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The Sufi poet Rumi once claimed that it is better to live the questions than always know the answers. In this spirit, bestselling author Dan Millman offers a book of contemplative answers to the common spiritual questions that we all live with. Millman has created a very readable format where he poses a question, offers a brief response (which he calls a “House Rule”), and then elaborates with lengthier thoughts and anecdotes. For example, when he asks, “Where can I find the right teacher for me?” he answers with this House Rule: “Our teachers appear in many forms.” He then goes on to discuss how teachers can appear in the form of nature, strangers, children, or unexpected circumstances. Other questions include, “Why does my life seem to be getting worse?” (HR: “If we don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder.”) “What’s the best way to make a big difference in the world?” (HR: “Little things can make a big difference.”)

Although Millman became famous as a storyteller in the parable Way of the Peaceful Warrior, his spiritual roots come from the discipline of martial arts. As a result, he sounds much more natural when conveying codes of honor than writing realistic dialog. To his credit, Millman has mastered a difficult and highly needed art form: writing an accessible guidebook on living purposefully that could soften the most jaded of hearts and sharpen the most undisciplined of spirits. –Gail Hudson

Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions

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Everyone desires to achieve their goals and realize success, yet few do. The Habit Factor® encapsulates nearly 3,000 years of philosophy and success literature to reveal the most elemental and profound truth governing all personal achievement: HABIT is the single-greatest determinant in a person’s ability to realize a life of success and achievement. For the first time ever, The Habit Factor® reveals its proven step-by-step methodology — a process that has received acclaim from top success coaches, personal trainers and PhD’s around the world. This book takes the reader on a “mind-bending adventure of insight and application” to explore the deepest mysteries of habit. Questions never before asked, or answered, are tackled within these pages, and you are certain to come out the other side awakened, empowered and transformed.

The Habit Factor®

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Thousands of people have provided supportive evidence for this book. It gives both clear how to information and evidence for its ideas. Even if you have a history of unhappiness or depression, or are facing difficult circumstances, you can learn to be happier. For those doubting they can affect their emotions, it provides strong contrary evidence. The factors Dr. Stevens research identified are specific learnable beliefs and skills–not general, heritable traits. Each chapter teaches key factors to be happy and successful. The book is for people who value growth and self-development. Perhaps you want to improve self-esteem, positive thinking, assertiveness, autonomy, motivation, emotional control, relationships, self-control, time-management, or achievement. Chapters deal with these issues and more, but also deal with core issues underlying these problems. This book is for people who are serious about being happy. No matter how difficult your past history or current circumstances, striking insights into the causes of emotions can empower you to rise above negative emotions. Dr. Stevens combines expertise of 31 years as a psychologist with a philosophical-spiritual approach and his personal experience to make this an important book about achieving happiness. His research provides crucial, detailed support for these ideas not found in most self-help books. Yet, his clinical and personal experience helps him provide practical, detailed self-help advice. Bestselling author and PBS speaker, Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote that this book is, A thorough presentation, rich in detail, yet very reader friendly. I enthusiastically endorse Tom Stevens book and recommend it as a powerful tool for human development.

Dr. Stevens developed questionnaires on life skills and intimate relationships that tested many ideas later presented in this book. What he learned about happiness was the basis for his own happy marriage and life. It gave him new approaches to therapy that greatly enhanced his ability to help others. The first edition was a result of his 40-year experiment. Readers said:

* I have found your book to be such an inspiration to me.
* It s packed with insightful knowledge and expertise.
* All the personal experiences and skills I learned will stay with me forever.
* I m a self-help book junkie I ve read them all; and this is the best self-help book I ve ever read.
*”The book is a terrific combination of scholarship, superb information, and spirituality.”
*100% of a reader test group said they would recommend the book to a friend–40% already had. They rated the book an average of 8.23 of a possible 9.0 on overall usefulness of the book.

After writing the first edition, Dr. Stevens wanted even more proof that this book was valid, so he developed the free, online questionnaire, SHAQ (The Success and Happiness Attributes Questionnaire), by going through each chapter, taking each main idea, and turning it into questions. He correlated these questions (and related scales) with over 3400 SHAQ users emotional and life success measures. SHAQ scales correlated with Happiness, .87; with Low Depression, .73; with Low Anxiety, .68; with Low Anger-Aggression, .70; with Relationship Success, .70; and with good results for career success measures. Correlations this high are rarely found in this type of research. We re unaware of any self-help book that has ever tested its ideas so extensively. These dramatic results impelled Dr. Stevens to revise this book and include his research and new sections. The book can be used by individuals, by instructors, or by clinicians seeking a better understanding and specific self-help suggestions for many issues. If you want to maximize your happiness, try this book.

You Can Choose To Be Happy: “Rise Above” Anxiety, Anger, and Depression

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Fast paced, hard hitting and incredibly resonant, The Catalyst of Confidence defines the true nature of an exceedingly rare and sought after virtue. While thought provoking and contemplative, the book nonetheless delivers a dynamic learning experience with strong overtones of action and application. The Catalyst of Confidence boldly advocates a system of developing genuine confidence through the intellectual and functional understanding of human potential. 

The Catalyst of Confidence: A Simple and Practical Guide to Understanding Human Potential

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One of this book’s great strengths is writer Melissa Müller’s ability to situate Anne Frank’s famous diary within a larger historical and biographical context–more than half of it covers the years before the Franks went into hiding. Equally important is her discovery of the existence of five pages Otto Frank removed from his daughter’s original diary and entrusted shortly before his death to Cor Sujik, international director of New York’s Anne Frank Center. Sujik showed these pages to Müller, who accurately notes in the biography that they “enhance our understanding of the diary’s author.”

Until now, readers have known the eight people sequestered in the secret annex through Anne’s eyes only. Müller reveals everyone’s correct names (they were changed for the diary’s publication) and tactfully corrects a teenager’s skewed perceptions when necessary, always reminding us of the claustrophobic closeness and material deprivation that sometimes fueled Anne’s uncharitable comments about, for example, the middle-aged dentist with whom she was forced to share a room. Müller also plausibly identifies the Dutch informant who betrayed the secret annex’s inhabitants to the Gestapo. Horror suffuses Müller’s grim recap of the Franks’ ordeal at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, though there is some comfort in survivors’ reports that Anne, her mother, and her older sister formed “an inseparable trio,” all former quarrels forgotten in their fierce struggle to save each other. They failed, and Müller does not gloss over that tragedy. But she reminds us that, “In the end, the Nazi terror could not silence Anne’s voice, which still rings out for all of us.”

Anne Frank : The Biography

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The Owner’s System Simplified Small Property Management and Control

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