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The Quitter's Guide to Finishing: 101 Ways to Get Where You Want to Be

Betsy Schow · Countryman Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Motivational, step-by-step instructions on how you can finally keep those New Year's resolutionsIt's easy to make a resolution, but it's also really easy to quit. And the more you want to change, the more opportunity there is to give up. Betsy Schow knows that game pretty well...
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Smart Yoga: Apply the Alexander Technique to Enhance Your Practice, Prevent Injury, and Increase Body Awareness

David Moore · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

David Moore draws on thirty years of teaching to bring fresh and practical insights into how the Alexander Technique can contribute to a safer and more effective yoga practice. With a wealth of illustrations that support the clear, precise explanations, this book offers comprehensive advice...
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An Oasis in Time: How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life

Marilyn Paul · Rodale Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Now, more than ever, people are seeking a reprieve from the constant pressure to achieve, produce, and consume. While many turn to mindfulness and meditation, organizational change expert Marilyn Paul, Ph.D. offers a complementary solution that is as radical as it is ancient. In her new book...
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Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy

Mo Gawdat · North Star Way
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google's [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google's futuristic "dream factory." Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding...
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Crystal Muse: Everyday Rituals to Tune In to the Real You

Heather Askinosie · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Crystal Muse explores how you can transform life's challenges into opportunities for growth by being equipped with the right crystals and mindset. Learn how you can connect with crystals and empower your life by using this guide to set such transformational intentions as: - Attracting...
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How to Get the Death You Want: A Practical and Moral Guide

John Abraham · Upper Access, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

This is a comprehensive manual for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after...
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Make Room for What You Love: Your Essential Guide to Organizing and Simplifying

Melissa Michaels · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Your home is where life happens. Melissa Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Love the Home You Have and the best-selling book and blog The Inspired Room, knows how it feels to become overwhelmed by stuff. In spite of the messes and clutter that accumulates in daily life and the inevitable...
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When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship

Christopher Kennedy Lawford · Benbella Books
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Your partner's addiction takes a toll on both of your lives.That doesn't mean you should turn your back on the person you love. We've been told that staying with a partner who struggles with addiction - whether it be with drugs, alcohol, or addictive behaviors - means that we're enabling...
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Crafting Gratitude: Creating and Celebrating Our Blessings with Hands and Heart

Maggie Oman Shannon · Viva Editions
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback

We live in a fast-paced world where we are pestered from all sides with siren calls to constantly strive for something more, something better, something new, rather than find ways to stay grateful for the abundance and blessings already present in our own lives.In Crafting Gratitude, Rev....
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The Big Picture: A guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life

Christine B Whelan · Templeton Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"If young adults could be guided in the right direction for a life journey of meaning and purpose we would be grooming the leaders of tomorrow for a better world. This book is the perfect guide." - Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and author...
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Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life

Tasha Eurich · Crown Business
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive book on the science of self-awareness, Insight is a fascinating journey into everyone's favorite topic: themselves.Do you understand who you really are? Or how others really see you? We all know people with a stunning lack of self-awareness - but how often do we consider...
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

Michele Borba · Touchstone
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining...
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Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion

Gregg Levoy · Tarcher; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Discover—or rediscover—your passion for life.            What inspires passion in your life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back? In this exuberant and compelling book, Gregg Levoy, best-selling...
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Seeking Serenity: The 10 New Rules for Health and Happiness in the Age of Anxiety

Amanda Enayati · NAL
Format: Hardcover

In a provocative and practical look at modern stress, Seeking Serenity offers an empowering new message: Stress can serve as a guide to living our happiest and healthiest lives. In Seeking Serenity, stress columnist Amanda Enayati challenges our long-held assumptions about stress, painting...
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