Collection: Self-Development

The renowned global thought leader and Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.

What if you could choose your future?

When we're kids, the future is exciting to imagine. Then we grow up and soon the events and circumstances of our lives overwhelm us and before we know it, we're afraid of tomorrow, waiting to see what the future drops on us instead of chasing after the future we want to have.

Rather than bracing for what happens next, Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt argues that you can be making what happens next. You can respond to unexpected challenges--big and small--by turning them into opportunities with a "future-ready mindstate" using optimism, openness, curiosity, experimentation, empathy, and what Dr. Pferdt calls our Dimension X--the unique lens through which each of us sees the world not as it is, but as we are.

Both inspirational and actionable, What's Next Is Now engages your personal sense of discovery, providing dozens of thoughtful exercises and illustrations, real-world practices, and provocative insights from people who have adopted a future-ready mindstate to craft exceptional futures for themselves. Now, let What's Next Is Now help you build your remarkable future.

"This gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life."--Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow

A stunning exploration of finding the extraordinary in the everyday from beloved spiritual teacher and interspiritual leader Mirabai Starr.

For Starr, the everyday is not boring or routine; it is sacred. In Ordinary Mysticism, she helps readers discover their own inner mystic and let go of the limiting belief that spiritual life exists only in traditional places of worship. Mysticism, she explains, is a direct experience of the sacred--no church or clergy required. Our everyday life can be imbued with spirit if we pay attention. Starr explores the magic of mundane life, from weeding in our humble gardens to a slow evening walk with a friend to a full kitchen table surrounded by family. Embracing mysticism in our everyday is a way of being more alive in the world, an awakening to the interconnectedness between all things.

To become a mystic, you don't need to visit an ashram in the Himalayas or kneel in a church pew to connect to the sacred or to life's big questions. Life, she says, is holy ground--"welcome to the temple of your regular life." Lyrical and tender, filled with profound wisdom and mind-opening insights, Ordinary Mysticism is about finding the extraordinary in the everyday, grounded in lessons from spiritual teachers across the centuries--from Julian of Norwich to Ram Das. Starr combines their sagacity with the story of her own personal and spiritual journey--from surviving the heartbreak of her fourteen-year-old daughter's death to growing up amid the 1960s counterculture that introduced her to mysticism to her self-made spiritual practice of today.

By inviting readers to walk with her on path of the mystic, Starr reveals how the mundane is miraculous, how the boring becomes fascinating, and how we can ultimately recognize our own innate wisdom. May we all find meaning and wonder in our most ordinary moments.

★★★★★ "Everything is on point. I don't know if she is a little bit psychic, I don't know if she is a psychiatrist or a feng shui expert...actually she is all those things in one!" - client Kimora Lee Simmons, one of the thousands of people whose lives who have been touched by Reiko Home's innovative designs

More Than Just a Pretty Space is MORE than an average home decor book! Create a perfectly styled home for YOUR unique body, mind, and soul with this professional, one-of-a-kind interactive guide by expert feng shui specialist Reiko Gomez.

Reevaluate and rejuvenate yourself and your surroundings with this easy visualization guide that uses spiritual fulfillment, psychological research, and scientifically proven design principles to change your life. Reiko Gomez - professional interior designer of 23 years and owner of the renowned design company Reiko Home - uses her expertise from the Parsons School of Design and the American Feng Shui Institute to walk beginners through her signature Dream Design Process.

More Than Just a Pretty Space will teach you to...

- find and visualize your UNIQUE design identity

- free yourself from the burden of the past by decluttering

- tune into your environment by beautifying your home with plants, flowers, and other natural elements

- elevate your spirit by enhancing your living space

- use Feng Shui and other home design systems to manifest holistic wellness

This book dives into your psyche to illuminate your specific home design and interior decoration needs, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned expert. It discusses design themes, signature pieces, colors, flooring, lighting, accessories, materials, and furniture styles so powerful you can create the life of your dreams with the help of something as simple as a shower curtain!

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How do you find yourself when you've been given the wrong directions?

Jason is a backwoods boy with problems. Being gay in Alabama is hard enough, but God hates him and one of his classmates wants him dead. He dreams of escaping to California, but life sends him on an unexpected detour to Alaska first.

This witty, unflinchingly candid memoir steps into his uncomfortable shoes as he grows up and tries to find himself in the sinful world of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and love. He travels from Alabama to Alaska to California and back, before realizing he might've been looking for the wrong person.

