You Wanted More Freedom... As an entrepreneur, being your own boss is probably not what you had in mind when you first started. In a broken business culture that promotes workaholism and non-stop hustle, where productivity and performance are measured by quantity over quality, it's easy to get sucked into the dark side of entrepreneurship and lose sight of the very reasons why you became an entrepreneur in the first place. That translates into a daily life of unmanageable workloads, focus-robbing reactivity, and deep overwhelm. But if your goal is to build a business that works for you instead of enslaving you, then this book is the answer. Here's what you can expect to learn and implement with this book: How to finish what you used to do in 40+ hours per week in 20 hours or less. The 2 types of tasks to focus on daily to double your productivity while delegating, outsourcing and automating most of your draining recurring tasks. 3 simple tweaks to swat away distractions and free you from firefighting, non-stop emergencies, and never-ending to-do lists. An easy to implement system that will allow you to optimally manage your time, energy and attention to ensure you'll perform at work and win at your personal life. Unique strategies to create the space in your schedule for what really matters. And much more! Dave Ruel is a former competitive physique athlete turned serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and leadership mentor. After founding and growing multi-million dollar online companies in the field of health, fitness and sports nutrition, Dave founded Effic, an innovative leadership development company that helps busy entrepreneurs maximize their impact and freedom. His systems and tools are now used by entrepreneurs all around the world. Dave lives on the East Coast of Canada with his wife Karine and their 2 daughters.

You Wanted More Freedom... As an entrepreneur, being your own boss is probably not what you had in mind when you first started. In a broken business culture that promotes workaholism and non-stop hustle, where productivity and performance are measured by quantity over quality, it's easy to get sucked into the dark side of entrepreneurship and lose sight of the very reasons why you became an entrepreneur in the first place. That translates into a daily life of unmanageable workloads, focus-robbing reactivity, and deep overwhelm. But if your goal is to build a business that works for you instead of enslaving you, then this book is the answer. Here's what you can expect to learn and implement with this book: How to finish what you used to do in 40+ hours per week in 20 hours or less. The 2 types of tasks to focus on daily to double your productivity while delegating, outsourcing and automating most of your draining recurring tasks. 3 simple tweaks to swat away distractions and free you from firefighting, non-stop emergencies, and never-ending to-do lists. An easy to implement system that will allow you to optimally manage your time, energy and attention to ensure you'll perform at work and win at your personal life. Unique strategies to create the space in your schedule for what really matters. And much more! Dave Ruel is a former competitive physique athlete turned serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and leadership mentor. After founding and growing multi-million dollar online companies in the field of health, fitness and sports nutrition, Dave founded Effic, an innovative leadership development company that helps busy entrepreneurs maximize their impact and freedom. His systems and tools are now used by entrepreneurs all around the world. Dave lives on the East Coast of Canada with his wife Karine and their 2 daughters.

You Wanted More Freedom... As an entrepreneur, being your own boss is probably not what you had in mind when you first started. In a broken business culture that promotes workaholism and non-stop hustle, where productivity and performance are measured by quantity over quality, it's easy to get sucked into the dark side of entrepreneurship and lose sight of the very reasons why you became an entrepreneur in the first place. That translates into a daily life of unmanageable workloads, focus-robbing reactivity, and deep overwhelm. But if your goal is to build a business that works for you instead of enslaving you, then this book is the answer. Here's what you can expect to learn and implement with this book: How to finish what you used to do in 40+ hours per week in 20 hours or less. The 2 types of tasks to focus on daily to double your productivity while delegating, outsourcing and automating most of your draining recurring tasks. 3 simple tweaks to swat away distractions and free you from firefighting, non-stop emergencies, and never-ending to-do lists. An easy to implement system that will allow you to optimally manage your time, energy and attention to ensure you'll perform at work and win at your personal life. Unique strategies to create the space in your schedule for what really matters. And much more! Dave Ruel is a former competitive physique athlete turned serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and leadership mentor. After founding and growing multi-million dollar online companies in the field of health, fitness and sports nutrition, Dave founded Effic, an innovative leadership development company that helps busy entrepreneurs maximize their impact and freedom. His systems and tools are now used by entrepreneurs all around the world. Dave lives on the East Coast of Canada with his wife Karine and their 2 daughters.

From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing’s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood—Huck Finn’s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child’s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff’s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens’s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle—growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers also ponder the lessons learned in life’s twilight years: both King Lear and Willy Loman suffer as their patriarchal authority collapses and death creeps up; Brecht’s Mother Courage displays the inspiring indomitability of an aging woman who has “borne every possible blow. . . but is still standing, still moving.” And older love can sometimes be funny (Rip Van Winkle conveniently sleeps right through his marriage) and sometimes tragic (as J. M. Coetzee’s David Lurie learns the hard way, in Disgrace). Tapping into the hearts and minds of memorable characters, from Sophocles’ Oedipus to Artie in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Morning, Noon, and Night makes an eloquent and powerful case for the role of great literature as a knowing window into our lives and times. Its intelligence, passion, and genuine appreciation for the written word remind us just how crucial books are to the business of being human.

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie's reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France's feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets and the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue. Here, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades. Their relationship intensifies during intoxicating months spent together in Paris and Chicago. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires lovers old and new, writing, politi, gambling which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional marriage and put their devotion to the test.

Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.

After years of playing in two-bit bands, Elliot gets his big chance - he meets a singer, a DJ and a drummer who seem to have everything. But just as their first dance record is climbing the charts, one of the band disappears.