The Opportunities of a Lifetime


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This report uses a revolutionary new research tool, LOIS (the Lifetime Opportunity and Incentives Simulation programme), to assess the impact of current government social policy on our lives from cradle to grave. The strengths and weaknesses of the British benefit, pension and taxation systems are analysed in terms of how well they meet, or are likely to meet, the needs of individuals throughout their lifetimes. Specific government promises, such as those to end child and pensioner poverty and to reward those who work, are also reassessed in this context. The opportunities of a lifetime is compulsory reading for social policy academics, researchers, analysts, students and policy makers who will find the innovative lifetime analysis invaluable. With brief and clear descriptions of the technical aspects of taxation, pensions and benefits, the report is also accessible to a wider readership.




The Opportunity of a Lifetime


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Life Reimagined


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A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.




Opportunity


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Opportunities are limitless and abundant. The problem is, many people can't recognise them. It can feel like opportunity doesn't knock for you, or other people get more opportunities, or you have bad luck and timing. You just need to know where to look. How to ask. When to ACT. Opportunity can be a window or a door; sometimes it opens right in front of you and sometimes it knocks. You need to be ready: windows, doors and eyes open. Are you waiting for that once-in-a-lifetime or business opportunity to change your life? How will you know when it comes? How will you be sure it's right for you? This book is not about waiting for an opportunity. It's a book containing strategies that can be employed immediately, ensuring you attract opportunities abundantly, both big and small, and you're ready to recognise and take them. To turn ideas into opportunities. Successful people often make their own luck - they find success because they have trained their minds to recognise great opportunities and make the most of them, rather than freezing with uncertainty or lacking the vision to see them through. They know the opportunity cost of not taking them. In this book you'll learn how to spot, seize and implement the right opportunities, and how to say NO to the wrong ones. You'll learn to take fast and slow opportunities. When opportunity appears you'll be ready to take advantage, seize the day, and win at life.




Opportunity


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"In the world of online entrepreneurship, Eben Pagan is one of the most original, brilliant thinkers out there.Opportunity is a must-read for anyone who wants to make it online." -- Larry King, award-winning television and radio host Make the most of life's opportunities with savvy internet marketer Eben Pagan's ode to opportunity: how to recognize it, how to find more of it, and how to make it work for you. Well-known entrepreneur teacher and technology investor Eben Pagan has spent thousands of hours studying opportunity. After interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, self-made millionaires, and billionaires, Eben found that successful people have something in common: they are better at finding and creating opportunity, and they're better at choosing which opportunities to bet on. This book shows you how they do it, giving you the tools to find and create a lot more opportunity in your work, in your business, with money, and in your life. In today's world, we have more options than ever to travel to new places, meet new people, start new businesses, and make new investments. But with this increase comes "opportunity shock" and the confusion that comes from having too many options. Inside this book, you'll learn: • What opportunity is, how it works, and where to find it • How entrepreneurs and investors are turning big change into big opportunity • How to discover and develop more great opportunities in business, money, investing, health, happiness, relationships, and personal development • How to overcome fear of failure so you can have more of what you want in your life • How to become an innovator and thought leader, helping others find their own opportunities "In the world of online entrepreneurship, Eben Pagan is one of the most original, brilliant thinkers out there. Opportunity is a must-read for anyone who wants to make it online." -- Larry King, award-winning television and radio host




Whither Opportunity?


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As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In Whither Opportunity? a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is undermining one of the most important goals of public education—the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success. The most ambitious study of educational inequality to date, Whither Opportunity? analyzes how social and economic conditions surrounding schools affect school performance and children’s educational achievement. The book shows that from earliest childhood, parental investments in children’s learning affect reading, math, and other attainments later in life. Contributor Meredith Phillip finds that between birth and age six, wealthier children will have spent as many as 1,300 more hours than poor children on child enrichment activities such as music lessons, travel, and summer camp. Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems – attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students. As a result of such disparities, contributor Sean Reardon finds that the gap between rich and poor children’s math and reading achievement scores is now much larger than it was fifty years ago. And such income-based gaps persist across the school years, as Martha Bailey and Sue Dynarski document in their chapter on the growing income-based gap in college completion. Whither Opportunity? also reveals the profound impact of environmental factors on children’s educational progress and schools’ functioning. Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina Gibson-Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs. They find that community-wide stress is most likely the culprit. Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year – a common occurrence in poor schools. And David Kirk and Robert Sampson show that teacher commitment, parental involvement, and student achievement in schools in high-crime neighborhoods all tend to be low. For generations of Americans, public education provided the springboard to upward mobility. This pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools’ functioning, and with it the promise of equal opportunity in America.




