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Shower the People
by James Taylor

“shower the people we love, with love” So very often, we hold back, not expressing ourselves and fearful of rejection if we actually express our feelings openly and honestly to  people we care about. We feel vulnerable and exposed to speak from the heart. Being stoic and silent is considered to be strength by some, even […]

Nelson Mandela

By the time of his death, Nelson Mandela had come to be widely considered “the father of the nation” within South Africa, and “the founding father of democracy”, being seen as “the national liberator, the Savior, its Washington and Lincoln rolled into one”. Mandela’s biographer Anthony Sampson commented that even during his life, a myth […]

Teach every child about food
– Jamie Oliver

From TED.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. Why you should listen Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he […]

Tuesdays with Morrie
– Mitch Albom

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”  Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For […]

Steal Like an Artist
– Austin Kleon

“If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”  You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto […]

The Woman in the Mirror
– Cynthia M. Bulik

Wouldn’t it feel great to be free of fixation on your body image and simply feel comfortable in your own skin? Well, it’s time to discover the release of disentangling your body esteem from your self esteem and letting your personality, values and accomplishments come to the fore. In The Woman in the Mirror Cynthia Bulik shows […]

The Story Factor
– Annette Simmons

Annette Simmons is founder of Group Process Consulting, specializing in helping organizations build more collaborative behaviors for bottom-line results. A popular speaker, community activist, and author of Territorial Games and A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths, she lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. [From: Amazon.com] The new material for this revised edition offers an expanded case study of storytelling in action […]

Delivering Happiness
– Tony Hsieh

Delivering Happiness (2010) is a book by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It details his life as an entrepreneur, with emphasis on the founding of Link Exchange and Zappos. In 2009, Hsieh began writing Delivering Happiness over Labor Day in Lake Tahoe. He wrote most of the book stream of consciousness, often completing 3,000 word chunks a day that he would send to his editor in New York. While writing […]

Think and Grow Rich
– Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill  and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to […]

The Age of Unreason
– Charles Handy

“The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” Handy’s 1989 book made a powerful case for what might then […]

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