Altruistic Magic: Using Wonder as a Force for Good

by Rick Saldan

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Magic is usually understood as performance. Applause, amazement, and admiration are its common rewards. But what if wonder could be used for something deeper? Altruistic Magic: Using Wonder as a Force for Good explores a radically different approach to magic, one where the goal is not self-elevation, but human transformation. This book reframes magic as a tool for intervention, empowerment, and meaningful change in the lives of others.

Life Lessons from the Golden Era of Magic

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This book explores master theatrical stage magicians whose lives and careers defined the Golden Era of Magic, from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century. These were not close-up or salon performers. They were large-scale theatrical artists who filled grand theaters, toured relentlessly across continents, and created immersive experiences capable of sweeping entire audiences into a shared world of wonder..

Motivational Magic Secrets for Staying Motivated In Tough Times

by Rick Saldan

In today's rugged world, every person, every organization and every corporation faces setbacks that hold them back from fulfilling their highest potential. You have often tried to break through these barriers, but they seem impossible at times. You have had some success here and there, but you have longed for the day when you breakout and see wild success beyond your dreams.

How to Become an Encourager

Learn More About The Incredible Benefits To Be Enjoyed When You Regularly Invest In The Lives Of Others

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When doing volunteer work, I often felt like I was being rewarded on the inside much more than the person who was receiving the help I was giving. This seems to be truer when you are volunteering with people whose lives are in chaos and you are doing some level of crisis intervention work. I would leave feeling like I was on cloud nine. It was a rush. Literally. My spirit was soaring on the inside. I could see I was making a huge difference in this man's life.

How To Go From Timid Speaker To Award Winning Speaker

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How I went from timid speaker to award winning speaker and you can too!

Was I a timid speaker? More like terrified speaker!  I was so absolutely frightened in that I dropped my public speaking courses at Temple University. Not once, but twice. Later I paid $800 to attend another public speaking course. That one was a little better but terror struck my heart once again and I dropped out in the third week. The anguish was absolutely unbearable.

How To Get Straight A's

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How I achieved straight A's in college and you can too!

I had not taken a college class probably in some 20 years. The world of nursing had changed dramatically in the past several years. Because the economy was in such a tailspin, thousands of people were abandoning their lifelong careers and jumping into nursing as a means to sustain some level of dependable income. Now instead of nursing schools out there aggressively recruiting students to fill their seats, they had to instead fight them off with a stick. Instead of classrooms being half empty, now many nursing programs often had 1200 applicants trying to compete for the 40 to 60 seats that were available. As a result, they dramatically changed the nursing school enrollment process had raised the standards for enrollment.

How To Become A Bounce Back Person

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You might face daunting setbacks that can seem absolutely impossible to overcome. If you really want to accomplish your goals, you absolutely must teach yourself to become a bounce back person. You must teach yourself how to shrug things off and keep moving forward no matter what hoops you have to jump through. When they keep throwing more and more obstacles at you, determine that you will jump through those hoops and keep bouncing back. Visualize yourself being a pit bull that locks its jaws on your leg and won't let go no matter what you do to it. Lock onto your goals. Visualize yourself punching through your barriers and successfully completing the mission at hand. Energize yourself each and every day, every hour of the day, with the reasons you began this undertaking and the fruit you expect to enjoy when you successfully complete the obstacle course. 

How To Gain Freedom From Fear Forever

Proven Strategies That Will Release You From The Chains Of Fear

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Rick Saldan grew up in a world of fears, phobias anxieties of every kind. He had a phobia of open spaces. He had a phobia of crowds. He had a phobia of heights. At age 34, Rick decided he would tackle his fear of heights by taking skydiving lessons!

Focus

Proven Strategies To Become Laser Focused On Your Goals And Objectives

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Being homeless for several months did do some wonderful things for me that have stayed with me for years. When you reach bottom like that and everything around you collapses, you tend to go one way or the other. You collapse as a human being and fall prey to some addictive behavior to medicate yourself from the pain, or you become super laser focused and hyper diligent in pursuing your goals. Fortunately for me, the latter occurred. I became more driven to achieve. More laser focused on my goals. Hyper diligent to wanting to achieve, accomplish and make an impact in the world around me. I grew super determined that I would never hit rock bottom ever again and that I would always be a climber.

