Personal Success Memoir

If you’re only learning from your own experience, you’re wasting years of time doing all the wrong things. When we learn from the experiences of others, we can save those years and make the right decisions when they count. Who has the experience you should learn from? Anyone and everyone, including the author of this book. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, Experience Matters is full of (brutal) honesty and humor.

In spring 2018, England cricket had a performance problem. The Test team hadn’t won a Test match overseas for nearly two years. Recently crushed in the Ashes, England teams were world ranked 5th, 4th and 2nd across the three formats. The England and Wales Cricket Board approached Ed Smith, asking him to bring in a whole new philosophy. Over the next three years, England’s teams won 7 out of 10 completed matches—better than England had ever performed in the board’s history. Making Decisions shares Ed’s approach to finding success.

Callanan takes the listener through his painful roller-coaster journey of generational alcoholism, bullying, and drug addiction as a youth. The book also includes him finding his faith in God. This faith helped him to deal with a baseball bat accident that took the life of a classmate, a family suicide, and more than one business market crash.

In a world so often filled with distressing news and bewildering violence, being “human” often gets a bad rap. Rejoice in everyday reasons to smile, think positively, and enjoy the gift of life. In Glad to Be Human: Adventures in Optimism, award-winning writer Irene O’Garden reminds us of the radiance of human existence. From kitchens to gardens to busy city streets, all around, in your everyday life, you can find plenty of reasons to feel gratitude and hope, peace and joy.

On February 22, 2013, Kathy Izard’s world was shattered when her healthy husband, Charlie, suffered a catastrophic heart attack. Although he was miraculously still alive, there could be no return to normal living after doctors diagnosed the cause to be an incurable disease: spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). Living with an exceedingly rare condition and facing the unfathomable prospect of life as a young widow, Kathy had to learn to accept the radical uncertainty that life often brings completely without warning.

Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die beeindruckende Geschichte des erfolgreichen Unternehmers Mario Cortesi - vorgelesen von Autor und zugleich Hauptfigur höchstpersönlich. Ein Schulabbrecher, der in ein Heim für schwer erziehbare Kinder kommt, Drogen konsumiert und verkauft, kleinkriminell ist und im Gefängnis landet - anfangs sieht es nicht danach aus, als ob aus ihm viel werden wird. Doch von ganz unten schafft er eine 180-Grad-Drehung. Er entdeckt, was eigentlich in ihm steckt. Nach wenigen Jahren wird er zum Millionär in der Immobilienbranche.

Wir müssen uns selbst ausreichend lieben, um uns in unserem tiefsten Kern zu akzeptieren, um unsere Fehler zu akzeptieren - aber nicht zuzulassen, dass sie uns bestimmen. Um unsere Emotionen zu erleben - aber nicht zuzulassen, dass sie uns zerstören. Die Wahrheit ist, unsere Fehler schränken uns nicht ein. Lediglich unsere Ängste tun es. Sofia musste diese wertvolle Lektion auf die harte Tour lernen, und nun führt sie uns auf eine Reise zu unserer eigenen Wiederentdeckung.

Shattered Together is the remarkable tale of how Elle chose to become whole by learning to heal through the pain of her son’s death. From finding meaning in life to finding forgiveness, Elle opens up about the hard-won lessons she’s learned on her more-than-10-year odyssey and reveals the practices and tools she’s used to release her pain and experience love and joy once more.

To an outsider, Anthony Hanna lives a charmed life. He’s a firefighter - every boy’s dream job. Even better, he regularly features in the Australian Firefighters Calendar. He’s a former police negotiator who worked on the frontline of critical operations. And as a teenager, he was a champion pole vaulter with Olympic potential. In this frank, honest memoir Anthony talks about the reality of living with mental illness.

Follow the unique story of a young woman who suffered through five uncontrollable brain hemorrhages and brain surgery that left her paralyzed. Gain insight and perspective from her and her family as she chose to embark on the fight of her life to regain independence. Hard times are inevitable, but you have control over how you react to them. Learn how to change your perspective and feel empowered amid your toughest battles. Learn how to control an uncontrollable situation. Learn how to be Head Strong.

Johnnie Calloway is a gifted story teller, and has written a superb personal account of his harrowing childhood, and adult life. Although he retells his experiences of emotional and physical abuse, neglect, heartache, and betrayal, and later his own addictions and struggles with mental illness, he manages to keep the listener thoroughly engaged and inspired by his strength and wisdom throughout this pause resister.

Rhonda Hayes promised to give her 35-year-old dying daughter, Sherry, anything she wanted. When Sherry requested that her mother sign up for a dating site, Rhonda was panic-struck. What would people think? Only nine months earlier, Rhonda’s devoted husband, Greg, had died from cancer. Keeping her promise, Rhonda acquiesced to Sherry’s wish. Together they completed a dating profile; moments before hitting "Submit", Rhonda added these words: My daughter has terminal cancer and she is my life right now. Why would I be on a dating site?

Sarah Nuse is an entrepreneur, wife, and mother of three. As someone who struggled with school her whole life, she turned lemons into lemonade by pushing through her college course load while also building a business from scratch. More than 20 years later, Tippi Toes boasts successful, thriving franchises around the world. Sarah's mission has come to fruition, tenfold.

This Indo-Fijian author's memoir is a story of risk, courage, and determination. Ultimately it's a story of the human spirit's triumph over fear.

A son learns that his estranged mother is dying from stage four cancer and reluctantly moves her into his home after a past of aggressive nurturing. They attempt to salvage the time she has left while he tries to repair his struggling marriage and cultivate his three teenage sons. Witness this young Black man maneuver his way through their creative and edgy relationship. His father walks with him through this chaotic door and continues to build his character as a son and a man. But will it prepare him for what lies ahead with his mother?

How to wipe out self-doubt and step out with confidence. Jessica Bettencourt knows what it’s like to face rejection, feel like she doesn’t belong, and second-guess big decisions. But she also knows that we have to face fear and risk failure to live out our calling. In I Almost Cancelled, Jessica shares how one scary decision after another led to a life she couldn't even imagine.

Chronicle of a Spiritual Journey recounts personal stories that seem like random worldly occurrences. Yet, upon closer scrutiny, each story reveals a parallel spiritual relevance as well. The stories range from eating breakfast with Superman at an airport to loading iron pellets into the Edmund Fitzgerald. Entertaining and engaging, Chronicle of a Spiritual Journey tells the spiritual tales of one man’s life, but it’s more about the collective spiritual journey of us all.

Not just for widows and widowers but for anyone who has lost a loved one, Grace shares how she turned her life around from a setback to a comeback and from impossible to I’m possible! Raw and courageous, she rises from the pain of being widowed and places herself on the road to finding life's purpose, self-empowerment, and true independence.

Becky married her college sweetheart and thought she would be married for life. Thirty years later, she had three grown children and a successful career, but her marriage was failing. Her husband was becoming increasingly unemployable as he sank deeper into alcoholism. She was unhappy, but she didn’t think she had the confidence or wherewithal to make it on her own.

Have you ever had an idea? Could it change the world? Where do you go first? What will be your invention journey? The following are stories of invention written by their inventors because their paths to success just may show you the way. At the very least, they will entertain and inspire.