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Joy, Inc.
by Richard SheridanLast year 2,197 visitors came from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They made the trek not to learn about technology, but to witness a radically different approach to workplace culture- one intentionally designed to produce joy. CEO and Chief Storyteller Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal for Menlo’s staff, as well as their clients and the people who use the products they create, Sheridan and his team changed everything about how the company was run. Now he offers an inside look at a shared belief system that influences physical space, embraces making mistakes, and eliminates meetings-all while fostering dignity and respect for the team. Joy, Inc. is for readers in any field who want tangible examples of a healthier, happier atmosphere at work-leading to the sustainable business results required for growth. .
Joy, Inc.
by Richard SheridanThe moment you walk into Menlo Innovations, you can sense the atmosphere full of energy, playfulness, enthusiasm, and maybe even . . . joy. As a package-delivery person once remarked, "I don't know what you do, but whatever it is, I want to work here."Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture.CEO and "Chief Storyteller" Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. His own experience in the software industry taught him that, for many, work was marked by long hours and mismanaged projects with low-quality results. There had to be a better way.With joy as the explicit goal, Sheridan and his team changed everything about how the company was run. They established a shared belief system that supports working in pairs and embraces making mistakes, all while fostering dignity for the team.The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine "audacious small company." It has tripled its physical office three times and produced products that dominate markets for its clients.Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Sheridan and Menlo created a joyful culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results. Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process.Joy, Inc. offers an inspirational blueprint for readers in any field who want a committed, energizing atmosphere at work--leading to sustainable business results.
Joy: Life Lessons from a Tuscan Villa
by Debbie TravisLooking for the keys to a vibrant, joyful, vital life? Lifestyle pioneer Debbie Travis has found them in the Tuscan hills. And in her lively, inspiring way, she shares how to bring all that healthful magic home in Joy, a glorious book infused with the warmth and colour of life at the Villa Reniella, the thirteenth-century farmhouse retreat to which she welcomes guests from around the world.For more than ten years, Debbie Travis has watched the guests who come to her Tuscan retreats transform over the course of a single week of talking, walking, and eating together, until even the most driven and stressed-out feel so much better about themselves. When it's time to leave, they tell her it's the simple priorities of Tuscan life—the way the village locals, from young to old, take time for each other every day—that hit them in their hearts, and they pepper her with questions about how to retain what they've experienced when they get home. In Joy, Debbie offers the answers she gives them to all of us, capturing the essentials of the Tuscan lifestyle in a series of ten engaging and practical lessons—on everything from how to get a good night's sleep, to how to find community and rediscover purpose, to how to eat and drink like an Italian—designed to make our lives sweeter and healthier. Delightfully down-to-earth, Debbie draws on her own life experience, the example of her Tuscan neighbours, whose fabled longevity springs from the wisdom she captures in her lessons, and the expertise of her long-time friend and colleague, nutritional therapist Jacky Brown. Whether you wish to hit the reset button, start a new endeavour, regain your confidence, turn a page in your relationship, make changes to your worklife or your community, or simply reboot your vitality, these lessons will help guide you to a life filled with joy.
Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life
by Alexander LowenDr. Alexander Lowen believes that the key to personal change is contact with the body. This book rests on the idea that joy is a natural state, a positive feeling of the body, possible only through surrender to the body by listening to its wisdom and what it communicates. The book reviews the essentials of bioenergetic therapy in the light of other therapeutic approaches, and teaches how to surrender to joy by using bioenergetic principles. It discusses aggression, disappointment, sexual abuse, the fear of dying and issues of spirituality as it attempts to make joy a more common experience.
Joyce Meyer: Battlefield of the Mind, Power Thoughts, Mind Connection
by Joyce MeyerBattlefield of the Mind: Joyce shares the trials, tragedies and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family and ministry that have led her to amazing, life-transforming truth, and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way.Power Thoughts: Joyce outlines a flexible program to turn thoughts into habits, and habits into success. Sections feature bulleted keys to successful thinking in each chapter. Mind Connection: The quality of your thoughts directly affects your quality of life. What you think impacts your words, attitude, decisions and emotions. It's all connected: thoughts affect your entire life by influencing how you relate to yourself, other people and to God.
