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Curves

Curves Wants to Help You Kick off the Best Year of Your Life!

In honor of Breast Cancer Month, Della Snyder and her fabulous team at all of her Curves locations will be giving you a ZERO service fee!

Value: $199



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Difficulties with getting organized, filing, paper and e-mail management can cause you or your employees to waste up to 150 hours per year!

If office organization, time management, records management, e-mail management or document management is a challenge for your company or department, this goodie bag item can make your life much easier.  Calahan Solutions, Inc. will be providing every conference participant with a $150 off certificate to use when booking their Office Miracle™ service.  Value $150.


Networking Perfect Your Networking Skills

Connections with the right people put you on the path to success. Being able to leverage your network of contacts saves you time, energy, and money. Effective Networking, Inc. has shared two great resources to get you started on establishing optimal affiliations to maximize your potential achievement and reach your personal or professional goals. Networking chart – this is a great tool to learn how to work a room with confidence.   Value: Priceless


Love your body love your life

  • Grow your positive self image with a copy of Sarah Maria's Love Your Body, Love Your Life.
  • We'll do anything to look better--and yet we still feel bad about how we look.  Self-loathing has reached epidemic proportions.  But there is a way to end self-destructive thoughts and behavior.  In this book, noted body-image expert Sarah Maria presents her proven five-step plan anyone can use to overcome negative body obsession (NBO).  She helps you: commit to change, identify and detach from negative thoughts, discover who you really are, befriend your body, find your purpose and love your body, love your life!

Complete with exercises, case studies, and testimonials, you can learn how to stop obsessing over food and your body and achieve permanent peace with both. You’ll banish NBO forever, and feel healthy, radiant, beautiful, and desirable—every day!  Learn More  Value: 14.95

About the Author Sarah Maria is the founder of Break Free Beauty (www.breakfreebeauty.com and www.sarahmaria.com), a company dedicated to helping people love and accept their bodies and discover the beauty that they already are.  She is a body-image expert, speaker, and coach who speaks and writes on the topics of body image, self-esteem, health, success, and spirituality.  Her mission is to empower people of all ages, races, and body sizes to embrace the bodies they have been given and learn to love themselves so they can live their dreams. 


1000-dollars-and-an-idea-book-sam-wylyLearn from a Business Legend, Sam Wyly - With a Copy of His Latest Book 1,000 DOLLARS AND AN IDEA: Entrepreneur to Billionaire

Sam Wyly created best-of-breed companies on the leading edge of advancements in technology, energy, retail, and investments over a career spanning 45 years. Now this fast-paced, fascinating, and candid memoir reveals the creative process, relationships, and financial strategies behind his amazing entrepreneurial success. Here’s the story of how, after his first job in which he broke sales records at IBM, he risked $1,000 of his savings to found the first “computer utility” and became a millionaire before he was thirty, and how he succeeded in:

- Waging an anti-monopoly battle against AT&T while building the first telephone company for computers
- Growing the modest Bonanza Steakhouse chain to 600 restaurants
- Creating software companies Sterling Software and Sterling Commerce (sold for $8 billion)
- Growing a small arts-and-crafts company into more than 900 Michaels stores
- Creating Green Mountain Energy, arguably the most profitable green business in America

Part autobiography and part inspirational business guide, 1,000 Dollars and an Idea is full of refreshing insights and homespun life lessons about what it takes to create, grow, and build successful companies.  Learn More  Value: $24.96

 Breakpal 

No Time To Exercise? Then Deskercise - One Year Premium Membership to BreakPal!
 
