House Improvement

Your home is probably your largest monthly expense and ultimately you want it to become an asset, perhaps to pass on to your kids when you’re gone. Why then do homeowners put so little value in the people they hire to work on their homes? If you own an expensive car, you’re not likely to take it to the cheapest garage you can find. If you want a nice smile, you seek out an expensive, private dentist to give you that smile. No one goes to a cheap plastic surgeon or a cheap tattoo artist. Going to court? “Better find myself the cheapest lawyer I can” – said no one ever.

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.

Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect; yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to Turkey and other far-off places - and loves - around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that motherhood to four-year-old Oliver might complicate a difficult situation. Little does she know that Boyd is pulling Reyna into a smuggling scheme across state lines, violating his probation.

Antes de conmover al mundo entero con Hamilton y de ser catapultado a la fama internacional, Lin-Manuel Miranda inspiraba a sus seguidores de Twitter con palabras de ánimo al comienzo y final de cada día. El autor escribió estos originales refranes, aforismos y poemas tanto para él mismo como para los demás. Pero a medida en que su público crecía, estos mensajes fueron tomando vida propia. En este libro, Miranda ha reunido lo mejor de sus saludos diarios en una hermosa colección ilustrada por el aclamado artista (también popular en Twitter) Jonny Sun.

Are You Ready to Be Rich? If you want to get rich, if you want to be wealthier than you are today, you really need to do only four things. That's right, just four things: you need to make a decent living, you need to spend less than you make, you need to invest the money you don't spend so that it can work as hard for you as you're working for yourself, and you need to protect yourself and this financial world you've built so that a disaster, big or small, doesn't take it all away from you.

Simple y libre es la verdadera historia de cómo Jen y su familia identificaron siete áreas de exceso —comida, ropa, gastos, medios de comunicación, posesiones, desperdicio y estrés—, y tomaron siete decisiones muy simples para combatir las enfermedades modernas de la avaricia, el materialismo y la complacencia desmedida. Así pues, ¿qué obtienes al llevar una vida escueta?

A lo largo de estas páginas descubrirás: los pilares de la cortesía con la pareja; cómo vestir correctamente para las distintas celebraciones; la importancia de los buenos modales y la presentación impecable; los aspectos más importantes de la cortesía familiar.

This is Book #3 in the What's Up Doc Series. This book What's Up Doc? Finding Your Creative is all about learning and identifying your gifts and what you were meant to do.

Every day we undertake dozens of different roles, tasks and experiences. Most of us habitually carry our mindset and emotional state from one of these activities to the next - and all too often this has negative, occasionally disastrous consequences. For years we've been told it's getting the 'big' stuff right that gives us balance and makes us happy: the holidays, the audacious goals, the pay rises. But in our hearts, we know it's really the small stuff: a great result at work, our welcome home, an absorbing conversation, a game with the kids.

Los sueños interrumpidos, retrasados o incluso aparentemente destruidos tienen una forma de hacernos reconsiderar todo. Pero quizá reconsiderar sueños no siempre sea lo peor. En esos momentos tienes la oportunidad de detenerte y meditar qué es lo que más te importa, así como redefinir tu clase de éxito en un mundo que te dice constantemente qué deberías querer o hacer.

En este libro compartiré contigo como empecé el camino para incorporar nuevamente hábitos positivos en esta jornada que es la de vivir una vida saludable y de bienestar.

No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers invaluable lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you're vying for. Throughout the audiobook, Cathie offers fascinating glimpses of media and business personalities, but at the core of it are her candid, personal stories. Basic Black provides a close-up look at the keen judgment, perseverance, and optimism that have propelled Cathie Black to the top of her game.

Join spiritual teacher Andrew Harvey as he leads you on three transformational journeys that will prepare you for glorious rebirth, unite you with all things, and show you the radical simplicity of a certain blessed mantra.

Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than you'd think. The culmination of 25 years of research on ageing, nutrition, and disease across the globe, this unique combination of an everyday diet and fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) to be done only 3-4 times per year lays out a simple solution to living to a healthy old age through nutrition.

This powerful audio program will help you develop a winning, “You bet I can do it!” attitude, enabling you to go for whatever you want in life. Experience the confidence that comes from knowing you can do anything you decide to do!

Love. Real, experiential love is ever-present in movies. But in real life, finding love in our everyday lives and relationships is elusive. In this collection of 40 short story-driven readings, Matt Mikalatos shows you how to open yourself to experiencing love, to become aware of love in the world around you, and to set aside control to embrace the wild, untamed vulnerability of loving and being loved.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again? There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence—that permits unexpected people to achieve high levels of performance through routines that activate talent. Confidence is the new theory and practice of success, explaining why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories

Tears in My Gumbo: The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience is a heartfelt manuscript that speaks personally and passionately to the 44 million caregivers caught up in the silver tsunami sweeping this country and for all of the people who care about the caregivers. The book inspires and supports caregivers as well as the family unit involved in the loved one's care.

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.

This audiobook will allow you to achieve high performance in any area of your life by changing your personality. Your personality is the sum total of all your past programming and the interaction of three factors: traits, habits, and viewpoints. These factors aren’t genetically inherited; they are acquired, and thus can be altered with new programming. Get ready to feel totally confident, at ease, and ready to accomplish anything!