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Those who turn to the self-help section to improve an unexamined life can profit from the goals recommended by Foster, a Christian financial planner. The "Vector Principle" governs his outlook: each of us is a product of past choices, but small changes in the present can yield huge benefits over time. The best course corrections spring from the proper definition of success. This incorporates what Foster calls "lifeWealth": "the accumulation of financial, relational, physical, intellectual and spiritual capital." Faith figures prominently in Foster's life strategy; it's presented gently, on equal footing with the other four priorities. The seeker who is pressed for time would be well-served to head straight for Part 3, "Strategies for lifeFocus," which presents Foster's best practical advice. Reliance on the language of the motivational speaker tilts the writing toward cliché, but Foster's description of the results of choices in each stage of life and his exploration of the three "life paths"—indifference, self-indulgence and the more positive path of concern for others—provide a useful overall perspective.
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
- Joseph Campbell
What would life be like if you could focus on doing what you’re best at and love to do most?
For over twenty years, The Strategic Coach has helped successful entrepreneurs in its programs balance their work and personal lives while also achieving unprecedented results. A core concept of these programs is that every person has a talent they love to use that translates into activities they do exceptionally well — a Unique Ability — and that using this Unique Ability is the surest route to a happy, meaningful, and successful life.
Like everyone, you too have a Unique Ability. When you know this key piece of information about yourself, you’ll not only find it easier to see what you should be doing, things will really start to "click" — because when you act on your Unique Ability, it works.
This book will help you:
- Understand the philosophy of "Unique Ability."
- Define your own Unique Ability.
- Learn how to free yourself up so you can apply your Unique Ability in everyday life.
- Determine how you can have the greatest impact on the world around you.
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DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.
In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.
Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW & UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
(using the unique access code included with each book)
* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)
* The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2.0 companion website, with a strengths community area, library of downloadable discussion guides and activities, a strengths screensaver, and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes
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From Publishers Weekly
Friendship may be coming into vogue as a topic (to wit, Joseph Epstein's new book Friendship: An Exposé), but Rath (coauthor of the bestselling How Full Is Your Bucket?) takes a pragmatic rather than philosophical approach. He explores the inherent value of friendships and says that the need for friends goes beyond commonality or companionship; in particular, he devotes a section to friendship at work, which, unlike many companies and managers, Rath sees as a positive force. Rath's research shows that employees who have a best friend in the office are more productive, more likely to engage positively with customers, share new ideas and stay longer in a job. Citing illuminating cases and surveys (many conducted for the Gallup Organization), Rath shows that many people succeed or fail based on the support and involvement of their best friends. Rath posits eight vital roles friends play: some are champions for each other; some collaborate; some connect people with others; and some build each other up through encouragement and trust. Rath's bullishness on friendship is based on solid research and couched in intelligent prose. 150,000 first printing. (Aug. 1)
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Money is a tool that ultimately expresses our core values. Beyond basic needs, money helps us achieve our life’s purpose and support the things we care about most deeply – family, education, health care, charity, adventure and fun. It helps us get some of life’s intangibles – freedom or independence, the opportunity to make the most of our skills and talents, the ability to choose our own course in life, financial security. I have found that the people who invest the time to figure out what they truly value and then align their money with those values have the strongest sense of financial and personal well-being.
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Time is the greatest modern scarcity. What used to be considered signs of success--being busy, having many responsibilities, being involved in many projects or activities--are today being felt as afflictions. The bestselling author of Money and the Meaning of Life, philosopher Jacob Needleman, shows how to take a bold and unconventional approach to time. The aim: to get more out of it by breaking free of our illusions about it. Needleman dispenses with tricks and techniques that only serve to make our obsessiveness more "efficient." Instead he shows how we can understand what our days are for. It's this understanding that allows time to finally begin to"breathe" in our lives.
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Carroll (Big Blues) and Mui (Unleashing the Killer App) collaborate to perform an autopsy on some of the most spectacular business failures and corporate disasters in recent times, hunting down the fatal strategies responsible. The authors examine more than 750 inexcusable corporate collapses, neatly cataloguing them into eight common failure patterns: doomed practices, including the Illusion of Synergies, as illustrated by the ruinous merger attempts by Sears and Dean Witter; Faulty Financial Engineering, as conducted by Tyco and Revco; Staying the (Misguided) Course Too Long, a sin committed by Kodak, which missed the boat on digital photography; and Consolidation Blues, as depicted by U.S. Airways, which crashed as a consequence of buying up too many companies too quickly. While there are assuredly lessons in defeat and the authors' detailed analysis and bracing honesty is welcome, readers hoping for a more encouraging or inspirational business book might find Carroll and Mui's avalanche of disastrous failures, avoidable bankruptcies and destruction of shareholder value a depressing—if highly instructive—read. (Sept.)
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by Bob Clyatt, Robert Clyatt
Ready to pursue the rest of your life? Get going with Work Less, Live More.
Professionally, you're experiencing the success that years of hard work brings --but the long hours are taking their toll and you're burning out fast.
Fortunately, there's an alternative to the grind: Early semi-retirement. Work fewer hours, realize your goals and dreams, spend time with your loved ones-- and do it all years, even decades, before the "normal" retirement age of 65.
With Work Less, Live More and a little planning, you can do it. The book provides a rational investment system based on Nobel Prize-winning research, a safe lifelong withdrawal plan and sensible spending guidelines.
