America’s leadership expert, John C. Maxwell, will teach listeners how to expand their thinking and achieve their dreams.
The 11 keys to successful thinking include:
Big-Picture Thinking – seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas
Focused Thinking – removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential
Creative Thinking – thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs
Shared Thinking – working with others to compound results
Reflective Thinking – looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future. -
Juggling Act
$15.99Add to cartSomewhere along the way, 9-to-5 morphed into 24/7. Demanding schedules and technology have been able to crowd out what matters most: family, friends, and even faith.
Pat Gelsinger understands this challenge. As a prominent executive in Silicon Valley, Pat worked hard to juggle a thriving career and his family. Pat’s pursuit of balance led him to dynamic, time-tested wisdom that will put readers’ lives in perspective. The Juggling Act, an updated and expanded revision of Balancing Your Family, Faith and Work, details the guidelines for balancing life with insights on the importance of prioritizing life, why we should have a personal mission statement, how to be an effective employee, the value of good support systems, and sharing faith in the workplace. Readers will end their wrestling match with life and start living it.
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Acing The Interview
$17.99Add to cartAt some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called “the best of the best” gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including: You really don’t have as much experience as we would like-why should we hire you? * How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? * What do you consider most valuable-a high salary, job recognition, or advancement? The book also arms readers with questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent their making a big job mistake: What would you say are the worst parts of this job? * What are the major problems facing the company and this department? * Why aren’t you promoting from within? Taking readers through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation, Acing the Interview is a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners guide to interview success.
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Arte De Cerrar La Venta – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartAs one of the top salespeople in the world, Brian Tracy knows that the ability to close the sale is the key skill required by all top sales professionals. Fortunately, closing the sale can be learned by practicing the skills of the highest paid salespeople in every business. When salespeople follow a practical, proven, step-by-step process, they can get more orders, faster and easier than ever before. In El arte de cerrar la venta readers will learn to:
Build value by focusing on benefits and solutions
Lower perceived risk by emphasizing guarantees and assurances
Answer any objection
Bring a sales conversation to a natural and easy conclusion by using some of the best questions ever discovered.Brian Tracy, uno de los mejores vendedores del mundo, sabe que la habilidad de cerrar una venta es la destreza clave que necesita todo profesional experto en ventas. Afortunadamente, se puede aprender como cerrar una venta al poner en practica las mismas habilidades que utilizan los mejores vendedores en cada negocio. Cuando los vendedores siguen paso a paso un proceso practico y comprobado, pueden conseguir mas pedidos, mas rapida y facilmente que nunca. En el libro El arte de cerrar la venta los lectores aprenderan a:
Generar valor enfocandose en los beneficios y las soluciones
Disminuir el riesgo percibido al enfatizar las garantias y los seguros
Responder a cualquier objecion
Hacer que la venta llegue a una conclusion natural y sencilla utilizando algunas de las mejores preguntas que se hayan descubierto. -
Failing Forward : Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones For Success
$19.99Add to cartAre some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? Call them lucky, blessed, or possessors of the Midas touch. What is the real reason for their success? Is it family background, wealth, greater opportunities, high morals, an easy childhood?
John Maxwell has the answer—the difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Maxwell says that if you are like him, coming out of school, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. But Maxwell learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.
“I want to help you learn how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway,” says Maxwell. “Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!”
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Red Grip
$15.49Add to cartProduct Description
Ever wondered what is wrong with your workplace environment? Ever wanted to quit, or run away? This is the true story of a woman’s 30 year journey as a social worker/teacher, from her first job to her last, who, when faced with human, secular, and supernatural evil, has taken flight literally, figuratively, and spiritually, but always with her best companion, The Red Grip. “I’ve been fired, I’ve been told to leave.led to find the answers to mental illness, merely diseases of the damaged soul.I’ve been broke, bankrupt, hungry.work has both enabled me, and simultaneously caused me.. to run from one side of the world to another.So many opposites, in the workplace, outside the workplace, but always seemingly related to it.” -
Balancing Work And Life
$13.99Add to cartLife is more like a marathon than a sprint. Here’s how to stay well conditioned.
Bill Butterworth will make you laugh-and learn while you’re doing it! In the opening chapter of this powerful little book, Bill shares with you how, while running his rotund body in a nightmarish 440-yard dash, he learned a great lesson:
Life is much more like a marathon than a sprint.The attitudes and actions that result in steady success over the long haul are what make for long-term satisfaction and achievement. To experience this for yourself, you need to understand how to deal with life’s inevitable challenges:
*The “Hazies”-losing sight of long-term goals
*The “Lazies”-lacking the self-discipline to bring life back into focus
*The “Crazies”-allowing life to run out of controlEach of these can be conquered by three “clarifying triangles:” setting clear priorities, learning the discipline of endurance, and reaching the finish line through skillful pacing. It all adds up to a succinct and inspiring guide to balancing excellence at work with fulfillment in all of life.
Also look for the On-the-Fly-Guide to Building Successful Teams!
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On Writing Well (Anniversary)
$19.99Add to cartOn Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.
