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Fix the sleep quality. That is nonnegotiable.

Said Hasyim
Said Hasyim Author Interview

Peak Human Clock helps readers synergize their body’s clock to become more productive. Why was this an important book for you to write?

This book and upcoming books of the same series were birthed out of my passion to optimize my time and improve overall quality of my life. The books chronicle all the techniques I’ve spent half a decade experimenting and successfully implementing to fine tune my life. I find it important to write these books to help improve others’ lives. You may watch this quick trailer of this book at https://youtu.be/AZ7tpHs9OEo.

What is a common misconception you feel people have about their Circadian Rhythm?

Most people believe they are fixed to be either morning people or night owls. They think they cannot just change their body’s clock schedule from sleeping later to sleeping earlier. The good news is, it is possible to adjust the body’s clock to the optimal time that anybody desires.

What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is struggling to increase their energy level?

Fix the sleep quality. That is nonnegotiable.

What is one thing you hope readers take away from your book?

I hope people will realize there is so much that their body’s clock can help them be at their best, when they adjust their activities around it.

Author Link: Website

Supercharge your body’s clock to gain a positively unfair advantage in business and life.

What if there is a surefire time in a day to naturally heighten your focus and concentration? Are you tired of dieting and rigorous exercise regime, but not seeing success with fat loss? Do you have difficulty waking up at the same time every day without an alarm clock?

This step-by-step guide to optimized body’s clock design teaches:
Unknown approach to organize your time productively, so that you can get your work done faster and at double the quality to deliver even more
Proven practices to lose 4.19 pounds naturally in as little as 2 weeks without giving up the food you love and paying for expensive programs that don’t work
Science and technology you don’t know exists to help you sleep better and attain high performance every day
Essential plan to support efficient bodily functions to enjoy the comfort of healthy living without losing your mind
An unspoken truth about natural energy boosting hacks to train harder
And much more.

With practical strategies and actionable advice, Peak Human Clock arms you with the vital tools you need now to maximize your day around your body’s clock.

Previously published as Have a Peak at This: Synergize Your Body’s Clock Towards a Highly Productive You

Practical Advice Based on Experience

Annie Koshy
Annie Koshy Author Interview

How To Be Your BADASS Self is an easy to read guide that helps readers build a successful brand. Why was this an important book for you to write?

I wish I had a book like this when I was starting my branding journey. Had I a guide like this, it would have cut down the time I needed to get my brand and personal message up and running. Each step in the book has been included because I have personally experienced or worked through that process.

Whether someone is a new entrepreneur, or someone who is finding it challenging moving into a digital world, this book offers practical advice based on experience.

What do you feel is a common misconception people have about branding and success?

Personal branding is often underrated, overlooked or haphazardly done. Consistent and persistent personal branding is about writing down a plan and putting actionable steps to getting it done.

What do you hope is one thing readers take away from your book?

I think one of the most valuable tips I mention in the book is the need to fail in order to succeed. That true success only happens if you have the courage to take that first step to move forward. It may not always look perfect, but you have made progress and that is moving in the right direction!

What is your professional experience and how has it informed this book?

This book is completely based on professional and personal experience. For someone who was not a brand or very well known when I started my journey, the living proof that I’m now a recognized brand is something that is proof that what I say actually works.

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Are you struggling with branding yourself professionally, in order to achieve your dreams and goals? Is your purpose unclear? Then you need How to Be Your Badass Self: A Guide to Using Your Inner Energy for Brand Success! Annie Koshy lays out the steps to turn your mindset and focus to building your brand and growing your business or career.
Start by tackling your mindset and growing your understanding of what you have to offer, as a brand and as a professional. Annie walks you through the process, giving you stories from her personal journey in the world of media and marketing. Get the tools you need to determine your strengths, create a call to action, and build relationships with your clients.
Each stage of building a brand is covered in How to Be Your Badass Self. Annie does not leave anything out, from your thoughts to your habits, and everything that contributes to the energy related to your brand. Once she guides you through the process of building a brand, Annie shares the pitfalls to avoid. By the end of How to Be Your Badass Self: A Guide to Using Your Inner Energy for Brand Success, you will be inspired to be your own badass self!

Gather All Missing Pieces of the Puzzle

Ramzi Najjar
Ramzi Najjar Author Interview

The YOU beyond you shares your experiences to help readers reach their true potential. Why was this an important book for you to write?

