Category: Empowerment

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The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self-Publish Effectively

Anyone can publish a book and become an “author,” but if you want to become a successful author with a profitable publishing career, you need a clear, step-by-step guide to help you develop book ideas that sell. In The Author Training Manual, expert editor and book coach Nina Amir reveals the exact process successful authors have used to create business plans and proposals for their books and teaches you how to view your ideas through the eyes of acquisitions editors and literary agents.

Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, plan to traditionally publish or self-publish, The Author Training Manual provides you with the tools you need to achieve your goals and become the author publishers want. Inside you’ll find concrete steps, evaluations, sample business plans, in-depth training activities, editor and agent commentaries, and much more–all designed to help you stand out, from the slush pile to the shelf.

“Among the myriad of books written about the business of writing and publishing, Nina Amir’s The Author Training Manual is the first I’ve seen that combines all of the elements necessary to learn how to be an actual (rather than ‘aspiring’) writer.” – Brian Felsen, President, BookBaby

“The Author Training Manual teaches you to produce a business plan for your book and to evaluate that plan through the lens of acquisitions editors–essential knowledge for any aspiring author.” – Rick Frishman, best-selling author of the Author 101 series

“This excellent book is loaded with practical, proven techniques you can use continually to become a ‘high-earning’ author as well as a top seller.” – Brian Tracy, author of Unlimited Sales Success

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Economic Stress: Harsh Truths and Keys to Empowerment

Economic Stress – Harsh Truths and Keys to Empowerment (2013) is a 13 chapter book that captures the personal stories of people who are facing challenges meeting their financial obligations because of job loss, not enough work, job instability or low wages and the impact this has on their well-being. Using their own words, stories of economic stress are shared in the first four chapters. These include some of the experiences of a civil engineer who wakes up swinging because of the economic stress that he is experiencing, a middle class family that lives paycheck to paycheck, a single mom who is trying to cope with the prospect of being unemployed for the first time in her career, and a highly educated professional who has not been able to find work for more than three years. The remainder of the book identifies strategies that could help a person or a family address economic stress more effectively by exploring issues such as: (1) managing bill collector demands for the mortgage, rent, car note, utilities and credit card payments by being proactive rather than reactive; (2) seeking social support and asking for help; (3) understanding how the job applicant process can work; (4) building relationships rather than networking; (5) knowing how to attract mentors and sponsors to increase the likelihood of finding employment; (6) changing your mindset to make your life better; and (7) entrepreneurship. A major question that is asked in this book is whether or not it may be time to redefine what the American Dream means in the 21st century. Is it home ownership with big salaries, and an abundance of disposable income and tangible items? Is it having a more frugal lifestyle that embraces health, greater peace of mind and autonomy? Or, is it being a part of a loving, strong, supportive family that has the capacity to endure and thrive? Economic Stress – Harsh Truths and Keys to Empowerment encourages the reader to examine these issues in a way that could help to promote a different outlook and also enhance a person’s or family’s quality of living.

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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
 
At the origin of Western philosophy stands Plato, who got about as much wrong as one would expect from a thinker who lived 2,400 years ago. But Plato’s role in shaping philosophy was pivotal. On her way to considering the place of philosophy in our ongoing intellectual life, Goldstein tells a new story of its origin, re-envisioning the extraordinary culture that produced the man who produced philosophy.
 
But it is primarily the fate of philosophy that concerns her. Is the discipline no more than a way of biding our time until the scientists arrive on the scene? Have they already arrived? Does philosophy itself ever make progress? And if it does, why is so ancient a figure as Plato of any continuing relevance? Plato at the Googleplex is Goldstein’s startling investigation of these conundra. She interweaves her narrative with Plato’s own choice for bringing ideas to life—the dialogue.
 
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multicity speaking tour. How would he handle the host of a cable news program who denies there can be morality without religion?  How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a tiger mom on how to raise the perfect child? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato’s brain, argues that science has definitively answered the questions of free will and moral agency? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowd-sourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher’s depth and a novelist’s imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on the modern world.

(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)

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Qigong Empowerment: A Guide to Medical, Taoist, Buddhist and Wushu Energy Cultivation

Qigong Empowerment is the most unique and complete volume ever written in the English language on qigong (Chi Kung). This volume can be used for attaining better health, for healing, for gaining extraordinary power, and for spiritual development. This volume consists of five books which covers: – Traditional Chinese Medical theories and qi cultivation methods. – Taoist methods to foster Essence, Qi, and Spirit. – Buddhist Esoteric Abilities of the Body, Speech, and Mind. – Emitting, Absorbing, and Healing Qigong. – Wushu (martial arts) Iron Shirt training. Qigong (Chi Kung) has been an integral part of Chinese culture since ancient China. High level qigong masters have always been respected and held in high esteem in Chinese society. Qi is a Chinese term used to refer to all types of energy. It is the intrinsic substance or the vital force behind all things in the universe. It is the medium between and within all material substances. We are all immersed in it. The term gong refers to the power to produce an effect, an attainment of, or an accomplishment that is achieved with steady practice. Loosely, qigong can be translated as the attainment of qi. Healers and the medical society use qigong for healing and preventing illness. Martial artists use qigong for developing incredible strength and abilities. Others use qigong to attain a greater consciousness.

