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EPICURUS and THE PLEASANT LIFE: A Philosophy of Nature by Haris Dimitriadis

About Featured Book: EPICURUS and THE PLEASANT LIFE: A Philosophy of Nature Kindle Edition– November 30, 2022 – Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition by Haris Dimitriadis

This book seeks to reintroduce pleasure as our innate guide to living a healthy and happy life—a simple yet powerful assertion based on empirical data, which stands up to the strictest scrutiny.

Along this journey, we will explore evidence throughout the historical evolution of philosophy up to the time of Epicurus, the ancient Greek philosopher who laid the foundations for a philosophy of nature. More specifically, it’s the only philosophy that distinguishes pleasure as the inherent human guide to a healthy and happy life.

Our multiscreen, one-click modern society is often accused of hedonism, yet this perception is contradicted by a widespread obsession with pain. Of course, pain relief and pain control are noteworthy themes, yet it remains remarkable that a minority seeks to understand pleasure and its role in life. Despite its significance, very few have endeavored to recognize and present guidelines based on scientific evidence that pleasure promotes health and happiness.

Contemporary society is characterized by a denial and fear of pleasure. This behavior is usually unconscious and always difficult to overcome. In many ways, we are all influenced and sometimes even consciously trained to resist pleasure.

This is taught to us by parents, medical professionals, educators, religious leaders, and other authority figures. Furthermore, the enemy is also often found within. Most of us harbor self-destructive tendencies which lead us to deny ourselves pleasure for a variety of reasons.

For many, healthy living hinges on deprivation. Aspirations to have a healthy body, for example, often lead to rigorous, rigid diets which are only effective for the moment they are followed. Meals become a source of measured pain in anticipation of a successful outcome that can never be extricated from denial and deficit. Contrasted with a life guided by pleasure, little (if any) resemblance is perceived. When one is motivated by pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment are emphasized rather than abstinence and deprivation.

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Networking With a Purpose: The Informational Interview, Its Use, and Why it is Valuable Tool by Brent M. Jones

Networking With a Purpose:: The Informational Interview, Its Use, and Why it is Valuable Tool by Brent M. Jones

Navigating the job market can often feel like a ruthless, cutthroat experience, but ironically, many job positions are never even posted. While specific positions seem limited in the job market, that may not be so. Many people land jobs that are never posted by taking the time to network correctly and get to know people in their chosen industry.
In Networking with a Purpose: The Informational Interview, Jones explores the value of interviewing and talking to the people that have the job that you want or who work in the industry in which you would like to work.

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Emerging From the Dark by Terence Ang

Emerging From the Dark by Terence Ang

★★★★★ “Phenomenal read, continuing work of bringing stroke awareness into the light!” – Reader review
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What does it feel like to have a stroke?

How do you move forward in a body that will never be the same?

Having a stroke is one of most people’s worst fears. But the truth is a stroke is a common medical issue.

Most of us have no real idea what a stroke feels like or what it takes to recover from one. Our fear often has us pull away from people who most need our help and support. Even medical professionals often fail to fully grasp what it takes to recover from a stroke or how much energy and grit that journey takes.

In his first book, A Cry in the Dark, author Terence Ang shared his moving story of stroke recovery with us.

In this new book, Emerging from the Dark, Ang has assembled a collection of moving stories from people in all stages of stroke recovery. In these pages, you will find tales of unimaginable courage and determination.

Most of all, these are stories of fighters. These are people who reject the idea of being a victim. Instead, they are fighting with everything they have to return to a normal daily life, even if the new normal is different from their old normal.

This book will change the way you see people recovering from strokes!

These are positive people with positive stories. They don’t want or need pity—they just want their stories to be heard.

Order your copy today, because the odds are that one day you or someone close to you will experience a stroke and this could be the most important book you will ever read

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Prepping For Success: 10 Keys for Making it in Life by Anmol Singh

About Featured Book: Prepping For Success: 10 Keys for Making it in Life by Anmol Singh

These 10 Keys Are Here to Make the Biggest, Most Impactful Changes in Your Life to Get You on the Road to Success! – Actionable Tips and Tricks to Finally Get IT

Are you looking to take your life to the next level but feel overwhelmed?

Are you looking to unlock all the success and happiness the world has to offer?

Are you ready to discover the 10 keys that will help you unlock just that?

In Prepping for Success, you’ll finally be able to turn your goals into a reality!