A Normal Person Doing Normal Things is ultimately a hilarious exploration of identity, freedom, and what it means to be a human.

Develop your wilderness skills by learning how to make useful tools that cost virtually nothing--and in a pinch, could make all the difference. These 25 step-by-step photo-illustrated projects from expert survivalist Craig Caudill will empower you to connect with nature by learning the fundamentals of wilderness survival through bushcraft.

These innovative bushcraft projects are fun to make and practical to use. With Craig's extensive knowledge of the natural world, it's easy to incorporate these old ways of sustainable living into your regular outdoor activities. Craft your own complete outdoor workshop by hand with a functional wilderness anvil, bushcraft mallet and bucksaw, all from the wood and materials you can gather from the woods. Bring fun and functionality to your next campsite by building a camp bench, tree table and even cookware such as a wilderness oven, adjustable branch pot holder and even camp utensils. These ingenious, approachable projects are perfect for anyone who loves to build with their hands and live in harmony with the natural world.

Join the community of millions of romance readers! In this oversize, hardbound book, romance genre-inspired reading challenges are paired with bookish rewards, propelling you toward a sizzling season of reading escapes and satisfying achievements.

Exceed your reading goals with The Ultimate Romance Reading Challenge! This collection of 25 prompts inspires readers to embrace their romantic side and explore all the romance genre has to offer.

Reading prompts include:
--Read a book with an enemies-to-lovers premise
--Read a romance novel with a protagonist much older than you are
--Read a romance novel published in the year you were conceived
--Read a romance novel featuring an LGBTQ+ character

The Ultimate Romance Reading Challenge encourages reading habits that help to inspire new ideas and creativity, in your reading life and beyond.

REWARDED FOR READING!: Each prize is thoughtfully curated to supplement the reading life. Readers will enjoy bookish greeting cards, a mini notebook, stickers, unique bookmarks, and more!

FOR SEASONED ROMANCE READERS AND NEWBIES TO THE GENRE: From YA to Historical, Emily Henry to Nora Roberts, open door to closed--whatever your mood or taste, this challenge is for you!

DIVERSIFY YOUR READING: In completing each unique challenge, you can find ample inspiration to step outside your reading comfort zone and diversify your reading list.

EXPAND YOUR COLLECTION: Complete your collection with the first of this challenge series, The Ultimate Reading Challenge, and continue the reading fun for any kiddos in your life with The Ultimate Reading Challenge for Kids!

Transforming your mindset takes intentional commitment to prioritize self-growth as you learn to develop new and productive habits, take a dive deeper into your faith, and embrace life's challenges as opportunities to enhance your current way of thinking.

In this book, these affirmations will help you:

1. Set priorities and stick with them
2. Improve the way you think & speak to yourself
3. Shift your perspective & challenge limiting beliefs

Surround yourself with YOUR people - learning to bask in the support you deserve

On this last 30-day journey, this book of affirmations will not only help you live your best life through faith and purpose, but will help you see yourself

the way God sees you, and guess what, you'll even start to believe it! You'll transform yourself into the person you always wanted to be, the way God

saw you all along!

**BookAuthority Winner THREE years in a Row: 2021, 2022 and 2023! Best Books on Grief and Loss
Pets and the Afterlife 3: Messages from Spirit Dogs This third volume in a series of books authored by Rob Gutro on pet communications from the afterlife focuses solely on how dogs and how they communicate from spirit. In addition, there is a special chapter by a licensed professional on how to cope with grief. Through personal stories, pet parents relate how their dogs in spirit gave them signs and messages either directly or through a reading with Rob.

This book will teach you how to recognize signs and receive messages on your own, and how to work through your grief. You'll learn when it comes to spirit there is no such thing as a coincidence.

"Your books made me understand a sign that our dog sent me, when she had died. It is true that, without the guidance you give, such signs would remain odd little events with no explanation." - Grazia Piombo

This is one in the author's "Pets and the Afterlife" series of books. Rob Gutro's other series include "Ghosts and Spirits" and "Ghosts on a Medium's Vacation."