I did not intend to publish the book at first. The book started as 10 years notes and realizations scattered here and there on my diary. Life I believe is a big mind game to balance things and it requires a lot of patience and tolerance from one side and a lot of boldness and courage from the other side but mostly a lot of noting and analyzing in both cases. These notes made me reflect and meditate for long on the nature of our existence and in view of the knowledge I acquired from a multitude of sources throughout my life and from my personal experience, I was able to draw my own conclusions about life’s nature and dynamics. When the lock-downs due to COVID 19 started, I had more free time than usual and I decided at this stage to share my knowledge with others, especially that during such hard times, people need to keep strong and motivated to be able to survive what they were enduring, especially that this knowledge helped me go through a lot in my life.

What do you feel is a good first step on the road to positive personal development?

I believe that the first step in anyone’s positive personal development is to realize that the majority of what he knows could be partial in nature and treat his judgement accordingly when dealing with anything. When one does that and is faced with any situation, he will seek to gather all missing pieces of the puzzle before acting and this gathering process is what lets him advance in the right direction.

What is a piece of advice you wish someone had given you when you were younger?

  1. That reality is not only based on my rigid beliefs and personal convictions as all these could be wrong. It is rather fluid in nature and can constantly change when proper knowledge is acquired. Reality is sometimes a life-long process.
  2. That my senses and thoughts are limited in nature and can shape my life in many ways both in my favor or against it if mishandled. Therefore, seeking knowledge from multiple sources is one effective way to deal with such truth.
  3. To never judge too soon and to form a bigger picture of any context before acting within that context.

What is one thing that you hope readers take away from your book?

The way to properly handle their lives based on the information I shared.

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We always experience life through our subjective perceptions, built-up beliefs, and what we have been taught or told by others and seldomly stop to meditate on the reality which surrounds us.

Most of our beliefs and perceptions today are nothing but a collection of misleading ideas due to the many blockages in our lives, that hinder to a great extent our understanding of our own reality.

This enlightened guide offers the reader a method to dissolve all that is acquired as bad habits, beliefs, and energies, which have been gathered through experiences and passive knowledge and unlocks a new dimension of reality based on its true mechanics and mode of action and based on concepts, principles, and givens never heard of before.

“The YOU beyond you” contains the real secrets of life and how they operate within us and within our environment. A process that occurs right before our eyes yet mostly goes unseen due to the many obstructions in our lives.

A must-read of at least once in a lifetime, for everyone who is willing to experience the real dimension of existence and go beyond the limited norms. The book contains the tip of the iceberg of life’s nature, on which one can use as a platform to unveil his full knowledge and his true potentials.

No matter who we are or what our life goal is, our bad habits and unhealthy beliefs are the only reasons that trouble us in becoming the best versions of ourselves.

In this book, you will embark on thorough research on how these bad habits and chaotic knowledge which are gathered through our lives get embedded in our life system and create a negative framework for our lives. You will also be set on an attitude that lets you consciously and unconsciously break free from these limitations and experience the true path where everything prospers.

A guide for readers of all ages, helping them to rise to the level of their life goals. Written with the sole purpose of assisting the reader to understand how mind, body, and soul work within our environment and how these age-old beliefs and perceptions which we accumulated can be turned around, dissolved, or turned into a directed drive to flourish.

Inspired by biological and psychological theories, ideas, and true-life experiences, this comprehensive guide provides you with an extraordinary life approach to reach new heights. The book will truly transform your life.

Honing A Champion

Honing A Champion: My Pandemic Journey From White Belt To Achieving Black Belt by [Haon Campbell, Monty Campbell]

Honing a Champion is an inspirational biography about a young boy who sets out to achieve a dream and the journey is punctuated by many life lessons. We follow Haon and his aspirations to learn, Tang Soo Do, becoming a black belt along the way and learning so much more in the process.

Honing a Champion is a compelling autobiography that explores what it like to be so young and so driven. Rather than viewing Haon’s experience, this book allows us to sit next to Haon himself as he eagerly tells us every step of his awe-inspiring journey. While I appreciated the exceptional journey, towards a goal so few achieve so young, what I really enjoyed was the powerful life lessons Haon learned along the way. These lessons can inspire anyone to improve themselves, in many ways, through determination and hard work. Haon’s writing is exceptional in it’s ability to deliver these stirring lessons in a way that makes you feel as if you were right along side him as he learned them. This motivational autobiography is filled with great quotes that, if effort is given, can push you to achieve your aspirations in life.

