Creating Success from the Inside Out shares the inspiring and motivational story of Ephren Taylor, one of the world’s youngest-ever CEOs of a publicly traded company. A millionaire by the young age of sixteen, Taylor tells you what it takes to succeed in life by following your own path and refusing to be defeated. When you ignore the voices of negativity and follow our own true passions, there are no obstacles you can't overcome.

Some of the most effective daily practices that can generate success in all areas of your life include the following: Are You A Doer or a Dreamer? - Be Diligent - Small Steps to Big Changes - How's Your Attitude? Be Competent! - Your Words Can Make You or Break You - Learn Discipline - Communication Skills Discipline and Personal Responsibility - General Mistakes that People Make - Self-Control Temper - Mentors - Your mentors will come in different ages, genders, and sexual orientations Catch the Anointing in the Prophet - Identify Your Talent - What Do You Do When You Identify Your Talent? Know What Your Clients Need, and Then Modernize Your Talent and What You Can Do to Meet Those Needs Have a Passion for Your Career - You Do Have a Choice - Handling Rejection - It's All in Your Head! Great Personalities Who Showed Courage in the Face of Adversity - Have Faith! - Miracles Do Happen Value Your Ideas and Take Risks - How to Find Financiers for Your Idea - Some Investors May Miss Your Idea Positive and Negative Habits - Forming New Habits - The Law of Exercise - The Law of Effect Five Steps for Changing Habits - How to Handle Negative Thinking When Forming New Positive Habits You Are Responsible for Your Personal Development - Stay Positive - Manage Your Time Wisely Stay Informed - Keep Up on Technology - Morality - Communication Dress the Part - Know Yourself

Current customers are overwhelmingly a company's greatest potential source of sales and profits. For many businesses, 80% of sales come from 20% of their existing clientele. Yet companies spend about five times more money on campaigns to attract new customers than in developing and executing strategies to retain current customers. Marketing for Keeps: Buying Your Business by Retaining Your Customers provides a blueprint and proven strategy for developing and mining a company's most valuable resource: its current customers. Based on original research at 35 North American customer retention champions, both large and small, including America West Airlines, Au Bon Pain, BellSouth Mobility, Burnaby Hospital, Fidelity Investments, Northwestern Mutual Life, USAA and Xerox; organized around a 12-step management planning model for customer retention; shows how to use customer research to uncover real customer needs provides tools to help identify your best customers Shows how to improve customer contact, tighten your grip on current customers through multiple relationships and recover lost customers; and shows how to empower employees and develop teamwork around a customer retention plan. Marketing for Keeps is a book for managers and executives in all companies: from entrepreneurial start-ups to the Fortune 500. In a back-to-basics age. it shows how to take action and make money on the most basic element of any business: your current customers.

A personal chronicle/textbook which aims to help students better understand their own choices and potential. It contains ten chapters that explore goal-setting, time management, relationships and other life skills issues that affect student success. Ancillary package available on adoption.

As babies approach the world, everything is so sparkling and thrilling and different: the sound of their mother’s voice, the bright sunlight, the first glorious jump into a puddle, even the flicker of a TV. And despite the unequivocal newness of all that’s around them, how often their little faces seem to evoke the seasoned perception of an older soul. Zen Babyreminds us how Zen-like an infant’s sense of wonder can be. Pairing more than fifty beautiful photographs of babies with gems of Zen wisdom from a variety of sources, we get a glimpse of what might be passing through their minds as they ponder new experiences. For example, a photograph of a lovely little girl nibbling a huge loaf of bread is matched with the saying “If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich.” Beyond being stirred by their undeniable cuteness, we could even learn a thing or two from these little Buddhas. As Zen teaches, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”