Caring Sharing Daring

For most Catholics, the idea of becoming an evangelist is intimidating. “How could I ever bring anyone back to God or to the church?” we may wonder. “I’m not an expert or an evangelist, and I don’t want to knock on doors!” In this book, John and Therese Boucher encourage Catholics to share their faith in four simple and practical ways: praying for those we know who far from God, showing them Christ-like care and compassion, initiating faith-sharing conversations, and inviting them to join us at Mass and parish events. Each chapter includes two “spiritual workouts” designed to deepen our own experience of the Lord, grow in zeal for sharing our faith, and learn the skills to become part of the New Evangelization. A separate chapter has ideas for fostering a missionary, evangelizing parish.

Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo presents a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulthood. The book is based on pioneering research conducted at the Stanford Shyness Clinic, including surveys of people in the U.S. and abroad, with children, parents, and teachers. The book documents which parenting "style" encourages self-confidence in a child, helps with the problems of being shy and provides methods for building a child's trust and self-esteem. It explores the role that school plays in contributing to a child's shyness, and suggests ways to improve the quality of the classroom experience for every child. THE SHY CHILD is the only book to provide an effective program for conquering childhood shyness, before it has a chance to limit a child's options and determine the course of the child's life.

This book reveals one theory why dramatic increases in crime, violence, teen pregnancies, and many other inhibitors plague our inner cities. It addresses the problems of absentee fathers in urban communities, and the effects it has on a large population of our middle school children. Within the pages of this book strategies are outlined that will help encourage our children to be positive, hopeful, and persevere in order to face future challenges.

Many organizations worldwide are currently exploring the potential gains to be made from working with virtual teams. Although many different things are meant by use of 'virtual' (and indeed by 'teams'), usually it denotes groups of people with common purpose and goals working in different locations and often different time zones; they will be interconnected via a variety of telecommunications networks, perhaps including the Internet and intranet, video conferencing, shared white boards, as well as telephone, mail and e-mail. For organizations implementing such virtual teams there is a great need for guidance, in terms of the organizational structure and support which needs to be put in place. This book offers a practical guide to developing virtual teams, providing both an overview of what is involved and also a clear simple framework around which organizations can build their own implementation process. Although the different support technologies are discussed (at a generic level), the thrust of the book is on the organizational and human factors issues which must be addressed to make virtual teams a success. It contains detailed case studies to show how virtual teams work and where they can go wrong.

This book “The Global Journey of an Asian” is a story of hope, courage, determination and learning the lessons of entrepreneurial life. This book is about defining your own success, knowing where you want to go and also being flexible and allowing life to take you in the unexpected directions, connecting passion to purpose, understanding strengths, being resilient and most importantly continuing to learn. Dr Palan explores the lessons and gifts of his extraordinary entrepreneurial journey in this inspiring book.

Based on principles which have helped thousands of people. Find Out Who You Really Are! You can create a new life. A life revised in small but crucial ways-or perhaps you will totally change the way things have been up to now. You choose, of course. But first you need to know just who you really are and to shed the conditioning imposed on you by decades of conforming to other people's expectations and other people's interpretations. This book-a blueprint to the life you really desire-has been developed by Peter Shepherd, author of Transforming the Mind. A step-by-step approach is followed throughout to help you uncover and remove the barriers to self-knowledge and freedom of expression and action. Effective techniques enable you to draw up a map for yourself through which: 1. You get to know yourself and your various ways of being much better. 2. You realize what decisions and choices you have made and acted upon, which have created the effects-positive or negative-that you are currently experiencing. 3. You learn how to go about redirecting your life along a path which is more in accordance with what you are hoping to achieve. Daring to be Yourself gives you the tools to really turn your life around. You will learn important new skills, enabling you to look at the world with a more aware and open mind-left brain and right brain working in harmony-no longer suppressing your needs, wants and feelings. And so begin a new life of enhanced achievement and happiness.