This light-hearted and understandable guide is designed with accessible yet truly powerful advice that will help you become the best version of yourself.

With easy-to-follow steps, this book encourages personal growth and striving for success on your terms.

Discover:

– Actionable tips to get you started on your journey: Find all the advice and skills you need to identify what true success looks like for you, and how to achieve it.

– How to access your inner power and take control of your life: Find out how to unlock the power of your mind and use it to create success.

– Ways to stay motivated, focused, and driven despite all odds: Discover tips on how to maintain a positive attitude even when facing failure.

– The fast-track to finally get IT: These keys are here to make the biggest and most immediate impacts on your life so you can finally see a difference.

– And more!

Whether you’re in need of fresh motivation or pondering some next steps in life, this book is here to inspire you!

Prepping for Success will leave you feeling refreshed, knowledgeable, and armed with all the self-belief that’s necessary for fulfilling your own personal dreams. This is not a textbook filled with rules but rather a supportive companion in your pursuit of success.

If it’s time for a change in your approach toward achieving happiness and success, let Prepping For Success give you the guidance to get there!

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Your Name by Mike Siver

About Featured Book: Your Name by Mike Siver

If your name is not a concern or value to you, why would it be a concern or mean anything to anyone else? Keep reading to learn how you can build and repair your reputation!

According to the Shakespearean adage, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.”

But “Your Name: How to Build and Repair Your Reputation” by Mike Siver MAC, CDVC, BCBC would beg to differ.

Your name is one of the most powerful assets you have in this life.

Most people will tell you not to be concerned about what others think, but in reality, that advice can only go so far. In this world, appearances may not be everything, but it will certainly inch you closer to what you are striving for.

That is why how we present ourselves, both in person and on social media, is critical in honing a good reputation that can help you in all facets of your life.

And that is what this book is all about.

This book doesn’t tell you to be ingenuine. Rather, it serves to teach you — in the simplest ways — how you can go beyond the bad cards you have been dealt with in life and rise to your full potential as a person who has a lot to give.

In this book, you are taken through every complex problem you face at every stage of your life to better equip you with the tools you need to transform into the best version of yourself.

Here, you will better understand why respecting the name you are given is crucial in bringing faith to self.
Here’s what you’ll get:

Your Name and Its Value: Learn how to take personal responsibility in how you live out your life and value what actions can take you further toward your goals
Your Name and Life Skills: Enlighten yourself with valuable insights about how your choices shape your destiny
Your Name, Children and Youths: Get to know the impact that valuing your name can have on raising your kids to become stronger, wiser, happier people
Your Name and Racism: Become more mindful of how much internalized racism can affect your own perceptions as well as that of the people around you
Your Name and Being an Adult: Learn to walk the talk and become a model member of society by building on your values and integrity
Your Name and Joining the Workforce: Set yourself up for success in your career by learning how to position yourself to write a new and better story
Your Name and Adult Relationships: Build better relationships by learning how your name can be synonymous to trust
Your Name and Marriage: Reach your full potential as a husband or wife, mother or father, man or woman by learning how to work in alignment with purpose, respect, and collaboration
Your Name and Becoming a Parent: Become better parents and raise children worthy of a good name by learning positive involvement strategies
Your Name and Growing Older: Have a better understanding of yourself, where you stand, and what role you need to play in the world to live a life that feels authentic and virtuous

And so much more!

There are not many writings about the integrity of a person’s name, and what is out there is not written as clearly and simply as in “Your Name”.

So, if you’re ready to change an attitude, behavior, reaction, addiction of some sort, or just become a new reinvented person, this book is for you!

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People Suck: A Cheat Code for Introverts by Mark Drolsbaugh

People Suck: A Cheat Code for Introverts by Mark Drolsbaugh

People Suck: A Cheat Code for Introverts is a hilarious and practical guidebook that will help you navigate the social landscape with ease. Written by a deaf introvert who knows a thing or two about not fitting in, this book is packed with tips, tricks, and real-life stories that will make you feel understood and empowered.

But People Suck isn’t just a survival guide—it’s a laugh-out-loud funny exploration of the quirks and idiosyncrasies that make introverts so unique. From the joys of canceling plans to the thrill of a good book, this book celebrates introvert life in all its glory. So if you’re ready to stop feeling like a fish out of water and start thriving as your true introverted self, this is the book for you.

