Luck Is Not A Plan For Your Future

A woman’s story of making her life her masterpiece, integrating family and a career, and living her ideal life. Are you waiting for luck to start living your dream life? Do you think successful people are lucky and you aren’t? In this book, Leslie uses her personal, and humorous, life stories to illustrate how we can apply the principles of architectural design to change our circumstances and create our ideal life right now. DISCOVER LESLIE’S PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO:• Make your life your masterpiece • Integrate family life and career• Attract more possibilities• Choose your stress • Connect to others + Create your own luck! From directing a successful international organization in Washington DC while living in her dream house (that she designed herself) in Santa Fe, to raising two talented sons, to traveling the world, Leslie has created a dream life that made people say “You’re so lucky!” Here Leslie gives us the blueprint of how we can do it too!

A woman's story of making her life her masterpiece, integrating family and a career, and living her ideal life. Are you waiting for luck to start living your dream life? Do you think successful people are lucky and you aren't? In this book, Leslie uses her personal, and humorous, life stories to illustrate how we can apply the principles of architectural design to change our circumstances and create our ideal life right now. DISCOVER LESLIE'S PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO: - Make your life your masterpiece - Integrate family life and career- Attract more possibilities- Choose your stress - Connect to others + Create your own luck! From directing a successful international organization in Washington DC while living in her dream house (that she designed herself) in Santa Fe, to raising two talented sons, to traveling the world, Leslie has created a dream life that made people say "You're so lucky!" Here Leslie gives us the blueprint of how we can do it too!

Unplanned events--chance occurrences--more often determine life and career choices than all the careful planning we do. A chance meeting, a broken appointment, a spontaneous vacation trip, a "fill-in" job, a hobby--these are the kinds of experiences that lead to unexpected life directions and career choices. Newly revised and updated with fresh examples and current issues for today's challenging times, Luck is No Accident actively encourages readers to create their own unplanned events, to anticipate changing their plans frequently, to take advantage of chance events when they happen, and to make the most of what life offers. The book has a friendly, easy style about it, and is packed with personal stories that really bring the ideas into focus.

How are the human and institutional systems fundamental to succeeding in academia?In graduate school we are trained how to be scholars, and maybe how to be effective teachers. But there is much more to being a college or university faculty member--and most of it is left to figure out on one's own. This job isn't hard because the core scholarship is hard, but because of thecomplex mix of activities that scholars must figure out how to juggle. These are dominated by human and institutional structures within departments, universities, societies, and professional communities. Succeeding and thriving as an academic calls for developing wider, "non-academic" insights andskills into how these operate and how to operate effectively with, and within, them. Functioning as an academic is about the relationships we develop with our communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and our university administrative and support staff--the people who enablefaculty members to function.Your Future as a Faculty Member: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia is organized into four sections, each focusing on one aspect of the human systems that are fundamental to succeeding as an academic. Section 1 starts in the center with new professors, as they build their career. Section 2 looksat university administrative systems and the staff who manage them. Section 3 focuses on teaching and training roles. Finally, Section 4 looks at wider professional networks outside of university, publishers and academic communities.

A Star Shines For Love This book was written in memory of my sister Diane who died in a tragedy at the request of my Father. This book was writtein to provide hope and inspiration to many people of our culture : this is an age where a lot of people ask the same question hidden deep within the Heart: How can I pray when I am hurting? Who will Heal My Broken Heart? Who is the Saint of the Broken Hearted? For whom does the star still shine? Some of us can verbalize our questions, others walk with much pain afraid to even ask the question, in fear of ridicule from themselves or others. Others, turn to other unhealthy avenues to relieve their pain . This book provides an avenue to Hope ...It is a long road and some of us are just beginning to get on the highway, and others are leading the way. Will you become a leader or will you follow. Who will you follow? Angels of Love

100 Things Successful People Do is a guidebook to achieving success in any aspect of your life. You will discover the habits that are common to successful people and find out how to adopt them into your own life so that you can be successful too. Mixing simple instructions with activities to get you started, whether you are looking to succeed in your family life, at work, in sports, at school or in retirement, you will find, mindsets, habits and techniques here that will help you get the results you want.