Life can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be.

Today’s fast-paced world leaves many of us struggling with extreme emotional highs and lows caused by chemical imbalances in our brains, brought on by the pressures of modern life and constant digital connectivity.

In The DOSE Effect, Neuroscientist TJ Power shares how you can reset and balance your brain chemistry with simple, everyday habits to lead a happier, healthier, and more productive life.

Unlock your brain’s four key chemicals and discover the powers of:

• DOPAMINE to get motivated and stay driven
• OXYTOCIN to build deeper connections with others
• SEROTONIN to boost your energy and mood
• ENDORPHINS to destress and find calm

Your journey to discover God's calling for your life ... starts today

"The expression of your gift is an act of worship to God." -Krista Dunk

You've probably heard that God has a special plan for your life, right? However, you may not have any idea what that plan is or how to discover it. Or maybe you have discovered a Sunday morning calling, but Monday to Saturday feels dry and unsatisfying. Unfortunately, that is a familiar story for too many of us - God's people.

Step Out and Take Your Place gives you the practical, how-to information you need to find out what gifts God has equipped you with and what they're for. Action steps, assessment tools, advice, biblical references, compelling real-life stories, how to seek God for His plan, and much more is included-all designed to help you Step Out and Take Your Place.

It's time to step out. Are you ready?
""In one of the most authentic voices I have ever encountered, Krista delivers the encouragement, inspiration and tools for anyone who has ever struggled with finding purpose, asked "what now or what's next," or trembled over the question, "Who, me?" If you have wondered about your gifts or how to honor them with your life, this is your book. It is a blessing, beginning with page 1." "-Dondi Scumaci, Author of the "Designed for Success" book series

Do you seek to be less reactive, less judgmental, and more understanding of others? Using techniques of active understanding, you can find a healthier way of interacting with the people in your life.

In this self-help guide, retired psychiatrist Charles DeLong shares what he learned after three decades of private practice psychotherapy. He provides theories, examples, and steps to guide you through how to use active understanding to approach yourself, others, and the world.

Using active understanding principles helps us "get beyond ourselves" so that we can stay connected to the external reality. This not only increases our ability to adapt, but is also safer and more satisfying than being dependent upon the environment. What's more, it allows us to grow emotionally, evolve our personalities, and live with personal integrity.

Active understanding teaches us to

- stay in the here-and-now reality

- not take anything personally

- resist narcissistic defaults

- stop judging others

Discover the deeper meaning behind your emotions and learn simple ways of improving your relationships and your life.

Reentering the dating scene after a painful divorce or the end of a long-term relationship can be difficult, if not downright daunting. Though there are numerous how-to guides on how to navigate the dating world, The Apprenticeship to Love is dramatically different. Why? It can help you find the right person at the right time.

Based on a simple, step-by-step program specifically tailored to the love-challenged, this groundbreaking work will teach you how to look for and find a healthy, fulfilling, viable life partner, while having fun and making new friends in the process. Utilizing the principles of focused effort, incremental success, and social networking, you'll learn how to meet and date three members of the opposite sex who will become potential candidates in your search for a mate.

Dr. R. Phillip Colon makes the program easy to learn. Once you develop a better understanding of what qualities characterize your life partner, you will replace your first candidates with new ones several times until you find the person meant for you. By learning and applying new social, emotional, and interpersonal skills, you'll soon access higher-level, more suitable contenders and at the same time, ready yourself for better relationships through personal growth.

Love doesn't have to be complicated or agonizing. Find your happily ever after with The Apprenticeship to Love

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed comes an inspirational book of advice and leadership lessons that Admiral McRaven collected over his four decades as a Navy SEAL.

The title “Bullfrog” is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty. Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community. In the ensuing four years, he served as Chancellor to the entire University of Texas System, with its 230,000 students and 100,000 faculty and health care workers.

During those four decades, Admiral McRaven dealt with every conceivable leadership challenge, from commanding combat operations—including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Phillips, and the raid for Osama bin Laden.

THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRaven’s incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service. Each chapter provides a Make Your Bed-like parable, rich with insights like those featured in his bestselling memoir, Sea Stories, about the specific leadership traits required to be at the top of your game, including:

• Who Dares, Wins
• Run to the Sound of the Guns
• No Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy

THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG is Admiral McRaven’s clear-eyed treatise on the leadership qualities that separate the good from the truly great.

If asked, who among us wouldn't say we were kind people? But kindness is often manifested in feelings of pity or sympathy--especially when others are watching--rather than in deeds. And when it comes down to it, what good does mere feeling do for the world? Your Next 24 Hours is about something much bigger--a lifestyle of kindness, without thought of reciprocation, extended toward every person in our lives, both friend and foe. Through powerful true stories of kindness lived out, this book shows readers the enormous difference they can make through small, doable acts of kindness in their families, communities, workplaces, schools, and churches. It shows how every encounter with another person is an opportunity to be kind--and a chance to change our world. Readers of Your Next 24 Hours will find deep satisfaction and joy as they discover how they can be part of a revolution of kindness that starts with them and reaches out through every person their lives touch.

The ancient Greeks trained in the nude in the gymnasium and also competed in the buff in the Olympic Games – they literally had skin in the game. The ancient Greek word for gymnasium – gumnasia – means to train naked. However, the ancient Greek gyms were not just for physical training but also had dedicated spaces for intellectual exercise, for philosophy, teaching and conversation.

