Taking Baby Steps


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In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions through forming treatment relationships with medical professionals to confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.




Taking Steps


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Formal adult education definitely exists as a phenomenon, yet few researchers have tried to explain it. Contrary to non-formal educational courses, the 'social charter' of formal adult education allows an adult learner to become eligible for taking steps upwards on educational and career ladders. Anchored in organizational institutionalism and based on empirical studies in 12 European countries conducted within a large-scale research project within the Sixth EU Framework Program (LLL2010), this book explores the link between individual participation, educational provision, and employers' responses to provide the institutional basis for fulfilling one central promise of lifelong learning: support for social mobility. However, societies differ widely in how they institutionalize formal adult education. Taking Steps clarifies the concept's origin. The book develops a theory on and a typology of formal adult education, discusses individual participation patterns, and considers formal adult education's role within companies' training cultures. Finally, it explores opportunity structures for formal adult education in the US, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, and Japan. (Series: Studies in Lifelong Learning - Vol. 5)




Take the Stairs


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Do you ride the escalator-or take the stairs? No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world"-one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end-and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go. How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? This lively and insightful guide presents a simple program for taking the stairs-that is, for overcoming the temptations of quick fixes and procrastination, conquering creative avoidance, and transcending personal setbacks in order to tackle the work that leads to real success. Whatever your goals are, Rory Vaden's proven approach will get you there-one stair at a time.




Taking Steps Towards Mental Wellness: Volume 2 - What's Next


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“Learning to make the process of getting better stimulating is the key to the start of our success!” ~Scott Shoemaker In book 2 of the Sharing Mental Illness Series, the Author takes on a new journey with Taking Steps Toward Mental Wellness Part 2- What’s Next? The path of healing from anxiety, depression, and ADD can be turned into an intuitive adventure full of learning and creating a zest for life. Finding what’s next in our lives really turns the sharing process into a lifelong process of increased understanding with the hope that the world will no longer pass us by, but instead we’ll see if others can keep up with us! This second book in the series is also designed to be an easy read for even those that suffer from ADD or for anyone who has a difficult time learning new things. With real world examples, this is an easy to read guide that will grab you and keep your attention, and leave you knowing that you are not alone with your mental health struggles. “Scott writes not only about the personal journey he has made, but he does this in an open and brutally honest way in order to help others understand. His ability to express what he has gone through in the past and what he still has to fight today, is amazing in that it is done in language anyone can understand and relate to.” ~Sherrie Sheets RN, MSN “A keen and incisive retrospective. Scott Shoemaker conveys an understanding of himself from a non-clinical perspective that is genuine and relatable for anyone” ~Andrea Webb NREMT, Infusion Account Executive




Taking Steps Toward God


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Salvation is the first step in a person's spiritual journey, but it is just that, the first step. A person must not stop there. It is the intent of God to see all His children grow into spiritual maturity. The process of moving from spiritual infancy to maturity occurs by taking one step after another in the direction of God. This journey toward maturity is what the author means by the term "spiritual formation."It is important for Christians to have a guide to help them navigate the path leading to maturity. Dr. Hayes clears a path for spiritual sojourners to travel and provides assistance to those who are willing to take the journey. Not everyone is at the same place in this expedition. Some people who read this book will be at the very beginning of the journey. Some will be a little way down the path. Not everything in this book will be new to the more mature Christian, but they will make new discoveries if they pay attention to their guide.Jesus promised Christians can live in spiritual abundance. This can be achieved if the believer will put one foot in front of the other. Taking Steps Toward God will help readers to walk in the right direction.




Taking Steps


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"Roland, a hard drinking tycoon, is considering buying an old Victorian house, once a brothel. His solicitor and the vendor, a builder, arrive to complete the deal. Also in the house are his wife, a frustrated dancer who is always considering leaving him, her brother and later the brother's fiancee, who is uncertain whether or not to run away. In the course of one hectic night and morning, with continual running up and downstairs and in and out of rooms, these characters, each immersed in a personal problem, try to sort themselves out. The first act curtain finds the solicitor in bed with the wife thinking her to be a ghost and the fiancee inadvertently shut in the attic cupboard by the distraught tycoon who has taken refuge there in the spare bed. All this takes place in a highly ingenious and original setting in which all the rooms, passages and stairs are on a single level"--




Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy


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Directly linked with overall student achievement, graduation rates, and success in higher education, literacy is essential for reaching academic goals in a school or county. Adolescent literacy has become the focus of many school improvement efforts to meet the needs of secondary and high school students. Without the requisite expertise in literacy, administrators and other school leaders charged with literacy improvement initiatives need a systemic and sustained approach for improving student literacy and learning. Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy presents a concrete, user-friendly, and practical guide to developing, implementing, and monitoring a schoolwide or county-wide literacy action plan. Readers will find rubrics, tools, and processes developed and field-tested by the authors over more than 10 years of close work with schools across the country.




