1. ISBN13: 9780684856094
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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The 7 Habitis of Highly Effective Teens

A while back I worked for a school for struggling teens, and this was recommended reading for the students and I decided to pick it up to see what it was all about and loved the way the material was presented. At that time my daughter was about four and was irrelevant to her so after reading it for my job I just put the title back on the shelf and just remembered the title when my daughter became fourteen. I re-read this book and decided to give it to my daughter before the struggling began and boy am I glad I did. The format is great for her and she devoured the book. She seems more confident and sure of her self as Sean Covey uncovers the secret of way teens deal with today's issues in their lives. It is a fun to read book for teenager to read and uses language that is appropriate for them. It is starting to open line of communications between the two of us and that feels great.

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Worth Reading

The book was very interesting to read and kept my attention through the whole book. Many of the ideas presented here I have used and if you seriously try to follow its suggestions then your life could be drastically improved.

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Annoyed

My parents bought this book last year for me as a christmas present. It was a nice idea but i am capable of be coming sucessful without the help from a book. At first glance this book turns off teens all together. It looks like the awful pants someone in their 50's would wear. The font is not eye catching and all together it reminds me of a book i would have to read in health class that told me to plan for the future and create goals . not that those are bad ideas . i myself being sixteen just didnt want to even go near this book .

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Abridged audio version is WAY TOO abridged

I selected the CD abridged version of this book after loving the book and wanting my son to get the content. The points were not developed or illustrated enough to have the content be memorable.

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Great Read!

My 16-year-old stepson was assigned this reading for his academic/social coaching blocks in school. It's an excellent read; life skills for everyone!

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3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Are you eager to make a change but unsure what's next?

Organizing works when you know where you're going but don't know how to get there. But sometimes organizing isn't enough. When you're eager to make a change in your life, but you are unsure of your new destination, you need to SHED.

Expert organizer and New York Times bestselling author Julie Morgenstern has developed the four-step SHED plan to help you get unstuck from the defunct, obsolete objects and obligations preventing you from living a richer, more meaningful life. SHED picks up where other organizing processes leave off -- helping you purge the physical and behavioral clutter holding you back so you can finally create real change in your life.

But it's not just about throwing things away! The SHED process is more about what comes before and after you heave the clutter, so that the changes you make really stick in the long term. Learn how to:

Separate the treasures -- What is truly worth hanging on to?

Heave the trash -- What's weighing you down?

Embrace your identity -- Who are you without all your stuff?

Drive yourself forward -- Which direction connects to your genuine self?

Whether you're facing a move, a promotion, an empty nest, a marriage, divorce or retirement, When Organizing Isn't Enough provides a practical, transformative plan for positively managing change in every aspect of your life.

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Just finished my stuff SHED and am moving on to bad habits

I've been recommending this book to friends, colleagues, and my family... it's not exactly rocket science, but it helped me think about my stuff in a new way. She goes through a process to help you clean out and get rid of physical stuff, schedule clutter and outdated habits. And that resulted in 140 pounds of stuff to the dump yesterday and about that much to the Salvation Army this morning.

More importantly, there is nothing left in my house that makes me wince when I see it-- "I should really take guitar lessons again so that I can use that birthday present from 10 years ago..." or "Now which of these lace doilies did grandma love? If only I knew then I'd know which to keep in her memory..."-- you get the idea. And now I have space in my guest room closet, not to mention in my OWN closet, for the first time in years!

My calendar was already pretty much under control, so now I'm moving on to my bad habits for my next SHED. That's the toughest area for me, but with the house and schedule so clean, what else do I have to worry about?!?

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Life Coach in a Book!

This book has an amazing effect! I went through the book with a commitment to use the best of Julia Morgenstern's wisdom, and I made amazing changes in my life.

The best of all her works, this book is brilliant, wise, and full of examples of her clients who have worked through their confusion about how to organize. The big picture she offers is how to name the "chapter" of your life that you are moving from, and to name the new chapter of what you want now. She offers three portals of entry into your organization challenges: calendar control, clearing what does not not add to your new chapter, and improving habits of thought. Now you have a reliable measure of what will help you to get where you are going. Text and workbook, this is a great companion for a life change journey. A confidence builder and a practical how to guide, "When Organizing Isn't Enough" is innovative, deep, and effective.

She also has a great time management system that she sells through Franklin Covey and her own website.

This book is a winner and can make a winner out of you! I highly recommend it! Spiritual (inner) and practical (outer)growth are the benefits that await!

