This book is intended to help you enhance your common sense (your intuitive decision making skills) as well as your critical thinking skills (your rational planning and decision-making skills). A big claim, to be certain, but undoubtedly a valid one. As you are aware, your common sense, and with it your ability to make many decisions almost intuitively with minimum thought, is vastly better today than it was when you were a teenager. Experience and learning that translated itself into better judgment and reasoning ability, accounts for this change. More precisely, new knowledge led to thought habits that became so solid that you spend hardly a moment on decisions to which they apply. That is how common sense and judgment mature. Practicing the relatively simple formula that this book offers, and developing the habit to apply it regularly, will help you take another quantum step toward a higher level of common sense and intuitive reasoning when you develop plans and make decisions. At the same time, the book will provide you with tools that will sharpen your ability to think about work and personal decisions you are facing from a more comprehensive perspective than you are probably doing now. In addition to helping with plans and decisions, the book will show you how to be an more effective leader. If you manage anything, with or without staff, are preparing for managerial responsibities as a college student, or if you seek to take a managerial career track, this book can be of significant use to you. It does not matter whether your career is in business, non-profit organization, or government, in health care, retail, engineering, or transportation, just to name a few. The concept presented here addresses decisions on matters which, directly or indirectly, involve people. If you are, or expect to be a manager with a small or a large staff, this book will not only help you make better managerial decisions, it will also help you become a better leader. However, even if you are on a professional track where you manage a function, but do not, or will not have anyone reporting to you, your work still has impact on people. In these professional positions the leadership aspects of your managerial responsibilities may just be of smaller impact, overall, on your plans and decisions. You will, nevertheless bring better results if you consider many of the thoughts and concepts discussed here. Moreover, most professionals are frequently in positions on teams or projects where they are likely to assume leadership responsibilities. In these situations, the concepts discussed in this book can be most useful. Even where your leadership and management responsibilities, and decisions, involve family affairs, most of the sections of this book can be valuable. They address key issues for decision- making and interpersonal relations, and they do it from a unique and comprehensive perspective.

Are you a woman over 50 who has given up on love? Let Silver Fox be your guide to personal power, spiritual growth, and the best sexual love of your life. The dating world can be tough. Yet, thanks to this ingenious dating journal, many older women are attracting lovely men as they unleash their Silver Fox selves. Silver Fox, written by a 66-year-old dating veteran, provides you with tips, exercises, and the author's journal excerpts. Reclaim your strength and magnetism by journaling-it's simply the best tool for learning the foxtrot of love. "I love this book It's edgy, funny, and full of really innovative and useful writing exercises and new ways of looking at the "big issues" of relating and loving at any age." -Laura Hickey, artist "Elaine is a remarkable teacher and an incredible role model. She is the perfect guide and coach for later-life dating and personal growth through journaling." - Arei Bierstock, M.S.W. "As one of the women lucky enough to be in Elaine's writing class for the last twenty years, I have come to see life after fifty as a great adventure. Silver Fox is so much fun that it makes me wish I were single again " -Lola Rasminsky, President, Beyond the Box "I am fortunate to belong to a group of women over 50 whom Elaine has inspired to explore the bright possibilities in the third trimester of life." -Bonnie MacLachlan, Classics Professor, University of Western Ontario

With over 2.5 million copies sold worldwide, Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths

It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving.

In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change in their search for the cheese. One of them eventually deals with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze walls for you to discover. You'll learn how to anticipate, adapt to and enjoy change and be ready to change quickly whenever you need to.

Discover the secret of the writing on the wall for yourself and enjoy less stress and more success in your work and life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights will last a lifetime.

Babaloo is teased and insulted by bullies. Babaloo can be a girl or a boy who feels pushed around by other kids. Bullies are all about hurting your feelings to see you get upset, cry, or get angry. Babaloo knows that treating others badly is a bully's way of having control over other kids, but you can learn how to have power over what is happening. You can stop the bully's attempt to control you by learning some skills to keep yourself from becoming a victim. Babaloo shows you how to use five steps to be successful. Many examples of how to use the formula are given so you can think about and practice ways to deal with bullies. Babaloo knows that showing courage with bullies will surprise them and result in them leaving you alone. Babaloo knows how you feel when others are mean to you. Throughout the book there are pictures of bullies--waiting to be colored the way you see them. At the end of the book, there are pages included to help you figure out more ways to handle your bullies. YOU can be in charge of stopping a bully's taunts

By reading the wide variety of love letters found in "Love Letters for All Occasions," you'll be able to experience all the emotions love can create within a person.

Author Gary Hoskins spent over thirty years compiling letters to provide you with numerous hours of pleasure that you can enjoy again and again.

"Love Letters for All Occasions" covers diverse situations, including: Expressing the joy of loveProclaiming your loveDifficult loveWhen love is not valuedLosing loveA guide for writing your own love letters

You'll even be able to submit your own love letters for inclusion in Hoskins's next volume of letters.

Whether you are experiencing the first joys of true love or dealing with the loss of love, "Love Letters for All Occasions" guarantees that you'll be able to express exactly how you feel.

A great gift for someone that is special.

"Peace" is a guide for enhancing life through partnering. You write the book together with Suna so that it becomes your personal book of insights and guidance to building and maintaining a fulfilling life through good relationships.

Organizations, like people, are creatures of habit. They tend to approach problems in predictable ways. This revolutionary book argues that such ingrained habits, which often masquerade as efficient procedures, actually "obstruct" growth.

"The 2,000 Percent Solution" introduces "stallbusting," a process that shows you how to recognize typical stalls (like poor communications, disbelief, misconceptions, procrastination, tradition and bureaucracy) and how to overcome them.

Through unorthodox examples ranging from the sinking of the "Titanic" to sketches attributed to Leonardo da Vinci for a bicycle, "The 2,000 Percent Solution" redirects knee-jerk reactions onto more productive paths.

In addition, you'll learn about a new set of thought processes for designing and implementing solutions that will reap benefits 20 times greater or faster than the same tired "normal" solutions.

Packed with specific examples, advice and questions to help you improve your organization's process weaknesses, you'll learn how to go beyond today's best practices into the uncharted realm of what needs to be imagined and accomplished.

"My Body, My Earth" provides the tools to explore your somatic warehouse of generational memory in order to decipher the cause and effect of your experiences and life patterns. When your personal stories go unremembered they become dormant, and typically translate into a symptom-which is your body talking to you, saying, "Wake up, pay attention, don't forget about this "

Historical amnesia locks these stories in the body, manifesting as pain, disease, addictions, emotional patterns, and repetitive circumstances. Somatically excavating your personal legend unearths memories of the past that can be reconciled and healed in order to create a new myth-for your body and for your Earth.

When we experience a symptom as painful, we are taught to suppress or ignore it. Doing this for long periods of time aggravates the symptom, establishing chronic, generational physical or emotional conditions. Expressing or tending to symptom through the process of somatic remembering, helps to relieve pain and creates spiritual well-being, emotional optimism, and physical freedom.

This guidebook for personal transformation reveals the "Five Steps of Somatic Archaeology" so that you, too, can heal your past and recover your joy. Somatic Archaeology(TM) bridges the ancient Medicine Wheel, human behavior, spirituality, and bodywork into a revolutionary pathway that provides tools for body evolution-a natural and gradual progression of recreating ourselves and our world while in this physical form. I invite you to remember.

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position - that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control. A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks' ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.