Download or read book Your Choices Matter written by Sierra Kinsley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of seeking and searching for answers and acceptance and always coming up empty? Are you losing hope? Have you stopped dreaming? Are you living a discouraged, defeated life, focused on your failures and seemingly endless sources of discontent? Regardless of the reason, your disappointment plays right into the plans and purposes of your enemy: to keep you down and depressed, pathetic and unproductive, to poison your potential and corrupt your calling. Let Sierra Kinsley share lessons learned from her own riveting, heartrending journey away from rejection and abuse, destructive choices, and the relentless pursuit of more to the powerful, life-changing truths that offered her true freedom and forgiveness--the same truths that will set you free and guide you to your own personal victory. Your Choices Matter is filled with principles, proofs, and promises as well as extraordinary stories to guide, encourage, and inspire you to pull out of your pit and into your potential--to transform you into the person you were created to be so you can begin living the life you were meant to live. You don't have to remain a victim of your trying and troubled past or a prisoner of your present circumstances. This time really can be different. You can break free from your condemning voices and crummy choices, even the unfair circumstances that have beaten you down and bruised or broken your spirit. You can overcome the pain of the past and live a richer, fuller, more productive life--Your Choices Matter shows you how--one right choice at a time.

Download or read book The Authenticity Principle written by Ritu Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society that pushes conformity, how can you be courageously authentic despite fear of judgment? Award-winning leadership and diversity expert Ritu Bhasin gives you the tools to make this happen. This is more than a call to "be yourself"-it's a rally to disrupt the status quo, bring your differences to the light, and help others do the same.

Download or read book Listen written by Ronnie Fletcher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of spiritual and heartfelt words that will lift your spirit, touch your emotions, and give you inspiration for your lifes journey.

Download or read book Unbored written by Joshua Glenn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbored is the book every modern child needs. Brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but that also get kids standing on their own two feet. If you're a kid, you can: -- Build a tipi or an igloo -- Learn to knit -- Take stuff apart and fix it -- Find out how to be constructively critical -- Film a stop-action movie or edit your own music -- Do parkour like James Bond -- Make a little house for a mouse from lollipop sticks -- Be independent! Catch a bus solo or cook yourself lunch -- Make a fake exhaust for your bike so it sounds like you're revving up a motorcycle -- Design a board game -- Go camping (or glamping) -- Plan a road trip -- Get proactive and support the causes you care about -- Develop your taste and decorate your own room -- Make a rocket from a coke bottle -- Play farting games There are gross facts and fascinating stories, reports on what stuff is like (home schooling, working in an office...), Q&As with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels, lists of useful resources and best ever lists like the top clean rap songs, stop-motion movies or books about rebellion. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.

Download or read book Decisions Matter written by Annemarie Vaccaro and published by Naspa-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decisions Matter is an innovative guide designed to help novice student affairs professionals develop effective decision-making skills. Written by seasoned student affairs educators and practitioners, this book contains a systematic method for solving a wide range of complex problems. In this exceptional instructional tool, the authors present a decision-making framework developed specifically to address challenges in contemporary higher education, including alcohol issues, natural disasters, social media, group dynamics, mental health concerns, veterans affairs, and much more. Decisions Matter features 30 diverse case studies that reflect real-life scenarios faced by student affairs professionals on college and university campuses. The cases involve a variety of functional areas and institutional contexts to prepare readers to make decisions in different educational settings. A significant feature of Decisions Matter is its connection to and use of the professional competencies outlined in Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners (ACPA & NASPA, 2010). Decisions Matter provides a practical set of strategies to help graduate students and new professionals cultivate proficiency in the professional competency areas while making decisions about multifaceted higher education problems. Effective decision making is an essential skill for successful student affairs practice. By learning and applying the decision-making framework and professional competencies to case studies and real-world problems, emerging student affairs professionals can begin their journey toward developing a consistent, comprehensive, and thoughtful process for decision making.

Download or read book Oh My God written by Ronnie Fletcher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is composed of inspirational words and life reflections that will lift your spirit and touch your heart.