I enjoyed this book, but there were a couple of experiences that were repeated, along with a few grammatical issues. Otherwise, this is still a powerful book with great lessons to be learned through a stirring journey through martial arts. Haon Campbell does an exceptional job of sharing his life lessons with the world in a book that I highly recommend.

Pages: 54 | ASIN: B08GSNXMCH

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Faith Convictions and Beliefs

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Xolani Kacela Author Interview

Get A Hold Of Yourself helps reader develop faith as a strong foundation for personal actualization. Why was this an important book for you to write?

This book arose in response to witnessing people struggle trying to live up to other’s expectations about what the spiritual and religious life consists of. I believe every human being has the capacity to develop their own faith convictions and beliefs. This book is my attempt to instill confidence in people of faith to make that move.

What is a common misconception you feel people have about faith?

A common misperception regarding faith is everyone worships the same God. Everyone does not worship the same God. Many faiths have no god. Take Buddhism, for example. It is more a philosophy and spiritual practice than a belief system. There is no god to worship in Buddhism. Those who refer to Judeo-Christian-Islamic faith trace their roots to one God, but even those followers may conceive their worship and prayers to be different from one another.  I encourage people to trust their sense of the holy, however they name it. Be free and know that you can pray to whomever or whatever you choose. You may choose not to pray at all. Perhaps, meditation or spending time quietly is your prayer. This book helps readers define their unique spiritual experience, or what I refer to as “transcendence.” That means experiencing being in contact with something beyond everyday, mundane experience of the world. Sometimes, being in nature and realizing how beautiful the earth creates a feeling of oneness with the universe. That feeling is an example of experiencing transcendence.  Most importantly, the book encourages readers to accept that different beliefs and practices can co-exist and maintain their truth. We are capable of believing and practicing different spiritualities without insisting one is superior or more true than another. There is a spiritual community for every belief and conviction. The book encourages readers to seek out or create a spiritual community that nurtures their spirit. 

You serve as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces, New Mexico. How has your experience helped you write this book?

Unitarian Universalism is a faith that welcomes all people. Every UU is different, so being a minister to people with varying convictions and beliefs forces me to ask each person about their personal stance on spiritual practice. I must listen deeply and respectfully and respond, accordingly. One person will practice Paganism while another will live as a humanist or atheist.  This book is based on real-time and honest experience, spiritual practice, and community-building. It is not a religious or spiritual manual based on theory. It was written with an appreciation that there are many ways live out your faith convictions. All are valid (as long as you don’t cause harm to self or others).  Being a UU minister has provided me years of experience in the parish helping hundreds of people live out the faith convictions with genuine authenticity.

What is one thing you hope readers take away from your book?

I want readers to trust their intuition, experiences, and the knowledge they’ve accumulated throughout their lives and use that wisdom to develop deep spiritual convictions and faith practices that create joy and lead them toward confident living.

Author Links: GoodReads | Twitter | Facebook | Website

This book is about living out one’s personal faith and philosophical convictions fully in order to experience a life of confidence and authenticity. The writing encourages personal fulfillment through trusting oneself, developing spiritual disciplines, and connecting in a faith community. The work is grounded in contemporary spirituality, Howard Thurman’s mysticism, and strategies for creating and maintaining healthy relationships.
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The YOU beyond you: The knowledge of the willing

The YOU beyond you: The knowledge of the willing by [Ramzi Najjar]

In The You Beyond You, Ramzi Najjar offers advice that can help one change their perception about life, boost their self-esteem and improve their personal habits. The author is engaging and his words are thought-provoking. The author talks about life experiences, and the lessons one should take when they fail. This book has rare truths, some of which are painful and agonizing to read about. The author however uses a friendly tone and captivating words that enable the reader to keep going. The You Beyond You is not just a self-help book but a personal guide for anyone who would appreciate reading encouraging words before they start their day.

I enjoyed reading the chapter ‘Letting the Right Memory Run our Life,’ because of how great the author expounded about the mind. I learned about pure memory, being positive, and how prepared we should be psychologically. Some of the things we do subconsciously are a result of the energy around us. Other chapters that I immensely enjoyed reading about were those that spoke about body pollution, mind pollution, and getting imprinted with the correct memory.