Joyful Outsiders: Six Ways to Live Like Jesus in a Disorienting Culture
by Patrick Keith Miller Keith SimonThis practical guide helps you find peace and clarity in a confusing culture. Through it, you will learn healthy, biblical ways to both cultivate and resist the world around you. You will learn how to change the culture without becoming like it.You probably feel more like an outsider in our culture today than you did ten years ago. If that's the case, you're not alone. The question is, what kind of outsider will you become? Will you become a combative outsider and rage against your enemies? Will you become a conformist outsider and mirror the world around you? Will you become a conflict-averse outsider and avoid confrontation at all costs?Jesus has so much for you. He's called you to be a joyful outsider like him. He was crucified as an outcast outside the city. Now he welcomes you to join him; to die to yourself and discover that sacrificial love has the power to change the world.In Joyful Outsiders, pastors Patrick Miller and Keith Simon will train you how to be a joyful outsider by laying out six ways to navigate a confusing culture at home, at work, and beyond. They draw on the examples of biblical characters to introduce six types of joyful outsiders: the artist, the protestor, the builder, the advisor, the ambassador, and the trainer. In Joyful Outsiders, you will:Discover joy by embracing your identity as an outsiderFind which of the six ways God is calling you to followExperience freedom from fear of the world and anger toward itLearn how to both resist and cultivate the world around you You might be an outsider in today's world, but that doesn't mean Jesus can't use you to change it. God wants to guide you into your calling, train you for action, and equip you to become a confident, Christlike culture changer.
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
by Ingrid Fetell LeeDesigner and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how to cultivate a happier, healthier life by making small changes to your surroundings. Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people -- regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity -- are mesmerized by baby animals, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons. We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward -- through mindfulness or meditation -- and muting the outside world. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy? In Joyful, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she explains why one setting makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters acceptance and delight -- and, most importantly, she reveals how we can harness the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, and truly joyful lives.
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
by Ingrid Fetell LeeDesigner and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how to cultivate a happier, healthier life by making small changes to your surroundings. Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people -- regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity -- are mesmerized by baby animals, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons. We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward -- through mindfulness or meditation -- and muting the outside world. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy? In Joyful, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she explains why one setting makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters acceptance and delight -- and, most importantly, she reveals how we can harness the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, and truly joyful lives.
Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World
by Anjuli SherinAn intersectional guide to building resilience and reclaiming joyWith so much information available on how to build resilience--from meditation, exercise, and time in nature, to the latest neuroscience-backed studies--have you ever wondered what's holding you back? If you commit to self-care but find yourself exhausted, unhappy, or anxious, do you wonder what's missing?The fact is, we are all navigating an exhausting, disconnecting, do-more-buy-more culture that disproportionately harms those with marginalized identities and leads us to believe that our thriving depends solely on individual effort. Mainstream wellness culture doesn't account for the ways that social oppression and economic injustice intersect to make resilience diffi cult for many of us to access in the first place. So, where do we begin? In this warm and accessible guide, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises, she offers a culturally informed, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance, healthy boundaries, pleasure, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience.
Joyously Through the Days
by Huston Smith Les KayeDrawing inspiration from such diverse sources as Khalil Gibran, Virginia Woolf, and Frank Sinatra, as well as the Bible and the great Zen masters of old, this book offers a path to rich and lasting happiness achieved through what Huston Smith calls "goal-attaining patience." In Joyously Through the Days, Les Kaye explores life's every day complexities and instructs us in the Zen way through our human foibles. Through awareness, patience, and generosity, Kaye argues, we can respond with creative calm to the uncertain conditions of modern life.