Rev. Dr. Mary Rudy

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Thought Provoking

Although this book discusses "how" to organize your home the real gem is it's approach to changing your attitude about "stuff". Basic organization can be achieved through simple cleaning and storage techniques but to thoroughly organize a home it must be free of items that have no need or use. It is imperative that we "shed" the items that take up our time and energy for storage, cleaning, etc. so that we can reclaim that time for doing things we want to do. This is an excellent book to overcome the current popular attitude of "more is more" and to realize that "less is more" is truly what we need to enjoy life. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

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Very insightful and practical

This book gets to the root of how to de-clutter your life in three areas: stuff, time, and habits. Julie ties it all together very clearly with real life examples and step-by-step methods to examine what is right for you. She helps you understand what is/has been holding you back from moving forward. I have gone back to this book many times for ideas and reminders. Well worth the time to read. She's writes in a straight-forward manner which makes it easy to read.

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Great concept~!

Timely shipping and the product is in great shape. So far I'm really enjoying the book and can see employing the ideas and suggestions the author is presenting. I would recommend this book.

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1. ISBN13: 9780061583254
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.

In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.

Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.

Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.

Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project.

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Mistitled Book

This book is very well written and it is interesting to read, especially if you know the author. I think the book should be titled "My happiness Project," since it represents the author's project, not happiness in general. Essentially, the book falls under the category of those views of happiness which are developmental, as Maslow and Csikszentmihaly would describe. From this perspective, the book describes what the author did to acquire or obtain happiness; it does not describe what happiness is. It does not fall under the category of clasic theories or views of happiness, only of characteristics of the pursuit of happiness.

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What's not to be happy about?

I love the concept of finding happiness in everyday life and I love self help books too. Gretchen Rubin has an entertaining writing style and I had high hopes for her book. As I read it though, I found myself feeling a little irritated and had this sense of waiting to find out what she was overcoming in order to be happy. It's just not there. She has a nice life with a good marriage, two healthy children, a satisfying career, plenty of whatever material goods she wants, etc. etc. What's not to be happy about? She completely lost me when she was describing her challenge in remaining happy when dealing with a cranky toddler. Oh, please. Come back and rewrite your book when you've had a real problem or two, Gretchen.

If she had talked about finding happiness in the face of, oh, let's say a chronic illness, difficult financial times, an autistic child, a divorce, a huge personal setback or ANYTHING which might be considered a larger challenge then her ideas might seem more respectable. Unfortunately, I just can't get right on board with someone who has "bravely" battled the challenge of an ordinary life and been able to come up happy.

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Rubin's Year of Skimming

A year of skimming other pop-psychology self-help books does not qualify Rubin to give advice to anyone about anything. If she committed five years to her pursuit and then wrote a book she might have had something of value to say. There's a reason why first-year art students or M.D.'s or psychiatrists or Buddhists don't write books heralding their insights--because they haven't had any. If Rubin's book proves anything, it's that she couldn't possibly, in a mere year, have dug deeply enough into the problems of life to have come up with any useful conclusions. But let's face it, her chief reason for the publishing the book wasn't gaining insight; she wrote this book for one reason--book sales. She's been promoting the crap out of if since the day she conceived her flaccid project, and it worked. The book is selling well. But her book sales are more an indication of the pernicious effect Oprah and Deepak Chopra have had on our society than of any inherent value in Rubin's paper-thin insights. As a society, we're only too happy to be satisfied with prescriptions for happiness that involve something easy like making your bed, or a fifteen-minute walk. The real reasons for our society's discontent are many and substantial, and talking about these issues won't make you feel good and are not easily patched over. And the worst part is that, like Sarah Palin's success, the success of Rubin's nauseatingly-simplistic tome will guarantee endless subsequent nauseatingly-simplistic tomes. Her drek is here to stay. The bottom line: save yourself the trouble and wasted effort of reading Rubin's book, and go to the original sources she cites and figure out your own route--this way, you might actually learn something.

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AN EPIPHANY THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

What would happen if one day you had an epiphany in the unlikeliest of places--a city bus? "The days are long, but the years are short."

Thus begins Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, in which, for one full year, she dedicates herself to making herself happier without significantly changing anything about her circumstances. Her changes came in the form of resolutions that would help her change her life, one step at a time. The first of her twelve commandments was "Be Gretchen," an important lesson for all of us. If we know what we like and what makes us feel good, we should only pursue resolutions that are based on our own needs.

