Mapping Chengde
Mapping Chengde

Author: Philippe Foret

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0824863518

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The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

Find Your Sweet Spot
Find Your Sweet Spot

Author: Karen Elizaga

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1493004050

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This smart, stylish motivational guide helps readers discover their dreams and true potential via an action plan based on the coaching strategies of an executive coach. Finding one’s "sweet spot" means digging deep for new levels of self-understanding and re-prioritizing one’s life to align with one’s inner excellence. Written to make readers feel they have access to their own personal coach, the book leads them through a series of inspiring stories, practical steps, and "sweet spot checks" designed to spur personal and professional growth. Find Your Sweet Spot consists of four parts--The Sweet Spot Strategy, The Sweet Spot Inside, The Sweet Spot Outside, Integrate Your Sweet Spot--and offers practical tips and exercises that explore everything from self-love to the power of gratitude and a productive mindset. Find Your Sweet Spot is geared for modern adults who find themselves yearning for more in their daily lives. As a chic, jet-setting businesswoman with many high-powered clients, Karen Elizaga boasts a distinctly modern edge among self-help authors.

The Accidental Creative
The Accidental Creative

Author: Todd Henry

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1591846242

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Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.

Finding the Sweet Spot
Finding the Sweet Spot

Author: Dave Pollard

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1933392908

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"Now what am I going to do?" is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you’re a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big corporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing the thing you love and that you’re actually good at. Or maybe you’re a boomer and you’re ready for a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what you’ve spent most of your work life doing. Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to find the "sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect. And make no mistake: our world needs your talent. The current economic system and the educational system that feeds into it have let us down and are destroying our planet. We need a blossoming of natural enterprises—connected, collaborating, and supporting ventures—to form a dynamic new natural economy. Is such a thing possible? Inventor, entrepreneur, and humanist Buckminster Fuller said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Finding the Sweet Spot presents a new model. Use it to find the work you were meant to do, thereby helping to create the world we’re meant to live—and make a living—in.

Discover Your Sweet Spot
Discover Your Sweet Spot

Author: Scott M. Fay

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1614485933

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Learn to design, build, and maintain an effective and fulfilling life with this unique guide from the innovative entrepreneur, speaker, and author. To create an effective space, landscapers must design, build, and maintain that space. To create an effective life, we must do the same with ourselves. In this unique and insightful guide to crafting a better life, author Scott M. Fay uses a landscaping metaphor and an approachable, conversational style to reveal the seven steps that enabled him to find his own Sweet Spot of personal and professional success. These same steps helped Fay acquire fourteen distressed businesses and turn them into profitable environments for leadership and commerce. They prepared him to forge a partnership with the No. 1 leadership guru in the world and create the world’s fastest-growing speaking, coaching, and training team. It primed him to start several other ventures, projects, and initiatives related to his core strengths. And finally, it enabled him to create a robust life with a variety of opportunities. If this can work for Scott—a guy who wears jeans and boots and drives a pickup truck—then it can work for you too. In fact, it can work for any individual or organization serious about creating a growth environment. Discover Your Sweet Spot and discover the life you’ve always wanted.

The Suitcase Entrepreneur
The Suitcase Entrepreneur

Author: Natalie Sisson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1501178180

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Now in its third edition, The Suitcase Entrepreneur teaches readers how to package and sell their skills to earn enough money to be able to work and live anywhere, build a profitable online business, and live life on their own terms. After eight years of working in the soul-crushing bureaucracy of the corporate world, Natalie Sisson quit her high-paying job and moved to Canada, started a blog, and cofounded a technology company. In just eighteen months she learned how to build an online platform from scratch, and then left to start her own business—which involved visiting Argentina to eat empanadas, play Ultimate Frisbee, and launch her first digital product. After five years, she now runs a six-figure business from her laptop, while living out of a suitcase and teaching entrepreneurs worldwide how to build a business and lifestyle they love. In The Suitcase Entrepreneur you’ll learn how to establish your business online, reach a global audience, and build a virtual team to give you more free time, money, and independence. With a new introduction, as well as updated resources and information, this practical guide uncovers the three key stages of creating a self-sufficient business and how to become a successful digital nomad and live life on your own terms.

