Whether you’re looking for personal, financial, or career support, this carefully curated guidebook will help you get your life on track and prepared to reach all your goals. The premise is simple: A person's ideal life, especially their career, can be carefully conceived and crafted. Based on Dr. Rao's popular course "Creativity and Personal Mastery" at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, this book offers a series of readings, exercises, and lessons drawn from both spiritual and commercial situations that enable you to reconstruct and improve your professional world. This transformation will turn your life around and help you become exponentially more effective in your chosen career, and thereby flourish in all aspects of your life. Whether you are questioning the value of money or the core values of your life, this book is a powerful tool that will help you to "discover the purpose that can suffuse your life and bring stars to your eyes."

This book draws from the teachings of the world's greatest Masters and can thus lead you to both material success and spiritual growth.The secrets revealed and exercises provided can propel you to levels of success that you perhaps only dreamed about.Here is what is in store for you:* How to turn your biggest critic into your strongest ally - page 35* Where your stress really comes from and the four steps to eliminate it - pages 86-89* Use this method to weather tragedy and become stronger than you ever thought possible - pages 150-151* A surprisingly easy way to eliminate blame and guilt from your life - page 119 and on.* Never be swept away by despair again. Here is how - pages 52-55* The problem is not your expectations. The problem is what you do when your expectations are not met - page 83* Stone walls do not a prison make. THIS is what really keeps you a prisoner - page 98* Improve your life instantly. Powerful exercise shows you how - pages 26-30* This is how you sabotage yourself day after day. STOP doing it! - pages 15-19* This is why your life is so full of angst and sorrow - pages 105-107* Little known secret that greatly increases the probability that you will reach your goal - pages 110-113* All transformation begins with this, and only this - page 52* The two biggest obstacles on the path to creating your ideal life - pages 11-12* You really can build your ideal life. Here's how - pages 22-25* The secret to getting help from the Universe every time - pages 76-79* It's what inside you that hurts you! Here is how to start changing it - pages 139-141* Two simple exercises that take only minutes per day and bring joy flooding into your life - page 92, 113* How changing your focus can change your world - page 66* Are you really free? The answer may surprise you - pages 98-100* The immutable law that programs your actions and how to seize control of it - page 123* The three necessary levels of change - page 4* Don't expend effort needlessly. Try this instead - page 76* A simple method to keeping a positive attitude - page 52* Forget everything you've ever learnt about networking. Here is how you can create mutually beneficial and long lasting relationships - page 136* What really controls your relationships? Try this simple exercise to find out - page 18* The vital distinction you MUST make to begin your transformation - page 22* How to dramatically cut down the negativity in your life - page 39* The mental trap that keeps you stuck in unpleasant situations - page 44* Do 'bad things' happen to you? Perhaps not! - pages 84-85* Increase your productivity by dropping destructive habits - page 115* Learn to harness several universal laws of nature to get exactly what you need at precisely the right time - pages 122-130* What if you could manifest miracles every day - some so earth shattering that you might not believe your eyes? - begin the process on page 71Register at www.theraoinstitute.com for more tips.

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A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for your inevitable leadership transition? In this concise book, leading executive coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith offers candid advice on succession from the outgoing executive's perspective. From choosing and grooming a successor while sidestepping political minefields, to finally handing over responsibility, Goldsmith walks you through each step in the succession process. Done right, your successor can enter to applause while you gracefully bow out and start the next chapter of your life.

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