America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the present day.
Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns. The Editors chose to emphasize the more "private" features of the personality, because these had often been ignored in earlier research, despite popular assumptions that there are close ties between fantasy, inwardness, "spacey" qualities (all suggesting permanent changes in mental organization), and substance use in youth. This volume will be of interest to a wider audience than just drug and alcohol researchers, because of the effort to go beyond normative patterns of substance use toward explorations of personality and consciousness.
Dr. Storlie explains how you can communicate with your subconscious mind-the super-intelligence within you-using mental imagery, contemplation and daydreaming. Using his unique 7-step process, you'll learn to request and receive help from the power of your subconscious mind and create a better personal and/or professional life. This book incorporates accelerated learning methods so you can quickly deepen your understanding of how to use contemplation, daydreams, and daydreaming to improve nearly any aspect of your life. Timothy provides you with 22 tools that you can use to help create a better future in 37 different areas of your life. You'll learn methods to accelerate learning; become a daydreamer, improve physical, emotional, sexual, and mental health; improve communication, relationships, and parenting; increase leadership qualities; improve professional and business skills; enhance artistic or sports performance; experience more creativity, fun, fantasy, entertainment, romance, eroticism, and intimacy; enjoy a more meaningful life; and achieve a greater degree of personal fulfillment. Transformational daydreaming is grounded in three core beliefs: (1) You can develop a working relationship with your subconscious mind; (2) You can ask your subconscious mind for help by contemplating while in an altered state of awareness; and (3) Your subconscious mind can communicate advice, insight, and information to you using the symbolic language of daydreams. In the hope and desire for a better life, individuals, couples, parents, students, teachers, trainers, healthcare professionals, business leaders, writers, musicians, engineers, designers, architects, performing and creative artists, sports enthusiasts, and countless others use relaxation, mental imagery and visualization, altered states of awareness, contemplation, and daydreaming as part of their creative process. Now, thanks to Dr. Storlie, you can too!
This book will help you completely transform the way you look, feel, and even think each day. By developing the habits in this book, you will be able to increase your energy, limit your aches and pains, achieve better health, and help improve the way your body looks and performs. I have been in the fitness industry for many years as a group exercise instructor and personal trainer. I have spent many years reading, researching, and discovering ways to transform my body and help the clients I work with. There are millions of excellent self-help books out there that address these areas. The goal of this book is to provide you with some of the knowledge I have obtained and the strategies that I have found to be most effective. This book will provide you with a simple guide on how to implement these strategies in a way that will greatly improve your chance of success. This book is designed to provide you with weekly habits to incorporate into your life. Every chapter contains a new habit to focus on and ways to make small, manageable changes to adapt each habit into your daily routine. This book provides strategies on how to incorporate the habits along with worksheets and activities to help you set goals, plan a routine, and keep track of your progress. This book is designed to be an interactive guide or workbook. This will help you take an active role in the process instead of a passive role in just reading another book. This greatly improves your chance of success and will help keep you motivated during the process.
Transformation is a process of bringing radical change to the context that sets a new direction and takes the organization to an entirely different level of effectiveness with little to no resemblance to the past. There is always a need for positive change and for transforming people’s lives regardless of what has been achieved so far by the organization or the society. There is always room for people to dream big, think big, make a difference, and make an impact to bring about transformative change. Transformation is required in virtually any field, whether it is business, technology, education, health care, banking, agriculture, politics, poverty reduction, entertainment, transportation, cities, or manufacturing. Transforming an organization or the lives of people within a society is purely a leadership-based mission that requires a creative and innovative mind-set. The aspects of the transformation process include purpose-driven vision, creativity, innovation, design thinking, agile transformation, cultural transformation, digital capabilities, human experience transformation, and business model transformation. Transformational leadership is about envisioning the future and making it brighter by way of bringing about transformative change. Transformational leaders must be courageous and empathetic. Several qualities that transformational leaders need to possess in order to embrace transformation include vision, creativity, inspiration, courage, collaboration, commitment, empathy, and emotional intelligence. These aspects, along with their appropriate components and subcomponents, are discussed in The Art and Science of Transformational Leadership.
The Miracle! In this book Nicholas presents you a practical, unique, subliminal, very simple, detailed method of how to Talk With Your Subconscious Mind and Daydream Your Way to a Better Life. You will feel the effects immediately and the results will appear very quickly! So it was in my case. You will not achieve fulfillment and happiness until YOU become the architect of your own reality. Imagine that with a few moments each day, you could begin the powerful transformation toward complete control of your own life and well being through this unique, subliminal method combined with positive affirmations. The order of words is extremely important for every book written by Nicholas. These are arranged to be traversed in a certain way so as to eliminate certain blockages in the human being, blockages that are bringing disease or failure on various plans. You don't need a big chunk of your time or expensive programs. Everything is extremely simple! Health, money, prosperity, abundance, safety, stability, sociability, charisma, sexual vitality, erotic attraction, will, optimism, perseverance, self-confidence, tenacity, courage, love, loving relationships, self-control, self-esteem, enthusiasm , refinement, intuition, detachment, intelligence, mental calm, power of concentration, exceptional memory, aspiration, transcendence, wisdom, compassion. You have the ability to unlock your full inner-potential and achieve your ultimate goals. This is the age-old secret of the financial elite, world class scholars, and Olympic champions. For example, when you watch the Olympics, you'll find one consistency in all of the champions. Each one closes their eyes for a moment and clearly affirms & visualizes themselves completing the event flawlessly just before starting. Then they win gold medals and become champions. That's merely one example of how the real power of mind can elevate you above any of life's challenges. By reading this book, you will feel totally that life deserves to be lived and enjoyed every moment and that everything that you propose for yourself becomes easy for you to fulfill. Nicholas will guide you to touch your longed-for dream and will make you see life from a new perspective, full of freshness and success. This book helps you step by step, in a natural way, in just 3 minutes a day, to change your misguided way of thinking and to Talk With Your Subconscious Mind and Daydream Your Way to a Better Life. (NOTE: For good, Nicholas keep the price of the book as lower as he can, even if is a hard work behind this project. A significant portion of the earnings from the sale of the book are used for these purposes: for charity, volunteer projects, nature restoration, and other inspired ideas to do good where it is needed. If you can not afford to buy the book please contact Nicholas and he will give you a free copy.) You, also have a bonus in the pages of the book that makes you live your success by doing a seemingly trivial thing. You will feel the difference. Yes. The Miracle is possible! Get Your Copy Now!
Transforming Leadership is an outgrowth and extension of Transforming Work, acknowledging and exploring the crucial role of the organizational leadership in transformational change. This was the first practical guide for organizational leaders who wished to implement the concepts of "vision," "alignment," "work spirit," and "purpose" in their organizations. This Second Edition contains the original 20 chapters, plus the authors' reflections on their work at the turn of the century. John D. Adams, Ph.D. is a professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader. He has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession for over 35 years. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting. Adams currently serves as the Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program. He also served as editor for two seminal works, Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, both widely held as defining a new role for the Organization Development profession in a rapidly transforming world.
The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture.
The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book encourage us to think of travel as exotic, adventurous, transformative, dangerous or educative? Do different genres of books influence a reader's view of travel in multifarious ways? These questions are explored through a literary analysis of an eclectic selection of books spanning the period from the eighteenth century to the present day. Genres covered include historical fiction, children's books, westerns, science-fiction and crime fiction.
