Building Joy

The key to personal profit, productivity, and prosperity is enjoyment, enjoying your life and enjoying your work. Now everyone, from secretaries to CEOs, from house painters to housewives, can learn to mix business with pleasure and make every job a labor of love. The Joy of Working is a practical, down-to-earth guide that will help you radiate confidence and competence in everything you do. Step by step and day by day, this unique 30-point program is sure to make your job more satisfying, more exciting, and more fun.

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.

While Christian entrepreneurs start their days with prayer, the hustle and bustle of running their own businesses quickly takes focus away from their vital partnership with the almighty God. As a result, prayers for business are often broad, unfocused, and strictly tied to the entrepreneur’s vision of ideal results. The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur model walks entrepreneurs through 31 days of recognizing God as CEO.

Imagine a school where students, parents, teachers, and leaders joyfully take responsibility for their own choices, behavior, and learning because they have mastered connection. Through the lens of applied neuroscience, Loving Our Students on Purpose will empower you with the tools to shift from the weariness of reactive behavior management to purposeful behavior education, which will result in teachers enjoying teaching and students enjoying learning.

Over half a million listeners have joined the journey of Instagram sensations Ashley and Dino Petrone. Through their popular online community Arrows and Bow, Ashley and Dino share their adventures, mishaps, and joys of building a life together using an unexpected element: design.

This 10-week plan will help you to turn your life around from small beginnings and design a life of financial freedom filled with the small experiences that bring you joy. Authors Ken and Mary Okoroafor started out as resource-poor working-class immigrants and have built a life of financial independence and joyful moments through hard work, smart saving and savvy investing. They know what it feels like to start from ground zero, and as a chartered accountant and former CFO, Ken shares his financial expertise to help you unlock the secret to building wealth.

Overcoming Loneliness: Strategies for Building Connections and Finding Joy is a comprehensive guide to help individuals who struggle with feelings of loneliness and isolation. Written by an experienced psychologist, this book provides practical, evidence-based strategies for improving social connections and enhancing overall well-being.

“I can’t wait to get to work!” When was the last time you felt that way? Have you ever? Mark McClain has and still does. He and his leadership teams have focused on creating companies that make the quality of their employees’ work experiences of equal importance to the quality of the solutions those employees create.

Dating, for anyone, is like entering an explosive field but remaining hopeful because love is a beautiful thing. However, for non-binary partners, the obstacles can be more complex and overwhelming. From dealing with misgendering based on appearance, tackling traditional gender norms, and staying true to your sense of self in the relationship, it can look like the odds are stacked against you.

Now on the run, Eva is desperate for answers about her transformation and her true heritage. Along with Aketo, a small contingent of guards, and the sister she could not kill, Eva flees Ternain in hopes of finding friends and allies to the north - not to mention Baccha - to help her decide what to do next. Princess Isa is a difficult, unremorseful captive, and Eva knows better than to trust her sister, but she wants to. Despite their history, Eva is convinced that to survive the growing unrest in the queendom, she and her sister must make peace.

Joy is a Kingdom element, the righteous take it by force. It is the believer's strength. Without it the believer fails, grows weary, caves in, or becomes unstable. Joy upholds your faith in God and intimidates your enemies. It protects your mental and physical health. Joy guards your perspective and sets priorities...Every believer has it. Learn to activate it and you will become unstoppable.

People Tools provides time-proven techniques that you can use to build a better, happier, more successful life. It is the perfect resource for busy people looking for fast and effective solutions to the challenges we face every day. “People Tools” are practical and easy to understand. From developing self-confidence, to improving communication skills, to finding constructive ways to resolve conflict, each "People Tool" addresses a specific issue and provides a simple, straightforward strategy that you can adopt to bring about a positive result.

Making meaningful connections with other humans is one of the great joys in life. We may form lifelong personal or professional friendships, we may connect with someone with shared experience through a season of our lives or we may just have a great conversation. This is relationship building which in business circles we refer to as “networking”. Along the way networking became less about forming human connections and transitioned, at least in business to become transactional and centered around how we can extract value from others to benefit ourselves.

Have you ever faced a trial in your life so challenging that it threatened to shake your faith and steal all of your light and joy? In 2015, I experienced such a trial. I was a rising college senior, a nationally-ranked equestrian, and a carefree 20-year-old when my life suddenly and drastically changed. After losing sight in both of my eyes and hearing in one ear following a routine surgery, I faced unimaginable grief, obstacles, and hardships that seemed impossible to overcome. My story does not end there, because our God is more powerful than anything that we face here on Earth.

Have you ever felt like you were leaving money on the table? Like the deal could have been yours if only you had the skills to close it? Have you ever wondered what the 20 percent of your sales team who do 80 percent of your company’s business know that you don’t? The Joy of Closing offers you the answers to these questions and more.

Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband's unexpected death in 2015. Option A - the life that Sandberg always thought she would have - was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend's birthday in Mexico when he died.

Steve Rangoussis has been there. He started his first career as a sales rep, learning the ropes and steadily climbing the sales ladder. Nearly 25 years later, Steve has served in just about every position in the sales hierarchy, uniquely qualifying him to demystify the sales world for sellers and non-sellers, alike. Sometimes, sales feels like alchemy. Sometimes, it feels like science. Sometimes, it feels like a foreign world, hard to penetrate and even harder to successfully navigate, with its particular jargon, professional pressures, and overall culture.

COVID and the resulting pandemic has brought about more change than anyone could have predicted. Managers and executives at all levels had to deal with these unprecedented challenges with no help, assistance, or support...until now. Join best-selling author R. Michael Anderson as he provides the 12 principles for reshaping how to lead in this "Next Normal" and beyond. Make sure you have the latest knowledge in this brand new audiobook that will give you the added tools and skills to be the leader your team needs during these challenging times.

This practical book is for people that are looking for ways of paying off their debts and are ready to put into practice what they have learned. This book helps listeners to see that living in debt is not good. Debts make people live in a cycle of defeat and slavery. The Bible says that a borrower is a slave to the lender. Moving forward with life becomes challenging when you have a lot of debts. Unless one is willing to take action, they continue getting into more debts. Paying off debts is not an easy thing, but it requires one to make sacrifices as explained in the book.