Creating a Beautiful Mess: Ten Essential Play Experiences for a Joyous Childhood by early childhood educator Ann Gadzikowski gives parents news they can use to foster a balanced childhood with plenty of running, building, creating, cuddling, tinkering, and pretending. Keep it simple, find the joy, and get back to playing with your kids and grandkids.

Throughout his career as a mental performance coach to hundreds of professional athletes, corporate executives and Fortune 500 companies, Jim Fannin realized that the best in the world make swift decisions for immediate positive change. And the best can do this in less than 90-seconds. Find out how in his new book, 90-Seconds to a Great Relationship: The Power of the 90-Second Rule.

If you feel your shyness has held you back and prevented you from living a full life, 100 Ways to Overcome Shyness by psychology experts Dr. Barton Goldsmith and Marlena Hunter, MA will give you the tools you need to change your life, once and for all.

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Parents are so overwhelmed by advice that they often forget the experiences that made their own childhood special. New parents have many questions about what their children should play with, for how long, with whom, and what about technological advances. Creating a Beautiful Mess: Ten Essential Play Experiences for a Joyous Childhood is a simple, innovative look at children’s play, giving readers an inspiring recollection of their own memories while reassuring them that children are getting the developmental skills they need while at play. Author Ann Gadzikowski has more than twenty-five years of experience as a teacher and director of early childhood programs. She is the author of numerous publications for parents of young children and is the Early Childhood Coordinator for Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development.

Shyness can be painful and difficult. Statistics show that people who live solitary lives don’t live as long as those who enjoy deep and meaningful connections with family and friends. Each step you take to vanquish the fear holding you back will add more years to your life… and perhaps more life to your years. Seasoned psychology experts Dr. Barton Goldsmith and Marlena Hunter, MA hope to give the gift of human interaction in their new book, 100 Ways to Overcome Shyness. Dr. Goldsmith is a multi-award winning psychotherapist, syndicated columnist, author, and former NPR radio host. He was named one America’s top therapists by Cosmopolitan. Marlena Hunter, MA is a University of California graduate with a degree in psychology and several years of experience in clinical settings as a marriage and family therapist.

Jim Fannin‘s S.C.O.R.E. Success System with its proven 90-Second Rule as outlined in his new book 90-Seconds to a Great Relationship: The Power of the 90-Second Rule provides tools and techniques that have been beneficial to hundreds of professional athletes from ten sports including 26 MLB All-Stars, Olympic gold medalists, seven top ten ranked professional tennis players, NBA All-Stars, NFL All-Pros, and a MLS MVP. Jim is a mental performance coach, author, professional speaker, life strategist, sports and business consultant, and former professional tennis player. In addition, Fannin has personally trained tens of thousands of corporate executives and hundreds of companies from 50 industries in peak performance

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