Control Your Tongue, Transform Your Relationships

Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Smith Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. In 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue: What You Say (and Don't Say) Will Improve Your Relationships, you will learn how to transform those destructive slips into intentional, constructive, and uplifting speech that is honoring to God and others.

With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome the

• Retaliating Tongue
• Complaining Tongue
• Belittling Tongue
• Hasty Tongue
• Gossiping Tongue

Short stories, soul-searching questions, and scripturally based affirmations combine to make each chapter engaging to read and easy to apply at work, at home, and beyond. With professional insights and biblical wisdom, Deborah helps you take control of the power of your tongue—and transform your life and relationships!

Speak up.
Don’t take it so personally.
Just make a decision already.

Every day, whether they’re competing in the business world or serving in a nonprofit, women hear that they’re not enough. They’re too emotional to lead, and the way they act, speak, and even think is detrimental to success.

But in Lead Like a Woman, former Fortune 500 executive Deborah Smith Pegues shows that your uniquely female qualities can position you for success—if you know how to use them. She’ll teach you to embrace 12 traits that can help you excel as a leader, and she’ll also help you eliminate 12 tendencies that could be hindering your progress.

You will discover how to…

• develop confidence while sharpening your professional and relational skills
• let go of unproductive thoughts and habits that sabotage your success
• create a transformative, participative, and inclusive organization

It's a mad, mad world and rare is the person who gets through a single day without encountering an irritating, frustrating, or anger-producing situation. Deborah Pegues, author of the award-winning and bestselling 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 650,000 sold), is once again a voice of hope in this indispensable guide for dealing with short-term and long-term feelings of displeasure. Pegues reveals that anger is a secondary emotion. She uses biblical and modern-day stories to help you identify 18 primary emotions that may be at the root of your anger--and to choose Scripture-based responses for effectively dealing with them. You will discover anger-taming strategies such as predetermining how to respond to certain triggers deactivating your "anger buttons" developing a divine perspective toward frustrating people or circumstances exercising the fruit of the Spirit to thwart impatience and irritability understanding how food and other factors affect mood

30 Days to Taming Your Anger provides Scripture-based principles, heart-searching personal challenges, and powerful affirmations that point you to a new sense of freedom and improved relationships.

Perfect for individual devotions, small groups, and biblical counseling.

Where there are people, there are disagreements and misunderstandings. The author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 500,000 copies sold), a popular speaker, and a relationship strategist, Deborah Smith Pegues draws on biblical principles, personal experience, and research to show how to approach difficult situations so relationships are strengthened rather than broken.
Meeting face-to-face to resolve an issue is difficult, but Pegues makes it easier by revealing how to avoid complications, sharing examples of good communication, and offering specific steps for dealing with conflicts. Readers will discover: effective and compassionate techniques for handling conflictpractical strategies for resolving conflicthow personality types influence discussionssuggestions for minimizing defensivenessideas for developing and promoting cooperation

Confronting Without Offending gives readers the tools to successfully talk over and resolve issues and misunderstandings at home, at work, and in social situations.

We need God's help...and fast Deborah Smith Pegues, a behavioral consultant and the author of "30 Days to Taming Your Tongue" (more than 500,000 copies sold), offers readers a 9-1-1 prayerbook for life's many circumstances and needs. Brief, immediate, and heartfelt, these prayers bring God's Word to the forefront of a reader's mind as they lift up cries for:

• help on the homefront
• financial discipline and direction
• resistance of temptations
• guidance in important decisions
• comfort in the midst of pain

This conveniently sized emergency guide can remain close at hand and heart as it leads readers to God's presence for every need.

You've heard the expression, "Attitude is everything." But can a positive mental attitude make all that much difference in your personal and professional life? Deborah Smith Pegues, author of the bestselling 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, believes strongly that it can.

In Choose Your Attitude, Change Your Life, Deborah explores the root causes of 30 negative attitudes, their impact on your life and relationships, and how you can learn to think positively instead. As a result, she helps you recognize and conquer counterproductive behaviors, such as criticizing the choices others make, being inflexible, and being indifferent to the needs of others.

Deborah's handy guide uses Bible-based principles and practical strategies to point you toward the path to a better outlook on life, empowering you to display a positive mental attitude in every situation and leading to healthier relationships, personal growth, and the ability to handle life's challenges as never before.

Previously titled 30 Days to a Great Attitude.

Financial Freedom: It's not about wealth-it's about peace of mind Money-and all the worries that come with it-can easily consume your days. In certified accountant Deborah Smith Pegues's new book, she provides practical steps to real financial freedom. If you want to make well-informed financial decisions to improve the quality of your life, The One-Minute Money Mentor for Women will help you learn: how to use your inherent female qualities for financial empowerment how you can overcome emotional and relational roadblocks to money management how to ask for what you want in the workplace strategies for getting out of debt and bringing your credit cards under control the risks and rewards of investing, and much more The One-Minute Money Mentor for Women will empower you to take charge of your money and conquer the bad habits, fears, and uncertainties that thwart your stability and success.

Wag! Nee! Moenie dit se nie! Wie het nie al die heeltemal verkeerde ding op die verkeerde tyd gese nie? Gedragskundige Deborah Smith Pegues weet dat elke verspreking probleme kan veroorsaak in persoonlike en besigheidsverhoudings. Daarom wys sy mense hoe om hul tong vir hulle te laat werk in plaas van teen hulle. Pas op wat jy se! bestaan uit 30 hoofstukke wat lesers sal help om ’n ongetemde liggaamsdeel te verander in ’n waardevolle bate. Lesers sal leer hoe om: op te hou om die verkeerde ding op die verkeerde tyd op die verkeerde manier te se; woorde te spreek wat ander sal opbou; die slaggate en gevolge van leuens, vleitaal, skinder en oordrywings te vermy. Kort staaltjies, selfondersoekende vrae en Bybelsgebaseerde riglyne maak elke hoofstuk ’n lewens- en tongveranderende ervaring. Elke hoofstuk sluit ook af met ’n praktiese bevestiging wat die leser uitdaag om die beginsels in die boek uit te leef.

