Created just for girls, Cool, Confident and Strong helps young women tackle the many day-to-day issues they face. From self-esteem and body image to dating and surviving cliques Cool, Confident and Strong teaches girls how to remain true to themselves and make choices that respect their values, boundaries and bodies. Also included are a mother/daughter discussion guide, resources for teenage girls and tips for starting your own Cool, Confident and Strong reading group.
. Motivating a new generation of teens with tips, steps and strategies for successful living. The teenage years are filled with lots of choices and challenges. Teenagers are at a critical point in their lives in that the decisions they make today can have lifetime repercussions. In order for teens to successfully maneuver through this complicated yet wonderful stage, they need practical tools for success. Young, Gifted and Doing It offers teenagers 52 simple ways to develop their unlimited potential and position themselves for lifelong success. In an upbeat and candid voice, Young, Gifted and Doing It provides teens with tips to: boost their self-esteem, make wise choices, connect with positive people, set goals, develop better time management and money management habits, rise above adversity and so much more. Also included are: a success action planner, a teen resource guide and tips for parents, teachers and youth service providers who are committed to helping teens walk the path of success. This is the first personal development book for teens with a hip-hop slant . it will make a difference
Any manager intent on leading effectively and successfully needs this book. Cassandra Mack gives away the keys to successful management in a practical, down-to-earth, step-by-step fashion. Whether you are a brand new supervisor or a veteran manager, you will come away with tips to increase your overall effectiveness. Gessy Nixon, author of, The Weekend Entrepreneur Whether you're a department manager, division head, project manager, team leader or an executive director of a young organization, Smart Moves That Successful Managers Make will help you lead and manage more effectively. Smart Moves That Successful Managers Make will show you how to: 1. Map out a game plan to help you lead and manage more effectively. 2. Help your people prioritize tasks, set goals, manage their workload and work at their optimum potential. 3. Avoid the 12 fatal mistakes smart managers make. 4. Make office politics work to your advantage without compromising your integrity. 5. Manage your manager so you can get what you need to thrive without driving yourself crazy. 6. Chart out a course to ensure that your work life doesn't overwhelm your personal life. 7. Increase your value, visibility and sphere of influence. Cassandra Mack owns a successful training and development company through which she and her team provide keynotes, training solutions, coaching curriculum development and grant writing services. Cassandra has written 7 best-selling books and hosts a popular internet radio show through The New York Carib News which is listened to by more than 200,000 people each week. For more information go to: www.strategiesforempoweredliving.com
The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation is a collection of insightful lessons and anecdotes that will help you own your power, keep the cup full enough to feed yourself, get in the driver's seat of your career, let go of the ledge, break the habit of self-sabotage and take steps toward healthier relationships. In the power-packed, little book you'll learn how to give yourself the best of what you've got and live life by your design. If truth is what you seek and balance is what you need, this is where you'll find it; right here in Cassandra Mack's The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation. Intensely and intentionally Cassandra speaks to the heart, mind, body, and soul of the woman who's too busy to know that she's too busy. Slow down long enough to sit down with this powerful book and you will be a better woman for it. Mischa P. Green author of 30 Things He Told Me But Can't Tell You Because You Won't Listen I have read many books that advise women on empowerment, but Cassandra Mack's book shows you exactly how to own, respect, and have confidence in your power as a woman, daughter, mother, sister and friend, refusing to allow others to dismiss or diminish you. Miranda J. Carr, author of Dysfunction and Heartache If you are trying to reach your goals, create more balance, build your career, let go of the habits that do not serve you well and make healthier relationship choices all at the same time, The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation is the guide you need to get there. You'll learn to become more empowered in a tangible way and open yourself up to all of the wonderful possibilities that await you. Kisha Robinson, Co-CEO, OneDa Twinz Finally, a fresh look at what women can do to take charge and re-charge. Cassandra deals with the underlying reasons why so many strong women struggle and offers heart-felt advice on how to live more authentically. Jacqueline Rose, PhD, Corporate Coach and Consultant
You've read The Single Mom's Little Book of Wisdom, and now you're ready to go deeper, to move from principle to practice, to put in the work to make yourself happier, healthier and whole. Well . THE SINGLE MOM'S LITTLE BOOK OF WISDOM COMPANION WORKBOOK is a personal tutorial for you to work through, meditate on and hopefully process so that you can bring your life into sharper focus and get from where you are now to where you want to be. Why A Companion Workbook? Because it is one thing to read an inspiring book, feel encouraged by it and have a basic understanding of how a principle might work in theory. It's quite another to put the principles into practice, let the lessons kick in and take action so that you can achieve your desired results. This book will show you how to do the work of wholeness. Embrace the lessons, share the seeds of success with every woman you encounter and dare to live life by your design. See you on the path .
