Are you following your own North Star? Do you remember the dreams you held in your heart as a child? Each of us holds our childhood dreams in our hearts, then nurtures and cherishes them throughout our lives. Those dreams guide us to set our lifes goals and help us to achieve them. And when we feel lost, we look toward the North Star and try to find our way back to our hearts. Our own North Star is always there to guide us back home! Our childrens precious dreams are in their hearts, and each childs own North Star guides him or her to follow his or her dreams and to be an important part of this world. With support and encouragement from parents, families, friends and teachers, our children learn and grow to follow their hearts to become the people they want to be, attaining the high potential each child brings to this world. This short story is about holding your childhood dreams in your heart and following them in your life to become the person you always dreamed to be, with the help and gentle guidance from your own North Star. Dream your dreams!

New York Times bestselling author and Life Designs, Inc. creator Martha Beck shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential and create a joyful life. In this book, you'll start by learning how to read the internal compasses already built into your brain and body--and why you may have spent your life ignoring their signals. As you become reacquainted with your own deepest desires, you'll identify and repair any unconscious beliefs or unhealed emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress. This will change your life, but don't worry--although every life is unique, major transformations have common elements, and Beck provides a map that will guide you through your own life changes. You'll learn how to navigate every stage, from the first flickering appearance of a new dream to the planning and implementation of your own ideal life. Based on Dr. Beck's work as a Harvard-trained sociologist, research associate at Harvard Business School, instructor at Thunderbird Business School, and especially on her experiences with her clients over the last six years, Finding Your Own North Star offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercises to help you articulate your core desires and act on them to build a more satisfying life. “Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.” -- Martha Beck

Find out why readers say “picking up a book in this series feels like coming home”… grab The Northstar Series box set by USA Today bestselling author Suzie O’Connell and binge all ten books in this heartwarming small town romance series. FIRST INSTINCT – Best friend. Protector. Crutch. As Beth Carlyle overcomes every college girl’s worst nightmare, will she add “lover” to the names she has for Nick Hammond? MOUNTAIN ANGEL – Between a determined stalker and her meddling, matchmaking uncle, Aelissm Davis may be in over her head… and Pat O’Neil—the sheriff’s deputy who’s supposed to keep her safe—could be the biggest complication of all. SUMMER ANGEL – If June Montana can help her old friend Ben Conner and her adopted son Luke overcome their entwined traumas, she might find her perfect family. But a madman bent on revenge will stop at nothing to destroy their happily ever after. TWICE SHY – A widower with a charming young daughter intent on playing matchmaker and a wounded and wary woman in need of peace and healing… could a dance at a friend’s wedding be the start of something wonderful for Aaron Hammond and Skye Hathaway? ONCE BURNED – Henry Hammond and Lindsay Miller have both been burned in love, and a no-strings-attached fling is the perfect balm… but what happens when the attraction refuses to fade? MISTLETOE KISSES – When Ty Evans impulsively kissed Shannon O’Neil under the mistletoe two years ago, he had no idea of the captivating desire it would awaken. Now she’s in Northstar for Christmas, and he won’t waste his second chance at a happily ever after with her. STARLIGHT MAGIC – Traumatized by the death of her husband, Celeste Dawson desperately needs a fresh start. A trip to Northstar to visit her friend Shannon is just the thing… and her big-hearted new neighbor Brodie Dunn might be exactly the man to coax her from the shadows and back into the light. WILD ANGEL – Everything Luke Conner once wanted from life is slipping away. Ryan Connelly wishes she could be the miracle he needs, but her own heart is still in tatters… and he has ties to the man who broke it. FORGOTTEN ANGEL – Shane McGuire and Becky Epperson have a history. They might have had much more, but instead, he broke her heart. Now they’re both back in Northstar, and he’ll do everything he can to win her back. LAST SURRENDER – Heather Brown and Jeremiah Mackey are an unlikely love match, but their broken pieces fit together so well. Can they persevere when someone with a grudge starts playing deadly games? Keywords: Small town & rural fiction, contemporary romance, box set, bundle, complete series, cowboy, ranch, suspense, love story, women's fiction, friendships, Montana

Kaz Nagai shares what he considers 101 of the most important life lessons for the years following graduation, covering everything from your career, to love, and to self-improvement.

Proven techniques and principles for modernizing legacy systems into new architectures that deliver serious competitive advantage. For a business to thrive, it needs a modern software architecture that is aligned with its corporate architecture. This book presents concrete practices that sync software, product, strategy, team dynamics, and work practices. You’ll evolve your technical and social architecture together, reducing needless dependencies and achieving faster flow of innovation across your organization. In Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure you’ll learn how to: Identify strategic ambitions and challenges using listening and mapping tours Visualize your business landscape and crucial capabilities with Wardley Mapping Create a product taxonomy as a framework for your architecture Run big picture EventStorming workshops to map business domains Apply Team Topologies patterns to identify and refine value streams Design loosely coupled, domain-aligned software architectures Build internal developer platforms for rapid, reliable evolution Implement data mesh principles and tools to revolutionize data engineering Deliver compelling modernization roadmaps focused on continuous value Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure shows you how to turn the practice of architecting systems into a transformative process for your entire company. Chapter-by-chapter, you’ll identify the reasons and benefits of modernization, design an architecture that works for your business, and then implement your new approach in a progressive and sustainable manner. Every technique is illustrated with insightful industry examples and an interactive Miro board that lets you dig deeper. Forewords by Matthew Skelton and Xin Yao. About the technology The decisions you make about your software are inherently connected to the decisions you make about your business. Why not turn the mundane task of modernizing legacy systems into a transformative process for your entire company? This book shows you how! It reveals a socio-technical approach to align your software and products with organizational dynamics and ways of working. About the book Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure presents a clear path for upgrading your entire organization when you re-imagine your software. In it, you’ll learn to combine practices like Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, and Wardley Mapping to discover user needs, design optimal architecture, and avoid falling back into old habits. Provocative examples from Danske, Salesforce, the UK Government, and others show the real-world result of each approach, identifying techniques you can apply effectively in your own business. About the reader For CTOs, tech leads, and principal engineers who decide on architecture and organization design. About the author Nick Tune helps organizations modernize their architectures through empowered product teams and continuous delivery. Jean-Georges Perrin builds innovative and modern data platforms. The technical editor on this book was Kamil Nicieja.

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