Download or read book Only One Short Shot at Life written by Greg Cottrell and published by Greg Cottrell. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7 most essential happiness creators are in the Life Happiness Formula: Healthy Health and wellbeing Education, learning, self-improvement Assist and serve others Love and people skills Thankful to your creator for your life = Happiness and fulfillment for You – a precious, YOUnique, once only miracle of human creation Gratitutde and love are the parents and producers of the best happiness creators. E (Eternity) mail from the deceased: You’re alive – you’re lucky – be happy.
Download or read book You Get One Shot at Life Aim for Success written by Aaron Lumpkin and published by Winning Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Get One Shot At Life is A Self-help, inspirational book which helps readers realize the tremendous significance of their lives. The book includes the principles of success, the emotional dangers of life to Avoid, ways to live A meaningful life, ways to develop A winning edge, And insights into making sense of ourselves And the world. The values that Are most important in life Are revealed through stories, examples And insightful concepts.
Download or read book One Shot at Forever written by Chris Ballard and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a Chicago powerhouse in a dramatic game that would change their lives forever. In this gripping, cinematic narrative, Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet: a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966, bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era. Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly took over the ragtag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball. Together they embarked on an improbable postseason run that buoyed a small town in desperate need of something to celebrate. Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among a coach, a team, and a town. "Macon's run at the title reminds us why sports matter and why sportswriting has such great power to inspire. . . [It's] one hell of a good story, and Ballard has written one hell of a good book." -- Jonathan Eig, Chicago Tribune
Download or read book The Case against Death written by Ingemar Patrick Linden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension. Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We may be on the cusp of a new human condition where scientists seek to break through the arbitrarily set age limit of human existence to address aging as an illness that can be cured. The book, however, is not about the science and technology of life extension but whether we should want more life. For Linden, the answer is a loud and clear “yes.” The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture. Linden examines the views of major philosophical voices of the past, whom he calls “death’s ardent advocates.” These include the Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Lucretius, and Montaigne. All have taught what he calls “the Wise View,” namely, that we should not fear death. After setting out his case against death, Linden systematically examines each of the accepted arguments for death—that aging and death are natural, that death is harmless, that life is overrated, that living longer would be boring, and that death saves us from overpopulation. He concludes with a “dialogue concerning the badness of human mortality.” Though Linden acknowledges that The Case Against Death is a negative polemic, he also defends it as optimistic, in that the badness of death is a function of the goodness of life.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man written by Paul Newman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan and many others. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and Vanity Fair "Newman at his best…with his self-aware persona, storied marriage and generous charitable activities…this rich book somehow imbues his characters’ pain and joy with fresh technicolor." —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman’s family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor’s life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty. The additional voices—from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston—that run throughout add richness and color and context to the story Newman is telling. Newman’s often traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Marlon Brando and James Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son Scott, his strong desire for his daughters to know and understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers around his relationship with Joanne Woodward—their love for each other, his dependence on her, the way she shaped him intellectually, emotionally and sexually. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is revelatory and introspective, personal and analytical, loving and tender in some places, always complex and profound.
Download or read book Philosophy of Culture as Theory Method and Way of Life written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this collection argue that all philosophy is really philosophy of culture and that through it we can live more meaningful, flourishing, and wisely guided lives.
