Do you feel like you are going around in circles, forever facing the same challenges? Are you struggling, feeling stuck or constantly on a search for true happiness? Do you want to learn how to tap into that inner power you have deep inside and actually change your circumstances? Transformational Coach, Ungureanu Ionut Iulian's Live Love Dream is a comprehensive roadmap designed to guide you through your own innate ability to tap into your own power and step into your greatness. Through sharing his own personal story and experience as an orphan in Romania, Iulian opens up a river of limiting belief systems that were responsible for holding him back in adulthood and shows us how we too can powerfully deal with our own limiting belief systems. Pitted against the indescribable poverty and rejection in his childhood, Iulian shows us how he traversed that landscape of trauma and, from his own experience, teaches us how to realign ourselves with the powerful motivating forces of intent, desire and determination. Live Love Dream is a gem of a book full of practical and actionable tips, reflections and exercises designed to help you discover your life's purpose, passion and desire to dream big. Written with remarkable candour, it's free from hype and jargon, and is written with clarity and deep compassion using examples of the author's own struggles and triumphs. Through reading, you will learn how to adopt the right mindset, overcome distress, anxiety and inaction, gain victory over obstacles and appreciate life's journey.
Enjoy truly meaningful work and realize your dreams! Love Your Work Live Your Dream is a look at the profound impact of fulfillment in your vocation, living the greatest life you can envision for yourself, and the importance of "connecting the dots" between the two. This book can also serve as a virtual toolkit for your occupation to provide you with real meaning and not merely a source of income. The information within offers workable items to help you gain clarity regarding what makes up your life vision and to step into it more fully. Love Your Work Live Your Dream presents a pragmatic approach to ensuring that your work is a vehicle that provides the means for your dream to become reality. This book is, as the title suggests, A Guidebook. Here is the template to attain fulfillment in your vocation while realizing your life vision. It is much like the map and compass depicted on the cover, which supplies all the information needed for you to reach your destination. In both cases, however, you will decide where you want to go, you will chart the course that will provide you the most enjoyable journey, and you will do what it takes to arrive there. Wherever you may be on your path to vocational fulfillment and realizing your life vision, this book is for you. Love Your Work Live Your Dream is the complete guide for taking steps to create "inspired income" and celebrate life's journey at each "big waypoint." Clancy Clark, author of Selling By Serving, has been walking this path over four decades, enjoying abundance and living on purpose. Along the way, he has helped others visualize their best life, create the map to get there, and has inspired them to "advance confidently." In this book, Clancy supplies all the concepts and actions you need to genuinely love your work and live your dream. Here you will discover your own path to fulfillment and how to travel it successfully. Your best life awaits, so lean into it and be on your way!
Home decorating and furnishing inspiration from an Elle Décor A-List interior designer and tastemaker. In Dream Design Live, decorator Paloma Contreras goes beyond interior design to show readers how to inhabit their homes in fulfilling and beautiful ways. Divided into three sections, this hardworking book proves that the most appealing interiors are also the most personal ones. Contreras takes readers through the design process and encourages them to seek inspiration from the approach that works best for them. From thinking creatively to improve both your home and your life, to showing you how to turn your dreams into realities, the author reveals how you can take the welcoming space you’ve just created and spend meaningful time there pursuing the activities you love. “With stunning photography and accessible-yet-elegant tips, Dream Design Live fuses interior decorating advice with lifestyle recommendations and demonstrates how living a happy and satisfying life starts at home." ?Traditional Home "In Dream, Design, Live, Contreras . . . explores the design process through the lens of travel, inspiration, and personal style. As such, the tome is both an instructional lesson and a personal story, a great read for the design professional and enthusiast alike." ?Architectural Digest “The 240-page volume goes beyond helpful tips and pretty pictures to show readers how to find a design approach that works best for them.” ?Southern Home magazine
Turning fifteen now, Simon Dreamlee has been allowed to produce his musical production about forbidden teen aged love. Characters resemble Diana Magicdream, the Outsider from Newville with ties to Dreamville and himself, but, they don’t know that. Simon secretly keeps in contact with Diana and their communiqués could have him and his descendants banished from Dreamville forever. Simon quickly learns that his play is not being well received by a small majority of Dreamvillians who do not look like themselves. Simon and his friends are falling ill, still able to dream, but, just miserable when awake. They boycott Simon’s production unsuccessfully, however, this scares Simon into not wanting to share anymore dreams. When King Régimand DreamRoyal is waiting in the hover parkade for Simon and his parents, Simon knows that nothing is right in Dreamville. The dreamy King shows them the secret passages to and from the hover parkade to Dreamtrue School where Simon’s production goes on for Dreamvillians who are still supportive. Simon’s quickly asked to turn himself into the dream police and he learns that the current Dream Squad chief, Louisa DreamNot is the evil Miss DreamNot’s daughter.This knowledge ignites Simon’s ability to dream about the truth, although, this time the clues are more sparse and incoherent.
