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Hiking With Nietzsche by John Kaag review becoming who you …

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If Friedrich Nietzsche were alive today, what would he think of our times? The nations are again drawing away from one another and long to tear one another to pieces, he might observe. The sciences, pursued without any restraint and in a spirit of the blindest laissez faire, are shattering and dissolving all firmly held belief; the educated classes and states are being swept away by a hugely contemptible money economy. The world has never been more worldly, never poorer in love and goodness Everything, contemporary art and science included, serves the coming barbarism.

That passage, from one of the philosophers Untimely Meditations, was published in 1874 and illustrates the extent to which Nietzsche is always our exact contemporary. The problem with writing books about him, though, is that you just cant compete with the bleak hilarity and glamorous swagger of his prose, and to reduce the wild forest of his thoughts to single propositions in precis is nearly always to traduce him.

The American philosophy professor John Kaag tries a different tack, aiming to use Nietzsche as a kind of elevated self-help guru, scattering discussions of the philosophers life and works through a memoir of the authors own youth and romantic life. This approach is defended early on by the claim that Nietzsches philosophy is no mere abstraction. It isnt to be realised from an armchair or the comfort of ones home. One needs to physically rise, stand up, stretch, and set off. It is surprising to see a professional philosopher talking of mere abstraction here. Few people today will stand up for abstraction, but it is a keystone of all intellectual endeavour, as Nietzsche himself well knew. There are epochs, he wrote, in which the man of reason and the man of intuition stand side by side, the one fearful of intuition, the other filled with scorn for abstraction, the latter as unreasonable as the former is artistic. (On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense, 1873.)

Abstraction having been thus derided, we set off nonetheless with the author to what you cant get much less abstract than: mountains. Kaag tells us how, as a 19-year-old student, he went hiking in the Swiss Alps just as his philosophical hero had done: Nietzsche came to the mountains to tread on the edge of the void. Kaag stopped eating and nearly threw himself into a crevasse before coming to his senses. Then, 17 years later, he returns, this time with his wife also a philosopher, but a Kantian who thinks Nietzsche a marauding fool and their small daughter.

Unnecessarily, Kaag takes us through the airport as they set off on their trip, but the interest intensifies as we begin to breathe with his family the purer air of the mountains. They settle into a fine old hotel, and we hear about Nietzsches love affair with Lou Salom, and accompany the author on a series of solitary hikes. Christ, it was a long way to the bottom, he remarks at one point. Absolute certainty did not live up here. We learn about his trousers and footwear, and there are good expository accounts of the major Nietzschean works, on tragedy, the genealogy of morals and so on. Kaag has a pleasingly wry, compact style, and is particularly interesting on thinkers that Nietzsche influenced heavily: Herman Hesse and Theodor Adorno.

The tone becomes more urgently confessional throughout Kaags book, as it becomes clear he is working through some sort of personal crisis but if Nietzsche isnt the man you want in a crisis, who is? Here in the Alps in 1881, near a pyramidal rock 6,000 feet beyond man and time, is where he conceived of his most horrifying consolation: the idea of eternal recurrence. In the dead of night, he explained, a demon might whisper to you: This life as you now live and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence even this spider and this moonlight between the trees.

Nietzsches demand is that you should joyfully embrace such a prospect; indeed, to do so he calls the highest formula of affirmation. Kaag rather spoils the moment here by reducing this awful existential task to a version of the old metaphysical idea that the movement of reality is best described in terms of cycles and epicycles. But Nietzsche wasnt making positive claims about the nature of material reality, he was throwing down a gauntlet; and we have still not picked it up.

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"God is dead." – Nietzsche? | Yahoo Answers

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No theologian, no founder of religions thought about this, that if you accept God as the creator, you are destroying the whole dignity of consciousness, of freedom, of love. You are taking all responsibility from man, and you are taking all his freedom away. You are reducing the whole of existence to just the whim of a strange fellow called God.

But Nietzsche's statement is bound to be only one side of the coin. He is perfectly right, but only about one side of the coin. He has made a very significant and meaningful statement, but he has forgotten one thing, which was bound to happen because his statement is based on rationality, logic and intellect. It is not based on meditation.

Man is free, but free for what? If there is no God and man is free, that will simply mean man is now capable of doing anything, good or bad; there is nobody to judge him, nobody to forgive him. This freedom will be simply licentiousness.

There comes the other side. You remove God and you leave man utterly empty. Of course, you declare his freedom, but to what purpose? How is he going to use his freedom creatively, responsibly? How is he going to avoid freedom being reduced to licentiousness?