Get off to a flying start with Colorful Crochet Birds! Designer Ilaria Caliri has designed a friendly bunch of different species, proving that it's not just birds of a feather that flock together. Make a flamingo, puffin, hoopoe, toucan, woodpecker, kingfisher, crane and more. With a wide variety of birds, ranging from exotic species to birds you find in your own backyard, the biggest challenge is choosing which one to make first. Whether you're an early bird or a night owl, this collection will offer you plenty to keep your crochet hook busy. With step-by-step pictures and video tutorials, beginners as well as advanced crocheters will be able to make these projects with flying colors. Make your own flock of feathered friends and let your imagination take flight!

Goodman Games presents Original Adventures Reincarnated #8, Grimtooth's Old School Traps. This tome contains 150+ classic traps, fully developed for 5E rules. It could not be any easier to get these death traps to your game table. Inside, you will find delver dicers, character crushers, adventurer anxieties, minion munchers, hero haranguers, and much more to protect your dungeon treasures. All crafted by Grimtooth, the Trap Master troll, himself.

Grimtooth's Old School Traps is an homage to the classic books Grimtooth's Traps and Traps Too. This 150+ page hardcover book includes 150+ curated traps, presented with 5E rules for the first time. In addition, you find essays from industry luminaries, recounting the impacts of these traps (on both characters and the game industry) over the decades.

From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality--we are living through a political moment when debates about bodily autonomy are at a fever pitch.

Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use is a bold and timely collection that confronts these charged issues at the intersection of social justice and public health. It reveals the histories behind the United State's ideological wars and illustrates their costs to all of us. It is a primer on healing-centered harm reduction, which presents a visionary framework and set of practical strategies to advance unity and care while working to transform conditions for communities that bear the brunt of interpersonal and systemic violence, overdose deaths, and health inequities. In the words of leading advocates, service providers, and the scholars whose lives and communities have been harmed by American neo-colonial policies, Body Autonomy offers promising, healing-centered interventions that represent a critical culture shift.

This collection features trusted voices on health and social policy reform, including Kate D'Adamo, Justice Rivera, Ismail Ali, Paula Kahn, and Sasanka Jinadasa, as well as respected healers like Richael Faithful, Amira Barakat Al-Baladi, and Mona Knotte. The articles, interviews, worksheets, and poems within are an offering to expand our collective understanding of survival, healing, and embodied freedom. Body Autonomy is a must read for anyone with a compassionate worldview, people seeking to know more about underground economies, and those who know that punishment doesn't lead to security. It is a liberatory design and a prayer for what's possible.

Give Your Grandmother the Gift of Love, Memories, and Legacy.

Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story is the perfect place for your Grandmother to tell you her special life story while also creating a cherished legacy that you will return to again and again. Imagine reading your Grandmother's words as she shares her journey. Imagine sitting with your children, her grandchildren, and reading her story to them.

This is the Original and Best-Selling Way for Your Grandmother to Share Her Life Story

Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story uses prompts and questions to guide your Grandmother, making it simple for her to tell the stories of her childhood, her teens, and her adult years. This will be her tale, her triumphs, and her challenges.

Imagine Reading About the Details of Her Amazing Life and Journey.

Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason and Hear Your Story Books have used their years of publishing experience to create this popular series of guided journals. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story has been expertly designed to give your Grandmother a gift she will love while also creating a cherished legacy.

• Over 250 expertly created guided prompts to make it simple for your Grandmother to share her memories with you.
• Each question has plenty of room for your Grandma to write and share her life stories.
• Give your Grandmother the original memory-guided journal. Tens of thousands have been bought for and cherished by families all over the world.
• 100% designed, created, and printed in the US.

Order Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story and give your incredible Grandma a forever gift and the gift of legacy.

Ayudar a los niños a comprender, identificar y expresar lo que necesitan es clave para la autorregulación emocional!

Eso es porque las necesidades y los sentimientos van juntos. Cuando no se satisface una necesidad, surgen sentimientos difíciles. Por otro lado, cuando las necesidades físicas y emocionales de los niños se satisfacen constantemente, prosperan.

Las necesidades y los sentimientos no son buenos ni malos. Son partes de nosotros a las que debemos prestar atención.

A Veces Necesito... alienta a los niños a hacer eso chequeando con sus corazones, mentes y cuerpos.

A veces necesito movimiento. Salto, bailo o corro. Me siento inquieto y tonto, todo es tan divertido!

A veces tranquilidad es lo que necesito. Me cansa el ruido. Es demasiado. Me instalo en la quietud, lejos de la multitud.

