Living the Simply Luxurious Life


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What can you uniquely give the world? We often sell ourselves short with self-limiting beliefs, but most of us would be amazed and delighted to know that we do have something special - our distinctive passions and talents - to offer. And what if I told you that what you have to give will also enable you to live a life of true contentment? How is that possible? It happens when you embrace and curate your own simply luxurious life. We tend to not realize the capacity of our full potential and settle for what society has deemed acceptable. However, each of us has a unique journey to travel if only we would find the courage, paired with key skills we can develop, to step forward. This book will help you along the deeper journey to discovering your best self as you begin to trust your intuition and listen to your curiosity. You will learn how to: - Recognize your innate strengths - Acquire the skills needed to nurture your best self - Identify and navigate past societal limitations often placed upon women - Strengthen your brand both personally and professionally - Build a supportive and healthy community - Cultivate effortless style - Enhance your everyday meals with seasonal fare - Live with less, so that you can live more fully - Understand how to make a successful fresh start - Establish and mastermind your financial security - Experience great pleasure and joy in relationships - Always strive for quality over quantity in every arena of your life Living simply luxuriously is a choice: to think critically, to live courageously, and to savor the everydays as much as the grand occasions. As you learn to live well in your everydays, you will elevate your experience and recognize what is working for you and what is not. With this knowledge, you let go of the unnecessary, thus simplifying your life and removing the complexity. Choices become easier, life has more flavor, and you begin to feel deeply satisfying true contentment. The cultivation of a unique simply luxurious life is an extraordinary daily journey that each of us can master, leading us to our fullest potential.




Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life


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How can you have a rich and fulfilling life? The choices you make, not your income or financial assets, are the most powerful determining factor for your quality of life. Women have never had so many options. Yet we often experience a kind of paralysis, an unconscious willingness to follow societal dictates rather than become the CEOs of our own lives. When we mindlessly follow the dots, we smother our innate gifts and miss opportunities to fulfill our true potential.There is another way-choosing to live a simply luxurious life. This book will show you how to invest your time and what to eliminate from your life. It will enable you to:* Design a life of purpose that is aligned with your passions and talents * Become financially independent* Enjoy cultivating a healthy mind and body * Build and maintain strong, loving relationships* Create a chic, timeless signature style * Design a comfortable home that is a true sanctuary* Travel in comfort and style* Discover simple pleasures that make each day something to look forward toYou can curate the life of your dreams by being purposeful and selective, no matter where you live, your income, or your relationship status. Luxury and true fulfillment are ours for the having if we know where to look and how to make the right choices.




Barefoot Luxury


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Glamorous Latin American getaways of the ultimate luxury class. Latin America is known for its grand resorts and ultimate in warm-weather relaxation. And Sandra Espinet knows all about this elegant style, designing gorgeous home interiors in Mexico’s high-end resort communities for the extravagantly wealthy. As a designer, Espinet has developed a signature style that assures ease and comfort while answering her clients’ desires for plush, imaginative escapes. Her anecdotes and design tips will urge the reader to leave the workaday world behind and escape to the warm weather, glorious sunsets, and grandeur of Mexican luxury living. Sandra Espinet operates her elite design firm, S.E. Design Services, in Los Cabos, Mexico. She has received numerous awards and has appeared on several HGTV shows and as a guest on radio shows and design blogs. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Mexico. She is the author of The Well-Traveled Home.




The Ultimate Credit Repair Guide to Having Luxurious Credit


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Bad credit? No credit? The Ultimate Credit Repair Guide to Having Luxurious Credit is loaded with knowledgeable, easy-to-follow advice no matter where you find yourself on your financial journey. Arnita, like millions of Americans, learned that having bad credit can jeopardize your livelihood. What started as an instant approval of credit for $2500, quickly spiraled into twenty-five unpaid credit cards, reckless spending habits, and uncontrollable debt that cost her a well-paying job and nearly destroyed her financial future. With a FICO score of 303 (FICO starts at 300), Arnita knew the only person who could repair the damage she did to her credit was her! She received no help from the credit bureaus and countless threatening calls from bill collectors. But after years of studying consumer rights and laws on how to fix what seemed irreparable, Arnita applied practical steps and proven methods that cleaned up her credit report and doubled her credit score in six months. This guide includes exclusive information on: Credit repair dispute techniques Inside secrets on how the credit bureaus work How to finally put an end to debt collector calls How to increase your credit score in 30 days How to write effective dispute letters How to request debt validation How to establish credit Sample well-written dispute letters What NOT to do when repairing your credit The infamous "Debt Collector Call Script" And MUCH MORE!




