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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem
New York Times and international bestselling author of The Alchemist Paulo Coelho leads you down the path of reflection and imagination with thought-provoking questions, a personal introduction, and beautifully designed quotes from his most popular books, speeches, interviews, and posts.
Journey is for Coelho fans and anyone seeking a space for discovery and inspiration.
“At twenty-one I was as far from hopeful as anyone could get. Maybe as far as you are now.”
These are the words of Christina Baker as she considered her traumatic life: from childhood abuse to troubled teen years, to a descent into substance abuse, she resonates with a lost world who understands first-hand how easy it is to lose hope. Then, just as she was about to go to jail for drug possession, the Hero of Hope, Jesus Christ, came into her life and set her on a completely new path.
If you are weary and doubting, Christina understands. Hope in 60 Seconds will help you to:
- Be encouraged and empowered by someone who has been in a similar place of discouragement and discovered Christ’s authority and love
- Learn how Jesus establishes hope and begin to experience it first-hand in the darkest of circumstances
- Grow in your ability to connect with Jesus and find the hope you have longed for all of your life
- Prove that a connection with Jesus is the ultimate source of hope
The message of Cristina’s life is Jesus, the hope we need and hunger for—a hope that will stand secure in the face of brokenness, loss, sickness, abuse, a brain tumor diagnosis, injustice, and death. In Hope in 60 Seconds, she shares the steps of her journey to encounter, receive, and walk in the hope of Jesus, and offers readers powerful wisdom for how they can take the same journey for themselves.
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Join the Movement. Ditch the Diet.
Who's ready to stop thinking about weight loss? To free their brain from thoughts about ketones, calories, and fasting? Who wants life to be more effortless, energetic, and empowered?
Welcome to a refreshing and gloriously unapologetic conversation about health, fitness, and habits. Award-winning trainer Oonagh Duncan cuts through the wellness clutter to drop some truth bombs: it might not be six-pack abs you're looking for - it might be happiness, confidence, and acceptance. But if losing your belly is what you want, don't let anyone - including yourself - stop you from going after it. And she'll show you how to make it happen.
There's only one major difference between those rare unicorns who have managed to lose weight and the rest of us: their habits. When you acknowledge that following a diet is not getting you anywhere, and you make a few small changes to your everyday routine, you'll find yourself happier and healthy as f*ck.
It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparison and discover
a free and joyful life. Join Pastor Nona Jones--who was recently
featured on GMA3--as she gives you the tools you need to kill
comparison once and for all. Nearly all of us deal with the
struggle of comparison and finding ourselves lacking. But there is
a way to break free from internal and external messages
communicating a lack of self-worth. It starts with identifying the
basis of your urge to compare and ends with securing your identity
to the unchanging confidence of God's love for you. Nona Jones
knows this journey all too well. Throughout her life and in her
career--most recently as an executive for the world's largest
social media company--Nona discovered that despite professional
success, true confidence can only be achieved by defeating toxic
comparison and securing our identity to God's approval alone.
Killing Comparison provides a fresh, biblically rooted perspective
on an age-old human dilemma--the pressure to compare oneself to
others--that the era of social media has exacerbated and
heightened. This timely and necessary guide will help you:
Determine your true source of self-worth Develop practical ways to
conquer daily comparison Learn how to control social media instead
of letting it control you Discover how to accomplish your dreams
without comparing yourself at every turn Identify the root cause
leading you to compare your life to others Through practical
insight and down-to-earth encouragement, Nona helps you avoid the
despair of comparison and pursue a free, joyful life.
Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of
conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's
talent and skill - and not necessarily their passion - that
determines their career path. Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth
College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD. from MIT, contends that
trying to find what drives us, instead of focusing on areas in
which we naturally excel, is ultimately harmful and frustrating to
job seekers. The title is a direct quote from comedian Steve Martin
who, when once asked why he was successful in his career,
immediately replied: "Be so good they can't ignore you" and that's
the main basis for Newport's book. Skill and ability trump passion.
Inspired by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' famous Stanford University
commencement speech in which Jobs urges idealistic grads to chase
their dreams, Newport takes issue with that advice, claiming that
not only is thsi advice Pollyannish, but that Jobs himself never
followed his own advice. From there, Newport presents compelling
scientific and contemporary case study evidence that the key to
one's career success is to find out what you do well, where you
have built up your 'career capital,' and then to put all of your
efforts into that direction.
Discover your true life purpose, open your mind and your heart to
opportunity and potential, and lead a happy, successful life. This
empowering guide will show you that in just 21 days you can let go
of negative mindsets and move past long-term problems, become open
to the joy that is present all around you and find inspiration to
lead the life of your dreams. Dr Wayne W. Dyer was considered to be
one of the world's top spiritual teachers, known worldwide for his
warm, insightful wisdom. In this book, he shares the principles to
success and inner peace, which, if mastered and practised daily,
will align your inner world with the idea that what you desire is
on its way. The easy-to-follow principles in this short book give
you all you need to find a goal in life that is spiritually
fulfilling and overflowing with happiness. Living life with an open
heart and a clear purpose is only 21 days away with these
incredible life-lessons. Studies have shown it takes only 21 days
for a new habit to take root. If there's a skill you've always
wanted to take advantage of, the answer is only a few weeks away
with Hay House's 21 Days series.
For anyone who suffers more anxiety or sadness than is justified by
healthy concern or normal grieving Sticks and stones can break my
bones, but words can never hurt me is an adage we teach our
children to insulate them from the cruel remarks of others. As
adults, however, it's often the words that arise spontaneously from
within-the self-disparagements, disturbing recollections, and
ominous forecasts-that cause us emotional pain and prevent us from
living our fullest and most productive lives. The human brain has
provided us with the technologies that allow us to dominate our
planet, but it is also the source of much unnecessary emotional
distress. Even when we have no good reason to be upset, our brains
can spontaneously flood our minds with disturbing thoughts of past
trauma or future disaster. Much of our unnecessary emotional
distress occurs because our attention is involuntarily drawn to
whatever most angers or frightens us, even when no immediate action
is required and the risk is minimal. Our mood tends to be harmed
much more by each negative thought than it is improved by each
positive one. These two findings constitute what researchers call
the negativity bias, and it's one of the reasons we often struggle
to attain peace of mind: that mental equilibrium in which we accept
both ourselves and our circumstances, without experiencing distress
about something from the past or that might happen in the future.
By becoming more mindful of our thoughts, we can learn to recognize
those that distress and impede us unnecessarily. We can then
respond by identifying, and focusing on, more functional
alternatives. Reviewing, discussing, rehearsing, and roleplaying
functional self-talk can strengthen our ability to reshape both our
mood and our self-image. This focused positivity can serve as the
foundation of our efforts to become more assertive, more relaxed,
healthier, and more connected to the world around us. Focused
Positivity presents a comprehensive and accessible approach to
positive thinking, one that is independent of belief system and
consistent with what science has discovered about negativity bias,
automatic behavior, the impact of self-talk on mood and behavior,
habit change, and even the competition that occurs between the two
hemispheres of our brains. Focused Positivity can provide us with
an accessible strategy that can enhance both success and peace of
mind.
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