Free Today! Don't Stay Stuck!: Eliminate Your Excuses and Gain the Confidence to Achieve Your Dreams by Lori Chavez-Wysocki

Have you ever felt "stuck" at your entry-level job or in a certain aspect or your professional career? Do you feel like you have set backs impeding you from achieving your goals? This inspiring self-improvement book will give you the courage to eliminate excuses and gain the confidence to achieve your dreams, and even increase your income. It is your very own personal trainer for getting you to your next level. It's filled with concrete steps, valuable lessons and ideas worth spreading. All the strategies I share in my book have proven successful results and I know that if you apply even just a few to your career and life, you too can achieve your most desired goals. As a business minded woman, my strategies help you leverage your skills and maximize your potential. Don't Stay Stuck addresses many life events that people usually consider as "roadblocks" but teaches us instead to view them as "detours" and how to convert them into opportunities. Don't Stay Stuck will give you the strategies to get "unstuck" and on your way to your next level.

About the Author

Lori Chavez-Wysocki believes "There is no such thing as a dead end job." She has gone from field worker, to kitchen prep, to top performing district manager. She has earned the coveted Circle of Excellence award for Jack in the Box, Restaurants six times. Lori is a popular mentor and sought after motivational speaker and real estate investor.

At age 2, Lori witnessed her father drown which later led her into foster care. Consequently, she was left with stress and confusion However she yearned for control and peace of mind. She was a teen mom and a high school dropout. Determined to make some changes, she earned her high school GED and Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration while a full-time mother of three.

Lori has learned various ways to attain success by self-education and enjoys teaching life principles, beliefs and habits that inspire people to find success an their entry-level jobs.

She also wishes to motivate readers to push through their struggles and accomplish their goals so that they too can achieve their next level of success.

Lori believes that "We were all born a winner." and knows that we achieve success by investing time and effort, because "What we put into life we get out of life."

Book Review : Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love With Expectations and Protection With Trust

In his latest book --  Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love With Expectations and Protection With Trust (American Academy of Pediatrics, March 24, 2015) -- best-selling author, pediatrician and resilience expert, Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, offers essential tips on fostering resilience in teens.  He gently helps parents understand how they can meet the challenge to balance unconditional love, yet still hold high expectations for their children.  Through his “Lighthouse Parenting Strategy,” he also helps parents recognize when to set boundaries and when to get out of kids’ ways.

This groundbreaking book includes two chapters written by Dr. Ginsburg’s twin teenage daughters, and interweaves opinions and input of over 500 adolescents who participated in the “Youth View” chapters.  By combining the wealth of experience from Dr. Ginsburg and insightful commentary from today’s teenagers, Raising Kids to Thrive offers a fresh take on how to successfully parent teens in today’s complicated world.

Raising Kids to Thrive will help parents to raise kids who thrive for lifetime by:

•         Balancing unconditional love with high expectations.

•         Eliminate the need for helicopter or “tiger” parenting.

•         Start meaningful conversations with their children by being a sounding board, not necessarily a dictator.

•         Become a stable beacon so their children can turn to them for guidance and self-measurement.

•         Understand and accept that people are uneven and the importance of expecting growth, not perfection from children.

•         Reduce anxiety – for themselves and their kids – as they venture out on their own and move into adulthood.

•         Holding our kids to high moral standards, while also being a role model for those standards.

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and director of health services at Covenant House Pennsylvania. He is the author of the best-selling Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings (AAP – currently in its 3^rd Edition, October 2014) and coauthor of Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond (AAP). 

Available at bookstores nationwide and online; also available from shop.AAP.org/books, the award-winning AAP Web site for parents.

My Thoughts
  
Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love With Expectations and Protection With Trust is a quick read filled with excellent child rearing advice. As a mother of four children, two of which are teens, I sometimes struggle with deciding when I should give my kids more freedom. My oldest is fourteen now, and she wants to go out with friends. I trust her, but I don't trust other people, and I know I can get overprotective at times. I know from my own personal experience growing up, that being too sheltered can cause more harm than good. When I left for college, I overwhelmed and terrified by the real world. I don't want my daughter to face those same issues.  This book teaches parents how to find a balance between protection and trust.

