Personal Growth

Personal Growth

Personal Growth

Personal Growth
Personal Growth If you're interested in balancing your life and finding more fulfilling ways to live, these books will give you the tools to help you grow your mind, heart, and spirit.
 
 
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7 Days to Confidence
Learning the secrets to increasing your self-confidence will leave you better prepared to tackle all of life's challenges at home and in the office.
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A Guide To Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision
By Corey Michele
The pages in this book comprise a unique guide that will allow you to gain access to powerful, life-changing insights, example and exercises to help you create a clear, compelling vision for your life. Be prepared to re-discover your dreams and desires, to see how you can have the kind of life you've always hoped for, and to discover ways to put the ideas into motion.
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A Guide to Getting It: Achieving Abundance
By Gail Ostrishko, Stephanie McDilda, Cathy Nealon, E. Thomas Costello, Claire Walsh, Nancy Mindes, Jordana Tiger, Schuyler Morgan, Marilyn French Hubbard, Marilyn Schwader (Editor)
Everyone has the power within to achieve a life of abundance. This book is about discovering the power to create a life of your choice--to have what you really want, not just what you are given. Ten Life and Business Coaches have distilled their coaching methods for creating abundance down to the most important aspects to consider.
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A Guide to Getting It: Purpose And Passion
By Laura Young, Kathryn V. White, Frederic Stell, Brian Rzepczynski, Lisa Hoth Dalton, Anthony L. Farmer, Bridget Borgogna, Carol Dickson-Carr, Fran Fisher, Marilyn Schwader (Editor)
A Guide to Getting It: Purpose & Passion is about perspectives and priorities. This book will change your life, if you are willing for that to happen. Through their stories, examples, and exercises the authors help you see that dramatic change is not necessary. Finding your Purpose & Passion is a matter of changing your mind, of seeing possibilities instead of obstacles, opportunities instead of challenges.
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A New Beginning II : A Personal Handbook to Enhance Your Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
A New Beginning II contains uplifting new material from Abraham including Law of Attraction, Law of Allowing, and the effective use of your Guidance System. Includes questions and answers from live workshops, affirmations, and powerful processes for increasing your ability to intentionally create whatever you want. 
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Attitude Is Everything: Change Your Attitude...and You Change Your Life!
By Jeff Keller
This is a "success manual" that gives readers a step by step plan for taking control of their lives and unleashing their incredible potential. The book consists of 12 Lessons: Your Attitude is Your Window to the World; You're A Human Magnet; Picture Your Way to Success; Make a Commitment and You'll Move Mountains; Turn Your Problems into Opportunities; Your Words Blaze A Trail; How Are You?; Stop Complaining; Associate with Positive People; Confront Your Fears and Grow; Get Out There and Fail; Networking That Gets Results.
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Awaken the Giant Within
By Anthony Robbins
Wake Up and Take Control of Your Life! The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life and harness the forces that shape your destiny.
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By Malcolm Gladwell
In BLINK, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK.
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Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul : Finding Peace, Passion, & Purpose
Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul is a guide to living the life you want. It's about finding more peace, passion, and purpose. It's filled with real-life stories of people who decided to take back their lives and live from the inside out. Dr. Zoglio offers practical tips for figuring out what's best for you next, and then shows you how to get it. Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul is the winner of the year 2000 Independent Publisher Award as best Self-Help book, and a Top 10 Outstanding Book of the Year winner as "Most Life-Changing".
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Creating Money: Keys to Abundance
This step-by-step guide to creating money and abundance has helped thousands to manifest prosperity and create their life's work using the simple processes contained in this book.  See immediate results in your life when you learn to:
  • Follow the spiritual laws of money and abundance
  • Develop unlimited thinking
  • Listen to your inner guidance
  • Use advanced manifesting techniques
  • Create your life's work
  • Transform your beliefs
  • Magnetize and draw to you what you want
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Mainly about resolving conflicts and influencing people, this useful guide covers every conceivable aspect of talking with others. People hear facts and stories and turn them into shared knowledge when they're not attacked or overpowered--in other words, when they feel safe. No mushy mental health lesson, the program does a stellar job of explaining many types of communication errors and describing the best ways to achieve mutual purpose. The authors have exceptional ideas about moving toward healthy solutions in a variety of business and personal realms. Anna Fields gives a perfect reading--emotionally bright but still allowing the lesson to retain its practical, straight-talking nature.

T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine  --This text refers to the Audio CD  edition.
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Do It Now!
By William J. Knaus
Dr. William J. Knaus's awareness/action approach has helped thousands of people overcome the adverse effects of procrastination. Now, this completely revised and updated edition of his classic bestseller can help you identify the root causes of your particular problem and develop a workable action plan to regain control of your life.
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Doing Work You Love : Discovering Your Purpose and Realizing Your Dreams
By Cheryl Gilman

Here--at last--is the book that gives readers the scoop on how to find that perfect career. Offers practical techniques and no-nonsense suggestions on everything from identifying the "right" job and networking to perfecting a resume and interviewing.

