Collection: Self-Development

Get ready for preschool with this fun, colorful activity book. Designed for children who are about to begin school for the first time, this 256-page activity-rich workbook combines teacher-approved skills practice with puzzles, humor, colorful illustrations and sing-along songs -- all designed to lower the barriers to learning and set children up for early-learning success!

Packed with fun activities including My First Hidden Pictures puzzles, games, recipes, crafts and songs, this unique, age-appropriate book will get young learners excited about school before they even begin. Created with education experts, this workbook introduces essential early-learning skills and concepts like fine motor control, coloring and tracing, letters, numbers, counting, shapes and colors. The book also includes access to 12 sing-along songs to stream. QR codes are featured throughout the pages so little ones can listen to and learn interactive songs they might hear at preschool.

This book also encourages the development of fundamental building blocks of learning like focus, following directions and attention to detail. It introduces what to expect in a preschool classroom, like circle time and center time, and in a child's community. The book also includes social-emotional learning activities and tips for parents to extend learning at home.

Este libro le ayudará a descubrir el secreto para convertirse en una persona de pensamiento positivo inquebrantable mostrándole al mismo tiempo la mejor forma para lograr alcanzar sus metas, aprenderá cómo establecer metas de manera efectiva y cómo usted puede tener éxito en la vida. Usted también aprenderá con este magnífico libro de autoayuda cómo detener los pensamientos negativos y descubrirá la forma de aliviar el estrés de tal manera que genere una mentalidad de pensamiento positivo para atraer el éxito y finalmente acercarlo hacia sus logros de vida. El secreto para su éxito está en su mente y eso es precisamente lo que va a encontrar en este inspirador libro de superacion personal que a partir de ahora será su recurso favorito cuando se trata de libros de autoestima y sobre el pensamiento positivo y libros de autoayuda, descubrirás que la clave para disfrutar de una vida plena y satisfactoria consiste en pensar de un modo creativo, positivo y auto-afirmativo. Porque -en palabras del autor-, cada pensamiento tiene sus consecuencias. Y cada experiencia tiene tras de sí un pensamiento que la provoca. Los pens amientos son cosas, y todas las cosas que a uno le pasan en la vida van precedidas de un pensamiento. Descubrirás que, si cambias el tono y el contenido de los pensamientos que hay detrás de cuanto te sucede en tu vida, te transformarás permanentemente y mejorarás tu vida. Cada una de las cuatro partes del libro (El mundo que te rodea, Cómo vives la vida, Tu salud mental y espiritual y El futuro es tuyo) se encuentra a su vez subdividida en dos apartados: por una parte la descripción de los desafíos que nos plantea la vida de cada día y, por otro, las soluciones prácticas para superarlos con éxito. Así, con la descripción de los desafíos te percatarás de que todos sin excepción alguna u otra vez tenemos que enfrentarnos a situaciones difíciles. Luego, con las páginas que presentan las soluciones a tales desafíos, hallarás los medios prácticos para triunfar sobre los problemas y salir de ellos fortalecido y enriquecido.

Based off the classic reference book by Henry Gray, Brain Games Gray's Anatomy Word Search lets you have fun while you brush up on anatomy.

• Solve 84 word search puzzles by searching for the names of muscles, bones, blood vessels, and more.
• For extra fun, some puzzles have an extra twist. Reveal hidden messages, unscramble anagrams to put together your word lists, answer quick quiz questions, and fill in the blanks to complete passages from the classic second edition.
• Answer key found at the back
• Spiral-bound
• 192 pages

Connecting with nature and nature beings to help heal us and the Earth

- Provides experiential practices to communicate with nature and access the creative power of the Earth

- Shares transformative wisdom teachings from conversations with nature beings, such as Snowy Owl, Snake, Blackberry, Mushroom, and Glacial Silt, exploring the role of each in bringing balance to the planet

- 2015 Nautilus Gold Award

Nature and the Earth are conscious. They speak to us through our dreams, intuition, and deep longings. By opening our minds, hearts, and senses we can consciously awaken to the magic of the wild, the rhythms of nature, and the profound feminine wisdom of the Earth. We can connect with nature spirits who have deep compassion and love for us, offering their guidance and support as we each make our journey through life.

