No matter what you do or where you are in life the ability to think creatively is crucial for your success and survival. The more you develop your skills at creative thinking the more you'll master your environment - whatever it may be. Creative thinkers are all around you. People who juggle responsibilities and obligations. People who find ways to achieve a lot with minimum resources. People who use their talents to maximum effect. Creative thinking is the skill you need to overcome wha...

Ninety-nine percent of those individuals who achieve their goals do so not because they are especially talented intelligent good-looking or even lucky but rather because they find the courage and guts to act in pursuit of their dreams and persist against setbacks. Willpower - the strength to act or forbear from acting in the pursuit of a gaol - is a critical determinant to success. With any goal there are times when action is needed ("I should go to the gym") and times when forbearance is nee...

If you're considering launching your own direct sales business then congratulations! You are entering the world of entrepreneuring where your results are directly tied to your individual efforts. This book will help you not only make it through this period but also set the foundation for real success in the years to come. We're not 'shilling' for the direct sales business. We are not funded by any direct sales company. Our goal is to give you the facts and to help you be t...

We've all know the expression 'It's not what you know it's who you know.' Although there's a lot of truth to that I prefer to think of it like this:You can never have too large a network. You can never have too many people who will take your call read your email meet with you and help you. Of course you have to work hard at what you know. Your business value depends on what you can do for people. Therefore you must possess some skill knowledge or expertise that o...

Credit cards a big topic about such a small item (3.37 inches by 2.12 inches). The first thing to know about credit cards is that nobody stood up and asked the banks to invent them. In fact when credit cards first appeared on a grand scale (1958) it was because the Bank of America put thousands of cards in the hands of one California city. America began to change on a mid-September day in 1958 when the Bank of America dropped its first 60000 credit cards on the unassuming city of Fresno Calif...

In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools. This book builds on the powerful stories of marginalized youth and their teachers, who contest the policies that are destructive to their communities: decentralization, charter schools, market-...

Nearly 100 books and articles on time management were digested and synthesized to write this book. What did we learn? The whole process was a waste of time! Every source said the same things. There are about 50 principles of time management that you need to know. Once you learn them you have everything you need. All 50 principles are addressed in The Skinny on Time Management. The Skinny On books examine and synthesize the leading research on an array of topics determine the bottom-line need-...

Ninety-nine percent of the world's success goes to those people who find the courage to pursue their dreams with everything they have. We do not believe that success is somehow reserved for the smartest most talented best-looking or even the luckiest. We believe that the likelihood of your achieving your goals and aspirations is a direct function of the heart and will you bring to the pursuit. This book will help you reflect upon your potential. We do not patronize with the bromide "you ...

Persuasion : the act of convincing influencing or inducing. Great persuaders - people who can get into your brain and massage your cerebrum. Wow! What is more powerful than that? Our team here at The Skinny On has studied great persuaders going back hundreds of years. We synthesized 35 very respected very wordy books into 182 pages of straight-to-the-point insight. We learned that persuasiveness is an acquired skill. There are principles techniques and strategies that you can develop to boost...

This is an in-depth look into how America dragged itself into the worst housing and credit crisis since The Great Depression. The reader is introduced to Billy and Beth and learns about the housing crisis through their experiences with real estate agents house inspectors appraisers mortgage brokers lenders and attorneys. Each of these encounters is a lesson for any person considering the purchase or sale of a home investing in real estate or just taking out a mortgage. We learn how mortgage s...

A memoir of Cameron Drew's secret life as an undercover, surfing FBI agent.

**One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it."Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't, and how to build it. A terrific read." —Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Management, Director of Center for Customer Insights**Pi...