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The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? 

Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models such as Nelson Mandela, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Carli Lloyd, Steph Curry and Michelle Obama. Kwame Alexander also provides his own poetic and uplifting words, as he shares stories of overcoming obstacles and winning games in this motivational and inspirational book just right for graduates of any age and anyone needing a little encouragement.

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Quotes of successful people: Rules of the richest people in the world (Plus 9 Success Factors For Personal Growth)

The world’s most successful people are known and celebrated for all different things. Some are famous for their skills and talents, while others are distinguished by their courage or profound impact on society. But one thing many of the world’s most successful people have in common is their ability to inspire others. In this book contains are the best inspirational quotes and rules from highly successful people. They will help you not only to improve your communication skills, goal setting skills, and skills of influence, but will also help you to conquer any internal blocks, such as fear, anxiety, and indecision.

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Wake Up! Break Rules!: It’s Time To Man Up & Live Your Destined Life

Are you tired of doing all the “right” things and still struggling for fulfillment in your stereotypically successful life?

Business consultant and speaker Charlene Gilman was fed up with it too. So, after years of working in the financial services industry, the corporate consultant chased her bliss and shifted her focus to coaching others in the most vital aspects of life. Gilman, using her personal experiences and those of her clients as a firm foundation, details the steps to evaluating your lifestyle for how it empowers your ideals—or not. She dives into cornerstones of a satisfying life:

Career Finance Education Relationships Spirituality Community Recreation Hope

For added insight, Gilman consults psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Felicia Williams, mind-body-health expert Laura Stout, financial expert Trevor Mickelson, and relationship expert Marci Graham of the Human Awareness Institute.

Wake Up! Break Rules! includes instructions and worksheets to help you

change your habits and mind-set for good; train your mind to remove doubt and fear; build satisfying personal, family, and career relationships; nurture your relationship with yourself; develop emotional intelligence; release your inner struggle; and analyze your routines and move into a state of constant development.

Dive in, and chase your destiny!

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There Are No Rules but Yours: Empowerment to Become Your Most Confident Self with the Manifesting Princess Mindset (Volume 7)

It’s so important to know what your rules are for living your life! After all, it is your life, so it has to be your rules! In this seventh book of the “Manifesting Princess” series of books, the Author guides you to recognize and infuse yourself with the empowering mindset of being a Manifesting Princess, so that you can become your most confident self. Anything but a rule-breaker, but always challenging them, April Beam is the best-selling Author of the “Manifesting Princess” series of books, which focuses on empowering women to live better lives by helping them to raise their self-esteem and self-worth. Becoming a Manifesting Princess is an attitude that spills into a mindset of how to live your life in the highest form, including taking this mindset as your foundation for your lifestyle and your way of life. As you believe more highly of yourself and therefore begin to attract better things and people into your life. Although, she is not one to shun the spotlight, the Manifesting Princess is never on an ego trip, but instead takes the road usually less traveled, and sets the example of how to live in our noisy, self-absorbed world, with graceful elegance and class. April believes that we “rise by lifting others” and weaves that message throughout her “Manifesting Princess” books. Step into your power and become the woman you have always wanted to be, beginning with reading this book and sharing it with your friends!

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Rules for a Knight

It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield.

“Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to me when I die? Whatever well our lives are drawn from, it is deep, wild, mysterious, and unknowable.…” Rules for a Knight is many things: a code of ethics; an intimate record of a lifelong quest; a careful recounting of a knight’s hardest won lessons, deepest aspirations, and most richly instructive failures; and an artifact, a relic of a father’s exquisite love.

Drawing on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, on literature and poetry, and on the great spiritual and political writings of our time, Ethan Hawke has written a parable that―in the story of a young man’s journey toward a life of authenticity and meaning―captures the instinctive movement of the heart toward truth and beauty. Rules for a Knight has the appeal of Arthurian legend; the economy of Aesop; and the vitality, intelligence, and risk-taking that could only emanate from Ethan Hawke.

