Download or read book We Don t Always Get It Right the First Time written by Gregory Brad Cutler and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Sometimes its better to finish last and have 99 people cheering for you, than to finish first and have to stand there all alone. - A liar tells the truth every time he lies. - When someone pulls out a camera, dont ask them to take a picture of you. - If you dont think its funny, dont laugh. - Control your animals and your children! - Stop quoting people when you dont know what youre talking about. - Live your funeral every day.
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 290 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 The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Heart Whispers written by Larrie Gale Ph.D. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc, from the United States, meets and falls for Amala from India. Each is powerfully attracted to the other, but can their differences be merged into strengths through commitment to each other and to shared Christian values? Can parents change their feelings and views of the world to support them? Is it possible that a happy family can be created by two individuals from such diversity? The story takes Marc and Amala through an emotional roller coaster as they consider their choices and the consequences of what friends and family see as a forbidden romance which can only end in pain.
Download or read book Agile Development with ICONIX Process written by Don Rosenberg and published by Apress. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Describes an agile process that works on large projects *Ideal for hurried developers who want to develop software in teams *Incorporates real-life C#/.NET web project; can compare this with cases in book
Download or read book The Awakening written by Alicia Ashley and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to show readers the actions they must take to start attracting the life they want. Ashley explains the three powerful steps necessary for success, how many people sabotage their success and why, and finally how to change those negative behaviors.
Download or read book Poseidon s Grotto Have You Ever Lived a Dream written by C. E. Davis and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There exists a magical place near the sea which some believe to be hallowed ground, where the future is idyllic and living in a dream is the only reality. Lyndon Williams is one who seeks this enchanted sanctuary with the hopes of creating a future for himself and his special girl. But his desire turns into a lifelong obsession when Lyndon is not willing to give up his dreams, or his first love, as he unfailingly searches through time for Poseidon's Grotto.
Download or read book Screw It Let s Do It written by Sir Richard Branson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Branson is an iconic businessman. In Screw It, Let's Do It, he shares the secrets of his success and the invaluable lessons he has learned over the course of his remarkable career. As the world struggles with the twin problems of global recession and climate change, Richard explains why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the way in finding a more holistic and environmentally friendly approach to business. He also looks to the future and shares his plans for taking his business and his ideas to the next level. Richard reveals the new and exciting areas into which Virgin is currently moving, including biofuels and space travel, and brings together all the important lessons, good advice and inspirational adages that have helped him along the road to success. This is a fantastic motivational business book that will help every reader achieve their own dreams.
Download or read book Time Curse written by LJ Baker and published by LJ Baker. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you had the ability to go back in time and change the worst thing that’s ever happened to you? And what if by going back, you might make everything worse? My family has a curse. By using a photograph, we can travel back in time to when the photo was taken. The only problem is, we can’t change things for the better. In fact, we tend to make everything worse. Right before my sixteenth birthday, when everything should have been great, my sister died. Aunt Laura says, even though I now have this new ability to go back in time, I can’t do it. She wants me to fight it, to save myself from making the mistakes all my relatives have. But I don’t care how many times a bunch of people I didn’t even know screwed up. That’s on them. I won’t make their mistakes. I can save my sister. Even if the whole world must pay the price.
Download or read book Less Crime for Bonnie written by James Arrington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born near Frankfurt, Kentucky, Bonnie Sue Raymond wants to leave the farm behind and go to beauty school. After studying for and receiving her GED, Bonnie promptly boards a bus to Indianapolis for training, working nights at a taxi company to save money. Bonnie immediately notices the contrast between the farm in Kentucky and the urban jungle known as the city. Law enforcement personnel seem to be helpful, but there is little reduction in the crime rate. Bonnie finds out firsthand just how dangerous the streets can be when her intriguing new gentleman friend is shot in a burglary attempt during one of his taxi shifts. Following this harsh blow, a devastated Bonnie is given supernatural powers to reduce the crime rate around the world. She wonders what it would be like to live in a community with no murder, arson, carjacking, theft, or fraud. Bonnie gives fair warning via the media that justice is about to be served unless criminals turn themselves in to the authorities. Most of those wanted are repeat offenders who wouldn't dare think of turning themselves in to the police, but perhaps Bonnie can remedy the situation. But can vigilante justice elude the FBI?
