This book is the chronological story of how I met and became a part of Mary’s family. Mary constantly inspired life lessons about how to truly live and her advice is transcribed into this book. Mary Mras was a remarkable wife, mother, sister and daughter, educator, and a teacher of all. Anyone fortunate enough to cross her path surely felt her magnetic presence. Mary lived her life with intention and by example, showed us how to live a fulfilled life not by being famous or boisterous, but by simply sharing a smile, laughing through tough times and loving her family. It’s my hope to share small glimpses of a phenomenal woman, as she influenced my life, as a teacher, mentor, friend and mother-in-law. Throughout this story are Mary’s words of wisdom which are in bold italics. This book also contains e-mails from Mary’s husband, Tony, that give us an up-close view of her battle with Leukemia. The Epilogue is the story of how a sudden event forced me to re-evaluate my life to be more like Mary. The end is a list of ‘Mary-isms’ on life.
Eat, Drink, and Be Mary is available traditional and audiobook formats so you can devour the lessons and be inspired everywhere you go.
When you see someone whom you consider successful, do you think, “They are so lucky!” Do you follow that thought with, “I could never do that?” You aren’t alone. Many of us have daily struggles with the voice in our head that declares, “you aren’t good enough.” The short stories in each chapter are meant to open your mind to the possibilities. The subsequent questions are meant for you to dig deep into your own experiences. You’ll get out of this book the equivalent effort put into it and come to realize you don’t need luck to overcome yourself.
It’s Not Luck, Overcoming You is available traditional and audiobook formats so you can devour the lessons and be inspired everywhere you go.
HOLD MY CROWN, is a compilation of stories from women in various stages of life. They share their tales of resilience through life experiences and situations that could have crushed them. No knight in shining armor came to their rescue, so they had to take matters into their own hands and get dirty. Each woman pulled themselves from the depths of fear, despair or betrayal to become wiser and stronger in order to emerge as the highly successful women they are today.
A smile is the most powerful expression on earth! It is an expression of connection, positivity, and even love. When we experience a challenging day, it often changes our focus to what is wrong and attracts more of the same feelings trapping us in a mindset of aloneness, negativity, and scarcity. The only way to break this mindset is to shift. This book shares two beautiful stories of the power of a smile and hundreds of photos and quotes from authors, leaders, speakers and celebrities. These people were chosen because they influence us to feel better. Just like a child’s laugh is contagious, so is a smile. This book will help you create a better state of mind to be the powerful person you are. A smile radiates positive energy, and this book will help you attract what you and everyone ultimately wants in life… Happiness! Many would agree that true success in life is a reflection of how many smiles you have.
Everything starts with a Desire; a desire to be greater or to succeed. Based on the timeless truths of Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich, the 13 Steps to Riches Volume 1: Desire brings to life the foundational principles of success that carry on from generation to generation. In this modern-day journey in this first-ever series, you’ll learn first-hand how to use these steps to be successful in everyday life. I got the privilege to work alongside some of the most amazing authors to share our experiences and journeys of success in both business and life. We share stories of triumph and success while we utilize each one of the 13 Steps to Riches.
In this second volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… FAITH! Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this third volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… AUTO SUGGESTION! Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this fourth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this fifth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… IMAGINATION. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this sixth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… ORGANIZED PLANNING. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this seventh volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… DECISION. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this eighth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… PERSISTENCE. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this ninth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… MASTERMIND. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this tenth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… TRANSMUTATION. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this eleventh volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this twelfth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… THE BRAIN. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
In this thirteenth volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience and journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles and triumphs while utilizing one of the steps to riches… SIXTH SENSE. Surround yourself with the absolute best of the best and align yourself with high-performance individuals from around the world in the personal development space.
Mama always told us that doing nice things for others should be a natural, common-sense, outward gesture that comes from the heart and results in treating others as we would like to be treated. These Are They is a collection of biographies and short, inspirational stories that reflect the lives of our community’s finest citizens. We call them RAK-tivists. These stories of hope, overcoming, and encouragement are bound to inspire many to reach out and touch someone in a special way. By sharing their random acts of kindness stories and experiences, readers will learn ways to positively impact the lives of others by extending genuine, kind and caring random acts of kindness to friends, family and even strangers. At the end of the day, after reading These Are They, we hope you will agree that it’s not what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. Rather, it is about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better and what you’ve given back. After all, service to others is the rent we pay for being on this earth and an excellent way to pay it forward.
Chloe dreams of leaving her tiny hometown behind and landing a job in an exhilarating metropolitan city. Toughing out her sophomore-level college business classes, she’s frustrated with the challenges of long-distance-dating her high school sweetheart, Adam. A chance encounter with Isaac, a hunky big-city-bred basketball player, leaves her confused and when Adam lays out a plan to move into his family’s ranch estate she worries her goals may be trampled underfoot. Realizing following her passion means leaving Adam, she makes a clean break. Isaac waits in the wings and with Chloe’s growing affection for him, he wins her heart. But a school abroad program, San Francisco internship, and his drive for a professional basketball career complicate their relationship. Can she find happiness in a big city with an on-the-rise basketball star or does her heart lie somewhere else?
