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Dating is the initial and critical first stage in the relationships leading to marriage. Dating is so important and so terribly misunderstood in this day and age. As people get involved with dating, they quickly discover that they are in the middle of big unfathomable sea and they are confused. Youth and young single adults coming into dating newly as well as older single adults including formerly married men and women have discovered to their chagrin that they have no idea how to make dating work for them.
Dating 101: Principles and Practice is dedicated to charting the all important road-map to this critical stage in the relationships between the sexes. It explains the principles and the best practices to ensure that you can enjoy the dating stage of the relationship between the male and female gender and have the hope of your dating transiting smoothly into courtship and marriage.
Readers would find Dating 101: Principles and Practice answering the questions they have always asked about dating, such as “where can I find who to date? “How do I date appropriately? How do I date a guy to early marriage decision? How do I know that he or she is into me? How can I know he or she is my Mr. and Miss Right? How can I avoid premarital sex during dating? Why should I avoid premarital sex during dating and a lot more?
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When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.
It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort.
Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are.
About the Author:
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.She has spent the past thirteen years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.
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Have you ever felt that time was moving faster and faster as you are growing older?
Do you want to learn the secret of how to slow it down, so that you can make the most of every second?
Now you can!
With access to in-depth research, you can learn how to extend the good times and fast forward through the bad ones with The Power of Time Perception.
Inside the pages of this amazingly insightful book, you will learn how we think about time, the factors influencing our time experiences, and how YOU can make every second count.
There are 13 chapters that examine in more detail things like:
How our brains perceive time and reality?
What makes time speed up or slow down?
How our personality traits influence our time experience?
How emotions affect the speed of time in our mind?
The effect of smart drugs on the speed of time
Mental time travel into the future
How to create the longest year of your life?
And much more...
If time management is something you have struggled with in the past, and you really want to make every second of your life count, this is one book that has all the answers.
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Do you often feel unmotivated?
Wake up with a feeling of anxiety that you should do many things but you lack of direction where to begin so you end up doing nothing?
Do you feel that you do self-sabotage after you wake up by doing nothing productive and waste your day?
If you respect only three tips of this book, I guarantee that your first wake up hours can become the best and most motivating part of your day!
Daily Routine Makeover Morning Edition teaches you every method how to be productive and energetic when your day starts.
This is an actionable book without any fake it 'til you make it, brush your teeth or wake up at 5 am advice.
It is a comprehensive psychology, biology and motivational manual that lets you know why are you an early bird or night owl, gives you the best practices how to bring out the most of them without overwhelming you with too many new habits.
Daily Routine Makeover Morning Edition has lots of real-life stories and examples, proven techniques of high-performers, and physiological explanations backed up by countless research studies, all of which will help you change your a mindset about the power of the first hours after waking up (be it 5 am or 11 am) with concrete and simple techniques.
The 5 am magic doesn't apply to all of us and it's borderline terrible advice for most.
During my endless months of nocturnal working, I developed special practices that don't require an early day start to boost your productivity and energy level to the sky.
By consequently following these 3 simple steps I could leave my night-shift job, finish University and start to be a full-time writer.
How will you become a productivity machine?
Learn the 3 simple exercise I did to boost my spirits and productivity.
Get familiar with 10 practices recommended by world leaders, high achievers, and top class artists.
Understand why does your body function the way it does on a biological level.
Learn to diminish the harm your body gets by nighttime, shift work or even jet lag.
And further ways to bring out the most of your day.
The right way to use caffeine as a wake-up booster.
How to eat nutritious food and lose weight.
Simple steps to detect when you are the most productive during the day.
Advice from a world class dietitian how to combine food to keep you energized all day - starting in the morning.
Find out which of the 3+15 after wake-up habits could make the difference in your life.
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At last, a book that shows you how to build -- design -- a life you can thrive in,
at any age or stage
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.
Look around your office or home--at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are.
The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
"Designing Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will."
Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive
This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love. David Kelley, Founder of IDEO
An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University . . . Perhaps the book's most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.
Publishers Weekly"
About the Author
About Bill Burnett: BILL BURNETT is the executive director of the Design Program at Stanford. He is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.
About Dave Evans: DAVE EVANS is an adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, a management consultant, and a co-founder of Electronic Arts www.designingyour.life. He is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.
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Little changes can make a big, big difference! In The Little Book of Big Change, psychologist Amy Johnson shows you how to rewire your brain and overcome your bad habits—once and for all.
No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed. By learning to stop bad habits at the source, you will take charge of your habits and addictions for good.
Anything done repeatedly has the potential to form neural circuitry in the brain. In this light, habits and addictions are impersonal brain wiring problems that result from taking your habitual thinking as truth, and acting on that thinking in the form of doing your habit—over and over. This book offers a number of small changes you can make in your everyday life that will help you stop your bad habit in its tracks.
If you want to understand the science behind your habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, this book will help you to finally take charge of your life—once and for all.
About the Author
Amy Johnson, PhD, is a life coach, public speaker, and author of two previous books. She works with clients worldwide, helping people see their habits in a way that ends them forever. To find out more, please visit www.dramyjohnson.com.
There is a space within you where you are already perfect, whole, and complete.
It is pure consciousness - the space inside of which all thoughts come and go.
When you rest in the feeling of this space, the warmth of it heals your mind and body.
When you operate from the infinite creative potential of this space, you produce high levels of performance and creative flow.
When you sit in the openness of this space with others, you experience a level of connection and intimacy that is breathtakingly enjoyable and filled with love.
And when you explore this space more deeply, you will find yourself growing closer and closer to the divine, even if you're not sure there is such a thing and wouldn't know how to talk about it if there was.
Every problem we have in life is the result of losing our bearings and getting caught up in the content of our own thinking; the solution to every one of those problems is to find our way back home.
This is both the invitation and the promise of this book.
One problem.
One solution.
Infinite possibilities.
Are you ready to begin?"
About the Author
Michael Neill is an internationally renowned transformative coach and the bestselling author of four books. He has spent the past 25 years as a coach, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEOs, royalty and people who want to get more out of themselves and their lives. He is the also the founder of Supercoach Academy, an international coach training program with students and graduates from 22 countries. Michael's books have been translated into 16 languages, and his public talks, retreats and seminars have touched and transformed lives at the United Nations and on six continents around the world. www.supercoach.com
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From the founder of the popular online community Tiny Buddha.com comes a daily inspirational guide of simple and creative challenges to help you actively spread love to those around you.
Tiny Buddha's 365 Days of Tiny Love Challenges is a simple guide to help readers pursue happy, connected lives and bring greater love into the world.
Each week begins with an inspirational message written by members of the TinyBuddha.com online community, followed by seven days of short challenges that focus on self-love, giving and receiving love in relationships and friendships, and spreading love in the world, such as:
* Write a list of three things you appreciate about yourself and place it somewhere in your home where you'll frequently see it throughout the day
* Compliment someone who serves you in some way (for example, a waiter, barista, or bus driver) on how well they do their job
* Keep an eye out for someone who looks sad-a friend, coworker, or even stranger-and say something that might make them laugh or smile.
By using the book each day throughout the year, readers will learn to develop closer bonds in relationships, let go of anger and bitterness, better understand themselves and their loved ones, and turn strangers into friends.
Lori Deschene is the founder of tinybuddha.com, a community of thousands of people interested in sharing wisdom for a happier life. She is a regular speaker at Wisdom2.0 and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in national magazines. This is her first book.
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