Life coach and television personality Mike Diamond explains his tried-and-true methods for empowerment and offers tools and stories to help you find your purpose and create your ideal future. Mike Diamond got off to a bit of a rough start in life—battling undiagnosed dyslexia, exposure to drugs and alcohol at age 12, and struggling to finish high school. A stroke of luck, however, earned him a Green Card in 1997, and he moved to the States, where he landed acting roles and built a career in entertainment, appearing on Miami Ink and NY Ink, and later directing, producing, and starring in Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew. Despite this initial stream of success, however, Mike found himself spiritually bankrupt and thoroughly miserable. Realizing his life depended on it, in 2006 Mike decided to get sober and, with his life completely turned around, has now helped hundreds of people on their own paths to recovery. In A Dose of Positivity, Mike shares not only his own incredible stories of overcoming hardship, but also reveals his personally tested techniques for staying grounded, finding success, and creating positive change. This book provides concrete tips on how to lean on and trust your Source—the spiritual energy and intuition within you—to maintain the flexible attitude necessary for your success. No matter what obstacles you face, a properly cultivated mindset can make all the difference. With A Dose of Positivity, unlock your potential and discover how to make your dreams a reality—with guidance from someone who’s personally tested everything he recommends.
In 7 Steps to an Unbreakable Mindset, reality TV star, professional athlete, and life coach Mike Diamond leads his readers on a journey to understand whats holding them back in life and how to break past barriers in order to succeed. In this book, he shares relevant, poignant personal stories from his own struggles with addiction, life-threatening health problems, battling dyslexia, and being diagnosed with a chronic illness. All this adversity was the key to helping him break his fear and unlock the path to massive success. He shares the stories of several world-renowned people, whose success was dependent on willpower rather than talent, and gives you the secret on how to replicate their success in your own life.
ALOHA!!!! It´s Diamond The Righteous Reverend Diamond Mike Esquire MD, every mans nightmare and every ladies dream. Licensed professional wrestler manager and promoter. Trained by the best in the business. Managing and promoting man, show, and beast alike throughout the world. Heavyweight champions, World champions, Tag team champions, that´s the roll call that comes along with the name Diamond Mike. Hailing from Capetown, South Africa, surrounded by a verbal and physical arsenal of destruction. Currently managing "THE MOTOR CITY MONSTER" "JACK HAMMER" the next WWE champion. My new book "WHY NOT ME? VINCE!" is all about my life in professional wrestling and the entertainmet worlds the good, the bad, and all the fugly (what a bunch of self centered, self important, pompous ass, bastards!) I´m looking for HELP to bring back professional wrestling to the sport it once was! All in a grass roots uprising of the millions and millions of disenfranchised old school hard core wrestling fans. Together we have the power to STICK IT TO THE MAN! Mr. Vincent K. McMahon and the WWE. So contact the WWE all day, every day from talent relations to family relations untill they listen and give Diamond Mike and Jack Hammer their time to shine and walk the streets of glory all in the name of old school hard core professional wrestling. GOD ALMIGHTY, GOD ALMIGHTY, GOD ALMIGHTY. Give Vince a hollar tell him Diamond sent you. Join Team Diamond and the DIAMONDNATION at www.TEAMDIAMONDMIKE.ORG and be sure to check us out at www.youtube.com enter Teamdiamondmike.org and HELP US HELP YOU. Chow for Now!!!! Diamond. YO VINCE, Ready to throw down old school hard core and see who TAPS OUT! GAME ON! LIGHTS OUT!
