This timely book expands on Viktor Frankl's seminal Man's Search for Meaning, examining the book's concepts in depth and widening the market for them by introducing an entirely new way to look at work and the workplace. Alex Pattakos, a former colleague of Frankl's, brings the search for meaning at work within the grasp of every reader using simple, straightforward language. The author distills Frankl's ideas into seven core principles: Exercise the freedom to choose your attitude; Realize your will to meaning; Detect the meaning of life's moments; Don't work against yourself; Look at yourself from a distance; Shift your focus of attention; and Extend beyond yourself. By demonstrating how Dr. Frankl's key principles can be applied to all kinds of work situations, Prisoners of Our Thoughts opens up new opportunities for finding personal meaning and living an authentic work life.

Prisoner of the Mind - Spiritual Self-Improvement Personal Development We have the largest prison population in the world in America today, but how many men and women were locked up in their minds before they got to prison? Prisoner of the Mind by Jeff Hairston is much more than a self improvement book- it's a personal development tool that can help you overcome your fears and FINALLY live your life as God intended. "Prisoner of the Mind" by Jeff Hairston is a thought provoking book aimed at helping you find a spiritual balance in life and to break free of the prison of negative thoughts and emotions that your mind has created over the years. Jeff artfully guides you through the many aspects of life that plague our minds today intertwining important lessons with examples from his own life story. Fear is one of the most important emotions when experienced in the right way. It can help us in life threatening situations by keeping our mind on high alert. but what happens when fear comes into contact with the ego? That very same fear that is there to save you can also stop you from living a normal, healthy life -and in some cases even kill you! It's all about using the fear to your advantage and being consistent and persistent against it. Many of the issues plaguing our mind are created by past life events that are left unresolved. "Prisoner of the Mind" asks the important spiritual questions and expertly tackles negative personal issues to help you better understand and overcome the prison that your own mind had created. Break free from the personal prison that your own mind created - order your copy of "Prisoner of the Mind" by Jeff Hairston today!

Named the "2015 Self-Help Book of the Year" at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards In chasing "the good life," many of us sacrifice our relationships, our health, and our sanity, but at the end of the day, we still find ourselves with lives and work that bring us little fulfillment. Life isn't about the pursuit of happiness, which is superficial and fleeting. It's about meaning, which helps us realize our full potential, and knowing that our lives and work matter—regardless of circumstances. Dr. Alex Pattakos and Elaine Dundon, two bestselling authors and leaders of the Meaning Movement, give readers The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work. Inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and traditional village values, and backed by years of research, The OPA! Way provides a breakthrough approach and practical tools to renew your outlook and rejuvenate your life. Pattakos and Dundon demystify the subject of meaning by sharing insights, stories, and three core lessons to guide you on your odyssey: Connect meaningfully with Others Engage with deeper Purpose Embrace life with Attitude Stop searching for happiness and start searching for meaning. Create the life you want, The OPA! Way.

Are we all prisoners of our own minds. Imprisoned by our thoughts, ideas, culture, goals, a sense of belonging and everything else that comes with being a human and how we have learnt to live. You may go through a point in your journey in life when you feel trapped inside your mind. The insecurities, self doubt and everything else that could go with it, pile up, and somehow you find yourself imprisoned inside your own mind. I guess at times, we are guilty of overburdening ourselves, and in the process, also start manufacturing problems for ourselves. What the world thinks of us, or the desire to be liked and admired, chasing a goal or ambition. The need to succeed and get somewhere, can all get very taxing. Prisoner of a mind is not really a self help book, but rather a compilation of thoughts of a human mind. Most of us experience our life differently and in our own unique way. Learning from each other is how we get started. This book is dedicated to all those struggling human minds who find themselves on a journey. Chasing their goals, ambitions and everything else along the way. Life is a journey of continuity with no preconceived idea of a final destination. So I am learning to let a life live through me, and experience living for as long as it can.

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.? “One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village Voice Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

A Self Help and Self Esteem Guide that actually works Is your mind causing you pain and suffering? Do you feel like it is a constant struggle to work towards your goals? Are there thoughts and patterns holding you back that you just can't seem to identify? Do you avoid going for your dreams because of reasons that you know make no "logical sense"? This book is Designed for anyone who wants to take the quality of their life to the next level... You will get a detailed understanding of how your psyche and beliefs function. You will learn 2 highly effective methods for identifying limiting beliefs and emotions that are currently stopping you. You will learn how to permanently delete and eliminate your current limiting beliefs. You will learn a very powerful method for installing new and empowering beliefs into your psyche. How much would the quality of your life improve if you could learn to let go of everything that is holding you back? The Mind-Made prison is a must-read for anyone interested in the areas of self development and self esteem. By using the author's proven techniques of personal transformation, you can literally learn to design your life in any way you want. This book will save you from going through life without ever truly tapping into your full potential... The Mind-Made prison is one that we are all caught in, either knowingly or unknowingly, and this comprehensive guide explains how you can finally escape the iron grip of this prison. About the Author At just the age of 25, Mateo is a Global Management Engineer and a Best Selling Author. His landmark book, The Mind Made Prison, is a 5 star winner and ranks in the top 10 in the self esteem category. His specialities - as seen on TV and heard on Radio - include personal transformation and self esteem.Mateo doesn't just talk the talk. He walks the walk. Literally. Mateo spent the last 5 years traveling the world in an all-out quest to hone his skills. After ripping knowledge from world masters in self-improvement, Mateo is now formally studying to get his masters degree in Psychology.

"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.