Download or read book Starting Something New written by Beth A. Booram and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a dream? Do you have a creative idea stirring within you to do something different or start something new? If so, you're not alone. Many people have God-given dreams but don?t know how to discern what they are and develop them into something real. Most of these dreamers aren't business people or experienced entrepreneurs. They're just sincere Christ-followers who need a spiritual and practical guide to help them realize their dream—whether it be to start a new ministry, non-profit or business, or even the vision to begin a new lifestyle. Drawing from her personal experience and the stories of fifteen others, spiritual director Beth Booram has written this companion guide for those who wonder if they have a God-given idea but don?t know what to do with it. Interviews from people like Chris Smith, Phileena Heuertz and Randy Reese who have courageously embraced a God-prompted idea are included with each chapter to add further vision and insight. Carefully designed exercises at the end of each chapter will guide and provide practical support for those who are on the spiritual journey of identifying and acting on a God-given dream. By the end, you will know that one of the privileged tasks of life is to discern, shape, birth and sustain something new.
Download or read book Mompowerment written by Suzanne Brown (Marketing consultant) and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand Lettering for Beginners written by Sarah Ensign and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create beautiful lettering projects, quotes, birthday cards, and more once you’ve learned the basics of hand lettering from artist Sarah Ensign. Have you always wanted to learn the secrets to create stunning letter art? Now you can! This book takes you through different hand lettering styles such as faux calligraphy, brush pen lettering, and creating basic font styles such as monoline, elegant, and brush pen scripts. Sarah Ensign, author and influencer shares this fascinating craft with you through pages of colorful examples and worksheets that allow you to practice what you’ve learned. She also shares practical tips on supplies such as pen and paper, creating beautiful fonts, and master tricky connections, and planning layouts for quotes. Simple Techniques and Endless Possibilities In this colorful, hardcover book, you’ll find hands-on lettering worksheets and step-by-step guides that will quickly build your confidence. Explore your creativity with this fun, creative craft. Hand lettering for Beginners has a fun, non-intimidating approach to guiding readers through hand lettering techniques and possibilities. This book will start a fascinating hobby that will allow you to grow your hand lettering skills and create your own unique projects.
Download or read book The First 20 Hours written by Josh Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Download or read book Beginning written by Warren Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day our lives are filed with opportunities to begin anew. A wedding. A birth. A graduation. A new job. Retirement. Starting a diet. Stopping smoking. Beginning is a wonderful gift of encouragement, hope, and congratulations.
Download or read book Start Something That Matters written by Blake Mycoskie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good. “A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal Why this book is for you: • You’re ready to make a difference in the world—through your own start-up business, a nonprofit organization, or a new project that you create within your current job. • You want to love your work, work for what you love, and have a positive impact on the world—all at the same time. • You’re inspired by charity: water, method, and FEED Projects and want to learn how these organizations got their start. • You’re curious about how someone who never made a pair of shoes, attended fashion school, or worked in retail created one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world by giving shoes away. • You’re looking for a new model of success to share with your children, students, co-workers, and members of your community. You’re ready to start something that matters.
Download or read book How To Start Something New In Difficult Times written by Carmel O' Reilly and published by Carmel O' Reilly. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my book about how to start something new in difficult times throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what’s inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these. WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically. There will be times in your WorkLife when you will need to make changes. When you will be required to start something new. This may be brought about by difficult times. Sometimes this need to start something new will come from external influences – situations and conditions outside of your control. Sometimes this need to start something new will come from within yourself – a sense of feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, unmotivated. Sometimes you will be able to anticipate change coming and take time to plan to navigate it, in starting something new. Other times you will have adapt to change quickly. At all times you will find that you have much of what you need within you to start something new, and what you don’t have, you will find a way of getting, in even the most difficult of times. In this book I tell five stories: 1. WorkLife Longevity Brings About a New WorkLife: John’s story of how when having retired too early, he found a way to carve out a new WorkLife that allowed him to do what was important in and out of the workplace. 2. It Was the Worst of Times and Then it Got Even Worse: The Walton’s story of living through the most difficult times in history. 3. Willingness to Change is a Strength: Tara’s story of how not long after losing her husband, she lost her job, and how through being open to change, she was able to come through a difficult time. 4. How a Side-Hustle Saved My WorkLife and MyWell-Being: Saoirse’s story of how starting something new helped her to recover from severe burnout. 5. How a Side-Hustle Can Supercharge Your Skill Set and Effectively Future Proof Your WorkLife: Saoirse’s story of how she combined her diverse skills to create something that was truly her own. I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through: Navigate the In-Between Assignment This assignment is to help you to navigate those in-between times when you’re starting something late or dealing with something difficult. Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment This assignment is to help you to use active pauses to be open to experiences. Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment This assignment is to help you to pay attention to opportunities and know the right questions to ask to make the most of them. Maze of Change Assignment This assignment is to help you to keep moving in a new direction. Use Reframing to Shift from a Negative to a Positive Mindset Assignment This exercise is to help you to acknowledge what is possible. Four Steps to Designing Your WorkLife Transitions around Investing in a Diverse Set of Skills Assignment This assignment is to help you to make transitions by managing your learning, growth and development in and out of the workplace.
Download or read book Start Something New written by Hemant Bansal and published by Spectrum of Thoughts. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booksclub.in organized a competition, titling 10 different anthologies based on 10 different themes and emotions. Each theme depicts the high and low of the life. 120 Writers contributed in this free venture, published by Spectrum of Thoughts, An affiliate of FanatiXx.
