Download or read book Living Positive with Imperfection written by Robert D. Patton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bob Pattons book A Memoir, the personal story of his fifty-nine-year career as an educator, a state representative, and a public servant, contains details of three generations of a family that worked the soil, built community, and took responsibility for their own welfare like many similar families, and made this country one of the greatest in the world. Bobs personal progression from a high school teacher to professor in a state university, state representative, and a public servant is evidence of a highly competent, and well-motivated individual who achieved significant accomplishments. He is to be particularly admired for his lack of bitterness, despite divorces, life as a single parent, political defeat, and job loss. His only complaint is against politicians who will do anything to remain in power no matter whether it is morally right or wrong or good for society or not. Although well past retirement age, he continues to work for the Tennessee legislature despite being displaced in one position when the opposing party gained control of the legislature. Mervin Perry, PhD Professor Emeritus, East Tennessee State University

Download or read book Living Positive With Imperfection written by Robert "Bob" D. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Patton grew up with little hope or opportunity, living in near poverty. With dreams, determination and faith, he became successful in many areas of life. His progression from earning first a high school diploma led to obtaining a doctoral degree. A job in a Detroit steel mill led the way to becoming a university professor. Motivation and a strong work ethic forged every step along his life path. This memoir explores life lived over a sixty-year period and various jobs including farm worker, educator, politician and public servant. His journey led him through divorces, life as a single parent, political defeat, and job loss. On his many life paths, Bob took responsibility for his personal welfare, developing and living a strong moral code which guided him through life's adventures. Each day brought new reasons to seek hope while holding onto the faith which first nurtured him as a young man. His story is relatable to anyone who has ever experienced discouragement and discovered renewed hope as a result.

Download or read book Living Positive with Imperfection written by Robert D Bob Patton and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imperfect Courage written by Jessica Honegger and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to make a move but scared to leave your comfort zone? Go anyway. “Jessica's perspective of global sisterhood and the power of lifting each other up in the midst of fear and scarcity is exactly what we need today. This book is both an invitation and a challenge to bravely show up for ourselves, for the people we love, and for the strangers that we will one day call family. I say, Amen!” —Brené Brown, Ph.D., Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braving the Wilderness In Imperfect Courage, the founder of the popular fair trade jewelry brand Noonday Collection shares her story of starting the rapid-growing business that impacts over 4,500 artisans in vulnerable communities across the globe—and invites readers on a journey of transformation, challenging them to trade their comfort zones for a life of impact and adventure. In 2015, Inc. magazine recognized Noonday Collection as one of the fastest-growing companies in America. But years earlier, as Jessica Honegger stood at a pawn-shop counter in Austin, Texas, and handed over her grandmother's gold jewelry, her goal was much more personal: to fund the adoption of her Rwandan son, Jack, by selling artisan-made jewelry. This first step launched an unexpected side-hustle that would grow into Noonday Collection. Jessica embarked on this new journey and teamed up with her first artisan partner, Jalia, a Ugandan jewelry maker. She saw the meaningful impact Noonday brought to Jalia's community and knew it was the right move. Fear crept into Jessica's heart as she realized her success, or failure, meant the same for Jalia. But refusing to let fear hinder her goals, Jessica found the necessary (if imperfect) courage she needed along the way--the courage to leave comfort and embrace a life of risk and impact. Discover Your Imperfect Courage In Imperfect Courage, Jessica takes you by the hand and invites you to trade your comfort zone for a life of impact and meaning. • First, she invites you to draw a circle of compassion around yourself and leads you through some soul-searching aimed at setting you free from shame. • Next, she challenges all of us to come together, dare to be vulnerable with one another, and commit to building a culture of collaboration. • Finally, Jessica calls on you to broaden your circle of compassion to embrace the entire globe--and to bring your beautifully imperfect courage to a world that needs you.

Download or read book 21 Laws of Positive Living written by Rakesh K Mittal and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book shares a mighty secret - that life's challenges can be met by positive thinking. It's a secret all of us need to know. "

Download or read book Brave Not Perfect written by Reshma Saujani and published by Currency. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by her popular TED Talk, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a bolder, more authentic life. “A timely message for women of all ages: Perfection isn’t just impossible but, worse, insidious.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path? As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs. There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail. It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness. By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect,Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.

