Ten Years Later


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Now a New York Times bestseller, in Ten Years Later, Today show coanchor Hoda Kotb tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere—and even thrive—and asks, What if you, facing a game-changing event or decision right now, could see ten years into the future? New York Times bestselling author Hoda Kotb examines game-changing moments experienced by six different people—then revisits those people a decade later. From a mother of two who struggles with an abusive relationship, to a civilian hero of 9/11 who suffers tremendous personal loss in the wake of the terrorist attacks: the harrowing obstacles they faced shook them to their core, but each of these people found the strength to take the first step in a journey that changed their lives for the better. In these beautiful, astonishing, and life-affirming stories, Hoda reveals how adversity can unleash our best qualities: resilience, perseverance, gratitude, empathy, and creativity. This book will show you how to believe in the future, no matter how dark the present, and inspire you to take the first step in your own journey of personal growth.




Designing Your Life


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.




Ten Years to Live


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My Life Map


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An introspective fill-in-the-blank that helps readers reflect on their past, evaluate the present, and dream for the future. My Life Map helps people at any stage of life create a visual road map of both their past and their future in major life areas such as family, work, play, friends, and education. Charting the past highlights patterns you may not have noticed before. Seeing the years ahead encourages you to set goals and shape a future with intention and purpose. This interactive self-help journal includes innovative mapping and chapters on Creating Your Maps (warm-up exercises for envisioning your future and tips on how to fill out your maps); Sample Journeys (completed maps of fictitious people at different stages of life); My Life Maps (blank whole-life, ten-year, and subject maps to fill out); Putting Your Maps into Practice (tips and tools for establishing next steps and annual checkups); and Reflections (blank pages to record discoveries, challenges, or promises).




The Ten Best Days of My Life


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Alex Dorenfield is a 29-year-old personal shopper. She lives in LA and is worried that what she is doing with her life is slightly pointless. Or at least she did - until she was killed by a Mini Cooper while walking her dog, Peaches, at four in the morning. When Alex gets to heaven she finds herself on the seventh plane, a place with no cellulite, walk-in closets, calorie-free ice-cream sundaes and a straight, single, hunky next-door neighbour. Sure, she misses her parents and is sad that she died so young, but things aren't too bad. In fact, she gets to see her grandparents again and catch up with the other people she loves who have died. Just when Alex thinks things are going to be fine, she finds out she has to earn her right to stay in this heaven - which means finding ways to right some wrongs she left behind.




The Wheel of Creativity


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The ultimate creative process is life itself. The results you produce in your life begin deep within you and work their way out from there. If you want to change those results, you have to change your relationship with Life. In The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life, creativity mentor Katherine Robertson-Pilling unveils the mysterious processes through which creation occurs and guides you to take your place within them. You are here. Take your place. Begin your adventure. The Wheel of Creativity(r) is a universal framework of the creative process, applicable to any endeavor. The 12 stations of the Wheel are the passages we all go through in the creation of anything new. Whether your vision is original artwork or a successful startup, the 12-stage process found in these pages will empower you to: Discover where you are today in relation to the life you long for Achieve the tasks required to profit from each stage of your creative process Set tangible goals and objectives for creating what's next for you Choose conscious and creative responses to your present circumstances Unlock patterns that keep you stuck and keep you from moving forward Enter the creative cycle of your life today and come through it transformed Recognize and channel the creative force of Life flowing through you As a professional writer and producer for more than 30 years, Katherine Robertson-Pilling is intimately acquainted with the creative process. But it was her personal journey that revealed its patterns in all of life. Those patterns became the 12 stations of The Wheel of Creativity, each with its own unique experience, task and reward. You have the power to transform the essential elements of life into the world's most valuable treasure. Take your place in life's adventure and use i




How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)


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In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.




Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far)


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Pearl Littlefield's first assignment in fifth grade is complicated: She has to write an essay about her summer. Where does she begin? Her dad lost his job, she had to go to a different camp—one where her older sister Lexie was a counselor-in-training (ugh!)—and she and her good friend James Brubaker III had a huge fight, which made them both wonder if the other kids were right that girls and boys can't be good friends and which landed one of them in the hospital. And there's much, much more on the list of good and bad things, as Ann Martin takes this appealing character into new adventures through which young readers will see that good or bad, life is what happens when you're making other plans.




My Life As a Ten Year-Old Boy


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Nancy Cartwright, the ultimate Simpsons insider, gives voice to the boy immediately recognizable as none other than Bart Simpson. Now, Nancy traces The Simpsons rapid rise to wild popularity, offers hilarious anecdotes about cast members and guest stars and reveals what its like to be at the center of a North American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core and forever changed the face of television.




Heal from Within


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Take control of your own health using this inspirational and empowering guide to true, holistic healing. In Heal from Within, internationally recognized medical intuitive and licensed professional counselor Katie Beecher shares a revolutionary, step-by-step approach to physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Using some of the same tools and exercises that Katie uses in her acclaimed medical and spiritual intuitive readings, the reader will be taught how to access their own intuition and spiritual guidance as they move towards healing that encompasses body, mind, and soul. With information from her spiritual guides and thirty years of experience, Katie guides readers to inventory their physical and emotional health, identify their key issues and the possible emotional, physical and spiritual contributing factors, then develop a strategy to permanently heal the root causes. The book includes inspirational stories about Katie’s discovery and development of her spiritual abilities and healing from an eating disorder, depression, trauma and Lyme disease as well as detailed accounts of the healing journeys of many of her clients. The second part of the book includes a comprehensive glossary of specific conditions along with tailored treatment suggestions. Filled with practical advice—from suggestions for supplements to exercises, mantras, and dialogue prompts —Heal from Within empowers readers to confidently take control of their own wellness and become their own medical intuitive.