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| Title & Author | Description of
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| On Finding and Creating your Path, Purpose, and Career: | ||
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| Finding your path | Click here to return to "books on" listing | |
| What Should I
Do with My Life? by Po Bronson |
***In What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson manages
to create a career book that is a page-turner. His 50 vivid profiles of
people searching for "their soft spot--their true calling" will engage
readers because Bronson is asking himself the same question. He explores his
premise, that "nothing is braver than people facing up to their own
identity," as an anthropologist and autobiographer. Random House;; 1st edition (December 24, 2002) |
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| The
PATHFINDER : HOW TO CHOOSE OR CHANGE YOUR CAREER FOR A LIFETIME OF
SATISFACTION AND SUCCESS by Nicholas Lore (Author |
***Author Nicholas Lore uses
the techniques of his career-guidance network, the Rockport Institute, to
make The Pathfinder a substitute for a great job counselor. Through goal
setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though
the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and
finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different
temperaments and decision-making methods, so he provides individualized
advice to suit each one. |
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| It's Only Too
Late If You Don't Start Now : How to Create Your Second Life at Any
Age by Barbara Sher
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In this life changing text
Barbara Sher teaches us how to ignore social convention, turn our backs on
cultural indoctrination and really start living. Did you know that the
'first half' of your life was only a period where you made your mistakes.
It certainly wasn't the be all and end all. Bringing into focus once again
your dreams, wishes and ambitions, here Ms Sher shows us how we have not
yet even started to really live. Paperback - 324 pages (April 13, 1999) |
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| Live the Life
You Love : In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons by Barbara Sher |
***Barbara Sher offers a
dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully
enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you
can make your "impossible" dreams possible, reachable, and real. She shows
you how to decide what your dream is, eliminate the unnecessary burdens
and clutter in your life, develop your ideas, and get what you
want.Paperback - 241 pages (March 1997) |
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| 2000 What Color
is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles, Dick Bolles (Preface) |
For nearly 30 years,
What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the guiding light for those in
pursuit of satisfying and fulfilling employment. This year's edition has
been completely revised and rewritten and is designed to work in
conjunction with the book's Web site. At the heart of Bolles's formula for
finding the right job are two questions: What do you want to do? Where do
you want to do it? Answer those and you're well on your way to finding the
job you really want. |
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| Zen and the Art of
Making a Living : A Practical Guide to Creative Career
Design Laurence G. Boldt |
The bad old days of
multiple-choice-test career counseling are over. It takes more than a #2
pencil and a computer to find your life's work, as career consultant
Laurence G. Boldt tells us in Zen and the Art of Making a Living, a
hefty but lighthearted tome that will help you find yourself and your
place in the world. Boldt is quite up-front about it, though: it's a long,
hard journey to get there. But his uplifting prose and liberal doses of
inspirational quotes from wise men and women provide support for the weary
traveler. |
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| Doing Work You Love
: Discovering Your Purpose and Realizing Your Dreams by Cheryl Gilman |
This book offers many
more exercises to help the reader jump-start her or his creativity. In
Doing Work You Love, Gilman applies the growing body of intuitive
knowledge to the problems of career choice and maintenance. The pivotal
question: How does one discover one's own natural talents and apply them
effectively within today's business world? |
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| Do What You Love,
the Money Will Follow : Discovering Your Right Livelihood by Marsha Sinetar |
You're about to be liberated!
Here is the book you've been waiting for-a-step-by-step guide to finding
the "work" that expresses and fulfills your needs, talents, and passions.
