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Consistency is the skill that separates people who dream from people who achieve. Yet, most of us struggle to stick with our goalsnot because we lack ambition, intelligence, or motivationbut because we dont have a system designed to survive real life. How to Be Consistent With Goals shows you how to break that cycle and finally make lasting progress.This book teaches practical strategies to create habits that stick, even when motivation fades or life gets hectic. You will learn how to design goals that are achievable, build routines that survive low-energy days, recover quickly after missed days, and steadily become the kind of person who follows through. Each chapter focuses on clear, actionable steps that are simple to implement and easy to sustain.Unlike other self-help books, this guide emphasizes process over outcomes, identity over intensity, and systems over willpower. It addresses modern challengesdistractions, digital overload, stress, and mental fatigueso you can maintain focus and keep moving forward. If you are tired of starting over, frustrated by inconsistency, or ready to achieve progress that lasts, this book gives you the tools, mindset, and system to finally stay on track and turn your goals into results.

All Princess Celia has ever wanted is to be left alone. Shes built her own enchanted tower out of glass and thorns, where she can keep the world outside while exploring her magical gifts, far away from royal expectations and an arranged marriage. But shes woven her protections too well -- and even though shes finding her tower lonely after so long, she cant undo her spell alone.Stefan only agreed to accompany his brother in order to provide magical help. After all, rescuing the princess of the glass castle is supposed to be Crown Prince Garalds quest, not his magicians. But the quest has already claimed lives, and Stef cant let his brother face the peril alone. Besides, he likes a challenge.Unlocking the spell will require Stef and Celia to use all their power and find the key in an exchange of hearts.

DEAR TALES is a monthly zine of short stories and poems, sometimes by different writers. The stories are all family oriented - no profanity, erotica or excessive violence. Stories have conclusive and upbeat endings. Also included in the zine are flash fiction sketch prompts. Volume 18 includes: A general fiction short story "The Cooks List" by Linda L. Rigsbee, short western story by L. L. Rigsbee "The Lonely Rancher", a short romantic fiction "Office Valentine" by Linda Louise Rigsbee, a short youth story "The Goat Ate My Homework" by Linda L. Rigsbee, a poem "Heartfelt Thanks, by Linda L. Rigsbee, and a sketch prompt response, "Jealousy," by Linda L. Rigsbee.DEAR TALES, A Family Circular accepts submissions from new authors.

Existe uma dimensão onde as promessas de Deus já são reais. Você está pronto para entrar? Seja bem-vindo a uma jornada que o levará além da cortina do visível. Com a autoridade de quem viveu a revolu

Fleur nasceu em uma família pobre, onde os gritos e brigas de seus pais ecoam pelos corredores de uma casa cheia de irmãos. Ela encontrava nos livros seu refúgio, histórias que pareciam impossíveis e

Too much like Englishmen uncovers a forgotten migration that reshaped colonial Australia long before the gold rushes made Chinese migration visible. Between 1848 and 1853, more than 3,000 men from Amoymodern Xiamen in Chinas Fujian provincewere recruited under five-year labour contracts and sent to New South Wales. Drawn into the expanding British imperial labour market after the First Opium War opened Amoy as a treaty port, these men were dispatched to the pastoral frontier, where they worked as shepherds on remote stations struggling to replace convict labour.Their recruitment was often opaque and coercive, their voyages arduous, and their lives in Australia profoundly disparate. Some endured exploitation, isolation, and violence; others resisted mistreatment, adapted to new conditions, and forged lives beyond the terms of their contracts. Tensions surrounding abusive recruitment practices erupted in the Amoy riots of 1852, abruptly ending organised labour migration from the port to Australia.When their contracts expired, these men did not simply vanish from history. Some moved on to the goldfields, but many remained in rural Australia, marrying locally, becoming naturalized, and establishing families whose descendants live in Australia today. Long eclipsed by later Cantonese migration and distorted by the enduring stereotype of "coolie" labour, their experiences have been marginalised or misunderstood. Drawing on newly uncovered archival records and family histories, Too much like Englishmen restores these men to the centre of Australias colonial story, revealing a complex history of resilience, agency, and belonging.

