Download or read book Significant Living written by Jerry Rose and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to join in a celebration of life and a renewed meaning and significance for the “second half” of your life. It is never too late to find your purpose and continue growing—spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, relationally and vocationally. Jerry and Shirley Rose share life experiences with wisdom and humor and show how you can: Find greater joy in life Deal with past mistakes and right past wrongs Navigate the roadblocks of aging Forgive others—and yourself Discover answers to loneliness, defeat, and despair Overcome fears and failures Strengthen your relationships with others Maintain your physical health Leave a legacy for those who follow you Your latter years can be the most fruitful and satisfying season of your life. Follow the suggestions in this book and you will keep on course for a future of significance.
Download or read book Living the Significant Life written by Peter L. Hirsch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the secrets and steps to living a more meaningful life Success is what happens to you; significance is what happens through you. Do busy schedules at home and at work sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed and uninspired? Maybe you feel stuck in a rut, going through a treadmill of the same routines or bored at a job you don't love. If you want to get more out of life, this book will show you how. The authors' approach has been used successfully by many thousands of people?now you can put it to work for yourself. You'll learn to focus on your passions, set and achieve goals, and harness your full potential in order to live a life filled with meaning?your best life. Shows you how to nurture your passions, re-energize your life, and achieve your full potential Includes dramatic stories of people who have discovered how to live a more meaningful life Written by Peter Hirsch, social entrepreneur and a in-demand public speaker, and Robert Shemin, successful business book author
Download or read book A Significant Life written by Todd May and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force. It is a thoughtful, subtle, beautifully written discussion of what it takes to live a meaningful life.” —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice Throughout history most of us have looked to faith, relationships, or deeds to give our lives purpose. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about meaning, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey—and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life alongside rich engagements with philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger, he shows us where to find the significance of our lives: in the way we live them. May starts by looking at the fundamental fact that life unfolds over time, and as it does so, it begins to develop certain qualities, certain themes. Our lives can be marked by intensity, curiosity, perseverance, or many other qualities that become guiding narrative values. These values lend meanings to our lives that are distinct from—but also interact with—the universal values we are taught to cultivate, such as goodness or happiness. Offering a fascinating examination of a broad range of figures—from music icon Jimi Hendrix to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, from cyclist Lance Armstrong to The Portrait of a Lady’s Ralph Touchett to Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler—May shows that narrative values offer a rich variety of criteria by which to assess a life, specific to each of us and yet widely available. They offer us a way of reading ourselves, who we are, and who we might like to be.
Download or read book A Significant Life written by Jim Graff and published by WaterBrook Press. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you yearning to live a life that matters? Many people wrestle with their significance. If you’re one of them, Jim Graff understands. And in his life-changing new book, he offers incredible insight and inspiration that can change the course of your life. A Significant Life helps you understand how to own your own worth–which is given and anointed by God–and live a more purposeful life. As a result, you’ll see an amazing transformation…not only in your life, but also in your church and community. Drawing on biblical models such as David, Esther, and Jesus himself, Jim shows you how personal courage, integrity, and determination can turn sparks into a holy fire. He’ll help you grab hold of the ways God wants you to be blessed. Learn to live your heart’s desire. And go out into the world as a person transformed with God-ordained significance. In A Significant Life, Graff reveals five keys that will give you the resources and the inspiration to live at your full potential as a person of eternal significance. Owning and living out of your true significance occurs by: ·Developing Confidence ·Being a person of Character ·Concentrating on God’s will ·Cooperating with God (and others) in carrying out God’s plans, and ·Participating in Community Discover the importance and impact of these five C’s in your life as you learn to live authentically within God’s unique design for you. And begin to own your God-given significance by living a purposeful life every day. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book The Top Ten Ways to Lead a Significant Life written by Dave Zimmer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Top Ten Ways to Lead a Significant Life is a valuable resource for those who want to lead a life that truly matters. Author Dave Zimmer has a background of 12 successful years in public education as a teacher, coach and high school principal. He has guided numerous students, teachers and parents down a better path. Using a no nonsense approach, Zimmer identifies things that all people can do to lead a significant life. Zimmer also emphasizes how much control people actually have in their life. The Top Ten Ways to Lead a Significant Life covers a variety of topics, including: understanding the process of success pursuing your dreams making necessary changes in your life overcoming adversity being a person of character, etc. The Top Ten Ways to Lead a Significant Life is a practical guide for those looking for meaning, direction and purpose in their life.
Download or read book The Art of Meaningful Living written by Christopher F Brown Lcsw Mba and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [b]Meaningful living is choosing your passions over your fears. It is accepting what you cannot control and focusing on what is in your power.[/b]Too often our meaningful lives and the things we are passionate about are buried under disappointments and lost dreams.Christopher F. Brown, LCSW, MBA, offers a powerful book combining psychological concepts with beautiful, provocative artwork done by John Palmer to help us move beyond the pain in our present lives to something more valuable and joyful. Divided into four stages, Brown has put together this thought-provoking guide to transform a life filled with dissatisfaction to a life filled with true meaning. Open to any page and begin your own journey toward a meaningful life.
Download or read book Intentional Living written by John C. Maxwell and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters inIntentional Living. We all have a longing to be significant. We want to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. But many people wrongly believe significance is unattainable. They worry that it's too big for them to achieve. That they have to have an amazing idea, be a certain age, have a lot of money, or be powerful or famous to make a real difference. The good news is that none of those things is necessary for you to achieve significance and create a lasting legacy. The only thing you need to achieve significance is to be intentional. And to do that, all you need to do is start. You can't make an impact sitting still and doing nothing. Every major accomplishment that's ever been achieved started with a first step. Sometimes it's hard; other times it's easy, but no matter what, you have to do it if you want to get anywhere in life. In Intentional Living, John Maxwell will help you take that first step, and the ones that follow, on your personal path through a life that matters.
