We all want to live a life that matters. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner--and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. It doesn't have to be that way! This is the year you finally close the gap between reality and your dreams. In this new, fully revised and updated edition of Your Best Year Ever, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals. You'll learn how to design your best year ever by discovering what's holding you back, how to overcome past setbacks, how to set and pursue worthy goals without quitting, what to do when you feel stuck, and much more. If you're tired of not seeing progress in your personal, intellectual, professional, relational, or financial goals, it's time for you to have your best year ever!
Feel you're not getting anywhere? Putting off what matters most because you’re too busy? Know you have talent and intelligence you're not using? Translated into 12 languages and in its 19th printing in the UK, Your Best Year Yet! is considered the source book for personal transformation and planning that has motivated and inspired people for over 17 years. This system has helped over a million people to stop thinking about what they want – and start making things happen. Just imagine: Having more money Feeling and looking better Enjoying fulfilling relationships Doing more of what matters to you Having meaning in your life Finding spiritual inspiration You already have what it takes to achieve the results you’ve always wanted. Here’s the missing piece that helps you put that talent to work in way that’s simple, fun, and practical. Life goes too quickly to waste – start today to make the next 12 months Your Best Year Yet! PRAISE: “Ditzler masterfully guides you from thought to action, and inspires you to start actualizing your heart’s desires this year.” —John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus “Enhances the quality of thinking needed to select important goals. It enables us to make choices that ensure personal satisfaction and success in the real world.” —D. A. Benton, author of How to Think Like a CEO “Using Best Year Yet helped us helped us achieve results that were truly incredible - it made a huge difference in the outcome of our expedition." —Erik Weihenmayer, first blind climber to summit Mount Everest and author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity Advantage “Your Best Year Yet! is an excellent guide to setting and accomplishing goals for personal and professional success originated in workshops the author has been teaching for 25 years. Ditzler offers a clear, concise and thorough "framework" for defining values, identifying important roles and prioritizing and focusing energy where it will make the most difference to you.” —Publishers Weekly
“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler’s lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say “give it to me” in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedaris’s work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these pages, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms—at long last—with the other. Taken together, the stories in TheBest of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected—it’s often harder, more fraught, and certainly weirder—but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful. Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called “the funniest man alive” (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing—quite often at himself—and invites readers deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!
The name Prachurya means Goddess of wealth in ancient Sanskrit. True to that meaning, Prachurya Bharadwaj the author, has accumulated herself an ocean of experiences, that very few 28-year-olds would fathom. She didn’t just stop at one post-graduate degree in engineering but pursued another one, then some more professional courses after that. At 21, when she went abroad to study, she found internship opportunities in one country, created a start-up in another followed by full-time positions, then again in another country where she bought her first house. This book is a story of her defeating all odds, taking proactive measures, rising above those who thought too little of her, healing herself of continuous traumas stacked over the ones from her childhood. Today she works in the Netherlands as a technical lead for development of unique technology, that should ascertain the leadership of ASML in the semiconductor industry. This exciting read is only a part of her story, going from the age of around 7 until 28, when she perceived that this was the pinnacle of her success. Her upcoming books will contain the story of what happens after that epitome of success. You guessed it right. She keeps achieving more.
A smart, common-sense book that will help you improve your energy so that you can achieve goals faster and more efficiently. Get up, check phone, eat breakfast, drop off the kids, work, work, work, commute home, make dinner, feed the family, check email, put the kids to bed, binge-watch a show, check email again, drop into bed exhausted. Wake up. Repeat. Our days and weeks are filled to the brim with the busy stuff of life, which includes the constant bombardment of the twenty-four-hour news cycle and pervasive social media updates, notifications, and pings, pings, pings. That's 21st-and-a-quarter-century stress, and it's a serious doozy. We have goals for our careers and our lives, but with all the noise and constant demands, we get stalled out, stuck. We simply don't have the energy to progress in the areas that are most important to us. And yet, we wonder, isn't there a better way? Author, motivational speaker, and coach Michelle Cederberg's response to that question is an unequivocal yes! In The Success-Energy Equation she shows you how, by using the wisdom of science and your innate common sense, you can combat 21st-and-a-quarter-century stress and tap into a well of energy that will fuel every area of your life. She shows you how slowing down and listening to your body can help you work better, and how a focus on health and energy management will sustain your efforts in all you do. With the right tools and guidance, great things are possible for you. The Success-Energy Equation teaches you how you can boost your energy to: - Go from being stuck on autopilot to thriving with awareness - Set worthwhile goals that feed your sense of purpose - Work better, smarter, and with more focus - Improve your attitude, self-confidence, and self-efficacy - Create a life of greater clarity and fulfillment - And much more. Energy is a magic multiplier that will drive you toward higher levels of success in life. It's also your not-so-secret weapon against 21st-and-a-quarter-century stress. Engage your success-energy, reach your goals, and live a life you truly want.
Great leaders are driven to win. Yet career wins can come at great cost to your health, relationships, and personal well-being. Why does it seem impossible to both win at work and succeed at life? Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller know we can do better because he's seen it in his more than four decades as a successful executive and a loving and present husband and father. Today Michael and his daughter, Megan Hyatt Miller, coach leaders to live the double win. Backed by scholarly research from organizational science and psychology, and illustrated with eye-opening case studies from across the business spectrum and their own coaching clients, Win at Work and Succeed at Life is their manifesto on how you can achieve work-life balance and restore your sanity. With clarity, humor, and plenty of motivation, Win at Work and Succeed at Life gives you - an understanding of the historical and cultural forces that have led to overworking - 5 principles to rethink work and productivity from the ground up - simple but proven practices that enable you to slow down and reclaim your life - and more Refuse the false choice of career versus family. You can achieve the double win in life.