Friedrich Nietzsche was not aware of any meditations -- that is the other side of the coin.

Man is free, but his freedom can only be a joy and a blessing to him if he is rooted in meditation.

Remove God -- that is perfectly okay, he has been the greatest danger to human freedom -- but give man also some meaning and significance, some creativity, some receptivity, some path to find his eternal existence.

Zen is the other side of the coin. Zen does not have any God, that's its beauty.

But it has a tremendous science to transform your consciousness, to bring so much awareness to you that you cannot commit evil. It is not a commandment from outside, it comes from your innermost being. Once you know your center of being, once you know you are one with the cosmos -- and the cosmos has never been created, it has been there always and always, and will be there always and always, from eternity to eternity -- once you know your luminous being, your hidden Gautam Buddha, it is impossible to do anything wrong, it is impossible to do anything evil, it is impossible to do any sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche in his last phase of life became almost insane. He was hospitalized, kept in a mad asylum. Such a great giant, what happened to him? He had concluded: "God is dead," but it is a negative conclusion. He became empty, but his freedom was meaningless. There was no joy in it because it was only freedom from God, but for what? Freedom has two sides: from and for. The other side was missing. That drove him insane.

Emptiness always drives people insane. You need some grounding, you need some centering, you need some relationship with existence. God being dead, all your relationship with existence was finished. God being dead, you were left alone without roots. A tree cannot live without roots, nor can you.

God was non-existential, but it was a good consolation. It used to fill people's interior, although it was a lie. But even a lie, repeated thousands and thousands of times for millennia, becomes almost a truth. God has been a great consolation to people in their fear, in their dread, in their awareness of old age and death, and beyond -- the unknown darkness.

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Nietzsche is one of the bravest, most insightful philosophers that our species has produced. He was misunderstood in his own time and generally not well understood or appreciated in our time. But his contributions to the world of ideas cannot be underestimated. Nietzsche exposed one crucial element within the human condition better than anyone else. And that was the artificial limitations we place on ourselves are the cause of our unhappiness, our stupidities, and our arrogance. He was right about that! One of those limitations in particular is how religion makes people servile, robs them of both their initiative and rational capacities.

Nietzsche's challenge is to achieve personal responsibility. And he meant that not only in the small ways, but in the "big" way: to be responsible to your own aspirations, to your potential to become better. That was the concept for the overman-- a human of personal courage who would gladly stand against the idiocies of superstition (like religion).

Nietzshe may not be everyone's cup of tea. In fact, reading his work can be as challenging as the ideas themselves. But the work is potent! Few others are even worthy to stand in his shadow.

Unfortunately, his ideas and writings were twisted, perverted, and co-opted by lesser minds. Still, reading Nietzsche is like throwing oneself into a cold lake; surprising, alarming, and then exhilarating. Good stuff, if you can take it.

(And I also agree with electropath: it's the hard questions that make us better.)

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15 Amazing Yoga Studios in New York City You Should Visit

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The Big Apple, the City That Never Sleeps, New York City... call it what you will, but there's no denying that New Yorkers love their yoga. With so many different yoga studios in New York City to choose from, we were interested to know what made them special, and their thoughts on New York's yoga community.

Just for you, here are 15 amazing, wonderful yoga studios in New York City that you should check out the next time you're in town.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Om Factory studios?

A range of styles, from Vinyasa to Restorative yoga and specialty classes like Aerial Dance (a yoga-based warm up that leads to aerial-based choreography), Aerial Yoga Core (with a bend towards conditioning exercises) and Aerial Yoga Blast (think Friday night yoga party).

What do you feel makes your studios special?

We are yoga anarchists who dream that our students find their own path through their practice in whatever form it takes. Our greatest strength is the vibrancy of our community.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

There is a massive amount of respect between various studios and often teachers teach at various yoga studios throughout the city. This allows for a beautiful cross-pollination of ideas behind the scenes as teachers contribute to a city-wide identity for yoga, palpably different from that which you might find in another American city.

What kind of yoga do you teach at Pure Yoga studios?

Ashtanga, Hot Power yoga, Slow Flow Yoga, Vinyasa, Yin yoga, Meditation, and Mysore, among many others.

What do you feel makes your studios special?

The spacious facilities, which makes Pure Yoga feel like an oasis in the middle of the city.

New York is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is a strong yoga community between different studios?

New York has such a strong yoga community, and we're grateful to be a part of it. There is a camaraderie amongst instructors and studios, and we love seeing instructors from other studios attend our workshops and take our classes.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Yoga Vida studios?

An open and welcoming Vinyasa flow.

What do you feel makes your studios special?