The book  also talks about expectations.  As parents, we want what's best for our children, but there is a line. We can't live through our children or push them to do the things we wish we had done.  The first half of the book teaches you to temper your expectations. Learn to look closely at what your child needs. They may not be a straight A student, and that's okay as long as they are doing their best. They may not be the captain of the football team. They may not even want to play sports at all. But that's okay too. Forcing what you want on your kids makes it hard for them to find themselves. This book will help teach you how to accept your children for who they are, and love them even more for it. It also teaches us not to be too hard on them. If they make a mistake, show them love instead of discipline, and you will get a much better response.

I learned so much from this book about how to get the right messages to my children. I already knew most of the things they were telling me, but the book taught me new approaches, so that I know I'm getting my message across the right way. Already, I feel my relationship with my teens has improved, and I know this book has a lot to do with that. I would recommend this book to parents of kids of all ages. Even if your kids are younger, this book will help lay the foundations of a healthy relationship as they get older and start looking to spread their wings.

Book Spotlight & Giveaway - Ridiculously Happy! The Secret to Manifesting the Life & Body of Your Dreams

Ready to live your very best life? Actually, the secret to becoming absolutely, ridiculously happy is already being conveyed to you every moment of every day. And, it’s coming right from within you. Now, life transformation coach Carol Whitaker can teach you how to tap into the positive potential of your physical and emotional well-being, and by doing so, achieve your lifelong dreams. Ridiculously Happy! The Secret to Manifesting the Life and Body of your Dreams is Whitaker’s groundbreaking, step-by-step approach to changing the course of your life.

By empowering you to claim your God-given birthright to have a meaningful, blissful existence, the author encourages you to simply embrace your own unique magnificence to manifest dreams. Placing equal emphasis on both mental and physical positive energy, this comprehensive book shares strategies to harness the power of the Law of Attraction. By letting go of negative energy and thinking intentionally about the way you live your life, you will not only set yourself on a road to vitality, abundance, and deep satisfaction, but you will become your own cheerleader to stay the course. If you believe you can be ridiculously happy, Carol Whitaker’s illuminating, actionable book will show you the way. The road to becoming ridiculously happy begins right here. And, you already have what it takes to forge the life of your dreams. Life transformation coach Carol Whitaker is here to guide you through her proven process, so you can claim your divine right to utter joy. All you need to do is to embrace what you already possess. Ridiculously Happy! The Secret to Manifesting the Life and Body of your Dreams will move you to accept nothing less than the exhilaration to which you are entitled. By offering you new insights and techniques to gain mastery over your emotional and physical health, this revolutionary method will help you retrain your own energy so that its positive influence can work to shape your destiny. For unbounded, lifelong happiness, simply open this book. It will open your world to a whole new way of being.

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About the author:

Carol Whitaker is the author of Ridiculously Happy! The Secret to Manifesting the Life & Body of Your Dreams. Carol is a highly sought after Life Transformation Coach and Lifestyle Fitness Coach, she is well known for the amazing transformations she creates in her clients’ lives. Carol is dedicated to empowering women around the world to love and believe in themselves fully. Carol is a Motivational Speaker and is passionate about inspiring and motivating women to create and manifest the life and body of their dreams. Carol is an ongoing featured expert on national media and online websites. Carol is a happily married mother of 3. Connect with Carol on Facebook to receive her health, fitness & happiness tips and by following her on Twitter. Visit CarolWhitaker.com to learn more about her services along with tools and secrets to discover how to transform your life to be ridiculously happy & fit today. See more about Carol on Linkedin.   Win an Autographed book and free 30 minute LivFit Coaching Call Fill out the form below to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway