The 3 Choices

For nearly 20 years, Jorge Cruise has been changing people’s lives as a personal trainer, coach, and author of multiple New York Times best-selling fitness books. He thought he had everything he wanted: a thriving career, a loving wife, wonderful children, a big house, and all the toys and gadgets he could ask for . . . So why did he still feel empty inside?It took losing everything for Jorge to realize that he was living a life that wasn’t true to himself. He spent years trying to discover and then accept his authentic self, a journey that culminated in his discovery of the three simple choices that lead to a happy life. Once he internalized these concepts, Jorge began to wake up every day feeling fulfilled, hopeful, loving, and free—and as he shared his discovery with clients, he saw them experience the very same results. Now, with Jorge as your guide, you too can easily and joyfully find your happy life by making three simple choices that will change everything: •Be Imperfectly You: Understand and reconnect with your authentic self, learn how to accept your flaws, and then reveal and live the best part of you with the help of customized affirmations from Jorge that make up your "Happy Code." •Don’t Hold Your Breath: Get a short course in the practice of mindfulness, starting with your breath; learn the science behind the benefits of breathing and mindfulness for your brain, body, and spirit; and be guided through different breathing techniques for specific purposes, including stress relief, immune boost, and calming emotions. •Move to Improve: Learn why movement (and not necessarily traditional exercise!) is essential for mental and physical health, understand what fuels motivation, harness the power of personal meaning, and use a scientifically proven method to transform movement into a true habit. With every choice you make, moment by moment, you have the power to give yourself the happy life you truly desire. So make your first choice now—open the book, open your mind, and get ready to wake up every day feeling what you want to feel.

For nearly 20 years, Jorge Cruise has been changing people’s lives as a personal trainer, coach, and author of multiple New York Times best-selling fitness books. He thought he had everything he wanted: a thriving career, a loving wife, wonderful children, a big house, and all the toys and gadgets he could ask for . . . So why did he still feel empty inside? It took losing everything for Jorge to realize that he was living a life that wasn’t true to himself. He spent years trying to discover and then accept his authentic self, a journey that culminated in his discovery of the three simple choices that lead to a happy life. Once he internalized these concepts, Jorge began to wake up every day feeling fulfilled, hopeful, loving, and free —and as he shared his discovery with clients, he saw them experience the very same results. Now, with Jorge as your guide, you too can easily and joyfully find your happy life by making three simple choices that will change everything: • Be Imperfectly You: Understand and reconnect with your authentic self, learn how to accept your flaws, and then reveal and live the best part of you with the help of customized affirmations from Jorge that make up your “Happy Code.” • Don’t Hold Your Breath: Get a short course in the practice of mindfulness, starting with your breath; learn the science behind the benefits of breathing and mindfulness for your brain, body, and spirit; and be guided through different breathing techniques for specific purposes, including stress relief, immune boost, and calming emotions. • Move to Improve: Learn why movement (and not necessarily traditional exercise!) is essential for mental and physical health, understand what fuels motivation, harness the power of personal meaning, and use a scientifically proven method to transform movement into a true habit. With every choice you make, moment by moment, you have the power to give yourself the happy life you truly desire. So make your first choice now —open the book, open your mind, and get ready to wake up every day feeling what you want to feel.

Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

The Flesh Cartel returns for a compelling second season with "Choices." Brothers Mat and Dougie Carmichael thought nothing could be worse than being snatched from their home and brutally dehumanized in preparation for sale as sex slaves. But they learn their suffering has only just begun when they’re shipped to their new master’s home. Professional trainer Nikolai Petrovic is a master of his trade. His ultra-rich clientele pay him to create perfectly tailored playthings, and Mat and Dougie are the latest in a long line of men who have walked into his remote mountain home as terrified victims and left it permanently altered: subdued and obedient, ready and even eager for a life of service. To achieve this, Nikolai must take a drastically different tack with each brother. Dougie, manipulated with affection and denial. Mat, controlled by pain and fear. The one thread in common for both men is choice. Nikolai prides himself on never forcing, but will Mat and Dougie submit willingly to his vision, or will they first need to learn the price of disobedience? **See this title's page on RiptidePublishing.com for content warnings.**

The premise of this book is that our lives are simply an accumulation of the thousands of decisions, large and small, that we make every day. The Book of Choices consists of 77 short chapters, each on a fundamental life choice. The chapter consists of a meditation illuminating the nature of that choice, followed by carefully selected quotations from history's greatest thinkers, teachers, and doers. The Book of Choices also contains a biographical index of these great men and women.

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Esther Cherrett comes from a proud line of midwives and was trained by her mother to take over the family calling. But when a scandal threatens all she holds dear, Esther takes a position as a teacher in the western mountains of Virginia instead. There she finds herself in the midst of a deadly family feud and courted by two men on opposite sides of the conflict. When it seems as though her past has followed her all the way into the mountains, all she wants is to run away again. In this gripping story of trust, deception, and bittersweet loss, a young woman learns the true meaning of choices of the heart.