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Goodness Gracious: recipes for Good Food and Gracious Living

Roxie Kelley

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Goodness Gracious starts with a batch of wonderful recipes and heartfelt illustrations, then mixes in a flavorful philosophy: Good food shared among friends is wonderful, but the flavor of the friendships is even more important.Writer Roxie Kelley and illustrator Shelly Reeves Smith have done it again. Their fourth in a successful series of illustrated cookbooks, Goodness Gracious shines with heart and soul. More than just a collection of entrées, side dishes, and desserts, this lavishly illustrated book combines easy-to-prepare recipes with tips designed to help readers lead a more positive life. The result is an inspiring volume on making a house a home.With recipes such as Apple Streusel Tea Loaf, Company Carrots, Baja Lasagna, and Pumpkin Cheesecake Tarts, Goodness Gracious is brimming with yummy taste treats. In addition, the book offers a grace note at the end of each chapter as guides to more graceful living. Shelly's beautiful, watercolor illustrations permeate Goodness Gracious, giving the book a quality that readers find refreshing, gracious, and accessible.Roxie and Shelly have developed a loyal following of customers since 1992 when they published their first cookbook, which is still in print. They've combined forces to create three illustrated cookbooks, Keeping Good Company, With Heart and Soul, and Just a Matter of Thyme, along with the gift books Sisters as Friends, Friends as Sisters, and A Home Within. In this new book, the duo again delivers on their commitment to sharing their best ideas on good food and gracious living.

Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity

Michael L. Stallard

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Fired Up or Burned Out 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Highly recommending this book to clients and friends.

I am an executive coach to corporate leaders in New York City. When I heard Michael Stallard speak recently, his ideas resonated with me. I purchased his book Fired Up or Burned Out. Now I am recommending it to my clients.

Here's why:
1. From my experience, I know that the feelings of connection described in the book are key to thriving organizations and individuals. These connections include feeling connected to your work tasks so that you become immersed in your work and time passes quickly, feeling connected to the people you work alongside of, feeling connected to the organization's mission, values and/or reputations and feeling connected to the organization's decisions (i.e. because you were informed and had a voice in decisions that mattered to you.)
2. This book does an excellent job of explaining why connections make a difference. It connects the dots by drawing upon research and insights from psychology, sociology, neuroscience, physical and mental health research, and organizational behavior.
3 It was inspiring. Stallard uses a remarkable array of inspiring stories to explain and illustrate connection. The stories are drawn from business, sports, government, the social sector and the battlefield. He uses connection to explain the success of leaders such as George Washington, Queen Elizabeth I, Steve Jobs, and basketball coach Phil Jackson. Really interesting stuff!
4. The book is user friendly to people like my clients who have little time. The chapters are short, easy to read and contain summaries and questions at the end.

After reading this book, I can see why Marshall Goldsmith, Seth Godin, and Frances Hesselbien endorsed it. For anyone who wants to thrive at work and in life, or wants to help others thrive, this is a must read.

Handbook of Competence and Motivation

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short review 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I found this book to be very comprehensive in combining topics related to achievement motivation. It offers an amazing overview of cutting edge and recent literature, e.g., motives, goals, values, culture, and gender, which all tie into the concept of competence and motivation. Helpful and great to read!

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This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.

Why Not You?: Twenty-eight Days to Authentic Confidence

Valorie Burton

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Whatever your career goals…
Whatever your financial objectives…
Whatever your personal dreams…

You Can Do It!

This action-oriented, step-by-step guide helps you build the authentic self-confidence that comes from knowing who you are, what you want–and equips you to go get it.

With motivational expert Valorie Burton as your personal coach and a 28-day plan, Why Not You? provides the tools you need to …
·gain the assurance needed to transform your thinking
·focus on who you are, not what you do
·give yourself permission to be imperfect
·stop competing and comparing
·eliminate your confidence stealers
·learn how to achieve success by being authentic

Packed with unforgettable examples, pointers, and sparkplugs for ideas that work uniquely for you, Why Not You? reveals the secrets to building authentic personal confidence from the inside-out. Whatever your goal or your starting point, Valorie Burton equips you with proven experience to take the next steps to advance your career, finances, and relationships.

Vivir en Equilibrio (Being In Balance): 9 principios para crear habitos que concuerden con sus deseos (Spanish Edition)

Wayne W. Dyer

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In this inspirational work, best-selling author and lecturer Wayne W. Dyer shows you how to restore balance in your life by offering nine principles for realigning your thoughts so that they correspond to your highest desires.
Imagine a balance scale with one end weighted down to the ground, and the other end—featuring the objects of your desires—sticking up precariously in the air. This scale is a measurement of your thoughts. To restore the same balance that characterizes everything in our universe, you have to take up the weighty thoughts so that they match up to your desires.
The seasons reflect the overall harmony of life. For example, winter passes and the blossoms emerge. This is balanced by a need to have the trees rest, so autumn arrives on time and helps the trees ready themselves for another period of repose. This book is dedicated to the idea that we’re a vital component of this creative process and have within ourselves the wherewithal to create all that we want if we recognize and revise out-of-balance thoughts.

Purr More, Hiss Less: Heavenly Lessons I Learned from My Cat

Allia Nolan, Erika Oller

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Purr More, Hiss Less (A Book that Purrs) 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is chock full of wisdom - kitty and otherwise. 'Take the good fleas with the bad,' bestselling author Allia Zobel Nolan advises readers of Purr More, Hiss Less: Heavenly Lessons I Learned from My Cat.

