Download or read book Inspiration for the Graduate written by Scott Rosberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspiration for the Graduate" is a book of inspirational messages and quotes--the perfect gift for high-school or college graduates who are moving on to the next stage of their lives. Many of the themes and quotes come from the athletic world, so it makes a great gift for coaches and parents to give to their graduating athletes. Page one is designed for the coach or family member to write a personalized note to the graduate. There are ten chapters, each focused on a different theme, and each with several quotes about those themes. Many of the people quoted are former athletes and coaches, while others are influential and famous leaders. The themes of the ten chapters and the quotes that support them are about the following: Work Ethic, Discipline, Poise, Enthusiasm, Confidence, Perseverance, Winning & Losing, Adaptability, Courage, and Leadership. It is illustrated throughout to add interest and entertainment for young people. Scott Rosberg draws upon his own experience as a teacher and coach for over 25 years to provide graduates with many encouraging lessons to draw upon as they close one chapter of their lives and open the next.
Download or read book Life Principles for the Graduate written by Charles F. Stanley and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equip our graduates for living in the real world! Graduates from high school and college move into a newer, higher level of independence, making decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. They need wisdom and guidance as they face the challenges that come with living in the world without becoming part of it. Life Principles for the Graduate provides nine biblical truths for living God’s way as opposed to the world’s way, creating greater opportunity to grow stronger in faith while learning to trust and fully believe His Word as truth.
Download or read book A Graduate s Guide written by Ryan Simmons and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great gift for graduates ready to grasp their future!After each quote is a series of pointed questions designed for contemplation and reflection, along with dedicated area to record thoughts.INTRODUCTION FROM BOOK:Life is definitely a Journey.Within these pages is an accumulation of noteworthy quotes that can travel with you as you meet each new endeavor. As you will continue to learn, life is full of challenges, surprises, promises, victories, obstacles and learning experiences. It is my sincere hope these quotes can go with you and offer influence in the best way possible, an example that you are not alone in what life presents.Congratulations on your graduation and upcoming journey!
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Download or read book A Graduate s Guide to Life written by Frank J. Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The college years are often referred to as the best years of your life. Author Frank J. Hanna believes your best years are still ahead of you, but only if you have a strategy for living that goes beyond what you learned in school. According to Hanna, wealth and success are not what you think. Drawing on a lifetime of business experience, he proposes a radically different approach. He shows that wealth is not merely money, competition has a higher purpose than simply getting ahead, and a life of happiness is simpler to attain than we imagine. If you are looking to succeed in the ways that really matter, Hanna's simple message, conveyed with clarity and insight, will change your views of wealth and success. And it might just change the course of your post-graduate life entirely!
Download or read book Designing Your Life written by Bill Burnett and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
Download or read book Make Good Art written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech.
Download or read book This Is Water written by Kenyon College and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Download or read book The Graduate s Guidebook to Creating Wealth and Financial Freedom While Navigating Life s Illusions written by Peter Alan Dennis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create wealth and financial freedom while planning for the rest of your life.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements written by David McCullough Jr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and timely reflection on the way we bring up children that will resonate with parents everywhere. 'Longtime high school English teacher McCullough scores an A+ with this volume for teens and parents. Rich in literary references and poetic in cadence, the author also offers plenty of hilarious and pointed comments on teens and today's society.' - Publishers Weekly So you think you're special? Well, think again: you're not. David McCullough Jr, a US high-school English teacher, found himself suddenly famous in 2012 when his commencement address to graduating high-school seniors went viral on Youtube. the main theme of that speech, 'You're not special', seemed to hit a nerve and validate a sense among people worldwide that something is deeply and fundamentally wrong with the way children are being raised today. From infancy, he observed, children are taught to believe they are unique and special, deserving of every advantage, destined for success. Consequently they learn to work hard and distinguish themselves for the sake of status and material reward rather than for the benefit of others - the larger community; the world. Success is defined as something almost entirely selfish. there is little attention or time given to the pursuit of education for the sake of wisdom, or even real happiness. Drawing from his long career as an educator and experience as a father of teenage boys, McCullough will expand upon the ideas laid out in his radical twelve-minute speech and argue that we can do better - as parents and as teachers - than fostering in our children a sense of privilege and entitlement. Watch the speech at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfxYhtf8o4 Or read it at: http://theswellesleyreport.com/2012/06/wellesley-high-grads-told-youre-not-special/
Download or read book Make Your Bed written by Admiral William H. McRaven and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes
Download or read book Dear Graduate written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wit and wisdom of Charles Swindoll, communicated in warm, personal letters to high school and college graduates, addresses issues that will help to shape their marriages, careers, and families. He encourages and challenges graduates to follow God's best and to live God-enthused lives.
Download or read book GRADUATE SCHOOL written by John L. Bowman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate School is a memoir about an older person returning to school. It is about new beginnings, changing a way of living and adventurously pursuing a life passion by studying philosophy. It is about the struggle to get into graduate school, the challenges of learning again, the excitement of a fresh start in life and the happiness derived from studying the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. This is also a book about higher education in America today written through the lens of one who had experienced much of life—who has navigated the rough and tumble real world and entered an academic surreal world. This memoir evaluates controversial topics like feminism, socialism and liberal academic biases based on experience. In many ways, academia is an idealistic, make-believe cocoon. This book is also about those that inhabitant this world. It describes professors with liberal agendas, professors struggling to inculcate learning and idealistic professors endeavoring to impart knowledge. It is also about the college students and those who live at the periphery of academia. Foremost, this book is about ideas. It describes a student’s descent into the philosophies of free will, determinism, art and morality, theories of the mind, Stoicism and ancient history. A few redacted papers are included to illustrate the author’s ignorance, issues in graduate school and difficult ideas and concepts to master. One paper, for example, compares the decline of Ancient Rome with the decline of America today. While this book offers insights into many facets of graduate school, the central topic is how to achieve happiness in life. Some of its most important messages are that it is never too late to learn, that we compete against ourselves and not others and to always live life to its fullest, aim further than your reach and live life now because it is all we have.
Download or read book Do Over written by Jon Acuff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of Quitter and Start comes the definitive guide to getting your dream job. When you don't like your job, Sunday isn't really a weekend day. It's just pre-Monday. But what if you could call a Do Over and actually look forward to Monday? Starting on the first day you got paid to scoop ice cream or restock shelves, you’ve had the chance to develop the four elements all great careers have in common: relationships, skills, character, and hustle. You already have each of those, to one degree or another. Now it’s time to amplify them and apply them in a new way, so you can call a Do Over on your career, at any age. You’ll need a Do Over because you’ll eventually face at least one of these major transitions: • You’ll hit a Career Ceiling and get stuck, requiring sharp skills to free yourself. • You’ll experience a Career Bump and unexpectedly lose your job, requiring strong relationships to survive. • You’ll make a Career Jump to a new role, requiring solid character to push through uncertainty and chaos. • You’ll get a surprise Career Opportunity, requiring dedicated hustle to take advantage of it. Jon Acuff’s unique approach will give you the resources to reinvent your work, get unstuck, and get the job you’ve always wanted!
Download or read book Life is Tough and Then You Graduate written by Jorge Cham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of the first five years of 'Piled Higher and Deeper,' a comic strip about life (or lack thereof) in graduate school, as it originally appeared in Stanford University's 'The Stanford Daily Newspaper' and online at phd.stanford.edu."--Amazon.com.