Rubin's resolutions were based on the following actions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, and forget about results.

Illuminating and entertaining, Rubin speaks to us in the voice of a friend (or neighbor) as she details her progress. One important lesson she learned: "If I keep my resolutions and do the things that make me happier, I end up feeling happier and acting more virtuously. Do good, feel good; feel good, do good." Most of what she describes is a way of taking specific actions that result in more positive experiences (and feelings).

Act as if, fake it `til you make it, etc. All are ways of changing and reframing events so that our actions lead to more positivity. Sometimes it's as simple as changing a voice tone or the wording of a message...from a negative spin to a positive one.

Mindfulness is another aspect of her plan. Finding ways to notice and be aware.

Each chapter is dedicated to a specific month, and for each one, she outlines specific tasks. One of her initial tasks, for example, is finding more energy, which involves getting enough sleep and more exercise. Then she moves on to clearing out the clutter. This is important to her because disorder was a constant drain on her energy.

Chock full of great ideas, I couldn't even imagine NOT doing this. So I'm thinking that I will dedicate one of my existent blogs to creating my own project. Probably my Obsessions and Compulsions blog!

This book deserves more than five stars.


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This book should be titled, "Happiness Project is....ME!!!"

I was looking forward to this book but was greatly disappointed. This is the most self-centered book I have read in a long time. The author seemed to want credit for everything she was doing, especially in her marriage. I really feel sorry for her husband. I bet she wrote this book so she could get a pat on the back. I found myself skimming the book but finally put it down with annoyance. She had way too many quotes about happiness. The only redeeming parts of the book were the paragraphs from readers of her blog. What a waste of time!

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1. everything we think we know about what motivates us is wrong
2. Riverhead Hardcover
3. 1594488843
4. Daniel H. Pink

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Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:

*Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves

Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

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Always a must rear.. Daniel Pink is in the Flow Again with "Driver"

The opening page talks about studies that SHOULD have changed the world but didn't.

Hyperbole? Perhaps a bit.. but the point is well taken... We have scientifically proven that most management DE-motivates and decades of information on what does work.

Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose have bee shown to work, feels right, and can make the workplace more fun!

It's a simple as that.

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The "Light Bulb" turns on in your brain

Okay, so that's the way it really works!

Every now and then, I come along a book that challenges enough lifelong assumptions I've held about myself and others to be "enlightening", and this is such a book.

The book is easy to read and accessible, and the research backing up the author's conclusions are also laid out to impact.

I spent the first hour reading this book sitting next to my wife, and about every 3-4 minutes, I'd blurt out "Did you know . . ." or "I never knew . . . " and then read her a passage. A day later, the book was gone from the end table next to the sofa, and my wife had absconded with it. If you are a professional or manager, you will see major implications into your own behavior and that of others. If you are just reading out of interest, you will learn a lot about yourself I haven't seen in another place.

The writing is worthy of the exciting revelations -- fresh and vigorous, making the book as enjoyable for me as it was informative.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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A home run

Revealing "The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us," contrarian Dan Pink delves into decades of long-neglected psychological research to demonstrate what generations of corporate and nonprofit managers have been doing wrong. Pink shows how the research proves traditional carrot-and-stick incentives may work well in a world of rote learning and assembly-line production but can easily be counterproductive in a new world that demands creativity and self-reliance -- the right-brain thinking about which Pink wrote so cogently in his earlier book, "A Whole New Mind." If you lead or manage an organization of any sort, this is must reading.

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Progressive Ideas but Hard to Implement

In "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates US," author Daniel H. Pink surmises a future where Frederick Taylor's mechanical rigid top-down management principles of reward and punishment (as embodied in Ford's assembly line) are supplanted by organic flexible principles that value the diversity and individuality of professionals. Managers and entrepreneurs will find this a thought-provoking read, but they -- including the author -- will struggle to find ways to actually implement the author's refreshing insights into the workplace.

Mr. Pink begins by discussing how humans have been thought to be motivated: the biological drive (the need to eat and the desire to mate), and the social drive (the carrot and stick principle of rewards and punishment). What behaviorial psychologists have now discover is that there is a third drive that cannot be fathom or explained. What propels programmers to create open source software such as Firefox and individuals to contribute at their cost to projects such as Wikipedia? Mr. Pink believes it's because above all individuals want to feel as though they have control over their lives ("autonomy"), be engaged and passionate about what they're doing ("mastery"), and believe in a higher cause than themselves ("purpose"). In other words, we ought to be elevating the status and humanity of individuals instead of reducing them into statistics and machines to be manipulated with performance bonuses.