Self-Esteem Determines Our Destiny

How To Nurture Your Self-Esteem So That You Can Achieve All Of Your Dreams And Ambitions

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After her first visit to the United States, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India remarked that never in her life had she seen a nation so rich in material wealth, but so poverty stricken in self worth. She accurately perceived us to be an entire country comprised of people that wrestle with poor, unhealthy, damaged self esteem.

Find A Mentor, Be A Mentor

Proven Strategies To For Building Mentor Relationships That Empower You

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One of the greatest hyperjumps you can experience is being with such a mentor, and also for being such a mentor to others in your "downline" that you can provide a similar wholesome inspirational experience to. That term downline is one that I am borrowing from the world of network marketing, but in the context of mentoring it simply means someone that is newer and less experienced than you are.

Get Plugged In & Powered Up!

Strategies To Gain More Strength And Impact By Building Your Supportive Community

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What if I told you I could wave a magic wand and take whatever strengths you have right now, and multiply them several fold. As a result, you would become more passionate, have greater zeal, have more drive, and more focus. What if you could accomplish more with less effort on your part? That whatever efforts you put out became multiplied and magnified and reached much further than usual. What if you listed all of your gifts, strengths and talents? Talents such as writing, speaking, project management, graphic design, leadership, and marketing. Gift and talents like that. And this little red pill would take all of that and enhance everything on your list. Let's say we are talking about enhancements of 20% to 40%, maybe even as high as 70%. Wouldn't that be of interest to you?

 

Conquering Stress

How To Stop Stress From Destroying Your Career, Your Health and Your Life

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Six of the top causes of death among Americans are directly tied to stress. Those six are heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. When people go to visit their family doctor, researchers believe that 75 percent of the ailments they are visiting their doctor for are also stress related. My friends, all of that is the very definition of stress. My goodness, no wonder we are nation being ravaged by stress.

The Healing Power of Laughter

Proven Strategies To Tap Into The Healing Power Of Laughter to Strengthen Your Immune System

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We have multiple systems built into the body that operate automatically to filter our toxins and impurities. Two of those systems require some action on our part, the others are all automatic. One of those is our lymphatic system. The lymphatic system removes toxins from our bodies, but that system is only activated when are physically active. The more physically active you are, the more effectively your lymphatic system is cleansing your body of impurities, toxins and poisons. Immune cells moving through the body use blood vessels and the lymphatic system. If you live a quiet sedate lifestyle where we are sitting much of the day, that lymphatic system is not being given the chance to function efficiently. The motion of our muscles as we move around is what causes the lymphatic system to get rid of cellular wastes.

Breaking Free of the Matrix

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While it has been years since it first hit the big screen, the life lessons in The Matrix seem much more pertinent today than they did a decade ago. Just as Neo learned everything he always trusted in had crumbled, so we see the fabric of society crumbling around us. Job security is a thing of the past with "at will employment laws" enacted in almost every state. Many large American corporations now have more employees overseas than here in the USA. The middle class is quickly evaporating. More than 50% of American households live from one paycheck to the next. Many college graduates can only find menial jobs while being straddled with huge school loans. All of these trends will continue escalating. How do we cope? We must learn the same lessons as Neo and dig deep within to uncover gifts and talents than can help us to thrive in this challenging new world. We must learn how to set ourselves free from fears, doubts and inhibitions that are holding us back. We must learn the skills that help us to rise to excellence in our fields. We must become master innovators.

Lupus

How to Survive and Thrive After Doctors Say You Have Five Years Left To Live

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I Was Healed Of Horrible Lupus Symptoms In Just Two Hours. A True Genuine Medical Miracle.

