"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments."
Napoleon Hill
Ivan Southall, one of Australia's best loved and most prolific children's book authors, has died. He was 87.
Southall won four Children's Book of the Year Awards during the 1960s and 1970s. He received national and international acclaim for his books — including the British Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Josh (1971). Hills End was included in The New York Times list of books of the year in 1963.
Maurice Saxby, children's literature expert and a close friend of Southall, said the author had had "an inestimable influence on the way his readers view themselves as individuals and as Australians".
Which do you fear most? And which fear is irrational? Seems everyone has a different answer. What's yours?
You can check out the other answers at the forum (and when you get there - tell me what you think of the spider. He looks friendly to me and I'm no spider lover!)
by Bryce Courtenay
This powerful tale of war, imprisonment, lifelong friendship and incredible survival finds Bryce Courtenay in vintage territory - and form!
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"I need to see Sitti Zeynab one last time. To know if I will have the courage to go ahead with my plan. The two nurses look frazzled and smile wearily at me. 'We must leave now,' they say in urgent tones. 'I won't be long,' I reassure them and I jump up onto the back of the ambulance.
Do you have hundreds of e-mails clogging your inbox? Does it feel a bit out of control? Would you like to learn a simple process to regain control? If so, watch this video in which Stephen Barnes of Orla shares the 4D process for managing e-mails and regain control of your inbox forever.
"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."
Mahatma Gandhi
Thriving in today's high pressure world
You are of little benefit to your work or family if you become stressed-out, over-worked and run-down.Successful people - in business, work or life - know how to harness their work pressures and personal stresses so that they stay productive and effective when faced with challenges and a heavy workload.
With the world markets in crises, and the prospect of facing an economic recession, businesses are finding themselves in tough times.
Now, anyone can learn how to become resilient to stress and pressure - without needing to leave their office or home - and this is why I strongly advise you to visit this website below and watch the short
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with Ron Karr, CSP
What if you knew how to get the attention of top decision makers? How to entice them to engage in conversation, then engage your services? Would your life — and bank account — be different if you could speak directly to those who hold the purse strings, versus going through lower-level gatekeepers?
Ron is an über-salesman. He knows how to get to decision makers through strategy, courage, persistence, creativity — and chutzpah! He’ll share techniques he’s used to get to Steve Forbes, Cathie Black (CEO of Hearst Publications), Tim Ferriss (bestselling author of The Four-Hour Work Week) and many more. He’ll discuss how to adapt what he’s done so you can apply it to your situations.
You will learn:
- how to avoid the most common mistake that prevents speakers from reaching their targets
- the proper etiquette for networking power brokers
- the key to leveraging relationships
- how to create an enticing value proposition for each top dog
- how you can generate so much conviction that you can’t not make the call — you have absolute belief you can help him/her
- how how to uncover your prospect’s hot buttons and wrap your offer around those
- the best ways to get through to the top decision makers
Two books about witches and dancing bears have been awarded the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize, which was announced today by Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen.
For children aged six and under, the winning book was The Witch’s Children Go to School by Ursula Jones, illustrated by Russell Ayto (Orchard Books). For children aged seven to 14, the winning book was Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman (Egmont Press).
See the complete shortlists here.
Lawyers for RDR Books have filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals regarding Judge Robert P. Patterson’s ruling in J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros.’s copyright infringement suit against the publisher. The appeal was filed on November 7 by RDR’s legal team, which includes lawyers from the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. In September, Judge Patterson ruled in favor of Rowling, issuing a permanent injunction against the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark and awarding damages in the amount of $6,750.
