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LBJ: King of the Hill

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Religion & Spirituality

Religion & Spirituality

For motivational speaker and self-help guru Judith Wright, creating a luxuriant life depends on something far more important than conspicuous material consumption. In The One Decision: Make the Single Choice that Will Lead to a Life of MORE, Wright outlines a plan for realizing your heart’s deepest desires, which she describes as the greater MORE. To find more in life, she says, people must make a single commitment a life stand or One Decision. She leads readers through a 10-faceted prism, looking at the key qualities of adventure, desire, decision, truth, heart, presence, quest, keys to the kingdom, allies and the good fight then follows up with a 30-day plan to guide readers toward making the One Decision to lead a more meaningful life. Wright makes a compelling case that a life of more is about being alive, conscious, engaged. It’s not about being perfect. . . . It is a constant state of becoming more me.

For motivational speaker and self-help guru Judith Wright, creating a luxuriant life depends on something far more important than conspicuous material consumption. In The One Decision: Make the Single Choice that Will Lead to a Life of MORE, Wright outlines a plan for realizing your heart’s deepest desires, which she describes as the greater MORE. […]

The Rescue Artist

by Alison Hood

Memoir

Memoir

Less is more

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by Alison Hood

We face dizzying displays of abundance in modern American life. Our stores are packed with plenty, and we’re continually bombarded with ads that exploit our every desire. Does this excess ultimately affect our happiness? In new books, two authors explore this question and examine alternatives to the richly lived life.

Give It Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less is Mary Carlomagno’s diary of deprivation, of the intention to eliminate unnecessary facets of life. For one year, she eliminated one thing monthly: in January, alcohol; in February, shopping; in March, elevator rides. Over the year, newspapers, cell phones, restaurants, television, taxis, coffee, cursing, chocolate and multitasking all got tossed. Chronicling her reflections on doing without, Carlomagno discovered the richness of simplicity and an awareness and enjoyment of the things in life that I was blessed to have. Anyone resolving to live a less cluttered life this year will appreciate her wry, honest account of doing without some of the things we have come to regard as indispensable.

Remembering a nautical tragedy

by bookpagedev

Essays, Nonfiction

Nonfiction Essays

Knocking on heaven’s door

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by Alison Hood

Knocking on heaven’s door Roger Housden wants you to consider sin in a whole new light as a means toward enlightenment! In Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living Housden presents erudite, witty essays on seven so-called transgressions sensuality, foolishness, ignorance, imperfection, uselessness, ordinariness and prodigality. Touting a pleasure principle over a punitive path to happiness, Housden argues that joy can lead to the upwelling of the human spirit, which always lives and breathes beyond the confines of right and wrong. There are no case studies, success stories or how-to exercises in Seven Sins. Instead, we get the author’s personal reflections on modern life, sprinkled throughout with apt, wide-ranging references and quotes from philosophers and poets, scientists, political figures, artists and literary greats. This book is a subjective prescription for happiness, an utter delight, filled with Housden’s trademark self-deprecatory humor and slightly offbeat insight. You probably won’t see hell if you read this book, but you just might catch a glimpse of heaven.

Past and present

by bookpagedev

Lifestyles, Self-Help

Self-Help Lifestyles

Who am I?

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by Alison Hood

Our identity if we’re not verifying it, we’re worried about someone stealing it. But what is this mysterious and elusive It ? The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World is a guide to discovering the core self, written by a man who’s very sure of his own identity: I am Larry Ackerman and I am driven by the need to help people to see. Ackerman, an identity management consultant, believes that identity is beautiful and it is powerful. Decipher its secret code, which is embedded in us from birth along with our biological constructs, and we will understand the why of our lives. His introductory essay debunks a currently popular identity theory: The myth of personal freedom the idea that you are at liberty to pick whatever path in life you want is the unspoken agony of the modern person. This myth, Ackerman argues, ignores an inherent order already present in life, a complex system of natural law wherein lie the seeds of identity.

Ackerman clearly presents his finely distilled Laws of Identity and their eight corresponding questions, which lead, like a well-signed path, toward self-knowledge and personal responsibility. First tackling basic queries such as, Who am I, and what makes me special? The Identity Code then turns to questions about life patterns, directions, gifts, relationships and abundance. With instructions on using an Identity Mapping Process, case studies and exercises, this commonsense workbook shines with Ackerman’s compassionate desire for each individual to discover his or her precious jewel of identity and be at peace with yourself.

Our identity if we’re not verifying it, we’re worried about someone stealing it. But what is this mysterious and elusive It ? The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World is a guide to discovering the core self, written by a man who’s very sure of his […]

Ice Storm author Rick Moody weathers his own depression

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Health & Fitness, Lifestyles

Lifestyles Health & Fitness

Finding a balance

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by Alison Hood

In 1991, John Chappelear’s life fell apart. Within days, he went from being CEO of a multimillion dollar company to financial and emotional ruin. This catastrophic fall, which he dubbed my gift of desperation, woke him mightily. Now a successful life coach, Chappelear discovered that meaning in life comes not from achievements or wealth, but from something that is slowly entwined into life through your daily experiences, personal beliefs, and the way you interact with those around you. Enter The Daily Six: Six Simple Steps to Find the Perfect Balance of Prosperity and Purpose, a commonsense bible based on short, powerful maxims. This is Chappelear’s road map to well-being, his contribution to bettering private and business lives, inspired by mentors who helped him back to wholeness. Dedicated to fostering success with significance, his six-point plan emphasizes the daily practices of willingness, contemplation, love and forgiveness, service, gratitude and action. Chappelear’s approach to change is gentle, almost humble; he uses heartening case studies of others who have met and managed change, but he uses his own life as the primary lesson. This self-proclaimed recovering big shot realizes that My life quest is no longer what can I get?’ but what can I give?’

Mind Matters

by bookpagedev

Health & Fitness, Lifestyles

Lifestyles Health & Fitness

Exercise your brain

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by Amy Scribner

While staying physically fit is important, so too is preserving mental fitness. Two new books explore ways to keep your mind as healthy as your body. In Brainfit: 10 Minutes a Day for a Sharper Mind and Memory, Corinne L. Gediman prescribes daily mental exercises designed to slow age-related mental decline. Good brain exercises challenge the brain to think in new ways and may also include a component of physical exercise and social interaction. The majority of Brainfit is dedicated to dozens of fun, easy memory exercises. For example, to remember all the items on a shopping list, visualize each item, then pair it with the next item on your list. If you need to pick up sand and candles at the hardware store, Gediman advises visualizing a sandcastle at dusk with candles glowing in the windows. Follow her program, and you will soon be bowing to the goddess of memory, Mnemosyne (try remembering that name).

While staying physically fit is important, so too is preserving mental fitness. Two new books explore ways to keep your mind as healthy as your body. In Brainfit: 10 Minutes a Day for a Sharper Mind and Memory, Corinne L. Gediman prescribes daily mental exercises designed to slow age-related mental decline. Good brain exercises challenge […]

Parenting without fear

by bookpagedev

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