We heard about a 4-day seminar being held for people with incurable diseases and drove 12 hours straight to attend the conference taught by an attorney out in Traverse City, Michigan. He was teaching about hidden factors tied to lupus and other autoimmune diseases. His teachings had helped other patients with autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, Addison's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Sjogren Syndrome, and Graves' Disease. As a student studying for nursing school, his whole concept completely intrigued me. We hopped in the car and drove all night long some 760 miles to attend this training session and learn more. Nothing else worked, so why not give this approach a try?

Excelling With Excel Formulas

How I Used Nested If-Then Loops and Vlookups to Accomplish The Impossible

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I love Excel formulas. I love the complexity and intricacy. The more difficult and mind bending the scenario, the more I love to sink my teeth into it to figure out some way to solve it. 

Such was the case with this problem. I was asked by a fund manager if it could be solved. Two partners in the bonds department of this financial firm told me they had worked on it off and on for 3 years and it was impossible to do this work with Excel. Impossible? That perked my ears.

Using Theatrical Stage Magic to Assess Cognitive Development

Exploring Fundamental Building Blocks in Childhood Development with Conjuring, Comedy and Sleight of Hand

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Join us on a whimsical journey using magic and mayhem to as a psychological evaluation tool. A satirical look at the world of assessment and evaluation of the inner workings of the mind through the use of stage magic.

In working our way towards setting up the evaluation, I found myself in a most difficult position of trying to explain to my family of this appraisal of the mind that I wanted to conduct. I could sense by the questions they were asking my wife, that they were growing more and more concerned as the conversation wore on. What kind of results was I looking for? Would there be any discomfort involved? What was the outcome I was looking for? Are there any costs involved?  

Spiritual Influences on Classic Literature

by Rick Saldan

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Activism can be described as any action that is designed to create change in society. Some activists use tools such as public protests, street marches, public rallies, signed petitions and publicity stunts to get their message out into the minds of the public masses. A skillful writer is an activist of another sort who conjures up a Trojan horse of significantly greater stealth and resilience, because his political or religious platform might outlast his lifetime and be passed from one generation to the next. The writers examined in this book are indeed activists who have launched their message in a rocket-propelled vehicle that will go on and on through hundreds of years. 
 
In this book, we examine six such activists throughout world history that sought to sway, influence and persuade the masses through their stories, poems and plays. Many such writings have become classics of literature. Their works have survived the years and continue to inspire readers everywhere.

Correcting Corrections

by Rick Saldan

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Have you or your loved ones ever been the victim of a violent crime? Chances are very high that the perpetrators were already in and out of the corrections system several times. Here in America, the recidivism rate is as high as 77%. If you look at the corrections system in Europe, their recidivism rate is at 15%. That's proof that it can be done. So why aren't we? Why do we allow such a broken and failed concept to continue on and on?

What our prisons do excel at is producing graduates who are more intensely violent and better skilled at committing more crimes. Rehabilitation is practically non-existent. This book takes a look into the ongoing problems of our corrections system that nobody seems to want to fix. If the Europeans can fix their corrections system, why can't we? Why not rehabilitate these men and women and help them to integrate as productive members of society?

Kennedy Death Squads

Evidence Showing Sirhan and Oswald Did Not Mastermind the RFK & JFK Assassinations

by Rick Saldan

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Did Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate President John F. Kennedy? Did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate Senator Robert F. Kennedy?

No, they could not possibly do it alone! The purpose of this book is to examine bodies of evidence that undeniably show these two being patsies sucked into a much larger machinery of powerful conspirators. When you examine the facts, you will see that it is absolutely impossible for these two to have operated alone.

Confronting Racial Hatred with Classic Literature

by Rick Saldan

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Just when we think that racial tensions have eased, the head of racial hatred rears its ugly head yet again. At times it seems like an endless game of whack-a-mole with no end in sight. We know that racial hatred is passed down through one generation to the next. We must find ways of addressing the issues of racial hatred within our schools. If we stay focused on this objective, it is conceivable that one day we might be able to eradicate racial hatred in a single generation. Just as we did with polio, smallpox, malaria, hookworm and other dreadful diseases.

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