Advice is a funny thing. People give it because they most likely have lived through it and want to share their knowledge, but often times it is ignored. One lovely reader of mine gave me advice, and I took it. I took it and this weekend I proved the advice was worth a million thank yous! As most of you know I was in Tahoe this weekend participating in the Tough Mudder event that is 10 miles and twenty obstacles. The one thing I had been dreading the most was the hills. I am a horrible hiker and the hills usually kill me. In the past I have tried jogging about 3 times a week to build up my endurance a bit, but I hated it and it never really seemed to work. The hills were still horrible, and I was miserable. Not this year though. I was advised to try bike riding to build up the muscles needed. So I used a stationary bike a few times a week for a few months and….. IT WORK!!! You should have seen the smile on my face when the hills I dreaded so much were not the torturous experience they had been in the past. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Advice taken, used, and SUCCESS!!!
The Deadly Legal Affair (Cozy Mystery) (Daisy McDare Cozy Creek Mystery Book 2)
K.M. Morgan
Genre: Mystery | Romance
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Welcome to Cozy Creek, a quaint tourist town nestled along the Pacific Coast. Daisy McDare is busy nursing a broken heart, trying to build up her interior decorator business, and baking cookies when murder strikes Cozy Creek. At first she leaves the investigation to Chris Crumple, the local bumbling police detective. But when Crumple arrests the wrong suspect, Daisy takes the investigation into her own hands. Cracking the case won’t be easy. She’ll need help from her pastry-baking best friend Samantha, her wise-cracking Granny Annie, and her trusty West Highland Terrier Shamus. It’s up to Daisy McDare to find the murderer in Cozy Creek before they strike again.
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Natural Confidence Training: How to Develop Healthy Self-Esteem and Deep Self-Confidence to Be Successful and Become True Friends with Yourself
Ian Tuhovsky
Genre: Self-Help | Health, Fitness & Dieting
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Lack of self-confidence and problems with unhealthy self-esteem are usually the reason why smart, competent and talented people never achieve a satisfying life, a life that should easily be possible for them.
Think about your childhood. At the age of four or five, there weren’t too many things that you considered impossible, right? You weren’t bothered or held back by any kind of criticism; you stayed indifferent to what other people thought of you. An ugly stain on your sweater, or even worse, on your leggings, was not considered a problem or an obstacle. You could run on a crowded beach absolutely nude, laughing, go swimming in a city fountain and then play in the sandbox with strawberry ice cream smeared in your hair. Nothing and no one could stop you from saying what you wanted to say, even the silliest things. There was no shame in your early childhood; you loved yourself and everyone else. Can you remember it? What happened to us? Parents, teachers, preachers and media stuffed certain beliefs into your head, day after day for many years. These beliefs and attitudes robbed you of your natural, inborn confidence. Maybe it was one traumatic experience of some kind that changed you, or maybe it was a slow process that lasted for years. One thing is certain — lacking confidence is not your natural, default state. It brings you down and now you have to unlearn it. Can you name even a single situation in life where high confidence isn’t useful? … Right?
Confidence is not useful only in everyday life and casual situations. Do you really want to fulfill your dreams, or do you just want to keep chatting about them with your friends, until one day you wake up as a grumpy, old, frustrated person? Big achievements require brave and fearless actions. If you want to act bravely, you need to be confident. Along with lots of useful, practical exercises, this book will provide you with plenty of new information that will help you understand what confidence problems really come down to. And this is the most important and the saddest part, because most people do not truly recognize the root problem, and that’s why they get poor results. In this book you will read about: -How, when and why society robs us all of natural confidence and healthy self-esteem. -What kind of social and psychological traps you need to avoid to feel much calmer, happier and more confident. -What “natural confidence” means and how it becomes natural. -What “self-confidence” really is and what it definitely isn’t (as opposed to what most people think!). -How your mind hurts you when it really just wants to help you, and how to stop the process. -What different kinds of fear we feel, where they come from and how to defeat them. -How to have a great relationship with yourself. -What beliefs and habits you should have and cultivate to succeed. -How to use stress to boost your inner strength. -Effective and ineffective ways of building healthy self-esteem. -How mindfulness and meditation help boost, cultivate and maintain your natural confidence. -Why the relation between self-acceptance and stress is so crucial. -How to stay confident in professional situations. -How to protect your self-esteem when life brings you down and how to deal with criticism and jealousy. -How to use neuro-linguistic programming, imagination, visualizations, diary entries and your five senses to re-program your subconscious and get rid of “mental viruses” and detrimental beliefs that actively destroy your natural confidence and healthy self-esteem. In the last part of the book you will find 15 of the most effective, proven and field-tested strategies and exercises that help people transform their lives. Take the right action and start changing your life for the better today!
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House of Blades (The Traveler’s Gate Trilogy Book 1)
Will Wight
Genre: Fantasy
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Simon can only watch, helpless, as his family is killed and his friends captured by enemy Travelers — men and women who can summon mystical powers from otherworldly Territories. To top it off, another young man from Simon’s village discovers that he’s a savior prophesied to destroy evil and save the realm. Prophecy has nothing to say about Simon. He has no special powers, no magical weapons, and no guarantee that he’ll survive. But he sets off anyway, alone, to gain the power he needs to oppose the Travelers and topple their ruthless Overlord. It may not be his destiny, but Simon’s determined to rescue his fellow villagers from certain death. Because who cares about prophecy, really?
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Lost Cain
T. Daniel Wright
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction
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Cain McAllister is named after the tiny delta town on the banks of the Mississippi where he was born. The infamous circumstances of his birth forever change the strong, troubled women who love him. Though he is shunned and bullied by the other children in town, when a new preacher and his family arrive, Cain finds what he has always longed for–a best friend. Things take a deadly turn when a troubled young girl named Macy befriends them both and the town ignites into spiritual revival. Distinctly Southern Lost Cain is the kind of story that will make you laugh, then cry, then laugh again–a hilarious, tender look at a fading town struggling against both the encroaching waters of the Mississippi and the coming cultural change of the 1970’s.
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The Price of Retribution
Christopher Cartwright
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction
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After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master – England’s most powerful magistrate of the eighteenth century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent Secret Societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him. There are few places in the western world that would harbor such a fugitive, and he finds himself headed for the one place that no one would bother to look: Great Britain’s newest penal colony – New South Wales. But surviving in the new harsh land is going to be hard for a thief whose only real skill is looking out for his own greedy desires. Particularly when he meets recently widowed convict Anna Harper, and finds that their lives and destinies are unwittingly entwined.
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