Our sense of community and inclusion. We want our students and teachers to feel that they are part of something bigger.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Yes, we absolutely feel there is a strong yoga community here in NYC. Our teachers often teach at many different studios so they act as bridges between the community.

What kind of yoga do you teach at Yoga Union?

Strong, safe alignment classes of all levels, including a stimulating Teachers Class and Prenatal yoga. Yoga Union also runs 200- and 500-Hour Teacher Trainings.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

All our staff have serious self-practices and a strong commitment to ongoing education, and the studio puts emphasis on knowledgeable alignment and kinesiology. The studio is also considered to be one of the most beautiful in NY.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Studios are aware of each other, and it is common for studio owners to have friends among the owners of other studios. Certainly, without a sense of community, we would have had a much harder time leading Yoga for NY to victory against the State when we got a bill signed into law by Governor Paterson exempting Yoga Teacher Trainings from licensing.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Dharma Yoga Center?

We are the worldwide headquarters for Dharma Yoga. Dharma Yoga is based on the traditional, classical yoga Sri Dharma Mittra received from his beloved Guru and that he has practiced, refined, and shared for the past half-century.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

The chance to study with a living master and his long-time, fully certified teaching staff. On a given day, there are people here studying yoga from all over the Tri-state area, as well as from around the world.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Unfortunately, no. Most schools are islands unto themselves, although we sometimes collaborate to support worthy causes, which is great.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the New York Yoga studios?

Primarily Vinyasa Flow - ranging from Basics, All Levels, Gentle - with some of the Hottest Power Flow you'll find in the city.

What do you feel makes your studios special?

New York Yoga is truly the neighborhood, community yoga studio. We want students to feel comfortable taking a chance on a new class because they can count on the fact that they will be met and supported wherever they are in their practice.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

The yoga community is a fabulously impressive one. We all know each other and cheer each other on, even if it is just through our liking an Instagram pic, or raving about our favorite teachers to friends.

What kind of yoga do you teach at Yogamaya?

Vinyasa Yoga with a strong emphasis on alignment.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

We have an inspiring and welcoming community of teachers and students that love to include all of the aspects of yoga in their practices. We pride ourselves on creating an environment that promotes learning and growing as well as being thought of as one of the most beautiful studios in NYC!

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

There are a lot of studios and a lot of yogis in NYC, so there is plenty of room for everyone. Some students take advantage of hopping around and trying lots of different classes and teachers while others find the studio and/or teacher they feel a deep connection to and call it home.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Greenhouse Holistic studio?

What we offer aims to traverse the boundaries of so-called "style." It's a throwback to the original intention of the teachers of our teachers, Sri Krishnamacharya and his son T.K.V. Desikachar, who believed that yoga should be adapted to individuals, and not vice versa.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

The diversity and outstanding quality of our teaching staff, and the strong community fostered in the embrace of that diversity makes Greenhouse unique. This is by no means a "guru" studio, but rather a team collaboration. Everyone is welcomed as they are, and offered the space and support to grow.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Yes! The sharing of practice across tradition and lineage is where the magic happens. We make friends, and develop a rare taste for how beautifully tailor-made modern yoga can be, for anyone and everyone.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Sacred studio?

Mainly heated Vinyasa.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

Our community. We celebrate bodies of all shapes and sizes and as a safe home for yogis of color, GLBTQ yogis, and yogis of all ages and walks of life.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Not really. There is definitely crossover, but we are very young in terms of building alliances across yoga studios. We think there has been a pervasive attitude of scarcity or competition as well as an ego attachment to yoga style. We think there is a shift in consciousness beginning, and that the festival community is helping encourage that shift.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Yoga Agora?

Open level Vinyasa, and various workshops for pranayama, Kundalini, Yin yoga, and inversions.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

Yoga Agora is special because we are loyal to the neighborhood of Astoria. We're really non-corporate.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

There is a distinct, and very strong, community in every NYC yoga studio. Practice at one studio long enough and you will start to feel their unique culture.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the ThirdEye studio?

Private yoga sessions for fitness, therapy, and health for all walks of life regardless of age, agenda, or experience.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

We believe that each person is unique and deserves full attention. There is no one-size-fits-all formula for everyone. ThirdEye Yoga is about a physical and mental lifestyle, not a complicated shape or a stressful workout.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

It could be a lot stronger and more connected.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the Sonic studio?

Vinyasa Yoga from the Krischnamacharya lineage as well as classical Hatha Yoga.

