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The Changemaker Coloring Notebook: Stress Relief and Inspiration for a Life Lived in the Present Moment

Do you find yourself trying to carve out time to think and reflect, to tune into yourself? Do you love the calm and focus that comes when you are deeply immersed in coloring? Or, perhaps you seek a positivity boost or a return to simpler times. If you answered yes to any of these questions, then The Changemaker Coloring Notebook is for you. Thirty original illustrations are paired with inspirational quotes from The Changemaker Ripple Effect. Lined note pages provide space for a month of journaling or jotting down thoughts and ideas that emerge while drawing. …” I love that the drawings arise from nature images. I find the combination of the quotations and the natural imagery meditative and soothing. What a wonderful combination to help settle the mind and uplift the spirit. —Amy Colvin author of: Cultivating Compassion- Simple Everyday Practices for Discovering Peace and Resilience. …”I love the concept of this coloring book. It inspires you by quotes, allows you to relieve stress by coloring and being creative, and gives you a chance to jot down thoughts, ideas, distractions and your own favorite quotes to reflect on.” —Kathleen Teipner Sandoval, Director of Operations, The Children’s Cabinet & First Lady of Nevada. …”I LOVE Sarah Boxx’s The Changemaker Coloring Notebook. It’s not often that one gets so much sage advice in one place – presented in a way that’s inspiring and loving. So many of these quotes resonated: Ralph Waldo Emerson: “You can’t do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Amelia Earhart: “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” But this isn’t just a book of quotes. It’s a coloring book of magical illustrations, mostly of nature, embedded in a notebook. Space to be inspired, think and reflect. I highly recommend Sarah Boxx’s The Changemaker Coloring Notebook.” —Barrie Atkin, President, Atkin & Associates, LLC

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Present over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

In a culture that values speed, efficiency, image, and busyness, some of us are aching for another way to live: more intentional, more connected. Simpler, slower, richer. Many of us have believed the myth that achievement and success bring us contentment, only to find it’s actually things like connection and meaning, not success and achievement, that provide true peace and genuine happiness.

Present over Perfect is best-selling author Shauna Niequist’s motto for how to live a rich, engaged, and loving life in the midst of what often feels terribly messy and imperfect. Similar in format to Shauna’s previous books, Present over Perfect is a collection of essays that focuses on the journey from frantic and tired to connected and free. Many of us find ourselves busier than we want to be, missing the sweetest moments along the way. We end up resentful and distracted, full of regret and feeling disconnected. Present over Perfect is a hand reaching out to a new way of living – full of grace, space, and connection.

As a wife, mother, friend, and writer, Shauna shares with vulnerability and transparency the reality of living wholly present in our relationships with our families and the others we love and inspires listeners to discover their own paths to this more fulfilling way to do life.

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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

In a culture that values speed, efficiency, image, and busyness, some of us are aching for another way to live: more intentional, more connected. Simpler, slower, richer. Many of us have believed the myth that achievement and success bring us contentment, only to find it’s actually things like connection and meaning, not success and achievement, that provide true peace and genuine happiness.  

Present Over Perfect is bestselling author Shauna Niequist’s motto for how to live a rich, engaged, and loving life in the midst of what often feels terribly messy and imperfect.  Similar in format to Shauna’s previous books, Present Over Perfect is a collection of essays that focuses on the journey from frantic and tired to connected and free. Many of us find ourselves busier than we want to be, missing the sweetest moments along the way. We end up resentful and distracted, full of regret and feeling disconnected. Present Over Perfect is a hand reaching out to a new way of living―full of grace, space, and connection.

As a wife, mother, friend, and writer, Shauna shares with vulnerability and transparency about the reality of living wholly present in our relationships with our families and the others we love and inspires readers to discover their own path to this more fulfilling way to do life.

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Motivation and Power Sources: MAPS to the Present Moment Guide Book

Learn how to discover, identify and create your personal motivation and power sources!

Maps will help you create new ways of thinking that are both uplifting and creative, opening your heart and mind to new possibilities.

You will be shown how to use these powerful, self-help tools to change your thinking, enhance your confidence and build self-esteem.

Most of all, Maps will bring you into the present moment, the conscious Now , where your true power resides.

Your Maps will help you to:

* Stop the “Committee” mind chatter.

* Inspire and uplift yourself and others.

* Bring yourself to conscious awareness.

* Change disempowering thoughts, feelings and moods.

* Enhance gratitude and appreciation.

Maps to the Present Moment is a guide to conscious living. Included are activities for parents and children to do together and classroom activities for teachers and their students.

Maps, your personal motivation and power sources will navigate you from confusion to clarity, from discouragement to hopefulness and they will restore positive thinking and feeling!

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Work Motivation: Past, Present and Future (SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series)

This edited volume in SIOP’s Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors and authors show that motivation must be seen as a multi-level phenomenon where individual, group, organizational and cultural variables must be considered to truly understand it. The book adopts an overall framework that encompasses “internal” – from the person – forces and “external” – from the immediate and more distant environment – forces. It is destined to challenge scholars of organizations to give renewed emphasis and attention to advancing our understanding of motivation in work situations.

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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present in the Life You Have (Thorndike Inspirational)

Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy–an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness–that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor the beauty offered by life’s unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, exposing the reader to life’s multiple dimensions, each one drawn with awe and affection. The Book of Awakening is the result of his journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own. Nepo speaks of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships. Encompassing many traditions and voices, Nepo’s words offer insight on pain, wonder, and love. Each entry is accompanied by an exercise that will surprise and delight the reader in its mind-waking ability.

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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy–an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness–that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor the beauty offered by life’s unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, exposing the reader to life’s multiple dimensions, each one drawn with awe and affection. The Book of Awakening is the result of his journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own. Nepo speaks of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships. Encompassing many traditions and voices, Nepo’s words offer insight on pain, wonder, and love. Each entry is accompanied by an exercise that will surprise and delight the reader in its mind-waking ability.The time when we walk in the shadow of death is, ironically, a time when we feel illuminated by life’s true meaning. Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo has firsthand experience with this mystery–he had cancer. During his arduous recovery, he sought inspiration and guidance that would reflect his growing appreciation of life. Although this daybook is exactly what Nepo longed for as he struggled with a difficult disease, , it can be appreciated by all readers.

This collection of essays, one for every day from January 1 through December 30, offers a poet’s sensibility and sensuality and gives the reader Nepo’s well-harvested wisdom. “Water reflects everything it encounters,” Nepo writes in a May 5 essay. “This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color…. But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are.” After each entry, Nepo offers a short list of suggestions or questions to help carry the essay into the day. There are many inspirational daybooks out there. What sets this one apart is the mature poet’s voice rising from a seasoned soul. –Gail Hudson

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Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace: A Guided Imagery Meditation for Physical & Spiritual Wellness

Publishers Weekly Award, Best Audios

Audie Awards Finalist, Best Original Work

Town & Country, “As Good As It Gets” Issue

 

“Terrific corporate gift!”  —Ann T. Buivid, president, Remington

 

“Highly recommended.”  —Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society

 

“If you can buy just one CD—this is it!”  —Canyon Ranch Living Essentials

 

With a voice described as “liquid,” stress-relief expert Susie Mantell has created a uniquely soothing relaxation experience for men and women in all walks of life.  Like an easy chair, Mantell’s exquisite narration gently releases tension, easing the worry out of sleepless nights. Clinically approved for health-related, work-related, chronic and traumatic stress,  soft music enhances the warm, elegantly packaged narration.  In today’s stressful world, drift into the quiet place where worries dissipate, where healing begins.