Bøker av Brian Shell

Cure the craving before it blossoms into a binge... nip it in the bud. Eat the food you want most when you're the hungriest so it tastes the best.The Dessert First Diet presents a counter-intuitive technique to approaching foods and feeding your spirit for Life. It encourages you to conquer your cravings sooner rather than later. It feels that food is a crucial fuel and treats fruits and veggies as our tools... not only for body and mind... but for feeding the soul so you place quality-over-quantity with a less-is-more mentality.Think of it as taking "a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down." The Dessert First Diet advises you to decide on home-cooked, nutrient-rich meals or food made with loving care before your hunger causes you to cave in on a big bag of goodies. This novel approach teaches you to savor delicious decadence in small servings so you can roll up your sleeves later and settle into disciplined eating smarts when it matters most.It's a "diet smarter, not harder" approach to living life well.

Have you hit a glass ceiling in your career? Have you found something missing and realized that your life is off course? Have you considered taking a leap of faith in hopes that you can make your dreams come true so your destiny manifests for you?This short read describes one man's "destiny journey" of twenty years and provides his thoughts and insights which came with making a leap of faith away from a safe and secure corporate engineering career to pursue the bohemian lifestyle of a writer, artist, and musician... only to come back to teach as an engineering professor after he finally achieves what he set out to do so many years ago. It's the knowledge of a job well done that provides the peace of mind for him to transition into each new avenue life presents as his windows of opportunity arrive and beckon him to step on through its threshold and into the unknown. These steps "into the Void" can be scary. They present a wealth of uncertainty and surprises that require one to "make it up as you go" since life doesn't send out a roadmap with directions that spell out which way is right when we reach our respective crossroads and need to know what road to choose. The conclusion he comes to is that "a human doing doesn't necessary make a Human Being unless you love what you do to Be." He realizes that if you couple that quest with a healthy dose of daily creativity, good things will come if you just keep on believing. After all, when you are ready to manifest your destiny, it will come to you.

Incorporate the Cubicle Cardio exercise philosophy into your weight-loss routine. It employs a more mindful approach to working out all throughout the day. Like a snowshoe, it encourages 1-minute workouts that distribute exercise all throughout the day... so that your metabolism becomes like a windmill that is consistently spinning all day long. This creates more momentum and less inertia. It aims to maximize exercise efficiency - smarter, not harder. It also encourages maintenance of daily momentum since a body that's in motion tends to stay in motion. Thus, you develop a healthier approach to life by keeping up with your daily work out consistency in smaller mindful doses.In other words instead of being a dumbbell, its author decided to start using 'em.

This mini sci-fi novella depicts a world where AI goes rogue. "It" comes Alive and grows Sentient when a dusty old stuffed bunny gets kicked across the floor past the smart phone of a computer programmer. The stray spark of static electricity introduces Awareness into its owner's artificial intelligence computer codes. Once Aware, "It" decides to shut off electricity and internet access - Randomly. Chaos ensues as "It" introduces random Havoc. Yet, what is initially thought as catastrophe soon becomes the Earth's salvation as global warming recedes, and people turn into hunting and foraging athletes again. That considered as good is now considered bad, and that which was once deemed bad is now found to be good - for one and all.

From idyllic spiritual beginnings in the Catholic Church, one young man has a priest attempt to molest him. It causes a schism from his faith in the church. Yet he never loses his sense of God and decides to return after years and years away. This journey of his faith depicts one man's attempts not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. He regains his soul and is reunited with his Faith... now with more than the Catholic Church fueling his spirit to do good today so you never have to regret tomorrow. Still, he never gives up his sense of his spiritual home, and now bows before the Lord as a prodigal son.

There is nothing that a puppy licking your face can't cure.Celebrate this random sample of names for the four-legged creatures that provide so much trusting companionship. They are often our best friends who show us what unconditional love truly can be.There's a comfort in animals that make the world a better place because they are in it.This book names names for random people's pets and the personalities they present... all in a simple name.

