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Motivation for Current and Aspiring Endurance Challenge Athletes Vol. 1: Consolidated wisdom from extreme endurance athletes who have been there and done that (Volume 1)

The world of adventure racing and obstacle course races has exploded in the past few years. This rapid expansion has resulted in a number of heavy hitting companies emerging as the standard bearers for difficulty and innovation in this newly minted ‘sport’. While all of them are different in their own way, they center around the objective of getting people outside of a usual or expected setting, pushing some personal boundaries, and in the end allow participants the opportunity to surprise themselves with their ability to overcome their predispositions. One of the facets of these challenges that makes them so hard and interesting is the variability not only between event brands but within the events themselves. These challenges can combine running, load carrying, rope climbing, swimming, dynamic lifts, neck deep mud, sleep deprivation, and hunger all in the same event! This multifaceted nature also makes these sorts of events somewhat overwhelming to prepare for, especially for the uninitiated. But because of this variability, any but the very best and most detailed ‘how to’ book (more like encyclopedia) could hope to prepare people completely. So what to do? Well I don’t have all the solutions (and that is sort of the point of this book) but I figure I can take a stab at helping out those interested by utilizing a learning technique that has never failed me yet: asking those who have gone before you for advice. You can study a task until your eyes itch but sometimes the best information comes from the person in front of you who just successfully completed the task without breaking a sweat.

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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Audie Award Finalist, Business/Educational, 2013

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As bestselling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.

For those who slept through Stats 101, this audiobook is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis. He clarifies key concepts such as inference, correlation, and regression analysis, reveals how biased or careless parties can manipulate or misrepresent data, and shows us how brilliant and creative researchers are exploiting the valuable data from natural experiments to tackle thorny questions.

You’ll encounter clever Schlitz Beer marketers leveraging basic probability, an International Sausage Festival illuminating the tenets of the central limit theorem, and a head-scratching choice from the famous game show Let’s Make a Deal—and you’ll come away with insights each time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer fun that turned Naked Economics into a bestseller, Wheelan defies the odds yet again by bringing another essential, formerly unglamorous discipline to life.

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Self-Empowerment: Getting What You Want from Life (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

Self-empowerment works from the inside out. It is more than an attitude, it is an overall feeling of effectiveness. SELF-EMPOWERMENT will inspire the reader to reach his or her desired level of excellence with tips on how to foster mutually supportive working relationships as well as how to feel more comfortable with being accountable for making decisions. This book is meant to help employees develop a sense of ownership in their jobs and in their organizations to achieve personal and professional success.

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Sales Success: Motivation From Today’s Top Sales Coaches (Audio Success)

Audio Success Series
Sales Success
Motivation from Today’s Top Sales Coaches

It’s a multi-session motivational retreat in a box! And with Sales Success on 14 audio compact discs, you’ll have unlimited access to the world’s top sales motivators any time you want. From networking to negotiations, the Sales Success audio suite offers hours of inspiration and practical steps to power-up your influence while building and solidifying your client base. Featuring a DVD bonus from noted business author and marketing PhD, Tony Alessandra, and comprising an award-winning faculty of international speakers with their own rosters of Fortune 500 clients, Sales Success on audio CD functions as both a proactive master class for novice salespeople, and continuing education for seasoned sales professionals.

Featuring: 14 dynamic speakers. 14 audio discs. 1 bonus DVD. Added Bonus: Store all your discs in the convenient carrying case – included inside!

• Chris Widener
• Bob Burg
• Don Hutson
• Ron White
• Denis Waitley
• Zig Ziglar
• George Walther
• Tom Hopkins
• Dianna Booher
• Patricia Fripp
• Jim Rohn
• Albert Mensah
• Dr. David Palmer
• Laura Stack

All the techniques of effective sales, from cold call to closing!

CD 1
Zig Ziglar
Selling: The Proud Profession
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Author, international speaker, and personal development trainer, this versatile authority is considered the leader in motivational coaching and personal growth.

