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Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters

Empower yourself in today’s highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond.

At age eleven, Jessica Markowitz learned that girls in Rwanda are often not allowed to attend school, and Richards Rwanda took shape.

During his sophomore year of high school, Zach Steinfeld put his love of baking to good use and started the Baking for Breast Cancer Club.

Do you wish you could make a difference in your community or even the world? Are you one of the millions of high school teens with a service-learning requirement? Either way, Be a Changemaker will empower you with the confidence and knowledge you need to affect real change. You’ll find all the tools you need right here—through engaging youth profiles, step-by-step exercises, and practical tips, you can start making a difference today.

This inspiring guide will teach you how to research ideas, build a team, recruit supportive adults, fundraise, host events, work the media, and, most importantly, create lasting positive change. Apply lessons from the business world to problems that need solving and become a savvy activist with valuable skills that will benefit you for a lifetime!

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Mary Engelbreit 2015 Deluxe Wall Calendar: Laughing Matters!

  The twelve, never-before-seen illustrations featured in the Laughing Matters! 2015 Wall Calendar show Mary Engelbreit’s sense of humor and are guaranteed to generate lots of laughs throughout the year.

 Packaged in its own full-color decorative envelope and printed on responsibly forested paper, this calendar also offers plenty of room to jot down important events and special occasions.

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Walking the Walk: Putting the Teachings into Practice When It Matters Most

You’ve studied the teachings and learned the practices-but out in the real world, how well do you embody and express the truths you’ve worked so hard to discover? How do we actually put into practice all the good advice we’ve been given? Created to help us respond with compassion and awareness when the skills and insights we’ve acquired are put to the test, Walking the Walk brings us a wholly practical new audio program from the one and only Pema Chödrön.

 

The teachings on these CDs are not about perfection or setting up unrealistic standards for ourselves. Applicable in both good and difficult times and suitable for both new and longtime students, here are some of Buddhism’s most fundamental and profound lessons for navigating with wisdom the delicate steps we must take on the spiritual journey.   

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8 Reasons Your Life Matters

If I were to disappear, would anybody notice? Each of us has asked that question in dark, honest moments. In his first nonfiction book, 8 Reasons Your Life Matters, bestselling author John Herrick combines personal struggles with biblical insight. Injecting eight chapters with humor, memoir moments, and a postmodern perspective on life, Herrick shares eight reasons your life matters: Your Life is More Permanent than Your Struggles God Sees You Differently than You See Yourself You Have a Destiny You are Remembered, not Forgotten You Were Someone’s First Pick Your Absence Would Leave a Permanent Hole People Need to See You Overcome You are Loved and Valued Eight solid reasons to give life one more chance. Eight reasons your life matters. Join John Herrick, author of the novels From The Dead and The Landing, and discover fresh purpose for your life.

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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal’s wildly popular course “The Science of Willpower,” The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:
Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. Temptation and stress hijack the brain’s systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. Willpower failures are contagious—you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­—but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

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Motivation Matters and Interest Counts: Fostering Engagement in Mathematics

Why do smart people disengage from mathematical pursuits… and how can we reverse the trend?

This book is designed to be the go-to source for information on mathematical motivation. It presents the full body of research on motivation in a useful, interesting, and provocative matter.

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Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters

Wall Street Journal best-selling author Jon Acuff reveals the steps to getting unstuck and back onto the path of being awesome.

Over the last 100 years, the road to success for most everyone has been divided into predictable stages. But three things have changed the path to success:

Boomers are realizing that a lot of the things they were promised aren’t going to materialize, and they have started second and third careers.

Technology has given access to an unprecedented number of people who are building online empires and changing their lives in ways that would have been impossible years ago.

The days of “success first, significance later,” have ended.

While none of the stages can be skipped, they can be shortened and accelerated. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging, because things like fear only bother you when you do work that matters. The good news is Start gives readers practical, actionable insights to be more awesome, more often.

 

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Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most

An inspiring introduction to the most important lesson for today s busy world:
the take-away is to take away.

All we can hope to accomplish by paying attention is to learn to live with the mystery, become more comfortable with not knowing and try to enjoy life s uncertainty. Every day is a gift, but we often squander it by missing what matters most.
from the Introduction

Every day we are faced with choices that entail saying no and frankly we re not very good at it. Whether it s the desire to please, get ahead, accumulate or impress, our lives have become so full and so busy that it is hard to determine what we really need and what s really important to us.

The purpose of this book is to help you regain control of the things that matter most in your life. It taps timeless Jewish wisdom that teaches how to hold on tightly to the things that matter most while learning to let go lightly of the demands, worries, activities and conflicts that do not ultimately matter. Drawing insights from ancient and modern sources, it helps you identify your core values as well as the opportunities that do not reflect those values, and that you can learn to pass up. It also shows you how to establish a disciplined practice to help you adhere to your choices.

Whether it s letting go of resentment, learning to say no at work or to your loved ones, downsizing your diet or asking less of the earth, this book will help you distinguish between the trivial and the profound.

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Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters

Some people spend their lives reacting to what life hands them, while others craft life to fit their goals. Author Phillip C. McGraw, who is a psychologist but describes himself as a strategist, is determined to make sure that his readers are the creators of their lives, not created by their lives. By accepting that you are personally accountable for every element of your life, McGraw says, you can erase the negative “epidemic behaviors” (found in all of American society: denial, false assumptions, inertia, deceptive masking) in your life and reach your goals.Written in a tough-love, sometimes cantankerous tone, this self-help book is not for those looking to explore their inner child or visualize away negative energy. No, this is pull-yourself-up-by-the- bootstraps advice from someone who’s done just that. McGraw opens with a scene describing how he helped Oprah Winfrey survive–and win–the 1998 “Mad Cow” lawsuit in Texas, when she was having difficulty coping with the reality of what was happening to her. He helped her face the facts about the lawsuit, after which she was better able to participate in crafting a strategy to win it.McGraw first forces you to take a good hard look at who you are by dissecting your personality. It may be painful to realize that you fall into the “Porcupine” or “Perfecto” or any of the other personality types McGraw delineates, but here it’s true that there’s no gain without pain, because (Life Law No. 4) “You Can’t Change What You Don’t Acknowledge.” He then describes in depth all 10 “Life Laws”–the rules by which the world plays–that he learned the hard way. Laws such as “You Either Get It, or You Don’t,” “Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured,” and “You Have to Name It to Claim It” make up the bulk of the book and McGraw’s realist philosophy.If you learn and abide by the Life Laws and go on to create a Life Strategy, McGraw claims you will not only know yourself better and eliminate negative behaviors, you will also know how to reach any goal you set for yourself. –Stefanie DurbinAuthor and reader Phillip McGraw is at the forefront of a group of self-help gurus rethinking Americans’ decade-plus-long celebration of victimhood. Calling himself a realist, he outlines 10 ways to take responsibility for and change your life. His reading mirrors the style of the weekend motivational seminars he conducts, designed to spark the listener into action. The lively pace crackles with such gems as, “My dad had taught me there are times in life where you just don’t want to miss a good chance to shut up.” While tape 1’s side A bogs down during an account of Oprah Winfrey’s beef-industry battles, side B dives quickly into the meat of the audiobook, featuring anecdotes from McGraw’s own life and the 10 “Life Laws”–the rules by which McGraw believes the world plays. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) –Kimberly Heinrichs