For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now she tells her own story for the first time in this “memoir as rich and complex as her mushroom ragú" (O, the Oprah Magazine). Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning the art of Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother. But when Istria was annexed by a communist regime, Lidia’s family fled to Trieste, where they spent two years in a refugee camp waiting for visas to enter the United States. When she finally arrived in New York, Lidia soon began working in restaurants, the first step on a path that led to her becoming one of the most revered chefs and businesswomen in the country. Heartwarming, deeply personal, and powerfully inspiring, My American Dream is the story of Lidia’s close-knit family and her dedication and endless passion for food.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it’s really like to be “the perfect couple” fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE When country music star Thomas Rhett won the ACM Award for Single of the Year with “Die a Happy Man,” his wife, Lauren Akins, was overjoyed. Her childhood best friend and now husband was being anointed the hottest new star in country music—for a song he had written about her. He was living his dream. Lauren was elated, but she was also wrestling with some big questions, not the least of which was, How can I live my own life of purpose? Lauren Akins never wanted to be in the spotlight, but as Thomas Rhett made his relationship with Lauren the subject of many of his hit songs, she was tossed into the role of one of America’s sweethearts. Revered by fans for her down-to-earth ease and charm, her commitment to humanitarian work, and the pure love she exudes for her family, Lauren has never shared her side of their story—full as it’s been with deep love, painful loss, tremendous joy, and a struggle to stay grounded in faith along the way—until now. In Live in Love, Lauren shares details about her childhood friendship with Thomas Rhett, explaining how they reconnected as young adults. She offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of being married to her best friend, who just happens to be a music star, and the struggle to find her own footing in the frenzy of her husband’s fame. And in heart-wrenching detail, she opens up about her life-changing experiences doing mission work in Haiti, and then in Uganda, where she met the precious baby who would become their first daughter. From sharing the romance of their handwritten wedding vows to the challenges they faced as they adjusted to the reality of becoming first-time parents, Live in Love takes an intimate look at one couple’s life—and opens a window into all of our journeys on the path to self-discovery. Live in Love is a deeply personal memoir that offers inspiring guidance for anyone looking to keep romance alive, balance children and marriage, express true faith, and live a life of purpose.
The Remarkables. These are the crème de la crème and there are lessons to learn from each 342 insightful and sometimes humorous and irreverent segments on life, business and the pursuit to be memorable. In notebook style, Gerry Justice captures remarkable people, places and things that will knock your socks off.
Now a New York Times Bestseller As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she agreed to date him. His grades weren't good enough to get into law school, so he sat on a bench outside the Dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll. Bob Goff has become something of a legend, and his friends consider him the world's best-kept secret. Those same friends have long insisted he write a book. What follows are paradigm shifts, musings, and stories from one of the world's most delightfully engaging and winsome people. What fuels his impact? Love. But it's not the kind of love that stops at thoughts and feelings. Bob's love takes action. Bob believes Love Does. When Love Does, life gets interesting. Each day turns into a hilarious, whimsical, meaningful chance that makes faith simple and real. Each chapter is a story that forms a book, a life. And this is one life you don't want to miss. Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob's life and attitude just might inspire you to be secretly incredible, too. Endorsements: "If this book does not make your heart beat faster, book the next flight to Mayo Clinic " --Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church, Chairman, Willow Creek Association "Bob Goff is a one-man tsunami of grace, a hurricane of love. He doesn't just talk about change, he really is change, as Love Does chronicles in such a vivid way. Yet, Love Does doesn't leave you feeling like you want to celebrate its author, it awakens a sense deep within that you, too, have an outrageous role to play in God's unfolding story or rescue and repair." --Louie Giglio, Passion Conferences/Passion City Church "An interesting and compelling story (with Young Life roots) that ends with a practical challenge and punch: 'love does' and God can use you to do it " --Denny Rydberg, President, Young Life "Every once in a while someone like Bob Goff shows up to remind us that some things matter a lot more than others. Love Does has a kind of 'north star' effect that will push you to refocus your life and energy on what is most significant. It doesn't just invite you to respond with your God-given potential, it invites you to become a part of what God can do beyond your potential." --Reggie Joiner, Founder and CEO of Orange "We liked the book a lot. Mostly, the balloons on the cover. The rest was pretty good too. Lots of stories about how God helps us." --Aedan, Asher and Skye Peterson ages 13, 12 and 9 "This may look like a book. It's not. It is an invitation to enter into the greatest adventure you have ever known--your life as it was meant to be lived. Hang on " --Michael Hyatt, Author, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World, MichaelHyatt.com "Bob's ability to love people brings contagious hope and inspiration wherever he goes. The power of love showcased in this book will surely touch the hearts and souls of many people. Read Love Does and find a friend in one the world's best hidden secrets, a person who shows how love can create connection and make a difference--even across oceans." --George Tsereteli, Deputy Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia (former Russian Republic)
Discover the power, joy, and love of living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite a world full of distractions. If technology is the new addiction, then multitasking is the new marching order. We check our email while cooking dinner, send a text while bathing the kids, and spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. With our never-ending to-do lists and jam-packed schedules, it's no wonder we're distracted. But this isn't the way it has to be. Special education teacher, New York Times bestselling author, and mother Rachel Macy Stafford says enough is enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most in life, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. Finding balance doesn't mean giving up all technology forever. And it doesn't mean forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. What it does mean is seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction. In these pages, Rachel guides you through how to: Acknowledge the cost of your distraction Make purposeful connection with your family Give your kids the gift of your undivided attention Silence your inner critic Let go of the guilt from past mistakes And move forward with compassion and gratefulness So join Rachel and go hands-free. Discover what happens when you choose to open your heart--and your hands--to the possibilities of each God-given moment.