Download or read book The OPA Way written by Alex Pattakos and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the "2015 Self-Help Book of the Year" at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards In chasing "the good life," many of us sacrifice our relationships, our health, and our sanity, but at the end of the day, we still find ourselves with lives and work that bring us little fulfillment. Life isn't about the pursuit of happiness, which is superficial and fleeting. It's about meaning, which helps us realize our full potential, and knowing that our lives and work matter—regardless of circumstances. Dr. Alex Pattakos and Elaine Dundon, two bestselling authors and leaders of the Meaning Movement, give readers The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work. Inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and traditional village values, and backed by years of research, The OPA! Way provides a breakthrough approach and practical tools to renew your outlook and rejuvenate your life. Pattakos and Dundon demystify the subject of meaning by sharing insights, stories, and three core lessons to guide you on your odyssey: Connect meaningfully with Others Engage with deeper Purpose Embrace life with Attitude Stop searching for happiness and start searching for meaning. Create the life you want, The OPA! Way.
Download or read book Opa Nobody written by Sonya Huber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the family nobody, for help. Huber s search for meaning and resonance in the life of her grandfather Heina Buschman was unusual insofar as she knew him only through dismissive family stories: He let his wife die of neglect . . . he used his infant son as a decoy when transporting anti-Nazi literature in a baby carriage . . . and so the stories went. What she actually discovered was that, like his granddaughter, Heina Buschman was a committed and beleaguered activist whose story echoed her own. Huber s research not only conjured her grandfather s voice in answer to many of the questions that troubled her but also found in his story a source of personal sustenance for herself. Based on extensive research and documentation, this story of Heina Buschman offers a rare look into the heart of the average socialist trying to survive the Nazis and rebuild a broken world. Alternating with his voice is Huber s own, providing a rich and moving counterpoint that makes this deeply personal exploration of family, politics, and individual responsibility a story for all of us and for all time.
Download or read book A Short History of OPA written by Harvey Claflin Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Opa Life Story written by Davenya PUBLISHING and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Your Appreciation & Love to Your Opa By Helping Him Sharing His Life Memories With This Awesome Question Memory Book / Keepsake Journal & Prompt Book. Opa Life Story Journal is the perfect gift for your Opa (Ideal for Father's Day, Grandparents Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine & Birthday Giving), this beautiful keepsake memory book is designed to capture and preserve Opa's unique memories, from the days of his own childhood through the precious moments he spends in his life. Imagine reading about the details of his life and journey & Think of all what you will learn about your Opa when you read his stories & experiences. This Memory book contains 101 journal questions & prompts for your Opa to write in his special memories and thoughts. Sample Questions Include: ◆ What was a typical day like in your family when you were little ? ◆ Do you have any favorite stories from your school life ? ◆ What is the most memorable gift you have ever received? Given ? ◆ What would you tell your 20-year-old self ? ◆ What do you wish you made more time in your life for ? ◆ What did you discover in the last decade or two that you wish you discovered sooner ? ◆ What do you value most and why ? ◆ Who was the most influential person in your life? ◆ Can you think of a low point in your life when an other person was there for you? ◆ What type of student were you as a child ? ◆ What was the happiest time of your life ? And Many Many More!!! Grab Your Copy of Opa Life Story and give your Opa the gift of forever and you the gift of memories. Help your Opa to preserve those important memories and thoughts that will be cherished for years to come.
Download or read book Oma and Opa written by Mary 'Kick' Carlsen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we Heytvelts and Kinerks and Carlsens look back to where we came from we find a bit of history. Our grandparents, Lou and Nell Heytvelt, were part of that immigrant throng that crossed the ocean to make a new home in a new world in the early years of the last century. Oma & Opa tells, in part, of their struggles. Lou, an ironworker, and Nell, a seamstress, were newlyweds from Haarlem, Holland, when they reached Kansas City, Kansas, in 1913. Both put their skills to work, first in Kansas and then in Seattle, Washington, building a new life for themselves and their children.The first part of Oma & Opa is a memoir written by their daughter, Mary 'Kick' Carlsen, who is the driving force behind this book; additional material is added by their son, Louis Heytvelt. These memoirs tell of the joys and sorrows of Oma and Opa's early life together. The second part skips ahead to when Lou and Nell were grandparents to a brood of sixteen. Those sixteen grandchildren pool their memories and bring to life a fondly remembered world, one where the boys raced to meet their grandfather when he got off the trolley from work, where grandmother's wringer washer churning on the porch fascinated wide-eyed youngsters, where fish got caught, cookies got baked, and foul balls got collected at games played by the old Seattle Rainiers.The material and photographs were gathered, arranged and organized by grandson, Robert Kinerk, who had the help of his wife, Anne Warner, in getting it ready for the publisher.