Her Rite of Passage will provide you with helpful tips, tools and strategies to design, develop and deliver a structured rites of passage program from the ground up. Although the program is designed for African-American girls, many of the program components and features can be used as a springboard for developing a rites of passage program for young women from any culture or group. What's Included In This Book Her Rite of Passage will show you how to: - Set up a rites of passage program from design to implementation; - Facilitate and implement the rap sessions; - Get buy-in from your organization; - Recruit participants a.k.a. initiates for your program; - Recruit volunteers; - Get parents involved; - Plan and organize the initiation retreat; - Plan and organize the crossover ceremony. In addition, Her Rite of Passage will also cover: - Adolescent female development and the unique issues that impact African-American girls. - The special dynamics that occur between African-American mothers and daughters; - The impact of the father/daughter relationship on a girl's social and emotional development. Throughout these pages you will find worksheets, exercises and suggested activities to help you create a solid rites program. Her Rite of Passage provides you with a framework, but it's up to you to make your program work - even if it means making adaptations to suit the needs of your program or conducting additional research in order to become more knowledgeable about the rites of passage process.
UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE is a book that offers prayers, strategies and scriptures to transform your life for accelerated growth and victorious living. This book bridges the gap between the power of prayer and the practical application of Kingdom principles to empower you to unlock your potential and seize your success. Prayer is a powerful tool, but you cannot simply pray about a goal, aspiration or a change that you desire to make in your life and then sit back and do nothing to move your life in the direction of the goal or desired change. It is only when prayer is coupled with aligned and consistent action that you can begin to drive your life in the direction of your vision and deepest desires. There are a lot of people who say they want to change their lives so they can live victoriously, but they are not willing to do the necessary work that's required to effect real change. ...Don't let this be you!!!All human progress happens because someone was willing to work towards it. Every great person in the bible who wanted to experience transformation and victory, not only prayed in faith but they also aligned their actions with their prayers. UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE, shows you how to craft your life in such a way as to radically alter the course of your life for acceleration and manifestation. UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE is divided into four chapters: Chapter 1.Personal Efficacy - deals with the characteristics that you must cultivate to start effecting positive change in your life.Chapter 2.Living Beyond Your Feelings - deals with managing difficult emotions so that you are not controlled or defeated by your emotions. Chapter 3.Seizing Your Success - offers principles and action steps for lifelong success and achievement Chapter 4.Becoming A Better You - offers principles and action steps for self-actualization and maximizing potential.For most of my life I have been on a mission to empower ordinary people, just like you and me to: step beyond the stereotypes, rise above adversity, pursue their purpose with tenacity and live out their definition of success so that they can live victoriously. Through my travels, book signings, social media presence, my training company, Strategies For Empowered Living Inc., and my ministry Cassandra Mack Ministries, I have discovered that people everywhere want to know how to bridge the gap between who they are now and who they have the potential and capacity to become. They are looking for timeless truths and actionable strategies to make the most of their lives. This is where UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE comes in. UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE, offers prayers, bible scriptures and strategies designed to give you a gentle nudge and sometimes a robust push to empower you to move your life in the direction of your vision, press pass the internal roadblocks and tap into new realms of possibility. The reality of living your most blessed life is this: Each of us must learn to give birth to our own potential by cultivating the seeds of greatness, creativity and resilience that God has placed inside of us so that we may fulfill our divine destiny. You were born into this world to make a world of difference with your ideas, gifts and talents. All you have to do is be who you are already purposed by to be. I want to help you dream again and dream bigger than you've ever imagined. Through the scriptures, prayers and principles shared in UNLEASH YOUR UNSTOPPABLE it is my goal to help you seize your vision and persevere until success happens.