If you think, this is simply a self-help book, then it perhaps loses its essence right that moment. It travels into a genre that perhaps isn’t very common; a perfect blend of fact-fiction that brings about the way that the brain functions; to imagine anything and then logically do what it is trained to. What we observe is that dealing with emotions or talking about it isn’t very simple and maybe not even encouraged as it most often is misinterpreted as a sign of ‘weakness’ and slowly the inability to traverse through the feelings corrodes the very shard of one’s existence leaving them hanging out dry. The Book turns the readers’ attention back to the levels of the mind that hold the Secret to unravelling what stops them from creating a great life.
Thoughts and feelings that persist over time in people harden into an attitude. If you live with the same attitude long enough, it becomes our second nature—a mindset. The wrong mindset could lead you off the path of contentment, joy, contribution and enlightenment. The right one will point you to the road to success, to fulfillment and towards an extraordinary life of inspiration…
Duswalt and his contributors offer engaging quotes and advice about building a business, understanding yourself, and growing as a person in this book, 1001 Ways to Rock Your Life.
Is your family, your business, and your data safe from cyber threats? Our world has dramatically changed, and we rely on technology for everything we do, but according to recent studies, there is a new victim of identity theft every two seconds. Identity theft and cybercrime could happen to anyone.
This is an accompanying workbook to the book, Woman on Purpose. It is designed as a self-empowerment, self-assessment and self-evaluating tool for Bible study classes, group study, family study or personal study. The workbook is suitable for female youth, young adults, women and men. Yes, this self-help workbook is also a must-read for men! If you are ready for positive change, this workbook is ideal for you. The questions and exercises are thought-provoking and urge the user to desire to be more than they have ever been. It does not only spark the desire needed for change, it enables the reader to confront difficult areas of their life through meditation by stimulating action plans that will lead to positive change and transformation.
As a solopreneur, you wanted to work for yourself so that you would have more freedom with your lifestyle, more fun with your family and more flexibility with your schedule. There’s never been a better time to earn more money by starting a part-time solo venture. But being your own boss can be a challenge or feel scary if you’ve never been in charge of your own calendar before.
Exhausted, overwhelmed, depressed – sound familiar? In this year of sickness, stress and economic and political turmoil, even those who have achieved some “success” in their work or finances may find themselves feeling stuck or listless overall. This book offers the practical, realistic and actionable steps for every reader to course-correct and make the necessary changes to take back control of their lives.
An influencer is one of the most important and powerful responsibilities a person can have in this day and age. We, as a society, listen to influencers to make decisions on what we buy, what we like, what we love, and for what we vote. The people in this book have proven they use their influencefor good.
A “D.O.S.E. of HOPE” is what everyone needs. Fortunately, we have been given a gift, a natural D.O.S.E. (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, & Endorphins) of chemicals, neurotransmitters, within our brains that are induced by smiles. Smiles awaken our spirit to live a life of J.O.Y. We carefully chose Heroes of HOPE, who exemplify living a life they created through faith, hope, patience, and persistence. No matter what page you open to in this mini cube of HOPE, you will find a leader with a big heart. You will see you are not alone. The authors may share similar challenges that only hope and action could resolve. The bigger you play in life, the bigger the challenges, and the bigger the reward. This journey is not about money, work, and worry. Instead, it is about abundance, creation, happiness & joy. Shift your life with a D.O.S.E. of HOPE & Keep Smiling.
As we journey through the book of Ruth together, you will discover how obedience, love and kindness help her to enter into the fullness of her destiny. You will also find out that a good name is able to make way for you in many situations. I pray that this devotional will speak to you and point you to the God who is able to do all things and make all things beautiful. God made a difference in Ruth’s life and changed her story and He is able to do the same for you.
Regardless of your background, economic or socio-academic status, age, race, or gender, we must have the courage to conquer adversities and challenges and move beyond them. Overcoming adversity is a journey, and the ability to prevail is vital to that journey. There is a common theme throughout this book. Resilience causes us to show up well regardless of what happened to us, what we experienced, or what happened around us. There is a cliche that says, “I don’t look like what I have been through.” What do we look like after the storm? Read this excellent book written by some of the most outstanding leaders of their kind, and be enlightened on becoming more resilient!
Overcoming Heart Blocks is a transformative book about stories of trauma that will help you on your own journey towards healing.
A smile is the most powerful expression on earth! It is an expression of connection, positivity, and even love. When we experience a challenging day, it often changes our focus to what is wrong and attracts more of the same feelings
trapping us in a mindset of aloneness, negativity, and scarcity. The only way to break this mindset is to shift. This book shares two beautiful stories of the power of a smile and hundreds of photos and quotes from authors, leaders, speakers and celebrities. These people were chosen because they influence us to feel better.
A smile is the most powerful expression on earth! It is an expression of connection, positivity, and even love. When we experience a challenging day, it often changes our focus to what is wrong and attracts more of the same feelings trapping us in a mindset of aloneness, negativity, and scarcity. The only way to break this mindset is to shift. This book shares two beautiful stories of the power of a smile and hundreds of photos and quotes from authors, leaders, speakers and celebrities. These people were chosen because they influence us to feel better. Just like a child’s laugh is contagious, so is a smile. This book will help you create a better state of mind to be the powerful person you are. A smile radiates positive energy, and this book will help you attract what you and everyone ultimately wants in life… Happiness! Many would agree that true success in life is a reflection of how many smiles you have.
A new book by Michelle Mras.
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