Download or read book Opa s Life Story written by Ralph De Vryer and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author was born in 1931 in Indonesia from Dutch parents. His biography starts from age five and covers events that were highlights in his life. The book is told as a story, drawing occasional conclusions upon reflection. Major events include a visit to the Netherlands just before the Second World War. This war followed him and his family to Indonesia that was occupied by the Japanese for three and a half years. All Europeans except Germans and Italians were imprisoned in concentration camps for this entire period.This traumatic environment shaped the author from age eleven to mid fourteen, the last year alone in a civil men camp and mother and sister in a then unknown prison camp for women. Father was a POW in yet another camp in South Sumatra. Upon repatriation to Holland high school started at age fifteen, culminating in attaining University Entrance at age twenty. Because of cold war circumstances he decided to immigrate to New Zealand.Auckland in 1952, apart from a beautiful harbour, also had coffee; but only in syrupy essence out of a bottle form. It had no restaurants, only pubs, milkshake and fish & chips shops. Sailing for an interesting period before the mast, after ten years he became a GM Dealer Principal for a business in which he had financial control. Leaving the industry eleven years later he joined a Merchant Banking Group as Marketing Manager. This new industry provided a rich experience in business and equally fascinating phase of being between wives. In the meantime he had been fortunate to get two sons. The author has been self employed for most of his life, even in corporate employment his remuneration was commission only most of the time. Activities in Australia included Management Consulting, Executive Recruiting and Investment and Financial Planning. This was the most rewarding activity for the last twenty-five years, the latter twelve heading his own company again. His investment advice was unusual and highly productive; many of his clients became millionaires during their retirement. For those readers interested in wealth creation this book makes very interesting reading.
Download or read book Opa s Story written by Hubert Bruns and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The odds were against Hubert Bruns making it to age 80, but he did. Incredible luck prevailed throughout his life. As a youngster, he absconded with a bobsled and raced it down the mountain. As a teenager, he looked down through cracks in some scaffolding straight at Hitler without being shot. At 18 as a German soldier, he left the Front only hours before the Russians counter-attacked late in 1941. At 21, as a veteran, he was buried alive and almost died in Munich. Less dramatic happenings followed, but his luck continued. Two university degrees were acquired and Canadian immigration approved him for citizenship without delay. At 65, he survived a stroke and slowly regained the ability to think, talk and write. Quite a life. Quite a story.
Download or read book Opa Oma Together written by Patrick Mader and published by Bookhouse Fulfillment. This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Opa and Opa, grandparents who have shared a long life together on their farm. Once they nurtured seven children, a variety of farm animals, and rolling fields with their love and hard work. Now they teach their grandchildren about the wonderful ways you can grow, not only on the farm, but anywhere you live. After fifty years on the same farm, in the same home, Opa and Oma are still growing in life...together.
Download or read book Opa Life is a Story story one written by Antonia Hubner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses Buch habe ich für meinen Opa geschrieben. Mein Opa schafft es seit meiner Jugend mir mit seinen Geschichten ein Lächeln auf die Lippen zu zaubern. Hoffentlich schaffen es diese Geschichten auch, den Leser*innen Freude zu bereiten. Bis heute erzählt mein Opa gerne seine Geschichten. In jedem Kapital stecken Geschichten, die mir mein Opa seit meinen Kindheitstagen immer wieder erzählt hat. Ich habe diese genommen und sie in einem Buch zusammen gefasst, und lose nacherzählt.
Download or read book Opa I m Thankful for You and I Want to Know Your Story written by Davenya PUBLISHING and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Your Appreciation & Love to Your Opa By Helping Him Sharing His Life & Memories With This Awesome Question Memory Book / Keepsake Journal & Prompt Book. Dear Opa, From Me To You Journal is the perfect gift for your Opa (Ideal for Father's Day, Grandparents Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine & Birthday Giving), this beautiful keepsake memory book is designed to capture and preserve Opa's unique memories, from the days of his own childhood through the precious moments he spends in his life. Imagine reading about the details of his life and journey & Think of all what you will learn about your Opa when you read his stories & experiences. This Memory book contains 101 journal questions & prompts for your Opa to write in his special memories and thoughts. Sample Questions Include: ◆ What was a typical day like in your family when you were little ? ◆ Do you have any favorite stories from your school life ? ◆ What is the most memorable gift you have ever received? Given ? ◆ What would you tell your 20-year-old self ? ◆ What do you wish you made more time in your life for ? ◆ What did you discover in the last decade or two that you wish you discovered sooner ? ◆ What do you value most and why ? ◆ Who was the most influential person in your life? ◆ Can you think of a low point in your life when an other person was there for you? ◆ What type of student were you as a child ? ◆ What was the happiest time of your life ? And Many Many More!!! Grab Your Copy of Dear Opa, From Me To You and give your Opa the gift of forever and you the gift of memories. Help your Opa to preserve those important memories and thoughts that will be cherished for years to come.