Renowned shamanic teachers Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts explain how anyone can access the spirit of nature whether through animals, plants, trees, or insects, or through other nature beings such as Mist or Sand. They share transformative wisdom teachings from their own conversations with nature spirits, such as Snowy Owl, Snake, Blackberry, Mushroom, and Glacial Silt, revealing powerful lessons about the feminine qualities of nature and about the reader's role in the healing of the Earth. They provide a wealth of experiential practices that allow each of us to connect with the creative power of nature. Full of rich imagery, these approaches can be used in a backyard, in the wilderness, in a city park, or even purely through imagination, allowing anyone to communicate with and seek guidance from nature beings no matter where you live.

By communing and musing with nature, we learn how to speak to the spirit that lives in all things, bringing balance to us and the planet. By tapping into the feminine wisdom of the Earth, we evoke a deep sense of belonging with the natural world and cultivate our inner landscape, planting the seeds for harmony and a natural state of joy.

"The 5 Choices provides the methods to get the right things done, not try to get everything done, and to feel like you made a meaningful contribution at the end of the day." --Kevin Turner, former COO of Microsoft

For fans of Deep Work, Great at Work, and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 5 Choices is an essential guide for understanding productivity and time-management in the 21st century.

Every day brings us a crushing wave of demands: a barrage of texts, emails, interruptions, meetings, phone calls, tweets, breaking news--not to mention the high-pressure demands of our jobs--which can be overwhelming and exhausting. The sheer number of distractions can threaten our ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and accomplish what matters most, leaving us worn out and frustrated.

From the business experts at FranklinCovey, The 5 Choices is an exploration of modern productivity. It offers powerful insights drawn from the latest neuroscience research and decades of experience in the time-management field to help you master your attention and energy management. The 5 Choices is time management redefined: through five fundamental choices, it increases the productivity of individuals, teams, and organizations, and empowers individuals to make selective, high-impact choices about where to invest their valuable time, attention, and energy.

The 5 Choices--like "Act on the Important, Don't React to the Urgent" and "Rule Your Technology, Don't Let It Rule You"--will not only increase your productivity, but also provide a renewed sense of engagement and accomplishment. You will quickly find yourself moving beyond thinking, "I was so busy today, what did I actually accomplish?" to confidently realizing "I did everything I needed to accomplish today--and did it meaningfully."

Release your true inner self, shed society's expectations and programming, and regain your equilibrium with A Year with Anthony De Mello. This week-by-week workbook is filled with fifty-two passages and stories of De Mello's echoing wisdom, inspiring quotes from a variety of influential world-famous people, and thought-provoking journal prompts.

We have all been programmed to seek happiness outside of ourselves--seized through great effort from an unpredictable world--and then to become upset and self-condemning when our effort fails to realize its promise of fulfillment, which it always fails to do. This is not to say that success isn't a reasonable pursuit, but it cannot give us happiness. Nothing of the world can.

Why? Because we have it already.

The happiness, peace, and love that defines fulfillment are already yours, encoded in your spiritual DNA. They are not earned or acquired. They live in you as you to be expressed through you. The only effort needed is really no effort at all; it's a matter of coming home to yourself.

A Year with Anthony De Mello is a week-by-week workshop of fifty-two passages from De Mello, each followed by a favorite parable or koan Anthony admired to illuminate the passage, and two simple but engaging exercises to actualize the week's teaching. There are also blank pages for journaling about your insights during the week.

Gorgeous bouquets in shades of purple, lavender, blue, white, and pink flood your memory with the heady scent of grandmother's garden.