Using dozens of real-life examples, Marsha Sinetar shows you how to
overcome your fears, take the little risks that make big risks possible,
and become a person whose work means self-expression, growth, and
love! |
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If Your Life Were a Business, Would You Invest In It?: The 13-Step Program for Managing Your Life Like the Best CEO's Manage Their Companies by John Eckblad, David Kiel |
In
this book, they describe their original 13-step Life Business principles and
techniques for renewing, refocusing, reforming, and remaking any life. Their
basic philosophy is simple: we can learn much about how to live happier,
more fulfilling and productive lives by following the examples of successful
businesses. |
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| Marketing / Networking / Sales | Click here to return to "books on" listing | |
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Power Networking (Second Edition) : 59 Secrets for
Personal & Professional Success by Donna Fisher, Sandy
Vilas, Marilyn Hermance |
*** Teaches the reader powerful secrets to creating
personal and professional networks, with a self-assessment quiz to get
started and several methods of eliminating the roadblocks on the path to
successful networking. Previous edition: c1992. Softcover. DLC: Success in
business. |
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The World's Best Known Marketing
Secret: Building Your Business With Word-Of-Mouth Marketing by Ivan R., Ph.D. Misner |
*** Misner, a motivational speaker and expert on business networking, acknowledges in his title that there is nothing secret about word-of-mouth ("W-O-M") marketing and advertising. W-O-M, in fact, is often credited for the popularity of movies, restaurants, etc. Misner, though, suggests ways to take advantage of the tremendous potential of W-O-M. Ten years ago he founded BNI in Arcadia, California, by assembling a group of friends to exchange business referrals. |
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Masters of Networking by Ivan R. Misner, Don Morgan |
*** Masters of Networking know that
givers gain, that creating, maintaining, and serving a wide network leads to
great business and personal rewards. Generating leads and referrals,
building healthy relationships, and delivering value over the long term are
at the heart of networking and are critical for anyone. Packed with valuable
insights and personal examples from many of today's top networkers. |
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Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty:
The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need by Harvey Mackay |
*** For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. Including: What kinds of networks exist; How to start a network, and how to wring the most from it; The smart way to downsize your list--who to keep, who to dump; How to keep track of favors done and favors owed--Is it my lunch or yours?; and, What you can do if you are not good at small talk |
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| Endless
Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales (New & Updated Edition) by Bob Burg, Bob Berg |
*** This new edition offers successful entrepreneur and speaker Bob Burg's proven relationship-building system that thousands of professionals and entrepreneurs have used to turn casual contacts into solid sales opportunities. In Endless Referrals, he shows you how to: Turn every contact into a sales opportunity. Dramatically increase your business without spending more time or money. AND more... |
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IMPACTS Marketing by Dickey Eason |
"In IMPACTS Marketing – Discovering the Power of True
Customer Identification, Dickey Eason tells you why the IMPACTS individuals
and IMPACTS businesses are the world’s most important customers, and why
they are so important to the cultural world also. He tells you
interesting characteristics that will help you identify the IMPACTS,
including where they live on the street, what industries and businesses they
work at, what job positions they hold, even what kinds of dogs they usually
prefer. And why so many IMPACTS adopt animals. Jay Conrad Levinson of
Guerrilla Marketing says, “IMPACTS Marketing will start the next marketing
revolution!”
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do
About It by Michael E. Gerber |
In this first new and totally revised edition of the over two million copy bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed -- and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether it is a franchise or not." |
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How to Succeed as an Independent
Consultant, 3rd Edition by Herman Holtz (Author) |
This sequel has been thoroughly updated to cover current government procurement rules affecting consultants along with a broad range of marketing, financial, professional and ethical issues. Features the latest in computer and office equipment with tips on purchasing the right product. A complete ``Reference File'' contains suggested books, periodicals, consultants' organizations, public speaking contacts and much more. |
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Diets Don't Work: Stop Dieting Become Naturally Thin Live a Diet-Free Life by Bob, Dr Schwartz |
"If you are
ready to free yourself from the enslavement of calorie or fat counting or
excessive exercise - this is the book for you! "Diets Don't Work" explains
in simple language why diets fail to help people achieve their weight loss
goals. It includes written exercises to help you crystalize your desires and
reasons you are overweight." |
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| enhancing communication | Click here to return to "books on" listing | |
| Introducing
Neuro-Linguistic Programming : Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing
People by Joseph O'Conner, John Seymour (Contributor), |
NLP skills are
proving invaluable for personal development and professional excellence in
counseling, education, and business. A very good introduction to the major
techniques of NLP--almost like a cookbook of NLP. Very easy to
follow. Paperback - 272 pages (May 1, 2000) |
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton (Editor) |
"This is by
far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant
for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property, and income
and the statesman who would like to keep the peace." |
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| Men's Issues | Click here to return to "books on" listing | |
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| Iron John :
a book about men by Robert Bly |
"Here, using the Grimm Fairy tale "Iron John" as a vehicle, Bly explores the myths and cultural underpinnings of a distinctly vigorous male mode of feeling, a combination of fierceness and tenderness long since sacrificed to the demands of the industrial revolution." review from Amazon.com, published 1990. . New York, New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.. | |
| Women can't
hear what men don't say: Destroying
Myths, Creating Love by Warren Farrell |