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“Dance First. Think Later”: 618 Rules to Live By

Timeless in their wisdom, thought-provoking in their message, surprising in their truth and memorable in their originality, the right words can give direction, inspiration, and sometimes a tangible boost onto the right path. For example, Steve Jobs once read “Stay hungry Stay foolish” on the back cover of The Whole Earth Catalog, and those four words came to guide his life.

Created by Kathryn and Ross Petras, connoisseurs of quotes, whose books and calendars have over 56 million copies in print, “Dance First. Think Later.” is a collection of the greatest life wisdom from an unexpected group of speakers, doers, and thinkers. There are 618 rules to live by―funny, sly, declarative, thoughtful, offhanded, clever, and always profound:

“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” ―Roald Dahl

“If everything is under control, you are going too slow.” ―Mario Andretti

“Never make a credit decision on a beach.”―Victor J. Boschini

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”―Samuel Beckett

“The only time to eat diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook.” ―Julia Child

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” ―Mother Teresa

And: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”―Oscar Wilde

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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

The retired four-star general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model

Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly superior resources, manpower, and training of the U.S. military, Al Qaeda had an advantage because of its structure as a loose network of small, independent cells. Those cells wreaked havoc by always staying one step ahead, sharing knowledge with each other via high-tech communications.

To defeat such an agile enemy, JSOC had to change its focus from efficiency to adaptability. McChrystal led the transformation of his forces into a network that combined robust centralized communication (“shared consciousness”) with decentralized managerial authority (“empowered execution”).

Now he shows not only how the military made that transition, but also how similar shifts are possible in all kinds of organizations, from large companies to startups to charities to government agencies. In a world of rapid change, the best organizations think and act like a team of teams, embracing small groups that combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share what they’ve learned.

McChrystal and his colleagues explain their process for helping organizations embrace this model. They also share fascinating research and examples from settings as diverse as emergency rooms and NASA’s mission control center.

Read by Paul Michael. Introduction and recaps read by General Stanley McChrystal.

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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

From the visionary head of Google’s innovative People Operations–a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring the best and brightest succeed.
“We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It’s not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.” So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live.

Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and with a profound grasp of human psychology, Bock also provides teaching examples from a range of industries–including companies that are household names but hideous places to work, and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history’s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into delightfully counterintuitive principles that are easy to put into action, whether you’re a team of one or a team of thousands.

Cleaving the knot of conventional management, some lessons from WORK RULES! include:
Take away managers’ power over employees Learn from your best employees–and your worst Only hire people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it’s more fair!) Don’t trust your gut: use data to predict and shape the futureDefault to open: be transparent, and welcome feedbackIf you’re comfortable with the amount of freedom you’ve given your employees, you haven’t gone far enough WORK RULES! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.

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Jack Reacher’s Rules (Jack Reacher Novels)

Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and an introduction from Lee Child himself, this one-of-a-kind book compiles timeless advice from maverick former army cop Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s blockbuster thrillers and now the star of a major motion picture.
 
My name is Jack Reacher.
No middle name, no address.
I’ve got a rule: People mess with me at their own risk.
 
You don’t have to break the rules if you make the rules. Case in point: Jack Reacher, the two-fisted, quick-witted, “current poster-boy of American crime fiction” (Los Angeles Times). The brainchild of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, Reacher is a freelance troubleshooter with a mysterious past—and a serious passion for justice.  Now the hard-won knowledge and hard-hitting strategies of fiction’s toughest tough guy are within every thriller reader’s reach—in a rapid-fire rundown of the trade secrets, tried-and-true tricks, and time-honored tactics that separate the man in the street from the man to beat.
 
Rule 1. When in doubt, drink coffee.
Rule 2. Never volunteer for anything.
Rule 3. Don’t break the furniture.
Rule 4. Only one woman at a time.
Rule 5. Show them what they’re messing with.

Please note: Jack Reacher’s Rules is a compilation of advice, wisdom, and facts from the Jack Reacher series of novels by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. It features an introduction by Lee Child, but is not a Jack Reacher novel.