This seventh book in the Gibbs Smith flower series is filled with the perfume of love and memories of home. Lilacs are frequently associated with the Easter holiday, which occurs during the peak of its bloom time. Lilacs have been a source of inspiration for artists throughout history; Impressionists Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet both made famous paintings depicting the beauty of lilacs. Lilacs are ubiquitous both within curated gardens and in the wild. They became a popular garden flower choice in the eighteenth century, particularly across North America, and lingering shrubs and blooms in the wild are a telltale indication of where earlier dwellings might have stood.

Naomi Slade's Inspirational commentary with no-fuss gardening notes shows that anyone can grow lilacs in a garden, container, or pot. Georgianna Lane's exquisite photos feature more than 60 varieties--from Common Lilac Syringa, or French Lilac 'Romance' to Madame Lemoine, and many more. Colors range from purple, pink, and burgundy to white and yellow.

Creative Projects Using Everyday Materials features more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all.

Readers of Creative Projects Using Everyday Materials will learn how to construct:

• Bottle cap tables
• Concrete lamps
• 3D string art
• Sand fire gardens
• Screw-nut and wooden rings
• Paracord bracelets
• Cigar box guitars
• Wooden beer mugs
• Test tube spice racks
• Metal roses
• And more!

This updated second edition of The Granny Square Book offers crocheters at all skill levels even more to love about granny squares--featuring 25 brand new squares, and 25 all-new projects.

Since it was first published in 2011, The Granny Square Book has instructed and inspired more than 70,000 crocheters to make and create beautiful, stylish projects with these classic motifs. Now designer and author Margaret Hubert has updated her best-selling and beloved book to include 25 additional crochet squares (for a total of 100!) and 25 all-new projects to make, wear, and give.

Margaret shows the evolution of this portable and convenient technique of crocheting square by square as well as its amazing versatility and variety--how it can be used to make almost anything and interpreted in countless ways with different yarns. Among the designs are:

• Accessories (headbands, bags, and jewelry)
• Garments (vests, jackets, and tops)
• Decorative items and gifts (afghans, pillows, and a sweater set for baby)

Fire up your crochet hooks! The Granny Square Book, Second Edition offers unlimited possibilities for creating with this timeless technique.

Train your intuition and embrace your psychic power with compelling activities and expert advice to get in touch with your connection to the universe.

Everyone has the power to be a psychic: and psychic to the stars Mystic Michaela is here to help you learn how!

With expert information about how intuition works, how to connect with your psychic senses, and how to prepare your body and mind to use your psychic abilities, along with forty exercises to put your skills to the test, The Psychic Workbook can help you connect with your intuition and hone your psychic skills. From scrying, to remote viewing, to looking for auras, these workbook exercises give you the chance to explore all aspects of your psychic power with accompanying journal prompts to help you record your experiences.

After losing her job due to the coronavirus pandemic, a vet tech decides to confront the roots of her childhood traumas by hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Pack Light follows a woman's journey changing the narrative of Hiking While Black--because the Great Outdoors belongs to everyone.

This memoir will trace Shilletha's thru-hike from Georgia to Maine as she decided to confront the roots of her trauma. Growing up, Curtis suffered from a fractured family life, bullying at school, indifferent teachers, and abuse from people she trusted. Then she discovered the Appalachian Trail, which she successfully hiked in 2021. It took her eight months and four seasons to hike through 14 states, even more impressive given her lifelong struggle with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and ADHD.

The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slöjd, 1891, by Otto Salomon - Produced from the original in the collection of Gary Roberts, Publisher - www.toolemerapress.com

The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slöjd, 1891, by Otto Salomon, was the primary teacher training text for the instructor of Slöjd based education at the Nääs School in Sweden. Slöjd education, developed by Salomon, combines craft, creativity and the teacher's guidance with "...the educative force which lies in rightly directed bodily labour, as a means to developing in the pupils (sic) physical and mental powers which will be a sure and evident gain to them for life.

