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If I told you that you could read an entire book in an afternoon, would you believe me? When we were taught how to read growing up, we were taught to read slowly. These poor reading habits hold us back, and it's why so many people don't enjoy reading. But reading can be faster, more fun, and more fulfilling than ever before once you learn the best reading strategies for your learning type.

Can goals be easy? What is the secret? Some goals feel difficult. Other goals feel easy to achieve. Why is this? There are many factors that can help us, or sabotage us on our way to achieving our goals. Once we understand these building blocks, we can put them to use to design goals that work for us. Building blocks? Think of them as tools that remove difficulty and enhance achievement. Look at these five common-sense ideas that help. First, humans are short-term thinkers. Our initial goals need short timelines. We also have short-term memories.

Whether you are a small business, a network marketer, or a professional salesman, prospects that have been pre-sold by your personal networking group make your business easy and enjoyable. Forget cold leads, cold-calling, expensive advertising, and lukewarm referrals. Leave the world of hard prospecting behind and start your own personal networking group.

Want to get kids to say "yes"...instead of begging, negotiating, and pleading? We want what is best for them, and so should they. So why don’t they understand us? Because we talk to them in the wrong color language. Kids view the world in different ways. Once we know how they view the world, our words get through. Get through? Yes. Instead of our words bouncing off their foreheads and scattering to the floor, we can learn which way they view the world. Once we know this, we can use secret words that help them listen and understand.

Smarter investment strategies that perform better than a 401(K). Not many people like to talk about taxes. It’s a dirty word that represents the heavy chain of government around our necks, regardless of what neighborhood we live in. We work our entire lives to provide for our families and, hopefully, have enough left over to retire for a few years before we die. Great strategy, eh? Even if taxes turn your stomach, you owe it to yourself and your family to learn smarter investment strategies. This is the goal of Optimizing the Tax Code.

Prospecting? Presentations? Closing? Enrolling? These are the easy steps. Now the hard work begins. Our new team members know...nothing. They think, “What do I do first? I don’t have a business plan. I only have the skills from my old profession, but not the ones I need for this new network marketing profession. Where do I start?”

It's time to refresh your marriage and enjoy each other the way you did before your busy life got in the way... and you can do it in just 15 minutes a day! If you agree that your most important relationship deserves an investment of 1% of your time, then you are ready to take the next step toward a happier and more satisfying marriage. This practical and powerful guide will show you exactly how to experience the power of a 15-Minute Marriage Makeover in your own busy lives.

Multiple award-winning speaker Ramakrishna Reddy presents the secrets, tools, and devices that helped him create 18 laughs and three applauses in a seven-minute persuasive speech in his fifth book Connect with Humor and Story. This is not theory. It's absolute content based on his research, his experience, and his testing.

Whether it is a speech, a presentation, a webinar, or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove our value. How can we capture our audience's instant attention and support? By mastering our first 20 seconds.

Goldstein covers such topics as the economics of the housing market, financing options, steps involved in closing, and elements of negotiations.

Jobs. Kids. Chores. Bills. Life has an uncanny ability to get in the way of our dreams. But, this doesn't need to be the case. Michal Stawicki shares his techniques for extreme productivity. As a busy, working parent of three, Michal still manages to follow his dreams prolifically.

Public Speaking Topic Secrets for College, Community, Toastmasters and TED Talks will help you discover your perfect topic. You'll be able generate topics based on your purpose, whether you want to inform, entertain, persuade, or inspire.

Learn public speaking essentials that will make you a respectable speaker. Imagine you speaking with authority and your audience members are just enjoying listening to you. Ramakrishna Reddy, presents this super simple guide that'll help transform you into a respectable speaker.

Influence gives us the power to affect others and our world. Yes, we want to be heard, but what is more important than being heard? Getting others to take our advice and solutions, and apply them immediately. Few are born with influence. We must create our influence with others. But where do we start? If no one respects our opinions and ideas now, what can we do to establish our authority? We know it is possible. Others have influence. We can create our influence starting now.

Feel stuck, unable to make changes in your life? Do you hustle without having much to show for your efforts? Your life isn’t what you imagined it would be? Do you keep flitting from one goal to another? If you are sitting around wondering what you can do to make your life different, then take the time to listen to and internalize the insights, reflections, and analyses in this book.

The quiet masses: the curse of being shy. Shyness exists in every corner of the world, every level of society, every workplace and school, in boardrooms, bars, churches, and bus stops, in places large and small. The digital age, with all the interconnection it offers, has only made things worse. For those living under the shyness curse, life can be discomforting at best and terrifying at worst. While shyness may seem just as much a part of you as your elbow, the difference between your elbow and your shyness is that you weren’t born with your shyness.

Thinking about selling your house without a real estate agent? It can be done and the truth is, many people do it very successfully. But there's a trick to it that not everyone grasps. What's the secret? Just like in anything else: Knowledge is power! Soldiers don't go to combat without orders, plans, maps and guns. Entrepreneurs don't create profitable businesses without knowledge of the market. Surgeons don't go into the operating room without knowledge of their patient.

These 555 hot marketing headlines will help you sell more faster! You could be one headline away from a huge new paycheck! If you're not using these hot headlines for your marketing, you're missing out on a lot of extra cash.

Public speaking is a process of telling stories to get a message across - if we think of it this way, then we only need to work on getting better at telling stories. We tell stories every day. We tell them to our friends, to our families, to our colleagues. We even tell them to strangers on the plane. If we learn to share our stories well, then people will have a positive association. As salespeople, we can link stories to our key points.

Whether you are looking for a backup disaster plan or you just want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, homegrown food and remedies offer you the freedom of choice to take care of yourself. To start with, this comprehensive program will show you how you can have homegrown, garden-fresh fruits and vegetables anytime and anywhere you want. Think of it - sweet, wholesome organic produce picked right from your yard or even your kitchen!