Hard Motivation

From the moment Jon Gordon heard about George Boiardi and the hard hat, he was intrigued and captivated. Over the years he visited George's coaches, attended several "21 Dinners" held in his honor, met his family, talked to his teammates, and observed how he inspired all who knew him.

The Web site Tiny Buddha began as a quote-a-day Twitter account, @tinybuddha, in 2008. Lori Deschene's daily wisdom posts about mindfulness, nonattachment, and happiness became so popular that she now has more than 200,000 Twitter followers who share quotes and stories about inspiration in their daily lives.

Hardcore Self Help: F--k Anxiety is for those of us who find the prospect of reading a traditional self-help book to be way too boring. How are you supposed to make positive changes in your life if the book itself feels like a chore? This audiobook is definitely not a chore.

In Hardcore Self Help: F--k Anxiety, I talk to you like a friend. There is lots of swearing and humor but also loads of helpful and actionable information.

Today - as repeated attempts to “fix ourselves and our lives” fail - many of us face unprecedented fears about the future, struggle with unspeakable life tragedies, and sink under the belief that certain lives do not matter in our society. Others confront our epidemic of anxiety with fierce resistance, or “the fight to be right”, criticizing anyone and everyone just to end up stuck. In the face of such pervasive human suffering, New York Times best-selling author and legendary life coach Iyanla Vanzant challenges us: What if it’s not them - what if it’s you?

The things you really want in life are often the most difficult to ask for. Best-selling author and speaker, ASK expert Laura Fredricks knows that, and she knows how to ask anyone for anything with comfort, confidence, and ease.

If you think it takes long hours of stress-inducing, brain-numbing, back-breaking work to build a successful career or business, this book will change your mind. The simple truth: Once you put your mind to it, you can do just about anything. You can build a business that is not only profitable but sustainable, too. You can take your career to higher and higher levels, grow your profits quarter by quarter, increase your income year after year. And the best part: You can do it with ease!

Forget about keeping up with the Joneses, winning the rat race, or getting those ever-so-important likes on social media. It’s time to start living for yourself. Join Dr. Angelo Valenti on an eye-opening journey that tears off the blindfold and points the way toward a life of fulfillment, purpose, and joy.

Art Coombs, through the use of remarkable stories of real-life examples (Richard Nixon and Tiger Woods, to name a couple), shows the price one must pay for the easy path. You’ll learn about the genetic “hard” wiring of the Instant gratification craving and how to beat it.

Learning to declutter our lives is a lifelong task that we all need to take seriously. When we are children, we have our parents following us around and cleaning up after us. As we enter the teenage years, we begin to take on responsibilities and begin to give ourselves structure. When we become adults, we soon become aware that there is too much to do and very little time to do it. This is where setting a plan and a goal will help us develop strong habits.

Author, coach, philanthropist, and inspirational speaker Rosa L. Antonini has emerged to show you that no matter where you are in life, you have all you need to live a truly happy life! The Zero-Sum Game of You nods at the “what” makes you happy and successful while focusing on the “how” for attaining a life full of happiness, gratitude, success, and joy. This book guides you first to accept that you have control over optimizing success on your own terms.

See how one person made a complete career transition as he left the military and joined the civilian world. Follow along in real time and go on your own reflective journey using custom-built reflective tools and exercises to help you learn more about what you want to get out of your next stage in life.

How can we help others without losing ourselves in the process? What is the antidote to burnout? This audiobook is for those with the courage to show up. In Show Up Hard, Shannon Weber brings stories, lessons, and tools from 25 years of social entrepreneurship to help leaders get unstuck and engage without losing themselves. This practical insight empowers leaders to keep showing up again and again. Learn how to create an environment where you support others in being their best selves.

Just because something is hard, doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Let Ashy motivate you to turn your hardships into triumphs.

This is a book about comedy. It's probably not for you. It's full of sarcastic taunts and insults. It is unnecessarily condescending. It was written by a professional comedian with no regard for your feelings. You'll find something offensive in every single chapter, and the author refuses (in advance) to apologize for upsetting you. Comedy is a weapon to be used for destroying suffering. Comedy will improve the quality of your life, but only when you possess a healthy sense of humor.

You already possess the attributes required to lead a fantastic life. It is through acceptance of your perfect nature that you will be guided in the practical application of your spiritual gifts. Perfection is your birthright. Learning to express yourself - from the premise of having accepted your perfect nature - is the key to unlocking the doors to your hidden gifts, latent talents, and abilities.

The hope was to construct a book that would be modest in length but profound in impact. A modern-day Confucius sayings. Fortunately, all the hard work was done by countless teachers who have come before. All that was needed was to render their ideas down to their common essence. With the proper techniques, the human mind can be molded, and the human life can be morphed. There is magic is in emotion and repetition and perseverance.

Ralph started in business after some college as a printer and owned a small press. Ralph learned by the bumps and hard knocks in life and later went off to lecture about The University of Hard Knocks. Ralph's University of Hard Knocks lecture at the Chautauquas and on Lyceum stages were so utterly popular that he toured the world, delivering it 2,500 times! Other topics became lectures and books, which made Ralph A. Parlette one of the fathers of American Success Speakers! This volume is annotated for study and reflection with ponder points by F. Ed Knutson.