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Getting a new job or a big promotion is like building a house: You need to get the foundation right for both. With a job, the quick-drying cement is how well you do in your first hundred days, since they establish the foundation for long-term momentum and great performance.

Do you want to move ahead in the real estate game, leaving competitors in the dust? As you diversify your portfolio and acquire more, you will need more capital to keep going. Not only that, you’ll need it faster than ever before. Taking out a bank loan is quick and easy, but it’s definitely not the most sustainable way to grow your business. Investors offer an excellent alternative, but they’re not easy to please.

What if I told you there was a way to go to that dream destination this year, and that you could even bring your job with you wherever you decide to go after that? This isn’t a Hollywood movie scene, but something entirely possible for you. By working online and becoming your own boss, you will no longer have to be tied down to any one place. You can quit your job and explore the adventurous world RV-living has to offer you.

Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and money; why pour your heart and soul into a venture that is doomed to fail? Instead, position yourself to win from the very beginning. In this book, accomplished venture capitalists share their insight on startups and entrepreneurs: who will fail, who will succeed and why, and what you should do to give your business the very best shot at becoming a global success story.

Startup Opportunities is the go-to guide for anyone with a great business idea. Whether it's your first business or your fifth, realistic assessment from the outset can save you a lot of time and money; why pour your heart and soul into a venture that is doomed to fail? Instead, position yourself to win from the very beginning.

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, our society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations.

Harlequin editor Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen she fell in love with Harlequin novels and imagined her life would turn out just like the heroines’ on the page: That shy guy she had a crush on wouldn’t just take her out — he’d sweep her off her feet with witty banter, quiet charm, and a secret life as a rock star. Not exactly her reality, but Patience kept reading books that fed her dreams.

The Job Book will help you to reveal your true attributes, resulting in an abundance of career choices. This will prove to be an exciting and fulfilling ride! The Job Book is for listeners who value a new and highly personalized, purpose-driven career-finding approach. By the end of this career-finding adventure, you will appreciate the discovery that your skills are welcomed by an abundance of job choices. The Job Book will change your opinion and the minds of millions of listeners who think jobs are scarce into a mindset that jobs are abundant.

Forget everything you think you know about the acting industry. No matter what "they" say, a successful career in the acting profession is actually possible for anyone. Life's too short not to follow your dreams. Acting Is My Day Job: Seven Strategies to Market and Make Money as an Actor provides actionable strategies to build momentum, capitalize on early success, and build the habits required to establish a lasting acting career. Matthew Dearing delivers the truth about what it takes to be a working actor, leaving no more room for regret and excuses.

Do Good, Get Paid shows you how to make meaningful change in the world while being paid to do so. Award-winning environmental campaigner, author and speaker Natalie Fee draws on her experience in this sector to outline the areas of work where you can make a positive change and excel at what you do. Make a living while making a difference to the world.

Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles. Originally written for monks, the principles in the Rule of St. Benedict may be applied by anyone—and in today's hectic, changing world, following its principles offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of monastic life.

Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMPORGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. With city-sized populations of nearly full-time players, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world.

What if you love your day job, but you love stand-up comedy, too? Can you reconcile the two passions? Yes! We’ll show you how. In this book, you’ll have access to the following: more than 100 locations where you can do stand-up comedy in the US and Canada, how to use your current job to help your stand-up comedy career, how to have enough time for your job, your comedy, and your family, how to get paid gigs at comedy clubs, how to produce and promote your own show and get paid for it, how to get paid gigs at colleges, how to get paid gigs on cruises, and more.

This audiobook is a toolkit for making the best impression immediately in a new job for promotions, respect, and money. It includes numerous tips and stories to help you become the go-to, promoted, better-paid person. It also includes Robert Half's, the founder of the largest employment agency of his time, tips on the best hiring practices, too. A must listen for all job candidates.

Were you fired, laid off, or tossed out of a job? Or maybe you are just tired of your current job and are looking to make a change? Well, no problem, this book will help you. How to Get a Job in 30 Days or Less helps you discover insider hiring secrets on applying and interviewing for any job in any industry, regardless of your qualifications, education, or experience.

I needed a job. A man with nothing to offer said that he had the goods. I hated him as soon as I stepped to my new desk. But the redhead meant to share my office was another matter altogether. I followed her into the night for a drink. Her bed seemed to offer so much more. Was I about to fall in love? Or lose myself as I forgot my name?

A project manager, former corporate trainer, and technical writer, Brian Eckard shares his compelling story of losing a job that he loved and his struggle to support his family during this challenging time. Through stories and humor, he brings you along on his journey to land a permanent job as he follows Jesus, resolving not to accept anything less than God’s best. He shows you how God was with him even in his darkest moments, guiding his footsteps and helping him rise from the ashes of defeat to the job He had for him.

Casey is overjoyed that she's finally got a secretary's job at a prestigious law firm. It doesn't hurt that's she's completely attracted to her new boss. On her first day, a difficult case sends her to his apartment to deal with paperwork, but there's only so much stress her boss can take, and Casey decides to ease his tension…with her mouth!

Learn how to get in the right "state" with specific techniques so that you can easily approach strangers and start conversations. In Day Game Step by Step, you learn how to start conversations with complete strangers and maintain the conversation easily by providing value instead of asking questions.

The Glory in the Grind is a thirty-day devotional designed to help you connect with Christ by seeing Him in the daily, mundane grind of going to work, which makes the ordinary extraordinary. The book of Colossians highlights how all things are made through Christ and for Christ and that all things are held together by Him.