More importantly, the book provides inspiring stories and insights of many successful early semi-retirees, walking proof that meaningful work-- rather than full-time work-- is both fulfilling and rewarding.
Are you ready to pursue the rest of your life? Turn to Work Less, Live More and get going.
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by Bill Schultheis
In The Coffeehouse Investor, Bill Schultheis shows readers that by focusing more on their passions and creativity, and less on money and the hype and hysteria of Wall Street, they will actually build more wealth—and improve the quality of their lives at the same time. The prose may be charming, but the investment advice is powerful and timely. Successful investing has nothing to do with "hot" stocks and "cool" mutual funds, but is achieved by adhering to the three simple steps set forth in The Coffeehouse Investor. There are ways to simplify investment decisions when building a sophisticated portfolio. With just a minimum of effort investors can learn to implement these steps and begin the gratifying process of building wealth, ignoring Wall Street, and getting on with life.
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by Paul Merriman
Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!
"Paul Merriman's new book is a rich and meaty guide to achieving real retirement security. It's full of wise, easy-to-follow advice that will stand the test of time."
—Knight Kiplinger, Editor in Chief, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and The Kiplinger Letter
"Read, Live It Up! Not only does Paul Merriman know the secret to making your money work as hard as you do, he loves helping people achieve their goals and dreams."
–Paul B. Farrell, author of The Millionaire Code, The Winning Portfolio and The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing
An educational and motivational guide to retiring without running out of money
No one understands this better than Paul Merriman. For four decades, Merriman has helped and watched people manage their money—both before and during retirement. Now, in Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!, Merriman distills what he has learned into a sound, time-tested approach to creating a portfolio that will fulfill your unique retirement needs.
Based on Merriman's popular retirement workshops, Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! offers ten straightforward steps to creating and maintaining the perfect retirement portfolio. From determining how much you will need to live on after retirement to recognizing and controlling the expenses of investing, the easy-to-understand strategies outlined within these pages can help you regain confidence in your retirement plan.
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by Charles D. Ellis
Investment Policy presents a fresh approach to professional investment management that involves active client participation. This revised and updated consumer's guide to investment policy will enable you and your clients to understand: The basic nature of institutional investing;; How to formulate specific policies to reach long-term investment goals and objectives; How to manage investment managers to achieve these goals.
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by Stuart E. Lucas
Newsweek, March 20, 2006 issue - Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It by Stuart E. Lucas Congratulations! You've just come into some cash. But what to do next? With $1 trillion per year expected to pass from one generation of Americans to another over the next decade, it's a question more people than ever are facing. Writing from the perspective of one who has managed wealth for clients, as well as received it (he's an heir of Carnation Foods' founder), Lucas shows step by step how to set investment goals that match your needs and values, pick the right advisers, manage taxes and avoid the pitfalls that shrink fortunes and fracture relationships.
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by Fred Schwed and
Peter Arno A
professional trader, who had the good sense
to get out after losing a bundle of money
in the 1930 crash, offers wry and astute observations
on Wall Street along with bottom-line wisdom.
Covers the gamut of financial players and
the clients who bring them business. Brimming
with amusing anecdotes and stories, this often
hilarious cautionary tale is fully illustrated.
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by Burton Gordon Malkiel This gimmick-free,
irreverent, and vastly informative guide--with
over half a million copies sold--shows how
to navigate the turbulence on Wall Street
and beat the pros at their own game. Skilled
at puncturing financial bubbles and other
delusions of the Wall Street crowd, Burton
Malkiel shows why a broad portfolio of stocks
selected at random will match the performance
of one carefully chosen by experts.
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by Charles D. Ellis This indispensable
investment guide asks the question: How can
an individual invest successfully when the
majority always fails? Charles Ellis, one
of today's most brilliant investment writers,
has updated his influential book to include:
Ways to escape the ravages of taxes and inflation
How to successfully pass your estate to your
heirs (not the taxman!) Common investing mistakes
and painless strategies to avoid them.
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by Larry E. Swedroe Swedroe explains
how index mutual funds out-earn older investment
strategies; how to pick the right balanced
"passive" portfolio that will reward investors
with the highest expected return for the amount
of risk the investor is willing to accept;
and how to play the winner's gamer with the
growing investor trend.
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by Peter L. Bernstein When the 1974
recession hit Wall Street, investment professionals
desperately turned to academia to help regain
the value of their clients' holdings. Bernstein
shows how Wall Street finally embraced the
advances wrought in academic seminars and
technical journals that ultimately transformed
the art of investing.
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by Roger C. Gibson This classic
resource has been revised and updated to reflect
the latest data affecting asset allocation.
Noted expert, Roger Gibson, provides a thorough
review of the capital market theory behind
asset allocation, plus step-by-step guidelines
for designing and implementing appropriate
investment strategies.
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by W. Scott Simon This book describes
the many benefits of index mutual funds. Yet
it also provides a framework for understanding
why indexing should be the investment strategy
for any investor today. This includes an explanation
of why Morningstar, Value Line, stockbrokers,
investment gurus, the financial media and
others so often fail investors. The book also
explores the role of index funds in the context
of asset allocation and portfolio diversification.
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by William J. Bernstein Teaches the reader
straightforward method for earning exceptional
returns and minimizing risk when investing.
Explains how to manage a personal diversified
account, how to assess how risk according
to personal needs, and the fundamental relationship
between risk and reward in financial markets.
DLC: Portfolio management.
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