The highest happiness on earth is marriage. William Lyon Phelps
This precious little book of quotes is studded with gems of wisdom about love, marriage and what it means to find your perfect someone.
Directed at screenwriters (but valuable to all writers) this book offers quotes from some of the best screenwriters, authors, and entertainers of our age. Advice, tips, strategy, and mastery of the craft are quoted in this book. One quote for each day of the year, followed by commentary and advice. This book is a treasure trove of information about the craft of writing and the business of screenwriting.
Affirmations: The Truth About Affirmations, Why They Are Not Stupid, and How to Use Them If you think of Stuart Smalley saying “I’m good enough. I’m smart enough…” when you hear the word “affirmations,” you are not alone. It’s a funny skit, but it has dominated our popular notion of what affirmations are, who uses them, and how they actually work. Affirmations are not stupid—like the title suggests—and this book sets the record straight. Organized into small chapters, which each illustrate the deeper meaning and purpose behind an affirmations practice, this book lays out a game-plan for how to start using your own thoughts to change your life. Put simply, affirmations are ideas, phrases, and words that we repeat to ourselves about the way things are. We do this consciously and unconsciously, internally and externally, all day long. These internal messages guide our decisions, our relationships, and our concepts of self, who we are, and who we can be. Whether these messages are true or not doesn’t matter nearly as much as whether we believe them or not. This is why someone who is intelligent can believe that they are stupid, or why someone who is very personable can believe that they are awkward—it’s not so much what “is” that counts, instead it’s what is believed. And, our beliefs create our perceptions. What we believe shapes our world. What we perceive matters because it tells us what to look for. And when we look for something in the world, we are more likely to find it. By changing the thoughts we think, we change our reality. Developing an affirmations practice is the first step. Written by Zach Carlsen, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who has helped countless people transform their lives from the inside out, this book guides the reader step-by-step through the process of opening up to these big ideas in ways that work.
I have been collecting quotations for many years from a variety of creative thinkers whom I have come across in my readings. Their thoughts about their lives, their creative processes and philosophies on a wide-range of topics have served as both reinforcements to and advancements of my own thinking on creativity and related topics. I have benefited from and enjoyed my internal conversations with these profound thinkers from the past and the present. I decided therefore, to honor their individual strivings and dedication to what was and is meaningful to them in a book of their quotations about creativity. I have learned from them and I hope you will too when you reflect on their “Penguinations & Observations”. Once again, like in my other books in my Creative Thinking Series, my cast of penguins—who have the malleability of representing human characteristics—have invited themselves into this book.
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The classic inspirational parable from the top motivation and marketing trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger—a triumphant tale of personal growth and change that will inspire anyone who has ever wished for a second chance.
What if you were handed a golden ticket that could magically start your life anew?
That question is at the heart of Life’s Golden Ticket. Brendon Burchard tells the story of a man who is so trapped in the prison of his past that he cannot see the possibilities, the choices, and the gifts before him. To soothe his fiancée Mary, clinging to life in a hospital bed, the man takes the envelope she offers and heads to an old, abandoned amusement park that she begs him to visit.
To his surprise, when he steps through the rusted entrance gates, the park magically comes to life. Guided by the wise groundskeeper Henry, the man will encounter park employees, answer difficult questions, overcome obstacles, listen to lessons from those wiser than he, and take a hard look at himself.
At the end of his journey, the man opens Mary’s mysterious envelope. Inside is a golden ticket—the final phase in turning his tragic life’s story of loss and regret into a triumphant tale of love and redemption.
This positive quote dot grid blue notebook journal is ideal to use as a journal, planner or notebook to keep track of your daily tasks and schedule. The dot matrix grid size is 8mm x 8mm (0.31 x 0.31 inches) larger than the typical 5mm matrix to allow easier writing. Printed on high quality stock and sized at 8 x 10 inches, it is wide enough for recording ideas and making plans for your life. Doted Bullet Motivational Quote Journal Full Specifications: -Size : 8 x 10 inches -Premium matte cover design -Printed on high quality white paper interior – Motivational positive quotes design cover -Modern and trendy layout -8mm x 8mm dot grid size for comfortable writing -132 dotted bullet pages on white paper -Dot Opacity 25%
For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called “a true inspiration” by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is.
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends – what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school – we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
In Factfulness, professor of international health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective – from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.
Do you want 250 affirmations about attracting wealth?
This book could be the answer you’re looking for…
You are what you think, said Earl Nightingale in his famous book “The Strangest Secret”. You become what you think about most of the times.
The goal with Affirmations for Wealth: 250 Positive Affirmations About Living in Abundance Now and Attracting Money is to leave you feeling empowered. This book can help you if you want to live in a state of abundance. Furthermore, by using the affirmations within this book, you’ll hopefully be able to spot opportunities for creating wealth that you were unable to see before.
This book includes:
A Few Words About Using Affirmations Effectively50 Gratitude Affirmations50 Abundance Affirmations50 Affirmations about Attracting Money100 Success and Wealth AffirmationsGet the book now to discover 250 powerful affirmations!
With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com Rachel Hollis helps listeners break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.
Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.
Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.
From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son’s request that she buy a necklace to “be like the other moms”, Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.