Jubak Picks: 50 Stocks That Will Rebuild Your Wealth and Safeguard Your Future
by Jim JubakThe Investing Strategy for All Seasons The Jubak Picks enables you to play great offense and great defense: to make money in the stock market in good times, to protect yourself during downturns, and to reap the biggest profits when the good times return. In good times, Jubak's strategy beats the market, delivering an amazing return of 360 percent over an eleven-year period. Compare that to the S&P 500 Stock Index return of 68 percent and we are talking about real money in your pocket. But times aren't always good and no investor can make money all the time. When stocks plunge during a grinding bear market, you need a strategy for playing great defense that preserves capital, so you can pounce when good buying opportunities present themselves. And best of all, Jubak's strategy tells what ten trends and fifty stocks will make you the most money when the market rebounds. Jim Jubak's top-down stock-picking method is based on being in the right asset at the right time, ensuring that your portfolio is composed of stocks with the wind at their back and that are trending upward. He shows how to find the best stocks by first understanding ten macro trends changing the world, including: * The economies--Brazil, Russia, Vietnam, India, China, and the "rest of the gang"--driving global demand * The return of inflation--and the end of the thirty-year era of low prices * The rising tide of retirement money in an older and wealthier world--and the crucial need for companies that can properly manage it * The commodities crunch in a world ever more hungry for natural resources * The end of cheap oil * Food as the "new oil" * The decline in global financial stability and the increasing value of safe investing havens * The world finally getting serious about the environment and global warming Why heed Jim Jubak and his method? * Start with the record: Returns that have beaten all major indices by a significant factor for more than a decade. . . and in bad times, such as the bear market of 2007-2008, losses that are just one-third those of the major indices. * Factor in transparency: Unlike those who tell you the hot stocks for today but conveniently forget them tomorrow, the decade-long record--triumphs, warts, and lessons--is on MSNmoney.com ("Jubak's Journal"). * Add in continual updates: Jubak will provide continual updates on MSNmoney.com of his fifty picks, providing a real-time assessment of stocks that are keepers and those that should be sold.
Judgement Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living a Better Life
by Gabrielle BernsteinJudgement - both being judged and judging others - is at the core of much of our discomfort many of our life blocks. Judgement is a reliable crutch when we feel hurt, insecure or vulnerable, but when we judge, our energy weakens and our thoughts darken. In the Judgement Detox, New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein offers an interactive six-step process for dealing with and removing judgement from our lives. Calling on spiritual principles from the text A Course in Miracles, Kundalini yoga, meditation, EFT and metaphysical teachings the six steps include: witnessing your judgement without judgement, honouring the wound, putting love on the altar, seeing for the first time, cutting the cords, and bringing your shadows to light.For those who struggle with judgement, this is the book that will finally give you permission and freedom to start living a more harmonious, forgiving and loving life.
Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living A Better Life
by Gabrielle BernsteinFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step process to release the beliefs that hold you back from living a better life.This six-step practice offers many promises. Petty resentments will disappear, compassion will replace attack, the energy of resistance will transform into freedom and you’ll feel more peace and happiness than you’ve ever known. I can testify to these results because I’ve lived them. I’ve never felt more freedom and joy than I have when writing and practicing these steps. My commitment to healing my own relationship to judgment has changed my life in profound ways. My awareness of my judgment has helped me become a more mindful and conscious person. My willingness to heal these perceptions has set me free. I have been able to let go of resentments and jealousies, I can face pain with curiosity and love, and I forgive others and myself much more easily. Best of all, I have a healthy relationship to judgment so that I can witness when it shows up and I can use these steps to quickly return to love. The Judgment Detox is an interactive six-step process that calls on spiritual principles from the text A Course in Miracles, Kundalini yoga, the Emotional Freedom Technique (aka Tapping), meditation, prayer and metaphysical teachings. I’ve demystified these principles to make them easy to commit to and apply in your daily life. Each lesson builds upon the next to support true healing. When you commit to following the process and become willing to let go, judgment, pain and suffering will begin to dissolve. And the miracles will keep coming. Once you begin to feel better you start to release your resistance to love. The more you practice these steps, the more love enters into your consciousness and into your energetic vibration. When you’re in harmony with love, you receive more of what you want. Your energy attracts its likeness. So when you shift your energy from defensive judgment to free-flowing love your life gets awesome. You’ll attract exactly what you need, your relationships will heal, your health will improve and you’ll feel safer and more secure. One loving thought at a time creates a miracle. Follow these steps to clear all blocks, spread more love and live a miraculous life.
Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World's Smallest Death Cafe
by Mark DowieAn old man learns how to die from a poet facing deathFor the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go: sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did.Judith was a poet, writer, activist, and artist who worked for decades teaching and collaborating with imprisoned lifers. Beloved by her community, Judith told almost no one when she was diagnosed with an incurable disease that would cause her immeasurable pain. Instead she chose to end life on her own terms. When they met, Mark Dowie had already been working for years to advocate for physician assistance in dying for terminally ill people in his home state of California. He helped many friends along this path, but it wasn't until he was introduced to Judith through a mutual friend that he came to a profound new understanding of death. Mark and Judith created a two-person "death café," a group devoted to discussions of death. They talked about many things during Judith's final months, but the rapidly approaching moment of her death came to inform and shape their entire conversation. Death was, as she said, “the undercurrent and the overstory of our relationship.” Judith Letting Go supports the right to plan one’s death, but it is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable.
