Hard Motivation

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.

The New York Times says Robert J. Kriegel "spurred a revolution in performace practice" with his studies of productivity and the psychology of change. In How to Succeed... he debunks the commonly held belief that working harder is always better, and offers a saner alternative to the 100-hour work week.

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.

One thing rings true about all substance abusers - whether it be alcohol or drugs or both - at one point in time, they will tell you two things: I don't have a problem. I can quit anytime I want to. Which, of course, is far from the truth. Once that demon is on your back, weighing you down day after day and week after week and month after month and year after year, the option you once had to stop on your own is long gone now.

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.

A compilation of personal stories organized by season, The Center Will Hold will inspire people to look at life with gratitude despite the challenges we face.

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.

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.

The Natural Advantages of Women explains why women do what they do, exploring female traits like emotion, passion, intuition, and nurturing.

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.