Download or read book Starting Something written by Wayne McVicker and published by Ravel Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how software firm Neoforma became a dotcom enterprise and three billion dollar public company, and survived its struggles in the face of daunting obstacles.
Download or read book Start Something New written by Arun Singhal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book The Power of Starting Something Stupid written by Natalie Norton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid?The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way).In The Power of Starting Something Stupid, Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid. What if the key to success, creativity, and fulfillment in your life lies in the potential of those stupid ideas? This deeply inspiring book will teach you:¿ How to crush fear, make dreams happen, and live without regret.¿ How to overcome obstacles such as lack of time, lack of education, or lack of money.¿ The 5 actions of the New Smart to achieve authentic success.No more excuses. Learn how to start something stupid-the smartest thing you can do. Drawing on years of research, including hundreds of face-to-face interviews and some of the world's greatest success stories past and present, Richie shows you how stupid is the New Smart-the common denominator for success, creativity, and innovation in business and life.
Download or read book How To Use Turning Points To Start Something Different And Better written by Carmel O' Reilly and published by Carmel O' Reilly. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my book about how to use turning points to start something different and better throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what’s inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these. WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically. Turning points are times when a significant change takes place that affects a person’s future, causing them to pause and rethink what’s important to them in their WorkLife – what they want and need to do differently to make it better. In this book I tell four stories: 1. Life is Too Short Not to Be Living it Fully: Carmel’s story of how the loss of her brother led her to reevaluate her WorkLife, to think through what was important in her day-to-day living and the legacy she wanted to work towards leaving behind. 2. How Overcoming a Significant Challenge Led to a New WorkLife:Jason’s story of how a debilitating illness led him to develop a new WorkLife in line with what he enjoyed doing, that honoured his values. 3. Be Grateful to the Naysayers, Allow Them to Motivate You, to Prove Them Wrong, When They Say Something Can’t Be Done: Michaels’ story of how his dream to do something new and different was crushed by unsolicited advice before he even got started, and how by surrounding himself with people who believed that changes can take place even in the toughest of circumstances allowed him to achieve his dream. 4. New Year’s Eve Tales of Turning Points– Stories of Acts of Kindness that Led to Building a Community of Caring and Connectivity & The WorkLife Book Club: Stories from people who were brought together by shared experiences, turning points, and acts of kindness which led to connectivity and community. I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through: Your WorkLife Mission Statement Assignment This assignment is to help you to write a mission statement that will guide you through turning points to start something different and better. Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment This assignment is to help you to use turning points to answer any unanswered questions, to reveal any hidden secrets, and to resolve any inner conflicts. Develop a Practice of Insightful Self-Questioning Assignment This assignment is to help you to ask the important questions at each turning point WorkLife stage. Surround Yourself with People who Believe in Your Assignment This assignment is to help you to identify the people who will support you in starting something different and better. How Can I Use This Turning Point in My WorkLife To Start Something Different and Better Journaling Assignment This assignment is to help you to identify how you can use a turning point in your WorkLife to start something different and better. Tell Your Story of How You Used a Turning Point in Your WorkLife To Start Something New and Better Assignment This assignment is to help you to begin to put pen to paper, or fingers to keys, to begin to write your turning point story that led you to starting something different and better.
Download or read book The Beautiful No written by Sheri Salata and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.” What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was the stark reality facing Sheri Salata when she left her twenty-year stint at The Oprah Winfrey Show, Harpo Studios and the OWN network. She had dedicated decades to her dream job, and loved (almost) every minute of it, but had left the rest of her life gathering dust on the shelf. After years of telling other people’s makeover stories, Sheri decided to “produce” her own life transformation. And this meant revisiting her past, excavating its lessons, and boldly reimagining her future. In these pages, she invites readers along for the ride—detoxing in the desert, braving humiliation at Hollywood’s favorite fitness studio, grappling with losses, reinventing friendships, baring her soul in sex therapy, and more. Part cautionary tale, part middle-of-life rallying cry, Sheri’s stories offer profound inspiration for personal renewal.
Download or read book Leading With Emotional Courage written by Peter Bregman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 18 Minutes unlocks the secrets of highly successful leaders and pinpoints the missing ingredient that makes all the difference You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. Maybe it’s in your workplace, or in your relationships, or simply in your own life. But great leadership—leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results—is hard. And what makes it hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the most critical challenge of leadership is emotional courage. If you are willing to feel everything, you can do anything. Leading with Emotional Courage, based on the author’s popular blogs for Harvard Business Review, provides practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle. Each short, easy to read chapter details a distinct step in this emotional “workout,” giving you grounded advice for handling the difficult situations without sacrificing professional ground. By building the courage to say the necessary but difficult things, you become a stronger leader and leave the “should’ves” behind. Theoretically, leadership is straightforward, but how many people actually lead? The gap between theory and practice is huge. Emotional courage is what bridges that gap. It’s what sets great leaders apart from the rest. It gets results. It cuts through the distractions, the noise, and the politics to solve problems and get things done. This book is packed with actionable steps you can take to start building these skills now. Have the courage to speak up when others remain silent Be stable and grounded in the face of uncertainty Respond productively to opposition without getting distracted Weather others’ anger without shutting down or getting defensive Leading with Emotional Courage coaches you to build your emotional courage, exercise it effectively, and create an environment in which people around you take accountability to get hard things done.
Download or read book Start with Why written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
Download or read book The Start of Something Good written by Jennifer Probst and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .".. the first book in the [author's] new Stay series."--Colophon.
Download or read book When Things Fall Apart written by Pema Chödrön and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness.