Judith, Martyred Missionary of Russia: A True Story
by Nikita I. Saloff-AstakhoffFirst published in 1941, this is the incredible, true life story of a young Russian woman whose ministry ended in tragic death.“Exchanging silent glances, the murderers turned around and left the gruesome scene in the barn. Her quietness and undisturbed peace, her final prayer for their forgiveness, had astounded their cruel, hardened hearts and closed their lips. Staring at the ground, they left without dropping a word....”Judith Weinberg, born of wealthy Russian Jewish parents in the early 1900’s, had embraced a faith that cost her everything—family, fiancé, home and friends. And in the end, it cost Judith her life—cruelly snuffed out by the deadly swords of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.Judith by N. I. Saloff-Astakhoff is the incredible, true story of her life of sacrifice and service among the Russian people. It was the author’s privilege to have observed much of Judith’s life and Christian witness...and to have witnessed her untimely end.This book is dedicated to the men and women who discovered joyous new life through Judith Weinberg’s ministry, and others who will reap the rewards indirectly in years to come.
Judy Hall's Crystal Companion: Enhance your life with crystals
by Judy HallWith more than 45 years of experience in crystal healing, expert author Judy Hall is a leading authority on the use of crystals for personal and spiritual development. In this stunning book, she presents a curated collection of powerful crystals and beautifully communicates how these extraordinary entities can be employed to enhance our lives. With chapters on the body, heart, mind, spirit, children, karmic clearing, ancestral healing, grounding and protection, and home and environment, and with in-depth descriptions of both the practical and esoteric properties of each stone, Judy Hall's Crystal Companion is essential reading for crystal lovers everywhere.Featuring fresh, new photography and a clean, modern design, this book truly captures the striking beauty of the featured stones. Inside you will find that the colour-coded design ensures the ease of identification and navigation, making the guide suitable for entry-level and experienced crystal workers alike.
Judy Hall's Crystal Companion: Enhance your life with crystals
by Judy HallWith more than 45 years of experience in crystal healing, expert author Judy Hall is a leading authority on the use of crystals for personal and spiritual development. In this stunning book, she presents a curated collection of powerful crystals and beautifully communicates how these extraordinary entities can be employed to enhance our lives. With chapters on the body, heart, mind, spirit, children, karmic clearing, ancestral healing, grounding and protection, and home and environment, and with in-depth descriptions of both the practical and esoteric properties of each stone, Judy Hall's Crystal Companion is essential reading for crystal lovers everywhere.Featuring fresh, new photography and a clean, modern design, this book truly captures the striking beauty of the featured stones. Inside you will find that the colour-coded design ensures the ease of identification and navigation, making the guide suitable for entry-level and experienced crystal workers alike.
Judy Hall's Crystal Companion: Enhance your life with crystals
by Judy HallWith more than 45 years of experience in crystal healing, expert author Judy Hall is a leading authority on the use of crystals for personal and spiritual development. In this stunning book, she presents a curated collection of powerful crystals and beautifully communicates how these extraordinary entities can be employed to enhance our lives. With chapters on the body, heart, mind, spirit, children, karmic clearing, ancestral healing, grounding and protection, and home and environment, and with in-depth descriptions of both the practical and esoteric properties of each stone, Judy Hall's Crystal Companion is essential reading for crystal lovers everywhere.Featuring fresh, new photography and a clean, modern design, this book truly captures the striking beauty of the featured stones. Inside you will find that the colour-coded design ensures the ease of identification and navigation, making the guide suitable for entry-level and experienced crystal workers alike.