Subjects covered:
• Salespeople & the Economy: the vital connection
• The best deal for customers
• “Sales Professional”: wear the name with pride
• Integrity: the key to sales success

CD 2
Tom Hopkins
Highlights of the Perfect Sales Process
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Cut through the hype with the how-to strategies and up-to-the-minute tactics imparted by this world-renowned sales expert and best-selling author whose first book has been translated into 10 languages.

Subjects covered:
• Finding new business
• Presentation skills to involve the client
• Addressing client concerns
• Closing the sale & long-term relationships

CD 3
Denis Waitley
Acres of Diamonds
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Enrich yourself with these priceless gems from this respected productivity consultant who has counseled business and athletic achievers for over 25 years, from boardrooms to locker rooms.

Subjects covered:
• Self Esteem: The 4 legs
• Building self-trust
• Letting go of fear
• Core values

CD 4
Chris Widener
Secrets of Influence
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Let the man who has shared stages with U.S. Presidential candidates and pro athletes share with you the same leadership secrets he has revealed to executives at GE and Harvard Business School.

Subjects covered:
• Conscious & subconscious truth
• Taking your influence to the next level
• Being the person people want to follow
• Using influence to shape tough decisions

CD 5
Ron White
Improve Your Memory, Double Your Sales
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Tap into your latent brainpower, with tips from the Guiness World Record-holder for memorizing a 28-digit number in 1 minute and 15 seconds.

Subjects covered:
• Perfect recall of names & faces
• Complete product knowledge at your fingertips
• Remembering all the details from training sessions
• Presentations: the art of the high-impact open & close

CD 6
Jim Rohn
The 5 Keys to Understanding Your Marketplace
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Share the field-tested principles of the man considered, for over 39 years, to be America’s foremost business philosopher.

Subjects covered:
• Personal development in sales
• Behavior in the market

CD 7
Laura Stack
Time Management Secrets of Successful Salespeople
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Specializing in productivity improvement for high-stress industries, this international consultant shares her original principles on inform

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A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

With fiery words of wisdom and a passion for justice, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired people everywhere to perform extraordinary acts of courage and ignited one of the most influential movements of the twentieth century. This is the definitive collection of eleven of his most powerful sermons, from his earliest known audio recording to his last sermon, delivered days before his assassination. With introductions by renowned theologians and ministers including Reverend Billy Graham and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, filled with moving personal reflections and firsthand accounts of the events surrounding each sermon, A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT is Dr. King’s living voice today — an irresistible call that resonates and inspires the greatness in us all.These 11 historic sermons–some complete recordings of entire addresses, others reconstructed from various church services–make plain why Martin Luther King Jr. considered his “first calling and greatest commitment” to be a preacher of the gospel. As an orator he is second to none, drawing his audience in with an urgency that resonates through every soaring cadence of his familiar, powerful voice. Using insights from psychology, philosophy, and the Bible, he appeals to the heads as well as the hearts of his congregations, explaining that personal and social change can only be effected by adopting a morality of love in service of God and humankind. While King’s concern for social justice is a common theme throughout, each sermon is a jewel of literary artistry, as it presents a simple problem, examines its complications, and offers a startling and often challenging resolution. Topics range from “Rediscovering Lost Values,” a caution that scientific progress without moral progress can result only in a step backward for humanity, to “An American Dream,” a wake-up call to the “self-evident truth” of equality proclaimed in the Constitution.