Taking Steps Towards Mental Wellness


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“Our future depends on our ability to cope rather than our ability to plan” ~Scott Shoemaker Taking Steps Toward Mental Wellness- A Personal Journey Through Anxiety, Depression, and ADD is the first book in the Sharing Mental Illness Series. The author is able to reach out to others that suffer from anxiety, depression, and ADD by sharing his stories and what he did to start moving forward in his life. He believes that people need real world examples and easy to understand ideas in order to make changes in their own lives. The books are designed so that even a reader who suffers from ADD can make it through in a weekend! Honest sharing and transparent vulnerability can be a challenge to any human being. Taking Steps Toward Mental Wellness is an easy read that stirs the reader to reflection their own sense of wellbeing. The insights offered lend hope and comfort.” ~Brenda Carle, RN, BSN, PCCN Brave and raw reflection on dealing with the challenges of mental illness. A good read for anyone!” ~Louisa Liguori RN, BSN, MBA




The Big Deal of Taking Small Steps to Move Closer to God


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THE BIG DEAL... shows how to develop a stronger relationship with God and more effective spiritual lifestyle by taking small steps that lead to big changes. Been running for Jesus a long time (I'm not tired yet) Been singing for Jesus a long time (I'm not tired yet) Been running by day and praying by night (I'm not tired yet) I've gotta get going, it's a mighty hard fight (No...I'm not tired yet) I've been serving God a long time (I'm not tired yet) I've been living for God a long time (I'm not tired yet) I've been praying to the Lord a long time (I'm not tired yet) It's an uphill journey but all I've got to say is (I'm not tired yet) The old spiritual song lifts you, but you are tired. Or maybe you're bored. You're still going to church. You're still praying. You're still serving. You're still giving. Deep within you, faith remains. But you feel a longing. You're not seeking fireworks. You're not a pew-sitter, safe in some spiritual comfort zone, looking for a thrill from the Lord. Your trust in God is secure. But you feel a longing for something more, deeper, fresher. If you've ignored these innermost feelings thinking they're no big deal, this basic yet dynamic program that Bishop Vashti McKenzie has implemented in more than two hundred churches with astounding results is for you. Individuals who have had many years of Christian life discovered a renewed sense of calling and purpose. Even new believers were invigorated in their faith-building process. Bishop McKenzie prescribes very small changes-such as adding a mere thirty seconds of prayer daily-that lead to radical closeness to God. And building an enjoyable, meaningful relationship with the Almighty doesn't mean striving for perfection. Small steps-but meaningful steps-collectively evolve into intimacy with God. And the big deal result is greater ability to biblically address life challenges. The big deal is that you're even more available to serve family, church, and community: truly in "no ways tired." Increasing spirituality is incremental, not monumental. Mustard-seed-like increases in positive actions (and corresponding decreases in negative ones) yield mountain-moving growth!




TAKING STEPS TOWARDS HEALING YOUR DEPRESSION


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Every time you purchase one of Shane's books to learn how to and to grow and change your own life, you will be changing the life of someone less fortunate than you. For just 99 cents, you can purchase ten bricks to help build schools in Kenya or supply 99 days worth of clean drinking water for a family. Shane will write 17 books and donate 100 percent of all proceeds to 17 seperate causes as part of the United Nation global goals initiative. 17 books, 17 causes. Shane's eighth book, is about how and when we can take those necessary steps towards a life free from depression. Shane will be contributing 100% of proceeds towards United Nations goal eight. 'DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH' Depression is something that I know well myself, both from personal experience and from the experiences of many people close to me. I remember receiving the diagnosis and the explanation that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain. I saw numerous doctors but I only seem to remember them asking me about the symptoms. As I recall, the outcome was only ever one of four things... The doctor would tell me that I would have to start medication, the next doctor would ask me to stop medication, another would ask me to try some new medication and yet another doctor, would play around with the dosage and adjust my medication. It got to a point where I decided that I was going to do more about healing myself than relying on my doctors and their medications. I began the long journey searching for ways that would give me the power to change myself. Taking the first steps to see someone for therapy beyond medication was a bit intimidating, perhaps mostly because of the fear of it not working and feeling totally beyond help and without hope. I struggled with addiction, homelessness, thoughts and acts of self harm and numerous attempts on my life, It took over a decade of personal study, observation, and a handful of therapists for me to reach the understanding that I have now, which I am going to share with you below. If you’re in a similar position to where I was, then the first thing to do is to congratulate yourself for having the courage to seek help that goes beyond chemical fixes. I hope this not only provides you with a lot more clarity, but also a better map for you and your own personal journey. It will help you heal the wounds of your past and create a much brighter future for you to look forward to.