Why Wait To Be Great

Author : Terry Hawkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781609948931

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Why Wait to Be Great? by Terry Hawkins Pdf

Discover Your Super Power! We all want to change something about ourselves: lose weight, quit smoking, improve our finances, and so on. But change is hard, even painful, and it’s our nature to avoid pain. In this inspiring how-to guide, Terry Hawkins provides exactly what we need: a straightforward way to break free of old habits that hold us back and adopt new ones that move us forward. It’s a process Hawkins herself used to rise above poverty, abuse, and serious health problems. Two fictional characters—Pitman and Flipman—demonstrate two possible ways of being. As Pitman, we’re trapped in the Pit of Misery, chained to our past, a helpless victim of circumstance. As the superhero Flipman, we are powerful, courageous, loved, successful, and able to flip negative thoughts and habits into positive ones. Hawkins illustrates precisely what feelings, thoughts, and behaviors send us to the pit and provides a detailed action plan for getting out of it. This wonderfully human and honest book will help you create the life you want once and for all. “Terry Hawkins is a positive force of nature. Let her enthusiasm and optimistic approach to life’s challenges rub off on you as you turn the pages. You’ll be a better person for having read this book.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Great Leaders Grow “I was about to take antidepressants to stop my spiral downward—then I was handed Why Wait to Be Great? I feel so empowered. It was like it was written just for me and everything I was going through.” —Ishbel MacConnachie, Director of Studies, GoodStart Training College “Possibly the best book I have read on overcoming depression, lethargy, negative self-talk, and more. Every high school student should be given a copy when he or she leaves school—skills for life.” —Vivien Wornell, Social Worker/Counselor, St. George Private Hospital

Author : Terry Hawkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609948924

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Why Wait to Be Great? by Terry Hawkins Pdf

We all want to change something about ourselves: lose weight, quit smoking, improve our finances, and so on. But change is hard, even painful, and it's our nature to avoid pain. In this inspiring how-to guide, Terry Hawkins provides exactly what we need: a straightforward way to break free of old habits that hold us back and adopt new ones that move us forward. It's a process Hawkins herself used to rise above poverty, abuse, and serious health problems. Two fictional characters—Pitman and Flipman—demonstrate two possible ways of being. As Pitman, we're trapped in the Pit of Misery, chained to our past, a helpless victim of circumstance. As the superhero Flipman, we are powerful, courageous, loved, successful, and able to flip negative thoughts and habits into positive ones. Hawkins illustrates precisely what feelings, thoughts, and behaviors send us to the pit and provides a detailed action plan for getting out of it. This wonderfully human and honest book will help you create the life you want once and for all.

Author : DeVon Franklin,Meagan Good
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781501123481

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The Wait by DeVon Franklin,Meagan Good Pdf

The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.

Author : Terry Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 1469781379

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Why Wait to be Great? by Terry Hawkins Pdf

"How to take charge of your life and let your superhero soar!"--Cover.

Author : Rob Quillen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Altruism
ISBN : 0938467239

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Why Wait? by Rob Quillen Pdf

Every once in a while, a chance meeting changes your life. Every once in a while, you get a chance to change other people's lives. On Sept. 10, 2001, author Rob Quillen had a chance meeting day that changed his life forever. Now ten years later, Why Wait?, his personal 9/11 story of fulfilling a young boy's dream from tragedy is an inspiration for everyone to help change other people's lives. On a flight from Denver to Newark, N.J, Rob Quillen made the acquaintance of Captain Jason Dahl who would be piloting United Airlines Flight 93 the next day when it crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. during the tragic events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. During the flight, without an inkling of the tragedy that was to come, the two men became close friends, talking about dreams and what the future might hold. Quillen was wearing a Jeff Gordon polo shirt that sparked a conversation about NASCAR. Dahl and his son, Matt, dreamed of going to a NASCAR race and meeting their hero, driver Jeff Gordon. Quillen invited Jason and his son Matt to a NASCAR race in Kansas later that month, Jason accepted the tickets. When Captain Dahl died the next day, Quillen promised himself that he would make Jason's and Matt's dream come true. He wanted Matt to not only go the NASCAR race, but he wanted to ensure that Matt got to meet Jeff Gordon. Rob details how the events unfolded about Matt's dream trip to a NASCAR race with the help of many people, including NASCAR, ESPN and NBC television and he sends a powerful message to everyone who reads his book. All of us have an amazing ability to help other people's dreams come true. We all have the ability to make a difference in someone's life. So, Why Wait? Start helping to change another's life today.

