251 Results for : downsizing
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The Mother of All Makeovers: A Memoir of More, Less and Making Busy Beautiful , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 638min
Foreword by Mark Brunetz, Emmy Award winning TV host, author, and social entrepreneur.Every day, people stop in their tracks, wondering (sometimes, out loud), "Are those all her kids?" Hollie Gyarmati makes the impossible look easy with her upbeat attitude, on-trend lip color, and party of five following her lead. She will happily tell you that she has two sets of twins in her mix, without pausing whatever mission she's on in that moment.What she won't tell you is that she left her dream career as a senior designer for the once-fabulous Marshall Field's, as well as her less-is-more humble upbringing to marry and start a family with the more-is-more man of her dreams.What was planned to be one baby and a cushy suburban lifestyle turned into five babies in four years, shortly followed by Detroit's Great Recession. As it turned out, being a wife and mom wasn't her biggest purpose. Her biggest purpose was fully deconstructing and renovating who she was created to be. At her lowest, she found strength in her passion for design, which ultimately led her to resurrect the truest parts of herself to create a life more beautiful than she ever imagined possible.Praise for the book:"The Mother of All Makeovers is like an ice bucket dumped on your head. It will wake you up, bring you to your senses, and make you laugh and cry at once." (Marni Jameson, nationally syndicated home columnist and author of Downsizing the Family Home)"Hollie's writing is as fabulous as the way she lives her life...unapologetically raw, full of entertainment, and beautiful storytelling that keeps you laughing and wondering what's going to happen next." (Jennifer Bertrand, HGTV Design Star Winner, Season 3 and Military Makeover Designer, Lifetime Channel) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Gyarmati. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191967/bk_acx0_191967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Why Don't You Want My Stuff? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 159min
Why Don't You Want My Stuff? is a boomer’s guide to downsizing, their millennial kid's psyche, and just things that are so.An easy-to-understand (maybe, even fun) guide through the secondary market of online retailing, auctions, and estate sales. Gather consignment insight, trend forecasting (from Pokemon to music boxes), appraisal techniques, and buying tips from CEO and auctioneer Josh Levine's almost 20 years of experience in the auction world.Collectors - pick at the brain of an experienced appraiser and auctioneer. Uncover Levine’s projected market trends on a variety of pieces, compare war stories, and gain tips on online retailing.Boomers - stop asking your kids why they don't want your stuff! Levine will reveal some of the psychology behind their disinterest and even resentment of your items. From China to furniture, the gen-Xers and millennials just don’t view your treasures like you do. Gain an understanding of the supply and demand of the market and the cyclical trend that is style, purchase behavior, and ultimately life.Gen-Xers - Are you caught between a rock and a hard place? Don’t worry, we’ll break the news to your parents about their collection of China and the like. As for you, we'll explain the trouble of trying to sell all of your parent's and relative's items that you don't want and where to go from there (hint: Think of all the people who also don't want their parent's stuff).Millennials - Yup, there’s even some knowledge for you in here. You escaped inheriting some beanie babies and VHS tapes from your parents, so what do you do with all of that space? First off, pass on the minimalist trend. Then, think about the possibilities.You know how bell bottoms are back in? Soon, so will these trinkets, furniture styles, and fad pieces like Pokemon. Get ahead of your peers and start collecting now. Levine will shed some light on what's hot and what's not.From any perspective, you will finish ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob McNatt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200410/bk_acx0_200410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tiny Living: Beginner’s Guide to Smart Ideas of Tiny Living in 400 Square Feet or Less , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min
Do you live in a tiny home and find the space insufficient? Do you want to live a clutter-free life? Do you want to give a tiny living lifestyle a try? Do you want to learn about the benefits of minimalism?If yes, then you have come to the right place. Living in a tiny homes mean living a simpler, happier life. There are so many people switching to tiny living all across the country these days. The change is not just in the size of the house, but also in the way they live their lives. Tiny living goes hand in hand with minimalism, which helps you to lead a more meaningful life.With this book, you will learn how to make the most of a space that is 400 sq. feet or less and turn it into a joyful home. It will help you explore all the possibilities of tiny living and decide if it is for you. You will be guided through the entire process of deciding if tiny living is suited for you, and then you'll learn how to live a minimal and happy life in a tiny home.This audiobook will cover many different aspects of tiny living, including:The philosophy of tiny living and minimalism The benefits of living small The art of downsizing Design ideas to make your tiny home look stylish and larger than it is How to live with another person in a tiny space Practical ideas to maximize storage in a small space Step-by-step process on how to declutter every room in your home As you listen to this audiobook, you will learn how to live well with less space and a lot less clutter in your life. It will help you redefine your ideas about what a beautiful and happy home should look like.So, what are you waiting for? Click on the "Buy Now" button now and get the audiobook today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Gwyther. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224765/bk_acx0_224765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1079min