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The Cauldron of Dreams: A Witch’s Book of Divination, Empowerment and Self Understanding Through Dreams

The Cauldron of Dreams is a mysterious and magickal place that exists within each and every one of us. Each night as we sleep, we stir the bubbling cauldron and partake of its enchanted brew, whether or not we have any recollection of the dream visions it paints upon the canvas of our minds as we sleep.

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Reclaim Your Soul: Your Journey to Personal Empowerment

Take back your personal power!
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 1:2 NKJV)

Have you ever wondered…

If everyone wants to succeed, why do so few people become successful?

Can certain relationship patterns prevent me from stepping into my destiny?

Are there habits or behaviors in my life that keep me from fulfilling my purpose?

Develop the skills you need to succeed in life! While The 40 Day Soul Fast focused on the 40 characteristics of an authentic person, now bestselling author and empowerment specialist, Dr. Cindy Trimm delivers her follow-up—Reclaim Your Soul, which focuses on the 40 behaviors of a resilient person.

Learn how to:
• Identify destructive relationships in your life and break free from their harmful impact
• Avoid unhealthy emotional attachments and shield your soul from possible damage
• Unlock your potential and refuse to settle for anything or anyone that pulls you away from fulfilling your purpose
Successful people are resilient people. The key to resiliency is learning how to reclaim your soul each and every day!

 

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Empowerment Selling: STOP selling and START fulfilling your customer’s needs

Empowerment Selling demonstrates the paradigm shift from selling a product or service by having to convince the customer that it’s the best product/service (which, at the extreme, would be high pressure sales) to facilitating the customer in a client-generated solution for a successful outcome which helps build collaborative, ongoing relationships—and a long-term sales win/win strategy. We are presenting a powerful approach we call The 3C Principle: Connect. Clarify. Cultivate. The 3C Principle focuses on the essence of this underlying empowerment philosophy for effective sales versus detailed mechanics or formulated scripts and the inference that the seller knows more than the customer.

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Mending the Net: A Guide to Healing Self and Family

Even if you grew up in a dysfunctional family, you can create a healthy, happy family. The power of the family system is at the core of what we need for a healthy spirit. Examine your own personal foundation and learn how to bring in protection before you begin on your healing pathway. Learn how to liberate yourself into your future by letting go of past family dysfunctions and be in your present. This is an individual and inter-generational story of one woman’s journey of healing and it is an everyman’s story. Within that story is the methodology for all who want to learn new ways to grow and change. Exercises are included in each chapter so that the reader may also heal Self and learn new insights. Gain spirit helpers, build a positive foundation, burn old rules, and learn how to shift from the negative to the positive polarity by using the outlined exercises. Discover new methods for how to do this emotional shift. Take negative childhood experiences and turn them into a healthy self and a healthy family. Achieve an alchemic transformation. Exercises are designed to show you how to transform past dysfunctional patterns into new, healthy patterns. Learn to re-pattern the past and heal the future. Heal old wounds and become lighter and clearer. Learn to communicate with your Higher Self and use these exercises as a catalyst for movement and change. Mending the Net walks you through many exercises on the path of healing so that you can transmute your trauma and hurt and move forward to create a loving family. With new awareness you create a new paradigm that breaks the old and unhealthy patterns from your past and ancestor lineage. Learn how to recognize and break the old pattern of being parentized. Release old negative emotions through writing and experiential exercises. Re-dream your future. New awareness brings in new emotions. This is transmutation. Take old negative harmful thoughts and change them into joy and love. Transmute the emotions of your past experiences. This is true alchemy, changing the base metals of fear into the gold of love. If we change our past disruptive patterns and create new healthy patterns, then we heal ourselves. If we heal ourselves then we can heal our families. If we heal our families, then we can heal the world.

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Student Self-assessment: Assessment, Learning and Empowerment

Student self-assessment as a practice and as a goal in higher education is generally emphasised for academics. This book researches specifically what academics emphasise in their experiences of student self-assessment. The investigation focused on the different ways academics described their understanding and practice of self-assessment. These academics ways of experiencing student self-assessment are subsequently discussed in terms of assessment, learning and power.
Whilst there is much emphasis on student self-assessment as a practice and as a goal in higher education, there is less attention paid to how it is understood and used by academics. This book is about student self-assessment from the perspectives of academics in higher education who had provided their students with opportunities to judge their learning. The investigation focused on the different ways that student selfassessment was experienced by sixteen academics from a variety of disciplines and programs of study. The consequent research findings describe a structure of progressive awareness of meanings and practices of student self-assessment.