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Attitude is Everything: 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action
by Keith Harrell

From the back cover: In the world of professional speakers, Keith Harrell is making a difference. Clients such as IBM , Coca-Cola, and Boeing know it – that's why Keith is one of the most in-demand speakers on the circuit. Here, in Attitude is Everything , he shares the secrets that got him where he is today and provides you with a program for developing a healthier, happier, more productive attitude.

Choices That Change Lives: 15 Ways to Find More Purpose, Meaning, and Joy
by Hal Urban

From the back cover: Hal Urban, author of the much-loved bestsellers Life's Greatest Lessons and Positive Words, Powerful Results , gives us his third book of inspirational and practical wisdom on leading a more meaningful and more joyful life. With Choices That Change Lives , Hal reminds us that our lives are the result of our choices and the most important choices we make become our character traits, the ones that lead to fulfillment and peace of mind. He illuminates fifteen character traits that help us more fully develop our capacity to live rich and rewarding lives. He assures us that it's never too late to change, to break the chains of self-defeating attitudes and habits, and challenges us to dig a little deeper – to grow in such qualities as humility, patience, empathy, and courage – and to renew ourselves daily.

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Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power
by Andrew Weil, M.D.

From the back cover: In Eight Weeks to Optimum Health , Dr. Andrew Weil translates the brilliant insights and discoveries he outlined in his acclaimed bestseller Spontaneous Healing into a practical plan of action: a week-by-week, step-by-step program for enhancing and protecting present and lifelong health. The Eight-Week Program sets up a foundation for healthy living that will keep you body's natural healing system in peak working order.

The Habit Change Workbook:  James Claiborn, Ph.D.

The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones
by James Claiborn, Ph.D., ABPP, and Cherry Pedrick, R.N.

From the cover: Proven techniques for eliminating a wide range of unwanted habits – from nail-biting to overspending, from junk food to procrastination, from chronic lateness to excessive Internet use – and replacing them with healthy, satisfying habits.

 

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Healthy Choices (CD)
Music by Steven Eckels

From the web site: Use the power of your mind and vivid sensory images to promote wellness in all areas of your life. The affirming messages that emerge from your spirit will prepare you for healthier living.

Lifestyle ( 7:15 )
Eating ( 7:30 )
Exercise ( 7:15 )
Stress ( 7:30 )
Relationships ( 7:00 )
Change ( 7:30 )

Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time
by Cheryl Richardson

From the back cover: How often do you daydream about living a better life – a life that reflects more of you , your values and deepest desires? How many times have you come to the end of a busy week and toyed with the fantasy of packing a bag and leaving it all behind?

The “Life Makeover” program is a powerful year-long program for change. It is designed to support you in changing your life one week at a time. Each chapter consists of a topic of the week and contains a Take Action Challenge and a Resources section to support you in taking action quickly and easily.

The Life Strategies Workbook: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Change Your Life
by Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.

From the back cover: Life Strategies , the New York Times number one bestseller, is a smash international hit. Oprah's resident expert on human functioning continues to impact millions the world over with his no-nonsense, action-oriented life-changing philosophies. Now, in The Life Strategies Workbook , Dr. McGraw provides exercises and questionnaires to help you make major much-needed and long-put-off changes in your life.

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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
by Daniel J. Siegel

From the back cover: “ The Mindful Brain marks a major landmark in the emerging field of contemplative neuroscience. Daniel Siegel offers a provocative, highly original, and brilliant theory integrating mindfulness meditation with brain research, one that will shape thinking in the field for years to come. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the science of mind and mindfulness.” – Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

Motivate Healthy Habits: Stepping Stones to Lasting Change
by Dr. Rick Botelho

From the back cover: This guidebook provides you with the stepping stones to experience deep change. Change one unhealthy habit and apply the same process to other behaviors. Share your experiences and consider helping others. One-by-one, let's grow a grassroots movement to promote healthy habits.

The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose
by Matthew Kelly

From the back cover: Do you ever feel that if you weren't so busy you would be happier, more effective, more caring toward the ones you love?

If you are looking to lead a life filled with passion and purpose, this book is for you. Acclaimed author and speaker Matthew Kelly offers inspiring, take-charge strategies for discovering your deepest desires and identifying your unique talents – and becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. He helps you bring into focus who you are, why you are here, and what possibilities stand before you…

The Smart Student's Guide to Healthy Living: How to Survive Stress, Late Nights & the College Cafeteria
by M.J. Smith, RD, FADA and Fred Smith

From the back cover: With the simple advice you'll find in this book, you can eat right and get the sleep and exercise you need to excel academically and creatively during your first year. You'll get the straight story on how to avoid the freshman fifteen, and learn how to make good choices in the cafeteria and put together smart snacks on those few useless appliances they allow you to keep in your room. You'll get tips on fitting regular exercise into a busy class schedule and getting enough sleep without being the only one who never – NEVER – makes it to the latest of the late-night parties.

Solving Life’s Problems: A 5-Step Guide to Enhanced Well-Being
by Arthur M. Nezu, Ph.D., Christine Maguth Nazu, Ph.D., and Thomas J. D’Zurilla, Ph.D.

From the back cover: Yes, you can!! Learn how to: cope better with stressful life problems and circumstances, increase your ability to stick with a diet or lifestyle change, decrease emotional stress, and improve your personal relationships.

Guided by an easy, new 5-step program called ADAPT, these life change ARE possible. ADAPT is based on a proven-effective method of behavioral intervention called Problem-Solving Therapy (PST), and is simple enough to apply to even the busiest schedules.

If you are searching for enhanced well-being, the ADAPT method will quickly steer you in the right direction, and provide the lifelong skills you need to better define the problems you may be facing, choose effective solutions, and improve the quality of your life.

Time for Wellness (6 CD set)

From the inside cover: Over 6 hours of music. Music plays within us. We create rhythm with our breath and with our heartbeat. We create melodies when we laugh, cry and sing. The pleasure of listening to music is a gentle reminder of this natural connection.

Through the ‘Time for Wellness' CD collection you are invited to explore the influence of music on the mind and body. Learn to recognize how your own moods respond to music: how certain songs move you, make you smile or help you slip away into deep reflection or sound sleep.

CD topics: Escape, Meditation, Passion, Rejuvenation, Sleep, Tranquility

What Happy Women Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Change Women’s Lives for the Better
by Dan Baker, Ph.D., and Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D.

From the back cover: How happy are you? Do you even know? Most women know what makes their partners, children, or friends happy, but when it come to recognizing what lights up their own lives, they often come up short.

Happiness is a choice and it’s ours for the taking, if we only could understand how to go about it. In What Happy Women Know, authors Dan Baker and Cathy Greenberg uncover six traps that leave women in jeopardy of compromising their happiness.

Through the authors; insights, you will learn how to discover your own path to happiness through identifying misplaced fears, nurturing and owning your strengths, and becoming proactive in the creation of your destiny. If you’re seeking a better life, this book will provide the tools to build it.