Sentences with phrase «by doing less book»

If you follow the exercises and suggestions in the Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less book by Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest you will automatically bring more good stuff into your life while avoiding more crap.

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If I didn't have to wait for the next book deal, I'd be less humbled by the first.

Unlike Lewis» novels, the book is not a Christian book, and so the story has less of a «moral» than the books by Lewis, but is still creative, imaginative, and well - told, but did leave me confused in many areas.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

If you prefer paperback books like I do, you can get in on Amazon as well for less than $ 15 (And if you want the paperback, you can get free shipping by joining Amazon Prime for free for 30 days!)

3 is a silent pick em so money line the game with a dog of 3 pts or less, 85 % of teams that cover 3 points as dogs win the game outright so why give the books any more than you have to, make sure you take dogs in first half ONLY, i cant stress this enough, more times than not if a dog will cover the game, (big dogs +7 or higher) they will show up early and you do not want to get screwed in the 2nd half by blowing the cover, these are things the sports books never would tell you but surely will save you a lot of aggravation in the LONG RUN

In our book, Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, my co-author Christine and I go into detail about chores for both younger and older kids — why they're so important (and why it's never too late to begin), which jobs to delegate, and how to get started.

We talk about decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection or expectations — expanding upon what we wrote about in our book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less (Routledge, 2013).

Her first book — Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less — will be published March 2013.

And third, Asha and I are leading a session called «Minimalize» Your Workflow: Practical Steps for Enjoying Your Blogging More By Doing Less and also doing a book signing for Minimalist Parenting at the conferDoing Less and also doing a book signing for Minimalist Parenting at the conferdoing a book signing for Minimalist Parenting at the conference.

To find the book on Amazon Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less or you can download it via Audible (7 hours, 23 minutes).

Christine and Asha became internet friends in 2006, finally met in real life as roomies at a conference in New York (it's not as weird as it sounds) in 2009, and co-authored the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less in 2013.

It all started with Boston Mamas - a lifestyle portal for families in Boston and beyond - and so many wonderful and unexpected things have happened as a result of my blog... including publishing my first book - Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less - this year!

According to Christine Koh, one of the authors of the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, «It's about identifying your unique values and paring down and prioritizing so you can find what works for your family.»

Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less is a just - published book by Asha Dornfest (of Parenthacks) and Christine Koh.

Check out her book: MINIMALIST PARENTING: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less

Presumably New Scientist is not the most important place to raise this concern as its existence is a major challenge to the dominant culture, but as readers you might consider doing your bit for a new culture by giving science books to your less scientific friends and relatives for Christmas.

However, I don't feel that his diet (also Carole Sinclair's book endorsed by him) is good for me metabolically, although I get less inflammation on it.

«Noting that by the end of the year, half of the Atkins group had dropped out, and those who remained ended up an unimpressive 4 % lighter, Fat of The Land author Michael Fumento commented, «do you really think any of them could sell a single book copy, much less as many as 15 million (for Atkins), by admitting to a 50 percent drop - out rate in one year with a mere five percent of weight loss among those left?»

By the time I'm done with Good Calories, Bad Calories, I now more or less know the book I should have written, which isn't necessarily Why We Get Fat.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

Instead, as directed by Indian - born TV journeyman Bharat Nalluri, the movie vaults into a psychological realm that plumbs the same subtext of Dickens's book itself: Do we notice those less fortunate?

The movies, far more than the books, do not take expository steps to place Panem on Earth, much less the North American continent, meaning that a division by region that would create that racial makeup is not a factor in audience's minds.

I've had other students, maybe not profiled in the book, who have expected me to require less of them, which I won't do, because I'm not required by law to modify curriculum.

In my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.

These less formal measures of student progress were described by a 2011 Education Week article as «things that don't normally end up in the grade book — they're little feedback loops signaling the amount of progress we're making toward the end goal.»

I do not believe that I would have finished this book if it had been written by a less skilled writer.

Even if you don't sell a book from the campaign, for $ 25 or less, you can get a good amount of information about who's interested in your book... which can help you with your overall marketing strategy by letting you get more focused on the people who really want what you're writing.

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(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

By the time I'm on the home stretch of a new book, I realize that what I really do when I write romance is less about love and sex and more about hope.

«Not only did getting my book formatted by Happy Self Publishing meant it looks excellent, but it was one less headache for me to deal with at the pointy end of the whole process.

If money is a challenge — at least get your book edited; have a professional cover designer create your cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space — at least you've get the visuals of a solid book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).

On the evening before his college graduation, Tristan Mackey walked into the campus library, probably with the notion of trying to steal or deface a book or two - he couldn't seem to remember exactly now, but probably to do something of the sort, something to make him feel more like himself and less like the other self, the one that seemed like a version of Tristan borrowed by other people in order to suit their own purposes.

From a strategic point of view, Irex joint venture with the book store Barnes and Noble gives its users quick access to 750k online book titles, which can be downloaded on to the device at an unbelievable less than a minute through the Verizon wireless 3G (broadband) network, the invoice for which is to be picked up by iRex in much the same way as Amazon do.

Amazon.com is far less stringent in their vetting of ebooks, but they inadvertently let fraudulent titles slip through simply because they do not wish to hinder authors through the upload process by making them wait for their content to be reviewed; Amazon encourages all of its customers to read the free sample chapter before purchasing an ebook in order to ensure it is an actual original book.

I'm certainly less inclined to just grab a new book at the higher prices, but I don't find it to that big a deal when there are still plenty of books for sale on special or at much lower prices by lesser known authors.

By the way, if you want to get your first — or next — Kindle book written and published in a week or less, I can show you multiple strategies for doing that!

This damage is done both directly by depressing the sales of the book (ie, reducing potential royalties), and indirectly by making the publisher less likely to buy future books from me as a result of the depressed sales.

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Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

Knowing it takes a lot less time and effort to complete your shorter book will also help push you to keep writing — even when you're distracted by other things you could be doing.

I don't believe that a new book by an author should ipso facto be less expensive electronically then it is in paper format.»

It should be noted that the first one - star review I ever gave to a book was to one whose author is not only more or less aligned with myself politically, but is a moderately - famous blogger, whose beliefs needed (and still do) far more representation than they have, and whose (free for the taking) contribution to the world's supply of useful non-fiction is prodigious, ongoing, and much appreciated by a large population of readers which includes myself.

The app faces a similar problem to traditional comic - book stores: Consumers who don't read comics on a regular basis — but who might be interested in a specific franchise property, like Doctor Who, or a comic written by an author they enjoy, like Anne Rice — are less likely to know about their availability, since they're no more likely to download the comics apps than they are to visit a comic - book store.

This has less to do the rise of ebooks than the volatility of book markets, which, according to Nielsen's director of book research, Hazel Kenyon, can be swayed by trends and the success of individual titles.

If Amazon decides to price their KU service at $ 3.99, as they've done in India, it means, as Amazon quietly informed authors in late October, those participating books by necessity will earn much much less for each read.

I have read that re-invested dividends lower your taxes by increasing your average cost of the security so that when you sell your security, the difference between the sales price minus the book value (which includes re-invested dividends), becomes less compared to if you didn't re-invest your dividends.

You can use your miles to also book travel with one of 13 other airline partners, though you will generally have less available dates to chose from by doing so - at that point it'd be better to just have a credit card earning you miles with those airlines you fly with.