Whether you’re thinking about starting a new business or growing an existing one, Ready, Fire, Aim has what you need to succeed in your entrepreneurial endeavors. In it, self-made multimillionaire and bestselling author Masterson shares the knowledge he has gained from creating and expanding numerous businesses and outlines a focused strategy for guiding a small business through the four stages of entrepreneurial growth. Along the way, Masterson teaches you the different skills needed in order to excel in this dynamic environment.
You're stretched to the limit, but you still want to accomplish more; to lose some extra weight, start a business, or maybe even write a book. How can you achieve these goals with such a busy life? Ready Aim Fire! is the tool that gives you focus and direction in a practical way. What is included in Ready Aim Fire? 1. A step-by-step plan to set goals that fit your life 2. Direct action steps to guide you every step of the way 3. Real life examples to provide clarity 4. Intentional times of rest to maximize success and avoid fatigue 5. A DISC-based personality test, Myers-Briggs based test, and aStrengthsfinder based test 6. Audiobook narrated by Erik Fisher
Trust God to guide the moving bullet. Ready. Fire!... before aiming? That's irresponsible advice if you're holding a weapon but it is often the reality when following God on the journey of faith. Using his story and the first fourteen years of Kingdomcity as a backdrop, Mark Varughese encourages every reader to embrace the adventure that comes with saying 'Yes' to God, without hesitation. Mark and has wife, Jemima, have spearheaded the startling growth of Kingdomcity, a global multi-site church of over 30,000 people across ten countries. In Ready, Fire! Aim, Mark recalls the profound burning-bush experience which triggered his move from Australia to Malaysia to start a church in early 2006, and the adventure that followed. He transparently shares his journey and the convictions that have underpinned it, to encourage and inspire you to take the risk that your dream may just need to become reality.
The lively, insider story of the rise and rise of New Zealand's most successful logistics company. This is the story of a company built on the belief that with passion anything is possible. As they say at Mainfreight, 'Go anywhere as long as it is forward'. Mainfreight was founded in 1977 by the visionary Bruce Plested, who set out to make the company a family, a team, where everyone has a share in the riches and where the word 'management' is banned. The Mainfreight instruction manual is short: Feel the fear but do it anyway. This is a world where budgets are deemed ‘bullshit’. Why spend time preparing figures that are invariably out of date before the ink is dry? Just make more than last year. It's also a world based on generosity: Mainfreight is the backing force behind Books in Homes, and offers tertiary scholarships to the children of all its employees. Did the rise to NZX sharemarket darling all go smoothly? Not for a minute. Initially there would be catastrophic ventures in Australia and America and finally a jaw-dropping moment in Europe when Don Braid and his team made their biggest purchase ever only to see most of the turnover and half the profit walk out the door. This book takes you on a warts-and-all exploration of Mainfreight's journey from small transport company at the bottom of the world to truly successful global logistics company.
The roots of Skinhead culture goes back to a time when black and white youth united under the banner of music and community as immigrants from Jamaica arrived on the shores of England in the late 1960s. England's "mod" meets Jamaica's "rude boy" - the result is the "skinhead." A decade later, portions of that world became co-opted by the far right wing, in an effort to polarize the vote toward a fascist and intolerant British state. Often underpaid or unemployed youths became an easy target for propaganda and the promise of violence. This was the birth of the Neo-Nazi Skinhead. But the true Skinhead movement continued to endure through the multicultural spirit of its origin. Refusing to die, it found new residence worldwide. And the war of the Skinheads began.George Dachs is growing up in Milwaukee, WI in the early 90's. The only son of a single mother struggling with depression, his living conditions have exposed him to the adult world at a very early age. His upbringing does not reflect the American value system of the post-Reagan era. As he races towards his mid-teens, his search for some semblance of familial structure in his life is threatened by his own confused, violent tendencies.George finds solace and acceptance in the local chapter of the non-racist Skinhead crew. The Brew City Skinheads are determined to take down the various white power and Neo-Nazi movements throughout the Midwest. This is a crusade that will come to change George's life forever. He quickly rises through the ranks, bringing together elements of the Black and Jewish communities of the city, and staging violent and criminal attacks on various racist groups. As he struggles to maintain a moral foundation, he confronts race, religion, sexuality, violence, drugs, addiction and friendship in the most visceral and explosive ways.The debut novel by Kevin Triggs, Ready, Fire, Aim gives readers a look into one of America's truly yet undiscovered battlegrounds. Told with raw honesty, fragility and humor, this book will shake you to the core.
World War II looms over the U.S. while fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe struggles with anger and identity after his father's death—“a must-have for historical fiction collections” (School Library Journal) As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. He struggles with school and with anger—at his late father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself—as he desperately tries to find his own aim in life. But he finds relief escaping to the quiet of the nearby woods and tinkering with cars, something he learned from his pop. And a fatherly neighbor provides much-needed guidance. This heartfelt and inspiring novel about a boy learning to accept the past and create his own future also includes an author's note and bibliography.
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life’s history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient. Fire on Earth puts fire in its rightful place as an integral part of the study of geology, biology, human history, physics, and global chemistry. Fire is ubiquitous in various forms throughout Earth, and belongs as part of formal inquiries about our world. In recent years fire literature has multiplied exponentially; dedicated journals exist and half a dozen international conferences are held annually. A host of formal sciences, or programs announcing interdisciplinary intentions, are willing to consider fire. Wildfire also appears routinely in media reporting. This full-colour text, containing over 250 illustrations of fire in all contexts, is designed to provide a synthesis of contemporary thinking; bringing together the most powerful concepts and disciplinary voices to examine, in an international setting, why planetary fire exists, how it works, and why it looks the way it does today. Students, lecturers, researchers and professionals interested in the physical, ecological and historical characteristics of fire will find this book, and accompanying web-based material, essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in all related disciplines, for general interest and for providing an interdisciplinary foundation for further study. A comprehensive approach to the history, behaviour and ecological effects of fire on earth Timely introduction to this important subject, with relevance for global climate change, biodiversity loss and the evolution of human culture. Provides a foundation for the interdisciplinary field of Fire Research Authored by an international team of leading experts in the field Associated website provides additional resources
