"Your Personal Guide to Managing Ideas at Work and in Life"""The secret to not having worries...is to have ideas." Eugene Delacroix"Why do we do what we do? Why are some people happily productive and others, less so? Without a sure sense of the "why" behind our actions, and what "being of use" can mean to us, it can be difficult to sustain the energy needed to accomplish what we hope to achieve in our personal and professional lives."From Inspiration to Implementation" shows you how to shape your ideas for a stronger result as it explores the mindset we bring to life leadership, and toward being accountable for our own thoughts and dreams. Both inspirational and technically instructive, this guide helps you design the right framework to move your ideas to reality.The author provides you with a practical "project mapping toolkit" and condenses key elements of creative management to the essentials: Inspiration as a Source of Energy and Innovation The Core Requisite of Original Thinking Self-Leadership and Managing Others Communication Managing Organizational PoliticsThis comprehensive, compact guide is your everyday companion, helping you take charge of your best ideas.

"I have walked through many lives, some of them my own," declared Stanley Kunitz in his poem, The Layers, "and I am not who I was" In fact, life does change with every moment, and we are always in the act of becoming. Not the Person I Was: Memoir as Tool of Recovery and Discovery discusses the importance of reflecting on the roles we assume in the ever-evolving situations that make up our everyday lives. Not the Person I Was helps readers uncover the subtle turning points of their personal histories, and shows how navigating those turns ultimately affected us, others, and the world itself. Advocating for the often overlooked value of one's personal lived experiences, it also helps writers and recorders of life histories shape their personal stories in engaging and interesting ways. "Our recorded reflections-whether published, videotaped, recorded, or simply jotted down in notes for one's own perusal-provide the basis for living and sharing stronger, wiser, more resilient lives," notes the author. "There is tremendous power and hope- in realizing that life is a journey in a world without maps, and that we are never finished with our changes."

"Your Personal Guide to Managing Ideas at Work and in Life" ""The secret to not having worries...is to have ideas." Eugene Delacroix" Why do we do what we do? Why are some people happily productive and others, less so? Without a sure sense of the "why" behind our actions, and what "being of use" can mean to us, it can be difficult to sustain the energy needed to accomplish what we hope to achieve in our personal and professional lives. "From Inspiration to Implementation" shows you how to shape your ideas for a stronger result as it explores the mindset we bring to life leadership, and toward being accountable for our own thoughts and dreams. Both inspirational and technically instructive, this guide helps you design the right framework to move your ideas to reality. The author provides you with a practical "project mapping toolkit" and condenses key elements of creative management to the essentials: Inspiration as a Source of Energy and Innovation The Core Requisite of Original Thinking Self-Leadership and Managing Others Communication Managing Organizational Politics This comprehensive, compact guide is your everyday companion, helping you take charge of your best ideas.

You can live without a mother and a father, but you can't live in a world that doesn't make sense to you. --D.W. Winnicott devices in a family headed by an alcoholic mother and a disappearing father. The author's memories as the oldest daughter, and the stories of the other children after they are grown, reveal patterns of abuse and betrayal by trusted adults, as well as untellable secrets...and the underlying emptiness that is the source of one family's anguish. In its penetrating witness to the darkness that can obstruct the light of even the best-intentioned people, Hard Poetry reveals the brokenness in lives appearing whole on the surface, as it shows the hidden wholeness of broken ones. kindnesses, this is a story of grief, helplessness and humor...and finding a way, every day, to live, think, and relate so the world slowly transforms into a place that eventually not only begins to make sense, but feels like home. important to understand the dynamics of suffering, and the purpose it serves in our journey through life. We must acknowledge that we each have a soul that is capable of suffering, and equally capable of an existence devoid of it. This story tells of a remarkable personal journey toward transcendent awareness and self-knowledge, which are elemental to forgiveness, freedom, and the healing process. --Joyce Hasija, Teays Valley Wellness Institute