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Elon, 37, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he soon finds himself on the verge of regeneration, as a pack of loners band together amidst a society turned hostile and an environment turned violent. No longer must he travel alone with his shopping cart, his jug of gasoline, and rotten crabapples. Now, he has the chance to rediscover friendship and intimacy.

Sabers are rattling and the economy is tanking in 1937 when Walter, a young struggling farmer in Colorado meets Margaret, an independent and salaried woman shortly before she returns to teach English in North Dakota. Aside from a brief visit, the courtship between these blossoming soulmates resides entirely in these letters. The letters are filled with expectations and spiritual understandings colored by brief reflections on how such things played out in their lives and the life of the editor and collator.

Mark Johnson’s third memoir chronicles an ironic year of surprise and transformation when one man’s life takes an unexpected detour and he discovers his destiny on the way to a new destination.As the story begins, Mark is poised for a new adventure. He has already navigated the ups and downs of his St. Louis childhood and retraced the path of his mother’s life from fertile ground. Yet, he doesn’t expect his journey with his husband Tom—selling their steady-but-often-snowy Illinois home and resurfacing in the warmth and serenity of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert—will prove to be as ...

What if you could go back and sit under a tree with the Buddha and listen to him giving his original meditation instructions? What did he teach over 2500 years ago, and are those original instructions valid for today’s practitioners? Most of us cannot travel through time, but we do have the records of the Buddha’s teachings in the Pali suttas. In this book, Mark Edsel Johnson, Ph.D., demonstrates that by following a meditation practice called Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation or TWIM, which is directly based on the records of the Buddha’s teachings, practitioners quickly experience ...

Do you find yourself struggling to focus while at work? Do you have to re-read the same paragraphs in books to get the message? Is it hard for you to remember passwords and phone numbers? If you resonate with any of those questions, you might want to improve your memory to learn faster, be more productive, and achieve more success.

La saggezza dei grandi maestri guerrieri orientali per conquistare una vita felice. Questo audiolibro racchiude dieci strategie desunte dai testi e dagli insegnamenti dei più grandi maestri guerrieri orientali. Qui trovi dieci leggi mentali che ti permettono di prendere in mano la tua vita e di guidarla verso la direzione in cui veramente vuoi andare.

When monsters rule the earth...Herein you’ll find a series of sojourns to places where humans are often quite literally overshadowed by the action at hand. This collection of exciting tales from writers who love the giant monster genre runs the gamut from mutation to invasion - from insurrection to vengeance - from the distant past to a far-off future, all with a single common factor: Great big game-changing things.

In this insightful book, you will find the collective wisdom of 15 international thought leaders, scattered across three continents and multiple industries, as they share their best strategies for building influence and authority. Covering everything from video and print media to social media and consulting, Authority lets you inside the minds of experts who have built their own authority and helped countless others do the same.

The stock market can be confusing and complex if you dive in with no prior knowledge. Set yourself up for success by learning all the insider secrets, discovering all the tried and tested tricks, and taking advice from the masters. Stock Market Investing contains all of this information and more. This book offers you a complete introduction to the stock market, from how it got started to the best strategies to make you the most money.

If you are captivated by creative storytelling—brimming with vivid imagery and emotional honesty—you will love Mark Johnson’s fourth book, I Think I’ll Prune the Lemon Tree. Set against the warm and rugged landscape of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, it features thirty-nine serendipitous, provocative, and humorous essays. Mark’s true stories and desert fantasies chronicle his triumphs as a gay man and journey with husband Tom to build a healthy, open, and literary life in Arizona, while revisiting indelible memories from his Illinois, Missouri, and North Carolina past. Throughout his ...

Investing is pretty straightforward: the more time you spend on the right side of the market, the more likely you are to be successful. Join Mark Scheffler, Senior VP Wealth Manager at Johnson Financial Group for fresh market commentary, current investment trends and recent market turns. Investing involves risk. Past performance isn’t a guarantee of future returns. Nothing in our commentary constitutes investment advice tailored to any specific person. Information has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed.

The Assassination of Procrastination is a guide that can help you to overcome those catalysts that ultimately causes all of us to procrastinate. I was once a person that seemed like I was getting things done, but in reality, I was procrastinating on starting businesses that I really wanted to do. I hid my thoughts and feelings very well. I had fears. I worried about what other people would think of me. I had doubts. I was indecisive. I also wanted things to be perfect.

Lively conversation, news, and interesting stories from the world of computer crime and the law enforcement officers and private sector examiners who performed the actual work. Computers and cell phones are used in all kinds of crime these days. Your hosts, Mark, and several rotating co-hosts, have over 50 years of law enforcement experience between them working these cases and they look forward to sharing some of the great work being done by dedicated forensic examiners, world-wide.

A podcast about teams: building them, being in them, running them and how we work together. Sean, a sports coach, and Mark, a performance teacher, and guests look for what their teams have in common and what makes them different.

Cambia i tuoi pensieri per cambiare le tue azioni e raggiungere il successo che meriti La tua mente ti rende l'individuo che sei, tutto deriva dal tuo atteggiamento mentale e dal modo in cui pensi e gestisci i tuoi pensieri. Ed è proprio la mente che fa la differenza tra l'uomo "medio Joe" e i "cosiddetti" geni e gli uomini di successo di tutti i tempi. Se vuoi avere una vita grande, di abbondanza e felicità autentica, allora devi pensare in grande. Questo audiobook contiene strategie e consigli per sbloccare il tuo pieno potenziale.

Conosci e sviluppa la mentalità dei grandi guerrieri per conquistare una vita felice. Autodisciplina, determinazione ed equilibrio sono qualità che ti rendono forte come un guerriero e ti aiutano a ottenere ciò che vuoi. Una mentalità da guerriero ti permette di avere uno stile di vita, comportamenti, parole e azioni orientati alla crescita, al miglioramento e alla tua realizzazione. Qui conoscerai i princìpi della mente da guerriero che ti permettono di prendere in mano la tua vita e di guidarla verso la direzione in cui veramente vuoi andare.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple, and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the listener to a more powerful position as an agent of change.

It's no secret that Instagram has grown to be an incredibly powerful social media platform. In fact, even Facebook saw the opportunity and bought the company out. This means more opportunity for you as an advertiser and brand. If you have an Instagram profile and would like to learn how to properly grow it...There's a way to do things and there's a way not to do them. Have you tried building a following with this platform before and failed? Here’s why...Many people fail to create a successful following simply because they focus on trying to get the biggest following.

Helping Higher Ed professionals develop an institutional plan for turning applicants into connected, contributing alumni. A school-wide plan for creating a life-long partnership between alma mater and alumni.

Live from Suite Shots in Fargo, ND join Lucas Johnson, Mark Johnson, Chuck Johnson, and Nick Johnson each week as they talk all things golf, Fargo-Moorhead all the way to the PGA Tour, as well as plenty of stories to entertain for hours. Each episode will feature a preview for the upcoming PGA Tour tournament through the lens of DraftKings fantasy golf, as well as an occasional guest sure to entertain!