If I had to pick my favorite it would be, 'Don't stick your paws where they don't belong.' There are smiles to be had on all 224 pages. This gem of a book is lovingly illustrated by Erika Oller. The combination of Allia's wit and Erika's watercolors is a winning match.

Buy this just-released book as a gift for anyone (young or old) in your life who adores cats. As Allia says, 'It's okay to be hooked on a feline.' ... So while you're at it, why not pick up a copy for your neighborhood cat lady?

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Wisdom with a Side of Whiskers…

If you've ever shared your home or your heart with a special kitty, you know that cats know that we mere humans have much to learn from our furry friends. Purr More, Hiss Less celebrates this special bond by pairing eclectic pearls of feline wisdom with the watercolor splendor of artist Erika Oller. The result? The purr-fect reminder that, as every cat knows, "Life is precious-even if you have nine of them."

The Velveteen Principles for Women: How to Shatter the Myth of Perfection and Embrace All That You Really Are

Toni Raiten-D'Antonio

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Keeping it Real 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I picked up this book by chance at BEA, and discovered it really defied all my expectations. This book does not give you permission to lower your standards or fail to meet your goals--rather, it encourages you to make your OWN standards and make sure the goals you're aiming for are truly YOURS. It allows women to take some time out of their daily care-giving routines to nurture themselves. I find myself returning to this book often and recognizing behavior and thought patterns that severely limit my joy: "I should lose weight; these extra pounds are so embarrassing. My skin should be tanned and free of blemishes; I feel hideous and shouldn't go outside. I shouldn't make any demands or act emotional in front of my boyfriend, or he won't want me." Should, should, should. NOT the Real me! The super-ego can be a wonderful thing; it helps regulate our own selfish desires so we can get along smoothly in society. But sometimes, in the quest for generic perfection (which doesn't really exist) we girls forget to keep it real, and our inner critic keeps insisting we have to twist ourselves into a pretzel because our Real, imperfect selves aren't worthy of love. This book shows us how to stop worrying about other peoples' expectations, and to redefine our own. I'm a happier person for reading this book, and very grateful to Raiten-D'Antonio for putting down on paper what must be racing through millions of women's minds. Velveteen Principles for Women is written in a tone so supportive, plain, and full of common sense, that upon reading it, it's almost impossible to deny that perfection is a myth, and Reality can be extremely satisfying. I recommend this book to anyone, especially to men who wish to better understand a woman's experience. I'll be sending copies to all my close friends and female relatives.

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The Velveteen Principles for Women is a motivational guidebook for those who want to identify the sources of their unhappiness and become genuinely Real themselves. It is essential reading for women who want to free themselves from self-doubt, silence their inner critics, and live as the Real, unique, and valuable women they are meant to be.

Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change

David L Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, Jacqueline M Stavros

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Pretty indepth 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is an indepth book, but very useful. If you want an easy reading this is not the choice, but it is good for indepth analysis.

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One of today's most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald's to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has something that works right -- things that give it life when it is vital, effective, and successful. AI begins by identifying this positive core and connecting organizational visions, plans, and structures to it in ways that heighten energy and inspire action for change. The authors provide background information on what AI is and how it works, and offer sample project plans, designs, agendas, course outlines, interview guidelines, participant worksheets, a list of resources and more. This second edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded throughout with new material, new tools and an entirely new chapter on case applications.

Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders

John Baldoni

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IT WILL LIFT YOU UP 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Motivation pumps people up, but is often temporary and leaves when the "pumper" leaves. Inspiration lifts you up and remains when you leave. More than just show and explain how these great leaders motivate, this terrific book demonstrates how these leaders inspired their people to be all that they could be... and then some.

If you want to infuse energy in your people at work or in your personal life, you will be lifted up and pumped up by Baldoni's book and want to pass the energy on.

You remember stories long after concepts have left your mind. The stories that GREAT MOTIVATION SECRETS tells will stay with you long enough to emulate the "best practices" of these great leaders so that one day you, too, will have great stories of your own.

A must read for anyone who wants to energize the people around them.

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How the world's most successful leaders inspire their people to get things done

Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders explores the leadership styles of many of the world's most influential leaders in business, the military, sports, and politics and extracts powerful lessons that managers can put to work in their organizations. Drawing upon his years of experience as a leadership consultant, visionary, and coach, John Baldoni, author of the highly successful Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders:

• Reveals the motivational techniques of Sam Walton, Mary Kay Ash, Ronald Reagan, Colleen Barrett, Col. David Hackworth, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and other influential leaders
• Distills the proven motivational techniques of great leaders into core strategies and step-by-step solutions
• Explains ways for managers to use these techniques in everyday situations

The Present Moment: 365 Daily Affirmations

Louise Hay

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Not a Calendar! 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I thought this was a calendar, since it came up when I searched for a Louise Hay Calendar. It's just a nifty little book of affirmations. If you're looking for a desk calendar, buy the other one.

WONDERFUL 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This is just that...every day you have something to keep you motivated. Way to go Louise!

Editorial Review:

This little book is filled with positive affirmations that will show you that your point of power is always in the present moment, and this is where you plant the mental seeds for creating new experiences.

Think about how you’d like to live and what you’d like to accomplish. Each day Louise L. Hay will help guide your thinking in positive ways to accomplish these goals. As you read this work, you’ll find that you develop new mental habits that you can use for the rest of your life!