•Desk Exercises let you get in Shape Right at Your Desk!
•Get the Same Results as if You Drove to the Gym every Day and did a 45 minute Aerobics Class. (Without driving to the gym or spending 45 minutes.
•Have better mental clarity throughout the day.
•Get more done.
•Avoid desk related health problems

Care4hireFind the Caregivers You Need - Fast

Care4hire.com is an online family and caregiver database providing babysitters, housekeepers, tutors, pet sitters, elder/companion care and other miscellaneous services.  They service the United States and Canada.  As a participant in the conference, you will receive a gift certificate for one month's free membership.  Value: $29.99




 

Derricknyms Give Someone a W.O.E.--Word Of Encouragement

“From the work place to the church pews, people need encouragement to propel them to the God-given success they already possess,” Derrick Hayes says. “While it's inside already, sometimes an extra push is needed. I strive to provide that.”

Hayes has the unique, effective talent of composing Derricknyms from countless letters. His critically acclaimed first book by the same name has been utilized in corporate, religious and scholastic settings. One of the most frequently used Derricknym is W.O.E.  “I always tell people to make sure they give others a W.O.E. daily,” Hayes says. “In the general context, a woe is a problem. In the Derricknym fashion, it is a Word of Encouragement.”

You now have the opportunity to receive a FREE Derricknym. Derricknyms are acronyms with a touch of Derrick where words are encouraging messages. Turn your name into a positive message.


2009 Pathways Background Door Prize

Choose

Choose a Better Life: Common Sense for Uncommon Living by Stephanie Hester will Inspire You!

Signed Copy!  Our lives are made up of a series of choices. Once we realize this we can take control of these choices and intentionally focus on the positive, generating energy and passion while opening the door for a better future. Choose a Better Life: Common Sense for Uncommon Living is a personal development and motivational book full of tidbits of treasure. Each tidbit is designed to be a quick read, providing a specific tip on how to do the above ultimately leading to our ability to choose a better life.

Learn More  Value:  $14.95


MoreThanAMinute

Gain New Insights on Leadership and Management in Today's Business Environment with Holly Green's More Than a Minute

More Than a Minute provides a refreshing look at the original "secrets" of effective managers explored in The One Minute Manager more than 25 years ago. It offers up-to-date methods and practices to prompt the thinking required to address today's challenges. Unlike many other management books, it is based on time-proven practices and actual business applications used by companies around the globe. More Than a Minute was written by a practitioner. As president of The Ken Blanchard Companies, Holly Green has worked closely with Ken, co-author of The One Minute Manager. But much has changed since that book was published...and More Than a Minute is the title today's managers desperately need.

More Than a Minute is not about the theory of leading and managing. It is about the doing it in today's context.  Learn More  Value: $11.99


Moments-of-forever In Moments of Forever, Dr. Bill R. Path helps you discover your purpose in life and understand how you can positively direct your life and influence the lives of those around you.

Signed Copy! Have you ever wondered if your life really matters or how you fit into the grand scheme of things? If you have, you are not alone. He believes there is something quite special inside every one of us-something of great and intrinsic value. He will show you how to search within yourself to find answers to some of life's most persistent questions. Moments of Forever is a road map to help you achieve your life's aspirations. Within its covers, you will learn to:

  • Gain an infinite perspective on life
  • Recognize your immeasurable self-worth
  • Understand your unbreakable human connection
  • Comprehend how you relate to humanity's higher callings
  • Cultivate incorruptible character within your life
  • Realize your unlimited human potential
  • Find purpose in every moment of life

Practical, inspirational, nonthreatening, nonjudgmental, and uncomplicated, Moments of Forever will help you put your life into context and uncover the true power and importance of your life.   Learn More  Value: $15.95

Real Life Success Stories of Amazing People and Innovations!

Ray Anthony, the founder and president of the ANTHONY INNOVATION GROUP just completed his sixth book titled, "F-A-S-T FORWARD.. AND STEP ON IT! INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN A WORLD DESPERATE FOR IT."   It is the culmination of 3 years of extensive, meticulous research and continuous rewrites to leverage efforts to rebuild America, so our country can better improve the world, in general. They encourage their clients to THINK BIG, ACT BIG, and make a BIG CONTRIBUTION to society – in addition to improving their profits – through our collaboration with them.

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