Cure for the Common Life
Cure for the Common Life

Author: Max Lucado

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1418537497

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"Sweet Spot." Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride. But you don't have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you. A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot. But if you're like 70 percent of working adults, you haven't found it. You don't find meaning in your work, or you don't believe your talents are used. What can you do? You're suffering from the common life, and you desperately need a cure. Best-selling author Max Lucado has found it. In Cure for the Common Life, he offers practical tools for exploring and identifying your own uniqueness, motivation to put your strengths to work, and the perfect prescription for finding and living in your sweet spot for the rest of your life.

Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Private Practice Groove with Principles from ACT
Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Private Practice Groove with Principles from ACT

Author: Brenda Bomgardner

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780692114346

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What prevents you from opening your very own private practice? How many reasons does your mind give you to wait for the right time? Sweet Spot takes your current knowledge base and translates it into a roadmap for business know-how. Bomgardner transforms your existing skillset through the core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) that will help you create a solid business foundation. - Pinpoint a clear and meaningful vision and mission - Identify a niche that fits - Develop a simple business plan - Foster your authentic marketing ability - Increase your psychological flexibility while increasing your business agility "Sweet Spot is an interactive, experiential process to get you unstuck and moving toward your ideal private practice. Brenda has that rare combination of insightful motivation and real world directness that helps her clients move with confidence." --KATHY BAUR, PhD, Doctoral Internship Coordinator

The Sweet Spot
The Sweet Spot

Author: Whitney Walpole

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780996826174

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Are you maximizing your full leadership potential and effortlessly leveraging the talents of others? Do you experience living your life with maximum ease, power and joy? For many, the answer is no. Yet, what if it were possible? What if you could identify and tap into the aspects of yourself and others that provide a doorway into unprecedented results and fulfillment? The Sweet Spot is a deep dive into the 7 fundamental "Talents" that make up our greatest contributions - the best of who we are and what we have to offer. Used widely by leaders in the business community to recognize their own and others most authentic Talents, this book covers the key contributions and challenges of each of the 7 Talents. It also provides effective ways to grow and develop those Talents, with practical tips for leveraging your own and other's most natural gifts to be more productive, successful, and free. In many ways, this subject is not a new one. A person's Talents are based on existing archetype categories that have been written and spoken about for centuries. Unlike books on the traditional archetypes, personality types or career assessments, this book provides a modern update focused on leveraging your natural talents in leadership and life. The 7 Talents are: Artisan: Creativity Priest: Vision Sage: Communication Warrior: Efficiency Server: Love Scholar: Knowledge King: Power By reading The Sweet Spot book, you'll learn how to: Discover and access more of your greatest capacity as a leader Leverage your own and others' Talents with less effort Motivate those around you for increased engagement Increase your experience of personal fulfillment and professional success If you want less stress, better results and more connection - if you want to grow your experience of living with a greater sense of purpose and power - The Sweet Spot book is an essential read."

Finding Your Kingdom Sweet Spot
Finding Your Kingdom Sweet Spot

Author: John R. Bost

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-08-02

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13:

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"It's rare to have an opportunity to be mentored by a catalytic business leader with such rich cross-sector experience as John Bost has, and that is the gift found within these pages." Shae Bynes, Author, Grace Over Grind "For those deeply wanting to impact their faith, family, and community, John provides thoughtful questions to explore. His perspective on history, faith, philanthropy, and entrepreneurial living is a treasure of honesty, humility, and hope. A worthy read for sure!" Eddie Hammett, Author, Master Certified Coach "While many people simply live a life learning the 'hows', John's writing takes you to not only 'how' but also to the 'why', which is the most important question to answer for your life calling and identity. John is not just a theorist but also a practitioner." Rick Hughes, Crisis Response Specialist "If you knew John like I know John, you would discover a person who is a personification of finding his sweet spot and following God into the marketplace as a high impact entrepreneur." George Bullard, Strategic Thinking Mentor, ForthTelling Innovation "This short, to the point, transparent presentation of finding one's sweet spot in the Kingdom was a great resource for helping me center my longing and primary target of walking by faith, now better understanding my "gut" and its design as a means used by the Spirit." Kevin Gheen, Senior Engineer Six Sigma Master Black Belt