Download or read book Juggling Elephants written by Jones Loflin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when your life feels as busy as a three-ring circus? Juggling Elephants tells a simple but profound story about one man with a universal problem. Mark has too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress, and too little time. As he struggles to balance his many responsibilities without cracking under the pressure, Mark takes a break to attend the circus with his family. There he has a surprising conversation with a wise ringmaster. He leaves with a simple but powerful lesson: Trying to get everything done is like juggling elephants -- impossible. So Mark begins to think about his work, family, and personal life the way a ringmaster thinks about the many acts in a three-ring circus. He discovers that managing his various acts can be fun and easy once he changes his attitude and follows his new friend's ongoing guidance. Mark soon realizes: • If you keep trying to juggle elephants, no one, including you, will be thrilled with your performance. • A ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. • The key to the success of a circus is having quality acts in all three rings. • Intermission is an essential part of any good circus. Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they're about to be squashed. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you'll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus, instead of letting the circus run you.
Download or read book Swimming with Elephants written by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to search for a way to feel good again. Having witnessed human suffering early in her career and within her own family, she longed for a way to address more than just the physical needs of her patients and to live in a lighter, more conscious way. Swimming with Elephants tells the eccentric, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious experience of a working mother undergoing a bewildering vocational shift from physician to shamanic healer. During that tumultuous period of answering her call, Sarah met an elephant who would become an important spirit companion on her journey, had bones thrown for her by a shaman in South Africa, and traveled to India for an ancient Hindu pilgrimage, where she received the blessing she had been longing for. Ultimately, she discovered an entirely different way of healing, one that she had always aspired to, and that enabled her to help those who are suffering.
Download or read book Getting to It written by Jones Loflin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jones Loflin and Todd Musig, the authors of Juggling Elephants, comes Getting to It—a practical guide to sorting through the many priorities in your life, showing you how to carefully and consistently evaluate what your IT (Important Thing) should be, and how to get IT done. How busy are you? In the daily struggle to get it all done, what are you forgetting? Is your mind constantly racing with lists of all the things you could and should be doing? Does your day often feel like you’re treading water in an ocean of rushes and deadlines, trying to keep from drowning while handling increasing work and life demands? Don’t give up—help is on the way. You just have to find your It. The Important Thing. Define It. Plan It. Focus on It. Get excited about It. Identifying It isn’t just the first step in the process of getting focused and heading in the right direction, it’s every step. Getting to It: Accomplishing the Important, Handling the Urgent, and Removing the Unnecessary provides the necessary tools to accomplish the important, handle the urgent, and get rid of the unnecessary. Want to enjoy a more fulfilling life? Get to It.
Download or read book Always Growing written by Jones Loflin and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading today is more difficult than ever. Dealing with the rapid pace of change, managing multiple generations in the workplace, and trying to improve your own skills can seem overwhelming. If only there was a model that could help you make sense of it all. Now there is... it's time to think like a gardener.Jones Loflin, one of the co authors of Juggling Elephants, delivers a powerfully practical way for leaders to achieve greater success, whether they have been leading two days or twenty years. You'll find yourself returning to this warm and witty story again and again to gain new insights on how you can help everyone on your team deliver their best work... including you!
Download or read book Walking with Elephants written by Karen S. Bell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her best friend, Marcia, is missing in action-playing footsie with some new boyfriend!Adding to this disaster stew, David, the gorgeous hunk who broke her young-girl's heart has coincidentally popped back into her life and has something she desperately needs to keep her job.Walking with Elephants, a lighthearted slice-of- life story, brings to the table the serious work/family issues facing women today. It explores the modern dichotomy of a workplace that is filled with homemakers who still must cook, clean, carpool on nights and weekends, shop for prom dresses, and "create" the holidays-such as Suze. But it also is filled with women who have the same drive as men, have no family responsibilities, and will do what ever it takes to get ahead. So step into the shoes of Suze Hall and commiserate over workplace politics, titillate your sexual fantasies, ride the wave of a working mother, and fall-down laughing.
Download or read book Ella Sets The Stage written by Carmela D'Amico and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spotlight's on Ella as the world's cutest elephant prepares for a school talent show -- and wonders if she has anything special to offer at all. The school on Elephant Island is holding a talent show, and all the children are excited -- all the children, that is, except for Ella. Belinda's going to do ballet, Tiki's planned a magic act, but Ella doesn't have a single idea. She can't sing, dance, or play an instrument -- doesn't Ella have any talent at all?Then comes the night of the big show, and Ella discovers her own special talent that shines very bright -- even when she's not in the limelight. Carmela and Steve D'Amico put friendship center stage in this third charming adventure with Ella the Elephant, now the inspiration for an animated series on Disney Junior.
Download or read book Blogs Wikis Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms written by Will Richardson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for educators of various levels and disciplines who want to understand the Internet tools and learn how to use them effectively in the classroom, this work offers advice on how teachers and students can use the Web to learn more, create more, and communicate better.
Download or read book The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus written by Eric Harvey and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read this book and learn how returning to your childhood can make you a better adult-and a better leader." — Ken Blanchard, New York Times bestselling author of The One Minute Manager This compact book presents leadership concepts in a new and exciting way. With lots of practical advice you can implement starting today, you can start to motivate your team, deal with change, and become a better leader now. Make your company a cherished favorite using insider advice delivered directly from the North Pole. Find out if your existing strategies are naughty or nice and unwrap easy-to-follow leadership secrets. Build an excellent reputation and motivate your company to achieve big things every year using the invaluable gifts of every team member.
