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Elegant Stitches: An Illustrated Stitch Guide & Source Book of Inspiration

Learn all there is to know about silk ribbon stitches, crazy-quilt stitches, composite stitches, and even left-handed stitches. Compact enough to fit in your work basket, the book is spiral bound-leaving your hands free to work.Silk ribbon embroidery utilizes many of the same stitches as more traditional crewel embroidery, but the unique qualities of the ribbon make for a very different look. This beautiful book (conveniently spiral bound to lie flat when working) offers a comprehensive stitch guide and good coverage of all the basics. Each stitch is given a clear diagram, and many also include color photos of a detail featuring that stitch. In addition, Judith Baker Montano presents charming descriptions of what inspired her lovely, elaborate finished pieces, which she calls “free-form stitchery.”

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Stop the drama bus, I’m getting off.: A navigational guide to self empowerment

A navigational guide to self empowerment. Enjoy this guided journey to power through choice. Where the drama bus does not stop for you, nor do you pay it’s fair. A simple practical world of discovery and clarity welcomes you. For all Ages … A millennial #musthave Free bonus chapters for parents and managers

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Strong Women: A Guide to Building Confidence, Self-Esteem & Independence

Right now you may know exactly what you want from your job, your relationships, your life, even the goals you want to achieve, the people you want to meet and the skills you want to learn. You have the desire to improve your life. But there’s something missing — confidence, self-esteem and independence and the truth is there are few factors that impact your life as much as your personal confidence. Without it you remain stuck in a lack of motivation, fear and self-doubt, even as you long for change. But there is a solution. You can learn skills and upgrade your entire life today! Communication and dealing with impossible people will no longer be a stumbling block for you. Many people want to grow in confidence, but they try to do it without a plan. And while most confidence books may make you temporarily feel good, they fail to give you concrete ways to grow. Build a better you with the tools needed to gain your life back and get organized once again! Strong Women is A Guide to Building Confidence, Self-Esteem & Independence. o Mental strategies for forming beliefs that lead to peak performance o Emotional approaches for feeling a deep confidence with better communication skills o Behavioral tactics for creating actions that lead to success and deal with impossible people o Relationship factors to develop and recharges you o How to be a better Spiritual leader with unbreakable confidence by living your purpose and mission www.cherierickard.com

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Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation

Learn to Take Control of Your Life, Through an In-Depth Understanding of Motivation:

What is motivation? Why do we feel totally paralyzed to do certain things, and utterly unable to quit others? Too many people conclude, falsely, that they are just lazy, or lacking in willpower. But what they lack is a correct understanding of their own minds, of motivation, and the way that it operates.

This book is a self-help manual and a rigorous analysis of the psychology of motivation. It will teach you to stop procrastinating, kick your addictions, circumvent laziness, take control of your actions, and achieve your goals, by thoroughly understanding the way your mind works. In it, you’ll learn:

What is the nature of motivation, on its deepest psychological level Why addiction and procrastination are two sides of the same coin Why there’s no fundamental difference between a physical and psychological addiction Why willpower is rarely the solution to anything Why and how emotions motivate

You’ll also learn fourteen powerful strategies for motivating yourself, why they work, and how to apply them to your own life. By the end of this book, you’ll possess all the tools you need to take firm control of your daily existence.

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PURPOSE: The Alignment Guide: 28 Days of Inspiration, Reflection, Intention and Creative Expression. (SPARK: The Radically Authentic Life) (Volume 1)

How are you responding to the changing world? Emotionally? Energetically? Physically? Mentally? Spiritually? Even Financially? Does the weather, the environment, the information, and the rapid acceleration of every aspect of life pull you away from alignment with Purpose and drain your life Spark? Discover a transformational tool and system supporting you now and into the future. Stop searching outside of yourself for Purpose and bring the process back inside. Learn how to align who you are now with what needs to emerge. Become more anchored in your knowingness, abilities, intuitions and gifts. PURPOSE: The Alignment Guide, as a standalone book or as part of Michelle Vandepas’s 9-month life Be-ing system: SPARK- The Radically Authentic Life, is a tool that helps to discern what is true in every moment of every day. Learn how to navigate this more connected, and yet rapidly changing world. This 28-day journey into PURPOSE reveals your essence by gently prodding a deeper internal inquiry using self-assessment exercises, daily reflections, journaling, coloring, doodling and exploring the creative process of self-discovery. It helps align the Soul Contract: what you’re here to do and how you get from here to there to do it. How are you responding to the changing world? Emotionally? Energetically? Physically? Mentally? Spiritually? Even Financially? Does the weather, the environment, the information, and the rapid acceleration of every aspect of life pull you away from alignment with Purpose and drain your life Spark? Discover a transformational tool and system supporting you now and into the future. Stop searching outside of yourself for Purpose and bring the process back inside. Learn how to align who you are now with what needs to emerge. Become more anchored in your knowingness, abilities, intuitions and gifts. PURPOSE: The Alignment Guide, as a standalone book or as part of Michelle Vandepas’s 9-month life Be-ing system: SPARK- The Radically Authentic Life, is a tool that helps to discern what is true in every moment of every day. Learn how to navigate this more connected, and yet rapidly changing world. This 28-day journey into PURPOSE reveals your essence by gently prodding a deeper internal inquiry using self-assessment exercises, daily reflections, journaling, coloring, doodling and exploring the creative process of self-discovery. It helps align the Soul Contract: what you’re here to do and how you get from here to there to do it.

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Improving Motivation and Morale: A Police Leader’s Guide

True leaders don’t just lead, they inspire!

If you think that creating and sustaining a positive, motivated and ultimately thriving work environment in your agency is a insurmountable task, think again.
This revolutionary new book will give you the knowledge you need to prove that it’s not!

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The Parent’s 20 Minute Guide (Second Edition)

The Parent’s 20 Minute Guide helps parents change their child’s substance use. Developed by psychologists at the Center for Motivation and Change, the 20 Minute Guide pulls from Motivational Interviewing (MI), CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to give family members the best tools to help a loved one change their substance use while staying connected and using the power of science and kindness. This guide will help you with such tools as: How to react when your child has been using substances and when he has NOT been using; How to co-parent and collaborate as effectively and smoothly as possible; Getting more of what you want to see from your child and less of what you don’t; How to talk to your child so that you are more likely to be heard; How to take care of yourself all along the way.

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Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity

Step into a lifestyle of collaboration with the Great Creator! The Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal is the practical companion to Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity (Destiny Image). Designed for group or individual interaction, this study guide is packed with thought-provoking questions, engaging exercises, insightful commentary, inspiring reflections, and artistically formatted journal pages. Finding Divine Inspiration has encouraged thousands with the message that God designed each of us for joyful collaboration with Him! God planned good works (and work) for you even before you were born. You have a place in history no one else can fill, and your destiny includes wondrous collaboration with Him. That collaboration ushers His Kingdom creativity into the world. Finding Divine Inspiration is full of practical steps, and exciting biblical, historical, and current examples to help you hear Gods voice and collaborate with Him in your life and work. The Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal will help you process and apply those life-changing concepts with a group or individually. Together, Finding Divine Inspiration and the Finding Divine Inspiration Study Guide and Journal will enable you to embark on a rich journey toward a greater sense of purpose and deeper creative fulfillment–the natural benefits of learning to listen to and collaborate with the Creator God.

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Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer’s Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design – from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

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