Download or read book The Gifts of Imperfection written by Brené Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword and new tools to make the work your own. For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what’s now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in thirty-five different languages across the globe. What transforms this book from words on a page to effective daily practices are the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way. Brené writes, “This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, ‘My story matters because I matter.’ Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance.”

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts written by Andy Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation or interpretation of compositions. Covering music, visual art, dance, comedy, architecture and design, it addresses the meaning, experience, and value of improvisation and spontaneous creation across different artistic media. A distinctive feature of the volume is that it brings together contributions from theoreticians and practitioners, presenting a wider range of perspectives on the issues involved. Contributors look at performance and practice across Western and non-Western musical, artistic and craft forms. Composers and non-performing artists offer a perspective on what is 'imperfect' or improvisatory within their work, contributing further dimensions to the discourse. The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts features 39 chapters organised into eight sections and written by a diverse group of scholars and performers. They consider divergent definitions of aesthetics, employing both 18th-century philosophy and more recent socially and historically situated conceptions making this an essential, up-to-date resource for anyone working on either side of the perfection-imperfection debate.

Download or read book Good Enough written by Kate Bowler and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast “Brilliant, hilarious, absurd, honest, hopeful, true-hearted, and good to the core.”—Sarah Bessey, editor of A Rhythm of Prayer and author of Jesus Feminist In Kate Bowler’s bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young mother, reckoned with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis; in her follow-up memoir, No Cure for Being Human, she unflinchingly and winsomely unpacked the ways that life becomes both hard and beautiful when we abandon certainty and the illusion of control in our lives. Now, in their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and co-author Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you’re not living your best life now. Written gently and with humor, Good Enough is permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix—and some things you can’t. And it’s okay that life isn’t always better. In these gorgeously written reflections, Bowler and Richie offer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amid the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today—while recognizing that though we are finite, the life in front of us can be beautiful.

Download or read book Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life written by Peter Cheyne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The aesthetics of imperfection is typified by organic, unpolished production and the avoidance of perfect finish, instead representing living and natural change, and opposing the consumerist concern with the flawless and pristine. The chapters are divided into seven thematic sections. After the first section, on imperfection across the arts and culture, the next three parts are on imperfection in the arts of music, visual and theatrical arts, and literature. The second half of this book then moves to categories in everyday life and branches this further into body, self, and the person, and urban environments. Together, the chapters promote a positive ethos of imperfection that furthers individual and social engagement and supports creativity over mere passivity. Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced students working in philosophical aesthetics, literature, music, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies.

Download or read book It s A Wonderful Imperfect Life written by Joan C. Webb and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a Wonderful (Imperfect) Life is a collection of daily reminders that God does not want women to live in a continually overwhelmed state. Instead, He wants them to learn and live balanced lives and to enjoy their relationships with family, friends and Him. Life coach Joan C. Webb, author of The Relief of Imperfection, offers good news to readers who try too hard to make everything just right: Imperfect is just right! In her conversational, confessional style, Joan shares war stories from her own fight against perfectionism and invites readers to do battle with her. Armed with humor, grace and helpful coaching exercises, she delivers three minutes a day that will start women on an adventure of just-right, relief-filled imperfection.

Download or read book Positive Mind Power written by Rakesh K. Mittal and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, the human mind has a tremendous capacity for acceptance as well as repulsion. When we accept a situation with a positive frame of mind, answers come in the natural course, while the situation gets worsened when we approach it with a negative frame. Thus a positive mind has immense power and this fact is amply reflected in his experiences.

Download or read book Making Peace with Imperfection written by Elliot D. Cohen and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demanding perfection in everything you do can create a life of stress, worry, and overload. With this essential self-help guide, you’ll learn to escape the perfectionism trap and cultivate unconditional self-acceptance in an imperfect world. Are you a perfectionist? Do you wear this title like a badge of honor, even though it creates needless stress in your life? Ironically, the stress you create by demanding perfection from yourself and others can actually make it harder to achieve your goals in the long run. It can also alienate you from friends, family, and coworkers. So, how can you escape the perfectionism trap and start living a life of self-compassion? In this informative and practical resource, author Elliot Cohen reveals the eleven types of perfectionism, and gives you the tools and skills you need to move past this distressing mind set before it leads to chronic stress, anxiety, anger, or even depression. Using strategies grounded in evidence-based rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), you’ll discover how your perfectionism is actually a result of irrational beliefs, learn to challenge these beliefs, and replace negative thoughts with compassionate ones. Being a perfectionist can affect virtually every decision you make, and every action you take—leading to a life of perpetual stress. This book can help you put a stop to the absolutist thinking behind your perfectionism and take steps toward a calmer, more balanced way of being.