Opportunity of a Lifetime


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No Opportunity Wasted


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In dramatic narrative form, Phil Keoghan transports the reader from the Yucatan Jungle to the depths of an underwater cave to the top of an erupting volcano. But this is no armchair traveler book. It is an urgent call to action, inspiring and enabling people to overcome fear and seek out memorable experiences of their own. With his fresh and compelling N.O.W. philosophy, No Opportunity Wasted will help us all dream more freely and live more fully.




Life - Has 'if' in It for a Reason - Make It Count


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This book is for everyone who needs a little inspiration and wisdom along the path of life. If you are a student, a graduate, a shop assistant or a senior manager. If you have just been made redundant, just retired or are a mother of three with a mortgage (and can't remember the last time you had any time to yourself). If you are in a dead-end job and life only exists between Friday night and Monday morning. This book is for you. The bad news is very few of us get to do what we want in life. 'Life and work', or in most cases 'work and life', get in the way. Most (but not all) of us hate Mondays, long for Fridays and, as the years go by, slowly commute our way to retirement or death, whichever comes first. The good news is it doesn't have to be that way. This book is all about how to make the most of life's opportunities. Life is a one-way journey make it an interesting one.




The Immense Opportunity


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Brief Description Human potential, an unmet need, calls for the very rectification of one's state of mind for a better, well-lived life. Jacob Ryan, an art and philosophy enthusiast, writes looking at the psychology and the potential of human beings to help them find the key fundamentals central for optimal living. Every day, he works on creating ways that can mend the discreet state of humanity and inspire people to expand to greater levels of consciousness and enhance their capacities for critical thinking. The Immense Opportunity, a piece that is written with utmost devotion and passion, invites readers to consider life as an infinitely expanding endeavour, one where limits of potential are unforeseeably boundless.Detailed Description What's required of us in order to live a life as well as we can? This is a question that has troubled the ages for many centuries of past. Yet a question that still appears extremely complex in our existing modern culture. What if the answer to such a question was much simpler than the complexity it first suggests? Many faculties of human knowledge such as religion, spirituality, science and mysticism do their part in responding to this question. Here, The Immense Opportunity seeks to explore this very question through a peculiar lens and suggests its discovery is much closer than we may initially assume. Readers will be taken on a journey to explore the complex dynamics of human experience. How it interfaces with the life surrounding it and what can be done to begin perceiving life in a vastly different light. Human mind, self, culture, perception, growth, and potential are but some of the faculties explored. The book proposes unconventional thought and new ways of operating quite possibly uncommon to some. Inviting readers to consider the possibility that life may be more miraculous then how it is commonly conceived.The sole purpose is to provide a brief exploration of the possibilities that life can offer. An insightful way of interpreting life through a lens that widens the present scope. One that looks at life through a lens of abundant opportunity. One that invites seeing the profound beings that we are and how we can begin operating from such a realisation.This piece acts as a symbolic exemplification of Jacob Ryan's work through his established online platform, Eunimity. An invitation from Eunimity, to you. Here, you will be taken on an exploration into some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience. Allow this to be a powerful exploration that enables the possibility of an Immense Opportunity.Blurb Life itself is a concoction of craze, joy, confusion, challenge, surprise and learning. It is within this conglomeration we at times lose our state of balance and perspective. The Immense Opportunity endeavours to explore the dynamic dimensions of life and the way that we as humans move in motion with them. Providing a brief guide on some of the key fundamentals that are central to a life abundantly lived. Exploring the mechanics of society, unity, perspective, mind and self through an opportunistic lens. Drawing on key insights of deep envisioning and contemplation that can be both practically and conceptually implemented in daily life. The central theme of the book invites the reader to consider that life is not an inherent disparity but rather disparity becomes the making of the perceptions that maintain it to be. This is a deep exploration into opportunity, inviting a new way for life to be experienced.