Download or read book My Life as a Sidekick to Heroes written by Harold Jerde and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life as a Sidekick to Heroes reveals the journey of one man from growing up in a loving family to being a "ditch digger" to leading mission trips. Harold Jerde shows us what makes a real hero. He inspires readers to seek the same fulfillment in life he has found in serving others, whether it's digging a trench on an island in Alaska or nailing a roof on a house in Kentucky. *** "My Life as a Sidekick to Heroes is inspiring. The amazing stories motivated me. God can use anyone to change the world. It only takes a willing heart. Harold is not only a sidekick; he is one of God's exceptional heroes." Shirley Rose Total Living Network "Harold's life is proof one person can make a difference. See a need. Do what you can in Jesus' name to help. Move on to the next need. Could life be any simpler, more satisfying, more complete?" Levern Halstead Farsight Christian Mission "Harold challenges each of us to answer the question--what am I willing to accept to lead others to Christ? I know his answer. 'Whatever it takes.'" Bill Mills Christian Appalachian Project "Be careful as you read what follows. You'll get hooked. And then you won't be content until you, too, get on board with the mission of proclaiming Christ far and wide." Dr. James L. Nicodem Christ Community Church Harold Jerde left the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s, went into the construction business, building homes, subdivisions and mobile home parks, and calls himself a "ditch digger" by trade. He started taking mission trips in his late sixties and has led groups to Alaska, Haiti, Costa Rica, Mexico and Kentucky. He and his wife, Carol, live in De Kalb, Illinois.
Download or read book A Significant Life written by Jim Graff and published by WaterBrook Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an inspiration guide to living a more purposeful life, and contains five simple steps to personal courage, integrity, and determination.
Download or read book Significant Other written by Claire Conceison and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese views of the United States have shifted dramatically since the 1980s, with changes in foreign relations, increased travel of Chinese citizens to the U.S., and wide circulation of American popular culture in China. Significant Other explores representations of Americans that emerged onstage in China between 1987 and 2002 and considers how they function as racial and cultural stereotypes, political strategy, and artistic innovation. Based on fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, it offers a unique view of contemporary Mainland Chinese spoken drama from the perspective of a Western academic who is both a Chinese studies scholar and a theatre practitioner. Claire Conceison’s close readings of recent plays take into account not only the texts of the plays themselves and other primary sources, but also production contexts, creative origins, artistic collaboration, and audience reception. Identifying the American as China’s "significant Other," Conceison introduces the complex cultural relationship between China and the United States, situating it in both the long history of Sino-Western relations and the present dynamics of post-colonialism. She then examines the emergent discourse of Occidentalism, tracing its origins and recent circulation and repositioning it as a discursive strategy to analyze appearances of Americans on the Chinese stage. Conceison maintains that Chinese staging of American characters—often played by local actors made up and costumed as Americans, and more recently played by foreigners themselves—reveals cultural norms and attitudes regarding the United States, reflects Sino-American political relations, articulates Chinese national and cultural identity, and signifies innovation in spoken drama as an art form.
Download or read book Leading Lives That Matter written by Mark R. Schwen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles a wide range of texts-from fiction, social science, philosophy, and ancient poetry-related to questions that arise for those who are trying to decide what to do with their lives
Download or read book Significant Achievements in Space Astronomy 1958 1964 written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 8 Essentials for a Life of Significance written by Jay Strack and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 20 years, Dr. Jay Strack has been working with young Christian leaders throughout the U.S. and teaching them have a better understanding of God's Word and His calling in their lives. The topics chosen for the Student Leadership University Study Guide Series represent part of the teaching model that Dr. Strack has developed over the years and address tough questions that young people are asking today. In this study guide, Dr. Strack and Ron Luce will take the student on a journey through the lives of teens such as David, Joseph, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Timothy, Mary, and others to discover what it takes to really make a difference in the world around you. They will teach students the importance of: having a powerful personal devotion time with God / keeping your mind protected and fortified / defending your faith / having accountability / honoring your parents / finding your purpose and living it out fearlessly
Download or read book Christian Writers Market Guide 2010 written by Sally E. Stuart and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies approximately one thousand markets for Christian writers, including book publishers and periodicals, each with contact information and submission guidelines, and includes listings of literary agents, poetry, greeting card, music, and photography markets, and contests.
Download or read book The Spiritual Significance Or Death as an Event in Life written by Lilian Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book End of Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making written by D. Micah Hester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every one of us will die, and the processes we go through will be our own - unique to our own experiences and life stories. End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death. D. Micah Hester takes seriously the complexities of experiences and argues that when making end-of-life decisions, healthcare providers ought to pay close attention to the narratives of patients and the communities they inhabit so that their dying processes embody their life stories. He discusses three types of end-of-life patient populations - adults with decision-making capacity, adults without capacity, and children (with a strong focus on infants) - to show the implications of pragmatic empiricism and the scope of decision making at the end of life for different types of patients.
Download or read book The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers written by Stephen Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’. Written by leading experts in the field, such as A.C. Grayling, Thaddeus Metz and John Cottingham, this unique and engaging book explores the relevance of the history of philosophy to contemporary debates. It will prove essential reading for students and scholars studying the history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, metaphysics or comparative philosophy.