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Coming Back From Heartbreak by Gaynor Morrissey

About Featured Book: Coming Back From Heartbreak: The story of one woman’s trek from loss to contentment by Gaynor Morrissey

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How do you get over heartbreak?
Like really get over it?

That's the over-arching question that Gaynor faced when discovering the biggest blow to her life…

Through the pages of this book, you’ll discover how Gaynor Morrissey moved from devastating heartbreak to finding joy in life again and the steps she took to get there.

Think of it as a behind-the-scenes walk through one of the most painful events to happen in her entire life.

At times, it won’t be easy reading as it’s written from the heart with raw honesty, and yet Gaynor's story will also take you from hopeless to hopeful, from bereft to bountiful, and from devastating loss to contentment.

Life can be tough, there's no denying that, but stories like Gaynor's help us see that even in the darkest of nights, there is light, and with a little bit of time (and a lot of wine!) hope will start to spring and life begins in full color again.

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Writing Professional Emails: The Step-by-Step Guide by Michelle Swann

About Featured Book: Writing Professional Emails: The Step-by-Step Guide by Michelle Swann

Writing Professional Emails addresses every aspect of email communication: from the subject line to the signature. It teaches how to tailor emails to meet recipients’ needs and fulfill readers’ expectations. Following this advice ensures emails will be read, appreciated, and acted upon.

Engaging, practical, and comprehensive, this guide offers straightforward methods that will help you
• write high-quality, persuasive, focused emails
• know whether to use a formal or an informal style
• communicate effectively in cross-cultural contexts
• use emotional intelligence to build excellent relations with your recipients
• learn useful phrases applicable to all emails
• manage your inbox effectively
• write emails that convey social presence, an appropriate tone, and a positive human voice
• know when it’s best to use other communication platforms besides email

Many books about email are based on one person’s perspective, but this book offers best practices resulting from careful and extensive research. The author combines considerable personal experience with the knowledge of a wide range of experts, many of whom consult for Fortune 500 companies.

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Zero Waste Hero: Going Plastic Free and Tips to Live a Waste Free Life

About Zero Waste Hero: Going Plastic Free and Tips to Live a Waste Free Life:

Do you feel guilty every time you throw something away? If you’re tired of feeling like a garbage-generating machine, this ebook is for you.

We’ll take you by the hand (figuratively, of course, unless you’re into that sort of thing) and guide you through every room and area of your home and life.

And don’t worry, we won’t judge you for that embarrassing amount of plastic in your pantry.

But seriously, we’ll show you how to eliminate plastic, toxins, and wasteful habits from your life, one checklist for success at a time.

From your kitchen to your bathroom, your wardrobe to your cleaning supplies, we’ll help you transform your life into a sustainable paradise (and have a few laughs while we’re at it).

And speaking of checklists, we’ve got a bunch of them! Each section of the book includes its own handy-dandy checklist, so you can track your progress and feel accomplished every step of the way. Who knew saving the planet could be so satisfying?  
 
In this ebook, you’ll:

① Discover plastic-free alternatives, and tips to make less garbage and reduce your waste—So you can have more money to spend on the things that really matter (like chocolate).

② Find out how to live a green life without sacrificing your comfort or style, and enjoy the benefits of a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle—So you can finally feel calm and organized in your home (and stop tripping over all the junk). 

③ Develop a checklist for success with practical steps and actions to make your home a zero waste haven—So you can feel good about doing your part for the environment (and impress your eco-conscious friends).

④ Gain courage and confidence to be a minimal mom or dad, raising your children in an eco-conscious and sustainable way–So that you can feel good about doing your part for the planet, and inspire others to follow in your footsteps (all while creating a better future for your children and generations to come).
 
So if you’re ready to become the eco-warrior you were always meant to be, grab a copy today and let’s get started!

With staggering amounts of waste produced every day, it’s time to vanquish the trash and conquer a green lifestyle together.

You don’t have to be a superhero to save the planet, just a Zero Waste Hero.

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The Half-Known Life: What Matters Most When You’re Running Out of Time

About The Half-Known Life: What Matters Most When You’re Running Out of Time:

“I’m going down now,” I said to a young woman a few seconds before the darkness-my first cardiac arrest. As I returned to work as a behavioral coach, it became maddening to hear about all-consuming, everyday problems and misguided priorities while I fought to merely remain conscious.

The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core-a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into a moment of clarity. Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them. Why wait until you’re burnt out or for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life? Who are you when all of the accolades and accomplishments are gone? What does how you manage your time say about what’s important to you-about what matters most? Get out of your head and get into your life, before it slips away.