To train naked is to show up just as you are – no pretences, no masks, no BS. We train to compete, we practise in order to nail a presentation. We should also be training to become better human beings, to craft meaningful lives, do work that matters, and to thrive in chaos. Pierre du Plessis’s daily reflections, meditations and practices presented in this book are a call to train naked, to practise for the ultimate marathon, and to have skin in the game.

Train Naked is a curated selection of short reflections – prompts to get skin in the game – on building a meaningful life and doing work that matters. Combined with a selection of ancient practices, such as meditation, Pierre’s thoughts and ideas aim to inspire each reader to take charge, to try, to act, to learn and to do.

The expression "Words have power" holds special meaning for author Helen Evrard. When she found herself under suicide watch in a locked ward after losing everything, while receiving suboptimal care for chronic depression and pain, she discovered the power of positive words. Insightful therapists helped her start on the road to recovery, beginning with the simple process of writing down positive words as she fi lled the empty hours in the hospital with reading.

"Positive Matters" explores eighty words of a deeply affirmative nature, starting with the definition and etymology of each. This is followed by inspirational quotations from both famous and lesser known people statements that can make you see the word from a novel viewpoint. Evrard then presents a short, personal reflection on the word in which she shares the meanings, lessons, and valuable insight that arose out of illness, loss, and renewal.

Intended as a tool to empower personal transformation or to just lift your spirits, "Positive Matters" helps you explore, learn, and investigate the incredible, positive power of words.

I have known Dr. Massey for a number of years. During that time, he had quietly and consistently completed an amazing number of incredible humanitarian projects while conducting a very successful professional life. While serving as the school superintendent of the largest K-8 public school system in California, I asked him how he found the time and resources to help so many of the children in my district. Mind Realignment - Naked Secrets for Building a Better You is his answer to my question. It is a remarkable collection of thought and advice intended to unleash the power within you. I have met many people who enrich the world through serving their fellow man. But very few have succeeded in accomplishing the goals that they set for themselves and almost no one sets the bar as high as Dr. Massey. I urge you to read this book. I will be applying its message chapter by chapter, day by day to my own life and work. Dr. Massey is a tough act to follow, but he has left a trail for us to take, if we will only aspire to making the world a better place.
The Honorable Jean Fuller, PhD.
State of California Assembly Member, 32nd District

If you are looking for practical wisdom, incisive insight, hearty encouragement and wisdom both current and past, look no further Drawing widely from many sources as well as using his own pen, Manzoor Massey has provided us all with what we much need-wisdom for life. This book will, no doubt, bless and inspire and challenge and change you. Randall L. Roberts, Senior Pastor Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
Practical, simple, but provocative tool to realign the minds of all who are willing to part with their unproductive past and experience a more rewarding future. Dr. Massey was vice-president of my corporation. I requested him to apply the wisdom of his book to train my executive teams. If heeded, this book will build better families, better communities and better businesses. Jose Arredondo, Businessman Bakersfield, California
Dr. Massey has written an empowering, uplifting, and inspiring book for us all. Through his many years of experience and study, he has compiled a wealth of valuable wisdom, and he has graciously passed them on to us. I whole-heartedly recommend that you read this book with an open heart and mind and get ready for real "nuggets" of truth that apply to real life, and can be transformational Pastor James Ranger Bakersfield New Life Center Dr. Massey is a keen student of human behavior and its impact on life. In Mind Realignment for Excellence he presents succinct and practical advice for rebuilding your life. Best of all, it illustrates and advocates balance - the very quality that is so easily lost in the juggling of competing priorities that form our daily agendas. The book's format of one chapter per page is best suited for the "baby-boomer - iPod generation."
Lowell C. Cooper, General Vice President General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Washington D. C.

Dr. Massey's "Mind Realignment - Naked Secrets for Building a Better You" is to the serious person what the power-bar is to the devoted athlete. It is full of succinct and powerful statements packed with energy. All it takes to fall upon a pearl of wisdom is to just open a page and look anywhere and it lands on the bull's eye each time. The reflection given to digest it, and the effort spent in applying it, is bound to be rewarded with lasting inner healing.
Devadas Moses, MD, DrPH.
Loma Linda, California

Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful and focused on the essentials. But finding simplicity is not always easy; it isn't just a case of emptying out our closets or trimming back commitments in our diaries. True simplicity requires that we understand the roots of our distractions - and develop a canny respect for the stubborn reasons why things can grow complex and overwhelming. This book is a guide to the simpler lives we crave and deserve. It considers how we might achieve simplicity across a range of areas: our relationships, social lives, work routines and our approaches to possessions and media. Along the way, we learn about Zen Buddhism, modernist architecture, monasteries, psychoanalysis, and why we probably don't need more than three good friends or a few treasured belongings. It isn't enough that our lives should look simple; they need to be simple from the inside. This book takes a psychological approach, guiding us towards less contorted hearts and minds. It suggests that once we truly know who we are and what we want, we will be able to live with far less than we currently believe we need. We have for too long been drowning in excess and clutter from a confusion about our aspirations; A Simpler Life helps us tune out the static and focus on what properly matters to us.