Writing Contest Winners!!!

 

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Thank You to ALL the Participants Who Shared Their Creative Works.

Congrats to the following Winners! 🎉

Poetry

Jason Fernandez, "Etched Marble Diaries"

Flash Fiction (2 Winners)

Irina Kravchuk, "Marmalade"

Kelvin James, "An Unwritten Ode"

Dopamine Nation By Anna Lembke, MD

 

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Overview

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Read more here. Credit: Dopamine Nation; Anna Lembke, MD.

VIBE By Adam Grant

 

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 Overview

When we vibe with other people, it fuels our happiness and success. Yet building meaningful ties is one of the most pressing problems of our time. As face-to-face interaction gives way to digital screens, communication gets outsourced to AI, and the world becomes more polarized, our loneliness crisis shows no signs of slowing. To reveal how we can forge faster, stronger, and longer bonds, Adam Grant offers groundbreaking studies, expert insights, and myth-busting stories. Filled with the eye-opening takeaways that have brought millions of readers to his books, Vibe teaches us that similarity is not necessary for solidarity, chemistry doesn’t always happen quickly, and closeness doesn’t always take time. Read more here. Credit: Barnes & Noble; Adam Grant.

 

The Voice of Knowledge

 

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Overview

In The Voice of Knowledge, Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies — mainly about ourselves. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, this breakthrough book shows us how to recover our faith in the truth and return to our own common sense. Ruiz changes the way we perceive ourselves, and the way we perceive other people. Then he opens the door to a reality that we once perceived when we were one and two years old: a reality of truth, love, and joy. Credit: The Voice of Knowledge; Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.; Janet Mills.

"We are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. . . . One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection." — don Miguel Ruiz

"Crafting Pitches and Pitching Etiquette"

 

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It's Showtime! 

Calling All Speakers, Multimedia Contributors and Writers ...

 Join Sasha on Sasha Talks at BBS Radio Channel 1 this Tuesday.

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Sasha shines light on crafting pitches and best practices.

Learn how to craft a valuable pitch which attracts interest and desired results.

Let's get you in front of the spotlight which YOU deserve! 

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The Imagination Muscle By Albert Read

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Overview

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Albert Read reveals how we can harness the imagination in our day-to-day lives and why, in the new age of technology, it is more pressing than ever that we do so. He explores where to find ideas, how to foster skills in observation and connection, and how to be more attentive to the fluxes of our own minds. After all, as Read expertly outlines, the imagination is our supreme gift, our biggest opportunity, our greatest source of fulfillment and our most vital asset for the future. The book is illustrated throughout with approximately 60 images. Read more here. Credit: Hachette Book Group; The Imagination Muscle. 

"Decisions, Courage, and Action" By Robert Plank

 

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Overview

What have you been putting off until you feel ready?

Maybe it's a project you keep restarting, a conversation you're avoiding, or a trip you've promised yourself for years. Meanwhile, the work piles up, other people need answers, and waiting has started to feel suspiciously like a decision.

Decisions, Courage, and Action brings together ten authors with real stories and practical approaches to making decisions, leading people, and finishing what matters. Compiled by Robert Plank, this collection explores what you can do when fear, exhaustion, competing demands, or rapid change make the next step difficult.

Rita Ainsworth recalls looking at her advertising dashboard and suddenly being unable to make sense of familiar numbers. Mitch Slater describes receiving a million-dollar check as a young financial advisor and discovering what another person's trust required of him. WL Gertz returns to poetry after roughly fifty years, with a reminder to stop postponing the experiences you want to have.

Alongside these stories, you'll find ways to help your team think for themselves, communicate through change, and build physical strength through repeatable practice. Donna Blevins explains how finishing three small tasks can get stalled work moving. Robert Plank's Five Little Boxes approach starts with the finished outcome and works backward to a step you can take today. 

For entrepreneurs, managers, creators, and anyone reconsidering what comes next, this book offers ideas you can put to work while you're still figuring things out. Credit: Robert Plank; Decisions, Courage and Action.

The book is a healthy collaboration of multiple contributors and authors.

 

p.s. Here's a flashback from when Sasha revisited Robert to explore time. 

(Original air date - 2018)

 

Peak Human By Johan Norberg

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 Overview

Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of Abbasid Baghdad came algebra and modern medicine; and the Dutch Republic furnished us with Europe’s greatest artistic movements. As such, each has unique lessons to teach us about the world we live in today. But all previous golden ages have proven finite, whether through external pressures or internal fracturing. 

In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations—ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere—and asks: How do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end? Credit: Peak Human; Cato Institute.