Real Work

For a time, Nelson Algren was America's most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. Millions bought his books. Algren's third novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, won the first National Book Award, and Frank Sinatra starred in the movie. But despite Algren's talent, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. The cause of his decline was never clear. Some said he drank his talent away; others cited writer's block. The truth, hidden in the pages of his books, is far more complicated and tragic.

Running a successful real estate brokerage firm is a juggling act. You need expertise in your practice area to provide services to clients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education or experience for the technical ins and outs of operating a real estate brokerage. Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Real Estate Brokerage fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a real estate company from scratch or maximizing an existing company's performance.

By summer 2008, James Tripp had been working professionally with hypnosis for 6 years. Whilst he had used what he had learned to great effect with his clients (from manual therapy to coaching and changework), it had become increasingly clear that something was amiss with the traditional trance model—instead of his clients responding to suggestion as a result of entering 'trance', they were apparently entering 'trance' as a result of being given suggestions. The cart seemed very much before the horse.

Are you an entrepreneur or investor seeking a fresh landscape for opportunity, far from the constraints of traditional economic models? Look no further. “Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities” is a gateway to understanding how autonomy and innovation can spawn not just a city but a thriving economic ecosystem. This is a blueprint for those who dare to envision and build their havens of freedom and prosperity. In this accessible and action-driven guide, you’ll explore: The Morazán Model in action: a tangible prototype for free cities that are already taking shape ...

Do you feel stuck in a dead-end career? Would you rather work part-time, cash in $25,000 checks regularly, and make $100,000 in just your first year? There’s more to life than what you are doing now. You have the ability to become self-sufficient and make serious money. The only thing holding you back is yourself. Expert real estate investor Scott Jelinek understands how to achieve entrepreneurial success, and in Work Just Gets in the Way of Making Money, he shares strategies you can use to find, negotiate, and sell real estate.

Don’t trade your 40-hour workweek for an 80-hour-a-week side hustle. The promise of entrepreneurship is to create a lifestyle of freedom—but the pursuit often leads to a time-bankrupt life. If you’re an overworked employee who’s done with the 9-to-5, a serial entrepreneur who has yet to realize the American dream, or a burned-out side hustle owner who’s tired of the grind, this book was written for you.

The rules of money have changed. This is your playbook for making it in 2025. Forget outdated advice. The economy moves faster than ever, and you're either adapting—or falling behind. In Make Money in 2025, Penn Brunson delivers 78,000 words of no-fluff, real-world strategies to help you build income, boost your skills, and create new opportunities whether you're online, offline, or somewhere in between. Inside, you'll discover: 📘 15 clear, digestible chapters covering side hustles, AI tools, freelancing, passive income, and more 🎯 Exact platforms to use (KDP, Etsy, YouTube, ...

What is the smart money doing that you aren't? Follow the money... When you look up "Passive Income" on Google, you quickly learn one thing: At least 50 percent of people believe it is a hoax. This book explains why it isn't and what you can do to change it. The real stuff lies under the surface: the greatest knowledge money can buy. Everything they don't teach you in school or the mainstream media is available in Passive Income Ideas. I'll tell you what I wish someone had taught me about money and real wealth 20 years ago. You will discover the Passive Income Strategies that regular people...

Tired of applying to jobs and having the black hole suck away yet another one of your resumes? Guess what? Your resume and process are broken! However, it’s not your fault. You have received bad advice from well-meaning people. Professors, military transition advisors, teachers, and others who have never really hired anyone, ever. If you haven’t hired someone, you don’t know how a hiring manager thinks. In this book, I'll teach you step-by-step how to make a winning resume that will make recruiters and hiring managers eager to pickup the phone and call you.

This book is an organized presentation of the psychological Work of the Fourth Way System, derived from Maurice Nicoll’s “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. The “Commentaries” are five volumes of Nicoll’s teaching to his students on a wide range of Fourth Way topics. However, they are arranged by date and don’t follow any structured approach to this priceless esoteric system of instructions for the student seeking the means for self-change. Although there are other aspects of the Teaching, this book is focused on the verifiable ideas and ...

Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

Financial success and freedom are only a 20-hour work week away! Plenty of real estate agents dream about becoming millionaires, or even billionaires, but have you ever dreamed of becoming a half millionaire? Most probably haven’t, choosing instead to set their sights on larger fiscal fantasies while the entirely achievable half million-dollar salary working only part-time is within reach.

Are your sales calls falling flat? Do you struggle with objections, awkward silences, or prospects who ghost you after the call? It’s time to Unfck Your Closer Calls*. This straight-talking, results-driven guide will teach you how to transform your sales conversations from frustrating to flawless. Packed with practical strategies, no-BS advice, and proven techniques, this book shows you how to: Master the structure of a high-performing sales call. Build genuine connections without fake rapport. Handle objections like a pro without being pushy. Align your energy, language, and goals to ...

Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed. Helgeson and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies - although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears.

In his extraordinary new audiobook, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and best-selling author, offers women a set of effective tools with which they can create the truly intimate relationships they desire and deserve. He guides you through the process of relationship repair with exercises that you can do alone or with your partner.

Shadow Life is an exploration of the human shadow and the hidden side of our personalities. It looks at the masks we wear, where these masks come from, and how we can take them off. The book explores how we can better manage our relationships with shame, guilt, and trauma in order to remove the Mask that the world has asked us to wear (and that we forgot we were wearing) so we can live an authentic life with less drama, chaos, or BS whilst we're still around. This is a book for anybody who is waking up to the truth about themselves, the world, and reality and wants to understand the ...

Did you know that movies and books like The Secret haven’t revealed the REAL secret behind getting what you want in life? It takes much more than simply visualizing, creating vision boards, or praying to get what you want in life. Yes, there IS a secret...and it’s about to be revealed to you inside this book! What’s incredible is that this secret is fairly simple and easy to implement. With just 15 minutes a day of your time, you can heal yourself, access amazing ideas that you would have never thought of before, and essentially COMMAND that the universe deliver to you exactly what ...

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. But Justin soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected.

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress with diversity, equity and inclusion, we must focus less on documenting the problem and more on just stopping the transmission of it.

Money is nothing but paper and metal, numbers in a computer. It represents goods and services. Believing it is real is the same as saying that you believe in magic. Making money is no different than playing a strategy board game.