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Life Changing Vision: Launch Direct Action, Realizing Necessary Elements, To Live Large by L. Darnell Williams

Life Changing Vision: Launch Direct Action, Realizing Necessary Elements, To Live Large by L. Darnell Williams

If you want to discover, explore, and master yourself, you need to use your insight and create a Life Changing Vision. The purpose of this book is to elevate business owners, entrepreneurs, and people who are underserved to believe they can thrive in their personal and professional lives. Through this “Life Changing Vision” people can secure their goals and reach guaranteed success. The book’s aim is to encourage you to use inside-out thinking to accomplish positive personal and business goals for yourself. Your Life Changing Vision will cause you to love yourself and to control your thoughts and beliefs resulting in a positive and happier you.

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Understanding Workplace Burnout by N.L. Nelani

About Understanding Workplace Burnout by N.L. Nelani:

How is it that we continually end up in a state of burnout, and how do we finally get out of it? Many of us don’t realize we’ve overworked and undervalued our “me time” for so long. However, this craze of not maintaining a proper work-life balance needs to be addressed. Begin with this book if you’re ready to dive in and take control of your life.

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The Magic of Trees

About The Magic of Trees:

The Magic of Trees is not just a book on tree magic. It is about drawing on the strength of forests and tree energy to better connect with ourselves, other people, and the world around us. Each chapter reinforces meditations, spells, and rituals that will reconnect humanity with its roots at every stage of life.

These practices take a hands-on approach to life and spiritual work. They lead to individual self-awareness and fulfillment through healthy natural practices. Plus, this text has the added benefit of fine-tuning spiritual tree connections ─ which never stop growing.

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The Grand Facade: How your emotions shape you and how releasing them allows you to reshape yourself! by Danielle Gaucher

The Grand Facade: How your emotions shape you and how releasing them allows you to reshape yourself! by Danielle Gaucher

Did you know that your emotions shape the way you are?
The way you interact with the world, the way you are with strangers, the way you are with friends?

Have you ever had one of those out-of-body experiences where your body is physically there, but you—the conscious you—is floating above, watching things unfold?

That’s exactly what happened to Danielle… and without ruining the story and the messages inside, this experience led her on a path to healing the emotions she had buried deep inside.

Because here’s the thing… the more we hold onto our emotions, the harder it is to release them. This can lead to the forming of a metaphoric hardshell around ourselves.

In this book, The Grand Facade, Daniele walks you through her own personal journey of healing body breaks by releasing emotions.

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The Last Harvest by Lucien Mars

About Featured Book: The Last Harvest: A Secret History of Lucifera, Aliens, The Illuminati & the Fate of Humanity by Lucien Mars

What if your beliefs about reality were wrong?

The Secret History of Angels, Demons, Aliens and the militarized Culture of Fear in these final days.

Lucien Mars reveals the secret history of humanity contained in an ancient ME stone, or computer crystal, known as a “flaming stone” GirKu chronicle. Included are the galactic wars that led to the Fall described in the bible and why alien cultures such as the Anunnaki and others want to enslave Earth. For the first time the full history of Lucifer and the Fall is revealed, with a stunning conclusion affecting everyone as the fate of humanity hangs in the final balance. Uncover the mystery of the Dark Goddess, Lucifera, mother of the genetic re-creator known as Lucifer, who plays a leading role in this cosmic drama.

The book provides a blistering expose that explains how the Illuminati were genetically related to Lucifer and spawned the socio-fascist New World Order. The contents may shock your conceptions of reality as the final earth-shattering pieces of the cosmic puzzle are being instituted to depopulate the planet and recolonize it with a hybrid race of super humanoids, designed to serve and worship the new World Order.

How will you respond to Humanity’s Eviction Notice Engraved upon the Anonymous Georgia Guidestones?

The Illuminati Plan they have prepared for you is summarized on the monolithic Georgia Guidestones erected in Elbert County anonymously in 1979 in a faux Stonehenge fashion. Engraved on the stones are ten neo-fascist commandments, politically spun into Orwellian “instructions.” More importantly they unveil a fascist plan for eugenic extermination and global genocide.

