HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY YOU DO WHAT YOU DO? Or maybe your biggest thought is why other people act the way they do. Why can't your sister sit still long enough to read a book? Or why do you see your neighbor combing the yard for any blade of grass out of place? Does one committee member cause every meeting to run long because she expresses an opinion on every point? God created unique personalities within us that influence our actions and reactions and your personality influences everything you do. Linda Gilden and Tama Westman, two certified personality trainers, offer a one-of-a-kind book, Why You Do What You Do, packed with insight and enlightenment concerning the personalities. The easy-to-use format offers a glimpse into how each personality may react, testimonies from those of each personality, and suggestions as to how you can understand those around you. Why You Do What You Do offers something for everyone: 
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<li>practical points that bring order to the analytical, purposeful person;</li> <li>sparkling stories that satisfy the fun-loving, playful person;</li> <li>directives that challenge the powerful person's need for control;</li> <li>quiet reflections for the low-key, peaceful person to ponder.</li> </ul>
 Are you purposeful? Powerful? Playful? Peaceful? Open the pages of Why You Do What You Do and find out! "If you want to lessen the conflict in your relationships, then dig into Why You Do What You Do. With relatable stories and practical wisdom, Linda and Tama give you the tools to understand others and yourself with love and compassion." ~ KATHI LIPP, Author, Speaker "Linda Gilden and Tama Westman have joined forces to bring us a guide that reveals why we behave the way we do. This book has the answers." ~ GLORIA PENWELL, Author Advocate, Coach

Personality Types: Why You Do What You Do

Linda Gilden

Straight Street Books

"Soulspeak will take your prayer life to the next level." - NY Times bestselling author, Mark Batterson Maybe you've read books on prayer before. Somewhere midst the guilt, the theology, and the clich s, you closed the cover and assumed you will never become a person whose prayer alters the cosmos or secures God's blessing. You're just not that holy.This is the book for you. Using seven patterns of prayer, Sue will teach you how to pray from the deepest places of your soul--from the longings, pain, bitterness, and hopelessness--right into the heart of God and the world around you.With vulnerability and spiritual wisdom, Sue shares personal stories, prayers, and Biblical direction for becoming a person who prays with authority and authenticity.

SOULSPEAK: Praying Change Into Unexpected Places

Religion & Spirituality

Schlesman, Sue

Christian Books & Bibles

Look Beyond The Confusing Or Chaotic Behaviors Of Your Teens. Could A Relentless Longing Be Hiding Behind The Outward Actions? Like many parents or caring adults working with adolescents, you may feel confused, concerned, and challenged by some of their actions or emotional displays. While you may be tempted to either discipline, disregard or disconnect from them, these behaviors often offer you the greatest opportunities to interact with your child’s deepest aspect—the heart! The thoughts, feelings, will, and moral compass of human beings lies within the heart. If you do not connect with this center place, you will sorely limit your ability to lead, impact, or nourish the innermost parts of a teen’s soul. In Heart Cries of Every Teen, Jackie Perry, a seasoned counselor, speaker, writer, and educator helps you understand how the many physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and psychological changes occurring during adolescence actually provoke eight heart core desires to emerge with force. These relentless longings compel adolescents to look for ways to satisfy and soothe the aches that arise when these go unsatisfied. You will learn to recognize how these desires reflect the best and worst behaviors in teens and how to respond compassionately. Every teen needs someone who will see into their hearts and help them learn how to care for the core desires that lie there. Without this guidance many will never know that only through healthy connections with others and a relationship with Christ will these longings ever be fully satisfied. Using true accounts of teens and principled insights, Jackie empowers you to respond to teens in ways that care for this sacred yet often heavily protected space of the heart.

Heart Cries of Every Teen

Parenting & Relationships

Perry, Jackie

Parenting

With the slam of the gavel, the hopes and dreams for your future shatter. With a judgment rendered, you or a loved one now serve time in prison. Will another court hear your pleas?In despair over her son's future, Shonda Whitworth petitioned the Lord on his behalf and searched the Scriptures. Finding how the Lord redeems the worst offenders, she learned how to appeal to the heavenly court and receive hope from God for her son's future. In Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven, Shonda shares how she went from deferred hope to a hope-filled life. This book will help you: - Identify biblical heroes who were lawbreakers - Understand the prosecutor's strategy - Make effective appeals on behalf of yourself and your loved ones Hope will be restored as you confidently plead your case to the courtroom of heaven!

Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven

Politics & Social Sciences

Whitworth, Shonda

Social Sciences

7 Days to a Byline that Pays explains how to tell stories that audiences will read and editors will pay you to write. Delivered In a breezy and compact manner, this book will help you work fast, smart and get paid for your work. 
Take it from Pulitzer winning journalist Manny Garcia: "Smith has successfully culled the best ideas from colleagues and published a book that is essential reading for anyone who wants to succeed in journalism. It's creative, clear, fun and Timeless. He hits all the fundamentals." 
7 Days also includes top ideas from reporters who cover the arts, writers in public relations, web page content creators, religion writers and others who work in both international broadcasting and journalism. Their ideas will take your opus from the valley of despair to the road of royalties and make your words weapons of mass instruction.