Effective Leadership—It’s a Process Good leadership is about more than inspiring people. Effective leadership stands on two pillars: excellent people and efficient processes. Through well-tested models and a series of structured metrics, The Diamond Process will help you identify weak points in your work flow so that you can retroactively fix your organization and make it more efficient. Using the Diamond Process Model, you'll learn how to— •IDENTIFY and REFINE your organization’s key drivers or primary motivations. •INTEGRATE resources like people, equipment, and funding with the processes that achieve the key drivers. •BALANCE the key drivers, resources, and processes. •CREATE new processes for long-term SUCCESS. Authors Mike Diamond and Chris Harding pull on their considerable experience in the corporate and military worlds to share a wholly innovative approach to effective leadership. Whether you are a small business owner or a shift manager, The Diamond Process will help you transform your organization and lead your team more effectively.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself—by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story, directed by Spike Jonze NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone • The Guardian • Paste Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam “ADROCK” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1, Licensed to Ill—and the album’s messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam; their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul’s Boutique; their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam “MCA” Yauch; and more. For more than thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys’ New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises. Praise for Beastie Boys Book “A fascinating, generous book with portraits and detail that float by in bursts of color . . . As with [the band’s] records, the book’s structure is a lyrical three-man weave. . . . Diamond’s voice is lapidary, droll. Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable. . . . Friendship is the book’s subject as much as music, fame and New York.”—The New York Times Book Review “Wild, moving . . . resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild variety of styles.”—Rolling Stone
When FBI Agent Pete Dobbins is assigned to investigate three murders, in three different cities, connected by ballistics evidence, he discovers a conspiracy of criminal activity that requires him to go undercover in an organization that is believed to be beyond reproach. Dobbins a former minor league baseball star discovers that all of the murders have occurred while the Arizona Sidewinders were in those cities. He determines that he must go undercover, as himself, attempting a baseball comeback. The stakes are raised when the main suspect exploits Dobbins vulnerability. His lovely and irreverent wife Trish, is in the late stages of a difficult pregnancy. Along the way, Dobbins discovers a defense lawyer with a shocking secret, fights for his life with a hired assassin, collaborates with a beautiful US Attorney, tries to help a wrongly convicted man win his freedom and improvises a variety of solutions to heart pounding situations that could blow up his investigation and destroy everything he holds precious.
Dies ist die weltweit meistverkaufte Biografie Syd Barretts, des legendären Gründers von Pink Floyd, der nach einer nur allzu kurzen Karriere zum Idol wurde. Sie beruht auf jahrelangen Recherchen und zahlreichen Interviews mit der Familie Barrett, mit Freunden, Musikerkollegen und Journalisten. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche seltene Fotos, eine komplette Diskografie und ein Vorwort von Julian Cope. Syd Barrett, Sänger, Gitarrist und über- wiegend auch Songwriter von Pink Floyd seit ihren ersten Anfängen, verließ die Gruppe 1968 bereits nach drei Jahren. Wilde Geschichten über LSD-bedingten Wahn machten sogleich die Runde und wurden durch Barretts Rückzug in ein Leben in Abgeschiedenheit noch weiter angeheizt. Er trat nicht mehr auf, veröffent- lichte aber zwei Soloalben, die zu Kult- klassikern wurden, und noch jahrzehnte- lang beschäftigte sich die Musikpresse immer wieder mit der Frage 'Wo ist Syd?' Fans und Musikerkollegen sind sich darin einig, dass Syd Barrett einer der großen Pioniere des britischen Rock 'n' Pop gewesen ist. Der Song Shine On You Crazy Diamond ist eine Hommage seiner früheren Pink-Floyd-Kollegen an Barrett, der seine künstlerische Genialität stets kompromisslos ausleben wollte. Der Konformitätsdruck des Marktes jedoch stellte sich ebenso schlagartig ein wie der Erfolg beim Publikum. All dem war der 'Crazy Diamond' nicht gewachsen, und der zunehmende Drogenkonsum tat sein Übriges; der unvermeidliche Zusammen- bruch beendete die kurze Karriere des brillanten Musikers, der schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende war. 'Eine akribisch genaue, eindringliche Darstellung von Syd Barretts Aufstieg, Fall und Einsamkeit. Syds Geschichte wird mit Sympathie und Verständnis erzählt.' (VOX)
Here on Saturn, it literally rains diamonds." For over fifteen years the crew of Kollo-Zarnista Mining Facility 27 has been extracting diamonds from deep within the atmosphere of Saturn, diamonds that help to fund the ever-expanding Human Empire. But when a mining operation goes wrong, a rescue mission must be launched to save a worker lost overboard, a worker who claims that he has seen something amongst the swirling clouds. Something that can't possibly exist. When the Doctor and Bill arrive, they immediately find themselves caught between hostile miners, suspicious security guards and corrupt company officials as they face accusations of sabotage and diamond theft. And below them, in the crushing atmosphere of the gas giant, something is starting to rise. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as played by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie.