Download or read book The Elephant with the Yellow Trunk written by S. Lemon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever witnessed or been a part of bullying and taunting? The elephants at the same zoo as Ziggy tease him because he looks different, and has a yellow trunk. When a very nice elephant named Roger witnesses this taunting and bullying, he begins to talk to Ziggy and help him through it.
Download or read book The Elephant Keeper written by Margriet Ruurs and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the true story of a teenage boy who saved an elephant calf and took it for care at the Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Zambia, Ruurs has created a moving story that powerfully demonstrates the plight of endangered animals everywhere. Full color.
Download or read book The Elephants in My Backyard written by Rajiv Surendra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.
Download or read book Queen of the Air written by Dean N. Jensen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Flying Codona Brothers. Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name was not a household expression, but if so, they were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and then a queen. She was not much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. In the first part of the 20th century, she presided over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had ever lived, the only one in his time who, night after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than any other circus stunt.
Download or read book Errol and His Extraordinary Nose written by David Conway and published by Gullane Children's Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errol is an elephant and he's not sure he's that good at anything. So when a school talent contest is announced everyone's excited except him. But when Errol's dad gives him a book to read - a book all about elephants - his entire world changes.
Download or read book The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco written by Janice Repka and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip comes from a circus family, but all he really wants is to be a regular kid. After persuading his parents to let him move in with his aunt and uncle, he winds up in Hardingtown, where everyone is wild about dodgeball. When he gets slammed in the face with a speeding ball in gym class, he decides to take the dodgeball bully to court. But can a circus boy take on the Unofficial Dodgeball Capital of the World? This uproariously funny middle-grade novel carries an inspiring message about sticking to your beliefs, however unpopular they may be.
Download or read book The Hungry Brain written by Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.
Download or read book Donkey Hodie Helps an Elephant written by Tina Gallo and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donkey Hodie takes Grampy Hodie's pet elephant, Gregory, on a walk while Grampy goes to his juggling match. The only trouble is, Gregory won't move and Donkey is getting frustrated. What can Donkey do? Clyde the Cloud has an idea, and it involves taking a deep breath of fresh air.
Download or read book Can Mommy Go To Work written by Christine Michel Carter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally... A Children's Book For Working Moms. Can Mommy Go To Work? is the first children's book from writer Christine Michel Carter. A marketing professional and mother to two children, Carter wanted to write a book for other mothers who struggled with work life balance and felt guilty for wanting to further their career. The book features elephants not only because they're intelligent animals known for caring for their young, but also so families from all races can relate to the story. Can Mommy Go To Work? is called a children's book for working moms because Mommy is the main character, not her children. Through the book child readers will see "the other side of the story"- why their moms work so hard and the sacrifices their moms must make. Parents reading the book will feel understood, loved, and appreciated, and will most likely see themselves and their career path in Mommy. Even grandparents will appreciate the nod in Can Mommy Go To Work? to elder family members who help working parents with child care. As the author of Big Hair, Don't Care Crystal Swain-Bates says, there is power in reading about someone like you, and many moms wish they had books and experiences that matched their lives when they were growing up. Can Mommy Go To Work? gives the children of working mothers that book and that experience. It is a quick, easy to read children's book that the whole family can enjoy in the car on the way to school or at night before bedtime. About The Author: As a writer, speaker and consultant Christine works with advertising agencies, research firms and companies to ensure they're at the forefront of the minds of Black female and millennial mom consumers. She has been featured in, and guest contributed to several global digital publications, including TIME, The New York Times, Harper's BAZAAR, Parents, Health, Ebony, Women's Health. Christine regularly contributes to Forbes covering millennial moms in the workplace, diverse professionals and under 30 professionals and has interviewed a number of celebrity moms, including Tamera Mowry, Kristin Cavallari, and La La Anthony. Christine Michel Carter has been called "the exec inspiring millennial moms," a "branding mastermind" and "the voice of millennial moms." As an advocate for mothers and Black women, Christine has also helped Senator Kamala Harris promote the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies (CARE) Act and Black Maternal Health Week, advocated with Mom Congress for the Mothers and Offspring Mortality and Morbidity Awareness Act, the Modernizing Obstetric Medicine Standards Act of 2019, the Maximizing Outcomes for Moms Through Medicaid Improvement and Enhancement of Services Act, and the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act, and supported the Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls. She is also the creator of Mompreneur and Me, national inclusive parent and child-friendly professional development events. Mompreneur and Me gives companies the opportunity to connect with affluent millennial moms via an intimate, unforgettable brand experience. Across the country, Mompreneur and Me connects moms offline and provide a guilt-free space for fellowship... all while helping them spend quality time with their little ones. Learn more about Mompreneur and Me here. Connect With Christine If you'd like to connect with Christine for book festivals and events, to read more of her articles on black consumers and millennial moms, or to stay abreast of the latest news on working mothers, subscribe to her mailing list by visiting christinemichelcarter.com. Facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/christinemichelcarter/ Instagram: https: //www.instagram.com/cmichelcarter/ Twitter: https: //twitter.com/cmichelcarter