Download or read book To Hell with Fate written by Kevin J. Cunningham and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young love is a myth. It's something we're conditioned to expect by movies and stories. It's something we all wanted but could never find. And even when we get older and know the truth, we still wish, just a little, that we had it. When two young cousins find themselves bored to tears at a family funeral, they find another cousin willing to tell them a little story about his young love: how a simple Valentine's Day gift from a mini-mart became one of the best he'd ever given. It's a fine story on its own, but as the girls dig deeper, they find themselves enveloped in a longer saga, told one story at a time. One about the difference between a crush and love. One that challenges their notions of fate and perfection. One about how our own worst enemies can be ourselves, and how in the end, we're all just a little messed up.
Download or read book Bitterness Isn t Sexy written by Ashley Terrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by real life applications, assessments and influence by God's Word, Bitterness Isn't Sexy is a guide to happiness, positivity and building confidence from within and strengthen their faith. Allow yourself to step out of your normal thinking and look at your trials and tribulations as set ups, not set backs. For life tells a story to receive it, we must be in the mindset of trusting God and understanding that everything He shows and does for us to make us strong, filled with faith - not with bitterness in our hearts.
Download or read book Mavericks of Sound written by David A. Ensminger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous shifts in the music world. As the success of the concerts at Austin City Limits have revealed, the fan bases and crowds for indie and roots music often blur and overlap. In Mavericks of Sound, Ensminger brings to light the highways and byways trod by these music icons over the course of their careers and the ways in which their music-making has been affected by, and influenced, the burgeoning indie and roots music movements. Ranging from seminal modern singer-songwriters to rockabilly renegades and indie rockers, Mavericks of Sound features a set of broad, penetrating, and insightful conversations imbued with a sense of musical history and heritage. Ensminger captures firsthand accounts from singer songwriters like Texas Country musician Tom Russell and first wave indie artist and folk rocker Peter Case; rockabilly artists Junior Brown and the Reverend Horton Heat; American indie rock icons such as 11th Dream Day’s Janet Bean, Pere Ubu’s Dave Thomas, Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider, and Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe; English and New Zealand figures such as folk legend Richard Thompson, The Clean’s David Kilgour and The Waterboys’ Mike Scott; and folk, country and rock legends such as Merle Haggard, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ralph Stanley, Neko Case, and Yo La Tengo. Mavericks of Sound is the perfect work for contemporary indie, roots, Americana, country, and folk music fans who want to understand the unique artistry and unbound passion behind America’s musical innovators that readily broke and remolded rules.
Download or read book Relativity in Curved Spacetime written by Eric Baird and published by Chocolate Tree Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics, wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and asks: what would physics look like without special relativity? 394 printed pages, 234156 mm, 200 figures and illustrations, includes bibliography and index www.relativitybook.com
Download or read book Worried about Everything Because I Pray about Nothing written by Chad Veach and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say Good-bye to Stress and Burnout, and Hello to Peace and Purpose What comes to mind when you think about prayer? Does it feel like something for holy people but not for you? Or like a mystical experience you could never hope to achieve in real life? Or maybe just a boring duty with little payoff. In this book, author and pastor Chad Veach demystifies the concept of prayer by explaining in practical terms what prayer looks like in our day-to-day lives. It turns out, it's not hard! This passionate, personal approach to prayer removes the pressure to "pray right" and replaces it with the calm assurance that God wants to hear from us and respond to us in love. Along with building a case for the importance of prayer, Chad uses stories and compelling insights from the Bible to give practical advice for how to make your prayers more effective. He highlights where we can and should pray and offers tangible strategies to implement a praying lifestyle within the busyness of modern life. Prayer works! Here's how to connect with God just like He's always wanted.
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Download or read book Reverse Engineering of the Deep Cycle Automotive Battery written by Frank Earl and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could charge a battery while discharging it to a load source? In Reverse Engineering of the Deep-Cycle Automotive Battery, Frank Earl argues that it is possible. Taking a different approach than he did in his first book—Miracle Auto Battery—he explains how it can be done. He also evaluates what others, including Richard A. Perez, author of The Complete Battery Book, have said about charging batteries. He explores critical topics, such as • how fixation on the chemical structure of the battery has overshadow the fact that its mechanical structure is just as important as its chemical structure when it comes to new battery technology. • what role a battery’s mechanical structure plays in its cycling processes; • why it is possible to charge a deep-cycle automotive battery even as it is powering a vehicle; and • what role reverse engineering plays in improving battery life. Imagine how different the world would be if we could switch between the charging and discharging process of the deep-cycle automotive battery without having to stop one cycling process to start the other—and discover how to make it a reality.
