God Grant Me The Laughter

God Grant Me The Laughter

Author: Ed F.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-06-24

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1616491469

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These hearty cartoons and humorous anecdotes reflect with humor and powerful clarity how our drinking or drug-using days contrast with our lives today. "The strength of our recovery is in direct proportion to our ability to laugh at ourselves." Laughter heals, particularly the laughter that comes when we understand the lifesaving difference between "how it was" before recovery and "how it is" living in sobriety. These hearty cartoons and humorous anecdotes reflect with powerful clarity how our drinking or drug-using days contrast with our lives today. Laughter helps us celebrate our recovery and it reminds us how grateful we are for sobriety and for the priceless camaraderie of people in Twelve Step programs.


The 211/2 Probable Laws of Mediocrity

The 211/2 Probable Laws of Mediocrity

Author: Sebastien Richard

Publisher: Thriving on Purpose

Published: 2024-04-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781068801204

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So, You Think Your Life Can't Get Any Worse? Don't Sell Yourself Short. It Can! Dive into the delightfully satirical pages of The 211/2 Probable Laws of Mediocrity (c)-a book that masterfully employs reverse psychology, wrapped in layers of humor and wit, to deliver a message that's both amusing and unexpectedly insightful. This isn't your average self-help book. In fact, it boldly positions itself as the antithesis, playfully challenging readers to engage in a bit of self-reflection by presenting a guide on how to achieve a life of spectacular mediocrity. Through its tongue-in-cheek examination of the laws that govern a half-hearted approach to life, this book cleverly invites you to reconsider your current attitudes and the subtle ways they may be sabotaging the quality of your existence. Each chapter, brimming with irony and jest, serves as a mirror, reflecting back the absurdities of our all-too-human tendency to settle for less, procrastinate, and deflect responsibility. But here's the twist: By outlining a roadmap to mediocrity with such humor and precision, The 211/2 Probable Laws of Mediocrity ingeniously encourages you to do the exact opposite. It's a master class in reverse psychology, cloaked in comedic genius. The more you read about embracing laziness, avoiding risk, and following the crowd, the more you find yourself questioning why anyone would choose this path-and that's precisely the point. The 211/2 Laws of Mediocrity provide the reader with... Reverse Psychology Approach: Find yourself motivated to achieve more by reading how gloriously unsatisfying mediocrity can be. Satire that Inspires: Through humor and irony, reconsider your life choices and the paths to genuine fulfillment. A Call to Action (or Inaction): Each law paradoxically pushes you to defy its advice, stirring a rebellious desire to strive for your very best. Author Sebastien Richard cleverly makes you laugh at the notion of striving for nothingness while subtly nudging you to examine the choices that lead to unfulfillment. It's a nudge to rebel against the book's own advice, to aspire for more than mediocrity, and to rekindle the desire to pursue genuine passions and goals. So, go ahead, pick up this book if you're ready for a humorous escapade that will leave you not only entertained but also inspired to break free of the mediocrity that so easily entangles us.


What You Need to Know About Spiritual Growth in 12 Lessons

What You Need to Know About Spiritual Growth in 12 Lessons

Author: Max Anders

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1401676146

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Discover the exciting growth plan for your life! Find out how God can use anything in your life to help you become more like His Son, Jesus Christ. Explore God’s abundant resources that nourish you—His Spirit, the Bible, the church, time and challenges, and the spiritual disciplines—proven paths to a fruitful life. Learn how God speaks to believers and empowers them to overcome entrenched sins. What You Need to Know about Spiritual Growth will help you grow in Christ—secure in His love, strong in His grace, and seasoned to persevere for daily victories and joyful service to others. Features include: 12 lessons you can complete in under 1 hour each Real-life application of biblical truth Explanations of prominent Christian views on the topic Easy-to-teach resources, including previews and summary features Questions for discussion Core teachings on Christianity that will challenge any seeker, new believer, or veteran believer looking for a stronger foundation What You Need to Know About study guides sold to date: More than 200,000


Funny on Purpose

Funny on Purpose

Author: Joe Randazzo

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1452135592

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“A guidebook to the world of professional humoring . . . Randazzo pulls off the rare trick of being funny while discussing comedy.” —Michael Ian Black, The New York Times Book Review It takes guts to be a comedian, and it takes smarts to make a living off it. In this insider’s guide, former Onion editor Joe Randazzo delivers a funny and insightful blueprint for those looking to turn their sense of humor into a vocation, and solicits advice and stories from the likes of Judd Apatow, Jack Handey, Weird Al Yankovic, Rob Delaney, Joan Rivers, Tim & Eric, Nick Kroll, Lisa Hanawalt, and more. Explaining how it works and how to break in, Joe provides tips and guidance, outlines successful career paths, and gives readers the knowledge and inspiration to launch a career in comedy with confidence. “Covers an impressive range of comedy formats including standup, improv, sketch, TV, writing, directing, animation, and YouTube . . . includes tons of little details (reviews of websites that accept submissions, tips on how to create funny characters), any one of which might be the thing to jumpstart a comedian’s success.” —Publishers Weekly


Megatudes

Megatudes

Author: Billy Riggs

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Life is attitude. The attitudes you bring (or don't bring) to your circumstances will affect your future more than your talent, looks, or intelligence. They will shape your destiny more than your plans, your friends, or your enemies. They are more critical than your genes or your upbringing. They will fashion your prospects more than luck or even hard work ever could. They color and influence everything you do and gradually create the circumstances-whether good or bad-under which you must live and labor. Indeed, they are so important that I call them Megatudes. Every day your attitudes either sweeten or poison all that flows through you and from you. By harnessing the power of the twelve Megatudes revealed in this book you will improve your circumstances, your career, your income, your relationships, and your happiness. Miss out on a few, and you will sentence yourself to mediocrity. Neglect them all and you are doomed to failure. But when you consciously build all twelve of them into your thought processes and behaviors, your life will change direction and set you on a course for all of the good things that life has to offer!


Only a Joke Can Save Us

Only a Joke Can Save Us

Author: Todd McGowan

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0810135825

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Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.


Perennial Seller

Perennial Seller

Author: Ryan Holiday

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-07-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 110199214X

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The book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection... How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic? How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sell more than a million copies? How is Iron Maiden still filling stadiums worldwide without radio or TV exposure forty years after the band was founded? Bestselling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial sellers. How do they endure and thrive while most books, movies, songs, video games, and pieces of art disappear quickly after initial success? How can we create and market creative works that achieve longevity? Holiday explores this mystery by drawing on his extensive experience working with businesses and creators such as Google, American Apparel, and the author John Grisham, as well as his interviews with the minds behind some of the greatest perennial sellers of our time. His fascinating examples include: • Rick Rubin, producer for Adele, Jay-Z, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who teaches his artists to push past short-term thinking and root their work in long-term inspiration. • Tim Ferriss, whose books have sold millions of copies, in part because he rigorously tests every element of his work to see what generates the strongest response. • Seinfeld, which managed to capture both the essence of the nineties and timeless themes to become a modern classic. • Harper Lee, who transformed a muddled manuscript into To Kill a Mockingbird with the help of the right editor and feedback. • Winston Churchill, Stefan Zweig, and Lady Gaga, who each learned the essential tenets of building a platform of loyal, dedicated supporters. Holiday reveals that the key to success for many perennial sellers is that their creators don’t distinguish between the making and the marketing. The product’s purpose and audience are in the creator’s mind from day one. By thinking holistically about the relationship between their audience and their work, creators of all kinds improve the chances that their offerings will stand the test of time.