From Deborah Pegues, popular author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 500,000 sold), comes an indispensable guide for overcoming the emotional barriers that rob men and women of life's fullness and derail their personal and professional relationships.

Pegues uses biblical and modern-day examples to help readers identify and overcome the obstacles that hold them back. Readers will discover emotion-taming strategies such as

• establishing boundaries
• extending grace, mercy, and respect to others
• conquering perfectionism
• accepting themselves and learning to laugh at themselves
• telling the truth and striving to do the right thing

30 Days to Taming Your Emotions provides Scripture-based principles, heart-searching personal challenges, and healing prayers and affirmations that point readers to a new sense of emotional freedom.

Compilation of Supreme Confidence, 30 Days to a Great Attitude, and 30 Days to Taming Your Stress.

Even people with great intelligence and great experience can fall victim to bad choices. The only way to avoid those bad choices is to understand the keys to making smart ones.

Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices takes you on a journey with some of the Bible's smartest people--such as Abraham and Sarah, David, and Peter--who also made some not-so-smart decisions. By looking at the choices they made, readers will discover the keys to avoiding similar mistakes and will learn principles that will keep them on the road to good decision-making.

Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices provides ten keys to making smart decisions, including

• establishing the right relationships
• gathering the right information
• setting the right priorities
• choosing the right pathway

The principles of smart decision-making found in this book will be helpful to anyone confronted with important choices--from the housewife and mom trying to manage the challenges of her busy day to the college student choosing his or her friends to the leader trying to figure out the best direction for his organization.

Amid the confusion, anger, and anxiety surrounding the U.S. economic crisis, bestselling author and behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues offers proven strategies and wise counsel for financial survival. Drawing on more than three decades of professional experience as a certified public accountant, she answers the most frequently asked questions and addresses common financial dilemmas. This book also offers practical advice on how to cope emotionally, physically, and relationally during times of uncertainty.

In this easy-to-read book, Pegues will show readers how to arm themselves with the information they need to make wise decisions prioritize and control spending and get out of debt find low-cost alternatives and cultivate contentment maintain quality of life amidst the economic turmoil and much more

Soul-searching questions and biblical principles combine to fill each chapter with hope for financial health in the midst of uncertain times.

Do You Long for Peace of Mind? You can't avoid anxiety-provoking circumstances-they are a natural consequence of life on Planet Earth. But there are effective ways to deal with the stress they cause! Deborah Smith Pegues has been where you are and wants to share what she's learned to help you handle the situations that threaten your peace of mind. In 30 days, you will discover how to... experience joy by embracing a divine perspective and living in the now achieve clarity by improving your sleep, diet, and exercise routines evaluate your expectations to minimize distress and disappointment prevent unnecessary angst by managing your time and money more wisely trade your "stress-speak" for more calming expressions Packed with practical insights, encouragement, and biblical inspiration, this book will help you respond effectively to worry and anxiety so you can be a happier person.

Make a Great Impression Good manners never go out of style. Personal Empowerment Strategist and former Fortune 500 VP Deborah Smith Pegues knows what it takes to succeed in both the personal and professional world. Her on-point advice regarding courtesy and consideration covers a variety of situations-from Internet etiquette and business savvy to tourist tips and everyday encounters. Gain greater confidence as you adjust your personality to project positivity and poise update your wardrobe so you dress to impress dine with decorum learn the conventions of other cultures navigate tricky online know-how-from social media to email Once you've mastered the art of propriety and protocol, you'll be at ease in any social setting-formal or informal-and confident in your role as host or guest, business owner or client. A one-minute manners makeover is one of the best investments you can make in your future.

Now that more than 500,000 copies of "30 Days to Taming Your Tongue" have been sold, thousands of readers with tongue trouble can testify that Deborah Pegues' approach works in real, everyday life.

As a companion to the bestselling book, this interactive 30-day guide will help readers put into practice what they're learning. Features include...

• questions that will help readers think through how the book's advice can apply to their circumstances
• ideas and plans to overcome negative speech patterns
• words from Scripture to reinforce the changes readers are making

The key to overcoming foot-in-mouth disease, indicates the author, is letting God's way of thinking sink into your brain and then be reflected in your speech. This practical, hands-on guide will show readers how to do this.

Excellent for personal or group study.

Why is forgiveness so hard? People who refuse to forgive often sabotage their future and create an emotional cancer that spreads into every other aspect of their lives. Even those who genuinely desire to forgive often struggle to get beyond their wounded emotions. In Forgive, Let Go, and Live, Deborah Pegues provides specific guidelines to help us better understand what forgiveness is and what it's not how to overcome seemingly unforgivable hurts when to restore, redefine, or release a hurtful relationship how it's possible to forgive without forgetting why learning how to forgive is a process Pegues showcases the triumphs of famous and everyday people as well as biblical characters who decided to pursue forgiveness and also the tragedies of those who chose to wallow in anger and revenge. If you've been wounded by another, this book will empower you to find joy, freedom, and peace as you let go of your desire to avenge the wrong and make a commitment to release the offender from his debt.