Download or read book The Paradox of Choice written by Barry Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

Download or read book Speak No Evil written by Grant Griffin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speak No Evil is the story of investigative reporter Simone Garcia, a loud mouthed young woman dedicated to chasing down a killer known as The Seamstress, whose killings feel random and senseless, yet cold and calculated. She is then thrust into a partnership with seasoned cop Detective Leroy Stone, a man with very little to say but with the coldest of shoulders. What haunts Simone and Leroy the most is that the public seems to be rooting for the killer because of the targets he chooses. After a murder happens far too close to home, Simone and Detective Stone must stop a madman who is seemingly two steps ahead, while learning the true power of words and how we use them.

Download or read book 365 Devotions to Embrace What Matters Most written by John Michalak and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a precious gift, yet daily demands can cloud your vision, making it look like a never-ending cycle of obligations and appointments. Through this insightful devotional, reclaim your passions, your relationships, and your joy through the daily reminders of what really matters. It’s never too late to live the wide-awake, passionate life you once envisioned. Embrace what really matters most, and start living a life rich with purpose, delight, and eternal meaning.

Download or read book Love No Matter What written by Brenda Garrison and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will you respond when your child makes a decision you don't agree with? Parents and kids will never agree on everything but what can mom and dad do when that decision—whether a matter of preference, spirituality, or morality—is something they think is totally wrong? Author and speaker Brenda Garrison knows all too well that how parents respond will either build a wall or a bridge between them and their child. Brenda and her husband were forced to answer this question when their oldest daughter Katie abruptly moved out of the house with no means of support. It was not an illegal or immoral decision, but it was one that wasn't good for her. Their determination to keep an open door of communication is documented not only by their story, but by comments from Katie in each chapter as she offers insights from her own perspective. Also included are other family scenarios—everything from matters of preference to foolish, immoral, and even illegal decisions—as well as insights into different styles of parenting such as servant, checked-out, gotcha, scared, and controlling parents. With practical tips and relatable stories, Brenda shares how to model God's parenting style and explains the difference between the parent's responsibilities and the child's, then helps mom and dad discover ways to develop and nurture a relationship with their child that will last a lifetime.

Download or read book Adventure Games written by Aaron A. Reed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of adventure games is frequently overlooked. Lacking the constantly-evolving graphics and graphic violence of their counterparts in first-person and third-person shooters or role-playing games, they are often marketed to and beloved by players outside of mainstream game communities. While often forgotten by both the industry and academia, adventure games have had (and continue to have) a surprisingly wide influence on contemporary games, in categories including walking simulators, hidden object games, visual novels, and bestselling titles from companies like Telltale and Campo Santo. In this examination of heirs to the genre's legacy, the authors examine the genre from multiple perspectives, connecting technical analysis with critical commentary and social context. This will be the first book to consider this important genre from a comprehensive and transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing upon methods from platform studies, software studies, media studies, and literary studies, they reveal the genre's ludic and narrative origins and patterns, where character (and the player's embodiment of a character) is essential to the experience of play and the choices within a game. A deep structural analysis of adventure games also uncovers an unsteady balance between sometimes contradictory elements of story, exploration, and puzzles: with different games and creators employing a multitude of different solutions to resolving this tension.

Download or read book Beyond Choices written by Miguel Sicart and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players. Today's blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination. In Beyond Choices, Miguel Sicart calls for a new generation of video and computer games that are ethically relevant by design. In the 1970s, mainstream films—including The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver—filled theaters but also treated their audiences as thinking beings. Why can't mainstream video games have the same moral and aesthetic impact? Sicart argues that it is time for games to claim their place in the cultural landscape as vehicles for ethical reflection. Sicart looks at games in many manifestations: toys, analog games, computer and video games, interactive fictions, commercial entertainments, and independent releases. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, literary studies, aesthetics, and interviews with game developers, Sicart provides a systematic account of how games can be designed to challenge and enrich our moral lives. After discussing such topics as definition of ethical gameplay and the structure of the game as a designed object, Sicart offers a theory of the design of ethical game play. He also analyzes the ethical aspects of game play in a number of current games, including Spec Ops: The Line, Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, Fallout New Vegas, and Anna Anthropy's Dys4Ia. Games are designed to evoke specific emotions; games that engage players ethically, Sicart argues, enable us to explore and express our values through play.

Download or read book The Intelligent Portfolio written by Christopher L. Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intelligent Portfolio draws upon the extensive insights of Financial Engines—a leading provider of investment advisory and management services founded by Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe—to reveal the time-tested institutional investing techniques that you can use to help improve your investment performance. Throughout these pages, Financial Engines’ CIO, Christopher Jones, uses state-of-the-art simulation and optimization methods to demonstrate the often-surprising results of applying modern financial economics to personal investment decisions.

