Download or read book Life Should Be Fun Then You Get Gifts written by Bill Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuffed with eighty years of knowledge, this book is a great gift for high school and college graduates becoming adults. Ideas, concepts, and information are succinctly given to guide young people in paths of success, use of money, and self-reflection about character. The greatest decision people make in life is deciding who they want to be. Project management techniques are here: defining goals, to-do lists, making decisions, money management ideas, checklists, modeling, and collected wisdom to stimulate young minds to think. Questions and blank pages are provided for the students to start their own life journals of wisdom.
Download or read book Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Download or read book The Power of Fun written by Catherine Price and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being—and shows us how to have more of it. “This delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls Fake Fun—bingeing on television, doomscrolling the news, or posting photos to social media, all in hopes of filling some of the emptiness we feel inside. In this follow-up to her hit book, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Price makes the case that True Fun—which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow—will give us the fulfillment we so desperately seek. If you use True Fun as your compass, you will be happier and healthier. You will be more productive, less resentful, and less stressed. You will have more energy. You will find community and a sense of purpose. You will stop languishing and start flourishing. And best of all? You’ll enjoy the process. Weaving together scientific research with personal experience, Price reveals the surprising mental, physical, and cognitive benefits of fun, and offers a practical, personalized plan for how we can achieve better screen/life balance and attract more True Fun into our daily lives—without feeling overwhelmed. Groundbreaking, eye-opening, and packed with useful advice, The Power of Fun won’t just change the way you think about fun. It will bring you back to life.
Download or read book You Be You written by Jamie Ivey and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt held back from the abundant life God promises you? Do you ever look at the satisfaction and success in other people’s lives, and wonder where yours is? In You Be You, beloved podcast host and author Jamie Ivey reveals that the abundant life you want is closer than you think. It’s not over there in someone else’s life. No. It’s right here, right now, in your life as it already is—you just have to know how to take hold of it. And in this book, Jamie shows you how to: Throw out false definitions of success Give up the idea that you must have someone else’s skills, talents, family, or resources to succeed Use the beautiful level of influence that God has given you Start leaving your deepest mark on the world by living your story Are you ready to finally bloom where you’re planted? To finally free yourself to flourish? To live a life that could only be done by Him and through you? Then jump into You Be You, and you’ll find yourself satisfied and succeeding in ways you never expected.
Download or read book Lester s Gift written by Judi Lees and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you aren't the person you thought you were, then who are you? After his wife Cassandra is killed under mysterious conditions, Lester Whittall finds his orderly life destroyed. Who killed Cassandra and why was she in that strange location are the painful questions that perplex Lester, his 22-year-old daughters and the police. When he meets travel writer Rachel Jasper, it is quickly evident that her world is the antithesis of Lester's tidy one. Her 'seize the moment' philosophy is both bewildering and delightful. Although she has family issues of her own, she doesn't let them distract her from what she thrives upon - incessant travel and male companionship. Visiting a shaman in Mexico, hiking in Australia, beguiled by the beauty of Thai and Cambodian temples - through his adventures and a growing intimacy with Rachel Lester learns much more about himself than about the foreign landscapes that he explores.
Download or read book The Ten Gifts written by Robin Silverman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one of the century's greatest floods devastated her town, Robin Silverman went looking for the personal peace she new she and tens of thousands of others would need to restore their shattered lives. In her search, she discovered the Ten Gifts: powerful inner resources that have been within us since birth-resources that can transform crisis, create opportunity, and deliver lasting fulfillment. The gifts have familiar names: faith, love, dreams, courage, unity, joy, trust, character, thanks, and intention. Using stories of real people, Silverman beautifully illustrates new and exciting ways your gifts can be defined and used to provide the security you want when you need it the most. In addition, she offers practical exercises so you can put the gifts to work for yourself. For anyone wanting more satisfaction from life, The Ten Gifts lights the path to personal peace.
Download or read book Breaking the Bondage of Legalism written by Neil T. Anderson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Anderson (author of the bestselling "The Bondage Breaker(TM)") and his coauthors expose the trauma of legalism--and show how Christ liberates us from trying to be "good enough for God." According to a recent poll, 57 percent of Christians strongly agree the Christian life is well summed-up as "trying hard to do what God commands." But biblically, making laws our "lord" estranges us from Christ! The authors reveal... "the chains of legalism: " shame, guilt, pride "the keys to liberty: " knowing who we are in Christ, resting in the Father's love "the life of freedom: " joyful friendship with God, obedience viewed properly Here's encouragement for defeated believers--and an appeal to the church to be free in Christ.
