Purposeful Breathing is a practical, user-friendly guide to simple breathing skills that can rapidly reduce states you don’t want and increase states you do want. For anyone suffering from anxiety, feeling calmer can happen in a breath or two. For anyone wanting to boost performance, the right breathing skills will help them to get into ‘the zone’. The book also teaches breathing skills for longer term health and healing, informed by new discoveries from psychology and neuroscience.

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand.On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO...

Use communication as your key to transformation.Connection is a fundamental need, but creating it isn't easy-this is where communication is your cornerstone. But like any foundation, this cornerstone is only as strong as you make it.Whether you need to share insight, develop a brand, or craft your company's story, you can make an impact by identifying your purpose, discovering the power in public speaking, and forming a plan for effective presentations. In Comm...

Capt. Kramer, USMC (ret.) and his four-footed partner, Sgt. Shadow, USMC (ret.) take on a new team member when investigations into a huge diamond heist links it to ISIS and their nemesis, Shelley Harper, head of an international crime organization and subject of a 3 year hunt.Kramer and Harper have a score to settle with one another. Harper's husband killed Kramer's parents and his fiancée and Kramer regards Harper guilty by association. And Harper holds Kramer and the FBI responsib...

Do you size, design, or sell solar and storage systems? Would your customers consider those systems 100 percent successful? Pick up The Battery-Powered Home and turn your solar and storage customers into the best lead generators you could ask for. Written by a solar-and-storage technical trainer with more than thirteen years of experience, The Battery-Powered Home identifies the most common industry mistakes that lead to unhappy customers, lost revenue, and diminished reputation. Learn how...

Devotions from Oakdale are to encourage the reader with daily inspirational and motivational encouragement from the writer, Greg Smith, while serving a prison sentence in Oakdale Federal Correctional Institute in Oakdale, Louisiana. Greg wants to uplift and share his positive attitude even under adverse times to show that anyone can overcome anything in life if you allow God to be the center of your daily walk.

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." -Vernon Law You don't know what you don't know. So how do you know what not to know? Experiences. Filled with experiences and lessons learned through a life in public education and athletics. Using metaphors of doing dirty laundry to inspire ourselves to lead by example. It's a reminder that no task is too small or beneath us when we're committed to servant leadership, both at work and in life. By embrac...

Business leader Greg Smith has spent his adult life studying public speaking best practices with the top speaker-trainers in America. Speak Like a Pro without Looking Like a Jack@$$ is a distillation of all he has learned over the years working with the masters… condensed in an easy-to-follow guide with useful advice for both novice and experienced speakers. In the age of email, texting, and other digital communication, it's easy to forget that life's most important events happen when two ...

When the Junior Braves of Tribe 65 return from a camping trip to find swarms of bloodthirsty mutants have overrun their town, bringing death and destruction everywhere they go! With their families missing and their homes destroyed, these plucky kids must use all their scouting talents, combined smarts, and teamwork to survive the end of the world!

Organisations invest time, money, resources, and personnel into trying to ensure that their workplaces are safe. Very often, the output of all this expenditure is injury rate data, which has, time and again been discredited as a measure of safety. In response, many organisations have adopted so called "lead" indicators to supplement injury rate data. Unfortunately, lead indicators take the question of safety no further. Almost universally, lead indicators are no more than a measur...

Many books discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic perspective. Becoming Agile takes a different approach and focuses on explaining Agile from a case-study perspective. Agile principles are discussed, explained, and then demonstrated in the context of a case study that flows throughout the book. The case study is based on a mixture of the author's real-world experiences.Becoming Agile also focuses on the importance of adapting Agile principles to the realitie...

In a zombie wasteland of unknown origin, Troop 65 marshals onwards in the hopes of finding their families in Seattle, the nearest logical evacuation location. After a difficult journey by land and river, they make a stop in a suburban town that serves as ground zero of a battle between a corporate office that may have caused the apocalypse and the survivors staying in a nearby tribal casino.