A medida que los niños se vuelven más conscientes de sus necesidades físicas y emocionales, pueden comunicarlas mejor y están facultados para encontrar estrategias para satisfacerlas, especialmente a medida que crecen.

A Veces Necesito... es un libro cautivador de imágenes líricos y vibrantemente ilustrado. Es una maravillosa adición a la biblioteca socioemocional de su hogar o escuela!

Te gustaría aprender a aceptar los problemas en lugar de resistirte a ellos? Aprende a reaccionar de forma positiva.

Ponga los desafíos en perspectiva, reduzca el estrés y la ansiedad a través de pequeños cambios diarios y encuentre el camino para lograr sus objetivos con esta innovadora guía inspiradora, un clásico de autoayuda.

No te preocupes por las pequeñas cosas ... y todo es pequeño es un libro que te dice cómo evitar que las pequeñas cosas de la vida te vuelvan loco. En un lenguaje reflexivo y perspicaz, el autor Richard Carlson revela formas de calmarse en medio de una vida increíblemente apresurada y llena de estrés.

Puede aprender a poner las cosas en perspectiva haciendo los pequeños cambios diarios que sugiere el Dr. Carlson, incluidos consejos como "Elige sabiamente tus batallas"; "Recuerde que cuando muera, su caja de entrada no estará vacía"; y "Haz las paces con la imperfección".

Con No te ahogues en un vaso de agua (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff) también aprenderás a: - Vivir en el momento presente
- Dejar que otros tengan la gloria a veces
- Disminuir tu tolerancia al estrés
- Confiar en tus intuiciones
- Vivir cada día como podría ser el último

Con sugerencias amables y de apoyo, el Dr. Carlson revela formas de hacer que sus acciones sean más pacíficas y afectuosas, con el beneficio adicional de hacer que su vida sea más tranquila y libre de estrés.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through small daily changes, and find the path to achieving your goals with this groundbreaking inspirational guide--a self-help classic.
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff is a book that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.

You can learn to put things into perspective by making the small daily changes Dr. Carlson suggests, including advice such as "Choose your battles wisely"; "Remind yourself that when you die, your 'in' box won't be empty"; and "Make peace with imperfection". With Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... you'll also learn how to:

- Live in the present moment
- Let others have the glory at times
- Lower your tolerance to stress
- Trust your intuitions
- Live each day as it might be your last
With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr. Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring, with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free.

Llega el Döstadning, el arte de la limpieza para la muerte: un fenómeno sueco para poner en orden nuestra vida antes de pasar a una mejor.

Döstädning, o el arte de la limpieza para la muerte, es un fenómeno sueco a través del cual dejar nuestros asuntos en orden antes de pasar a mejor vida.

Nos lo presenta Margareta Magnusson, la abuela que todos querríamos tener. Con la claridad de quien ve la vida desde la última parada, explica a jóvenes y mayores cómo ordenar el caos para quedarnos con lo verdaderamente importante. Tanto si se trata de rescatar las reliquias de entre una montaña de trastos, de reducirlo todo a un espacio más pequeño o de establecer unsistema para dejar de perder las llaves, promete ahorrar estrés a quien lo practique y a los que seguirán ahí cuando llegue su hora.

Ilustrado por la propia autora, esta es una enseñanza realista, directa y adorablemente excéntrica sobre qué significan de verdad las pertenencias y ser capaz de superar lo efímero.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

*The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions*

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.

Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.

Le Bestseller europeen! Il est prouvee que même des maladies reputees incurables peuvent être gueries par les simples. Les conseils prodigues dans cet ouvrage ont fait des milliers de fois la demonstration de leur efficacite. Et tant que pionniere en matiere de phytotherapie Maria Treben a gagne sa place dans l'histoire. De nombreuses personnes la veneraient comm une sainte. C'est une femme qui a consacre sa vie aux plantes medicinales et son desir le plus cher etait de faire profiter de son experience le plus de monde possible. Pedant toutes ces annees sa popularite et celle de ses livres n'ont jamais faibli. A l'heure du succes grandissant de la medicine douce, ses livres sont plus que jamai d'actualite. Dans son oeuvre principale "La sante à la Parmacie du Bon Dieu" les vertus et les applications therapeutiques de 31 plantes medicinales sont decrites en detail, qu'il s'agisse de tisanes, de cataplasmes, de bains ou de jus frais.