Download or read book Adversity Builds Character written by Tom Ufert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an early age, author Tom Ufert can remember his grandmother proclaiming that adversity builds character. At the time, he didn't completely understand what it meant or know that he would actually live it. In Adversity Builds Character, Ufert shares the events that altered and shaped his life and shows how, with God's help, he was able to survive, thrive, and inspire others. In this memoir, he narrates his life story and tells about the adversity he has faced his mother's early divorces; the breakdown of his relationship with his sister; his adoption by family friends; his mother's illness and murder; his contact with a predatory pedophile; his questioning of his own sexuality, bisexuality, and eventual acceptance of being gay; alcoholism and sexual addiction; diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and HIV; and paralysis from a car accident. Revealing, honest, painful, and tender, Adversity Builds Character communicates the power of the human spirit to overcome the trials of modern life. It shows how Ufert's suffering paved the way for a deep appreciation for life and God's role in the world.
Download or read book Adversity Builds Character written by Tom Ufert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an early age, author Tom Ufert can remember his grandmother proclaiming that adversity builds character. At the time, he didnt completely understand what it meantor know that he would actually live it. In Adversity Builds Character, Ufert shares the events that altered and shaped his life and shows how, with Gods help, he was able to survive, thrive, and inspire others. In this memoir, he narrates his life story and tells about the adversity he has facedhis mothers early divorces; the breakdown of his relationship with his sister; his adoption by family friends; his mothers illness and murder; his contact with a predatory pedophile; his questioning of his own sexuality, bisexuality, and eventual acceptance of being gay; alcoholism and sexual addiction; diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and HIV; and paralysis from a car accident. Revealing, honest, painful, and tender, Adversity Builds Character communicates the power of the human spirit to overcome the trials of modern life. It shows how Uferts suffering paved the way for a deep appreciation for life and Gods role in the world.
Download or read book Embracing the Resistance written by T. Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to help you overcome tribulations in life by engaging resilience, determination and courage.Read Embracing the Resistance for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Download Now!Embracing the Resistance provides an abundance of useful information on overcoming adversity including topics such as:Positive thinking as a basic ingredientInventing a powerful support teamUsing your adversity as a strengthLearning from your mistakesHow to grow a tough skinAnd much more!Embracing the Resistance will not only help you overcome bounds and limitations in life, but will also have you yelling "Thank God for Adversity!" Order your copy of Embracing the Resistance TODAY!You'll be so glad you did!
Download or read book The Reign of Law written by George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counseling and Therapy written by Simon George Taukeni and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Counselling and Therapy, aims to equip students, life skills teachers, counselors, psychologists, academics, and other health practitioners with the most practical counselling and therapy basic skills, different counselling approaches, and problem-based techniques to address psychosocial problems. In this edition of Counselling and Therapy the following contents were covered: Definitions of counselling and therapy Counselling principles and theories Gender-based violence Self-efficacy and self-esteem Basic counselling communication skills
Download or read book 100 Days of Character written by Stephen Arterburn and published by Rose Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your character matters to God, and this daily devotional equips you to develop godly character, resist common pitfalls, and overcome temptations—one day at a time. With topics from maintaining integrity to growing in faithfulness, each of the 100 devotions provides a short reflection, a key Bible verse, an inspiring quote, and a prayer that will root your character in God’s Word and show you the importance of building up your character and passing it on to the next generation. Stephen Arterburn of New Life Ministries shows how to walk in integrity, stay rooted in Scripture, and set an example for the next generation in this 100-day devotional, which features: Daily devotions on 100 character-building topics Thought-provoking personal questions and practical applications Powerful prayers inspired by Scripture 5-minute devotions with further study options Each day your character is tried and tested. How will you respond? Each day your character is tried and tested. How will you act when no one is watching? There are no shortcuts to building character. It’s a life-long journey. It’s a daily decision. It’s what you do when no one is looking. It’s how you act when trials come.
Download or read book Holy Bible NIV written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Download or read book You Can Achieve More written by Shiv Khera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is often said that a person with a negative attitude cannot be helped, it is also true that a person with a positive attitude cannot be stopped. Life is an obstacle course in which we can often become our own biggest obstacle, but a positive attitude can be transformational. In one sense, this book is a road map for a life journey in achieving more. It offers direction and can help you make positive decisions in a noisy and cluttered environment. Success is neither a miracle nor a mystery. It is the natural outcome of consistently applying certain principles on an ongoing basis. Success does not depend upon special skills, formal education or superior intelligence. Success is a matter of understanding and acting upon principles that have been in existence for centuries. These principles may be simple in themselves but none of them will work unless they are put into firm and decisive action. This book effectively teaches not only the principles of success but also how to avoid expensive and demoralising mistakes. The principles themselves are universal, cutting across country, culture and religion. Diligently practising them will help you develop confidence and allow your life to become more meaningful and rewarding. Applying these principles may require a lot of self-discipline and commitment but, once learned and applied, the results can be rewarding and gratifying. If you want to be successful and happy, then become a student and study the life of successful people in depth; if you want to become wealthy, then study the principles of acquiring wealth. Learning to make a living and learning to live are two different things. This book helps you design a more meaningful life, by making positive choices and avoiding the most common pitfalls. Acquiring facts is knowledge; interpreting facts is understanding; and the proper application of facts is wisdom. This book by Shiv Khera is designed to help you create an action plan to optimize your potential - in other words, to achieve more.
