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Lesson XII, Concentration, teaches you how to focus your attention upon one subject at a time until you have worked out practical plans for mastering that subject. It will teach you how to ally yourself with others in such a manner that you may have the use of their entire knowledge to back you up in your own plans and purposes. It will give you a practical working knowledge of the forces around you, and show you how to harness and use these forces in furthering your own interests.

When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to stop work or even work part-time. But the truth is, combining work and small kids is hard. From the broken breast pumps on business trips, to hiding chicken pox from the nursery, to the heartbreak when you come home and realise your baby smells of the childminder. When Christine Armstrong tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to make it work, she looked for answers by interviewing other working mums and found that she wasn't alone.

You may think this fantasy; however, if you look into your heart and listen to those who have lived and achieved before us, you'll realize that the greatest resistance to love, freedom, and success is the resistance we place on ourselves. We allow doubt, fears, and insecurities to block us from truth and from our ability to create a better future.

Women have a secret set of powers when it comes to manifesting. I realized women are the original portals for manifesting. A spirit comes from another reality, lives in a woman's body, and then becomes a physical reality. With that, comes codes for manifesting that are written into the DNA of our bodies. These codes are not known by most women because, for many years women have been discriminated against and weren’t granted as many rights as men. Neither in the financial field, politics, nor in the family’s decision-making arena.

Before captivating America as Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, actress Carolyn Jones appeared in 30 movies (including starring roles with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra) and had a decade-long marriage to producer Aaron Spelling. But the road to Hollywood from her native Amarillo, Texas, was studded with rejection, typecasting, and unwanted comparisons to an actress who hated her: Bette Davis. Determined to succeed, Carolyn reinvented herself by enduring plastic surgery and dyeing her blonde hair black. Hollywood rewarded its rising star with an Oscar nomination and THE ADDAMS FAMILY, which ...

Lesson XIII, Cooperation, will teach you the value of teamwork in all you do. In this lesson you will be taught how to apply the law of the "Master Mind" described in Lesson II. This lesson will show you how to co-ordinate your own efforts with those of others, in such a manner that friction, jealousy, strife, envy and cupidity will be eliminated. You will learn how to make use of all that other people have learned about the work in which you are engaged.

Do you want to accomplish any goal using the power of your mind? Positive thinking is the key to making your dreams come true. What once seemed to be a subject of charlatans, fake gurus and scammers is becoming more and more accepted by the world of science. Positive thinking has been transformed from something spoken by people considered crazy to a necessity in order to achieve the goals we have. Hundreds of books have been written on these subjects from “The Secret” to “The Alchemist” promising to give you the key to the universe granting you all your wishes. The problem with ...

When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?” In the basement, Suzan found the tattered treasure, full of handwritten and meticulously typed recipes, peppered with her grandmother Matilda’s commentary in the margins. Reading it, Suzan realized she had found something more than a collection of recipes—she had found the key to her family’s survival through hard times.

Whether you’re a dad or a mom, whether you’re rocking the "parent" part of your life and feel your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you’re a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price…this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life.

Babysitting is one of the most popular part-time jobs for teens, but caring for kids is no easy feat. Offering a ton of useful tips, this funny, modern, no-nonsense guide covers all the basics any babysitting hopeful needs to know, and much more, including what to expect from kids age zero to 10, tips for finding and keeping the perfect babysitting gig, advice on how to deal with everything from emergencies to dirty diapers, and strategies for communicating with parents.

It can be said that most everyone is looking for balance and harmony in life, two of the preconditions for happiness. We are all trying to balance our work with our personal life, our need for individuality with our need for love and relationships, trying to find harmony between our spiritual practice and our need for money.

I remember the first time I saw Freddie. He was standing in his playpen at the adoption agency where I work, giving me a toothy grin, and I thought, What a beautiful baby. Gathering him into her arms, his boarding mother asked, "Will you be able to find a family for Freddie?" Then I saw it. Freddie had been born without arms.

It is no minor breakthrough to at last answer the question of how to achieve abundant survival in this crucial part of life. With this knowledge, anyone can discover what the Second Dynamic really is and understand its exact relationship to the rest of their life. And thus, whether as individuals, couples, or families, they can finally realize its full potential for happiness.

If you are well this book will tell you how to keep so. If you are seeking better health this book is for you. Each book builds upon the previous one to construct a complete, simple, practical, easy-to-understand, step-by-step system for getting rich, being healthy, and becoming successful.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Instant Guts! is a powerfully moving audio program that will inspire you to take intelligent risks in business, creativity, and relationships. Apply it to your ears to promote courage, inner strength, and determination. After listening you'll know how to identify the best risks for you to take, the exact steps to launch you into action, how to beat the 10 big excuses that hold us back, and how to make your fears, anxieties, and past mistakes work for you.

A groundbreaking book for any business owner, family business, or budding entrepreneur, The Family Edge provides clear evidence and powerful tools to help you leverage the asset you need but have probably not paid enough attention to: family capital.

Steve Loveland, the owner of a software firm, has hit bottom. He's about to lose his company and family, and he's desperate to turn things around. Jennifer Silverstone, a finance-savvy consultant, helps him implement the six essential dashboards every business needs. This transition to running a business with numbers, which every entrepreneur must eventually make, gives him the clarity required to save his business.

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

In The Third Option, Shannon Miles shares how she took a leap of faith to create a flexible career that gave meaning to both her work and her family, and she tells how you can accomplish the same. Whether you want to be a contractor or freelancer or change an existing position into a job that meets your needs as well as the company's, you can live and work on your own terms.