Download or read book Who s Got Your Back written by Keith Ferrazzi and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman” and the rest of our culture’s go-it alone mentality. The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous mutual support every one of us needs to reach our full potential. Whether your dream is to lead a company, be a top producer in your field, overcome the self-destructive habits that hold you back, lose weight or make a difference in the larger world, Who’s Got Your Back will give you the roadmap you’ve been looking for to achieve the success you deserve. Keith Ferrazzi, the internationally renowned thought leader, consultant, and bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, shows us that becoming a winner in any field of endeavor requires a trusted team of advisors who can offer guidance and help to hold us accountable to achieving our goals. It is the reason PH.D candidates have advisor teams, top executives have boards, world class athletes have fitness coaches, and presidents have cabinets. In this step-by-step guide to the powerful principles behind personal growth and change, you’ll learn how to: · Master the mindsets that will help you to build deeper, more trusting “lifeline relationships” · Overcome the career-crippling habits that hold you back, once and for all · Get further, faster by setting goals in a dramatically more powerful way · Use “sparring” as a productive tool to make the decisions that will fuel personal success · Replace the yes men in your life with those who get it and care – and will hold you accountable to achieving your goals · Lower your guard and let others help! None of us can do it alone. We need the perspective and advice of a trusted team. And in Who’s Got Your Back, Keith Ferrazzi shows us how to put our own “dream team” together.
Download or read book Creating Happiness Intentionally written by Sandy MacGregor and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had security - in income, in work, in love, in safety, in health and more - would that lead to your happiness? If you had more friends, a family, a better career, abundance in all things you need - would that lead to your happiness? Are you Living Your Life Purpose? Are you getting what you want in life? Maybe you would like to make some changes, in areas such as your abundance, your relationships, a lack of intimacy, things that frustrate you, or your career. But for some reason don't believe you can, or don't deserve it. Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult to make real and lasting changes in your life? The changes you know you want to, and should make, but somehow never get around to, like your diet. your exercise. or your health? The essence of this book is about really getting on track and creating balance with your life so that you can actually live your dreams. You use the powerful CALM mind techniques to discover the main purpose of your life, to decide on goals that support you in all areas of your life, and to make sure that your values, the things that drive you, truly support those goals. By "doing" this book you will arrive at your "Life's Purpose Now". This knowledge is a potent force that will lead you towards the life you desire.
Download or read book Sharing Bananas written by Gesmay Paynter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gesmay has compacted her life experiences into this book '' Sharing Bananas''. She was motivated to write this book in order to inspire, motivate and hopefully empower the reader. This is a book of dreams, aspiration and taking action. She believes that winners never quit, and quitters never win. Gesmay wants to share the philosophy that sharing makes us better and richer people. She believes perseverance and determination really pays off. Gesmay invites people to connect with her and learn more about '' Sharing Bananas'' - as a bunch we can do more. She would like to connect with independent travel community using the forum on her website: sharingbananas.org.
Download or read book The Liquidator written by Nicole Langa and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two unsuspecting murder victims One vengeful son A distraught disparaging father no suspects. Amidst the commotion in his home, with all the problems that come along with having a mother suffering from a chronic mental illness, and an absent father, Christopher Harris callously murders his fathers mistress and their illegitimate daughterdeveloping a distasteful addiction to homicide! Could carelessly yet instinctively blogging his memoirs in pursuit of his own identity, existence and purpose lead to his downfall?
Download or read book From the Shadows into the Sunlight written by Rick Kelly and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Americans should welcome the opportunity to move forward into a better future for America and for all Americans while mending ancient wounds from the nations original sin and at the same time seek to remediate the lingering ills and inflicted hardships still present to this day that divides the nation's people such that some Americans still feel relegated to second class citizenship. Courageous people of all faiths, of goodwill, and of conscience can impart heartfelt support for a new emancipation that moves toward freeing both black and white Americans from the racial disharmony and acrimony that surrounds the issue of racial discrimination in America. It is now possible to seek a new direction that promotes self-reliance and economic progress from within the black community by redirecting black earned resources through black individuals not through the endless, ineffective government programs and bureaucracies. It has been more than half a century since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed the racial discrimination and segregation that persists to this day, and the government has clearly failed to abate such daily pathologies. Government poverty and affirmative action programs have not reduced the racial wealth gap that remains virtually unchanged since 1964. The black middle class suffers from consistently higher unemployment rates while also being burdened with increasing high student loan debt and home mortgage debt that reduces the opportunity for home ownership and family net worth growth. President John F. Kennedy in a 1961 speech repeated the time-worn saying that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. This book suggests a new direction of self-reliance and hope with a new emancipation proclaimed for all Americans, if only there is finally the will to put the nation's dark past behind us and move out of the shadows and into the sunlight of a just and moral new future.
