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If you have always wanted to slap on slabs of muscle and build your dream physique without going to the gym for machine work, then keep reading...Bodyweight exercises are simple, efficient, and effective. They require minimal equipment, work many muscles at once, and the exercises feel natural - unlike the machines found in gyms. It’s easy to pick up, easy to adhere to, and will challenge you continuously through new movement progressions. Consistency is the key to getting and keeping a strong, muscular body - and it is easy to be consistent with calisthenics.

What’s your max squat? How much ya bench? What’s your best deadlift? Can you press your body weight? Today, pushing quantifiable expressions of strength, like your maxes, is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, though strength may be specific, real strength is much more than a powerlifting total - it’s about resilience, capability, and adaptability. It’s survival of the fittest after all, not the strongest.

Have you been going to the gym for months now, but don’t look any different? Do you feel like, for the time invested, you should be bigger or more muscular than you currently are? If you’ve ever felt like you’re missing a piece of the puzzle, know this: Building muscle isn’t as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. You already know what to do. You just lack the confidence to do it.

To write a successful book, you need to find and work with an editor who shares your passion for your work and your message and who will help you make your book sing. And sing a smash hit. A blockbuster of a message, clearly and carefully constructed so readers love you and your work and leave you five-star Amazon reviews only because they don’t have more stars to give.

“Eat less, move more” is incomplete. You can lose weight eating more. How? Through a process known as diet-induced thermogenesis. Diet-induced thermogenesis, the calories burned digesting and absorbing the food you eat, has a greater impact on “calories-out” than exercise. But when you restrict your caloric intake, you restrict diet-induced thermogenesis. Thus, the principle of weight loss is not consuming a very small number of calories - especially when “calories-in” increases “calories-out”.

Whether you are an experienced practitioner of minimal living or a complete beginner, have you ever considered extending your philosophy of minimalism beyond yourself and into your family? Is minimalism even possible when living with others? How about with children? Everything needed to help spread your minimalistic lifestyle is right here. But achieving a minimalist lifestyle as a family is not enough. You must know how to sustain it.

Imagine having the inside track on how to become a top-level manager! Want to know what it takes to get to the corner office? How to truly lead as a corporate executive? The qualities you need to cultivate to rise to the top to become an effective leader, even the CEO? This audiobook takes you inside the upper echelon of corporate America, where a successful CEO reveals the secrets to help you succeed in the world of business, points out common missteps of executives (especially early in their careers), and highlights areas to concentrate on that keep you in the executive role.

You’ve got a creative business idea, now what? Has this ever happened to you? You come up with a brilliant idea for a business, and then...nothing happens. Your idea goes nowhere. It lives in your thoughts or you have some fun talking about it, but your idea dies along the way. Cause of death? Lack of action. That’s where Spark Click Go comes in.

Today, our Mother Earth is giving us a timeout to go to our corners and think about what we have done, and she is compelling us to wake up and to remember that we are all connected from the global markets and economies to the air we inhale and exhale. One day, we will realize that there is nothing more important in the world than knowing that each of us has a gift and that we are all here to support each other to fulfill that gift.

When two worlds collide, the illegal transportation of tons of Mexican cartel marijuana to inner city gang members in a Midwestern city's "hood" - three bodies end up burning, caught in a web of greed as a major international drug deal goes very bad. The chilling trail of evidence from a remote wooded area, where three bodies are set on fire leads homicide detectives across the country chasing down witnesses and conspirators in a two-year search for cold-blooded killers.

Rampant technology growth, rising cultural divides, a hyper-paced world, and an increasing culture of dehumanization are all combining to create confusion, fear, and separation, while tearing at the heart of civilized society. Respect, kindness, and simple appreciation for others - all tenets for human empathy and understanding - are all being displaced. History has brought us to the era of the “toxic new normal”.

Thousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today's Silicon Valley. One of the children who grew up in this new suburbia in San Jose, California, was Tom Liggett, a neglected, unwanted child of dysfunctional (that's being kind) parents, who befriended the "witch" who lived in the Spanish cottage on the hill.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

All too often we are presented stories about extremely wealthy people who are held up as role models for a successful life. The truth is that wealth rarely guarantees happiness. This book looks to successful small and medium-sized companies contributing to communities, and the far-sighted corporate executives we never hear about who, while successful, are also happy. These are the true-life examples of corporate social responsibility that this book relies on to make its point. Peter Milewski tells you why and how you, personally, can feel good and do well by doing good too.

This is a story about politics, history, and power. But, most of all, this is a story about a working-class kid from the south side of Tacoma, Washington, who became a Secret Service agent and traveled the world, building a relationship with one of America’s most controversial Presidents, Richard Nixon, and Mrs. Nixon. This is a story about perseverance and friendship - and a story no one else can tell.

In Anger Management: Control Your Anger & Stop Hurting the One Person That Matters Most - You, you’ll discover what the goal of anger management actually entails, why you need anger management even if you don’t explode when frustrated, what OTC drugs you can take to help with anger, and more.

This is a bundle of three audiobooks to help you combat your anger issues as a busy, productive adult.

You do not need a background in finance or accounting to understand this book. You will find that it’s an easy listen that goes straight to the point. It reveals strategies and tools you need to make BIG changes in your life so you can pay off your college loans, car debt, and credit card balances.

Discover what minimalist living is about in Minimalism, and start changing your life where it matters most: Your mindset. Then, change your home to one that is uncluttered using my PURGE ideology which you will discover in Declutter. Everything you need for a minimal living is right here, but discover the strategies that will help you stick to your minimalist journey in the audiobook Stop Procrastinating.

Minimalism is about cutting out the inessential elements of your life so you can more easily follow your true passion. If this sounds like a philosophy you can get behind, then this is the audiobook for which you have been waiting. While the expression of minimalism means something different to every practitioner, inside you will learn the philosophy behind the movement, as well as how to put its practices to work through practical tips. Stop living a life filled with meaningless diversions, and start living life with intent.