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Bestselling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen present another joyful collection of stories for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul you will find shining examples of the best qualities we all share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, hope, courage, dedication, generosity and faith.

Stories may be the most powerful teaching tool available to us, especially when the lessons being taught are love, necessary losses, respect and values. In this volume of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the authors share more collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, learning, death, attitude and overcoming obstacles. This book will warm your heart, brighten your darkest day and put a smile on your face that will last a lifetime..
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Venus and Serena Williams have something to say. But it isn't all about tennis. It's about life and how to play it.

These superstars and super sisters share their secrets in this straight-talking smart guide. Speaking candidly about their personal experiences, the sisters give you the inside scoop on:

• What it takes to rise and stay on top.
• Who watches their backs when the pressure is on.
• How they spend—and save—their money.
• Dating—their real deal on romance.
• Book smarts—keeping grades up and study stress down.
• Loving the skin you're in.

This book offers solid advice for getting an advantage in every game you play..
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No one wants to end life's journey wondering: Did my life count for something? Did I have a reason for being here? The stories in this book show that for people of all ages, income levels, and expertise, the answer can be a resounding "Yes!" From extraordinary examples -- relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina or work in refugee camps in Afghanistan -- to localized, everyday actions, the authors demonstrate that living a life of service to others, and seeing how lives are changed as a result, establishes the meaning and significance all humans long for. Moreover, the book provides strategies for creating a purposeful life through daily service. The authors prove that the ability to find fulfillment is within reach, and that the discovery is waiting to be made in homes, workplaces, communities, neighborhoods, and schools all across America..
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RN Helps Others Avoid Nurse Burnout, Turnover with New Book The Nurse Doctor Provides Techniques, Coaches Peers to Care for Themselves in Order to Help Others Nurse burnout and turnover is a serious issue facing America s healthcare system, annually accounting for one-in-five of the country s 2 million nurses to change jobs or quit the profession outright. This tumult is part of a larger problem where work-related stress is contributing to a $26 billion challenge for U.S. healthcare facilities today. Doris L. Young, R.N., Ph.D., has been a nurse for more than three decades and has seen the problem first hand in surgical and trauma units and behavioral units at major hospitals; in fact she s suffered from burnout herself. Now the healthcare coach, speaker, author, and self-described Nurse Doctor hopes to teach other nurses how to deal with stress and experience fulfillment in their work and personal lives and advise healthcare administrators about the problem. With this book, I want to coach nurses and I want to teach managers to be coaches, Young said. In Save the First Dance for You The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Patients, and Yourself, Young lays out in 10 chapters several practical and coping techniques she s developed for nurses facing the challenges of today s hectic healthcare workplace and demanding home lives. Using a dance instruction metaphor (a personal interest of the author), the book presents a 10-step program to reconcile the tensions between a nurse s calling to help and please others sometimes at expense of their own health and happiness. This book is not on how to change the system, but individuals, Young says. I wrote this book for nurses who want to redesign their day-to-day work lives, and rejuvenate the songs in their hearts and spring in their steps. Young s central premise is that nurses often put other people s needs first and their own needs last, and that can cause the nurs.
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If you consider yourself called to serve people, then you are a "priest", according to Michael Dwinell. In a series of provocative meditations, Dwinell interprets 24 startling images of "being priest"..
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What does it mean to say that a pastor is competent? And how does a competent pastor function? This book is intended to help pastors, seminarians, and lay people who work with pastors understand and answer these two questions.

Competence in ministry is a moving target. A ministry technique that works in one parish may not work in another. What works today may not work five years from now. But a competent pastor will be able to adapt to changing locations and changing times. A competent pastor will be happy in her job—or able to figure out why she’s not happy and how to move forward. A competent pastor won’t get stuck—or when he does get stuck, he’ll know what steps to take to get unstuck. Competence, defined by author Ronald Sisk as "the ability to do what needs to be done," requires ministers to understand themselves and others and to keep a realistic perspective on their lives. Competent pastors function by moving toward this kind of understanding and perspective.

"Reading this book felt like a carrying on stimulating dialogue with an exceptionally gifted pastor. Ron Sisk has not written just another book about pastoral ministry. He literally defines it as crucial work that requires both passion and vulnerability. I would like to walk into any pastor’s study and see this book open on the desk." —G. Lloyd Rediger.
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Story of prosecution of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald for the triple murders of his family. Subsequent fall from grace from the practice of law, diagnosis fo severe depression, subsequent imprisonment, and later waiting tables in very public restaurant to survive. A story of how to survive extreme adversity...a real journey of faith..
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You have the job, the cars, the house, the family, the church, the pets - there aren't enough hours in the day, days in the week, or months in the year to accomplish everything you need to do. This book is for you. Or maybe you're on the opposite end of the spectrum, struggling through each day as it achingly passes, moment by moment. This book is for you, too. Whether you have too much, just right, or not enough, Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn gently reminds us of the power, the joy, and the simplicity of service. Through inspiring stories and personal reflections, James Riley encourages us to begin a "lifelong and continuous journey toward learning and serving for the common good" in our every day lives, whether we find ourselves harried or hurting or both. Unlike many self-help methods, Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn does not call for action first. Rather, it asks us to ponder, to contemplate, and ultimately to live our lives well and fully. It explores the meaning of true service, the joy of true service, and the relationship between service and leadership. The principles are simple, encompassing the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. But since the journey is long, Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn is light and easy to carry - both in our hands, and in our hearts. In the hustle-bustle, hurry-scurry of every waking minute, it's easy to forget the little things that matter most. Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn is a book just in time for all of us..
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