Juega como hombre, gana como mujer: Lo que los hombres saben del éxito que las mujeres tienen que aprender
by Gail EvansAhora, en su libro Juega como hombre, gana como mujer, Gail Evans revela los secretos para las jugadas de éxito y les enseña a las mujeres, de todos los niveles corporativos, cómo entrar al mundo de los negocios y jugarlo con ventaja. El libro permaneció varios meses en las listas de los más vendidos de The New York Times, Business Week y The Wall Street Journal. Esta obra se ha traducido a más de 18 idiomas con ventas sólidas en todo el mundo.De Gail Evans, autora del bestseller, She Wins, You Win. Un manual honesto y práctico que revela secretos importantes de las relaciones laborales entre hombres y mujeres, de lectura obligada para cada mujer que quiere tomar ventaja de su poder. Las mujeres conforman casi la mitad del mercado laboral hoy en día, pero en el mundocorporativo no comparten la mitad del poder. Sólo cuatro de las 500 compañías de Fortune están dirigidas por mujeres y sólo fue hace algunos años que la mitad de esas compañías contrataron a una mujer para altos cargos. ¿La razón? La mayoría de las mujeres nunca aprenden cómo jugar el juego de los negocios. A lo largo de su carrera en la industria de los medios -dominada por hombres- Gail Evans, una de las ejecutivas más poderosas de Estados Unidos, ha conocido a innumerables mujeres que le dicen que se sienten perdidas en su ambiente laboral, casi como si estuvieran jugando sin conocer las reglas del juego. Ella les dice que ese es exactamente el problema: los negocios son un juego, hay reglas para ganar. Gail ha descubierto que, en su mayoría, las mujeres no las conocen. Los hombres conocen las reglas porque ellos las escribieron, pero las mujeres se sienten alejadas del proceso porque no saben cuándo levantar la voz, cuándo pedir responsabilidades, qué decir en una entrevista y muchos otros movimientos clave que pueden hacer o deshacer su carrera. Compartiendo con humor sus años aleccionadores en la vida corporativa, la autora da a las lectoras herramientas prácticas para tomar las decisiones correctas en el trabajo. Entre las reglas que aprenderás están:-Cómo llevar el marcador en el trabajo. -Cuándo tomar un riesgo. -Cómo lidiar con el Síndrome Impostor. -Diez palabras que significan cosas diferentes para hombres y para mujeres. -Por qué los hombres pueden jugar sucio y tú no. -Cuándo renunciar.
Jug Fishing for Greazy and Other Brad Paisley Fishing Stories
by Brad PaisleyThanks to Brad Paisley's current hit song, "I'm Gonna Miss Her," people know two things-Brad Paisley loves fishing and he's got his priorities in order.Jug Fishing for Greazy and Other Brad Paisley Fishing Stories is a collection of some of Brad's favorite fishing memories including:Fishing with important men in his life such as his grandfather, Little Jimmy Dickens, World champion Bass angler Hank Parker, and his best friend and cowriter, Kelley Lovelace.The time when members of Lonestar filled Brad's onstage water bottle with minnows and sat in the front row of the concert hall throwing minnows at his forehead as he tried to sing "I'm Gonna Miss Her."The book includes an enhanced CD single of the song and the popular video for "I'm Gonna Miss Her".
Jugadores Anonimous Un Dia a la vez (A Day At a Time Gamblers Anonymous)
by AnonymousAn essential recovery tool for compulsive gamblers, the daily reflections and prayers in A Day at a Time offer us hope, support, and guidance throughout the year.Un día a la vez es una herramienta esencial para la recuperación de jugadores compulsivos, estas 366 reflexiones y oraciones diarias nos ofrecen esperanza, apoyo y guía durante el año. Además aborda problemas y temores que frecuentemente enfrentamos los que estamos en recuperación y nos ayudan a tratar de superarlos un día a la vez.
Jugar con fuego santo/ Playing With Holy Fire: Un llamado de atención a la iglesia pentecostal-carismática
by Michael L. BrownEs tiempo de limpiar la casa. A lo largo de los últimos más de cien años, la Iglesia pentecostal-carismática ha sido testigo de conversiones milagrosas. Desde el Avivamiento de la Calle Azusa que comenzó em 1906, el movimiento ha crecido para traer más personas a Jesús que cualquier otro movimiento en la historia. Mientras que el secularismo sigue al alza en la sociedad actual, en muchos lugares del mundo la iglesia sigue experimentando crecimiento gracias a los cristianos pentecostales-carismáticos. Pero la Iglesia pentecostal-carismática también se ve afligida por la inmoralidad sexual, la corrupción financiera, el error doctrinal, la excentricidad personal, la ingenuidad espiritual, el abuso profético y más. Em muchas maneras, el estado de la Iglesia pentecostal-carismática de hoy no es muy distinto del de la Iglesia de Corinto hace tantos años. Y para empeorar las cosas, pentecostales y carismáticos cubren estos asuntos bajo el manto de la libertad en el Espíritu Santo. Michael Brown hace sonar un llamado de atención a la iglesia y aborda algunos de los problemas más evidentes; desde las palabras proféticas poco precisas que oscurecen las profecías verdaderas, hasta los ministerios que utilizan técnicas de mercadotecnia envueltas en ropaje bíblico con el fin de manipular a los creyentes para que les den dinero. Brown nos muestra por qué debemos limpiar la casa para que la Iglesia pueda crecer, florecer y cumplir con los propósitos del Reino de Dios.
