Life on earth can leave us feeling lost and unfulfilled, but what if the keys to success and boundless joy reside within you? Spiritual Shortcuts is your guide to an extraordinary and efficient journey of self-discovery. Use seven simple yet profound keys to unlock the mysteries to your true self and your best life. This transformative book will help you navigate your spiritual journey and surmount the obstacles that hinder your progress. Say goodbye to guesswork and become the master of your own destiny. Create a life free of shadows where your dreams become a tangible reality and you are empowered to express your authentic self. Your true identity beckons - will you respond?Connect with Erin Wallace, the guiding force behind this profound work, and explore infinite possibilities at ErinKathleenWallace.com.

Wake up to calmness and clarity with simple mindfulness meditations and stories. Can’t find time to meditate? You can easily calm and center yourself with this collection of short essays by Catherine Auman, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). By reading this book, you will experience mindful awakenings about: ✓spirituality ✓your relationships ✓love ✓tantric sex ✓how to become a better person Easy and enjoyable to read, Shortcuts to Mindfulness offers simple but powerful stories and essays that will positively impact every area of your mental and physical health; from productivity and focus, to relief from stress and anxiety, better sleep, mind-blowing sex, personal relationships … the benefits are limitless. The result? More headspace, less stress. Catherine brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor-made for the time-starved among us.

Promotes awareness of mind/body/spirit connection and provides techniques for healthier living.

John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP? In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded form. By contrast, contemporary listeners can encounter this music not only through a flood of LP and CD releases of archival recordings but also in even greater volume through Internet file sharing and online resources. Present-day listeners are coming to know that era's experimental music through the recorded artifacts of composers and musicians who largely disavowed recordings. In Records Ruin the Landscape, Grubbs surveys a musical landscape marked by altered listening practices.

In the 1800s, the term shunpikers was coined for drivers who avoid toll roads at all cost, going out of their way, sometimes many miles, to avoid paying a small fee. The ironic nature of shunpiking is that it usually costs the driver more in time and money than the toll would have. Sometimes, the driver winds up lost and never even arrives at their desired destination. In Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Reno Omokri says many believers want the blessings of God without paying the "toll." When God's children accept the price of applying biblical principles to their lives, they avoid the headaches and heartaches that come with trying to find their own way. Reno Omokri has enjoyed a long career in politics in Nigeria, where he now handles media relations for the president. In the same vein as CS Lewis, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God is a series of essays and lessons to all believers on applying biblical principles to our lives. At one time or another, all Christians struggle with veering off the path, leading lives of missed opportunities. Omokri shows you how to get back on the road God set before you, to attain the blessings He promised.

Tips and Tricks to Help You Live Out Your Faith Life hacks—ingenious solutions to everyday problems—are everywhere on the internet. If you want to stop your cat from unrolling the toilet paper or learn how to cut a cake with dental floss, you can find a site that will show you how. Such clever strategies might save you a few seconds and give you a good story to tell your friends, but they can’t help you with the stuff in life that truly matters, like trying to live as God intended. That is…until now. Discover life hacks for your spiritual life, field-tested fixes for chronic problems that plague many Christians. What do you do when you are… …headed out into a problem-filled world? …disillusioned by your lack of spiritual growth? …forced to be around somebody really annoying? …disgusted with yourself because of all the things you “should” be doing but aren’t? …tired of all the pretending? Join award-winning author Len Woods as he shares some sound biblical strategies for overcoming these common challenges—and learn to give yourself grace along the way.

In Beware the Spiritual Trap: 11 Signs You’re Practicing Spiritual Materialism, Gaurav delves deep into the subtle pitfalls of modern spiritual practice. This enlightening book sheds light on how spiritual materialism—a preoccupation with status, possessions, and external validation—can obscure true spiritual growth. Through twelve revealing chapters, Gaurav explores common signs of spiritual materialism, such as seeking approval, obsessing over tools, and chasing instant enlightenment. Each chapter provides practical advice for overcoming these traps and embracing a path of genuine spiritual development. With insights drawn from personal experience and spiritual wisdom, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to navigate their spiritual journey with authenticity and integrity.

In Gettin' There, bestselling author Steve Farrar delves into the book of Psalms to give men a new sense of continuity, direction, purpose, and perspective. The Psalms are like a marked trail through life, showing that others have walked ahead and faced many of the challenges, temptations, heartaches, and perplexities that men will encounter on their journeys. Farrar shows that when a man begins to understand that the strong and caring hand of God is sovereign over everything in his life -- including his trials and heartaches -- his confidence, hope, and joy will increase dramatically in the God who created him and desires to use him.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. “From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps the reader translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges formal training never warned about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks the reader through applying a Scrum approach to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles, managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more.