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9 Tips For Better Sleep

straightforward, simple ways to get better sleep.

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13 small things to simplify your workday

You don’t need to do all of these things — pick just one, and try it. Then try another and see if it works. Experiment to find what works for you.

And enjoy the simple work life.

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The Counting Principle

For every goal you can make quantifiable - you will be naturally driven to improve.  read more >>

 

 

 

 

 

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson

 

 

Time Traps

by Todd Duncan

Productivity.  It has been a buzz word in the business world for years.  But despite our best attempts and countless self-help books, we still fall behind, work late, juggle our schedules, and become swamped.  Time Traps addresses the most common misconceptions we have about time and our use of that time in the marketplace.  Duncan has proven remedies for universal time troubles, and he shows readers how to set a schedule that works-not just some days but every day.

 

 

From the archives:

The Power

~ Rhonda Byrne

You are meant to have an amazing life! This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe - The Power to have anything you want. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power. The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized, because The Power - to have everything good in your life - is inside you. To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing...THE POWER.

   

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers 

~Adriana Trigiani

Fans of novelist Trigiani will be delighted with this guided tour through the author's family history via her grandmothers, Lucia and Viola. She lovingly details the women's lives and recounts the lessons she's learned while offering a fascinating look at U.S. history from the perspective of her Italian-American forebears. She credits them with telling good stories: "I mimicked their work ethic imagining myself in a factory, layering words like tasks until the work was done. I took away more than life lessons from their stories; I made a career out of it." Here, Trigiani combines family and American history, reflections on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect, as a legacy to her daughter and a remembrance of two inimitable women

 

This week's Booklist - Ten of the Best ... Irish authors 

(to help you celebrate St Patrick's Day!!)

         

 

 

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From the archives:

The Power

~ Rhonda Byrne

You are meant to have an amazing life! This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe - The Power to have anything you want. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power. The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized, because The Power - to have everything good in your life - is inside you. To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing...THE POWER.

   

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers 

~Adriana Trigiani

Fans of novelist Trigiani will be delighted with this guided tour through the author's family history via her grandmothers, Lucia and Viola. She lovingly details the women's lives and recounts the lessons she's learned while offering a fascinating look at U.S. history from the perspective of her Italian-American forebears. She credits them with telling good stories: "I mimicked their work ethic imagining myself in a factory, layering words like tasks until the work was done. I took away more than life lessons from their stories; I made a career out of it." Here, Trigiani combines family and American history, reflections on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect, as a legacy to her daughter and a remembrance of two inimitable women

 

This week's Booklist - Ten of the Best ... Irish authors 

(to help you celebrate St Patrick's Day!!)

         

 

 

Just Released

 

 

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman 

 

By  Timothy Ferriss

Whatever your physical goal, "The 4-Hour Body" eclipses every other health manual by sharing the best kept secrets in the latest science and research to provide new strategies for redesigning the human body.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bestseller

The Going to Bed Book 

(Board book)

By  Sandra Boynton

Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.

And for a little one who is reluctant to go to bed, sometimes a silly book is just the ticket.

 

 

 

Book Club Discussion notes

 

The Goose Girl

 

by Shannon Hale

 

She can whisper to horses and communicate with birds, but the crown princess Ani has a difficult time finding her place in the royal family and measuring up to her imperial mother.

Discussion questions here =>  http://www.pivotalmagazine.com/pm_goosediscussion.htm 

 

Watch and Read

We looked at  - the books

     

and added 4 clips from the movie and a range of printables for kids to interact with.... here =>  http://www.pivotalmagazine.com/pm_rango.htm


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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.  

W. Somerset Maugham

 

 

 

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