MORE Sloyd / Slöjd readings from Toolemera Press:

• The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slöjd, by Otto Salomon 1891 - ISBN: 9781519715548 Kindle ASIN: B08KNQ8SVQ
• The Sloyd System Of Wood Working by Benjamin B. Hoffman 1892 - ISBN: 9781087863580
• Slöjd In Great Britain And America: 1890-1906 - ISBN: 9781087806259
• Text Book Of Swedish Home Sloyd, by Anna Peterson 1922 - ISBN: 9780989747714

This is one of those rare books that can change your thinking and your behavior. Dr. Garner helps us to see criticism in a whole new light. Criticism can be difficult whether you are giving it or receiving it. This book will help you to give criticism more effectively, to receive criticism less defensively, and to seek criticism with less anxiety. Constructing Effective Criticism provides a road map for handling the criticism-prone situations that we all experience in our daily lives.

This full-color, topic-based workbook from Scholastic Early Learners provides engaging content, fun facts, and activities to develop your child's knowledge in key curriculum areas such as science, math, and language arts. Includes stickers, cards, and a digital timer!

Help your child master school skills and build confidence all while learning about a favorite topic -- sharks! Filled with amazing facts, exciting fill-ins, and quick quizzes, this full-color workbook provides children with engaging activities to extend classroom learning and have fun.

• 104 pages of learning and activities to help your child further their knowledge of sharks and marine life.
• Includes 80 activity pages, 6 sticker sheets, 6 sheets of pop-out game cards, and a digital timer.
• Aimed at children 7-10.
• Bright, colorful pages blend photographs and graphic illustrations to make this workbook one of the most eye-catching and engaging available.
• Teacher approved!

Scholastic Early Learners is a dedicated learning program that builds school skills from infancy through third grade. Created by experts and focused on reinforcing curriculum topics and current academic guidelines with kid-friendly activities, this educational line is the best partner in your child's learning journey.

Scholastic Early Learners: The Most Trusted Name in Learning!

"You are loved beyond words. Do you yet realize this? The sun rises in your honor. The moon beams its smile upon you each night. The earth revolves around you. You are the center of the universe, the heart of the world. You are the love that you seek." So begins the first of 365 messages from Sanaya, a spirit-teacher in the tradition of White Eagle and Silver Birch. "You are loved beyond words," she says, and reading this collection, you will feel love beyond words, for the messages contained here carry an energy that is felt intuitively and intimately, coming as they do from a dimension beyond the physical world. Those who know and love Sanaya believe that she is speaking directly to them. She is, for, as Sanaya says, there is only One Mind. Reading Sanaya's words, you will feel as if you are being consoled and counseled by a concerned and loving friend, connected with the essence of your true self. Love Beyond Words will answer your most basic questions about life and give you reason for reflection. In this collection of spiritual wisdom, Sanaya addresses universal concerns while speaking directly to your heart.

Mental health is . . . being yourself.

A prescriptive and positive guide, illustrated with line drawings, making the case that mental well-being, like physical health, can be strengthened over time and with specific techniques

We all want to feel less anxiety, guilt, anger and sadness. We want to obsess less and be less lonely, free ourselves from our demons, compulsive habits, and stress. But as humans (unlike rocks) we experience all of these. And paradoxically, trying to avoid and control them only makes things worse.

Having struggled with serious mental illness for many years himself, Mark Freeman has become a dedicated mental-health advocate and coach. He makes the case that instead of trying to feel less and avoid pain and stress, we need to build emotional fitness, especially our capacity for strength, balance and focus. With wit, compassion, and depth of experience and anecdotes, he shows that we can recover from many mental disorders, from mild to very serious, at all ages and stages of life, and even if other methods have failed. Freeman's innovative approach makes use of a range of therapeutic techniques, mindfulness training, peer support, humor, and common sense.