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A Year of Creativity by Kathryn Jacob 52 Smart Ideas for Boosting Creativity, Innovation and Inspiration at Work

What's it about? A Year of Creativity (2024) shows how to bring more creativity and fresh ideas into professional life with practical strategies. It provides 52 weekly lessons to help spark innovation, improve teamwork, and tackle challenges in dynamic business environments. By encouraging a shift from routine methods to creative thinking, it inspires readers to create meaningful change and achieve lasting success. Chapters What’s in it for me? Spark creativity, drive innovation, and achieve transformative success in work and life. 1 Creativity is the key to thriving in uncertainty 2 Bold change and radical ideas spark a spring of innovation 3 Summer brings growth by harnessing creativity and action 4 Autumn redefines success through transformation and renewal 5 Winter revitalizes progress with preparation and reinvention 6 Final summary Most workplaces are built around logic, analytics, and structure – skills that keep operations running smoothly and decisions grounded i...

The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

What's it about? The Language of Emotions (2010) presents a transformative approach to emotional intelligence that reframes difficult feelings as vital messengers rather than problems to be solved. Through practical tools for emotional awareness and concrete strategies for decoding emotional messages, this influential work shows how developing a deeper relationship with our full emotional spectrum can lead to more authentic relationships, clearer boundaries, and a more fulfilling life. Remember the last time someone made you really angry. Maybe you felt your heart pounding, your jaw clenching, or the red flush of rage rising from your chest. In moments like these, you might wonder why emotions feel so overwhelming, why they seem to hijack your best intentions and color your whole world Instead of viewing strong emotion as the enemy, consider another perspective. What if anger, fear, sadness – even shame – are actually carrying important messages you need to hear? Learning to ...

Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham Principles and Techniques

What's it about? Security Analysis (1934) reveals the timeless principles that separate successful investors from market speculators, showing you how to analyze any investment through the lens of fundamental value. Through real examples from the Great Depression era that remain startlingly relevant today, you’ll master the analytical tools needed to build lasting wealth while protecting your capital during market downturns. Through life’s countless financial decisions, building lasting wealth requires more than just quick moves and market timing. Great investors follow clear principles, examining value through a careful lens that brings opportunities into focus. A steady approach to analysis and decision-making can transform your relationship with money and markets. This wisdom, first shared by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in 1934 and now in its seventh edition, continues to guide the world’s most successful investors. Edited by Seth A. Klarman to reflect modern contexts and ch...

Acknowledge the Truths | Lessons Learnt on 30th Jan 2025

Hard TRUTH Every Person is A WORLD to Explore. - thich nhat hanh Whomever person you meet, Whomever person you live with, Try to enter into their shoes and feel the person. Why Aunt and Daughter-in-Law always fight, because of they brand each others. TO Practice Gratitude, We should not brand any person. Every person needed to be experiment and explore. Face this scenario, CIRCLE OF LOVE & Law Of Attraction I love my spouse but my spouse doesn't love me back I love my children but they don't love me that much. Exercise: Visualize a boy of 25 to 26 years, He is studying in the IIT Mumbai and stays in HOSTEL. When mother asks boy, had your breakfast, boy responds without any respect. When she calls in the evening again, while he was watching movie, he ignores her again. Think of the mother, She wants to talk with her son. She is expecting the Love back. Boy is not reciprocating the love what his mother is giving to him. He treats all the works as important. ...

Cher by Cher The Memoir

What's it about? Cher (2024) finds the legendary singer and actress opening up about her extraordinary journey through fame, love, and personal transformation. It’s a literal rags to riches take of growing up poor to hosting one of the most popular television shows in the country. In recounting the many ups and downs and troubled relationships along the way, it reveals the woman behind the icon, filled with raw honesty, humor, and unforgettable moments. The year 1956 was an important one for a little girl named Cheryl Sarkisian. That summer, the ten-year-old was glued to the TV, her peanut butter and jelly sandwich forgotten in her lap as she experienced a moment that would change her life forever. Watching American Bandstand, she was moved to tears by Ray Charles’s soulful performance of "Georgia" and felt an instant, unshakable connection to the music. Then, a couple months later, Cheryl and her mom saw Elvis Presley perform at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Ange...

lessons on 29th Jan 2025

Time has memory Location has energy no pain = no gain all childhood pains are not that real pains now. If someone is not receiving your thoughts/words/deeds, it's their wish. Hard reality. You can't change everything for everyone. Gratitude in Hindrances, Gold shines when it burns. Law of Attraction

Help Me, I'm Stuck by Vaughn Carter Six Proven Methods to Shift Your Mindset From Self-Sabotage to Self-Improvement

What's it about? Help Me, I’m Stuck (2022) explores six actionable methods to overcome self-sabotaging behaviors and foster personal growth. It emphasizes shifting negative thought patterns, silencing the inner critic, and adopting practices like gratitude and empathy to create a healthier mindset. By addressing mental, emotional, and even nutritional factors, it provides a comprehensive approach to overall self-improvement. What’s in it for me? Overcome self-doubt, break bad habits, and create meaningful personal growth. Feeling stuck is a frustrating, all-too-common experience. Whether it’s being trapped in repetitive routines, weighed down by self-doubt, or unable to break free from unproductive habits, this sense of inertia can make even small changes seem overwhelming. The good news? You’re not alone, and the tools to reclaim momentum are well within your reach. It all starts with transforming your mindset, making intentional choices, and embracing growth. Life has a way o...

Intensify GRATITUDE. Lessons Learnt from IAS Legend on 28th Jan 2025

 I am really happy to be in such a group where we are working together to come from current situation to desired situation All your experiences are valid and invalid also. All of you chosen negative scenarios when I ask you,  To Go through your life, share your experiences that situations you don't deserve to live this life! We always think about our life and we don't think about others. Who am I to judge you? I had gone through the slum area, there are few kids  who are searching and eating food from which those are available in dumpyard, I went into hotel, they were offered a buffet.  The hotel management are directly dumping the food without packing. My kids are so fortunate right? they don't know the hurdles or challenges of getting food in the slum area. Birth is not a choice. Death is also not a choice. We take for it granted on what we have. We always think about what we don't have. సీత-కష్టాలు-సీతవి-పీత-కష్టాలు-పీతవి, challenges of sita are sita...

Lessons Learnt on 27th January 2025

First you should have before you can give. Change should start from you, stay in gratitude state think what can you give to the world Help 3 and ask them to other 3 more and continue this chain like in the stalin movie. World remembers the givers. We should set our Mindset When you have to GIVE, you have to GROW Last Week, We learnt, -> We came here to give. -> World Remembers GIVERS. If you want to give love, you should have love in tons. Hatred and Love will not stay side by side If you have to Give, you have to Grow. If you have to Grow, You have to LET IT GO. Take A sapling as example, If that sapling has to give flowers and fruits to us, then it has to grow first with the help of water, sun. If it has to grow, it has to let it go from the Termites and the unnecessary things. IN the same way, If you have to grow, We have to leave these 3 things: -> THE NEGATIVITY, -> THE FEAR. -> THE IDENTITY OR EGO. Only If you leave this, then you will grow. You need...