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The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman Goodreads Summary: Right now, 70% of Americans aren't passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They're sick of "average" and know there's something better out there, but they just don't know how to reach it. One basic principle--The Proximity Principle--can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love. In his latest book,  The Proximity Principle,  national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love. Forget the traditional career advice you've heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You...

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis Goodreads Summary: With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have. Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice. Each chapter of  Girl, Wash Your Face  begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the ins...

How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell Goodreads Summary: Gather successful people from all walks of life-what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!  A  Wall Street Journal  bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK   is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success. My Review: 3.5/5 Stars This book sat on my desk for about a year and I would just pick it up when I had a minute or two. Overall I think it gives create tips...

With Purpose by Ken Dychtwald and Daniel J.Kadlec Goodreads Summary: “Ken Dychtwald maps out where success intersects with meaning—and he provides the tools to help you find your own unique crossing.” —Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of  The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success A New Purpose,  written by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., and Daniel J. Kadlec, redefines the American view of success, employment, retirement, and living a significant life. By providing both the inspiration and the information that will enable anyone to ensure that their time and influence have lasting and positive consequences,  A New Purpose,  as Daniel Goleman, author of  Emotional Intelligence,  sees it, “points the way to our true north, the compass we all need to follow of a meaningful life.” My Review: 2.7/5 Stars With Purpose is all about as we get older that we want to make a switch to becoming significant instead of just  successful. I really enjoyed the storie...

Find Your Why by Simon Sinek Goodreads Summary: The next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the bestseller  Start With Why .   With  Start With Why , Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. However, many people have had trouble bringing the book's message into their own career and company. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, he has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why. This easy-to-follow guide starts with the search for your personal why, and then expands to helping your colleagues find your organization's why. With detailed instructions on every stage in the process, the book also answer common concerns, such as: What if my why sounds like my competitor's? Can you have more than one why? And, if my work doesn't match my why, what do I do? Whether you're ent...

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by: William H. McRaven: Goodreads Summary: If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough dec...

Love Does by: Bob Goff Goodreads Summary: As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she agreed to date him. His grades weren't good enough to get into law school, so he sat on a bench outside the Dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll. Bob Goff has become something of a legend, and his friends consider him the world's best-kept secret. Those same friends have long insisted he write a book. What follows are paradigm shifts, musings, and stories from one of the world's most delightfully engaging and winsome people. What fuels his impact? Love. But it's not the kind of love that stops at thoughts and feelings. Bob's love takes action. Bob believes  Love Does. When  Love D...

The Mountain Within by Herta Von Stiegel Goodreads Summary: In July 2008, international business executive Herta von Stiegel led a group of disabled people to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity. The story was captured in the award-winning documentary  The Mountain Within -and now the expedition has inspired this remarkable work, which blends the gripping tale with powerful leadership lessons and conversations with many of the world's most influential business leaders: Kay Unger Sung-Joo Kim Dr. Joachim Faber Baroness Scotland of Asthal Marsha Serlin Dr. Karl (Charly) and Lisa Kleissner Martha (Marty) Wikstrom Sam Chisholm Minister Mohamed Lotfi Mansour Karin Forseke President and Lt. General Seretse Khama Ian Khama Christie Hefner Abeyya Al-Qatami Hon. Al Gore and David Blood Dr. Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahim Life may be full of obstacles, but it is the mountain within that most often needs to be conquered. No matter your challenges or where you are on y...

Head in the Game: The Mental Engineering of the World's Greatest Athletes by Brandon Sneed: Goodreads Summary: The next frontier of sports training doesn’t rest with the body, but with the mind For years, common wisdom has held that athletic performance is rooted in genetics and peak physical enhancement of the body. But journalist Brandon Sneed has another idea: that mental engineering — training the cognitive process of the brain — presents yet a new level of sports performance, and that athletes, despite already being at the top of the genetic pool, can actually become better.  This is a watershed idea — the conscious alteration of our brains can have drastic effects, so much so that elite athletes around the world are already seeing incredible results: stars like Steph Curry, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Russell Wilson, and dozens others are experimenting with this concept. They are hooking their brains to computers and using other cutting-edge technology that seems like stuf...

No Limits: Blowing The Cap Off Your Capacity Goodreads Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell's latest book will enhance the lives of leaders, professionals, and anyone who wants to achieve success and personal growth. We often treat the word capacity as if it were a natural law of limitation. Unfortunately, most of us are much more comfortable defining what we perceive as off limits rather than what's really possible. Could it be that many of us have failed to expand our potential because we have allowed what we perceive as capacity to define us? What if our limits are not really our limits? In his newest book, John Maxwell identifies 17 core capacities. Some of these are abilities we all already possess, such as energy, creativity and leadership. Others are aspects of our lives controlled by our choices, like our attitudes, character, and intentionality. Maxwell examines each of these capacities, and provides clear and actionable advice on how...

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson   Goodreads Summary: The Slight Edge will teach you how to achieve success in all aspects of your life - health, finances, relationships, family life. My Review: 4.5/5 stars This book was an interesting change of pace from what I usually read. And while the summary above doesn’t give much information, what it does say is true. This self-improvement book gives simple steps to implement in your life that will over time reflect to drastic improvements. It gives examples of readers throughout that have put these ideas into their lives as illustrates how they have been impacted. My family is big into the self-improvement industry, and to be honest I needed a book to read and found this one laying around. But I sure am glad I did.   I think this is a must read for everyone! In some way everyone will be able to benefit from it!