In fact, Mr. Pink offers harsh admonitions for rewarding employees for performance. This approach adds stress of the employee's life, blinds them into short-term narrow goals (thus decreasing their creativity), encourages them to cheat and conduct unethical behavior, and ultimately lowers their morale as well as commitment to their job. Indeed, Mr. Pink compares this reward mechanism as a drug that will jolt workers into performing fast before ultimately depressing them and lowering their self-esteem. Educators also know that they shouldn't reward a student for his performance, but rather should offer positive specific feedback for effort and attitude.

This is a point that can be observed to be true throughout society. Consider Wall Street, which even though Mr. Pink does not mention, is really the epitome of the short-term "do or die" culture that Mr. Pink so detests. Then there's the Amazon reviewer rankings, where individuals are so determined to climb in the rankings that they will adopt strategies that increases their rank (such as only writing positive reviews for the most trendy books) but decreases their enjoyment of reading the book. In our society's pursuit of numbers and statisics and rankings, we forget too easily that the objective is to take pleasure from one's work, and for that to happen the worker must be constantly challenged by it, grow from it, and ultimately believe his work is contributing to the betterment of humanity.

Mr. Pink does not say anything new here, but he systemizes with Malcolm Gladwell style and logic something that progressive educators and cutting edge entrepreneurs have been saying for decades. Unfortunately, even though his ideas are right, they're also impossible to manage because of the inherent contradiction between mass society and the individual. The individual yearns to be free, independent, and in love with life, whereas mass society must control, regiment, and shackle that individual.

This is a pivotal point that Mr. Pink ignores, and that's why his last section -- on how to implement his ideas -- comes across as lame and glib. Consider Google and its use of 20 percent free time to develop independent projects. That may have been effective in the beginning, but as Google grew the vast bureaucracy meant that there was no longer an immediate feedback loop between the engineer's ideas and desires and the manager's needs and expectations; today, once considered the best place to work, Google is bleeding talent.

There's also the persistent question of cheaters and free-loaders. When the company is small, peer pressure and competition can motivate employees into using their 20 percent free time effectivley, but in a large vast bureaucracy where there is little oversight and supervision cheaters and free-loaders become the norm.

Mr. Pink's insights can only be applied if we cease being a mass society with stifling bureaucracies, and divide into manageable knowable communities with small enterprises (no more than 200 individuals). That won't happen, and so Mr. Pink's ideas -- like Mr. Gladwell's ideas -- will instead just become official chatter at corporate cocktail parties, and that as both Mr. Pink and Mr. Gladwell know is a pretty good motivator to continue to write.



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Update your business OS

Drive by Daniel Pink

One main drive has propelled us for centuries. Biological Drive. This covered eating, drinking and reproducing.

Reward/punishment response is the second most used drive, we'll call it Carrot/Stick Drive.

Now there appears to be another drive, a third drive we'll call "Intrinsic Motivation" and it is the basis for the new business OS.

Motivation 2.0 has served us for many decades and carried us out of the depression by making the bulk of the workforce into cogs/drones/etc who mindlessly followed a set of protocols. To a degree that same mentality followed many into the cubical farms of white-collar work.

But many of us have noticed over time (and probably therapy) that our creative side was crushed, pushed so far deep inside us that many of us forgot what it was like to color outside the lines.

We have been so programmed by Motivation 2.0 to reward good behavior and to punish bad behavior that when someone tells us another OS is available we probably want to laugh.

It's hard to believe, but some people will do something just for the sake of doing it and the reward associated with doing it well.

Pink starts out explaining how several components of our every day lives are the result of projects that are worked on for free by people who only wish to be rewarded by the ability to work with others who share their passion.

If you paid these folks to do what they do it would stifle their creativity and bring the project to a screeching halt. Wikipedia is free and was built for free. It is also a creative work of an aspect of Motivation 3.0

A few jobs can be enticed with reward, but those jobs are fewer and fewer in our country each year. Mostly algorithmic (repetitive processes) work can be (and has been) outsourced or offshored and in some cases done better and with more attention to detail. Of note: only 30% of job growth comes from this type of work.

However, heuristic, creative work such as design or finding out something that we didn't know we couldn't live without cannot be enticed or punished in its execution. This less step-by-step work now accounts for 70% of US job growth.

