How to Be Successful in Spite of Yourself

How to Be Successful in Spite of Yourself
Author: Ann Kaplan
Publisher: Page Two
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1989025404

In this life-changing and entertaining book, Ann Kaplan offers thirteen witty, wry and inspiring chapters full of personal stories, no-nonsense advice and self-empowerment exercises that will help any reader understand how to get out of their own way. If you want to find a new life and if you want to be successful, Ann Kaplan has the answer. Straightforward, hilarious and unapologetic she provides the tools and advice that will help you move those self-imposed roadblocks, find wealth (greater than you ever imagined) and, yes, how to step on a path toward a life of true success.

Succeeding in Spite of Everything

Succeeding in Spite of Everything
Author: A. J. Harper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Businesswomen
ISBN: 9780981970899

"Succeeding in spite of everything is the go-to book for anyone with a dream that will not die, and the passion to achieve it! These rich insights, lessons learned and savvy moves shared here will inspire you and shake up old paradigms of success. Life is full of ups and downs. The entrepreneurs in this book openly share the challenges they have faced and how they used them as springboards to success. Without a doubt, their stories will help you create a happy, successful life, no matter what you are up against. Succeeding in spire of everything celebrates the brilliance and fortitude of a dynamic and diverse group of entrepreneurs including best selling authors Lisa Nicols, Marcia Wieder, Lisa Sasevich and 35 more inspiring authors"--Back cover.

Spite

Spite
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1541646983

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving. Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people? As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we're looking at it wrong. Spite isn't just what we feel when a car cuts us off or when a partner cheats. It's what we feel when we want to punish a bad act simply because it was bad. Spite is our fairness instinct, an innate resistance to exploitation, and it is one of the building blocks of human civilization. As McCarthy-Jones explains, some of history's most important developments—the rise of religions, governments, and even moral codes—were actually redirections of spiteful impulses. A provocative, engaging read, Spite shows that if you really want to understand what makes us human, you can't just look at noble ideas like altruism and cooperation. You need to understand our darker impulses as well.

Rudy & Friends

Rudy & Friends
Author: Rena Tarbet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9781880692325

Most Unlikely to Succeed - The Trials, Travels, and Ultimate Triumphs of a "Throwaway" Kid

Most Unlikely to Succeed - The Trials, Travels, and Ultimate Triumphs of a
Author: Nelson Lauver
Publisher: Nelson Lauver
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0983040303

Life in idyllic 1960s McAlisterville, Pennsylvania seems so promising to young Nelson Lauver. But undiagnosed dyslexia soon turns hope and optimism into struggle and shame as he falls far behind in school and is branded lazy. Confused, angry, and determined not to be the dumb kid, he chooses instead to become the bad kid- ending up a loner at odds with the world and with himself. Nelson resigns himself to being hopelessly different and joins the ranks of millions of Americans who try to hide their inability to read and write. At age 29, a chance encounter leads to a diagnosis of dyslexia and a profound rebirth. Ironically, the boy who was afraid to have anyone hear him try to read launches a new career as a writer, broadcaster and speaker. An estimated 10 to 20 percent of Americans suffer from a learning disability. 14 percent of American adults are considered functionally illiterate. More than personalizing these sobering statistics, this uplifting memoir goes beyond one man's account of rising above a learning disability. Most Unlikely to Succeed is an inspirational story that will speak eloquently and profoundly to anyone who has ever struggled to be heard, to be understood, or to make his or her way in the world.

How to Sell Yourself

How to Sell Yourself
Author: Arch Lustberg
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1564149986

A practical handbook explains in clear, simple, easy-to-understand terms how to use one's mind, face, body, and voice to get a message across in any public speaking situation. Original.

Succeed

Succeed
Author: Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0452297710

Do you ever wonder how some people make success look so simple? In Succeed, award-winning social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers counterintuitive insights, illuminating stories, and science-based information that can help anyone: • Set a goal to pursue even in the face of adversity • Build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle • Avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail Whether you want to motivate your kids, your employees, or just yourself, Succeed unlocks the secrets of achievement, and shows you how to create new possibilities in every area of your life.

Turning To Into For

Turning To Into For
Author: Calvin Sims
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1645151549

There has never been a motivational book like Turning To into For. Based on the author's philosophy that the most important of life's lessons are preceded by a test, the book is composed of two parts: the test and the lesson. The test: the autobiographical first part is the riveting story of a boy who was abandoned as a toddler and left to grow up in an abusive foster home where he was abused, molested, and encouraged to steal until at age nine, when he was given a gun and taken under the wings of the neighborhood gang leader. The lesson: the second part will empower the reader as the author shares the life's lessons, born of unimaginable pain and suffering, which enabled him to, with only a ninth grade education, become an international computer consultant. Inspired to teach the principles that enabled him to escape becoming a tragic statistic, he abandoned a very lucrative career, founded a nonprofit organization, and became an internationally renowned educator, recognized, among other honors, by the George W. Bush White House for his work with at-risk and underprivileged populations. The power of these lessons was called on once again when in 2014 cancer struck. Through treatment and faith, the cancer was eradicated, but the author was left paralyzed from the waist down. The amazing result of what could have ended in tragedy was the reemergence of one of America's most dynamic motivational speakers. Turning To Into For will inspire you, empower you, and teach you the principles of what the author has demonstrated, by way of his remarkable life, that which will help you to overcome the obstacles that cause so many of us to fail. The concepts and strategies in this work will strengthen you and help you to develop a powerful, relentless mental attitude that refuses to accept defeat. "I never lose. I either win or learn, but I never ever lose."

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Author: Valerie Young
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307452719

Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel—and act—as bright and capable as others already know you are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young. It’s only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don’t deserve this. It’s just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must have made a terrible mistake. If you are a working woman, chances are this inter­nal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you’re not alone. From the high-achieving Ph.D. candidate convinced she’s only been admitted to the program because of a clerical error to the senior executive who worries others will find out she’s in way over her head, a shocking number of accomplished women in all ca­reer paths and at every level feel as though they are faking it—impostors in their own lives and careers. While the impostor syndrome is not unique to women, women are more apt to agonize over tiny mistakes, see even constructive criticism as evi­dence of their shortcomings, and chalk up their accomplishments to luck rather than skill. They often unconsciously overcompensate with crippling perfec­tionism, overpreparation, maintaining a lower pro­file, withholding their talents and opinions, or never finishing important projects. When they do succeed, they think, Phew, I fooled ’em again. An internationally known speaker, Valerie Young has devoted her career to understanding women’s most deeply held beliefs about themselves and their success. In her decades of in-the-trenches research, she has uncovered the often surprising reasons why so many accomplished women experience this crushing self-doubt. In The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women, Young gives these women the solution they have been seek­ing. Combining insightful analysis with effective ad­vice and anecdotes, she explains what the impostor syndrome is, why fraud fears are more common in women, and how you can recognize the way it mani­fests in your life.

SUCCEED

SUCCEED
Author: AGENDRA RANA
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Success is an excellent acquired quality of a person to sustain a strong spirit which can willfully overpower the dictums of mind. Even if a person possesses good physical strength, treasures of wealth and other resources, recognition among prominent personalities, but lack of self confidence, fails to provide the desired success. Every person, belonging to any age, religion or caste has an earnest desire to seek the achievements of the topmost level to command respect in the society. Perfection in any task is difficult but it requires prolonged efforts. Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself, overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. Success hugs you in private but failure slaps you in public. Better learn and determine to succeed in life.