The Architecture of Luxury


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Over the past century, luxury has been increasingly celebrated in the sense that it is no longer a privilege (or attitude) of the European elite or America’s leisure class. It has become more ubiquitous and now, practically everyone can experience luxury, even luxury in architecture. Focusing on various contexts within Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book traces the myths and application of luxury within architecture, interiors and designed landscapes. Spanning from antiquity to the modern era, it sets out six historical categories of luxury - Sybaritic, Lucullan, architectural excess, rustic, neoEuropean and modern - and relates these to the built and unbuilt environment, taking different cultural contexts and historical periods into consideration. It studies some of the ethical questions raised by the nature of luxury in architecture and discusses whether architectural luxury is an unqualified benefit or something which should only be present within strict limits. The author argues how the ideas of permissible and impermissible luxury have informed architecture and how these notions of ethical approval have changed from one context to another. Providing voluptuous settings for the nobles and the leisure class, luxury took the form of not only grand palaces, but also follies, country and suburban houses, private or public entertainment venues and ornate skyscrapers with fast lifts. The Architecture of Luxury proposes that in Western societies the growth of the leisure classes and their desire for various settings for pleasure resulted in a constantly increasing level of ’luxury’ sought within everyday architecture.




Luxury Design for Living


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Luxury is defined in this stylish look at over 145 examples of ultra-high-end architecture, automobiles, timepieces, and lifestyle objects. Nearly 300 glossy images showcase the talents of some of the world's most creative designers--some instantly recognizable, others up and coming. Stunning photos of highly engineered houses, sleek furniture, bespoke timepieces, and the fastest, coolest cars are accompanied by a synopsis of the concept and brand. These pristine objects exist in a rarefied realm, offering their owners the ultimate in comfort, performance, and aesthetic pleasure.




The Human Lifestyle


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What is better to be in life, a prince or a pauper? A prince, certainly, since this is life, the tedious process of becoming a prince in life, or the tedious process of slowly modifying, adjusting, and improving your own lifestyle in order to achieve to live the life of a prince or princess, all done according to everyone’s living conditions. Since this is what everybody seems to do and desire throughout life, while slowly changing their life and lifestyle towards better, easier, richer, and more abundant living conditions. But is it good to be rich and have everything that you ever desire, or it is better to be poor and live a freer, denser, more unpredictable, more adventurous, and therefore more exciting life? Let us see, but who should ever decide your own lifestyle and living conditions, along with your own standards and meaning in life? And then, what exactly defines excitement, adventure, freedom, and fulfillment in life, along with all advantages and disadvantages of all lifestyles? Who exactly can tell what lives are better and what are worse, determining you now to adjust your own lifestyle matching whatever they assume that is best for you? Because it is your life, it is your lifestyle, and no one should control these, but you. Yet everybody does so, including authorities, hiding behind fancy words as democracy, recession, rights, chaos, evil, and criminality. And now, because of them, you have to live the lifestyle of someone else, it does not fit your own nature, needs, meanings, and fulfillment, while you never know what happens, just because you tend to associate lifestyles stereotypically with glamour, addicts, fashion, dictators, extraordinary wealth, and very important people. What can you do? Just learn everything about lifestyles in all details, and so you may design your own lifestyle as you please, in order to match your own meanings, needs, and desires in life. Because as long as princes are in control of this world and not paupers, then yes, princes will certainly control your life, along with your lifestyle and desires in life, as they please. And this is why being a prince will always be more desirable for you than being a pauper, while you might not even know it. This is what you seek and expect in life, but in vain, since you can never achieve it, because you are never allowed. And this is how you miss on everything else there is for you to witness and discover in life and in this world, since today, lack of money and lack of resources affect your life drastically, even causing you to stagnate or decay altogether. Because your development relates to your lifestyle, making possible your meaning, and therefore assuring your fulfillment, with an entire world focusing on addictions and social supremacy instead, altering the overall human lifestyle, while keeping the entire world unfulfilled. Throughout this book, we make an entire model of the human lifestyle, through empiric, cognitive, social, and higher perspectives, and then we run this model throughout a multitude of conditions, in order to identify and depict your current and envisioned lifestyles, adjusting them in a positive manner according to your needs, meanings, and fulfillment.




Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature


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Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature




Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese


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A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbors from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period. Using literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, an international team of specialists investigates the definition and changing meanings of the term luxury and its nearest ancient Greek equivalents, providing new insights into Sparta's supposed abstention from luxury, and the way that this was portrayed by ancient writers. They analyse wealth production and private and public spending, emphasising features that were distinctive to Sparta and the Peloponnese compared with other parts of ancient Greece. Other chapters investigate issues still familiar in the contemporary world: economic crisis and debt, austerity measures, and relief provisions for the poor.




The Emerald Handbook of Luxury Management for Hospitality and Tourism


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The Emerald Handbook of Luxury Management for Hospitality and Tourism brings together global philosophies, principles and practices in luxury tourism management, exploring the changing paradigms of the upcoming post-pandemic global luxury travel market.