Download or read book Earthcare written by David Clowney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthcare: Readings and Cases in Environmental Ethics presents a diverse collection of writings from a variety of authors on environmental ethics, environmental science, and the environmental movement overall. Exploring a broad range of world views, religions and philosophies, David W. Clowney and Patricia Mosto bring together insightful thoughts on the ethical issues arising in various areas of environmental concern.

Download or read book How to Seduce Your Soul written by Jenay Zapparelli and published by BookonFire Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a book quite like this! This handy guide confronts all million-dollar questions, taboo topics, current events, HIS-story, old programming & uncomfortable truths. Written through the conscious lens of a TRUTHER with an attitude, it will meet you wherever you are, take you by the hand & walk you forward into your bliss, even when you may be kicking & screaming. This book is about SOLUTIONS, & it can save the world by helping to make you a better person. You best not sit this one out. If you would like to know how to rise above all challenges in life & make peace with your inner light, so it will live in conjunction with you right here now & always... it's your lucky day. There are no quick fixes in life, but there are shortcuts, tips & tricks. Your SOUL wants you to find out what they are. Life can be challenging, relationships can cause grief, the world spins & spits off sparks of fire that burn us. We, the people of both the USA & the rest of the domesticated globe, have fallen victim to being a victim to our own problems. The Soul has gone unnoticed, unrecognized, unfed. We are starving her & she is suffocating in the box we have trapped her in. Learning to live free & happy, here on this planet, can only happen with the Soul's cooperation. We cannot force the best self into our human vessel, or the good life into our experience. We must draw them to the surface, charm them into existence, seduce them to BE. YOU are a magical being of miracle light. Act like it. Don't wait! Buy NOW. BookonFire Press ~ In Love We Trust ~ Circa 21st Century

Download or read book Your Guide to Cellular Health Unlocking the Science of Longevity and Joy written by Dr. Mercola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Your Guide to Cellular Health, Dr. Mercola reveals how optimizing your cellular energy can unlock vibrant health, longevity, and resilience. This essential book offers the knowledge and practical strategies you need to reclaim your vitality. In Your Guide to Cellular Health, Dr. Mercola delves into the vital role of cellular energy in achieving optimal health and longevity. Drawing on the latest research, this comprehensive guide uncovers how modern lifestyle choices and environmental factors can impair mitochondrial function, leading to chronic diseases and premature aging. Dr. Mercola provides actionable insights into diet, detoxification, and lifestyle adjustments that can enhance your overall well-being. With practical advice and easy-to-follow strategies, this book empowers you to take control of your health at the cellular level, helping you live a longer, healthier, and more vibrant life. If you’re looking for ways to improve your quality of life, Your Guide to Cellular Health is an indispensable resource for anyone committed to taking charge of their health and vitality.

Download or read book CSB Tony Evans Study Bible written by Tony Evans and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 2884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CSB Tony Evans Study Bible includes extensive study notes, commentary, sermons, and writings crafted and curated by Dr. Tony Evans. Including over 150 videos via QR code, these features are strategically placed alongside the biblical text to explain God’s Word in a fresh way, guiding readers into a deeper understanding of Scripture. With tools for application, this Bible is designed to inspire readers to live and share the values of the kingdom of God. FEATURES: Study notes crafted from Tony Evans sermons and writings More than 150 videos of sermons, devotionals, and teaching from Dr. Evans accessible via QR codes 40 inspirational articles 50 “Kingdom Living Lessons” 60 “Questions & Answers” 140 “Hope Words” Special back matter section with key definitions, theological and doctrinal charts, and other study helps Page-edge cross-reference system Elegant two-color design Two-column format Black-letter text 9.75-point type size Topical subject headings Smyth-sewn binding with ribbon marker Concordance Bible reading plan Presentation page and special introductory front matter Full-color maps Dr. Tony Evans is one of the most influential church leaders of our time and has been faithful in his proclamation of the gospel for over fifty years. He serves as senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and is the founder of The Urban Alternative, a ministry that promotes a kingdom-agenda philosophy designed to enable people to live all of life under the rule of God. The CSB Tony Evans Study Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible’s original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture’s life-transforming message and to share it with others.