Hard Motivation

If you struggle with self-doubt, anxiety, discouragement, indecision, comparison-itis, exhaustion, promising too much, copious amounts of stress, worry, even profound sadness - or any other number of hard-as-f--k internal challenges, the time has come for you to stop. Forever. Always remember, you are enough. Right now. Just as you are. So, stop. Breathe. You’re about to discover a more natural, less stressful, and more effective way of living.

This book The Nature of Hard Work is a nonfictional motivational book created to uplift and inspire people on their path or journey to success. Furthermore, in the audiobook, it gives clarity and insights into how to overcome wins and losses and is focused around the concept of hard work through different phases of the listener's journey. 

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.

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.

This book proposes good things come from hard times. That every challenge you face is a gift. Learn how adversity provides you a special seed to plant that with right care and actions blossoms beautifully to produce a better you, a better life, and better future. For over a year published author of the Heart of Success, Keith Daniel Washo, researched and interviewed more than a dozen executives, learning how they overcame adversity.  

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.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

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.

 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.

This audiobook is written for those who realize they don’t have to wait to ask for permission to improve their lives because insecurity is a f--king liar. No need to be proper to make an impact with her latest book: Middle Finger Happiness. Sharon's quirky visual language captivates her listeners and takes them on a personal empowerment magic carpet ride with a sturdy, torn carpet. Together, you’ll grip hands as you dive down and swoop up and over your stains of time. Sorta like a drone that can see ass-clowns and obstacles from above.

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.