Relationship Wisdom

The vast majority of people avoid answering this daunting question. As a result, they spend their days aimlessly drifting or scrambling from one task to the next, never deciding upon a larger goal or plan for their future. However, studying the lives of the world’s highest-achieving individuals quickly reveals an essential truth that success—along with meaning and fulfillment—are found in the pursuit of a Definite Major Purpose, a goal so compelling that it inspires you to take action every day toward its attainment.

Introducing Preventing a Mental Breakdown, an insightful guide for how to use poetic and proverbial wisdom to reduce your stress levels, renew your hope, and reclaim your joy. Within this book, you will find the support, guidance, and space you need to assess your current mental health and identify what is causing your current high levels of stress, and how to overcome them.

Authors Jim Stovall and Ray H. Hull, PhD, are lifelong learners and teachers of successful best practices across a wide spectrum of topics including education, communication, and influence. The Art of Influence, written in Jim’s entertaining, story-telling style alongside Dr. Hull’s straight-forward, factual approach is a must-listen for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place of influence in life.

What's the secret to lasting happiness? How do you gain the resilience needed to weather life's inevitable storms? For ancient philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Zeno, and Epictetus, these questions were more than mere musings—they were key elements of a school of thought called Stoicism. In The Stoicism Workbook, you'll learn how thinking like Socrates can help you identify what truly matters in your life, and build the resilience needed to go and get it!

Dans cet ouvrage captivant, l'auteur explore les dimensions profondes et souvent négligées de la discrétion et du silence, et comment elles peuvent être transformées en un charisme puissant et influent. À travers une combinaison de recherches psychologiques, d'anecdotes personnelles, et d'exemples historiques, le livre dévoile comment la maîtrise de l'art de la discrétion peut enrichir nos vies personnelles et professionnelles.

Do you think you need better boundaries, but you don’t know how to get them? Are you drifting through life, wishing others could read your mind? Maybe you’ve tried so many times to set boundaries and you’re worn out, or you're giving your power away and avoiding confrontations. Robert Jackman, best-selling author of Healing Your Lost Inner Child and board-certified psychotherapist, gives you tools you can use right away to create healthy boundaries with your family, friends, and coworkers.

Imagine a life where you’re not constantly battling against the current—where stress doesn’t own you, and chaos doesn’t call the shots. Sounds like a pipe dream? It’s not. It’s the ancient wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, rebooted for the modern world in Effortless Action, Boundless Results. In this fresh take on Lao Tzu’s 81 verses, personal development expert Craig Beck strips away the mystic mumbo jumbo and serves up timeless truths with a side of wit and a dash of dry humor. No incense required. Just real talk about how to stop wrestling with life and start riding its waves like a pro.

What is a Christian husband's role in marriage? This short book provides practical answers to the above question. It’s so clear today that the devil has increased his operation against marriages, especially Christian marriages. The rate of divorce, even among Christians, is a great pointer to this unfortunate fact.

With contemporary commentary by Judith Williamson, the director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center, Napoleon Hill's Action Activities for Health, Wealth, and Happiness will guide you to live your own life, think your own thoughts, find your own goals, and achieve them by gaining power over your own mind. Simply by exercising this profound privilege, you can bring abundance into your life and with it know the greatest wealth of all peace of mind, without which there can be no real happiness.

The search for wisdom has been the pole-star of humanity for six thousand years. Religions have come and gone, philosophies have failed, but those surviving wells of wisdom go deep and yield sweet refreshment for the soul.

You know just how she feels: her joy, her curiosity, her will to take on the world. And why she needs the guidance of the person who's closer than close: you. This inspiring companion, filled with wisdom and values and the poetry of daily life, is full of lessons about courage, kindness, respect, boys, her father, dressing up, and all that a mother can do to nurture her daughter as she grows into a woman.

In Life After Death, Chopra draws on cutting-edge scientific discoveries and the great wisdom traditions to provide a map of the afterlife. It's a fascinating journey into many levels of consciousness. But far more important is his urgent message: Who you meet in the afterlife and what you experience there reflect your present beliefs, expectations, and level of awareness. In the here and now you can shape what happens after you die.

Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice—frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated.

Malcolm in the Desert is a roadmap for people navigating the crossroads of a confusing, fast-moving and uncivil world. Based on the teachings and the example of Malcolm X, as understood by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm in the Desert invites the reader to embark on their own personal...

Behold, the tome Warrior Wisdom, the most infamous, offensive, and subversive collection of quotations, maxims, and anecdotes ever published. Formerly issued as a training manual to members of the Righteous Warrior Temple.

Although millions of westerners practice yoga simply for its health benefits, this multifaceted discipline has far more to offer. In The Jewel of Abundance, author Ellen Grace O’Brian reveals an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful techniques for attaining prosperity. Drawing upon the ancient Vedic tradition of Kriya Yoga (the yoga of practice), she shows us how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher self.

Chai on Life by Lorie Kleiner Eckert is a heartfelt collection of essays offering wisdom drawn from everyday experiences. Eckert, an author and motivational speaker, reflects on themes of family, self-acceptance, resilience, and happiness, all with a dash of humor and Jewish cultural insight. Her engaging, conversational style invites listeners to explore the beauty of life's simple moments and challenges, encouraging a mindset of gratitude and growth.

Ignorance may or may not be bliss. But the right kind of ignorance can be genius. Expertise in any field is ultimately important to success. But it usually comes with a problem—a tendency toward incremental change and to become limited by what we know and what has worked in the past. As a result, the most innovative thinking that has driven upstart companies and allowed old brands to stay relevant in a fast-changing world often comes when we leave behind what we know best and what’s considered “possible.”

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she recreates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how a house can both hurt its occupants and heal them. She talks about Africa. She gives us a profile of Oprah. She enlightens us about age and sexuality.

Based on a foundational tenet from Conversations with God, “If you do not go within, you go without,” these four lines from Annie Sims’ first inspirational song found their way into Neale Donald Walsch’s CD player...and into his heart. Walsch has trained Annie ever since and now calls her his “teacher of teachers”, as she has not only embraced the profoundly life-changing ideas of CWG - she has embodied them. In Wisdom that Works, Annie shares how she applies the wisdom of Conversations with God to her everyday life, and shows us how we can too.