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Now What? takes over where Po Bronson's What Should I Do with My Life? leaves off to provide a clear and infinitely practical ninety-day program for discovering a new direction for your life.

In Now What?, pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully with hundreds of clients to help them make major changes in their lives. Whether it's moving on from a dead-end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age-old question: "What am I meant to do with my life?"-this book shows how to identify what's missing in life, and how to set a clear course for realizing new dreams. Readers will learn from the success stories of Berman Fortgang's clients, including:

* a woman who left her unfulfilling job to discover the rewards of doing motivational work with professional athletes;
* a high-fashion shoe executive who found a more gratifying position helping adoption agencies around the world place children in need of homes; and
* a highly paid corporate consultant who became a minister.

For anyone who feels drawn toward a life-changing move but is not sure what exactly they want to do or how to move forward, this book provides a concrete, practical, and time-bound process for finding and pursuing a new path for your life. Full of inspiring and empowering exercises and tools, Now What? guides readers-day by day and step by step-through a ninety-day process that will lead to true life satisfaction and fulfillment..
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Being happy doesn't have to be hard, says prominent personal coach Laura Berman Fortgang We each possess an internal compass that expresses our individual wisdom and points to the things that would most fulfill us. Personal and professional satisfaction, Fortgang believes, comes from tapping into this wisdom.

In Living Your Best Life, she offers ten tried-and-true strategies that help us to access our own inner knowledge to achieve what she calls a "best life"-a life that awaits all of us, in which gains come more easily because we've learned to honor our true desires and work with our individual talents rather than exhausting our energy on a traditional model of achievement. Her techniques focus on asking ourselves what we really want instead of frenetically trying to "have it all." We learn to ask questions that move us forward, not backward, to discover our own unique "lucrative purpose," and to design a "magnet" life plan that draws to us the more rewarding existence we deserve..
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An updated and expanded edition of the classic career book from a pioneer in the personal-coaching field.

If you're looking for job search advice, this book is not for you. If you want to know about writing a risumi, creating a cover letter, honing interview skills, or dressing for success, you're in the wrong place. But if you're willing to take charge of your career like never before, if you're prepared to be responsible for the choices you make and have the guts to ask for what you really want, then get ready to take yourself to the top.

In this updated and expanded edition of Laura Berman Fortgang's exemplary business/self-help book, readers will learn:

- how to leap out of that mid-career rut
- how to completely and honestly assess your career's progress
- how to identify obstacles that keep you from reaching your goals
- how to turn your back on what many people might call "success" to discover your true life calling.
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With expert advice and proven guidelines to overcoming career huddles, Laura Berman Fortgang guides readers towards their goals on the job and at home. By integrating new concepts, skills and paradigms with their own goal-setting, readers can create a dramatically positive effect on life and career, and conquer the eight most common career/life stumbling blocks, which are:

* Getting stalled in mid-career
* Feeling trapped and wanting to do something else
* Merely surviving instead of succeeding
* Being new at entrepreneurship
* Being enslaved to sales ups and downs
* Feeling overqualified and underutilized
* Taking on too many projects and feeling overwhelmed
* Waiting for a miracle
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This is an enhanced edition of HBR article R0302E, originally published in February 2003. HBR OnPoint articles include the full-text HBR article plus a summary of key ideas and company examples to help you quickly absorb and apply the concepts. Most experienced negotiators are comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract--they bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and finesse detailed exit clauses. Yet these same seasoned professionals spend so much time ironing out the letter of the deal that they often pay little attention to the spirit of the deal--the social contract. And that can lead to major problems, say the authors, because even though the parties agree to the same terms on paper, they may have very different expectations about how to meet them. Because the parties have failed to have a true meeting of the minds, they sign a deal that is likely to fall apart. To avoid such a disastrous outcome, negotiators should explicitly discuss the details of their social contract before inking the deal. For instance, what are the real nature, extent, and duration of the agreement? And in practice, how will we make decisions, handle unforeseen events, communicate with one another, and resolve disputes? The authors also highlight risk factors that can lead to misunderstandings and expose common misperceptions about the social contract..
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Despite your negotiating savvy, you may not seal the deal your company wants. Even if you do, the agreement can fall apart when you start implementing it. How to strike deals that create real value for your firm? Apply these strategies: First, before the bargaining begins, shape the deal's setup. Working behind the scenes, ensure that the right parties are approached in the right order and about the right issues. Second, at the table, identify your counterpart's priorities. Then shape his decisions so he chooses what you want because it's in his interest, too. Third, cultivate an implementation mind-set. Focus less on closing deals and more on establishing successful long-term relationships by brainstorming your agreement's practical implications and devising implementation strategies. Finally, attend to the spirit of the deal--tacit assumptions about the nature of your agreement and how you'll work together while carrying it out. The payoff? Deals that look great on paper and work out brilliantly in practice. The four Harvard Business Review articles in this collection: "Getting Past Yes: Negotiating As If Implementation Mattered" by Danny Ertel (HBR reprint R0411C); "Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators" by James K. Sebenius (HBR reprint R0104E); "Negotiating the Spirit of the Deal" by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and James K. Sebenius (HBR reprint R0302E); and "3-D Negotiation: Playing the Whole Game" by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius (HBR reprint R0311D)..
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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name. The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

• Name Meaning and Origin
• Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
• Family Lifestyles
• Military Service History
• Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research

Plus, the "Discover Your Family" section provides tools and guidance on how you can get started learning more about your own family history.

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Nearly 300,000 titles are currently available in the Our Name in History series, compiled from Billions of records by the world's largest online resource of family history, Ancestry.com..
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