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Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self With Compassion for Others
By Clinton Kelly, Stacy London
This book teaches you the mechanics and spirit of Nonviolent Compassionate Communication to cure "Niceitis," a hereditary disease. It shows how being Mr. or Ms. Nice Guy or Gal is a form of violence to yourself and others, and an escape from a fully lived life. It takes you on a journey from the false choice of being either a depressed doormat, or an aggressive bully, to an effective, enlightened assertion of yourself. It provides principles and tools for self-responsible, non-judgmental, clear and conscious honesty.
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Fearless Living, Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret
By Rhonda Britten
Expectations imprison you; intention sets you free. That is the touchstone of Rhonda Britten's revolutionary program that can help you break through your fears and fulfill your dreams. This practical, step-by-step guide introduces readers to a world of unlimited possibilities as they discover the secrets of fearless living, where one can take risks, seize opportunities, and nurture self-confidence.
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Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
By Brian Tracy
Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified approach to simultaneously achieving improvement at work and at home.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work? Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work -- in fact, only 17 percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss.
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How to Get What You Want
By Zig Ziglar

Irrepressible, enlightening -- and extraordinarily successful -- here's Zig Ziglar presented live during one of his electrifying public seminars. This master motivator has adapted his proven techniques for everyone's use -- and endless benefit.

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How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Personal Success
Make the best impression at work -- on Mars or Venus.

John Gray, who changed the way people view gender differences with his #1 international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, now brings his insights to the business world.  In How to Get What You Want at Work, Gray analyzes the ways men and women misunderstand and misinterpret each other in the workplace, and he offers practical advice on reducing unnecessary conflict and frustration.
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How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
By Leslie T. Giblin
Les Giblin, who has helped millions with his seminars, audio visual programs, and books, now gives you the key to success in all your dealings with people... whether they're personal, business or social.

Giblin explains the basic principles behind human behavior so you can work with human nature - not against it, to get what you want.  Whether it's a raise from your boss, and order from a prospect, or good will from your neighbor.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end
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It's Not About the Horse-It's About Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
By Wyatt Webb, Cindy Pearlman

With Webb’s therapy, how you relate to the horse will tell what you've learned over the course of your lifetime and about how you relate to all living things. Wyatt tells his audience, "Remember one thing. It's not about the horse. It's about YOU." With his help you will learn a few ground skills that will keep you safe in any barn in the world. But your main goal is to look at what you've learned over the course of your lifetime and whether it works for you or against you in your relationships.

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Language and the Pursuit of Happiness
By Chalmers Brothers
My main purpose for writing this book is to share with you an incredibly powerful way of thinking and observing, one that can be a new foundation for designing your life at home and at work.
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Leader Effectiveness Training L.E.T.: The Proven People Skills for Today's Leaders Tomorrow
By Thomas Gordon
L.E.T. has changed countless corporations and private businesses-including many Fortune 500 companies-with its down-to-earth communication and conflict resolution skills. Now, this indispensable source has been newly revised with updated research and timely case studies.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Made to Stick is a book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures)–the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of “the Mother Teresa Effect”; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas–and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.
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Masters of Success
By Ivan R. Misner and Don Morgan
This book has success stories in abundance--stories of daunting hardships overcome, lessons learned, unexpected successes--and readers will eagerly page from one story to the next finding both motivation and encouragement throughout this handsome volume. Who has not admired the titians of sports, business, show business, and public service and been stirred to set course by those stars?
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Quantum Success: The Astounding Science of Wealth and Happiness
By Sandra Anne Taylor
What would you do if you could really achieve all that you desire? This revealing look at the science of success will show you how to do just that! This formula for abundant living is actually based in the principles of quantum physics, and you can actually tap in to these powerful forces to make your dreams come true.
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Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want
By Mark Joyner
Simpleology proves that success and happiness are easier to achieve than most people think they are. In fact, people can almost guarantee their own success simply by following a few simple rules. These "5 Laws of Simpleology" aren't new; they've been around forever. Throughout history, these 5 laws have helped the world's greatest minds amass fortunes and forge new paths.
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Skill With People
By Leslie T. Giblin
Are you having problems with the boss? Wishing you could be a better spouse? Not communicating well with your employees? Having trouble building business relationships? Or would you just like to improve your people skills and your ability to make strong, lasting impressions on the men and women you meet every day? The solution is "Skill With People!" Les Giblin's timeless classic has what you need to get on the fast track to success at home, at work, and in business.
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
In this companion volume to his bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, Goleman persuasively argues for a new social model of intelligence drawn from the emerging field of social neuroscience. Describing what happens to our brains when we connect with others, Goleman demonstrates how relationships have the power to mold not only human experience but also human biology. In lucid prose he describes from a neurobiological perspective sexual attraction, marriage, parenting, psychopathic behaviors and the group dynamics of teachers and workers.
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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work.  Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates and celebrities — the rich, the famous and the unknown.  Discover how successful people "harvest" their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their surprising failures. Discover how you can find meaning in your life and work just as they did and summon the courage to follow your passions. Above all, see how they've sustained success for decades and you can too.
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Super Self: Doubling Your Personal Effectiveness
By Charles J. Givens

