The Direct Line Action Guide


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The Direct Line Action Guide is designed to help you find real and lasting success in your career, relationships, and finances. The messages shared in this program will help you begin the most exciting and rewarding journey on earth—your journey of self-discovery and personal fulfillment. With comprehensive surveys, potent reflection questions, and energizing action items, it will give you the knowledge, motivation, and guidance you need to better manage your life, attain your goals, and cultivate a meaningful existence. Success is not limited to finances; let Nightingale’s award-winning messages show you how to care for your whole person and find real and lasting success in all areas of life. In the Direct Line Action Guide, you’ll discover the importance of: Identifying and understanding your talents and abilities Learning from and overcoming failure Creative thinking Personal growth through knowledge Character building Living in balance And much more! Just as the success or failure of any business depends on its management, so the success or failure of a person depends on the way he or she manages himself or herself. The Direct Line will show you how to take control of your life and find happiness and contentment from the journey of striving toward your goals and cultivating a meaningful existence. Earl Nightingale, the “Dean of Personal Development,” broadcast his radio programs for over three decades on over 1,000 radio stations in twelve countries around the world. Bringing together his personal insight and wisdom gleaned from extensive reading on topics ranging from ancient Greek philosophy to contemporary medical studies and business research, he coached his listeners on how to achieve meaningful success in the multiple “departments” of living: family life, work life, leisure time, and income. The Direct Line program features many of his most powerful messages on achieving personal fulfillment through balanced living, attention to character development, intellectual cultivation, and creative thinking. As relevant today as ever before, it serves as a practical guide to attaining the most prized form of wealth: self-actualization.




The Direct Line


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Known as the “Dean of Personal Development,” Earl Nightingale broadcast his radio programs for more than three decades on over 1,000 radio stations in twelve countries around the world, making him one of the most listened-to broadcasters in history. An inductee into both the Radio Hall of Fame and the International Speakers Hall of Fame and a winner of the prestigious Golden Gavel Award, he dedicated his life to helping others achieve personal success, co-founding Nightingale-Conant, a world leader in personal development. Combining his personal insight with wisdom from the greatest minds in history—from the ancient Greek philosophers to contemporary thought leaders—he provides original and creative commentaries on life and the ways of successful living. Now, for the first time ever, Nightingale’s audio program The Direct Line is being offered in a beautifully packaged print edition. This book offers a practical guide designed to help you find real and lasting success in your career, relationships, and finances. The messages shared in it will help you begin the most exciting and rewarding journey on earth—your journey of self-discovery and personal fulfillment. In this life-changing book, you’ll discover the importance of: Identifying and understanding your talents and abilities Learning from and overcoming failure Creative thinking Personal growth through knowledge Character building Living in balance And much more! Just as the success or failure of any business depends on its management, so the success or failure of a person depends on the way he or she manages himself or herself. The Direct Line will show you how to take control of your life and find happiness and contentment from the journey of striving toward your goals and cultivating a meaningful existence.




Your Greatest Asset


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Has the “daily grind” diminished your enthusiasm for your various pursuits, both personal and professional? Are you in need of some fresh inspiration and motivation—some tangible strategies to help you rediscover your passions and break through mental blocks and other obstacles that are preventing you from achieving your goals? Let Earl Nightingale, one of the most successful radio broadcasters of all time and an expert on joyful, purposeful living, help you actualize your dreams by showing you the importance of creative thinking and impactful communication. As you’ll discover, these two elements hold the key to healthy relationships, excellence in leadership, success in business, and effectiveness in public speaking. Your Greatest Asset contains some of Nightingale’s most inspiring broadcasts on the subjects of brainstorming, problem-solving, decision-making, goal achievement, and interpersonal communication. Its simple yet incisive messages will teach you techniques and attitudes, which, if practiced regularly, will result in your living an even more creative, rewarding life. In this volume, you’ll learn how to: Become a better conversationalist (hint: it’s not about your speaking skills) Strengthen your friendships and marriage Handle disagreements in the most effective manner possible Cultivate the essential qualities of leadership Identify your employees’ talents and develop them accordingly Persuasively sell your ideas and/or products Form habits that help you overcome writer’s block and channel your creative powers Expand your perspective through lateral and vertical thinking Create more engaging presentations And enhance your public speaking skills Rediscover the joy that the critical power of imagination and creative thinking can bring when applied to the three “departments of living”—your family life, your work life and leisure activities, and your income—with this invigorating collection from “the Dean of Personal Development.”