Sonic teachers are primarily influenced by the modern wisdom of Shiva Rea and Dharma Mittra, as well as Guru Dharam of the Kundalini tradition.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

An open-hearted community that supports the individual and unique personalities of our teachers and students. Our community is filled with artists, dancers, musicians, as well as people of all walks of life coming together in celebration of life.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Lauren Hanna, the founder, absolutely feels a strong connection to the other NYC yoga studio owners. She has practiced with Sharon Gannon and David Life, Dharma Mittra, Dana Flynn of Laughing Lotus, and Alison West of Yoga Union.

What kind of yoga do you teach at the IYI studio?

The Integral Yoga method, developed by yoga master Swami Satchidananda, is a specific selection and sequence of asanas, deep relaxation, breath work, and meditation to create and maintain health in the body and peace in the mind.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

Integral Yoga teaches all aspects of the great science and philosophy of Yoga. It's not just physical, it's a blueprint for life.

New York City is a hub for yoga. Do you feel that there is strong yoga community between different studios?

Yes, there is a wonderful diversity of yoga offerings in New York City, and a great understanding among the different schools that we share the same goal of bringing peace and health to our city and our world.

What kind of yoga do you teach at Yoga Junction?

Open level Vinyasa classes.

What do you feel makes your studio special?

Our studio is a neighborhood community studio that offers yoga at an affordable price. The building is a former synagogue and is a very peaceful space with colorful windows overlooking East 6th Street. We are dedicated to providing students with an accessible, community space in which to nurture body and mind.

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The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure …

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Praise for 10x Rule

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Personal and Success Counseling – Rock Valley College

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Rock Valley College Personal and Success Counselings mission is to prepare students for learning and personal success throughout life. We educate and facilitate the growth of the whole person for living, learning, and coping in an unpredictable and diverse world. We work in conjunction with our colleagues across campus toward the promotion of a healthy campus environment for all those who learn and work at RVC by providing professional outreach and educational services and by fostering collaborative relationships across the campus.

The PSC Department seeks to create and sustain a campus environment that supports the holistic development of each student and contributes to their optimal academic success by:

Students will be provided assistance with feelings of anxiety, depression, inadequacy, loneliness, or any personal concern students may be struggling with. The Personal and Success Counselor will offer short term counseling and will provide community resources if long term counseling is the better solution for the student.

RVC Personal and Success Counseling Department has also partnered with Kp Counseling, Lantern Therapy Services, and Restore Counseling & Recovery of Rockford, who will provide reasonable payment options for students needing long term counseling needs, with or without insurance.

For more information on these free services for RVC students, call (815) 921-4281.

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Evolution Unlimited | Resolve to Evolve

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Barbara Marx Hubbard – Sunrise Ranch

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Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called the voice for conscious evolution by Deepak Chopra. She is the subject of Neale Donald Walschs book The Mother of Invention. And many would agree she is the global ambassador for conscious change.

At her heart, Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary, a social innovator. She is an evolutionary thinker who believes that global change happens when we work collectively and selflessly for the greater good. She realizes that the lessons of evolution teach us that problems are evolutionary drivers, and crises precede transformation, giving a new way of seeing and responding to our global situation.

As a prolific author and educator, Barbara has written seven books on social and planetary evolution. She has produced, hosted, and contributed to countless documentaries seen by millions of people around the world. In conjunction with the Shift Network, Barbara co-produced the worldwide Birth 2012 multi-media event that was seen as a historic turning point in exposing the social, spiritual, scientific, and technological potential in humanity.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a Peace Room to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition she co-founded the World Future Society, and the Association for Global New Thought.

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What is Nietzsche on about? | Yahoo Answers

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Beware lest in fighting your demons, and battling with tyranny and injustice you do not become as your detractors, for no greater defeat hath man than to be so conquered by his opponent as to assume the subversive vices of those who seek this very end your demons seek t impose upon you paraphrased.

The light that shines leading the path to truth and liberty for the annihilators of freedom is a blazing furnace threatening their demise. War is a terrible thing, to live enchained is to inadvertently empower the wicked by their silence condoning the public wrong inflicted upon one, shielding the million wrongs they must impose upon others less able to communicate their woe. It is not my lot nor your task to judge those who preside in power, monarchs of a gruesome era greater feted by reward in their inclusion in the suffering of a dying eternal light. There is great profit to be gained for the torture of great minds and thinkers and evil prosper greater when men collude and do nothing. Psychological warfare bears no scars, holds no evidence, is unwitnessed. The greatest travesty is the laying of blame at the dismantled and defamed alter of God and his Saints for the sins of the earth gods*, a title they cunningly connive to assume, given the privilege and impunity it accords the wise and noble who by merit are afforded freedom of the people, a diplomatic trust further exploited by the same said rogue. Nietzsche saif ''God is dead'' most know this, exemplified by the sheer bloody minded evil and witchery that proliferates about us.

Nietzsches truth is undoubtedly immense in its depth yet he too was greatly tormented and dignified in his suffering, the Saintly are known to endure the onslaughts of purveyors of ignorance of paths of self damnation well. Witchery makes a mockery of wisdom, reason, sense and rationale, of propriety, decorum and anal encompassing love for a humanity portrayed as the obstructants and sinners. A people are as free and peaceable, enlightened and unified as the prowess of the establishment. To cast the sins of evil incompetents upon the ancient lores of scripture to exonerate these fiends is not only a blasphemy but ensures an absence of responsibility and accountability for the suffering and struggle of the people caused by the aforementioned.

The truth remains unspoken, misinterpreted. To cast down Gods grace as a right, as 'unconditional love' demanded by a people raised in a dysfunctional and misguided society is a libel and false misappropriation upon God. Nonexistence does not always work well in Gods favour. It allows these claims to remain unchallenged and the perpetrators of the consciously asserted crimes to go unpunished. A divided and set upon populace besieged by conflicting tenets and laws of scripture and state. Mankind has eternally awaited the coming of a Saviour, yet each to descend has in some form or guise been tormented and disassembled, ostracised and ultimate destroyed, usually in isolation. Retaining alive the myth of existence of a God or freeing God* for the people and their elect to assume accountability for their own actions are two choices obviating a need for resolve to release.

The ego and the Super Ego, does Man require God or God mans devotion, how preposterous to presume God could have need of mortals, and yet facts lead one to think a strong God is a strong man, fallen disempowered man causes the absence of any sense of God. Yet man lives free without adulation of the unseen and alternately sensed, heard, touched, felt. The death of innocence notable only when it gives forth wisdom. The awakening, the reunification of mans mortal soul with the universal. Can a universe care for a microcosmic man, and has mans consciousness the capacity to fathom and seek his universe. The Ego. A sense of Gods need for mankind to unite as one that his soul find rest, when tested, akin to the dominance battling in a spousal relationship for harmonious equanimity, retaliates in denial of any such need.

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Zig by Zig Ziglar (ebook)

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"Zig Ziglar epitomizes determination, perseverance, excellence, and a loving Christian spirit more than anyone I know! The world would be a better place if more of us were just like him."--Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., The Cooper Clinic, Dallas, Texas

Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker who has galvanized audiences around the world and written more than a dozen perennially popular books, brings that same unbounded energy and clarity of vision to this candid, inspiring account of his own life and the forces that shaped it.

Every year, Zig Ziglar travels all over the world delivering a resounding message of hope and commitment in forums ranging from high-powered business conferences and church leadership assemblies to youth conventions and educational gatherings. In Zig, Ziglar chronicles another kind of journey: his own transformation from a struggling, not terribly successful salesman to the sales champion of several different companies, and finally to his current position as one of the world's best-known and most highly regarded motivational speakers and trainers. As he describes his experiences, he brings to life the essence of his teachings: You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

At the heart of Ziglar's story are the people who taught him the importance of balancing a commitment to hard work with compassion for others. His first teacher was his mother, who raised him alone after the early death of his father, and introduced him to the principles and values he has honored for the rest of his life. Her lessons were reinforced by many othersfrom the men and women who became his business mentors to the friends and spiritual leaders who comforted and supported him when things got tough. Paying tribute to each of them, Ziglar zeroes in on the philosophy and traits that have enabled him to achieve success in business and in his personal life: discipline, hard work, common sense, integrity, commitment, and an infectious sense of humor.

Ziglar's speaking engagements and seminars along with a wide array of audio and video materials, books, and training manuals, have helped to trigger positive changes in small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, nonprofit associations, religious organizations, schools, and prisons. At once engaging and enlightening, Zig provides a riveting portrait of the man who has achieved so much by embracing the simple but profound goal of helping others.

Zig Ziglar is absolutely one of the most amazing people God ever created! He has been the Billy Graham of encouragement and motivation for untold numbers of people around the world. His autobiography is just that- a book that will encourage you and motivate you to be all that your Heavenly Creator wants you to be. Read it and you will surely find yourself at the top!--James Merritt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention

Zig Ziglar is the author of twenty books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, family, and success, including See You at the Top, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World, Over the Top, Success for Dummies, and Confessions of a Grieving Christian. He has received the National Speakers Association Master of Influence Award and the Toastmaster International Golden Gavel Award, as well as the coveted Cavett Award for his contribution to the speaking profession. He lives in Texas with his wife, Jean.

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