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807001134

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Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

Author : David Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487554583

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Solved by David Miller Pdf

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “how to” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610390057

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Wait by Frank Partnoy Pdf

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world. Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make––unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years––benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life … even when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoy’s accounts of celebrity “delay specialists,” from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choices––large and small––can improve the quality of our lives.

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544340688

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The Giver by Lois Lowry Pdf

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781313169

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Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for ‘their’ team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together. With her radio by her side and scorecard to hand, she recreates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. Weaved between the games and the seasons, Goodwin tells the story of a changing America – from the lunacy of the Cold War alarm drills to McCarthy and the Rosenburg trials – as well as her own loss of innocence encapsulated by her mother’s death, her father’s lapse into despair and the Dodger’s departure from Brooklyn in 1957 following the destruction of the iconic Ebbets Field stadium. Poignant, unsentimental and deeply eloquent, Wait Till Next Year is a profound memoir about childhood and loss, baseball, and the power of sport to bind families and heal loss and reveal as metaphor the evolving heart of a nation.

Author : Mariana Zapata
Publisher : Mariana Zapata
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 0990429253

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Wait for It by Mariana Zapata Pdf

If anyone ever said being an adult was easy, they hadn't been one long enough. Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn't know what the hell she's doing half the time. How she's made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn't supposed to be so hard. With a new house, two little boys she inherited the most painful possible way, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask for. Except for a boyfriend. Or a husband. But who needs either one of those?

Author : Zig Ziglar
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781418573508

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Better Than Good by Zig Ziglar Pdf

The Ultimate Challenge: To Be Better Than Good He has spent his life helping other people to realize their dreams and experience maximum success. Now comes Zig Ziglar's high-impact work that calls you to the passion, purpose, and practical tools that can ignite the peak performance you long for. In the real-life stories Zig shares, drawn from nearly fifty years as a world-class motivatinal author, speaker, and businessman, you'll discover how others have risen above fear and failure to embrace the quality of life they were meant to have. Their experiences will teach you how to accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible, even as you learn: the three pillars of the Better Than Good life new discoveries that will motivate you for life how to develop a strategic plan that accomplishes your goals what often keeps good people from reaching the ultimate level of productivity and happiness ways to form better-than-good habits that can take you to new horizons of success . . . and much, much more! Let the master of motivatin help you clear your mind of failure-prone thinking, as together with Zig Ziglar, you redefine success and take hold of your dreams. Let him inspire you to be Better Than Good!

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Robert Munsch
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773211756

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Wait and See by Robert Munsch Pdf

It is Olivia’s birthday, and when she blows out the candles on her cake and makes a wish, she gets exactly what she wanted—SNOW, SNOW, and MORE SNOW, even though it’s summertime. All that snow leads to too much trouble, though, so Olivia’s parents bake her another cake so she can make a new wish that will get rid of it. But when that wish, and the next one, and the next one lead to even more trouble what will Olivia do to solve it? Wait and see! A new look for the Classic Munsch picture books brings all of the hyperbolic fun of Wait and See to a new generation of young readers.

Author : Jen Kirchner
Publisher : Jen Kirchner
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Fourth Channel by Jen Kirchner Pdf

For years, Kari Hunter's fooled the world into thinking she's just an everyday girl. Sure, she's the lead singer of world-renowned band Vis Viva, but outside of that, she recycles religiously, is an avid supporter of the environment, and she's a certifiable coffee addict. But Kari has a secret she keeps from her family, friends, and fans.Kari Hunter is a necromancer.The rarest and most powerful of all magic-born, necromancers are notorious for leaving a trail of sacrifices in their wake. But Kari isn't interested in hurting anyone. She works hard at being as un-necromancer-like as possible: everyone she stabs gets a bandage and a lollipop, and whenever her sacrificial knives get too excited by the prospect of violence, she puts them in time-out... in her lingerie drawer.But when an agent of voodoo master Ruair� O'Bryne catches Kari using her powers, her secret's out. And if Ruair� finds out who Kari is, he'll stop at nothing to make her his next sacrifice.