Author: Donald Miller
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN: 1400228026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around. This actionable guide will teach you how to do the same through journaling prompts and goal-planning exercises. There are four characters in every story: The victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we’re doomed to fail. If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. But if we play the hero or guide, our lives will flourish. The hard part is being self-aware enough to know which character we are playing. In this book, bestselling author Donald Miller uses his own experiences to help you recognize if the character you are currently surfacing is helping you experience a life of meaning. He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. In Hero on a Mission, Donald’s lessons will teach you how to: Discover when you are playing the victim and villain. Create a simple life plan that will bring clarity and meaning to your goals ahead. Take control of your life by choosing to be the hero in your story. Cultivate a sense of creativity about what your life can be. Move beyond just being productive to experiencing a deep sense of meaning. Donald will help you identify the many chances you have of being the hero in your life, and the times when you are falling into the trap of becoming the victim. Hero on a Mission will guide you in developing a unique plan that will speak to the challenges you currently face so you can find the fulfillment you have been searching for in your life and work.
Author: Christa Wolf
Publisher: Seagull Library of German
ISBN: 9781803090399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf's skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity's greatest struggles. Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why it was so difficult: "Gradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechless or to live in the third person, these seem to be the options. One is impossible, the other sinister." During 1971 and 1972 she made thirty-three attempts to start the novel, abandoning each manuscript only pages in. Eulogy for the Living, written over the course of four weeks, is the longest of those fragments. In its pages, Wolf recalls with crystalline precision the everyday details of her life as a middle-class grocer's daughter, and the struggles within the family--struggles common to most families, but exacerbated by the rise of Nazism. And as Nazism fell, the Wolfs fled west, trying to stay ahead of the rampaging Red Army.
Author: Reagan Rose
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802474632
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Feeling overwhelmed and unproductive? The answer isn’t to do more. What image forms in your mind when you think of productivity? An assembly line? Spreadsheets? Business suits or workplace uniforms? In the ancient world, productivity didn't conjure images like these. Instead, it referred to crop yield and fruit bearing. This agrarian imagery helps us understand productivity through a biblical lens. Jesus taught, By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit (John 15:8). Who doesn’t want to have a truly productive life—to bear much fruit? But how does this happen in the places we hold dear—the home, workplace, and in our communities? We often feel overworked and overrun, defeated and discouraged. The world says be productive so that you can get all you can out of this life. The Bible says be productive so you can gain more of the next life. In Redeeming Productivity, author Reagan Rose explores how God’s glory is the purpose for which He planted us. And he shows how productivity must be firmly rooted in the gospel. Only through our connection to Christ—the True Vine—are we empowered to produce good fruit. This book shows how we can maintain the vitality of that connection through simple, life-giving disciplines. Readers will discover manageable applications like giving God the first fruits of our days. Additionally, Reagan discusses how our perspective on suffering is transformed as we see trials as God’s pruning for greater productivity.
Author: Andrea Driessen
Publisher: Non-Obvious Guides
ISBN: 9781940858616
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Like having coffee with an expert, this book shares irreverent tips and secrets from Chief Boredom Buster and 25 year event planning expert Andrea Driessen on how to plan an event that will get people talking and participating. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one - with actionable tips to transform your event planning approach within hours.
Author: Brooke McAlary
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 149266555X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Free Yourself from a Frantic Life and Embrace the Joy of Slow Living What is slow living? It's a way to find happiness by stepping away from the never-ending demands to constantly succeed and acquire more and more. It's easy to get stuck in the carousel of frantically wanting, buying, and upgrading the things in your life. The philosophy of simple living is about finding the freedom to be less perfect and taking time to enjoy the pure joys of life: a walk in the forest, sharing laughter with family, a personal moment of gratitude. Reconnecting with the living world can help you integrate moments of peace, joy, and mindfulness into an otherwise rapid life. Simple living: After being diagnosed with post-natal depression, Brooke McAlary learned about the power of minimalism and found that the key to happiness was a simpler, more fulfilling existence. She put the brakes on her stressful path and reorganized her life to live outside the status-quo, emphasizing depth, connection, and meaningful experiences. Brooke shares the story of her journey alongside practical advice for simplifying in ways that work for your life. In Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World, you'll find: Guidance for forming your own slow life Ways to declutter and de-own Tips to replace messiness with mindfulness Paths forward to answer the question "Where to now?" Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World is an excellent addition to your library if you have read Soulful Simplicity, The Art of Frugal Hedonism, The Year of Less, or Destination Simple.
Author: Anna Lyons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472966783
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast 'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in Mind End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day. From working with the living, the dying, the dead and the grieving, Anna and Louise reveal the lessons they've learned about life, death, love and loss. Together they've created a profound but practical guide to rethinking the one thing that's guaranteed to happen to us all. We are all going to die, and that's ok. Let's talk about it. This is a book about life and living, as much as it's a book about death and dying. It's a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It's as simple and as complicated as that.