"The best-selling author of Why Men Are the Way They Are and The Myth of Male Power now shows couples how to break through the unseen barriers to male communication constructed by society, families, and our culture." review from Amazon.com, published Oct. 1999. | |
| King, Warrior, Magician, Lover; Rediscovering the
Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette (Contributor) |
Arguing that mature
masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and
empowering of the self and others, Moore and Gillette provide a Jungian
introduction to the psychological foundations of a mature, authentic, and
revitalized masculinity. Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0062506064 ; |
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| The Way of
the Superior Man : A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women,
Work, & Sexual Desire by David Deida |
The Way Of The Superior Man
takes the reader on a powerful journey into the heart of the contemporary
masculine experience. David Deida explores the most challenging and
important issues in men's lives. Covering everything from work and career,
to dealing with sex, women, and love, to finding purpose in an
increasingly superficial and mechanical world, The Way Of The Superior Man
reveals how a man can live a life of fulfillment without compromise by
relaxing into the truth of his very being, discovering his deepest vision,
and giving his gifts without holding anything back. Hardcover (August
1997) |
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| Why Men Are the Way
They Are by Warren Farrell, Ph.d (Mass Market Paperback - December 1990) |
Dr. Farrell, a former board member of NOW, tries to build a bridge of understanding between men and women. Instead of presenting an abridged version of his book, Farrell participates in a planned, animated dialogue with a woman. This format provides easy access to Farrell's key points. More significantly, it serves as a model for male/female conversation. In conversation, according to Farrell, males are on female turf. "The person whose turf it is has to take primary responsibility for creating a safe environment." |
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| Learning Challenges Resources | ||
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ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau |
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life is a long overdue response to the needs of adults with attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. It deals directly and exclusively with the greatest challenge that adults with AD/HD face: the problem of disorganization. Once considered a disorder of childhood, we now know that AD/HD is a lifespan disorder and taking charge of one's life to achieve quality of life in the wake of this disorder requires organization. | |
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| Health & Humor | Click here to return to "books on" listing | |
| How to Be Funnier :
Happier, Healthier, and More Successful Too! by Roger Bates |
"HOW TO BE FUNNIER gets a five star rating. For speakers and entertainers this guide is a must read. For everyone else it's a fun read . . .with much to be gained. The material is mostly inside tricks and techniques used by professional comedians and humorists. It's presented in a very funny and very easy to understand and easy to use manner. It's something that anybody can put to use since everybody can benefit from a stronger sense of humor." | Click/Select here to order or get more information on the book. |
| Compassionate
Laughter : Jest for Your Health! by Patty Wooten |
"an essential book on healing explaining the effects of psychological feelings of well-being on the immune system. Patty Wooten explains the purpose of clowns and jesters throughout history, then provides tips for caregivers (at home and in hospital settings) on how to keep a sense of humor while caring for others. Peppered with hilarious anecdotes and conversations with Wooten's clown characters, Nancy Nurse and Nurse Kindheart, Compassionate Laughter will delight the reader who wants to learn, laugh, and heal!" 204 pages (August 1996) | |
| The Healing Power
of Humor : Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets,
Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All
That by Allen Klein |
The ability to
laugh at annoyances, crises, and even outright disasters can literally
save your life. The author presents a series of proven techniques for
overcoming the negative effects of loss, setbacks, upsets,
disappointments, trials, and tribulations. (April 1989) The author, ALLENKLEIN@aol.com , June 24, 1996 "I wrote this book after my wife died. Her humor helped me and others get through the difficult three years of her terminal illness. Others have told me that this book has helped them tremendously. It must have... the book is now in its 15th printing as of 06/96" |
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| Gesundheit! :
Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through
Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams, Maureen Mylander |
Part manifesto, part autobiography and part jeremiad, this rambling, repetitive volume indicts our system of medical care and offers an alternative of humor and love. The author, subject of the Robin Williams film Patch Adams, comes off as egotistical and fanatically cocksure of his opinions. That the founder of the free Gesundheit Medical Institute was once a mental patient is not surprising. As narrator, comedian Arte Johnson is faced with representing a comic therapist who has written a humorless book. | |
| House Calls : How
We Can All Heal the World One Visit at a Time by Patch Adams (Introduction), Robin Williams, Jerry Van Amerongen (Illustrator) |
With a foreword by Robin Williams, this primer on wellness includes tips for visiting loved ones, tips that are essential to the healing process, how to be a good doctor and how to be a good hospital patient. 120 cartoons. | |
| Duck Soup for the
Soul : The Way of Living Louder and Laughing Longer by Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman |
Life is "Duck Soup"-fun, easy, a piece of cake-when you can laugh at yourself and everything else. Swami Beyondananda, does away with all earnestness and doctrine of whatever stripe as he elaborates on his punny theories. The self-proclaimed leader of a FUNdamentalist Revival (accent on FUN), the Swami advocates putting levity over gravity, and offers seven ways to prevent Truth Decay. According to the Swami, the reason we are put in the material world is to get more material, and Nonjudgment Day is at hand. | |
| Driving Your Own
Karma : Swami Beyondananda's Tour Guide to Enlightenment by Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman. Paperback |
Swami Beyondananda, whose syndicated column, hilarious tapes, and live performances have delighted millions, has collected his crazy wisdom in book form. Readers will learn about FUNdamentalism, Non-Judgment Day, groups like Feels on Wheels and Oms for the Omless. | |
| Laughter the Best
Medicine : The Healing Powers of Happiness, Humour and Joy! |
"Laughter is one of our most valuable and basic human needs. This book presents over 50 simple techniques to help you build confidence, feel good about yourself and learn to have fun again." | |
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