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Managing The Nonprofit Organization
$16.99Add to cartThe groundbreaking and premier work on nonprofit organizations
The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key issues in this booming sector.
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Joy At Work
$24.95Add to cartPRAISE FOR JOY AT WORK This is not your everyday leadership book about how to survive in the corporate jungle, or how to outfox the competition to build a bigger bank account. Dennis Bakke knows that business is not just about the bottom line. It’s about something much more important. “Work,” as Bakke explains, “is one of the ways we honor or ‘glorify’ God.” Today, joy and work are rarely used in the same sentence. But God really does intend for us to find joy in our work. Is this possible? Can this be accomplished in a fallen world? Dennis Bakke, a graduate of the Harvard Business School, wrestled with these questions when he cofounded AES, a worldwide energy giant, in 1981. Shaped by his faith, Bakke sets off on a quest to create the most fun workplace ever-using principles established in the Garden. In Joy At Work, Bakke describes how he empowered people to use their God-given talents free of needles bureaucracy, obliterated management, eliminated job descriptions, and pushed decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. These principles extend beyond the walls of business, and can be applied to nonprofit organizations, churches and even your family. “The idea of creating a workplace in which everyone maximized his or her God-given potential and serves the community is a strong biblical principle. This book provides valuable ideas for leaders who wish to build or strengthen organizations using sound spiritual principles: service, integrity, and social responsibility. Dennis Bakke knows firsthand what it is to put these truths to work.” -Chuck Colson, Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries
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Como Ganarse A La Gente – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartDescripcion (Description): Las relaciones son el epicentro de todas las experiencias positivas en los seres humanos. Desde el momento en que nacemos, las relaciones nos marcan, en nuestras familias, en el campo de juegos, en la escuela y en nuestros trabajos. Maxwell, un comunicador maestro y experto en estudio relacional, hace que el aprendizaje sobre las relaciones sea algo accesible para todos. Los lideres mas sofisticados y los vendedores podran asirse de habilidades que los haran progresar y los novatos en relaciones aprenderan tecnicas que los transformaran en unos verdaderos dinamos de sus relaciones.
Relationships are at the heart of every positive human experience. From the moment of birth, relationships mark us – in our families, on the playground, at school, and in the workplace.
Maxwell, a master communicator and relational expert, makes learning about relationships accessible to everyone. The most sophisticated leaders and salespeople will pick up on skills that will make them even better. And relational novices will learn skills that can transform them into relational dynamos.
Maxwell’s secret is the people principles he teaches. Relationships work and build on five levels: Readiness, Connection, Trust, Investment, and Reward. On each level are principles that will change the way you view interpersonal relationships. Some are intuitive, such as the Mirror Principle: The first person we must examine is ourselves. Others may go against your instincts, such as the Confrontation Principle: Caring for people should precede confronting people. All of them are 100 percent practical!
Maxwell delves into issues that confront us in the workplace, at home, in church, at school – in short, anyplace you find people. And he reveals not only the benefits of developing healthy relationships, but how to actually do it. Working with others is the key to success in every area of life. As Maxwell says, “If you can win with people, you can win!”
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Servant Leader : How To Build A Creative Team Develop Great Morale And Impr
$18.00Add to cartA Practical Guide to Using the Principles of Servant Leadership
Leadership is a calling. And servant leadership-the idea that managing with respect, honesty, love, and spirituality empowers employees-helps individuals answer that calling. Bestselling author and former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry reveals the servant leader’s tools, a set of skills and ideals that will transform the way business is done. It helps leaders nurture the needs and goals of those who look to them for leadership. The result is a more productive, successful, and happier organization, and a more meaningful life for the leader. Autry reveals how to remain true to the servant leadership model when handling day-to-day and long-term management situations, including how to:
*Provide guidance during conflict and crisis
*Assure your continued growth and progress as a leader
*Train managers in the principles of servant leadership
*Transform a company with morale problems into a great place to workPracticed by one-third of the companies on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, servant leadership is a thriving philosophy. Ultimately, Autry explores how it can be a valuable, refreshing, and rewarding approach to leading others in business life.
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Live Your Calling
$20.00Add to cartThis practical and inspirational guide helps you identify and use your God-given gifts to find significance, direction, and joy in your life and work.A Based on years of counseling experience, Kevin and Kay Marie Brennfleck offer action-oriented tools to assess your unique design, create a Life Calling Map, discover God’s amazing purpose for your life, and develop an action plan to fulfill the mission that is yours alone.
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Walk At Work
$16.99Add to cartWhether you work with your hands or your head, God wants your heart to be at work for Him. However, with all the confrontation, conflict, and frustration in the workplace, too often we leave God out of the equation. Amid the all-out pursuit of our hopes and dreams, we find ourselves wondering, How can my faith sustain me through challenges of work? How can I daily honor God on the job?
