Self Live

Born in Chicago, Dorothea Brande (1893-1948) was a widely respected journalist, fiction writer, and writing instructor. In 1936, Brande published a masterwork of practical psychology, Wake Up and Live! For many years, Wake Up and Live!, with its simple and sound advice for personal excellence, rivaled the popularity of contemporaneous works such as Think and Grow Rich and How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Whether you’re struggling to get started, afraid of making a big decision, or clinging to a path no longer meant for you—this book is the kick in the pants you need to take the next step and go after what you want. Gutsy is your guidebook to uncovering the audacious courage within you and making an impact on this world that only you can make. This book will help you learn to turn off the expectations of others, ask for what you deserve, stick your neck out, and be brave enough to take that next step.

The trajectory of Zahra Al-harazi’s life defies expectations. In this electrifying book that travels from a small village in Yemen to a small town in Minnesota to a Calgary suburb, Al-harazi describes surviving two civil wars, her years as a young, stay-at-home, immigrant mother with little education, and how she became one of Canada’s most successful businesswomen.

In Inflection Points: How to Work and Live with Purpose, renowned executive coach and speaker Matt Spielman delivers an energizing and hands-on existential navigational tool that walks you through how to identify what really matters in life and how to achieve it.

We know that they prayed, sang, and wore long robes, but what was it really like to be a monk? Though monastic living may seem unimaginable to us moderns, it has relevance for today. This book illuminates the day-to-day of medieval European monasticism, showing how you can apply the principles of monastic living, like finding balance and peace, to your life. With wit and insight, medievalist and podcaster Daniele Cybulskie dives into the history of monasticism in each chapter and then reveals applications for today.

Fluid and elegant, yet rigorous and rule-bound, chess is a game that seduces, confounds, and hooks. Now, world-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant Bruce Pandolfini shows readers how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation. No specific chess knowledge is needed, but after reading Every Move Must Have a Purpose, you will share with the most astute chess players the secret to thinking on your feet.

The 7 Thoughts to Live Your Life By will provide you with the most compelling thoughts that have the power to help you make your dreams into a reality, find happiness, achieve success, overcome the obstacles on your path, and become your best self. Internationally best-selling author I. C. Robledo discovered the seven thoughts after suffering through a dark depression. While meditating one day, he asked himself how he could live a better life and the seven thoughts came to him in a flash of insight.

If you’re tired of seeking approval, doubting yourself, and watching everyone else live their best life while you stay stuck on the sidelines, this audiobook is for you. This isn’t just another audiobook telling you to “just be confident.” It’s a straight-talking, no-nonsense guide filled with real strategies and mindset shifts to help you trust yourself, take action, and create the life you actually want.

Steps to Finding Inner Peace and Happiness: How to Find Peace and Happiness Within Yourself and Live Life Freely is an essential guide to actively attaining contentment. Through a regimen of positivity, accountability, and forgiveness, you'll soon be improving your environment inward as much as outward. And by redefining joy in an approach that's true to you, nothing will stand in the way of living a long and fulfilling life.

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining.

Using the law of attraction to your advantage: Here’s how to manifest the life you want and deserve.

Feeling annoyed when people think you are shy? Tired of being told you should be more outgoing? No, you don’t lack anything. No, you don't need to be "fixed". You are an introvert. And you're full of amazing qualities that are greatly needed today! As an introvert, you have a valid role to play, so stop trying so hard to be an extrovert. This audiobook is a wonderful invitation for you to embrace your introversion and grow comfortable in your own skin. It’s a call to live the life you were meant to live as an introvert, without guilt or shame.

International speaker and empowerment coach Shannon Kaiser understands why so many of us, despite our best intentions, cling to unhealthy patterns. Better yet, Kaiser knows how to get us out of the vicious, draining cycle. Committed to finding meaning, connection, and joy in our day-to-day lives, she's traveled the world in search of the universal truths and spiritual wisdom we desperately need today. Joy Seeker is her transformational approach to life, drawn from her own life-changing experiences. It is a path to discovering our true self - the hero within.

A totally vulnerable, deeply real, and delightfully humorous story set in Jamaica, New York, and Italy. What the Hell Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?! takes you on a journey from depression and anxiety to peace, purpose, and magic in today's modern world.

Dr. Gordon Livingston's national bestseller, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, has drawn tens of thousands of readers who have embraced its thirty bedrock truths about life and how best to live it. Now, in And Never Stop Dancing, Dr. Livingston, a Vietnam War veteran, psychiatrist, and parent twice bereaved, offers thirty more true things we need to know now.

Every woman wants to find It! I have spent most of my life searching for it!

If you have ever doubted yourself, your life's path, beliefs, or questioned what is true, prepare to illuminate the path to your personal truth. This is the best path. It is the one you are called for and that you must go on, or you will be left feeling unfulfilled, as if you missed out on something essential from life.

Henry David Thoreau observed that "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." It's so easy to get caught up in the day to day and forget why you're doing this in the first place. And before you know it, time runs out. So many of us feel as though we're not living our best lives or being our best selves, but what if you had the key to break free from the same old patterns, reignite your passion, and step into the life you were always meant to live?

Miko Marsh's Stop Surviving and Live! is helping people to transform their lives. Journey with the author as she walks you through the process she used to transition from poverty to provision, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Use her process to consider how you can empower and revitalize yourself. Discover a simple but life-changing method known to many minimalists and organizers, as well as why it is important to be thorough in the chapter on scaling down.

Have you ever glanced in the mirror and thought, Who even is that? Between juggling work deadlines, family responsibilities, and life's endless to-do lists, it's easy to lose touch with the vibrant, confident person you truly are. It's like being lost in a maze, searching for an exit but finding more dead ends. Sound familiar? If so, take a deep breath—you're not alone, and you don't have to stay stuck.