Career Design

Art has been a staple in most cultures across the world, firmly having rooted itself as a means of communicating one’s understanding of themselves and the world around them. A great number of people in the world develop a natural passion for the act of creation, irrespective of talent. However, most of those who pursue the arts start off self-taught, and when they get to the point where they can take classes, there is a mix of bad habits and misunderstood techniques that they have to unlearn in order to improve.

Your life is getting the exact results it's designed to get. To change your life, you must first change your design. What if you got the exact results you wanted? Sound too good to be true? Your results are simply a reflection of your thinking up until now. The seven steps that make up Higher Life Design will equip you to arrive at your intended destination healthy, wealthy, and happy.

Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to better business through better design. Having spent 40 years helping build the world's most recognizable brands, Esslinger shows how business leaders and designers can join forces to build creative strategies that will ensure a more profitable and sustainable future.

If you want to start making more money as a painter and decorator, improving your sales and marketing is the key. If you don’t take your sales and marketing seriously, you are leaving thousands of dollars per year on the table. Creating advertisements, crafting proposals, and selling your services at the highest level is the fastest way to increase your profits. This book will guide you through everything you need to know about sales and marketing for your decorating business.

Conquer the ASPPA QKS Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Qualified 401(k) Specialist is an essential resource for professionals seeking to advance their expertise in 401(k) plan management and achieve the prestigious QKS certification. This comprehensive guide covers the core concepts and principles necessary to excel in the field, including the fundamentals of defined contribution plans, employee deferrals, matching contributions, and the intricacies of 401(k) plan design and setup. In addition to exploring the technical aspects of 401(k) plans, the guide delves into the critical ...

We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities - technical, business, and human - that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

Unlike theoretical leadership books, Beyond the Wireframe offers actionable strategies grounded in authentic leadership experiences. Each chapter includes a practical toolkit with frameworks you can implement immediately to elevate your design practice.

With hybrid work becoming increasingly common, organizations must address the unique challenges that hybrid teams pose and learn how to purposefully design them. The Long-Distance Team guides leaders on how to create the culture they envision for their teams and organizations while navigating a new way of working.

Life really does begin at 50! A must read for anyone wondering what to do in the second half of life... Are you at a crossroad wondering what's next for you? You might be stuck in a rut or experiencing a life event that's forcing you to make a change. Age 50 - and even 60 - is a perfect time to redesign your life, but how will you know the path that's right for you? The first place to start is your passions, but passion is often not enough, unless that passion is your purpose. We seldom have certainty of what our true purpose is, but life leaves clues that we often overlook. Those clues are...

In Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System, the cofounder and CEO of Triple Session, Matt Doyon, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to maximize sales success by encouraging collaboration between sales leadership and front-line sales personnel. In the book, you'll learn how to utilize a design-build model to create a fully integrated sales organization made up of six interlocking systems.

"Conquer the Nail Theory Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Nail Technician" is a comprehensive study guide designed to prepare aspiring nail technicians for their certification exam and successful careers. The guide covers a wide range of topics essential for nail technicians, including nail anatomy and physiology, sanitation and safety practices, and the use of essential tools and equipment. Detailed chapters on manicure and pedicure techniques provide step-by-step instructions for both basic and advanced procedures, while the nail enhancements section explores the application, maintenance...

A jargon-free toolkit for turning ideas into real, revenue-ready web apps—without writing a single line of code. Learn to choose the right no-code platforms, design slick user experiences, automate workflows, integrate payments, and launch fast. Perfect for founders, freelancers and “citizen developers.”

There is a job that will arouse passion in you, and you'll never get bored of it. Oh yes, there is. It's fine if you are confused. We are here to eliminate all the troubles bothering you. We'll help you in moving out of this dark cave of the passionless life. This book that you've picked will add flavor to your mechanical life, and it will surely make you regret all the time that you have been wasting, circling job advertisements and waiting for hours for interviews. And, my friend, you'll soon realize that the job you want to find has yet to be created by you.

Learn from an expert on how to start a woodworking business. The author shares his experience in starting four woodworking businesses over a twenty year period. Norman Pirollo developed this woodworking business course to share the knowledge and expertise gained in establishing several woodworking businesses. The marketing techniques he shares are invaluable in the success of your new woodworking business. Learn what to do and what not to do to start and run a successful woodworking business. Topics such as required space, necessary tools, bookkeeping, business plan, marketing and efficient...

RAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating Architecture and Engineering firms out of the trap of commoditization. Learn how to Uncover Hidden Value, Design a Winning Advantage, and Charge More. As your firm pursues business, your staff must navigate difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to get the work and “be competitive.”

This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life.

If you have ever wondered what goes into an awesome resume, look no further. You will find the complex and often conflicting advice on crafting the best possible resume broken down in just seven easy steps. Giving you an unparalleled deconstruction of modern resume building, no promotion, job transition, or career change will pose a challenge once you are done. After allying all the information in this guide, the only thing left will be the interview!

Do you often find yourself looking at the time as it strikes 11.11? You might wonder to yourself if this means anything or is it just a mere coincidence? This book Numerology - Create and Design Your Perfect Life, delves into the meaning behind these number sequences.

Human Permaculture is a powerful, forward-thinking guide that uses permaculture principles of ecological design rooted in people care, Earth care, and fair share for redesigning your life and community to align with the resources available on the planet. As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to others, changes must come from the inside out: transforming the "I" to "we", changing the world by changing ourselves.