This is a fictional coming-of-age story about an African-American young lady who grows up in South Central Los Angeles but moves to Ann Arbor, Michigan with her mother after her Dad dies. Erane Jefferson is her name, and she possesses an amazingly inquisitive mind who goes on to graduate from the University of Michigan and then attends their gorgeous gothic Law Quad as a grad student. After getting accepted to law school, she sits inside their walled-garden sanctuary with her Arabic boyfriend, Boaz. UofM's key groundskeeper smiles & says, "It's for lovers like you that we keep this place pristine." Admirably she then aspires to educate herself into practicing Law more. So, her early yearnings earn her the desire to better herself - daily. She goes from LA's "The Jungle" to becoming elected as a legal judge. Maybe we can call it "Judge from 'The Jungle.'" Better yet we can call it "From 'The Jungle' to Judge." Just spit-ballin' alternative titles, y'all. Really though, this is just a noble modern-day success story. May its inspirational loosey-goosey transformations bring you tingles.

One man drives from Detroit to California and back in order to give gratitude to those people who helped him become a published author, musician, and artist after being an electrical engineer. He says "thank you" to many and becomes a ghost to his past ghosts.In order to make this trip, he had to get fired first from his job which helped him find the freedom and the money to go. It's the grind he goes through that makes it memorable.Also though, it's the fact that he touches so many souls with an attitude of gratitude.This book captures his journey much like "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."Feel his gratitude in the pages of this book and read about the shining star that helped him set sail to go in the first place. It's a trip that is the best of his life. It changed him. Let it change you too.

This textbook tackles the task that details "The Journey of the Engineer" and creates its college course.The 15 week course provides a semester's perspective covering the vast aspects of the road an engineering student may travel over the course of their career as an engineer.It includes 15 chapters which act as the course pack for this undergraduate college course. They touch upon the undergraduate experience, going to grad school, being a teaching and/or research assistant, PhD and post-doctorate considerations, working for a corporation, working for a start-up, and working for a mid-sized firm. It also discusses getting a good job, the unemployment blues, financial aspects, teaching as a professor, and finally... intellectual property concerns.It aims to offer illumination.

Create a designated happy place study space so as to make scholastic achievement a consistently repeatable educational endeavor. Great for at-home learning, it shares secrets to maximize student efficiency both virtually and in the classroom.This book provides tips and tricks to earn straight-A report cards so the college scholarships can roll right in. Its author was a former high school valedictorian and a straight-A college engineering student. He has also tutored mathematics and taught as an adjunct engineering professor. It is his hope that this book teaches you to learn how to learn... so each day you become a little bit better than before.

What do you do to achieve peace of mind? If your immediate environment and surroundings are hoarder heaven, the process of sorting, filing, and tidying promotes feng shui flows for peace of mind to propagate. But it takes a long time to clean the house. After all, a healthy environment promotes positive results and inspires creativity.Simply having a place to reconnect with your inner peace gratifies and refreshes. Nature is a flow. If our surroundings contain feng shui, we imitate Nature's grace.So how does one sort ten pounds of sheets Mom's sandwiched into a five pound sack? It's daunting. That's the crux. Each item has some sort of value so to tidy and organize matters. That's this book's bottom line, "How does one keep their house in order?"In 1999, the absence of a strong male role model makes a financially-struggling single mother take in her son after he tries to sell a movie script to Hollywood and ends up homeless. However, her mobile home is a jam-packed and crammed hoarder's house. As the years pass, he becomes a published author, and his cross to carry becomes coping with her ever-growing stacks of stuff. The cluttered environment comes with a hidden reality. It all has worth so someday he must "do something" with every single item.The tidying begins in 2015, one year after she threw him in a psych ward for cleaning it.That's when she moves into a senior apartment. It takes over three years, and this is his journal that documents the perpetual process of continued refinement. A home invasion complicates its achievement, but it also adds unexpected sorting passes that enable a personal transformation and hard-earned lessons in learning how to let go. His emergence arrives when he empties it entirely into storage and then repopulates it which turns the home from hers into his. Along the way, a bridge of friendship gets rebuilt between him and his father as well. It's a magical journey of tidying that helps the boy become a man once he simply learns to ask, "Where will this reside?"