
The Garden
A Spiritual Fable About Ways to Overcome Fear, Anxiety, and Stress
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Jon Gordon
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From eight-time best-selling author Jon Gordon comes a spiritual fable about the power of faith, hope, and love.
Meet Jay and Kay. They’re twins, and like many teenagers their age, they’re dealing with stress and anxiety. One day, on their way to school, they have a nice conversation with their old family friend and youth soccer coach Mr. Erwin, who shows them a special garden he created in his backyard.
The garden serves as both a place and a metaphor for Mr. Erwin to share a powerful paradigm and practical strategies to help the twins overcome their fear, stress, and anxiety.
The Garden is an enlightening and encouraging spiritual fable that reveals the 5 "D"s that can sabotage us and a proven plan to help us overcome and win the battle in our mind. Rooted in Jon Gordon’s faith tradition, this fable is a different kind of book than his previous business fables. However, in his familiar trademark style, he takes a complex subject and simplifies it to help people take action and improve their lives.
Everyone will struggle with fear, anxiety, or stress at some point in their lives, and everyone will have to overcome these challenges to create the life they were meant to live. Given that there are many contributing factors that influence how we think and feel, Jon wrote this book to share how the power of love, encouragement, truth, faith, and belief can be part of the solution.
Having worked with countless leaders, companies, sports teams, professional athletes, and high school students, Jon Gordon infuses this life-changing story with thought-provoking ideas, practical strategies, and a framework to overcome fear with faith.
Whether you are dealing with fear, stress, and anxiety yourself, have a family member who struggles, or are a mental health expert who works with clients, if any of the ideas in this book can be useful to you or the people you love and care about, then it’s worth a walk through The Garden with Jay, Kay, and Mr. Erwin to discover ways to persevere through life with the power of faith, hope, and love.
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In How to be a Coffee Bean, bestselling coauthors of The Coffee Bean Jon Gordon and Damon West present 111 simple and effective strategies to help you lead a coffee bean lifestyle—one full of healthy habits, encouragement, and genuine happiness. From athletes to students and executives, countless individuals have been inspired by The Coffee Bean message. Now, How to be a Coffee Bean teaches you how to put The Coffee Bean philosophy into action to help you create real and lasting change in your life.
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Positive Thinking
- By Rose A. on 11-28-23
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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The Power of a Positive Team
- Proven Principles and Practices That Make Great Teams Great
- By: Jon Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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An audiobook about teams to help teams become more positive, united, and connected.
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Simple and Effective
- By Kevin Mills on 01-16-25
By: Jon Gordon
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Relationship Grit
- A True Story with Lessons to Stay Together, Grow Together, and Thrive Together
- By: Jon Gordon, Kathryn Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon, Kathryn Gordon
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Best-selling author Jon Gordon is back with another life-affirming book. This time, he teams up with Kathryn Gordon, his wife of 23 years, for a look at what it takes to build strong relationships. In Relationship Grit, the Gordons reveal what brought them together, what kept them together through difficult times, and what continues to sustain their love and passion for one another to this day. They candidly share their mistakes, decisions that almost destroyed their marriage, and successes so you can learn from their experiences and make your relationship stronger.
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Great framework!
- By Ted Rusinoff on 09-16-24
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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One Word That Will Change Your Life
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- By: Jon Gordon, Dan Britton, Jimmy Page
- Narrated by: Jimmy Page, Dan Britton, Jon Gordon
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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One Word explains how to simplify your life and business by focusing on just one word for the entire year. The simplicity of choosing one word makes it a catalyst for life change. Clutter and complexity lead to procrastination and paralysis, while simplicity and focus lead to success and clarity. By celebrated authors Dan Britton, Jimmy Page, and Jon Gordon, One Word That Will Change Your Life shows you how to cut through to the core of your intention for the next year.
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Great concept but...
- By Kelly on 02-21-18
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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Row the Boat
- A Never-Give-Up Approach to Lead with Enthusiasm and Optimism and Improve Your Team and Culture
- By: Jon Gordon, P. J. Fleck
- Narrated by: P. J. Fleck
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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In Row the Boat, Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach P. J. Fleck and bestselling author Jon Gordon deliver an inspiring message about what you can achieve when you approach life with a never-give-up philosophy. The book shows you how to choose enthusiasm and optimism as your guiding lights instead of being defined by circumstances and events outside of your control.
