Author: Scott M. Fay
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614485933
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Learn to design, build, and maintain an effective and fulfilling life with this unique guide from the innovative entrepreneur, speaker, and author. To create an effective space, landscapers must design, build, and maintain that space. To create an effective life, we must do the same with ourselves. In this unique and insightful guide to crafting a better life, author Scott M. Fay uses a landscaping metaphor and an approachable, conversational style to reveal the seven steps that enabled him to find his own Sweet Spot of personal and professional success. These same steps helped Fay acquire fourteen distressed businesses and turn them into profitable environments for leadership and commerce. They prepared him to forge a partnership with the No. 1 leadership guru in the world and create the world’s fastest-growing speaking, coaching, and training team. It primed him to start several other ventures, projects, and initiatives related to his core strengths. And finally, it enabled him to create a robust life with a variety of opportunities. If this can work for Scott—a guy who wears jeans and boots and drives a pickup truck—then it can work for you too. In fact, it can work for any individual or organization serious about creating a growth environment. Discover Your Sweet Spot and discover the life you’ve always wanted.

Author: Dave Pollard
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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"Now what am I going to do?" is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you’re a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big corporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing the thing you love and that you’re actually good at. Or maybe you’re a boomer and you’re ready for a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what you’ve spent most of your work life doing. Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to find the "sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect. And make no mistake: our world needs your talent. The current economic system and the educational system that feeds into it have let us down and are destroying our planet. We need a blossoming of natural enterprises—connected, collaborating, and supporting ventures—to form a dynamic new natural economy. Is such a thing possible? Inventor, entrepreneur, and humanist Buckminster Fuller said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Finding the Sweet Spot presents a new model. Use it to find the work you were meant to do, thereby helping to create the world we’re meant to live—and make a living—in.

Author: Rajiv Vij
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9384544159
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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A life not examined is not worth living. ~ Socrates "The profound insights offered in this book will nourish your soul and set you on a life-long path for experiencing deeper happiness. A must-read for anyone seeking answers to the most important questions of life." ~ Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author, #1 New York Times bestseller Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and The Soul of Success "A well thought out personal guide to coming home to one's own source of fulfillment, Rajiv Vij has combined his personal life experience along with his years as a personal life coach to show how self responsibility combined with the inspiration of a newfound life purpose grounded in helping others, is truly the path to personal mastery. I recommend this book to anyone yearning for real change, and for those who could use further inspiration to take the next important step toward manifesting their true life's work." ~ Paula Horan, PhD, Reiki Master and author of Fierce Innocence and Core Empowerment "This neat, well written volume, talks about inner transformation and how this leads to a life that has deep meaning. Success - as defined conventionally - is a by-product of such transformation. It is a great reminder that our potential is unfathomably immense. We have to know this, acknowledge it and tap into it." ~ Srikumar Rao, PhD, TED speaker and best selling author, author of Happiness at Work In a society increasingly driven by the manic pursuit of externally visible rewards, this book not only underscores the need for greater purpose in our lives, but also elaborates on the inner journey of selfdiscovery that can help us create a truly meaningful life. Written by a leading life coach, this book will show you a path for personal transformation that has worked for several others in discovering their calling, higher professional effectiveness, deeper relationships, better balance and greater peace and happiness in their lives. Founded in the belief that skills for being happier can be acquired, the inspirational insights shared in the book will empower you for the rest of your life.

Author: Todd Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591846242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.

Author: Philippe Foret
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863518
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

Author: Karen Elizaga
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493004050
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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This smart, stylish motivational guide helps readers discover their dreams and true potential via an action plan based on the coaching strategies of an executive coach. Finding one’s "sweet spot" means digging deep for new levels of self-understanding and re-prioritizing one’s life to align with one’s inner excellence. Written to make readers feel they have access to their own personal coach, the book leads them through a series of inspiring stories, practical steps, and "sweet spot checks" designed to spur personal and professional growth. Find Your Sweet Spot consists of four parts--The Sweet Spot Strategy, The Sweet Spot Inside, The Sweet Spot Outside, Integrate Your Sweet Spot--and offers practical tips and exercises that explore everything from self-love to the power of gratitude and a productive mindset. Find Your Sweet Spot is geared for modern adults who find themselves yearning for more in their daily lives. As a chic, jet-setting businesswoman with many high-powered clients, Karen Elizaga boasts a distinctly modern edge among self-help authors.

Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418537497
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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"Sweet Spot." Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride. But you don't have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you. A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot. But if you're like 70 percent of working adults, you haven't found it. You don't find meaning in your work, or you don't believe your talents are used. What can you do? You're suffering from the common life, and you desperately need a cure. Best-selling author Max Lucado has found it. In Cure for the Common Life, he offers practical tools for exploring and identifying your own uniqueness, motivation to put your strengths to work, and the perfect prescription for finding and living in your sweet spot for the rest of your life.

Author: Whitney Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996826174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Are you maximizing your full leadership potential and effortlessly leveraging the talents of others? Do you experience living your life with maximum ease, power and joy? For many, the answer is no. Yet, what if it were possible? What if you could identify and tap into the aspects of yourself and others that provide a doorway into unprecedented results and fulfillment? The Sweet Spot is a deep dive into the 7 fundamental "Talents" that make up our greatest contributions - the best of who we are and what we have to offer. Used widely by leaders in the business community to recognize their own and others most authentic Talents, this book covers the key contributions and challenges of each of the 7 Talents. It also provides effective ways to grow and develop those Talents, with practical tips for leveraging your own and other's most natural gifts to be more productive, successful, and free. In many ways, this subject is not a new one. A person's Talents are based on existing archetype categories that have been written and spoken about for centuries. Unlike books on the traditional archetypes, personality types or career assessments, this book provides a modern update focused on leveraging your natural talents in leadership and life. The 7 Talents are: Artisan: Creativity Priest: Vision Sage: Communication Warrior: Efficiency Server: Love Scholar: Knowledge King: Power By reading The Sweet Spot book, you'll learn how to: Discover and access more of your greatest capacity as a leader Leverage your own and others' Talents with less effort Motivate those around you for increased engagement Increase your experience of personal fulfillment and professional success If you want less stress, better results and more connection - if you want to grow your experience of living with a greater sense of purpose and power - The Sweet Spot book is an essential read."

Author: Pat Gibson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610056038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Do you feel fulfilled with your life? Do you love your job but have no time for your family and friends? Are you bogged down in stress and worry and feel good sleep and healthy eating slipping away?Have you resigned yourself to the belief that your life is what it is because you're sick of trying and failing with nothing ever changing? Living in Your Sweet Spot: A Practical Guide to Your Authentic Life is designed to guide you to understanding what you do that brings yourself closer to or further from your authentic self. It is about what you do to protect, avoid, delay, deny, or excuse not living your life to its fullest potential.Living in Your Sweet Spot can help you better understand and confront:The physical damage of stress;What is keeping you from restful sleep;Easy steps to effective meditation;The emotional and physical value of gratitude;Understanding your purpose and following it to your destiny; andMany more powerful steps to living in your sweet spot.When you live in your sweet spot as your authentic self, all the pieces of your life fit together harmoniously and you have a feelingof inner peace and satisfaction. Using personal narratives gainedfrom her clients' success stories and her own, Dr. Pat Gibson's Living in Your Sweet Spot offers the exercises, tools, and knowledge to achieve your authentic self and live the life you deserve.

Author: Amy Ettinger
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101984198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A journalist channels her ice-cream obsession, scouring the United States for the best artisanal brands and delving into the surprising history of ice cream and frozen treats in America. For Amy Ettinger, ice cream is not just a delicious snack but a circumstance and a time of year—frozen forever in memory. As the youngest child and only girl, ice cream embodied unstructured summers, freedom from the tyranny of her classmates, and a comforting escape from her chaotic, demanding family. Now as an adult and journalist, her love of ice cream has led to a fascinating journey to understand ice cream’s evolution and enduring power, complete with insight into the surprising history behind America’s early obsession with ice cream and her experience in an immersive ice-cream boot camp to learn from the masters. From a visit to the one place in the United States that makes real frozen custard in a mammoth machine known as the Iron Lung, to the vicious competition among small ice-cream makers and the turf wars among ice-cream trucks, to extreme flavors like foie gras and oyster, Ettinger encounters larger-than-life characters and uncovers what’s really behind America’s favorite frozen treats. Sweet Spot is a fun and spirited exploration of a treat Americans can’t get enough of—one that transports us back to our childhoods and will have you walking to the nearest shop for a cone.