Download or read book Canoe on the Nahanni written by DH Koester and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is the legendary South Nahanni River in Canada's Northwest Territories-as remote and wild a river as any man could hope for. The Nahanni flows through a land of unsurpassed beauty and legend-harrowing legend. To access it, you must travel due North across the North American continent until the road is no more, then jump a bush plane for a flight across the infamous Mackenzie Mountains, deep into the wild, to the headwaters of the Nahanni. Once in, there is but one way out-down 300 miles of rampaging river, across mighty Virginia Falls, through Deadmen's Valley, then a succession of three formidable, bottomless canyons, filled wall to wall with treacherous rapids-enough whitewater and danger to satisfy even the most beastly of men. On that river, in the summer of "74"-a man, a boy and an open 16 foot, wood and canvass canoe with 250 miles of bad water between them and homeward bound. Fate would not be kind and near the end of the journey they would find themselves hopelessly trapped in the Lower Canyon without gear or canoe. Only the most unlikely of events could save them-but could they survive long enough for it to happen?
Download or read book Finding Forgiveness written by Holly Duckworth and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma is an integral part of the human condition. Everyone will experience hurt and pain. Souls incarnate in this very dense and challenging plane, three-dimension Earth, for growth. Intense soul growth can be the purpose of trauma. But how do we grow? How do we heal from trauma? Through forgiveness. In Finding Forgiveness: Surprising Healing from the Higher Self, Holly Duckworth shares wisdom from the Higher Self on a process for forgiveness. She has gleaned this wisdom from her practice facilitating Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT®) for more than a decade. QHHT® is Dolores Cannon’s modality of hypnosis. Working with hundreds of clients in the deepest level of trance, in conversation with the Higher Self, she has learned this sacred forgiveness process. It is an alchemy turning human trauma into soul growth. Continuing from her prior book, Finding Purpose: Surprising Wisdom from the Higher Self, Holly shares more wisdom from the Higher Self. In this second part of the trilogy, Holly explores, perhaps, the most important tool for healing – forgiveness. From “Them”, she has been given a 4-step process to heal through forgiveness: see, accept, release, and move. In Finding Forgiveness: Surprising Healing from the Higher Self, she shares this process in detail along with client session segments and other insights presenting eternal and universal wisdom about healing from the trauma of the human condition.
Download or read book Men Grow up to Be Boys written by Allan C. Stover and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEN GROW UP TO BE BOYS By Allan C. Stover Men are boys until you bury em. . . . Rowena, in the movie Decoration Day. Men take a long time to grow up. When they finally do, life gets infinitely more complicated and a lot less fun . . . . Uncle Sammy (mumbled to Tanya Tata in Hummer's Topless Bar). Men Grow Up to Be Boys is a novel of both comedy and tragedy in the life of Roger Murphy, who just may grow up and find out what is important in life. Imagine Holden Caulfields tragicomic life in Catcher in the Rye spread across a messy childhood, messier teens, and even messier adulthood. Add scheming Sammy Glick as his best friend and an untamed shrew as his first love and wife. End it with a slima very slimchance at happiness, success, and true love with an angel. Roger Murphy begins life with everything against him. His parents divorce when he is a child. His embittered mother accuses his father of molesting him, which makes his life a living hell when everyone in the neighborhood finds out about it. His mother never admits to anyone that shed made up the molestation story after prodding from her divorce lawyer. Roger pleads with her to tell his friends parents that nothing had happened, but she refuses. I want everyone to know how rotten he is, she told him. Im glad everyone thinks that bastard is a monster. Mom, its making things so hard for me, he pleads. No one can play with me without getting into trouble. Please tell them nothing happened. Please. She doesnt listen. She looks out the window and smiles. Do you know he cant come into the neighborhood? The men here would beat him to a pulp. Thats why he has to meet you in the park. Serves the bastard right. She told everyone shed dropped the charges