Super Self shows you how to achieve your fullest personal and business potential with a set of proven strategies that serve as an operations manual.  Helps you to take control and achieve success in the total experience of living.  A toolbox of practical strategies that will guarantee success in any situation.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook
By Stephen R. Covey
Internationally renowned leadership authority and bestselling author Stephen R. Covey presents a personal hands-on companion to the landmark The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has become a touchstone for individuals, families, and businesses around the world.  This individualized workbook teaches readers to fully internalize the 7 Habits through private and thought-provoking exercises, whether they are already familiar with the principles or not. This reference offers solutions to both personal and professional problems by promoting and teaching fairness, integrity, honesty, and dignity.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
By Stephen R. Covey

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

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The Aladdin Factor
The CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL authors describe the benefits of asking for what you want through a good mixture of success stories from their personal lives, their consulting practices and the success-story repertoire. Even readers who aren't devotees of "you can do it" books will enjoy the stories and learn a few negotiating tips in the bargain. T.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Choice
By Og Mandino
Choice! The key is Choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame,  and self-pity. But, hold on! If this is true then  why have so many among us apparently elected to  live in that manner? The answer is obvious. Those who  live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have  never been aware that they had any Choices !
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The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
By Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Patrick Lencioni
In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and chaotic personal lives, each of us is searching for effective tools that can make our schedules, behaviors, and relationships more manageable. The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook shows us how understanding and utilizing emotional intelligence can be the key to exceeding our goals and achieving our fullest potential.
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The Feel Good Guide To Prosperity
The principles Eva writes about aren’t new. But she writes about them in a way that is clear, fun and accessible to anyone. Eva clearly articulates just how you can:

  • Apply the three most powerful Laws in the Universe
  • Stop getting what you don’t want and start getting what you do want
  • Become a filter for clarifying what you want
  • Attract your ideal partner
  • Increase prosperity in every area of you life
  • Develop an attractive attitude
  • Develop a magnetic lifestyle
  • And much more…
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The Fred Factor: How passion in Your Work and Life can turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
In THE FRED FACTOR, motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his job and who genuinely cares about the people he serves.  Where others might see delivering mail as monotonous drudgery, Fred sees an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those he serves.  In this book we learn the simple steps each of us can take to transform our own lives from the ordinary – into the extraordinary. Sanborn reveals the four basic principles that will help us bring fresh energy and creativity to our life and work: how to make a real difference everyday, how to become more successful by building strong relationships, how to create real value for others without spending a penny, and how to constantly reinvent yourself, excel in your career and make your life extraordinary. Each of us has the potential be a Fred. 
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The Great Connection
By Arnie Warren
"Defines explanations for your own successes and failures. I recommend this for anyone who deals with people."   ~ Hank Goldberg"
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The Magic of Thinking Big
By David Schwartz
SET YOUR GOALS HIGH...THEN EXCEED THEM!

Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better, manage better, earn more money, and -- most important of all -- find greater happiness and peace of mind.
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The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt
This book reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. The Power of Focus, the new blockbuster from the coauthors of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul, is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in the process.
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The Power To Be Your Best
By Todd Duncan
To-do lists should not order our lives and our net worth cannot be measured in assets. So says motivational expert Todd Duncan, whose seminars have impacted more than one million people. Using profound examples and practical insights, Duncan teaches you how to master your schedule, break life-reducing habits, build mentoring relationships, and enjoy success doing what you love. And the result? To move from where you are to where you want to be, maximizing your individual strengths and minimizing your natural weaknesses along the way.
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The Seasons of Life
In this book, Jim show's the parallels between life and the changing seasons. To realize that the seasons will change without fail and what we can do to utilize each seasons to get the greatest rewards. It is basically based on the parable of the sower and the reaper. What to do in one season, to ensure success in another season. **Great for those who are going thru difficult times personality or financially, because it helps them see that this "winter" in their life will eventually give way to ""spring".
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The Secret

In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.  The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

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The Secret Movie
Not really a movie or documentary, The Secret is more of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners expounding on the powers of The Secret (probably the most well-known of the presenters is Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles). What is The Secret, exactly? "That principle can be summed up in three simple words: thoughts become things," proclaims writer Mike Dooley, author of Notes from the Universe. Put it another way, it’s The Power of Positive Thinking and how it can be applied to attracting more money, better health, and relationships; in short, happiness.
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The Secret Soundtrack: Music from The Secret
This ground breaking feature length presentation reveals the Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries to reach you. This is The Secret to everything the  secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth everything you have ever wanted. In this astonishing audio program are ALL the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret.
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The Secret: Unabridged 4-CD Set Audiobook
By Rhonda Byrne and Teachers of The Secret
You will want to share this with your friends and family and they will be grateful for it. This book gives hope for what many have been waiting for a shift in the way the world thinks. Its a very exciting time that we are living in.  Discover the power of positive thinking, as thoughts become reality.  Gain success, love, happiness