Download or read book Give Us This Day Devotionals Volume 6 written by Charles Erlandson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give Us This Day is a unique daily devotional commentary for the entire New Testament based on the ancient method called lectio divina. Lectio divina, or “divine reading,” is the method used by the early church and countless Christians through the centuries to read the Scriptures to form and transform the soul more than merely to inform the mind. Give Us This Day deals in depth with entire passages and their contexts. Rather than selecting only certain portions of the New Testament to write about, Fr. Charles has written a devotional for each and every passage of the New Testament. Fr. Charles writes for the whole person: he’s not afraid to use his sense of humor, and he carefully relates the Bible not only to the individual’s life but also to the life of the Church. At the end of each day’s devotional, an appropriate Prayer is offered, as well as Points for Further Reflection on the day’s lesson. Each devotional concludes with a suggested Resolution to put into effect what the Spirit has stirred up in the heart of the reader during the course of his reading, meditation, and prayer.
Download or read book Harper s Bazaar written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lexi s Christmas Gift written by L. Henry Smith and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attractive junior at Bloomwood College with a long history of failed relationships, Lexi Baker has her life turned upside down when her mother is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. As the only daughter of a single mother, she is forced to grow up quickly when she experiences the difficulties of paying bills, working two jobs, and caring for a family. Her determination to find help for her ailing mother is rewarded and leads to personal growth, new friends, and unexpected romance. Lexi's Christmas Gift is a lighthearted and sometimes poignant young adult love story that crosses generational lines with its unexpected twists and fun mix of tension, humor, friendship, and love guided by subtle Christian overtones.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alma Winklegrin s Lower Denture Is Missing written by R. Roper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alma Winklegrin's Lower Denture Is Missing is an eclectic collection of short stories and prose works covering a wide variety of humorous and serious subjects as illustrated by titles such as: § Adversity University § A Ride With Grandma § Return Of The Warrior § Apology To A Dead Enemy § Spillane Revisited An excerpt from the short story "A Moment In The Sun" portrays the author's poetic style--"He had come to think, to be alone, and let his mind wander, to heal a recent hurt, to feel the bleak disconsolation of a momentary despair..." R. R. Roper experiments with unusual variations of fiction ranging from stories that are all dialog to stories that are all narration, a short play, reminiscences, and stories which could be categorized more as tales than short stories. The characters portrayed are truly defined by their very personal idiosyncrasies.
Download or read book The Gift of Play written by Barbara Brannen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find your 'Heart Play' and everything else you want in life will come along." -Barbara Brannen In this charming book, Barbara Brannen, takes a look at how life can be better when we find and honor our "heart Play." This is not just a trip to the movies or swinging on a swing, but finding that thing that will give us so much joy that we approach everything we do with more passion and delight. Barbara will show you how to reclaim the joy of play in your life by taking you through how you played as a child and what was magic for you. Next, you will see when you stopeed or slowed down your play. Finally, you will embark on a journey to see how you can have your "Heart Play" in your life again. The Gift of Play also gives you a chance to see how you might finally find the time to play. With all the demands of our current lives, sometimes play is the last thing we make time for and Barbara takes us through a series of wonderful exercises to reclaim the time and start playing again! You will find this book a delightful series of stories that women shared with Barbara about how their play disappeared from their lives and how many not only reclaimed their play, but used it to help them create a better life. Play can be magic in so many ways, and it is not something reserved just for children. Step up and enjoy, The Gift of Play.
Download or read book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids written by Bryan Caplan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in their kids than ever, but the shocking lesson of twin and adoption research is that upbringing is much less important than genetics in the long run. These revelations have surprising implications for how we parent and how we spend time with our kids. The big lesson: Mold your kids less and enjoy your life more. Your kids will still turn out fine. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is a book of practical big ideas. How can parents be happier? What can they change -- and what do they need to just accept? Which of their worries can parents safely forget? Above all, what is the right number of kids for you to have? You'll never see kids or parenthood the same way again.
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