Download or read book Generation Unbound written by Isabel V. Sawhill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change "drifters" into "planners." In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts "planners," who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with "drifters," who are having unplanned children early and outside of marriage. These two distinct patterns are contributing to an emerging class divide and threatening social mobility in the United States. Sawhill draws on insights from the new field of behavioral economics, showing that it is possible, by changing the default, to move from a culture that accepts a high number of unplanned pregnancies to a culture in which adults only have children when they are ready to be a parent.
Download or read book Character Strengths and Virtues written by Christopher Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.
Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Emmy E. Werner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers. Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers. Incorporating vivid case study accounts with statistical analysis, the authors focus on both the vulnerability and the resilience of those who overcame great odds to grow into competent and caring adults. They trace the recovery process through which most of the troubled adolescents in the cohort—those with histories of delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and mental health problems—emerged with improved prospects in their twenties and early thirties. Identifying both the self-righting tendencies that enable high risk children later to adapt successfully to work, marriage, and parenthood, and the conditions under which professional and volunteer care is most beneficial, Werner and Smith offer concrete suggestions for effective intervention policies.
Download or read book Dare to Live Without Limits written by Bryan Golden and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes techniques designed to help people break through the limitations that keep them from achieving their goals and take positive control of their lives.
Download or read book Developing Leadership Character written by Mary Crossan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed, and character strengthened. Based on research involving over 300 senior leaders from different industries, sectors and countries, Crossan, Seijts, and Gandz developed a model for leadership character that focuses on eleven dimensions. The book begins by setting the context for the focus on character in business, asking what character is and whether it can be learned, developed, molded or changed. Next, the book focuses on each dimension of leadership character in turn, exploring its elements and the ways in which it can be applied in a business setting. The book concludes with a summary of the key insights, an exploration of the interactions between the character dimensions, and a call to the reader to reflect on how to develop one’s own and others’ leadership character. Bridging theory and management practice, Developing Leadership Character will interest students and practitioners alike. Readers will benefit not only from a new, robust theoretical framework for leadership character, but will also learn how character can be developed further.
Download or read book Purpose in Adversity A Gateway to Destiny written by Shanae B. Govan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken and neglected, cast out and forgotten, unloved and scarred, hopeless and scared. Life taught me that if I was going to learn to love anything or anyone else, I would first have to love myself. My developing a love for the game of basketball while navigating life's journey for purpose resulted in me finding a beautiful path orchestrated by the King. What has led me to prominence has been a desire for what is greater than me. God's truth about who I am and what he's called me to be led me to my destiny. There came a decisive shift in my life, a pivotal point when things that sought to destroy me no longer defeated me. Rather, I was changed; I was new. My maturation into who God desired for me to be dismantled the victimization I felt by circumstances that haunted me. The essence of time has a healing power unmatched by gifted hands. I appropriated a mind-set that activated God's truths into my life.
Download or read book Making Life Work written by Barney Hamady and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no secret that on so many levels our world is getting worked. And so are we. So who or what is working you: difficult circumstances, difficult people, or some unbreakable bad habit? Are you getting worked by fear, poor health, family or financial problems? The fact is, everyone gets worked. And if you're not getting worked right now, it's a good bet someone you love is. Feel like blaming your surroundings? In the beginning, God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden and told them to 'work it!' Instead, in their 'perfect' world, they got worked: by the serpent, by the Garden, and yes, even by their own choices.
Download or read book Inanimate Heroes written by Zack W. Van and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew is a timid high school student in a small town named Tomliw. Like most freshman, he has quite a few things to be on edge about. However, unlike most freshman, Andrew is in fact one of the only gay students in his high school. His greatest fear is that he will become a social pariah if someone finds out his secret. But once he is confronted by an old bully from middle school, he comes face to face with every fear he's had since 6th grade: being noticed in a bad way. Luckily, he isn't alone. With the help from a few teachers, a best friend, his mother, and a mysterious older boy who seems to take a platonic interest in him, he begins to gain confidence in himself. But is it enough to confront the bully and finally accept himself as he is?
Download or read book How to be a Career Mastermind written by Hassan Akmal and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to be a Career Mastermind(TM) unveils seven secret windows to championing your own career, based on the highly successful "YOU Matter"-Design Your Career Crown program at Columbia University that has helped thousands redefine their "purpose and impact lens"-blending career and life vision with real-life narratives.
