Designing Your Dream


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Are you frustrated with your life and have big dreams, but can't see how they will ever happen? Do you have a dream deep inside your heart but have no idea how to start it? Have you had a dream so long that you no longer believe it can become your reality? In her inspiring new book, Designing Your Dream, Celebrity Fashion Stylist and Speaker, Gina La Morte teaches you how to start living your dreams, no longer just imagining them! By taking you through her step-by-step journey of triumph and tragedy, Gina shows you how to take your ideas and turn them into living dreams! By sharing her personal experiences of working in New York City in the fashion industry, Gina gives you the inside secrets of what she's learned about how to take your dreams from ideas into action, and finally make them your reality! Everybody has a dream! Dreams are the very stepping-stones that lead you to your destiny. They are birthed out of your passions and are containers for your life's calling. However, many people have locked their dreams away because of negative past experiences, fears, or life's responsibilities. To combat these "dream thieves," Gina takes you through her unique series of creative activations that will be forever life-transforming and provide you with the necessary tools you'll need to achieve your dream. In this book, Gina will ignite the passion within you and break you past the barriers that will unlock the dreams in your heart! Gina's dream is to help you live YOURS! And this book does exactly that!




Designing Your Dream Home


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You can have the home of your dreams! This comprehensive guide walks you through every decision and addresses all the details that most homeowners don't even know to consider. In this step-by-step, room-by-room handbook, Susan Lang considers every aspect of your homebuilding or remodeling project, such as how to Hire the right architect, interior designer, and builder Design each room to perfectly fit your family's lifestyle Plan ahead so all your storage needs are met Determine the perfect placement for light fixtures, switches, and electrical outlets Save money by avoiding costly design revisions or building change orders You'll find helpful forms and checklists that will keep you organized and assist you in clarifying your needs. And if you're worried that building your dream home might turn into a nightmare, Designing Your Dream Home covers the most common mistakes that homeowners make and shows you how to avoid them. Susan Lang has thought of everything, so you won't have to.




Create Your Dream Classroom


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Create Your Dream Classroom, the perfect resource for Christian teachers, provides tips and strategies to help you do just what the title suggests: create the classroom you've always wanted. This book contains fifty daily readings designed to help new teachers conquer the learning curve and to bring fresh ideas to veterans. Included are hands-on activities, journal prompts, and an interactive experience with a growing community of Christian teachers.




Land Your Dream Design Job


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You've just found the most detailed guide ever written to landing a product design job. Understand what you want, build your portfolio, interview with confidence, and get the job that's right for you.




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.




Design Your Dream Life


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You're One Decision Away from Making Your Dreams a Reality You were made to live out your wildest dreams. The passions and desires inside you are there for a reason, and they point to your greatest purpose. It doesn't matter how many times or ways you've tried and failed to reach your goals; starting today, you can get unstuck and on your way to the life you've always wanted. Starting today, you can reprogram and refocus your mind, body, and spirit to catapult you to renewed purpose and the success you've been longing for. In Design Your Dream Life, renowned dream coach Denise Walsh will show you the proven pathway she's used to help thousands of people like you get from where they are now to a life filled with more joy, wholeness, and fulfillment. She'll teach you how to: Develop a foolproof plan that will turn roadblocks into stepping stones Take the only kind of action that can make your dreams a reality Achieve significance, along with success Whether you desire to lose weight, make more money, strengthen your relationships, or you're simply tired of feeling stuck, Design Your Dream Life will help you to become the best version of you--everything God created you to be.




Dream Design Live


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Home decorating and furnishing inspiration from an Elle Décor A-List interior designer and tastemaker. In Dream Design Live, decorator Paloma Contreras goes beyond interior design to show readers how to inhabit their homes in fulfilling and beautiful ways. Divided into three sections, this hardworking book proves that the most appealing interiors are also the most personal ones. Contreras takes readers through the design process and encourages them to seek inspiration from the approach that works best for them. From thinking creatively to improve both your home and your life, to showing you how to turn your dreams into realities, the author reveals how you can take the welcoming space you’ve just created and spend meaningful time there pursuing the activities you love. “With stunning photography and accessible-yet-elegant tips, Dream Design Live fuses interior decorating advice with lifestyle recommendations and demonstrates how living a happy and satisfying life starts at home." ?Traditional Home "In Dream, Design, Live, Contreras . . . explores the design process through the lens of travel, inspiration, and personal style. As such, the tome is both an instructional lesson and a personal story, a great read for the design professional and enthusiast alike." ?Architectural Digest “The 240-page volume goes beyond helpful tips and pretty pictures to show readers how to find a design approach that works best for them.” ?Southern Home magazine




Downtown Chic


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Robert and Cortney Novogratz, starts of the hit Bravo series 9 BY DESIGN, have been renovating and designing unique and hip homes for families for over ten years. Describing their signature style as a sophisticated but bohemian mix of high and low, new and old, they offer their realistic advice on how to create original, warm interiors with ease. One part practical guide, one part inspirational volume on creating a look for the home, the book pairs humorous anecdotes about the pitfalls and pleasures of renovation with a treasure trove of decorating tips: how to use both boutique and flea-market finds; how to inject lots of personality into a room affordably; how to decorate kids’ rooms so they appeal to children and adults; how to easily rehabilitate outdated furnishings; and many more. In each of the ten projects featured—which include a townhouse in New York City, a country house in Massachusetts, and a beach house in Brazil—before and after shots document the agony and ecstasy of any renovation project, as well as revealing the design duo’s vision and remarkable ability to see through the most awful of spaces to the amazing home that lies within.




Create Your Dream Life Now


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Most people wait for that "perfect" moment to begin living for their dreams—a financial windfall, retirement, or perhaps a move to a new city—but sadly, that perfect time often never comes. Create Your Dream Life Now is a practical, but visually delightful illustrated workbook that encourages people to start living dream-filled lives now. By incorporating powerful workbook exercises, guided meditations, and nine key wisdom tools, the book teaches readers how to dramatically transform the landscape of their lives in just twenty minutes a day. The deeply transformational content of Create Your Dream Life Now is offered in a simple, fun, and inspirational way that makes an ideal gift book. Create Your Dream Life Now represents a midpoint between a visual poem and a detailed yet reader-friendly functional guide and workbook to spiritual practice. It stands out from other manifestation books by marbling practical exercises, interactive meditations, and spiritual reflection into the subject matter. The work of acclaimed artist Joan Coleman fills the pages of this four-color book, which includes sections on: Who You Are; Desire; Create Your Dream Life Now Meditations; Gratitude for the Now; Gratitude for the Future; Affirmative Prayer; Creative Visualization; Mindfulness Meditation; The 9 Keys to Creating Your Dream Life; Action; Synchronicity; Alignment; Faith; Wisdom; Prayer; Love & Service; Gratitude; Healing; Dream Week Living; and Dream Week Journal Pages.




Designing Your Work Life


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When Designing Your Life was published in 2016, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful, fulfilling lives (“Life has questions. They have answers.” –The New York Times). The book struck a chord, becoming an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now, in DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work they apply that transformative thinking to the place we spend more time than anywhere else: work. DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE teaches readers how to create the job they want—without necessarily leaving the job they already have. “Increasingly, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving landscape,” they write, and chapter by chapter, they demonstrate how to build positive change, wherever you are in your career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience, or if you decide it’s time to move on, Evans and Burnett show you how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive, engaged, meaningful, and more fun.