Principles for Living

Four powerful principles for living. Beautiful in its simplicity. A shamanic teacher and healer, Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors.

This book might help readers land a better job, but it's more relevant for those who are ready to detach from an ego-driven life filled with quick fixes of happiness and step into a more authentic, joyful, and spiritually fulfilling life. His core teachings speak to tapping into a universal source of energy that he calls the "power of intention."

All of your emotions - even dark and difficult feelings - are carriers of energy and information that have the power to protect and heal us, teaches Ms. McLaren. In this absorbing book, you will learn how to create a safe and centered inner foundation for working with your emotions ... release the patterns that block healthy emotional flow ... and retrieve the insights and healing energies encoded within each of your feeling states.

The Law of Attraction, by Michael J. Losier

"I attract to my life whatever I give my energy, focus, and attention to, whether wanted or unwanted." Based on the works of Abraham-Hicks Mr. Losier provides a process for identifying and attracting more of what you want in your life.

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Midlife Passages

A classic guide for understanding the process that we experience in each major life transition. Bridges gives insights and understanding into the endings, neutral "between time" zone and the new beginnings phase of each transition.

Through uplifting stories and personal anecdotes, these two creative life partners offer twelve practices that will open your eyes to new perspectives and possibilities in your life. I've found their tools useful in discovering new ways of approaching both personal and profession situations.

Sadler uses real life experiences to demonstrate six core principles to guide you through your own life passage and to discover new avenues for productive and creative living.

Editor's notes: "Although few people in mid-life are ready to hear it, the chances of enjoying an active, fulfilling retirement have almost nothing to do with money. What really matters are the life choices you make before you retire. They will largely determine whether retirement will find you busy or bored, happy or lonely, healthy or sick. Includes insightful facts, strategies (both for finances and lifestyle) and interviews with happily retired folks."

Career and Finding Your Passion

TEST-DRIVE YOUR DREAM JOB: A Step-By-Step Guide To Finding & Creating The Work You Love (Hachette Group USA, 2008) by VocationVacations founder, Brian Kurth

This book is a great resource for testing out a new, fulfilling career direction.  Brian Kurth and co-writer Robin Simons provide a step-by-step guide to finding mentors on the way to one's eventual dream job.  Kurth also tackles the tough issues, such as what to do when your dream career isn't everything you thought it would be, leaving you feeling directionless and shattered. Or how to talk things out with a family member who's not feeling quite so psyched about all the risk associated with the career move you're considering. 

With wisdom, compassion and gentle humor Parker comes from the Quaker tradition to explain how to find our natural gifts. "Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing" and our "limitations and liabilities are the flip side of our gifts".

A career guide and workbook that assists Baby Boomers to understand the changes in the American workplace and to effectively manage their careers. It presents an 8 step approach that incorporates strategic planning into the job search process and includes descriptions of 27 career options of interest to mature workers

Collins focuses on what it takes for a Fortune 500 company to build a sustainable, long term company. It contains charts and graphs that are great for those who love them and not required for those who don't find them necessary. A key concept presented is the "Hedgehog Principle", based on a simple but powerful question that will impact your personal and professional life.

Based on research Joseph provides techniques that can assist every job-seeker, whether currently employed or those facing an unexpected job transition.

Relationships

The Hendricks provide realistic strategies for couples who want to work together to overcome the power struggles and emotional blocks that hold them back from finding fulfilling intimacy and deeper love. Learn how to expand your self-responsibility and strengthen your relationships through telling the “microscopic truth” and  making/keeping agreements.

Dr. Kasl weaves Eastern philosophy into finding and creating a meaningful relationship with a partner without losing yourself. It's about creating love in your life, beginning with you!

Philanthropy

This is an illuminating book for those in the foundation and nonprofit worlds alike. With an unprecedented transfer of generational wealth expected over the next half-century, it is also a call to the upcoming generation of philanthropists to step up and use their wealth to ensure that real change happens quickly and creatively.

Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives readers the framework they need to design a smart strategy. This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.

This book introduces to you the Seven Faces approach--a powerful tool that enables development professionals to maximize their effectiveness when approaching major donors for gifts. The authors identify and profile seven types of major donors and offer you detailed strategies on how to approach them. Both novice and expert fundraisers will find this framework a valuable supplement to existing strategies and techniques.

This book shows how anyone can align and integrate values, passions, and dreams for their communities and families into their plans. Inspired Philanthropy explains how to make a difference by creating giving and legacy plans, tells what questions to ask nonprofits, and spells out how to help partner with advisors and nonprofit leaders for inspired outcomes.

Based on the program experience of Resource Generation--a national non-profit that works with young people with wealth who care about social justice--and over forty interviews, this book offers a window into young people's own ideas and concerns.

While written specifically for young philanthropists, this guide is also an essential reference for all those who work with wealthy families and research the field, including financial managers, philanthropic advisors, and non-profit fundraisers.

Financial Planning

This book is more than simply a financial planning guide-because life after fifty is no longer simple. Written by a woman who helps people like you every day, this book is as full of encouragement and insight as useful information. It will help you clarify your own vision of your retirement and bring it to fruition. Most of all, it will give you confidence that you can take control of your financial life, and secure the future you hope for.

This book covers everything from the basics of wills and living trusts to sophisticated tax-saving strategies. The authors give you straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love.