Self Study

Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. In Best Self, Life coach Mike Bayer reveals the practical steps you can take today to connect to your true self and transform your whole life. Using his Best Self Model, Bayer describes in detail how he has managed to help people from all walks of life to overcome their limitations and achieve their goals. He uses real-life experiences to show us that anybody can change their life if only they choose to align with their Best Self.

Why do so many Black Americans—whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young or old—live in a state of chronic anxiety, fear, and shame? Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem breaks through collective denial and dares to imagine a more liberatory framework for understanding “self and identity in a world where loss is commonplace.” With visionary insight, hooks exposes the underlying reality that it has been difficult—if not impossible—for our nation to create a culture that promotes and sustains healthy self-esteem.

Being a true modern gentleman and a genuine class act is increasingly rare. It is also more important now than ever before. What worked for the rat pack and the brat pack won’t work for you, and truth be told, it won’t work for anyone because that is old school. Manliness in the modern era is worth learning about, and the dividends will pay off for a lifetime. Not only will you bring joy to all those around you, you’ll be happier, too. Once you master this, you’ll live the good life.

If you struggle with low self-esteem and seek to find positive and effective ways to build a healthy sense of self-worth, this book is for you. It’s the interpretation of our circumstances that determines the way we see ourselves. If your feeling of self-worth is solely based on being acknowledged and accepted by others, your self-esteem will always depend on external factors.

Could One Small Detail in Scripture Transform Your Faith? Do you ever feel like your faith has become routine, that you're simply going through the motions? Do you yearn for a vibrant connection with Jesus, but struggle to discern His purpose for your life? "The Chosen Person" invites you on a transformative journey to encounter Jesus in a fresh, powerful way. Through intentional study and Get Wisdom's signature approach to bridging biblical wisdom with everyday application, you'll unlock a deeper understanding of Christ's love and His call on your life. Prepare to step beyond spiritual ...

Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time?

God Made Man - Discovering Your Purpose and Living an Intentional Life I’ll make you a promise. This isn’t another feel-good, pat-on-the-back book that gets tossed onto your wife’s nightstand. I don’t read them either. I wrote this for you in hopes of encouraging men to embrace alpha manhood without having to worry about being attacked for it. Now, the truth is, we can do better. In some cases, much better, but until we know where we’ve been, there’s no way we’ll ever know where we’re going. Let’s knock the rust off of the toxic masculinity mantle and start living an ...

Given his years of hard-earned practical experience as a mixed martial arts fighter, as well as decades spent honing his skills, Eric Wahlin understands hard work and discipline, and the mental and physical grit needed to be a successful professional fighter. Along the way, his study of MMA led him to a place he never expected - a new understanding of God and a deeper relationship with Him that has enhanced and enriched his life.

Adrift on a Sea of Belief: A Guide for Walkaway-Witnesses in Finding God is the first book of its kind. Rebecca Mantore provides next-step “what now?” information for walkaway-witnesses - those Jehovah’s Witnesses who courageously jump ship to navigate their life apart from Watchtower control. Dr. Mantore is supremely qualified to write this book as a walkaway-Witness who left the church after 34 years of living as a model Jehovah’s Witness. Dr. Mantore identifies elements of the unique phenomenon fleeing Witnesses face.

Eve’s Memoirs, a work of her-storical fiction, offers Eve’s secret diary written in the 100th year of the Dawn. Eve entrusts her witty words of wisdom, her deepest desires and innermost thoughts, to her daughters and sons, regarding the pleasures and pains of being a woman on planet Earth. Eve’s Memoirs will cradle you, rock you, and profoundly nurture you with a mystical sense of God’s love for you, as well as help you experience the Garden and find a garden of your own.

¿Estás listo para embarcarte en un viaje de profundo autodescubrimiento y sanación dentro de la comunidad LGBTQ+? Este libro, escrito por Callie Parker, te ofrece una guía paso a paso para comprenderte a ti mismo en profundidad sin ajustarte a las normas sociales.

With The Glass Ledge, Oubou offers a disruptive guide that explores the 10 most common themes around which women tend to derail themselves, including issues around power, likability, authenticity, conflict, and more. They are organized according to when we are most likely to face them head-on, as some issues present earlier in our careers while others tend to appear later. Each chapter focuses on one of these nuanced themes, incorporating counterintuitive and eye-opening information, including:

Motivational Hypnotherapy's Joel Thielke is a world-renowned hypnotherapist and author who has helped millions of people worldwide. This powerful hypnosis program is designed specifically to help boost your brain to learn French faster and easier, by improving your focus, memory, and motivation to study.

Since the release of Halftime in 1994, more than 150,000 people have purchased the book and begun a journey from success to significance. It helped people between the ages of 35-50 realize that they have at least another 30 years of active, vibrant living ahead of them and that retirement is not the optimal option. But now, those people feel stuck. More than 80 percent of people who began the journey got sidetracked. Now they want to know how to get “unstuck.” Stuck in Halftime is written for the person who is trying to successfully make it through “half time.”

In studying the seven churches of Revelation 2-3, we have found that all have one thing in common: the need to overcome. Some eras receive more chastening and harsher criticism than others do, yet Christ admonishes even the "best" or least criticized to overcome. This suggests that all these churches fall short of God's standard of holiness. All lack faith, hope, love, obedience, dedication, and responsiveness, among other aspects of character. All still produce the works of the flesh, man's carnal nature and selfishness. Since our Savior directly instructs all the churches to overcome, ...

In The Sex Book, award-winning sex educator Leeza Mangaldas provides scientifically accurate, judgement-free answers to even your most seemingly awkward questions about sex and the body.

The Second Half explores how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all listeners.

The Christian Life is full of trials and temptations, and few temptations are as troubling or persistent than sexual temptations. These are also a great source of guilt, shame, and isolation for Christians who struggle. This book takes the secular relapse-prevention strategy of self-monitoring by several categories of risk and compares them to the Biblical record. Throughout God’s word, believers have shipwrecked their faith or damaged their lives when they were hungry, horny, angry, lonely, tired, or scared (HHALTS). Bruce Burns of Monument Ministries takes us through Biblical examples ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet, who is best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a a champion of individualism and wrote dozens of essays. Most criics consider "Self-Reliance" his best. It has the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency.

Self-esteem is one of the most important aspects of your life. Your success in life, in relationships, and your happiness depends on your self-esteem. If you have low self-esteem, you may find that you have more struggles in life than those who do not lack self-esteem. The good news is that you have control of your own self-esteem. Which means that if you are willing to take control of your self-esteem, you can take control of your entire life and live the life that you want to live.