Have you ever noticed that when you're bogged down with negative thoughts and intensely overwhelming emotions that it's difficult to enjoy your life and focus on the things that matter most to you? Everything that we take in mentally, emotionally and spiritually has a profound effect on our happiness and success. From the things that we see on television and social media, to the conversations we entertain, the pain that we've been through, the resentment that we hold on to, as well as the thoughts that run rampant in our minds throughout the course of the day. You may not realize it, but when your mind is overwrought with negative thoughts and counterproductive self-talk or you're weighed down in your spirit with toxic emotional baggage, it's difficult to feel successful and fully enjoy your life. This is why, it is extremely vital that every now and then, that you do a Master Cleanse for your heart and mind. When our hearts and minds are congested with psychological toxins and spiritual debris; it impacts our ability to enjoy the fullness of life. From self-limiting beliefs, to toxic relationships to dysfunctional mindsets rooted in childhood wounds to choosing choices that undermine your success, when your soul is saturated with self-doubt, self-defeatist thinking, resentment and depression you don't experience life to the fullest because you are not operating from your God given spirit of power, love and soundness of mind (2 Timothy 1:7). And whenever we operate from the realm of heaviness, brokenness and overwhelm, rather than our authenticity and inner power, we cannot show up for life as our best and brightest selves. This is why it's vital, to not just detox our bodies, but more importantly to detox our hearts and our minds. And this is the point of a Soul Fast. The Soul Fast Workbook, is a 40-day personal journey into the care and well-being of your soul. This workbook, will equip you with powerful tools that will empower you to renew your mind, take good care of your soul and replenish your spirit. Grounded in Bible-based principles, The Soul Fast Workbook will show you exactly how to detox from toxic mindsets, beliefs, emotions and decision-making processes that: undermine your happiness, eat away at your peace, chip away at your self-esteem and sabotage your success. The hard, cold truth about negativity is this: the more we allow our hearts and minds to become saturated with counterproductive beliefs, mindsets, attitude and emotions, be it our own self-defeatist inner dialogue or the drama and dysfunction that other people try to bring into our world; the more we become weighed down by emotional baggage that is too heavy to carry and that adversely affects how we show up for life. And believe it or not, we carry this toxic energy or spirit of heaviness wherever we go; because whatever we're carrying on the inside is eventually birthed out through our conversations, interactions and choices. But the good news is, you don't have to be weighed down with thoughts and emotions that do not serve you well. You can heal the broken places in your soul like: broken self-esteem, a broken self-concept, broken courage, broken focus, broken faith, broken goals and dreams and even a broken heart. Do you want a soul that is healthy and whole? Then let, The Soul Fast Workbook guide you through a proven process that will help you begin to build a resilient thought life and restore the broken places in your soul. The Soul Fast Workbook paperback version, comes with Bonus Pages of Inspirational Writings and Suggested Steps To Start Your Own Soul Fast Group
From The Block To The Boardrooms 68 powerful principles for African-American men in search of a full and empowered life. Touching on everything from self-image and personal power to workplace success, fatherhood, relationships with women as well as hope and healing for incarcerated men, From The Block To The Boardroom takes readers through a guided process of self-reflection, introspection and personal-assessment exercised designed to help them tap their personal power, raise the bar and thrive.From The Block To The Boardroom is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1. Restoring Yourself To Greatness, offers practical strategies for building inner confidence, unstoppable resilience and unbreakable self-esteem. Chapter 2. Laying The Foundation For Success, offers practical strategies for attaining your goals and positioning yourself for lifelong achievement. Chapter 3. Staying Up During The Down Times, offers practical strategies for strengthening your inner resolve and remaining steadfast during difficult times. Chapter 4. Letting Go of the Things That Have You Bound, offers practical strategies for letting go of the things in your life that do not serve you well. Chapter 5. Responsible Fatherhood, offers practical strategies for responsible fatherhood. Chapter 6. Your Intimate Relationships With Women, offers practical strategies for building and sustaining healthier relationships with women. Chapter 7. Locked Up But Not Counted Out, offers hope and healing for men who are or have been incarcerated. Many of the themes in this book will resonate with you. Others will hit home for someone you know. However, the common denominator is, you will walk away from this book with practical tools for rising, surviving and thriving. From The Block To The Boardroom is not just meant to be read. It is meant to be discussed, dissected and applied. What you will notice over time is you'll be equipped with new tools and a new paradigm to unlock the key to your most powerful, prosperous life.
Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is a coaching program in a book that will take you through a 30-day journey into your big ideas, the talents you've been sitting on and most of all ...your deepest dreams. Additionally, you'll be pulling from the power of sisterhood so that you can garner the necessary support to bring your dreams into fruition. Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is for every multi-passionate woman who has something to say, create, craft, teach, build, launch, leap into, generate, birth or become ...but the dream has been locked up inside of you for so long that you can't quite figure out how to make it happen or you know what you need to do but you need a swift push in order to jump off the diving board and go all in. Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is for every woman who is tired of playing her life small and watching other people live their dreams when you should be and could be living your own. Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is for every woman who knows that there is so much more to her life than what she is currently experiencing and she is finally ready to lean in and shine. Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is for every woman who knows exactly what matters in her life and who is on a mission to live her dreams even though it might be scary at first ...and at times she doesn't know what to do or where to start. Grab A Girlfriend and Go Live Your Dreams, is for women like you and me who live with purpose and according to our own convictions and most of all who are willing to forgo convention in order to take a chance on living our dreams.For 30-days in a row I am going to coach you through a series of simple steps that will enable you to start working on your dreams right now. With each daily assignment, you will find that you are one step closer to bringing your dreams into fruition. You will also learn how to develop new mindsets and helpful habits that will keep you moving forward in the direction of your dreams.
How would you like to feel more confident on the inside and build the kind of self-esteem that will keep you feeling positive toward yourself no matter what challenges come your way? Well, it's possible if you learn how to make your words work for you. Believe it or not, your words have a lot of power. Your words have the power to build you up, and your words have the power to discourage you, depending on how you use them. This is why it is so important that you learn how to use your words to build high self-esteem and develop a positive outlook on life. Say It See It Believe It is an affirmation activity journal for girls to read with their mothers. It will show you how to use the power of your words to think bigger, recognize your value and dream beyond any limits that others have placed on you or that you have placed on yourself. What's more, it will show your mom as well as any other caregivers in your life how to support you in building healthy self-esteem and inner resilience.So what are affirmations? Simply put, affirmations are positive statements designed to help you do three things:1.Think and act more positively toward yourself.2.Instill calm during stressful times. 3.Activate your mind to pump you up with so much positive motivation and inner confidence that you actually begin to believe the best about yourself and as a result start taking steps in the direction of your desired outcomes.Why should you read this book with your mother? Because the more support that you have in building your self-confidence and inner resilience from people who truly care about you, the more you'll realize how special and valuable you are and that you have what it takes to succeed in life. What if your mom is not around? Then read and do the affirmation activity journal with a concerned caregiver who wants the best for you or a person whom you look to as a mother-figure. Say It See It Believe It contains four sections:1.)The Affirmation - this is the positive statement that you are going to say to yourself as many times as you need to say it until you pump yourself up with so much positive self-talk that you actually begin to believe it and act on it.2.)Why It Works - this explains how the affirmation will benefit you.3.)Memos for Moms - these are tips to help your mother or caregiver support you in building stronger self-confidence and resilience.4.)Journal Space - this is exactly what it sounds like...a space where you can write about anything you want. You can write a song, poem, what you think about each affirmation. You can place stickers in this section or anything else that you desire. Also included in this book are activities for mothers and daughters to do together. Say It See It Believe It will show you how to use the power of positive self-affirmation to help you develop a winning mindset so that you can become a more positive, empowered you.
Clary continues trying to make sense of her swiftly changing life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents and others close to her.
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When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.
Magnus meets Valentine in battle as the Circle attacks the Downworlders of New York City. One of the ten adventures in the Bane Chronicles. In the time of the Uprising, Valentine’s Circle goes after Downworlders in New York...and the Shadowhunters of the Institute must decide whether to join him, or fight with Magnus and his kind. This is the first time Magnus sees Jocelyn, Luke, and Stephen—but not the last. It is not long before Jocelyn seeks him out... This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. This story in The Bane Chronicles, The Last Stand of the New York Institute, is written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson.
In 1920s Manhattan, Magnus Bane hobnobs with the elite at a glamorous Jazz Age hotspot. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles. The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He’s settled into New York society and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumort, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play… This standalone e-only short story illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality populates the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series. This story in The Bane Chronicles, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort, is written by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson.
Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly). When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know... Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.
The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former mother-in-law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare's marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants. So when Lex -- a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee. A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.
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