Download or read book Walter Opa Life is a Story story one written by Laura Katharina Eimer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Beziehung zwischen Großeltern und Enkelkindern ist eine ganz besondere. Für Laura war ihr Opa schon immer ein Held und als er stirbt, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Eines Tages spendet ihr ein besonderes Geburtstagsgeschenk Trost und lässt die Erinnerungen an ihren Großvater wieder aufleben. Ein Roman mit biografischen Zügen.
Download or read book Accordionly written by Michael Genhart and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist in the International Latino Book Awards. This unique book includes a bonus fold-out and a note from the author sharing the true story of his own family. When both grandpas, Abuelo and Opa, visit at the same time, they can’t understand each other’s language and there is a lot of silence. The grandson’s clever thinking helps find a way for everyone to share the day together as two cultures become one family.
Download or read book Opa written by Jean Nestares and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of William H. Phelps, affectionately known by his family as Opa, and his extraordinary life story that took him from his native New York to Venezuela at the beginning of the twentieth century where he became a visionary entrepreneur and a renowned ornithologist. This book is about love and commitment. His love for Alicia draws him back to Venezuela, a country he had traveled to initially for another love—his passion for birds. During his journey, Opa had to develop his inner entrepreneurial talent, using all his physical and mental strength to provide for his family while striving to accumulate enough wealth to allow him to chase his other love—ornithology. In his journey, Opa became the first modern entrepreneur of his adoptive country. This is a fascinating tale of a family saga based on the early days of Venezuela.
Download or read book Opa written by Arthur C. Cosmas and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be Greek In Opa!, author Arthur Cosmas presents a loving portrait of what it was like to be brought up as a Greek American in the Greek community in the United States during the 1950s. Some of the topics the author covers include the Greek family, Greek holidays and religion, the Mediterranean diet—healthy as well as unhealthy—the agora, assimilation, chaos, superstitions, and the evil eye. In this engaging and lovable portrayal of Greeks, the author relates facts about Greek culture and then brings these elements to life through true-life anecdotes about his family. Entertaining and informative, Opa! is a look into Greek heritage and traditions. This delightful book will make you laugh, it might revive affectionate memories of what it was like for you growing up, and it will remind you that we are all more alike than we are different.
Download or read book Opa I Want to Hear Your Story written by Dream Touching Press and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show You Opa How Much You Love and Appreciate Him by Giving Him the Gift of Memories and Legacy. 'Opa, I Want to Hear Your Story' is the perfect gift so he can share his love, memories, and importantly, a record of his life's story in this beautiful book. Our Opa is one of the senior members of our family. He has a huge experience in life. He has a huge adventure in his life which is unknown to us. Sometimes we want to know about him. But we don't find where to start, what type of questions we should ask. Sometimes we don't get enough time to hear his story. But we should save his memory. So, Through this book, we tried to capture his whole life. There will be 101 questions including his Birthday, Family, Growing up, Teenage years, School, Career, Relationships, Friendships, and some Random questions about his whole life. There will be enough space to answer each question. At the last of this book, there will be 10+ free pages where you can include your own questions. Through this book, you can know about his thoughts, what he likes, what he doesn't like, his life experience and even you can take advice from his. I think this book is going to be a great gift for your Opa.
Download or read book Opa Tell Me Your Story written by Heart Touching Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show You, Opa, How Much You Love and Appreciate Him by Giving Him the Gift of Memories and Legacy. 'Opa Tell Me Your Story' is the perfect gift so he can share his love, memories, and importantly, a record of his life's story in this beautiful book. Our Father is one of the senior members of our family. He has a huge experience in life. He has a huge adventure in his life which is unknown to us. Sometimes we want to know about him. But we don't find where to start, what type of questions we should ask. Sometimes we don't get enough time to hear his story. But we should save his memory. So, Through this book, we tried to capture her whole life. There will be 101 questions including her Birthday, Family, Growing up, Teenage years, School, Career, Relationships, Friendships, and some Random questions about his whole life. There will be enough space to answer each question. At the last of this book, there will be 10+ free pages where you can include your own questions. Through this book, you can know about his thoughts, what he likes, what he doesn't like, his life experience and even you can take advice from his. I think this book is going to be a great gift for your Father.
