Personal Success Memoir

The Magic of Life explores how he overcame tragedy, grief, and depression throughout his life. Even though he lost his mother, he and his brother were raised by his father and an incredible Jamaican woman who stepped in to fill the mother’s role. Michael shares his unique life about loss and how he finally addressed his grief with a blend of humor and inspiration that will have you crying and laughing throughout the book.

Zara seemed happily married. But behind her smile at parties and gatherings was a lonely woman. She found herself neglected by her husband Jay, a successful and preoccupied businessman and was no longer needed by her entitled and wayward son Arun. This all changed when they met the award-winning coach Rita Chowdhry. Through the framework called SAVVI, the three characters, based on real-life stories, transformed their lives.

What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Jim Carrey have in common? This deep analysis reveals they all achieved their success using Savanting’s biology-driven modus operandi. This unprecedented protocol exploits how savants outperform their potential - how they achieve incredible feats of genius from deficient brains theoretically incapable of them.

Nattanya Andersen's cherished career as a flight-attendant for one of the world's largest airlines careened to a halt, when a jet-engine-explosion five feet away from her at 6,000 feet altitude shortly after take-off left her with post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD). The mental health professions' apparent lack of knowledge concerning the treatment of PTSD-sufferers and Nattanya's desire to help herself lead her to search for empirical studies on PTSD and other health-issues and dangers facing air-crew - and by extension their passengers - on a daily basis.

Resulta imposible no sentirnos identificados con las historias, tan verdaderas, tan íntimas, que cuenta Laura Di Marco. Cada una de las reflexiones de este libro atraviesa algún laberinto emocional por el que todos pasamos en ciertos momentos. Di Marco nos ayuda a cambiar la mirada y ampliar la conciencia.

If you are overwhelmed, overburdened and struggling to find strength and security, you are not alone. In today's demanding and distracted world, it can be easy to lose center. What most people don’t realize is that no matter the obstacles in your path, a solution does sit peacefully within you—you just have to know how to access it.

Finally! A male survivor speaks out about male childhood sexual abuse. Randy offers survivors and their families answers to their questions of why victims act out the way they do, and strategies to start living with greater purpose and happiness. Unlike books based on academic theories and abstract philosophies, Randy Boyd talks candidly about what it takes for men, women, and their families to heal from the pain of childhood sexual abuse. Randy tells his story in a way that the lay-person can absolutely relate to.

Mental illness. Addiction. Pain. Fear. Control. Abuse. What images do those words stir in your mind’s eye? For me, those words paint a darkening abyss filled with millions of gallons of heaviness, guilt, and duty trapping me in tangible darkness. Why do I share this story? I write it for the victim. Why? Because there is more than hope, there is light, and I want you to know that you have worth within you more than you can ever know.

As a child, Vella Mbenna would lie under the sprawling oak tree in her yard, stare up at the clouds, and dream of exploring the world beyond her rural Georgia hometown. Muddy Roads Blue Skies is Vella's inspiring, deeply personal account of her amazing journey from the backwoods of Georgia to the far reaches of the globe. Part motivational memoir, part how-to success guide, part tribute to the power of dreams, Muddy Roads Blue Skies is a compelling listen filled with self-help wisdom and valuable life lessons.

Through her life's philosophy of Compassionate Creativity, Kali Quinn weaves a tapestry of experiences into an inspiring, funny, moving, and magical testament to the abounding resiliency of the human spirit.

Enough is a compelling account of self-determination and survival written with absolute honesty and passion. Part memoir, part manual full of tips, tricks and rituals to integrate into your life in order to be the best you can be, Enough follows the journey of Angela Cox. After years of unsuccessful and often dangerous dieting, she needed a radical mind-set shift and a floppy haired body coach by the name of Joe to finally change her own story and support others to do the same.

In 2010, at the age of 37, he began feeling a constant ticking inside his body, not knowing that what he was feeling was a virtual time-bomb that could explode at any moment. Seven months later, he was diagnosed with a rare and malignant form of cancer. In From Fear to Faith, author Matt Talford takes you on a journey through his personal war on cancer and shares the physical, mental, and spiritual tools that inspired him to reverse what he referred to as “a slow death”.

Norman Cousins, the author of many health related books, said "The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live", which is what had happened to me. However, I never in my wildest dreams imagined I was merely in an invisible cocoon and that someday, years later, I would experience a transformation and emerge as a happy butterfly. Now the past is just a story, one I told in this book. Enter with a brave heart as you hear about my journey.

Broken Child Mended Man is a remarkably compelling memoir touching on childhood neglect, years in foster care, and overcoming the odds to graduate college. Highlighting the emotional and psychological ups and downs during his formative years, Adam Starks manages to reveal human resilience in its most authentic form. Through a life of trial and error, the author displays bountiful courage by achieving life's milestones without a role model.

From bellbottoms and Bible camp to a career center stage, this beautifully written, heartfelt memoir, written in the style of Mark Twain, is both a coming of age and American success story. The first person in his family ever to graduate high school, Elrod made the unprecedented decision to leave his redneck region behind-the coalmines and poverty of Appalachia-and seek, instead, something more from life.

In 2012 Lenerd Louw is living the high life on Millionaires' Row in Clifton beach, Cape Town. The successful CEO of an insurance company and part-time playboy, he appears to have it all - gorgeous women, threesomes, ecstasy and cocaine on demand. But something doesn't feel right. He tries to drown a deep inner voice urging him to change his career, life - everything - by partying harder. By the end of December 2012, a massive shift occurs. He resigns as CEO, sells all his worldly possessions, and books a one-way ticket to Lima, Peru.

No Regrets Living is a proactive seven-step plan to help us better appreciate what we have in our lives, and take greater pride in what we've done with our lives - without spending precious time and energy wishing things had turned out differently. Dr. Rotbart brings his unique perspective as physician, scientist, child of a Holocaust survivor, and heart patient. Part self-help manual, part inspirational road map, part moving memoir, No Regrets Living is a blueprint for reaching greater satisfaction and fulfillment in life.

Are you controlled by fear? Does anxiety have you paralyzed? A life free of fear and anxiety is not only possible, it is your birthright. This is the brave and brutally honest story of one woman’s journey from surviving a lonely and perilous childhood to awakening to the truth of who she is and who we all are: the power, the creativity, and the loving essence that exists in each of us.

Stacie Broek was living the expat dream—three children in a central Tokyo private school, house and travel back home all paid for—until the morning when her carotid artery spontaneously ripped, causing blood to pool in her artery wall. Upon waking from a 10-hour surgery, Stacie couldn’t walk, talk, or feed herself. She couldn't remember her name, her children's names, or her own address. The new ignorance was menacing and dangerous. This once independent, full-of-moxie woman was reduced to a needy lump.

Life is presented to all of us a game that we must engage. It is up to you whether the wins and the losses define you or dictate your emotional state of (mental) well-being. This book is my honest account of the moments offering me the inspiration to evolve, and I believe there are nuggets of wisdom to be discovered in book to come. Know the mental grind is real and that there may be a tsunami of mental illness cases to come in the very near future if we do not rapidly disseminate hope.