-- Mastery Temple Grandin, Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller?all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads. Debunking long-held cultural myths, he dem…
A-- ng Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entert…
ALet's face it: Setbacks happen, and failure is always a possibility. But here's the good news: Amazing success has been achieved by people who once fell flat on their faces. The secret lies in how we respond to life's bumps and pot holes and unwelcome detours--from getting fire…
To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritua…
Erin McHugh had spent the better part of her adult life doing community work, but in more recent years, the minutiae of life and working as a bookseller kept her busy and away from those higher impulses. Then one day she learned a distant relative was actually going to be canoni…
Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and "The Work." In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she wo…
Last year 2,197 visitors came from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They made the trek not to learn about technology, but to witness a radically different approach to workplace culture? one intentionally designed to pr…
Say good-bye to the stress of mess--for good! Organizing for Life reveals the secrets of keeping your house neat, clean, and organized without spending every minute of your life working on it. You'll learn why things are out of control so you can get them back in order and keep …
The author, a longtime personal trainer and admitted fitness addict, has never been overweight. So he decided to learn what millions of Americans, and many of his clients, live with every day. For six months, he stopped exercising and ate common American diet of fast food and pr…
Creates a new set of commandments for the modern world by demonstrating how women can "deprogram" themselves from what they are supposed to want from life so that they can go after what they really want.
The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn quality--you either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you don't. But that's simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfected by anyone. Drawing on tec…
Combining motivational observations with practical question-and-answer entries, an empowering guide to personal success draws on the ideas of popular self-help concepts to address such topics as personal goals, pragmatism and courage.
-- The Happiness of Pursuit Equally fascinating is Chris' examination of questing's other side, including questers' acute awareness of mortality, their struggle against monotony, and their wistful feelings once a quest has succeeded. What happens -- will inspire readers of every…
You Deserve Your Success!Joyce Roche rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and become the first female African-American vice president of Avon, president of a leading hair care company, and CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc. But despite these accomplishm…
A guide to self-improvement, happiness, and creativity outlines practical steps for identifying personal talents, merging one's passions with inherent abilities, and transforming interests into income.
-- Strong Is the New Skinny Maximize your potential, as well as your energy, vitality, and power. Train your brain--develop resilience and mental fortitude in every area of your life. Add muscle, increase speed, and enhance flexibility. Strengthen your arms, back, core, and legs…
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"Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of our tomorrows will run out. Each day that you postpone the hard work and succumb to the clutter that chokes creativity, discipline, and innovation will result in a net deficit to …
Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sports, politics, the military and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths ab…
