Bøger af Sheila Ashdown

Deal with the past. Aspire to the future. Live the life of your dreams. Popular culture tells us that our childhood and teenage years should be easy and carefree. But the truth is, even when we're young, we're not immune to hardship. Life is a long education in learning to work through it. We all face challenges, but we all have the innate capacity to succeed in spite of them. In Motivate from Within, Camille Adana shares her inspiring story of growing and thriving through hardship. Though she was raised in a home environment of domestic violence, drug abuse, and instability, she went on to become a successful athlete and teacher and a happy, healthy adult. How did she do it? By creating and following her own personal development framework, ADANA Dynamics. This five-part system teaches and encourages people to acknowledge their current reality, deal with the past, aspire to the future, have a no-nonsense attitude, and maintain accountability to themselves. Now, Adana shares ADANA Dynamics with young adult readers-and with the parents and educators who want to understand the young people in their lives. With Motivate from Within, Adana offers insights and practical tools to encourage readers to cultivate self-love, dream big, define success for themselves, and go after it with a positive attitude. The book includes inspiring concepts, personal stories, and hands-on exercises that are designed to help readers harness their inner motivation and make major shifts in their lives.

Projects are the lifeblood of any organization that wants to grow, improve, and innovate. Unfortunately, too many projects fail, wasting time and money while sinking stock prices and brand loyalty. These failures jeopardize the health of a company and the livelihood of its people. In Project Sponsorship: Winning Strategies for Executive Leaders, Terri Carbone illustrates how simple shifts in mindset and habits can have a dramatic impact on the success of a project. Drawing on over two decades of experience in project management, Carbone offers compelling storytelling and practical strategies that will challenge and inspire executive sponsors.

In 2011, a motorcycle accident left Greg Nordfelt with a traumatic brain injury and multiple broken bones. When he rejoined the world after eleven days in and out of a coma and nearly a month of memory loss, Greg found himself radically changed. Formerly an athletic adrenaline-junkie and successful banking executive, he could no longer walk, speak, read, or write. As he worked earnestly to relearn these fundamental human skills, his wife, Laura, was getting a crash-course training in her new role as Greg's full-time caregiver. To complicate matters, while Laura was overwhelmed with grief, worry, and post-traumatic stress, Greg was having a very different experience. No one knew it, but a near-death experience had landed him into a state of euphoria, where no negativity or pain could penetrate his blissful "safe place." The story follows Greg and Laura through the gruesome accident and its long-term aftermath as they work to rebuild their lives and nurture their marriage. Along the journey, they meet with hardships, isolation, and pain-but they also find unexpected turns, surprising gifts, and a new sense of community with others whose lives have been affected by traumatic brain injury.