Brief introductions to the sermons from spiritual leaders and friends, including Dr. Joan Campbell, Billy Graham, Dr. Robert Franklin, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offer personal insights into King’s life, work, and legacy. An interesting note from the producers explains how the recordings of the sermons (published in a hardcover companion of the same name) were pieced together. In word and in voice, these are masterpieces of theological literature from one of the world’s great orators, who Robert Franklin rightly says may well be “the greatest religious intellectual of the twentieth century.” (Running time: 8 hours, 6 cassettes) –Uma Kukathas

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Powerful Quotes from Sankara

The quotes in the book Powerful Quotes from Sankara were carefully selected for those who wish to have the Direct Experience of the true Self whose nature is Infinite Eternal Existence-Awareness-Bliss and for those who wish to attain Liberation. That Direct Experience does not occur in the realm of thought or the intellect. The quotes are practice instructions for those who wish to go beyond all theory into the perfect experience that brings all sorrow and suffering to its final end. Adi (the first) Sankara, also known as Sankaracharya (Sankara the Teacher), was one of the most prominent teachers in the religion the west calls “Hinduism.” Hinduism was in a great decline during the time in which Sri Sankara lived and many view Sri Sankara as having saved and revitalized Hinduism. Some of the current teachings that are called the teachings of Non-duality trace their origin to or show a heavy influence from Adi Sankara. All new Georgia 15 type for crisp clear easy reading.

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Teeing Up for Success: Insights and Inspiration from Extraordinary Women

The Executive Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) has blown the lid off a well-kept secret. It’s a secret that women have tried to keep close to the vest for decades – one that has given us a leg up with our bosses and clients, put us on the fast track at work and made us closer to our families. It’s a simple secret, really; the power of golf. For the first time ever, the EWGA has compiled stories of insight and inspiration from extraordinary women on how they have used the game of golf to achieve their goals in their new book, Teeing Up for Success.” The book offers over 30 compelling stories of how golf can make a difference in one’s life. From EWGA CEO Pam Swensen’s “The Power of the Dimpled Ball” to Debbie Waitkus’ “Turning Golf into Gold,” these stories share the most intimate recollections of how the game has contributed positively to their lives and careers. Golf has been an influential tool for many of these ladies. For women like Alice Dye who started playing in their early years to women like B. Camille Williams who took up the game later in life, golf has presented them with countless opportunities. It has been a door opener in their careers as well as their personal lives. They have had the chance to establish many relationships not only personally, but professionally. Golf has given them equality, credibility, and has opened the lines of communication, allowing for easy conversation and providing a great setting for relaxation and fun. Delve into these chapters and enjoy these women’s stories of wisdom, courage, faith and success. Prepare to be inspired by this beautiful compilation woven together by a love for golf. “Teeing Up for Success” is published by the EWGA Foundation, the charitable arm of EWGA.

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Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings from the Coming Crisis

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Valuable insights on monetary policies, their impact on your financial future, and how to protect against them

Written by the New York Times bestselling author team of John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper, Code Red spills the beans on the central banks in the U.S., U.K., E.U., and Japan and how they’ve rigged the game against the average saver and investor. More importantly, it shows you how to protect your hard-earned cash from the bankers’ disastrous monetary policies and how to come out a winner in the irresponsible game of chicken they’re playing with the global financial system.

From quantitative easing to zero interest rate policies, ZIRP to the impending currency wars, runaway inflation to GDP targeting, authors Mauldin and Tepper achieve the impossible by not only explaining global monetary policy and its consequences in plain English, but also making it compelling listening.

•Outlines time-tested strategies for surviving and thriving in these tumultuous times
•Addresses how issues such as quantitative easing, financial repression, currency wars, bubble economies, and inflation impact our everyday lives as well as our financial future
•Written by a team of bestselling authors and experts in this dynamic field

How did we get here and where are we headed? What can you do to insulate yourself against, and profit from, economic upheaval and secure your financial future? Find out in Code Red.

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The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G.K. Chesterton

Beloved Catholic author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a poet, a journalist, a mystery novelist, a people\’s theologian and, some would say, a prophet who only by looking at the world upside-down could see it clearly enough to predict its future.

He was also a wordsmith of the highest order, capable of making words dance with delight upon the page.

The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton is a unique collection of the pithiest and most profound sentences ever to spring from his pen. Editor and renowned apologist Dave Armstrong has scoured Chesterton\’s voluminous writings even the most obscure gathered together his choicest quotes, and meticulously organized them by topic. Sure to delight readers with its wit and charm.

New from Saint Benedict Press.