Download or read book It s Your Time It s Your Turn written by Sonny Martell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Your Time, It’s Your Turn was written to explain, inspire and serve as a guide to understanding how practicing simple techniques of achieving a positive attitude will completely enhance every aspect of your life. You will learn how to have better relationships, improve your family life, set and actually be able to achieve goals, improve your wellbeing, mental, physical and spiritual health, make more money at your job, start a business, take risks without fear and much more. This book explains in detail the differences of how your brain and body work together in a positive manner or a negative manner, and what the different effects are between the two. You will learn why it is so important to be in a constant state of positivity and all the benefits that come with it. You will learn how to achieve a state of mind and body that many people know exists, but have no idea how to attain. You will have a deep understanding as to how easy it is to achieve whatever you set your mind to by first achieving a positive attitude. This is a life changing book that was written to make positive life changing effects in anyone that reads it. You will not be disappointed in all the fun and easy techniques you learn about that will improve every aspect of your life. You will feel instantly better as you read each chapter and will see immediate results. After reading It’s Your Time, It’s Your Turn, you will have all the secrets that truly happy, healthy, successful people practice every day, as well as other techniques that you can only find in this book.

Download or read book Timeless Power Lessons from Great Minds written by Muhammad Haidar Khan and published by Muhammad Haidar Khan. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless Power: Lessons from Great Minds by Muhammad Haidar Khan Unlock the Secrets of Power, Leadership, and Ethical Governance from History's Greatest Thinkers In "Timeless Power: Lessons from Great Minds," Muhammad Haidar Khan delves into the profound insights of history's most influential philosophers and strategists. This comprehensive guide explores the timeless principles of power, leadership, and ethics, drawing from the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and more. Discover How to: Navigate the complex dynamics of power in personal and professional life. Apply the strategic thinking of Sun Tzu and the moral integrity of Confucius. Balance pragmatism and idealism in leadership, inspired by Machiavelli and Nietzsche. Understand the ethical dimensions of power and its impact on society. Leverage psychological tactics for influence and persuasion. Build a power base through effective networking and alliances. Manage crises and make informed, strategic decisions. Key Features: In-Depth Analysis: Explore the core concepts of power from multiple perspectives, including historical, ethical, and strategic. Practical Insights: Learn how to apply philosophical principles to contemporary challenges in politics, business, and everyday life. Comprehensive Coverage: Each chapter provides a thorough examination of key ideas, offering readers a rich understanding of power and its applications. Whether you are a leader, a student, a professional, or simply someone curious about the nature of power, this book offers valuable insights and strategies to help you navigate and influence the complex world we live in. Embark on a journey through the timeless wisdom of great minds and empower yourself with the knowledge to lead with integrity, wisdom, and effectiveness. Unlock the timeless wisdom of history's greatest thinkers and transform your understanding of power. Order your copy of "Timeless Power: Lessons from Great Minds" today!

Download or read book Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World written by Iddo Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningfulwe've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.

Download or read book The Power of Imperfection Embrace Your Quirks Find Your Confidence and Shine Bright written by Thomas Jacob and published by Thomas Jacob. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever feel like you're not good enough? That everyone else has it all together, while you're stuck with your flaws and imperfections? This book is here to challenge that narrative. "The Power of Imperfection" is an empowering guide that helps you: Embrace your unique quirks and ditch the pressure to be perfect. Build unshakeable confidence by celebrating your individuality. Stop comparing yourself to others and start living a life that's authentically you. Shine brightly with your unique talents and passions. This book is filled with practical strategies, inspiring stories, and powerful insights to help you break free from self-doubt and step into your most confident, radiant self. Don't let imperfection hold you back – it's your superpower waiting to be unleashed!