Showing results by narrator "Ph.D." in All Categories

The Leadership Test is an insightful and engaging story about the essence of leadership. Izzy Kroll, a brilliant eccentric teaches high school in a tough section of Chicago. The story unfolds as Izzy mentors his former student, Marcus, in the first lessons of leadership, helping him navigate through the real world of egoes, agendas, and ethical dilemmas. A call to action for all leaders, this book is a quick and powerful read that will motivate you to reflect on "the nature of your intent and the manner of your influence."

1st presentation: "Ministry as Affecting the Minister": 2nd presentation: "Moral Loneliness within Life" and "Ministry as Affecting the Minister" : Ministry as both a Faith-drama and an Ego-drama. Schools of ministry are good at preparing us in how to do ministry. They are less adept in preparing us in terms of what ministry will do to us. How do we cope with the grandiosity that is triggered by success? How do we deal with the anger and bitterness that besets us when our ministry is going badly? How do we handle our sexuality inside all of this?

Standards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

Educational accountability is here to stay. Comprehensive educational accountability, if designed and implemented effectively, can be the one initiative that helps schools create sustained and meaningful reform.

John Gray, who celebrated gender difference in his groundbreaking work Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, turns to diet and exercise as a source of well-being and harmony. This practical audio guide addresses the unique needs of men and women to reveal how diet, exercise and communication skills combine to affect the production of healthy brain chemicals.

You are only a few months away from living a more relaxed and healthy lifestyle. This basic 12-week program describes step-by-step techniques for slowing down your pulse and respiration, and increasing your circulation. You'll learn four components of effective meditation: breath counting, mantras, and yanta meditation.

Love Like You've Never Been Hurt interweaves psychology, spirituality, and real-life stories to help you heal from "love-hurt" - the pain that comes when you have been hurt by someone you love. Dr. Cari Jackson writes in a warm, conversational style that makes it comfortable to look at hard issues. Dr. Cari offers amazing insights into why we hurt those we love, why we respond to being hurt in the ways we do, and most of all how to heal from the love-hurts we experience.

When others look at you, what do they see? What would you like them to see? A confident, successful person brimming with ideas and energy? Or a fearful, passive person? Others see you as you see yourself. Your image of yourself is a reflection of your self-esteem, which defines your level of professional success and personal happiness.

Finding Love Everywhere offers that same gift to you. A luminous collection of original poetry set within a framework of deep wisdom from an acclaimed teacher, it invites you on a journey that will move you and transform you as you awaken to the awareness of love's presence all around you. The 66½ poems in these pages "are meditations with lyrics," Robert explains. "They invite you to be wise, to choose love, and to live your most authentic life."

Calm Your Mind brings you four of the most effective techniques for turning attention inward, finding a calm center, and surrendering anxious thoughts to moments of peaceful reflection.

Here's an approach that can make a genuine difference in the quality of your life and in the lives of those you love. Dr. Laura Schlessinger delivers a witty, wise, and workable moral philosophy based on the principle of personal responsibility. With a lively, pull-no-punches style, she takes on the moral dilemmas of our time, and demonstrates in no uncertain terms that personal values are always our own responsibility, and that choosing not to honor them actually compounds unhappiness. Finally, she explains that by disciplining self-indulgence and rising above temptation, we can discover the infinite pleasure, the true happiness, of the moral high ground.

Listening is half, and arguably the most important half, of communicating. With this audio program, you will learn how to become a good listener. It includes lessons on the blocks to real listening, the importance of paraphrasing, how to ask for clarification, the secrets to providing useful feedback, and how to listen with empathy and openness.

This book uses the playful image of the Universe like a Cosmic Kitchen, just waiting to take and fulfill your orders by means of affirmations and visualizations. The eight principles for placing effective orders with the Cosmic Kitchen are applied to career, prosperity, relationships, health, traveling, and finding your perfect home. It explains how to use the Law of Attraction and why affirmations together with feelings are the most powerful combination for achieving your dreams.

Those who give away power surround themselves with loyal and powerful supporters. Far from the quagmire of "blind obedience", today's leadership requires empowerment at all levels. The world moves too fast for one person in any organization to make all the decisions. To compete and excel, entire organizations must move in unison, like well-practiced teams, where everyone is aiming toward similar goals.

I Love you, Mom: Please Don't Break My Heart is the true story of one boy's journey through a childhood of physical, mental, and emotional abuse. John endured neglect, isolation, physical beatings, mental degradation and malevolent admissions into numerous mental institutions, and eventual attempted murder within the custodial supervision of his unscrupulous mother.

P. T. Barnum was known as the "Greatest Salesman In The World"—for a very good reason. He ran one of the most profitable, entertaining businesses during his time. His people loved and admired him, and he taught them principles of success that they could apply in all aspects of their lives. These bits of wisdom are as true today as they were when he applied them 150 years ago.

While yoga has become a common practice for health and well-being, the ancient tools of Tibetan yoga remained secret for centuries. Translated as "magical movements", Tibetan yoga can improve physical strength and support positive emotional and mental health, healing the body-energy-mind system with a full sense of awareness and harmony. In Tibetan Yoga for Health & Well-Being, Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, focuses on the five principal breath-energies of Tibetan medicine and yoga and how special body movements for each engage the five chakras in our body.

Once you target your core passion and begin pursuing your personal mission, you'll discover the power and satisfaction of living a deeply meaningful life. Tapping your core passion is the key. Some people live their entire lives thwarted and unfulfilled, because although they know something's missing, they don't know exactly what it is.

Fr. Donald Senior, cp, paints a picture of Mary as the premier disciple of Christ. He gives his listeners a deeper look into the life of Mary by focusing on the Gospel writer's individual, yet diverse, portraits of her within the historical biblical context. By studying the various Marian passages that are within the Gospels, along with parallel passages of Jesus, he weaves a multi-faceted approach to Mary, both in the New Testament and in the Christian life.

September 11, 2001, occurred without warning, leaving America and the world in a state of shock and confusion. The aftermath of that terrible moment has forever changed the way we approach our everyday lives. While national security was compromised, and our way of life threatened, we refuse to live in a state of fear.