The Walk at Work is a guidebook that combines daily inspirational readings with a seven-step plan for personal spiritual growth to answer those questions about faith at work. Whether you face difficult relationships, job anxiety, or office politics, Andria Hall will show you how to experience success by aligning your priorities with God’s. Through the down-to-earth, practical wisdom in these pages you will:
* receive daily wisdom from God
* discover the benefits of praying for others
* learn how to carry out your God-given tasks in the workplace with integrity
* unearth a new commitment to honor God in all that you do, say, and think
* settle your mind and nurture your spirit through timely daily readingsExcellent as a daily devotional or group study, The Walk at Work also includes a topical index of common work-related challenges, questions for further reflection, and recommendations for additional reading.
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Financial Peace Revisited (Revised)
$26.95Add to cartDave Ramsey’s New York Times bestselling guide to better living through financial security, now completely revised and updated
Dave Ramsey knows what it’s like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace and More than Enough, he has helped hundreds of thousands of people to understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right-financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
In this new edition of Financial Peace, Ramsey has updated his tactics and philosophy to show even more readers:
how to get out of debt and stay out
the KISS rule of investing-“Keep It Simple, Stupid”
how to use the principle of contentment to guide financial decision making
how the flow of money can revolutionize relationships
With practical and easy to follow methods and personal anecdotes, Financial Peace is the road map to personal control, financial security, a new, vital family dynamic, and lifetime peace. -
Sally Stuarts Guide To Getting Published
$21.99Add to cartEvery Writer Needs One Book that Jump-Starts a Writing Career. This Book Is It.
In this one-stop writing resources, Sally Stuart will tell you how to:
* Find the publisher you want
* Write a professional query letter or book proposal
* Approach and work with editors
* Decipher copyright and tax laws
* Negotiate contracts
* Manage the writing life
* Set up a home office
* Develop your book and article ideasWith practical tips and anecdotes, technical details and legal helps, this essential compendium provides the information every writer needs to get in print and stay in print. Whether you are just beginning or you have been published for years and want to polish up on a few fine points, this is your guide to publishing success.
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Who Moved My Cheese
$22.00Add to cartParts Of All Of Us
The Story Behind The Story
by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.
A Gathering: Chicago
The Story Of Who Moved My Cheese?
Four Characters
Finding Cheese
No Cheese!
The Mice: Sniff & Scurry
The Littlepeople: Hem & Haw
Meanwhile, Back In The Maze
Getting Beyond Fear
Enjoying The Adventure
Moving With The Cheese
The Handwriting On The Wall
Tasting New Cheese
Enjoying Change!
A Discussion: Later That Same Day
Share It With Others
About The AuthorAdditional Info
With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change–an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.
Most people are fearful of change because they don’t believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millenium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too.
Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation.
Who Moved My Cheese? takes the fear and anxiety out of managing the future and shows people a simple way to successfully deal with the changing times, providing them with a method for moving ahead with their work and lives safely and effectively.
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Being Gods Partner
$17.95Add to cartA book that will challenge people of every faith to reconcile the cares of their work and the strivings of their souls and restore the hidden link between them. By exploding our assumptions that work and spirituality are irreconcilable, Salkin explores how spirituality can enhance our 9-to-5 lives, offering us ways to smuggle religion into our workplace.
Thought-provoking, practical, and exhilarating, Being God s Partner goes beyond just talking about the subject to give the reader specific actions to take right now to find greater meaning in their work, and see themselves continuing God s work in the world.
1996 Award of Excellence, Body Mind Spirit Magazine
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Also A Mother
$24.99Add to cartAs the twentieth century closes, the cry for equality between the sexes is provoking unprecedented conflicts between women and men in the workplace and in the family. Women of all colors and classes continue to carry out an enormous amount of indispenable, unrenumerated caring labor, which at once undergirds and is peripheral to human life, as men have defined it and therefore without value. Also a Mother protests this defined it, and therefore without value. Also a Mother protests this definition of work and value, and claims that beneath the everyday scuffles over gender roles and child care lies an essential religious crisis of work and love. Drawing on her situation as seminary professor and mother of three sons, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore argues that Christian ideals of mother self-sacrifice and fatherly hard work, as they have been interpreted by church tradition and promoted in society at large, not only fail the lives of many people today, but misrepresent both the intent of God’s creation and the promise of the gospel message itself. She asks: How might theological doctrines of love, self sacrifice, creation, procreation, vocation, and community better respond to women and men who want to work in fulfilling ways and to love in intimate relationships, including those that involve raising children?
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Loving Your Work Ever After
$19.00Add to cartDon’t you feel that there should be something “more” to working than the paycheck at the end of the week? That you are called a task or career that is uniquely yours, which you can undertake with the confident knowledge and pride that this is the work you were meant to do, worthy of and true to yourself and your own special talents and gifts? Delve into these uplifting pages and discover your life’s work! Filled with helpful exercises, practical advice, and underscored with inspirational success stories of people from all walks of life, Loving Your Work Ever After is an inspirational guide to career choice and change.
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1 Minute Manager Meets The Monkey
$14.99Add to cartWhen a person goes to the boss with a problem and the boss agrees to do something about it, the monkey is off his back and onto the boss’s. How can managers avoid these leaping monkeys? Here is priceless advice from three famous experts: how managers can meet their own priorities, give back other people’s monkeys, and let them solve their own problems.
