Release Your Brilliance - By Simon T. Bailey
Excerpt and About the Author

You hold in your hands a book that can transform your life. How do I know? Because the concepts and ideas presented here altered my life forever. Release Your Brilliance is a complete transformational system. Just as a master cutter reshapes a rough stone, changing it into a brilliant diamond, you can use this system to reshape your life, open the vault deep inside you, and showcase your diamond-like brilliance to the world.

Desperately Seeking Purpose - By Maxine Jones
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I was sitting with a group of my colleagues and peers, and the conversation moved from light to philosophical. It was the standard appraisal of the world, human advancement and possibilities – the ongoing hopeful and grand debate of the planet, humanity, our environment and technology and, of course, the staying power and value of politics, religion and economics. We weighed the potentials and talked about how to solve all of the world’s problems.

Legacy of Letters - By Patsy Gilbert Coleman
Excerpt and About the Author

Sometime in your life you will go on a journey.
It will be the longest journey you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself.
– Katherine Sharp

January 1, 1986
Orlando, Florida

Dear Diary,

What Entrepreneurs Need to Know - By William A. Grimm
Excerpt and About the Author

In speeches and presentations I’ve given to groups of entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs and advisors to entrepreneurial companies, one of my favorite topics has been mistakes made by development-stage companies. I usually list more than 50 mistakes, each of which can cause serious problems. Whenever I give this talk, members of the audiences shake their heads and laugh as I go through each mistake. Inevitably, several people approach me later to say they’ve either experienced these mistakes or have observed companies that committed them.

Bound for the Boardroom - By Barbara B. Bergstrom
Excerpt and About the Author

After graduating from a school of higher education, some fortunate young people are hired immediately for well-salaried executive positions. If these newly employed, technically trained graduates are required to host business events, they feel totally lost. Most were not even taught the ultimate greeting: the business handshake.

The Crime Watchers - By Betty Ann Good
Excerpt and About the Author

I was in my early 40s, living in Miami, when my best friend’s 12-year-old daughter and her close friend were sexually assaulted while trick-or-treating one Halloween night. It happened behind a bush a few houses from my friend’s home, only a short distance from my own. The shock of this event turned to heartbreak, then to sadness, and then, finally, to anger. It should never have happened. I became determined to keep it from happening again.

Meet Your Soul - By Maxine Jones
Excerpt and About the Author

People increasingly tell me there’s something critical missing from their lives. They ask for my help in finding it. They name a variety of symptoms: no time, no energy, achievement without fulfillment, no purpose or meaningful direction, no personal clarity, no satisfaction, a feeling of being disconnected from society and the community. They say life is about making it through the day. They’re caught in the hurry syndrome. They feel out of control with no way out.

When Your Lover Dies - By Robert Brigham
Excerpt and About the Author

This is a book about lovers, and their separation by death. To a large extent it’s a personal story, but I hope the words have meaning beyond myself. What I’m talking about here is love – true everlasting love. It doesn’t matter if the lovers are married or cohabiting, straight or gay, young or old. Love is love. As my wife said, “Love is too rare and too beautiful not to seize it wherever you find it.” So I dedicate these pages to all who have found – and perhaps already lost – their mate.

The Obvious Expert - By Elson Eldridge Jr. and Mark L. Eldridge
Excerpt and About the Authors

In 2001, we began a search to identify one hundred of the top minds in consulting – and all of its related fields. We wanted to compile for our readers a guidebook on consulting built upon our knowledge and expanded by the hints, observations and wisdom of the obvious experts who are out there today defining the consulting profession through their successes and accomplishments.

Have The Attitude - By Carol Quinn
Excerpt and About the Author

I wasn’t even supposed to be there – it was just a total fluke. But there I was, getting out of my car at the mall shortly before noon on a weekday. I happened to look up into the sky, and at that very moment I witnessed the mid-air collision of two private airplanes. Four people died in that accident a few years ago. I had trouble stopping myself from thinking about what I had seen.

Literature of Life - By Patsy Gilbert Coleman
Excerpt and About the Author

March 7, 1977
From Orlando, Florida
To Woodbury, Connecticut

Dear Auntie Bussie,

I have had a recurring strong urge to write to you, composing many letters in my head, but tonight I'm going to sit down and let this one flow onto paper. My schedule is so exhausting now that I usually have little energy left to write.

Spa Secrets of Success - By Shannon Smith
Excerpt and About the Author

Location, location, location! We’ve heard this a million times in business. It’s true. In the spa industry, we’ve gotten away from the “Build it and they will come” mentality. Your location is key to the success of your spa.

Benefits of a great location will lead to financial success and a high return on your investment.

Legacy of Love - By Patsy Gilbert Coleman
Excerpt and About the Author

January 7, 1988
From Mobile, Alabama
To Woodbury, Connecticut

Dearest Auntie Bussie,

We sent Daddy on his heavenly adventure yesterday with a simple, beautiful, incredibly moving service that celebrated every facet of his life through different loved ones’ tributes and remembrances.