An investigation of epic finanical intrigue, Render unto Rome exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that, historically, the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the Church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the Church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American Church wealth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Berry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002660/bk_rand_002660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 500min
Change is a constant, and leaders must do more than keep up - they must innovate and accelerate to succeed. Yet people are often unnerved by change. As a leader during a time of transformation, you may stand up before teams that are indifferent, or even hostile, and need to convince them that change is necessary and urgent. More than money, time, or resources, the ability to lead these people determines your ultimate success or failure. What does it take to be an effective change leader and increase the odds of success? Stacking the Deck offers a proven, practical approach for inspiring meaningful, lasting change across an organization. Stacking the Deck presents a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Based on Dave Pottruck's experiences leading change as CEO of Charles Schwab and later as chairman of CorpU and HighTower Advisors, these steps provide a guide to ensure that your change initiative and your team have the best possible shot at success. In addition, established business leaders who have led extraordinary change initiatives demonstrate the steps in action. These executives include eBay CEO John Donahoe, Wells Fargo former CEO Dick Kovacevich, Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz, San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer, JetBlue CEO Dave Barger, Asurion CEO Steve Ellis, Pinkberry CEO Ron Graves, and Intel's President Renee James, among others. Leading an organization through major change - whether it's the introduction of a new product, an expansion to a new territory, or a difficult downsizing - is not for the faint of heart. While success is never guaranteed, the right leadership, process, and team make all the difference. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Price. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021393/bk_adbl_021393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
In the 1950s, it was enough for a family to have one bread-winner. In the 1970s and 1980s, families needed two incomes to get ahead. Today, in this world of economic upheaval, even dual-income families can barely make ends meet. Corporate downsizing and restructuring make the future of every job uncertain - and how can you plan for the rest of your life when it's difficult to plan for next week? But for those lucky few who understand what is causing this tidal wave of economic change, a life of financial security and even prosperity is not only possible, but easy to achieve. Using Robert G. Allen's powerful, proven techniques, you can create multiple streams of income - income so stable and secure it can lead to a lifetime of wealth and ease. Whether your goal is to gain extra monthly income or to escape the stress of the rat race altogether, Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth can put you on the path to prosperity, peace, and health. In this invaluable program, Robert G. Allen - and select professionals who have experienced immense success using his techniques - will demonstrate: How to plant a "money tree" for a lifetime of recession-proof wealth. The seven skills of highly prosperous people - secrets used by the wealthy to make and guard their fortunes. The importance of becoming an intrapreneur, entrepreneur, infopreneur, or auto-preneur. The gold mines waiting to be discovered in the Internet, real estate, compound interest, and Robert Allen's own "nothing down" strategies. How to eliminate anxiety about making money and becoming wealthy. How to manage as many as six streams of income in as little as one hour a day - freeing you to enjoy your financial success. And much, much more! When you create multiple streams of income, you are forming a powerful tide of prosperity that can carry you along for ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000147/bk_ntgl_000147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Summer Long: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
Dorothea Benton Frank novels are filled with smart and witty fiction that every listener wants in their library: soulful, edgy stories about realistic characters familiar to us all that explore the most deeply felt moments of life with wry humor and heart. All Summer Long follows one charming New York couple - prominent interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband, Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and true Southern gentleman. They are seemingly polar opposites yet magnetically drawn together and in love for more than 14 years. As they prepare to relocate to Charleston, SC, Olivia, the ultimate New Yorker, has reservations about the promise she made to retire in the Lowcountry, where Nick wants to return home and lead a more peaceful life. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, and downsizing. Nick is ecstatic. Olivia is not. She can't let Nick know that their finances are not what he thought. Her client list is evaporating, their monetary reserves are dwindling, and maybe that house she picked out on Sullivan's Island needs too much work. Thank God for her assistant, Roni Larini, her right (and sometimes left) hand. As they find themselves pondering the next step of their lives, Olivia and Nick travel with her billionaire clients and their friends, are swept up into the world of the ultrarich, and explore the globe with a cast of zany eccentrics over one tumultuous, hot summer. All as Olivia grapples with what lies ahead for her and Nick. This is a story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more. Even the most successful people can often struggle to keep things together. All Summer Long asks the ultimate question: Can money buy happiness? From Sullivan's Island to Necker Island to Nantucket to the beaches of Southern Spain, we'll come to recognize the many faces of true love - love that deepens ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005245/bk_harp_005245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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More With Less: How to Declutter Your Home Without Sacrificing Comfort and Coziness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