only to spare Roger the trauma of testifying. She even begins to believe her story. It would all complicate Rogers life for a long, long time. Rogers best friend, Bob, might dominate him, but Roger has no one else who cares. His secret love, Madge, loves Bob and acts as though Roger doesnt even exist on this planet. From there, Rogers life goes downhill over a lot of rough road. The book gets funny even when life gets serious. In Chapter 1, Bob, Madge, and Roger play show me yours and Ill show you mine. When its Bobs turn, he says, Ive seen yours, so why show mine? and runs from the park. In Chapter 3, Bob and Roger play the Urinal Game to extort money from students. They drop a dime into the urinal then hide. When they hear water run, they know the student is washing off the dime because boys never wash their hands after they pee. (Some just lick their fingers.) They threaten to tell the other students that the boy stuck his hand in a urinal to get a lousy dime. For a quarter, theyll keep quiet. In Chapter 4, Roger has a chance of realizing his dream of owning a Schwinn, the Cadillac of bikes. Bob helps out by extorting raffle tickets from local store owners. In Chapter 5, when the school imposes a rule that all boys have to wear a tie every Friday. Roger and Bob form the Anti-Tie Society to fight repression and to guarantee freedom from stiflement. Roger, of course, does all the work. In Chapter 7, Rogers dad remarries an Ice Queen who hates the idea of her new husband having a son by another woman. Roger has to struggle to maintain a relationship. In Chapter 8, Roget and Bob go to the ocean to try to pick up some girls. Bob hooks them up with two girls in a scene that has Roger wondering why some guys can say anything to a girl, but guys like him cant say shit without creating an international incident. Every guy in the neighborhood wants to lose his virginity as soon as he can. After that, they still want to get laid, mainly to run up the score so they can brag to the other guys. Roger finally has his chance with Aggie Sue at a school dance in the gymnasium, where the bright lights and lingering scent of gym socks hardly create a romantic atmosphere. In Chapter 1
Download or read book Restless Journey written by Marcus Ryan and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers powerful insights into a new way of living to help men understand their lives, build stronger relationships, identify the temptations that cause detours, experience the spiritual power of vulnerability, and discover the secret to being truly known and loved.
Download or read book Another Look at Life from a Deer Stand written by Steve Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Chapman, bestselling author of A Look at Life from a Deer Stand (more than 220,000 copies sold)—shares even more lessons of life and faith learned on the hunt. With humorous and insightful writing, Scriptures, song lyrics, and lots of tales from the woods, Chapman trains the reader’s eye on wisdom such as this: It's not too late to sow love in the lives of others Errors on the hunt offer answers for life at home Changing one's course can lead to "singing a new song" Hunters, outdoorsmen, and anyone who enjoys devotional stories and Steve's own pencil sketches will look forward to time spent following the trail of truth to the heart of the Creator.
Download or read book Debating Health Care Ethics Second Edition written by Patrick Findler and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated second edition, Debating Health Care Ethics explores contemporary moral challenges in health care, providing students with the essential tools to understand and critically evaluate the leading arguments in the field and to develop their own arguments on important moral problems in health care. Written in a clear and concise way, the textbook’s first three chapters explore the nature of arguments and ethical theories, while the remaining chapters introduce students to moral problems in health care through case studies and dramas that feature complex scenarios involving patients, family members, and health care providers. Each case study and drama is followed by a lively debate where the authors defend their unique approaches to the dilemma. This new edition now includes more gender inclusive dramas, an expanded discussion of feminist ethics, a case study on euthanasia that highlights changes to Canadian law, and an update on fetal consciousness that informs the debate on abortion. Emphasizing critical issues in health care from a Canadian perspective, this essential textbook will benefit students in philosophy, nursing, and health studies.
