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Paperback When Life Happens: Dare Stretch Prosper Becoming Your Best You...Despite Life's Difficulties Book

ISBN: 0999442708

ISBN13: 9780999442708

When Life Happens: Dare Stretch Prosper Becoming Your Best You...Despite Life's Difficulties

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Have you always wondered how to apply confidence and to employ the process of positivity to overcome challenges? Now you can conquer all the major setbacks in your life and rise above the circumstances threatening to crush you "When Life Happens" is the special guide to turning your life around - it offers invaluable lessons in self-direction in a balanced way by teaching how to find "that something" in you. This book provides practical strategies for overcoming negative thoughts and behaviors, and building critical thinking skills. It also describes techniques for accepting, embracing, and learning from the experiences of life, improving communication skills and developing greater personal happiness. Within the pages of this refreshing book, Marion dishes out techniques that are guaranteed to ignite your business, relationships, and life starting now. It focuses on the five strategies and the 21 tips that help people to tap into their "that something". The book ends by asking the reader to Dare...Stretch...Prosper. Because, climbing the ladder of life as well as success is certain to have rungs that are missing, rungs filled with fear and doubt, rungs of "I give up." But, if you stay the course, and move onward and upward the ladder, you can be assured that opportunity is there, success is there, and prosperity is there. The discoveries in this book will completely change any reader's life
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The Story of Ruby Bridges

This is a great book for facilitating what African-Americans had to go through in oreder to go to a white, segregated school. This will help children to understand the present as well. It helps them to understand why there is still such a problem with racism. Ruby, the first black child to attend a segregated school, sets a great example for children to follow. The text is easy to read throughout, offering the viewpoint...

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The Story of Ruby Bridges, An Eye Opening Book

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True story of courage in a six year old girl

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