Showing results by publisher "Phoenix Books" in Personal Development

As a star safety for the Los Angeles Rams, Johnnie Johnson's personal approach to the game of football helped him to excel for 10 years. Today, Johnson uses that same personal approach to get ahead in the business world, where he owns 2 companies - a personal development firm and a highly successful real estate agency. Find out the secrets of Johnson's method in this powerful, engaging account, which shows how to take immediate control of your life.

Build a stronger vocabulary in just an hour with this fast and funny exercise program. You'll learn tough words and tricky meanings, and you can test your knowledge at the end of each session with a quick quiz. The tape includes parts of speech, spellings, definitions, pronunciations, and 60 troubling terms - and all with humorous or pointed examples that help you remember them easily. Author Jeffrey McQuain created the Smithsonian Institution's first course on the American language and coauthored the best seller The Elements of English.

In today's highly competitive business environment, you must know how to write in a clear and convincing way if you want to get ahead. This unique audio enables you to do so quickly and easily! Business writing consultant Carol Gelderman provides simple techniques and practical examples.

Live Rich is an audio book about living life to its fullest. It addresses every person's desire for self respect, a greater understanding of life, motivation, creativity, and financial, personal, and romantic success. It is an audio book that shows how freeing one from the controlling influence of our fears can set the stage for a wealth of new possibilities. It will make one realize that only a life well lived can lead to a life with no regrets.

Both motivating and prescriptive, The Hourglass Solution suggests a new way of thinking about choices in life and how mid-life can be a time of renewal and expanded choices rather than a time of restrictions and the status quo. Identifying ways to get life "unstuck," The Hourglass Solution guides the reader through the process of redefining choices for the second half of his or her life.

Feeling weighed down by all your responsibilities and the constant pressures of your personal and professional life? Well, there's no time like the present to lighten your load. Let Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro show you how to let go of excess baggage and create your own vision of happiness and success. You'll learn how to balance work, love, and purpose by "unpacking" your physical, emotional, and intellectual luggage and "repacking" it to make the most of your life's journey.

The "web" has become our most powerful ecological image of the interconnectedness of all creatures, yet this image predates science, it is present in every culture's anthology. Chief Seattle said "Whatever man does to the web, he does to himself." Award-winning journalist Richard Louv explores the fragile network that connects people and the strands that make it up: nature, childhood, adulthood, spirit, purpose, and community.

We are now able to lengthen our lives, prolong our healthy and vital years and reduce the risk of chronic, debilitating illnesses that have come to define old age. In this amazing book Dr. Stuart Berger describes his breakthrough anti-aging discoveries and tells what they can do for you. You will be able to repair the damages of age and in some cases actually reverse the aging process. You can keep your heart, vascular system and brain young and vigorous.

This book will help you confront your limitations and blocks and convert them into triumphs. It is based on down-to-earth techniques that will get results and make you effective in life. "Do it now!" is the motto of the author, renowned director and teacher Milton Katselas.

Are you so accustomed to feeling just "okay" that you've forgotten what it's like to feel really great? Would you like to feel your very best, each and every day, now and for the rest of your life? If the answer is yes you are a candidate for the Medical Makeover. Developed by Dr. Robert M. Giller and presented by Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Seagren, the Medical Makeover is a revolutionary approach to health care.

The Woman's Book of Soul offers encouraging and inspirational and inspirational affirmations and practical advice for all women. Thoele teaches her readers to listen to and act on the wisdom of their hearts, providing a lifetime of spiritual nourishment. This audio book offers Thoele's own stories along with those of other women to illustrate the continuous journey toward selfhood, the enhancement of personal power, and a deep connection to spirit.

Although it sometimes seems as if we're merely walking the same path as thousands of people before us, everyone walks it their own unique way. Every person we meet, thing we touch, and situation we encounter bears the mark of our distinctive individual selves. This life-affirming guide is for people who are struggling with their direction in the face of constant changes in the family, society, and workplace. The author offers provocative insights and practical advice to help seekers evaluate who they are, what they're doing, and where they'd like to go.

Bon vivant Ed Victor, premier literary agent to some of the world’s most popular authors (Jack Higgins, Anne Robinson, Nigella Lawson…to name but a few), gained 30 pounds after a little too much of the good life at banquets, parties, and fine restaurants. Knowing that the only way he could diet was to devise his own regimen and with tips from friends, he lost the weight he gained and then some. Here he reveals hints, advice and recipes for weight loss that will inspire you with a whole new look at dieting.

Relationship breakdown, divorce, dissatisfaction, and family discord are all too common as couples scramble to provide a better life for themselves and their families. With this guide, noted marriage counselor Mary Sotile and psychologist Wayne Sotile show today's stressed-out supercouples—men and women juggling dual careers, family obligations, and their marriages—how to become couples who can have it all while supporting each other and creating balance in their hectic lives.

Want to have more fun in and out of the sack? Could you use some help when it comes to exciting foreplay and afterplay? Would you like to know more about erotic techniques like tantric sex and sexual massage? Let noted sex educator Sari Locker show you how to explore your sexual responses, make more rewarding sexual choices, and enhance your sexual pleasure

The country is in a sexual funk, so what can we do about it? Discover the all-natural alternative that can improve sexual health safely—at any age. Authors Stuart W. Fine, M.D., and Brenda D. Adderley, M.H.A., examine the causes of decreased sexual desire in men and women and offer a simple 4-step plan for recapturing vigor and improving the sexual health of you and your mate. They offer practical advice to those suffering from sexual desire disorder, discuss the causes of the ailment, and suggest therapeutic techniques designed to reawaken sexual interest.