7 Days to a Byline That Pays

Smith, Michael Ray

Have you ever wondered why an employee does what he does? Why she says what she says? Why Donald Trump says what he says? Have you ever wondered why your sister can't sit still long enough to read a book? Or why your neighbor combs the yard for any blade of grass out of place? Does a co-worker cause every meeting to run long because she insists on expressing an opinion on every point? Face it - we’re all different. And your personality influences everything you do. We can’t change people, but we can change how we deal with those with whom we work, worship, and play. Why You Do What You Do is packed with insights into why we do what we do and how to deal with those who rub us the wrong way. The easy-to-use format offers a glimpse into how each personality may react to a given situation and offers suggestions for ways you can "handle" those around you. Invest in others. Learn what makes someone “tic.” Change outcomes by changing how you deal with those who rub you the wrong way. Personality is key; learn and grow and go with the "individuality" flow.

Why You Do What You Do

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gilden, Linda

Westman, Tama

Psychology & Counseling

Today's teens move at a fast pace. Their music is extreme, entertainment edgy. They embrace tomorrow, and reject last year's fads. They RESON8 with the real world around them. But can they cope with what's to come? Readers of REGENER8 asked hard questions about life, lust, drugs, and drinking. Packed with life-changing truth, no preservatives, no sugar coating, just 100% of your daily allowance of in-your-face Gospel truth, ILLUMIN8 answers those questions with a message that challenges today's youth. ILLUMIN8 shows how to build spiritual muscle through effective Bible study and prayer. As readers turn from their old life they will learn to develop habits that will carry them on a life long journey of following Christ. ILLUMIN8 rips down the curtain, throws open the window, and sheds light in the dark places where we hide. Did you know the Devil has a plan for your life? Do you? Don't wander in the dark. ILLUMIN8!

Illumin8: Straight Talk for Street Smart Teens

Cook, Rob

Winner of the Feathered Quill Book Awards - Bookvana Finalist - Illumination Book Award With a near-fatal car crash resulting in trauma, uncertainty, and life-long limitations, Penned Without Ink: Trusting God to Write Your Story will draw you into the true story of one family's journey of faith. The experiences shared within the pages of this book will lead you to sit beside hushed bedsides, observe delicate operations, and feel the angst of many life-and-death decisions. In the midst of multiple layers of pain and loss, you will witness quiet miracles, as well as sure and certain lights that pierce through the darkness. With pictures of both present-day individuals and biblical characters, Sarah Phillips captures the essence of hope born through her struggle to trust and rely on God. Between the lines, you will also uncover your own journey of trust. A faithful and loving God desires to write your life story no matter what happens.

Penned Without Ink: Trusting God to Write Your Story

Phillips, Sarah Lynn

Autism affects 1-in-68 American children, so when Tim and Melissa Fountain received the news that their Joey was "the one," they looked to their poor gardening skills for guidance. Autism is a profound neurological disorder that impacts language, self-care, and social skills. Coupled with each person's unique individuality, parenting an autistic child can be doubly difficult. For Tim and Melissa, watching Joey "act out" reminded them of wilted flowers among strong weeds -- which to pull, which to water? The Fountains reworked, replanted, and reseeded in hopes Joey would bloom into his normal self. Raising a Child with Autism provides parents of disabled children tips and techniques, hope and encouragement, in thoughtful, easy-to-understand ways. Learn how to apply family love, spiritual wisdom, and strength as you grow your autistic child from a bud to bloom. While you weave your way through the weeds of a disability, you may realize, as the Fountains learned, that no one is ever truly prepared to manage a disability, but you can, with love and faithfulness, grow great kids!

Raising a Child with Autism

Fountain, Timothy

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Why do others shame and bully us? Why do we cast blame and shame on others? Where does shame come from? Shame affects every area of our life and relationships. In order to cure shame, we have to find its root source, which may be subtly (yet destructively) hidden in commonly accepted teachings and religious beliefs that wreak havoc on our self-image. Shame speaks candidly about the lies we believe about ourselves — about others — and invites us to shift our understanding so we can begin to heal and live without the baggage of our past. Ask yourself: "What in my thinking about God s view of me, do I need to change so I don t live in shame? Does God really see me as someone who deserve damnation just for being born?" If you sense that the God of the Bible is a God who is both just and loving — who holds us to a holy standard and yet offers us the grace and mercy through His Son to reach that standard — then condemn the shame you feel. Find freedom from the lies you believe.

Damn Shame: Finding Freedom from False Beliefs

Self-Help

Curtis H. Tucker

Death & Grief

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