The Ultimate Secret To Getting Absolutely Everything You Want

"A brilliant book that will make your heart and life sing." -Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul "Simple, easy to understand, Hernacki spells out 'intention' so that everyone can get it." -Chï¿1/2rie Carter-Scott, Ph. D., author of If Life is a Game, These Are the Rules The key to success, happiness, and financial security lies in the power of the human mind and the human will. Mike Hernacki asserts that you are in charge of your own future, and he provides inspiring stories which prove that with the willingness and intention to succeed, you can achieve all your life goals. With a positive attitude and an open mind, anything is possible-a better job, a happy marriage, an education, a new home, good health, and fortune. The future is yours for the making, and with Hernacki's help, you can get absolutely everything you want and more.

This little powerhouse of a book brings together a number of profound principles to explain the elusive link between the desire to do something and an accomplishment. A principle so startlingly simple, so infinitely powerful, that it will change the way people think about success and how to achieve it.

"When you use the Secret and conquer your fear, something happens to you. You become stronger. You become larger than the fear. The fear still exists, but somehow it's less than you are. When you conquer your fear, you prepare yourself for another level, just as when you conquered single-digit addition you prepared yourself for double-digit addition." It really is that simple. By using the Secret, you no longer have to be afraid of anything. By reading this book, you learn when fear is your enemy . . . and when it is your friend. While fear cannot be eliminated, it can be conquered. When it has been conquered, then you can reap the benefits and live a freer, more productive, more rewarding, and more carefree life. The author knows the secret and knows the nature of fear. He shows that while fear is necessary, it is not necessary to be controlled by it. You really can learn how to use your fear to your advantage.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

No matter what age, or where you live, or how much education you have, you can become prosperous, starting right now.--Mike HernackiAttaining true prosperity requires more than a single-minded pursuit of financial success. The secret lies in developing a prosperity consciousness, nurturing a cycle of value and achievement that translates into permanent prosperity. Mr. Hernacki explains, using plain language and numerous examples, how to cultivate this cycle in your own life.

Lots of people want to write a book, but few people actually ever do it. Why? Because like any other major accomplishment, writing a book takes time and effort that most just can't commit to. That's also exactly why a book can distinguish you from your colleagues and open the door to otherwise impossible opportunities. This is not only a step-by-step guide to write your book, but what to do with it afterwards. This book, written by two industry experts, will tell you how to publish your book and maximize all of the benefits of being an author.

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. “A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment.... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times