In this book, you will learn that there are solutions to most problems if you are committed to look for solutions. The author advises that as an individual, focus on being a better person before trying to be helpful to the next person. The energy you carry in you will be reflected in your actions. Every human being has feelings and the author writes that there is nothing wrong with expressing one’s feelings.

Ramzi Najjar is a great motivational writer. His book has wisdom that can be helpful to teenagers, young adults, senior citizens, and anyone going through personal struggles. Being in the right state of mind will enable you to make better financial, career, and even romantic decisions and that is why this book is a must read for every reader. One good thing about Ramzi Najjar’s writing style is that he is easy to understand. The phrases he used are easy to comprehend and the examples given in the book are relatable. I would recommend The You Beyond You to anyone who is looking for an inspirational book for personal growth.

Pages: 474 | ASIN: B08DRR383Y

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The Little Book of Greatness

The little Book Of Greatness introduces us to a man named David who seems to have given it all up. Sitting on a cliff, David is troubled. He has not accomplished his dreams and everything seems to be crumbling down. David is thinking about life, wondering why he is in his current situation. Lost in his thoughts, a man appears from the woods. Little does he know that this stranger would give him something that may enable him to hold on for a little longer.

Ari Gunzburg speaks to everyone through David’s story. He speaks to his readers, and makes them feel like they are not alone. I like the comforting tone used throughout the book. When giving advice, the author uses a tone similar to that of a therapist. He is encouraging and offers hope to the hopeless. This book is meant for those that are about to give up. Things may appear like they make no sense, but the author assures everyone that we are destined for the best. You cannot help but admire how amazing Ari Gunzburg is with his moving words. Through his words you not only learn more about yourself as an individual, but also get enlightened about life in general and how our thoughts shape our destinies.

Chapter 12 is one of my favorite chapters. In this chapter, the author focuses on putting it all together. I enjoyed reading the conversations between Regina and David in this chapter. Major lessons in this chapter are rearranging our priorities and focusing on what is important in life. The writing is incredible and the text is engaging. Ari Gunzburg is a great narrator and captivates his audience.

The Little Book of Greatness is a motivational book but it does not feel bland like some books in the inspirational genre. The author wrote distinctively, narrating stories of scenarios that happen in real life as he incorporates important lessons in the story. I recommend The Little Book of Greatness to readers that would love some encouraging text that will cheer them up and help them become better people.

Pages: 185 | ASIN: B08GH63H75

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Able Soul: Empowering God’s Spirit Within

Able Soul: Empowering God's Spirit Within by [Lucy Goncalves]

The biggest message that Lucy Goncalves has in Able Soul: Empowering God’s Spirit Within is that there is no challenge that is too hard if you believe in God. The good Lord cannot burden you with something that you cannot handle. Lucy Goncalves gives her story as a true testimony of what God can do. Her story is not only inspiring but also comforting. There is always a good thing at the end of the storm. Believing in God means that you have cast all your troubles to Him and trusting that he will take care of them. Lucy Goncalves tells every reader that goes through this book to have faith.

Able Soul: Empowering God’s Spirit Within discusses different things in life, not just the author’s stories. The book is refreshing and enlightening for anyone who questions life and the challenges they face. Do you ever feel that you need someone to lean on 24/7? Are you allowed to give up? Is it worth it being a Christian if all you have experienced is suffering and misery? These are some of the questions that get answered when you read this book. The author does not sugar coat her text but opens your eyes to realities and talks of how you can live a fulfilling life. In her book, Lucy Goncalves makes you feel that you are not alone even as you fight temptations.

This is ultimately a motivational and inspiring story. Lucy Goncalves gets personal and talks about living with cerebral palsy. She lays bare the realities of living with this condition, how it shapes one’s thinking and why we should all be kind to each other. The author’s personal experiences were touching. Through her story, we are reminded not to give up as God walks with us throughout. Lucy Goncalves is an inspiration, not only to people with the condition she has but also to everyone who is on the verge of despair due to one thing or the other.

My favorite chapters in the book were The Value of Reliance, The Art of Wrestling, Hunger to Serve, and A Faith-Filled Adventure. At the end of the book, you will gain an in-depth understanding of life, the Holy Spirit, and God. You will understand yourself as a person and those that live with you. The author’s encouraging words will keep you going, and help you move barriers.

Pages: 90 | ASIN: B07R66TN5X

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