Jugar y Crecer. Un juego para cada día
by Neva MilicicEste libro pretende mostrarles a los padres y educadores cómo recuperar, a través del juego, ese espacio perdido y la real importancia que estos tienen para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo psicológico. Un libro para entretener a sus hijos y estimularlos a la vez. En una época cargada de juegos electrónicos y de un sobreconsumo de horas de televisión, donde el tiempo para desarrollar la imaginación y la creatividad en los niños escasea, este libro pretende mostrarles a los padres y educadores cómo recuperar, a través del juego, ese espacio perdido y la real importancia que estos tienen para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo psicológico. Lanas, botones, cajas vacías, música y calcetines pueden bastar para estimular a los hijos y enseñarles, de manera divertida, a soñar e improvisar. Se revelan así más de cien juegos agrupados especialmente, por expertas profesionales, para compartir con los niños en cada etapa de su desarrollo, explicando las habilidades que se adquieren en cada una de las actividades ya sean cognitivas, motoras y socioemocionales. Organizado por edades (2 a 4 años, 5 a 7 años, 8 a 10 años) y para distintas ocasiones ("Al aire libre", "Cumpleaños", "Estoy enfermo", "Voy de viaje" y "Está lloviendo") Jugar y crecer. Un juego para cada día es una invitación a validar el derecho de los niños a divertirse y a rescatar aquellas clásicas entretenciones de antaño.
Juggling Elephants
by Jones Loflin Todd MusigWhat do you do when your life feels as busy as a three-ring circus? Juggling Elephants tells a simple but profound story about one man with a universal problem. Mark has too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress, and too little time. As he struggles to balance his many responsibilities without cracking under the pressure, Mark takes a break to attend the circus with his family. There he has a surprising conversation with a wise ringmaster. He leaves with a simple but powerful lesson: Trying to get everything done is like juggling elephants -- impossible. So Mark begins to think about his work, family, and personal life the way a ringmaster thinks about the many acts in a three-ring circus. He discovers that managing his various acts can be fun and easy once he changes his attitude and follows his new friend?s ongoing guidance. Mark soon realizes: ? If you keep trying to juggle elephants, no one, including you, will be thrilled with your performance. ? A ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. ? The key to the success of a circus is having quality acts in all three rings. ? Intermission is an essential part of any good circus. Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they?re about to be squashed. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you?ll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus, instead of letting the circus run you.
Juggling Work and Caregiving
by Amy GoyerA staggering 50 million Americans face the challenges of caring for a loved one while working. Although caregiving can be a richly rewarding experience, the role comes with enormous responsibilities--and pressures. AARP's gentle guide provides practical resources and tips that are easy to find when you need them, whether you're caregiving day to day, planning for future needs or in the middle of a crisis. And equally important, this book helps you care for the caregiver--you. Author Amy Goyer, an expert in aging and families, provides insight, inspiration and her own poignant story as a live-in caregiver to her parents.ABOUT THE AUTHORAmy Goyer is an expert in aging and families, specializing in family caregiving and multigenerational issues. She works as a consultant, speaker and writer. She has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, PBS Nightly Business Report and NPR, and her clients have included AARP, Generations United, MetLife, Georgia State University and Penn State University. She began her career in this arena more than 30 years ago, first as a music therapist and working with children and older adults in adult day services centers and nursing homes. She is the author of Things to Do Now You're a Grandparent and won the 2012 ALTY Best Blog Award in Caregiving category and as a Finalist in Seniorhomes.com's Social Media Rockstar Award. But the most important role she plays, she says, is as the primary caregiver for her parents, ages 86 and 89.