Personal Growth

Love Lifted Me
Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley
The fundamental theme of Black life and history is freedom, a freedom that is rooted in a deep courage to love. The power of Black love not only sustains our struggle for freedom; it is the prerequisite of our sanity and dignity.

What Black Love Is . . .
Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley
The concept of Black love is how this book came to be. Yes, so many of the stories are about overcoming and succeeding against the odds. But the real and true theme underlying the book is Black love.

The First Maxim: Say Yes
Improv Wisdom : Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
by Patricia Ryan Madson
It is undoubtedly an exaggeration to suggest that we can say yes to everything that comes up, but we can all say yes to more than we normally do. Once you become aware that you can, you will see how often we use the technique of blocking in personal

Preface
If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.
Life has often been compared to a game. We are never told the rules, unfortunately, nor given any instructions about how to play. We simply begin at 'Go' and make our way around the board, hoping we play it right.

How to Discover What You Really Want
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
by Barbara Sher
This book is designed to help you find the good life. By that, I don't mean swimming pools, mansions, and private jets - unless those are really your big passions. But if you picked up a book called I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

The Process: Therapy, Education, and Ritual
The Hoffman Process
by Tim Laurence
As a method of change, the techniques you are going to be using work in a variety of ways. They provide a bridge that few others have ever been able to build or even imagined building. It's a bridge that connects the therapeutic benefits of self-inquiry

Fed Up With Trying To Change?
The Hoffman Process
by Tim Laurence
Have you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? You've read the books, taken various courses, and bought the T-shirt, made firm resolutions and even told all your friends about

The Quest
Guiding Lights
by Eric Liu
She saw right through me. Right through my careful presentation of self, my reportorial pose, into the inner chambers. We'd known each other for fifteen minutes. I was there to interview her. Had my leather-bound notebook, my questions all lined up.

The Front Nine
Golf and the Spirit
by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Once there was a man of limited imagination who considered the progress of life to be straightforward. To the proverbial man from Mars, golf would seem the most linear of all human activities.

Lessons on Football, Work, and Life
Faith in the Game: Lessons on Football, Work, and Life
by Tom Osborne
In July 1997, I informed Frank Solich, my assistant head coach, that I anticipated the 1997 season would be my last. I had made some personal and professional commitments contingent upon stepping aside as head football coach for the University of Nebraska

Why We Need Advocates
Doing What's Right
by Tavis Smiley
To let the politicians and the social indicators tell it, these are absolutely the best of times in the United States, the most prosperous society in the world. The economy is booming. Jobs abound. Crime is down.

Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines
Corps Values
by Zell Miller
Drunk. Dirty, disheveled and dejected, I sat crosslegged on the floor of the Gilmer County Jail in the Appalachian town of Ellijay, Georgia. It was a hot Saturday night in August of 1953.

Character
Character Is Destiny
by Russell W. Gough, Ph.D.
T.S. Eliot once observed that some of his contemporaries were in the habit of 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.' The dream of finding a substitute for character is still, of course, very much alive.

Do Not Rip the Ticket or Otherwise Mutilate It
As Luck Would Have It
by Joshua Piven
Steve Roberts is having trouble reading the numbers. It's dark outside, and he's driving, so try as he might, he can barely make them out. It's late, and he's tired, and the woman on the radio is announcing the winning numbers over and over

Deep Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
As I write this I am sixty-five years old. Not so old, really, but I have been around awhile. Kindergarten is a long way back there. What do I know now? The Kindergarten Credo is not kid stuff. It is not simple. It is elemental.

Credo
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
To begin with, did I really learn everything I need to know in kindergarten? Do I still believe that? Here is the original essay, followed by my editorial reaction. Each spring, for many years, I have set myself the task of writing a personal statement

Dogs
A Matter of Dignity
by Andrew Potok
On a sunny day in early spring, Loie and I climb into one of the Seeing Eye's vans for the ten-minute drive from the elegant spread of the guide dog school to the center of Morristown. The Seeing Eye's main residence, its offices and kennels, are situated

Destiny vs. Self-Created Meaning
What Should I Do with My Life?
by Po Bronson
Wouldn't it be so much easier if you got a letter in the mail when you were seventeen, signed by someone who had a direct pipeline to Ultimate Meaning, telling you exactly who you are and what your true destiny is?

The Pleasure of All Five Senses
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
by Roger Housden
We can see farther today than any of our forefathers could dream of seeing. We can see farther than the keenest cheetah or lynx. We can look over the horizon, around the world, up into space, down into our intestines digesting dinner.

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