The first commandment reveals all the rest: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” Since the world’s population now stands at 7.8 billion, what shall be done with the expendable 7.3 billion? The alien answer seems the most obvious: First institute species integration, followed by militarized assimilation and final hybridization of 500,000,000 aliens over time and systematically exterminate the rest. That’s The Plan, carved in stone for all to see. So, the question remains: Are they humanity’s guide stones, or tombstones? Find out inside…

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Airway is Life: Waking up to Your Family’s Sleep Crisis by Dr. Meghna Dassani

Airway is Life: Waking up to Your Family’s Sleep Crisis by Dr. Meghna Dassani

In Airway is Life, Dr. Meghna Dassani, DMD gives you the information you need to spot sleep-disordered breathing and other issues so that you can get the help that you and your family need.

Why are stages of sleep important?
What diagnosis might show that sleep is an underlying issue?
How can you convince your doctor to prescribe a sleep study?
Dr. Dassani’s interesting, accessible work will give you the tools you need to protect your family’s sleep breathing and change their lives.

Meghna Dassani, DMD is passionate about helping patients with sleep-disordered breathing get the treatment they need to live healthier, happier lives. Throughout her career, she has gained invaluable insight into what it takes to implement those services into the practice and currently shares her knowledge and experience in her role as a speaker. She is an international speaker that strives to leave audiences with the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver sleep apnea treatments. Before attending the Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University, Dr. Dassani operated a successful practice in Mumbai. For the past 13 years, she has been practicing in Houston, Texas where she continues to enhance her knowledge of obstructive sleep apnea.

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I Didn’t Know Annuities Could Do That!: Worry-Free Strategies to Thrive in Retirement by Mark Orr

I Didn’t Know Annuities Could Do That!: Worry-Free Strategies to Thrive in Retirement by Mark Orr

Retirement. One’s Greatest Gamble Is Substituting Hope for a Plan

Hope that stocks won’t ever crash again. Hope that inflation won’t cause your purchasing power to be cut in half over time. Hope that higher taxes won’t cause you to drain your savings quicker than you’d like to maintain your lifestyle. Hope that Social Security won’t run out of money as your annual statement warns.

What’s YOUR plan?

There are only TWO doors to retirement. You will either outlive your money… or your money will outlive you. There is NO THIRD DOOR!

Annuities. You either love them, hate them, or simply don’t know enough about them to decide if one of them may be right for your financial goals! This book teaches how when used as intended, annuities can make a dramatic difference in your retirement success by avoiding all market losses and with the proven mathematics of actuarial science.

** Learn how some accumulation annuities can trounce the returns of bonds
without the risks inherent in bonds.

** See how using a few annuities with attractive GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME
can provide higher income with a substantially lower investment than required
for the “4% rule.”

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Work Matters It Takes Technology, Insight, and Strategies for Job Seekers in this Evolving World

About Work Matters It Takes Technology, Insight, and Strategies for Job Seekers in this Evolving World:

This book focuses on changes that job seekers face today, including the demands of technology on both the job seeker and those seeking candidates.

Also, the focus is on the positive influences, personal reinvention, and interests that complement these goals to help us reinvent ourselves and our careers. Finally, we must learn to “Be the Change” and “Reinvent Ourself Each Day.” We must “Reinvent the Future” and “Make Order out of Chaos.” These goals help us “Choose the Right Direction in Life” and “Find needed Inspiration.”

What is the difference between this book and other books for job seekers and networkers? A significant difference is how the conclusions and suggestions were developed. Working one-on-one with hundreds of people seeking jobs and career changes over many years is where the difference began. The differences were also in the firsthand lessons as this evolving world has undergone many radical changes.

The work leading to the book was about coaching and teaching, including networking, resumes, LinkedIn, informational interviewing, finding jobs with technology, and all the things that go into a successful job search. Candidates often needed help understanding how LinkedIn could help them by boosting their confidence, creating focused self-promotion, and designing a profile that would be found by the algorithms that would show them where they fit.

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Two Counsellors Wandering Around A Prison by Katie Carlyon

About Two Counsellors Wandering Around A Prison by Katie Carlyon:

From disasters in recruitment to questioning deaths in prison, Katie Carlyon takes you on a thought-provoking and emotion evoking journey with her experience of counselling in a prison.

Introducing you to the second counsellor Rebecca who walked alongside her on her journey of process, emotions, and dilemmas. Katie guides you through every part of her journey from setting up and embedding a counselling service to making the heart wrenching decision to leave.

The chapters invite you to explore the impact counselling had on the men she worked with and delves into the questions raised within her – as she watched the men navigate their way through the stages of prison life

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