Successful Living in a Changing World


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It’s time for you to rediscover your passion for living and thrive within this ever-changing world! Have you lost the gusto that once characterized your thoughts and actions? Sometimes all you need to regain your enthusiasm for life, work, and relationships is a pointed, friendly reminder of the details you are overlooking and the capabilities you may be neglecting. Successful Living in a Changing World collects the best of Earl Nightingale’s timeless lessons on how to enjoy more of the good things in life. With his signature wit and wisdom, Nightingale shares enduring principles that are the bedrock of success in a world that is continuously in flux. Who among us would not benefit from insight, enlivened with anecdotes and aphorisms, on the following subjects: Enriching oneself through creation rather than competition Advancing one’s career and building security by anticipating change in industry Using creative thinking to achieve success in any endeavor, regardless of circumstances Building healthier friendships, marriages, and work relationships through improved communication Reaching one’s potential by developing self-confidence, self-control, persistence, initiative, gratitude, generosity, and other crucial qualities. Reading these messages takes us on what Nightingale calls the most profound and interesting journey of our lives—that of self-discovery. As you encounter their truths, you can access untapped reservoirs of power deep within yourself and cultivate resilience and lasting fulfillment in your changing world. Known as the “Dean of Personal Development,” Earl Nightingale broadcast his radio programs for more than three decades on over 1,000 radio stations in twelve countries around the world, making him one of the most listened-to broadcasters in history. An inductee into both the Radio Hall of Fame and the International Speakers Hall of Fame and a winner of the prestigious Golden Gavel Award, he dedicated his life to helping others achieve personal success, co-founding Nightingale-Conant, a world leader in personal development. Combining his personal insight with wisdom from the greatest minds in history—from the ancient Greek philosophers to contemporary thought leaders—he provides original and creative commentaries on life and the ways of successful living.




Direct Action


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A longtime insider explores the origins of modern protest movements like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, offering a groundbreaking history of disruptive protest and American radicalism since the Sixties As Americans take to the streets in record numbers, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds. Kauffman’s lively and elegant history is propelled by hundreds of candid interviews conducted over a span of decades. Direct Action showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements—environmentalist, anti-nuclear, anti-apartheid, feminist, LGBTQ, anti-globalization, racial-justice, anti-war, and more—across an era when American politics shifted to the right, and a constellation of decentralized issue- and identity-based movements supplanted the older ideal of a single, unified left. Now, as protest movements again take on a central and urgent political role, Kauffman’s history offers both striking lessons for the current moment and an unparalleled overview of the landscape of recent activism. Written with nuance and humor, Direct Action is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the protest movements of our time. “The best overview of how protest works—when it does—and what it’s achieved over the past 50 years.” —Rebecca Solnit, The New York Times




The Direct Line Action Guide


Book Description

The Direct Line Action Guide is designed to help you find real and lasting success in your career, relationships, and finances. The messages shared in this program will help you begin the most exciting and rewarding journey on earth your journey of self-discovery and personal fulfillment.With comprehensive surveys, potent reflection questions, and energizing action items, it will give you the knowledge, motivation, and guidance you need to better manage your life, attain your goals, and cultivate a meaningful existence. Success is not limited to finances; let Nightingale s award-winning messages show you how to care for your whole person and find real and lasting success in all areas of life.In the Direct Line Action Guide, you'll discover the importance of:Identifying and understanding your talents and abilitiesLearning from and overcoming failureCreative thinkingPersonal growth through knowledgeCharacter buildingLiving in balanceAnd much more!Just as the success or failure of any business depends on its management, so the success or failure of a person depends on the way he or she manages himself or herself. The Direct Line will show you how to take control of your life and find happiness and contentment from the journey of striving toward your goals and cultivating a meaningful existence.Earl Nightingale, the Dean of Personal Development, broadcast his radio programs for over three decades on over 1,000 radio stations in twelve countries around the world. Bringing together his personal insight and wisdom gleaned from extensive reading on topics ranging from ancient Greek philosophy to contemporary medical studies and business research, he coached his listeners on how to achieve meaningful success in the multiple departments of living: family life, work life, leisure time, and income. The Direct Line program features many of his most powerful messages on achieving personal fulfillment through balanced living, attention to character development, intellectual cultivation, and creative thinking. As relevant today as ever before, it serves as a practical guide to attaining the most prized form of wealth: self-actualization.




Direct Action


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A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.




Earth First! Direct Action Manual


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300+ pages of diagrams, descriptions of techniques and a comprehensive overview of the role direct action plays in resistance--from planning an action, doing a soft blockade, putting up a treesit or executing a lockdown; to legal and prisoner support, direct action trainings, fun political pranks, and more. The DAM has been compiled and updated by frontline activists from around the US to help spread the knowledge and get these skills farther out in the world.




Direct Action


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Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"—nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin—played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos. Genealogies of the Civil Rights, antiwar, and antinuclear movements in this period are incomplete without understanding the history of radical pacifism. Taking us through the Vietnam war protests, this detailed treatment of radical pacifism reveals the strengths and limitations of American individualism in the modern era.