Enticing people to do a task has the effect (according to forty years of research) of making folks actually not want to complete the task or do it again. Punishment also has a similar effect. Parents punished for picking their children up late from pre-school with a fine, were more apt to actually be tardy since the only relation to the act was to be fined. The relationship with the teacher had been monetized in relation to being late and was no longer a factor.

As we have seen in our culture, reward can lead to shortcuts and poor judgement. Sears technicians who overcharged customers is one example. As Pink states "The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road."

One way around this backfiring is to give the reward after the fact, but do not make it a condition of future behavior. Making the reward more sporadic is better in the long run.

Pink points out many interesting studies done in various environments that in themselves make for interesting reading. One example was that of artists who executed both commissioned and non-commissioned works. The commissioned works, when judged by a panel who knew nothing of the source of the works found the non-commissioned works to be more artistic and expressive while the commissioned works were too "constraining" according to the panel of experts.

"If-Then" rewards are being replaced by "now that" rewards that work in conduction with nontangible rewards. The reward of working on a team that produces an amazing work for an event is as rewarding to some if not more than the money. Useful information, instead of efforts to manipulate behavior also work well with creative teams.

Studies have shown that we exhibit two main types of behavior. Type I and Type X. Type I is Intrinsic. These types are motivated by the act of doing the work itself. Creating environments where our innate psychological needs flourish will see more of this behavior.

By default we have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. When we are allowed to be in our "natural" state, we satisfied, motivated and productive.

Any other behavior is learned. At the center of Type X behavior is motivation so wrapped up in Carrot/Stick that to take that away is to remove the air that person breathes. Type X does succeed, in the short run. But in the long run, Type I will outperform and master the tasks needed. And Type X's end up in the cardiac ward.

Motivation 3.0 has three major upgrades built in that help bypass "short-term-itis" and move you in to more long-term thinking/working:

Autonomy, or giving someone the freedom to act is a good thing. Without it we would not have "Post-it" notes. They are the product of what William Mcknight of 3M called "experimental doodling." We would also be without Gmail from Google, another product of what is turning out to be the most productive time spent at Google, or "20% Time" as they call it.

Mastery, the glassy-eyed look one has when they are so connected with their work they become one with the task. Some call it "flow" and athletes have used it to describe the feeling akin to runners-high at times. Mastery is attained in many ways, each discipline has its own path, but most of us know that simply attempting to master a skill is a rush in itself. Outliers: The Story of Success

Purpose is what makes some people get up at the crack of dawn and stay up late into the evening. It is like a burning desire. Desire is what helps you push through the hard times and enjoy the good times and getting past the difficulty.

In the end, it appears we have evolved as workers aAnd future executives. A group of Harvard Business School 2009 graduates decided to take an oath that they hope will shape the business decisions made in future boardrooms. Words like "purpose," "greater good," "sustainable" and others like them were used and hopeful in 25 years will reflect in the outcomes of future business conduct.

Your business may need a new operating system and Motivation 3.0 may be just the thing to make your business find its flow.

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1. ISBN13: 9780786868728
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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"Clear some space on your bookshelf for Mitch Albom's, Have a Little Faith, the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of "finding faith" in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. Never satisfied with easy answers or soft platitudes, Mitch explores some of life's greatest mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self reflection. "
--Jim Wallis, CEO and Founder of Sojourners and author of The Great Awakening

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.

Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.

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Bought this as a gift for my father and he loved it.

Was a gift for my 80-year old father who loved it. He is now passing it on to friends who have also enjoyed reading this wonderful book.

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Albom Strikes Again

He's done it again! Mitch Albom asks the questions so many of us want to ask about spirituality, religion, and God. The answers he finds in his interviews with such colorful and sometimes delightful people he dialogues with serve as encouragement for us all. Laughter and tears flow freely!

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Have a Little Faith

In the same like of Mitch Albom's books this one is no different. Thought provoking, intelligent, and soulful. Whether you have a faith or are searching for one, this book is capable of entertaining you either way.

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Love...

the way he writes - always so gentle - but for more of a how-to,kick in the pants - check out Live Like A Fruit Fly - also on amazon

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An Easy Listen

This book on CD is an easy listen. I listened to it while I walked. I wound up walking extra miles so I could squeeze in some extra segments. Mitch Albom does an incredible job of reading it. He makes you feel like you are in the room with him and the people he writes about. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. Definitely recommend it. It will make you a better person.

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