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Plunge: Crafting the Uncommon Midlife

Crooked Island, Bahamas. It was in the Bermuda Triangle, Hurricane Alley and had all manner of biting insects. Somehow all Fritz Damler and Mari Anderson saw was paradise. One short year after visiting friends there, they traded their stateside lives for a boat, an oceanside acre and four winters of hand-crafting a new home, and new life.
Plunge in with them as they immerse themselves in upheaval and adventure, sometimes skimming along a calm surface, other times in way over their heads. Told from both points of view (think Venus and Mars in Paradise), the story gives weight to the word impulsive even while showing that life, especially midlife, invites chaos, course correction and change.
Don’t forget your swimsuit, sunscreen and Deep Woods Off.

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Inspirations from France & Italy

In this luxurious new book, best-selling author and acclaimed interior designer Betty Lou Phillips presents fresh and inspiring design ideas from France, Italy, England, Portugal, and beyond, bringing old-world artistry to uptown European glamour. With a chic blend that is traditional yet edgy-and perfect for today’s choice-driven design aesthetic-Phillips’ eighth book caters to sophisticated and wide-ranging tastes, bringing home the warmth of the Tuscan countryside and the vibrant colors of the Mediterranean. Luscious color images illustrate how to create an elegant and well-appointed space in a distinctively personal style.

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Soutache: 30 Gorgeous Bead Embroidery Designs (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Soutache is a decorative braid. Attaching it to a backing and embellishing it with cabochons, crystals, and beads, is a hot, trending technique—and this is the first English-language book dedicated to this fantastic, yet relatively easy craft. Anneta Valious, the world’s top soutache designer, describes the entire process, from sewing methods to making straps to finishing, and provides 25 projects that include necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, barrettes, and more. It’s the perfect guide for beaders, jewelry makers, and general crafters eager to expand their repertoire and take their designs to the next level.

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Motivation (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

As a manager, one of your most important responsibilities is to motivate your employees to do their absolute best. Managers who create positive, rewarding, high-energy environments reduce absenteeism and turnover while dramatically increasing productivity and quality. In “Motivation”, success expert Brian Tracy draws on his decades of experience bringing out the best in others to provide 21 of the fastest, most powerful methods ever discovered for increasing the effectiveness of any individual or group. He reveals how to: ensure employees look forward to coming to work and feel passionate about what they do; challenge them with tasks that allow them to stretch; satisfy their need to feel both autonomous and part of a greater whole; reduce their fear of failure and increase their desire to try; provide the regular feedback they need to succeed; and much more! Most people are just waiting for someone to come along and inspire them to greatness. Packed with proven tools and strategies, this essential guide helps any manager deliver a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart of his or her work team.

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The 8 Pillars of Motivation

The concept in this book is simple: The source of all motivation comes from inside you and everyone can believe and empower this source. The author shows you how to do that in practical actionable steps with the 8 pillars. 

When you buy the book, the author invites you to take advantage of the FREE 21-Step Confidence Building program that she created specifically for those that want to make the ideas in this book into a habit.
The book shows you how to get motivated and stay motivated because that is the key in finding your life purpose, and when you clearly define that purpose, you can stop your obsessive goal-setting (and failing) patterns and move effortlessly towards your desires.

Effortlessly. Not with pain and a lot of “self-discipline” and pushing and shoving. But effortlessly.
When you awaken this source of power inside of you:
You will be motivated to work, to create, to bring ideas to life.
You will be motivated to get healthy and vibrant and get in your ideal shape.
You will be motivated to start that business or write that book.
You will be motivated to get out of debt and build your wealth.
You will be motivated to solve your problems.
You will be motivated to be a role model for your family, friends and community.

The author takes you through the 8 pillars of motivation to help you push past the resistance that comes up when you want to do the things you crave but still get stuck.

When you zone in on your true motivation, you will feel a surge of energy from within.

When you tap into your own natural source of motivation, it will feed on itself and you don’t need outside factors to constantly replenish it.

When you feel this way, you become unstoppable.

In this book, the author tells you about 8 pillars of true motivation that have transformed her life and she articulates how you can do them in your life. These pillars will empower you to forget goals and deadlines and milestones. They will unlock the door to your real potential – what you are really meant to do in life.

So now, with 8 Pillars of Motivation, find answers to your original question: “Where do I find the motivation?” The answer lies within you! The work is in the 8 pillars.
For more on Farnoosh Brock, check out: prolificliving.com.

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm—shattering new way to think about motivation.

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

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Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation

Dr. Joe Tichio, creator of Greatest-Inpsirational-Quotes.com, shares an extraordinary collection of his favorite and most inspirational quotes from around the world and throughout history. The wisdom on these pages will empower and encourage you to live your life to the fullest. Start each day with a powerful dose of wisdom and inspiration as you are guided to take action, overcome fear, boost your self-esteem, create success, enjoy life, claim your inner strength, and make your dreams come true. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -Socrates

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Quotes of Note: Brilliant Thoughts Arranged by Subject

1,947 quotes spanning all time from Aristotle to Wilde. Quotes of Note is the perfect source for over 1,900 verified, fully-referenced quotations, famous sayings, maxims, mottoes, and speeches. From Aristotle to Shakespeare, Quotes of Note contains the most famous, profound, and inspirational ideas of all history, with complete citations. Quotes of Note topics are diverse, covering everything from Achievement, to Women, to Writing Quotes of Note is fully annotated with: * 143 Diverse Topics * Cross-Referenced Subjects * Complete Table of Contents * Complete Authors Index * Fully-referenced Source Index Each author is organized alphabetically within the chapter by last name, followed succinctly by known written works, proverbs, and finally anonymous authors. Each chapter heading also provides a thesaurus for related but distinct subjects contained in the book. The Table of Contents includes all chapters with similar subjects listed in subheadings. The Author’s Index for Quotes of Note is among the most user-friendly reference fields in print today. Each author is carefully referenced by last name, pen name, noble prefix, and noble title. Quotes of Note includes the full name of every author, including middle names. All titles of nobility such as Barons and Dukes are listed after the author’s name, and before their known year of birth and death. The Source Index of Quotes of Note clearly and concisely provides a reference of every possible source for known authors. Quotes of Note is carefully cited with every known author and the original work, speech, or volume it was presented in. Finally, the reference source is easy to use, organized by the author’s last name or pen name.

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Success and Happiness – Quotes to Motivate Inspire & Live by

Motivational quotes to reach your dreams, in a moral, ethical manner. Inspirational quotes to succeed with your integrity and character intact. Paperback edition has extra spacing between quotes and blank pages to write down any thoughts or feelings these quotes may inspire within you.  Quotes organized by real life topics:Honesty and TruthKarmaEthics and MoralityIntegrityCharacterConscienceFairnessPrinciples & ValuesTrust BetrayalHuman NatureAnger and BitternessA Call to ActionDesireDoing what is inside you: ConfidencePersistence and PerseveranceTrying and SucceedingNurture your thoughtsWorkBe Inspired and MotivatedGreat Minds:SocratesPlatoAristotleNietzscheGandhiCiceroEinsteinCamusConfucius