Author: Jeff Drew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578826318
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Living Up to Your Eulogy is an outstanding collection of uplifting and inspirational stories and quotations that can change your life. Through the book's three sections, Advice to Live By, Acts of Kindness and Lives Well Lived, it motivates you to ask yourself, "Am I living the kind of life I want to live? What kind of legacy will I be leaving?" The book encourages you to reflect on the path of your life and provides heartening examples of ways to live a life that will be lovingly remembered. This is the perfect gift anytime for friends and family, or for special occasions such as graduation, corporate functions or retirement.
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307414094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.
Author: Timothy Secret
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472575156
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century's three key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing that none of these three figures' discourses offers us a complete account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries. This is one of the first monographs to pay particular attention to the key role any contemporary account of the ethics of eulogy must grant to the revolutionary theoretical work on the materiality of crypts and phantoms offered by the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Their work is shown to supplement major limitations in traditional philosophical accounts of the ethical relation. The account of eulogy as a privileged space where different discourses act on each other under the pressure of responding responsibly to an always singular loss proves itself essential reading not only for those interested in understanding Derrida's overtly political works, but also offers an account of a performative training in negotiating aporias that arise in political society – the result of which is a pedagogy in the art of civility whose relevance today is more timely than ever.
Author: Mimi Emmanuel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975956059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Live Your Best Life by writing your own eulogy includes sample eulogy to-be, templates and reverse engineer how-to's. This book will change your life, for sure. Read this short one-hour-book to change your life for the better. . "A WELL WRITTEN BOOK, A SUPERB IDEA" . HOW TO LIVE A WONDERFUL LIFE? WRITE YOUR OWN EULOGY! Mimi's Eulogy-to-be is a sample of how to write your own eulogy and includes a template with directions for anyone at any stage in their life to create a life filled with joy. Is it possible to design a path to Joy and heal your Life? How do we get the life we want? Sometimes we need a wake-up call to understand that "Our life does not just 'happen, ' but whether we know it or not, it is carefully designed by us as quoted from Dr Covey's bestseller. . This is what happened for Mimi Mimi's appendix had ruptured, septicemia was spreading through her abdominal wall. Surgeons decided against operating, citing a 3 in 5 chance of an adverse outcome. Hideous pain relentlessly pulsated through her body whilst her daughter continuously refused for morphine to be administered. My Story of Survival explains what happened when her eldest daughter received a premonition a couple of weeks before Mimi's medical emergency admission to hospital. It is now nearly ten years later and Mimi is thriving. One essential component of her recovery was her change of mindset which came about when her Guardian Angel kicked her bum and wrote her eulogy. 'Is this how you would like to be remembered?' This powerful meditation became the thought she went to bed with and the thought she woke up with. 'Hell no!' She did not want to be remembered for her untidy drawers, her failures, her decline in social status, poor health, broken relationship, loss of home and fortune. Manifest your dreams How does she want to be remembered? Her aspirations and dreams are written up in her eulogy to-be. It doesn't matter if you believe in angels or not. 'Something or someone' in the universe listens in when we write down our deepest desires and wishes as if they have already happened. And there is a response and 'things' happen. Good things mainly. How did she recover? After Mimi's Eulogy to-be was written, she's become a bestselling author and her books have listed #1 bestseller in more than 40 categories on Amazon. Now Mimi is sharing her formula so that others can also recover from life's inevitable knocks and bumps in the road and thrive and live their best possible life. A Eulogy to-be cuts through all the fluff in no time and as such is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to turn things around NOW! At mid-life Mimi felt that time was running out and she needed a quick fix that would easily and rapidly impact her life in a positive way. Writing her eulogy to-be made a tremendous impact in Mimi's life and community. For inspiration on how to write your own eulogy to-be read Mimi's. And also her daughter's which arguably could well be 'The Best Eulogy Ever Written, ' when the time arrives. In addition read famous eulogies such as The Rev. Mychal Judge by the Rev. Michael Duffy and Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi's Funeral Eulogy by Jawaharlal Nehru. Diana Spencer by her brother Charles Spencer, Space Shuttle Challenger Crew by Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey, Steve Irwin by Bindi Irwin, Steve Jobs by Mona Simpson, The Rev. Clementa Pinckney by President Barack Obama, Graham Chapman by John Cleese, Lorna Colbert by Stephen Colbert and Richard Nixon by Bill Clinton. Your Story creates a legacy; make it the best it can be! Yes, you can continue drifting through life and allow things to 'happen to you.' Or you can reverse engineer your life, grab hold of it and 'make it behave!' There is something miraculous about sharing your dreams and aspirations with the universe; Angels listen in...