“Um relato preciso e doloroso sobre o surgimento, a queda e a reclusão de Syd... A história de Syd é contada com empatia e compreensão.” – Vox “Resultado de uma excelente pesquisa, Crazy Diamond mergulha na dolorosa desintegração de Syd pós-Pink Floyd.”- New Musical Express Crazy Diamond é a biografia mais vendida de Syd Barrett, o lendário fundador do Pink Floyd, cujo breve lampejo de uma errática genialidade tornou-se um dos maiores enigmas do rock. Cantor original do Pink Floyd, guitarrista e principal compositor, Barrett deixou o grupo em 1968 em meio a boatos de ter desenvolvido uma loucura induzida pelo uso de ácido. Após dois álbuns lançados em carreira solo, que se tornaram clássicos Cult, desapareceu, o que fez surgir inúmeras especulações sobre seu paradeiro. Para relatar uma tragédia do mundo do rock de proporções épicas, Crazy Diamond baseia-se em anos de pesquisa e inúmeras entrevistas com a família de Syd e seus amigos. Esta edição do livro foi atualizada depois da morte de Barrett em 2006. Inclui numerosas fotos raras, discografia completa e prefácio de Julian Cope." “Um relato preciso e doloroso sobre o surgimento, a queda e a reclusão de Syd... A história de Syd é contada com empatia e compreensão.” – Vox “Resultado de uma excelente pesquisa, Crazy Diamond mergulha na dolorosa desintegração de Syd pós-Pink Floyd.”- New Musical Express Crazy Diamond é a biografia mais vendida de Syd Barrett, o lendário fundador do Pink Floyd, cujo breve lampejo de uma errática genialidade tornou-se um dos maiores enigmas do rock. Cantor original do Pink Floyd, guitarrista e principal compositor, Barrett deixou o grupo em 1968 em meio a boatos de ter desenvolvido uma loucura induzida pelo uso de ácido. Após dois álbuns lançados em carreira solo, que se tornaram clássicos Cult, desapareceu, o que fez surgir inúmeras especulações sobre seu paradeiro. Para relatar uma tragédia do mundo do rock de proporções épicas, Crazy Diamond baseia-se em anos de pesquisa e inúmeras entrevistas com a família de Syd e seus amigos. Esta edição do livro foi atualizada depois da morte de Barrett em 2006. Inclui numerosas fotos raras, discografia completa e prefácio de Julian Cope." “Um relato preciso e doloroso sobre o surgimento, a queda e a reclusão de Syd... A história de Syd é contada com empatia e compreensão.” – Vox “Resultado de uma excelente pesquisa, Crazy Diamond mergulha na dolorosa desintegração de Syd pós-Pink Floyd.”- New Musical Express Crazy Diamond é a biografia mais vendida de Syd Barrett, o lendário fundador do Pink Floyd, cujo breve lampejo de uma errática genialidade tornou-se um dos maiores enigmas do rock. Cantor original do Pink Floyd, guitarrista e principal compositor, Barrett deixou o grupo em 1968 em meio a boatos de ter desenvolvido uma loucura induzida pelo uso de ácido. Após dois álbuns lançados em carreira solo, que se tornaram clássicos Cult, desapareceu, o que fez surgir inúmeras especulações sobre seu paradeiro. Para relatar uma tragédia do mundo do rock de proporções épicas, Crazy Diamond baseia-se em anos de pesquisa e inúmeras entrevistas com a família de Syd e seus amigos. Esta edição do livro foi atualizada depois da morte de Barrett em 2006. Inclui numerosas fotos raras, discografia completa e prefácio de Julian Cope.
Through fifty years of epic stories, art, and personal ephemera, The Fletcher Family spans surfing's golden era to the present day, when bathing-suit model Dibi and competitive surfer Herbie met, to raising talented Christian and Nathan on boards and waves, to passing the torch to their skating-phenom grandson, Greyson. Herbie Fletcher is a surfing legend. Fletcher and his sons, Christian and Nathan, made a habit of doing things exceptionally well and in their own way before they became the norm. But the Fletchers are not merely trailblazing surf and skate legends; they also are counterculture and subculture icons. T Magazine referred to them as having "punk family values." Their sincere love for art and surfing and their collective DGAF attitude has earned them legions of devoted fans and friends from so many different worlds: music, fashion, streetwear, and art. The epitome of both surfer cool and punk counterculture, the Fletcher family for the first time has put together a window into their immensely colorful life. A visual memoir of this near-mythological surf family, The Fletcher Family is sure to appeal to their massive surfing fan base, young skaters, and those who are interested in the Fletcher family and their place in Southern California as a subcultural force of nature.
B-39THE DOUBLE DIAMOND PRINCIPLE Truth That Has Stood The Test of Time...The 58 Master Secrets For Total Success, As Exemplified In The Life of Jesus, Are Included In This Book. Learn to follow the patterns set by Jesus in areas of...Knowing Your Worth / Never Trying To Succeed Alone / The Power of Habit /Setting Specific Goals. No Other Book in The World Like it.
A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.
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