One of humanitys worst nightmares has happened. The dead rose from their graves. Chaos and death follows but humanity prevails. A new governmental branch, Revenant Reintegration, creates housing and jobs for the undead, to forge a future where both the living and formally deceased can live harmoniously. But things are far from perfect.Alfie, a law-abiding citizen, lives a monotonous, lonely existence, delivering meals to RR residential blocks, with little memory of his former life. The endless tedium is disrupted when Jake, a handsome revenant, catches his eye and asks Alfie on a date.Jake invites him to Cadere, a restaurant which caters exclusively to residents. Nervous and very much out of practice, Alfie is charmed by Jake and thrilled by the possibility of finding love ... until their meal is served.When the opportunity to indulge in his darkest craving is put right in front of him, will Alfie hold back the monster he truly is or give in to satiate his hunger?

When an ordinary girl is struck by lightning during a violent storm, she should have died. Instead, she awakens transformed, electricity humming beneath her skin, power bending to her will. As she struggles to control her abilities, a global threat emerges, led by a ruthless villain determined to reshape the world.Caught between light and darkness is his son, the enemys heir, raised in shadow but questioning everything hes been taught. Drawn to her power and her defiance, he becomes her unlikely ally... and her greatest weakness. Their connection is dangerous, forbidden, and capable of destroying them both.As war looms and secrets unravel, she must decide whether love can exist between opposing sides-or if saving the world means breaking her own heart.

Late to My Own Party is a reflective essay collection about arrivingemotionally, relationally, and honestlylater than expected.Moving through the AIDS-era shadows of the 1980s and 90s, a marriage that made sense on paper, and the quiet skills of passing for stable, these essays trace how a life can be carefully built while something essential remains deferred. When the author finally comes out in midlife, he finds himself entering queer spaces already fluent with rules he never learned, expected to want what others want, and navigating intimacy without the shared history so many take for granted.What follows is not a coming-out triumph or a story of late-found certainty, but an unsentimental examination of wanting: the difference between being wanted and being chosen, access and intimacy, waiting and staying. With precision and restraint, Late to My Own Party explores what it means to remain open without guaranteesand how to live honestly inside a life that is still unfolding.This is a book about lateness without shame, longing without performance, and the courage of staying present when the music is still playing, even if youre not sure whenor whetheryoull dance.

Et si on retournait là où tout a commencé ? Lorsque Charlize, l’Américaine amoureuse de la France et de la pâtisserie, emménage en colocation à Paris, elle ne s’attend pas à intégrer une seconde fami

Hilda had left to start a new life.She had married a man who was handsome and exciting and hed promised her the world.When that world came crashing down, she returned to her home town.Not to lick her wounds but to rebuild.Robert was there to welcome her back.Then he was gone. Cruelly taken.But he left something for her.Something that would change her life.A story about lossliessecrets. A story of prejudice and hate. A story of love, forgiveness and redemption."We must be willing to get rid of the life weve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"Joseph Campbell

Aiden Hui has spent his entire life running away from Infinite, the Chinese American mafia his family has served for generations. His only hope for a life of his own is his older brother, Hui Yethe patriarch of the Hui family. But when Aiden starts college, Hui Ye is brutally murdered, with no clues to the culprit.Aiden is left at the mercy of his powerful stepmother, who pressures him to accept his "duty" to Infinite for the sake of her and her two children. Drowning in grief and unwilling to abandon the only family he has left, Aiden resigns himself to his fateuntil he meets Brendan.Unconditionally kind, Brendan is like a prince from another world, ushering Aiden into a life where friendships arent dangerous and hobbies can finally belong to him alone. As they grow closer, Aidens desire for freedom reigniteseven as the pressure from his stepmother mounts for him to take up Hui Yes place in Infinite.But when both Aiden and Brendan find their lives in danger, a mysterious assassin who calls herself Aidens fairy godmother intervenes. With her helpand with Brendan at his sideAiden must confront the identity he inherited, the family he cant escape, and the freedom he refuses to lose again.

Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with someone else.Adam Bede was Eliots first long novel. She described the work as "a country storyfull of the breath of cows and the scent of hay." Its masterly realismevident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialectbrought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin had commended in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites. But what was new in this work of English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment.Awake, my soul, and with the sunThy daily stage of duty run;Shake off dull slothHere some measurement was to be taken which required more concentrated attention, and the sonorous voice subsided into a low whistle; but it presently broke out again with renewed vigour Let all thy converse be sincere,Thy conscience as the noonday clear.

A humanidade sempre procurou respostas para as grandes questões da vida: Quem somos? De onde viemos? Para onde vamos? Qual é o sentido da nossa existência?Este livro é um convite a explorar essas per

Within these pages lies a territory where fear thinks, remembers, and descends into delirium. Edgar Allan Poe, the undisputed master of the modern short story, explores the darkest regions of the human mind: guilt that refuses to be silenced, obsession that leads to madness, death that lurks behind a closed door or beats relentlessly beneath the floor.The tales gathered in The Best Horror Stories do not rely on cheap shocks, but on a deeper, more enduring unease. Poe transforms the ordinary into menace, love into delirium, and reason into its own enemy. Each story is a descent into the inexplicable, told with a hypnotic and precise prose that continues to unsettle readers more than a century later.

In 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.Originally published anonymously, "Common Sense" advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain and is considered one of the most influential pamphlets in American history. Credited with uniting average citizens and political leaders behind the idea of independence, "Common Sense" played a remarkable role in transforming a colonial squabble into the American Revolution.At the time Paine wrote "Common Sense," most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonists argument with the crown when he wrote the following: "Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither they have fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wildes dramatic masterpiece.After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play. In the summer of 1893, Oscar Wilde began writing An Ideal Husband, and he completed it later that winter. His work began at Goring-on-Thames, after which he named the character Lord Goring, and concluded at St. James Place. He initially sent the completed play to the Garrick Theatre, where the manager rejected it, but it was soon accepted by the Haymarket Theatre, where Lewis Waller had temporarily taken control. Waller was an excellent actor and cast himself as Sir Robert Chiltern.The play gave the Haymarket the success it desperately needed. After opening on 3 January 1895, it continued for 124 performances.

Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybodys Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine.The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes of the mans hominid alter ego, one of the Cave People. In addition to the Cave People, there are the more advanced Fire People, and the more animal-like Tree People.Other characters include the hominids father, a love interest, and Red-Eye, a fierce "atavism" that perpetually terrorizes the Cave People. A sabre-cat also plays a role in the story.* * *Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.In my days only did I attain any measure of happiness. My nights marked the reign of fearand such fear! I make bold to state..

They loved each other once.Then life pulled them in opposite directions.Kentucky-born Monica Caldwell built her life in New York fearlessly, but not without struggle. Throwing herself into her career not only helped her assert her independence, it assisted in filling the emptiness she felt after her mothers death from cancer. But walking away from Jess Washburn years ago was the hardest choice she ever made. Jess never forgot her.Monica tried to forget him.Now a chance reunion in Paris, Kentucky cracks open old wounds, buried desire, and a truth neither of them saw coming. Because some connections dont fade with time. They wait. They ache. They demand answers.Three days in Las Vegas with her father and his new love should have been a distraction. Instead, it becomes a reckoning ... because Jess is there, too.Caught between the future shes built and the love she never truly let go of, Monica must decide if shes brave enough to return to the one place she swore shed never go back to: him.Because sometimes the road forward isnt about starting over.Its about finding the way back to us.A steamy, emotional second-chance romance about fate, forgiveness, and choosing love when it matters most.BOURBON & ROSES SERIESBourbon in the glass. Roses in the air. Love in the Bluegrass has never been this intoxicatingFrom the roar of the Kentucky Derby to the quiet hum of Appalachian backroads, love blooms where you least expect it. In this swoon-worthy series of standalone romances, big-city lights meet small-town charm, and every couple finds their own happily-ever-after against the rich backdrop of the Bluegrass State.From country music heartthrobs to bourbon kings, horse farm rebels to mountain town dreamers ... each story is a shot of passion with a splash of Southern charm. Here, the stakes are high, the kisses are hotter than July, and the only thing smoother than the bourbon is falling in love.Opal Nicks delivers page-turning passion wrapped in Kentucky charm - where every hero is worth falling for and every kiss lingers like the last drop in the glass.