Personal Growth

Money is an uncomfortable subject
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment
by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
Many people would rather talk about their sex lives than about their bank balance. We love money, and we hate it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. Money can be a source of great joy and creativity, or it can bring frustration

The Wisdom of Rilke
The Poet's Guide to Life
by Rainer Maria Rilke
There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one's efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most

The Good Eye
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life : A Search for the Soul of Kindness
by Marc Ian Barasch
Life offers up its own daily catechism, even if it's just seeing people in a little better light. Why not just resolve to give everyone the benefit of the doubt? 'If we treat people as they ought to be,' said Goethe, almost nailing it, we help them become

New Communication Approaches
Negotiate This! By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much
by Herb Cohen
Quite to the contrary, if you want to impact favorably on the other side's decision making, you've got to be other-directed, understanding their values, beliefs, experience, and mind-set. Businesspeople call this being customer- or client-focused.

Be a Life Enricher!
How to Be Like Rich Devos: Succeeding With Integrity in Business and Life
by Pat Williams
In today's business climate, rocked with scandals involving unscrupulous corporate leaders and unethical business practices, this book highlights a man of the highest character and honesty who has built a multibillion-dollar company with succumbing

One Woman's Search for Everything
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh, but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. To begin with, Giovanni is ten years younger than I am, and like most Italian guys in their twenties he still lives with his mother.

How Do I Get Off This Merry-Go-Round?
It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys : The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized
by Marilyn Paul, Ph.D.
Freeing up energy involves seven steps. These steps build on each other. For clarity's sake, I list them in order, and this order is a useful way to begin. Over time, you will find yourself working a few steps at a time, in your own way, in your own order

Materials Are Immaterial
Drawing from Within: Unleashing Your Creative Potential
by Nick Meglin, Diane Meglin
How can we connect with our own innovation? How can we locate - and unleash - the artist within? Armed with nothing more than a simple pencil, author Nick Meglin shows us that drawing is a powerful means of self expression.

Granting You Three Wishes
Practical Intuition
by Laura Day
Just Imagine, You Can Ask Anything ... I'd like you to imagine that you're about to be granted a special audience with an all-seeing individual. It's hard to believe, but this person can tell you anything you want to know about any person or event

What is AI?

In this exciting new introduction, which assumes no prior knowledge of this complex field, a leading cognitive scientist steers a careful course through the futuristic world of Artificial Intelligence, revealing its pervasive impact on our daily lives.

Introduction

Self-Powerment teaches us that through focusing on our present-day existences-what Mandell calls the 'Here-Now'-we make the greatest strides towards authenticity and create lasting change in all areas of our daily lives.

A Case of Mistaken Identity
No Less Than Greatness
by Mary Manin Morrissey
At first, I was reluctant to show Michael my engagement ring. This eleven-year-old kid with a snarl on his face where a smile should have been, my future husband's son, didn't care for me particularly.

Listening To The Voice Inside
The Exquisite Risk
by Mark Nepo
The next time, I was more drawn to listen than forced. It was a few years later on my father's sailboat, which was the oasis of my youth. It was a thirty-foot ketch that he'd built. Once out to sea, I remember being pulled forward by the water

There Must Be a Desk in Here Somewhere
It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys : The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized
by Marilyn Paul, Ph.D.
Overbooking? Running late? Feeling overwhelmed by clutter and to-dos? Management consultant Dr. Marilyn Paul guides you on a path to personal change that will bring true relief from the pain and stress of disorganization.

Introduction
100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What you Can Do About Them
by Laura Lee
FACT: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. The assertion above defies conventional wisdom, but it's true nonetheless. Grizzlies may have knives for teeth and claws like razors, but they're seldom found in the bedroom.

Communicating Some New Ideas

As a student of psychology, I found two major topics that aroused my interest: feelings and thoughts. I discuss these terms in this chapter. It is important that you be introduced to the way we use them in the Self-Powerment Model before moving on to the

The 79¢ Therapist
Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Reading, Writing, and Creating a Journal of Your Life
by Kathleen Adams, M.A., LPC
Listen to the secrets of your self. Open the door to self-understanding-by writing, reading, and crating a journal of your life. For generations people have kept diaries but only now are psychologists recognizing the extraordinary transformative powers

How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy
What a Difference a Year Makes: How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy
by Bob Guiney
Sometimes what feels like an end is actually a beginning. And that's when the real work starts. On a crisp winter evening in February, I came home from a weekend trip to Arizona hoping to find my wife. Instead I found a sticky note on the countertop.

The Future of Human Nature
Radical Evolution
by Joel Garreau
'Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.' -Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn. This book can't begin with the tale of the telekinetic monkey. That certainly comes as a surprise.

Uncover Your Yes
The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
by William L. Ury, Ph.D.
No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No - to people at work, at home, and in our communities - because No is the word we must use to protect