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The growth and the story was really amazing!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-25
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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The Shark and the Goldfish
- Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change
- By: Jon Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon
- Length: 38 mins
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Now more than ever, fear and uncertainty are becoming staples of daily life. During changing times, it's easy to worry, give up, and let fear paralyze you. However, you have more control than you think you do, and how you handle adversity is your choice - the only choice that matters. If you're facing tough economic times, The Shark and the Goldfish will motivate you, inspire you, and give you the confidence you need to thrive during changing times.
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Cleverly positive
- By Nicole Rose on 03-27-25
By: Jon Gordon
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The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change
- By: Jon Gordon, Damon West
- Narrated by: Damon West
- Length: 24 mins
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The Coffee Bean is an inspiring tale that follows Abe, a young man filled with stress and fear as he faces challenges and pressure at school and home. One day after class, his teacher shares with him the life-changing lesson of the coffee bean, and this powerful message changes the way he thinks, acts, and sees the world. Abe discovers that instead of letting his environment change him for the worse, he can transform any environment he is in for the better.
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Grand slam
- By Charlie on 08-28-21
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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The Energy Bus
- 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
- By: Jon Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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In the mode of other best selling business fables, The Energy Bus takes listeners on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Everyone faces challenges. And every person, organization, company, and team will have to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success.
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Too Painful to Listen to
- By Kenny on 06-22-15
By: Jon Gordon
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You Win in the Locker Room First
- The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
- By: Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon - consultant to numerous college and professional teams - to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.
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Develop team culture
- By Leigh A. Cole on 05-09-20
By: Jon Gordon, and others
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The Power of Positive Leadership
- How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World
- By: Jon Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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We are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard. As a leader, you will face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you and your vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality. That's why positive leadership is essential! Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff that makes great leaders great.
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Always positive
- By Will on 08-21-17
By: Jon Gordon
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The Hard Hat
- 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate
- By: Jon Gordon
- Narrated by: Jon Gordon
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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From the moment Jon Gordon heard about George Boiardi and the hard hat, he was intrigued and captivated. Over the years he visited George's coaches, attended several "21 Dinners" held in his honor, met his family, talked to his teammates, and observed how he inspired all who knew him.
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Awesome
- By Tara Sullivan on 10-29-17
By: Jon Gordon
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- Sarah
- 01-28-21
AMAZING
I want everyone I know to read or listen to this book! 🔥💛😊 it is life changing and it breaks down the struggles of life and how to over come them in the most amazing and simple way to understand! It helped remind me of gods love and our ability to trust and have faith in him. But remember battle has been won, yet the enemy will still come. So we need to be prepared! Love this book! 🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽🔥🙌🏽
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- D5Readers
- 12-17-21
What a Beautiful easy story
I have teens at home & each of them are so different, this book is so nicely and easy to read and to listen, that I’m planning to give one to each of them. We are all created in our Lord’s image and when you are a teen is esencial to have guide t remind you of your identity and this book is just that. Lovely!
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- Jade and Joseph
- 05-17-23
Wonderful
I loved this book ! it brought me back to what matters and kept things simple but made a huge point in my perspective !
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- The coach
- 08-26-24
The 5 D’s
I truly appreciate the way Jon Gordon is able to give you such profound insights into con
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- Jamie
- 10-12-21
Must Listen
This book is so full of truth and love you’ll want and need to listen to it again and again.
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- Samantha
- 11-16-22
Needed to hear
Such a great reminder and perspective on our thoughts and the battle in life. This book reminded me of how much God loves me and is for me.
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- Tracy Davis
- 10-26-22
right on the muscle
Dream big is right on the muscle. Not bragging but very high achiever. Everything changed in my mind in 2017. Due to a head injury, I wasn't the same. negative, and self doubt crept in. took me 4 years to realize, I wasn't operating with the same mindset anymore. I left the door to my mind open. Thats when fear entered. I know was thinking "Im not the same anymore, fear of criticism had overtake me. Well after this book I diagnosed the problem implemented some of the principles and WOW I'M back!!!!!!
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- Teresa morgan
- 12-19-23
Awesome story of the Gospel of Jesus
Excellent powerful story of what life looks like when you allow Jesus to help you make right choices and the fruit it will provide
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-20
wonderful
This is his most important work. Get it, read it, gift it, and embrace it.
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- Adam
- 03-04-21
Inspiring look at stress and negativity
Classic Jon Gordon. Very inspiring and helpful if you struggle with confidence, stress, and depression. I’m glad he put a warning at the beginning because he is much more vocal about his faith and it has a major role in the story in this particular book.
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