Almost everyone at some time in their life has lost contact with a friend or family member. The second edition of Find Anyone Fast enables the public to locate anyone using state-of-the-art computer and Internet sources. Some Internet sites allow a search for telephone numbers anywhere in the United States or overseas. For a small fee, the public can search citizen profiles, voter registration records, and state professional licenses for background information in a matter of minutes. Also includes information on how to perform difficult searches involving the elderly, deadbeat dads, and even the homeless.

Explains how to use the latest resources and technology to find lost friends and family members.

If you want to motivate your employees to be more productive, convince your customers to use more of your products and services, encourage a loved one to engage in healthier habits, or inspire any change in yourself, renowned psychologist Dr. Michael Pantalon can show you how to achieve Instant Influence in six simple steps. Drawing on three decades of research, Dr. Pantalon's easy-to-learn method can create changes both great and small in 7 minutes or less. This scientifically tested method succeeds in every area of work and life by helping people tap into their deeply personal reasons for wanting to change and finding a spark of "yes" within an answer that sounds like "no."

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

Fasting for Christ during the Great Lent season gives us as Christian believers the opportunity to come into closer communion with God. As we give up eating food altogether for long periods of time, we also learn that this sacrifice of love is symbolic of the greater purpose of giving up our sins, habits, and anything that would keep us from being better followers of Christ. This book is a practical Bible study manual that is designed to be either done by the individual privately with the Lord, or as a group Bible study. It teaches those interested in growing in faith how to successfully do a forty-day-long Lenten fast. All of the instructions, rules, and tools needed to learn how to fast for the Lord are provided in this study. There is a daily meditation guide for each of the forty days of the Great Lent fast, as well as a beautiful journey journal. There are recipes and a sample meal plan as well to support those on this journey. Fasting is an ancient spiritual discipline that has been neglected in modern times, yet it holds such great spiritual power for believers to grow in their personal relationship with the risen Lord and celebrate their faith in a whole new way, everyday!

For a newly appointed principal or assistant principal, this book describes the skills and talents necessary to meet the demands on today’s school leaders. It provides step-by-step details about what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. Each chapter includes Survival Tips (practical, savvy advice), "When Do I Begin?" (to help principals plan and schedule), practical advice based on the realities of school leadership, and more.