Sentences with phrase «life as a book»

Having started his literary life as a book reviewer and blogger, he has contributed book reviews and articles to various websites including Following the Nerd and Headstuff.

It does not, and for 8 out of 10 authors who do secure a traditional publishing contract, their joy will be short - lived as their book, which may take up to two years to make it onto physical bookshelves (not including years in the query process), is relegated to the back lists to gather dust.

As much of what is to be found here on Safari began its life as a book, it behooves us to attend conferences about what the book is, now and into the future.

Oddly considering the fact that the Harry Potter series started life as a book meaning it's a story driven affair the game actually has barely any story to it, instead it simply ignores most of the storyline and gives only the occasional reference and cutscene leaving anyone who has not actually read the books or watched the films with a general feeling of «What the hell just happened?»

After several months of juggling how my new life as a book writer and my main life as a blogger will work together, I think I've found my rhythm.

Not exact matches

Before you dismiss it as likely spiritual mumbo jumbo, hear Neave out on the concrete impact the book has had on her life:

As the book's main character, a young Circle employee named Mae, sinks deeper into company life, she becomes less and less attuned to the real people around her.

'» It became known as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.

You know how hard it is to find time in your calendar for a single event, so make your life easier by creating a recurring engagement — such as a book club or weekly coffee date with a friend — that you'll soon see as a schedule staple.

Furthermore, the app contains several built in functions that make their customers lives much easier, such as management of bookings and online flight check - ins.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

Currently, the couple lives off of cash flow from investments — rental income, dividends, and interest — as well as advertising and book sales on their travel blog, which they spend just two hours a day maintaining.

When I became an author, my first shoestring book tour basically consisted of all the places I had lived on the West and East Coasts as well as the Midwest and South.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

What he has left behind — books and recorded speeches, audio and video lecture series and hundreds of can - do maxims as well as children committed to upholding the principles by which he lived his life — all but ensures that people will be following the «Ziglar Way» for a long time to come.

Sometimes, a book comes into your life at the perfect time, or perhaps you justify it as such.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Here are some takeaways from their new book, Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur.

The crux of the book is that in work (as well in life) we are motivated by autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

These are the some of the sales books that have changed my life, I hope they will change yours as well.

These books can provide you with invaluable information, inspiration and education for your life as well as your business.

As important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselAs important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselas the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselas Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourself.

In my recent best - selling book, BEMORE: 77 Secrets To Your Powerful Life, I share insights on how to find what you are called to and also the battle that awaits you, as you seek to BE what you were designed to be.

The book, which is a quick read, follows the trials and tribulations of a fictional website designer named Steve who's struggling to make a healthy living as a freelancer.

All used stories grounded in daily life rather than just stating principles (or making lists of them, as most business books and articles do today).

In his book «Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love and Leadership,» Macquarie University professor John Dickson defines the trait as «the noble choice to forgo your status, deploy your resources or use your influence for the good of others before yourself.»

But to us, it's a medium that has always been part of our lives, so video games are as much «kids stuff» as television, movies or books.

He has access to three cells — one for living, one for studying and a third for physical exercise — as well as a television, a computer without Internet access, a games console, books and newspapers, and puzzles.

Since stepping down as director of marketing for Facebook in 2011 she has founded her own media company, written a couple of books, produced a much - hyped but short - lived reality show, and spoken at several business and tech conferences.

In his book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes keystone habits as, «small changes or habits that people introduce into their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives.»

Maybe more important, you can't read the book without being grateful to those who laid the foundation for us to live as we do and remember that the stress we feel is minor compared to what others face.»

As Buffett has shared in a video clip, the book changed not only his investment philosophy but also the course of his life.

Robbins's otherworldly persuasive powers and brash brand of popular insight have grown into Robbins Research International, a life - coaching empire that includes a massive book business (15 million volumes sold globally), an audio business (50 million programs sold), a life - coach certification business, and seminars for which attendees pay as much as $ 8,000 to be in the same room with the man himself.

Microsoft's latest Surface Book became available to pre-order on Nov. 9, and some reviewers who've already taken it for a test run hail it as a «top - of - the - line powerhouse,» with a 13.5 - inch or 15 - inch display, dual - core and available quad - core processors, exceptional battery life of up to 17 hours, and NVIDIA graphics performance, all on the Windows 10 Pro operating system.

In her book, The Happiness Track, Emma says, «Happiness — defined as a state of heightened positive emotion — has a profound positive effect on our professional and personal lives.

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

That's why the company acted as publisher for Brazier's first book, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Losing Weight, Reducing Stress, and Staying Healthy for Life, and gave it the marketing push to help turn it into a bestseller.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

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But this book isn't so much about success in achieving big goals as it is about living a principled and balanced life.

They have written a book, Cartel Wives, telling their story as a lesson to others not to fall for the narco life, and they regret what they put their families through.

Named by The Globe and Mail as one of 2014's best business books, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative offers the practical framework and insights busy professionals need to lead and live at their best.

But now — as Ray nears retirement, he has made the decision to share even more of the systems and strategies that have brought him such massive success in his deeply personal book Principles: Life & Work.

Emily: As I've gone through various stages in my own life, my books have evolved along with me.

As Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction best - selling book explains, gratitude and acknowledgment are essential components in creating and attracting what you want in your life.

As this excellent and informative book details, even the idea of live television from the Moon was a matter of heated debate, and there were moments when it might've gone the other way.