Do you wish for a cleaner and cozier home? Feel overwhelmed by your possessions? If so, it's time to simplify your life!We live in a culture where more is worshiped and encouraged: more money, more stuff, more likes. In the meantime, we get disconnected from ourselves and our loved ones. This audiobook is a heartfelt guide to downsize your house and keep it practical and cozy.After returning home from a six-year world journey, Michelle Moore decided to downsize, simplify, and make her house more homely. In the process, she realized the less she had, the more she could value the things that truly matter in life: friendship, family, self-care, and coziness.More With Less is based on a rational approach to minimalism, but Miss Moore takes the idea further. It is not enough to declutter. It won’t make you happy by itself. In More With Less, the downsizing process runs parallel with ideas on how to make your living space homely.The first half of the audiobook introduces the most trending contemporary concepts of cleaning and organizing:How can you benefit the most from minimalism?The art of creating a minimal but cozy homeThe secrets of Swedish death cleaningPractical tips how to make each month of the year cozy and homely10 power tools to enhance the comfort of your home instantlyThe second half of the audiobook discusses the hands-on practices to downsize and upgrade the comfort of your home:The best selection methods to get rid of mess quickly and effectivelyFolding and organizing methods from the greatest decluttering minds in the worldSpecial tips to declutter and organize those parts of your home you wouldn’t even think ofA step-by-step walk-through on how to keep the order in your home once it’s clean20+ organizing tips to find a good spot for everythingImprove your focus, concentration, and c ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102905/bk_acx0_102905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Avoid the Pink Slip , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 203min
As the author - the founder of a national executive search firm - placed thousands of executives and managers in corporate positions throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, he witnessed a recurring pattern of jobs being offered to individuals based on the personal chemistry between employer and employee; as much as 80 percent of the hiring equation revolved around this intangible concept of personal chemistry. Similarly, he found that most firings and downsizings were as a result of a lack of personal chemistry and as a lack of training or thinking about how to "survive" in the job. He interviewed hundreds of senior corporate executives across multi-industries and functions to examine why one employee would be shown the door while another in a similar professional capacity at the company would "survive". He discerned that the survivors had, like warriors of old, girded their loins against attack and built corporate moats to protect their own employment castles. Most books have been written on how to get the job - How to Avoid the Pink Slip gives you the "inside skinny" or intelligence to develop the means of survival. He also, in his 40 years of corporate executive search, realized that no matter the job performance that all employees from the top to the bottom are potential victims of the downsizing axe and the corporate bean counters - the finance executives who sacrifice people for profits. If you had a job - any job - you are a potential target. This book will tell you how to weigh the odds and stack them in your favor against becoming a victim of the pink slip. Wes will wake up the slumbering worker and tell him or her how to build their own Doppler, a system that will alert them to don fully waterproof gear, raise an umbrella, or simply dodge the raindrops. In other words, how to prevent falling victim to the unseen - or unrecognized - winds that swirl around them every working day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Martinez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050215/bk_acx0_050215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
A career advisor explains why many talented, hardworking people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win. While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns, failed projects, downsizing and restructuring, or just bad bosses or bad timing, we all know of colleagues who continue to rise through every tough situation. Most assume that they have advantages that protect them - degrees from the right schools, great mentors, influential friends and family, or just better luck. But these hypersuccessful professionals have faced setbacks, too. Instead of allowing challenges to derail their rises, they've learned how to manage them better. In Workplace Poker, Dan Rust gives you the strategies you need to accelerate your career and prevent setbacks from stalling your progress or spiraling it downward. The trick, he reveals, is to "play the game under the game" - to think more deeply and act more strategically. If you are talented, ambitious, and hardworking but feel your career just isn't accelerating as rapidly as it should or as fast as you would like it to, this book is for you. If you have been frustrated to see others (less talented, who don't work as hard as you do) achieve rapid professional progress while your career stalls out, this book is for you. If you've been annoyed by those who are successful primarily because of where they went to school, family connections, or financial resources, this book is for you. Rust gives you the insight and skills you need to transform yourself and adapt to and survive any hurdle - to turn every adversity into advantage and every struggle into strength, including: Recognition of your own "blind spots" and what to do about them Mastering strategic and authentic self-promotion Enhancing your personal charm and likeability ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Rust, Rick Adamson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005054/bk_harp_005054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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