Read of the Week: LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies

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Give your LinkedIn profile the makeover it deserves—and get the attention you deserve

Look at your profile: you know it could be a little better. Too many LinkedIn users are just posting a basic resume and hoping for the offers to come flooding in, missing out on the incredible opportunity the platform offers to properly showcase their talents, products, and services to 610 million professionals in over 200 countries. LinkedIn is way more than a resume tool—to display your professional past and present—it’s also your career future and personal brand. Used to its fullest extent, it helps you demonstrate the unique value and culture you provide, the skills and aspirations that make you different, to get the outcomes you truly want. But how’s it done?

Profile branding expert Donna Serdula pioneered the concept of LinkedIn Profile Optimization and through her Website, LinkedIn-Makever.com, has helped over 5000 professionals use LinkedIn to achieve increased success. In this guide she applies that experience to help you use all of LinkedIn’s capabilities to meet your goals, whether they be job search, reputation management, or sales.

Amazon Pick of the Week: The Mindful Woman

Learn How to Transform Your Mind with Simple Mindfulness Steps

Discover a greater sense of focus through a combination of inspirational words of wisdom from various women and mindfulness activities that teach you about the importance of your well-being.

Life moves fast. As women, we wear various hats in our lives. Oftentimes, we forget to stop and take a deep breath to center ourselves. Author and champion of women, Sue Patton Thoele, shows you how to incorporate mindfulness into your busy and dynamic life. Learn to take control of your peace and discover how to maintain a clear head amid the chaos while keeping your feet firmly on the ground.

The Mindful Woman is a friend whose hand you can hold on the path toward being present in the moment. Finding your way will lead naturally to a more open heart, inner peace, and greater zest for life. This guide will be with you every step of the way and offers you:

Sixty-five simple and effective mindfulness activities
Stories from real women who provide inspiration
Lessons on healing and connecting with your innermost self

Theole uses a gentle and humorous approach that makes The Mindful Woman a practical and easily understood guide for those who are new to the practice of mindfulness and those who are already familiar with its gifts.

Even the busiest of women among us can embrace mindfulness and reap the benefits.

If you enjoyed books like The Self Care Prescription, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness, or The Mindfulness Journal, you’ll love The Mindful Woman.

As a psychotherapist for over twenty years, Sue Patton Thoele never envisioned actually writing a book. But at forty-five, a writing muse grabbed her by the scuff of the neck and would not let her go. By the time her first book was published, a passion for writing had taken root in her heart. Now, she is a successful mentor, speaker, and author of over a dozen encouraging and empowering books that deal with issues similar to those both she and her psychotherapy clients deal with every day. Sue is a mother, stepmother, grandmother, wife, and emeritus hospice chaplain. She is a lover of dogs who finds great joy in swimming with dolphins in the wild. Sue’s titles include Strength, The Courage to Be Yourself, The Woman's Book of Courage, and The Woman's Book of Confidence.

Learn more about Sue and her work at www.suepattonthoele.com.

Link:

https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Woman-Practices-Restoring-Finding-ebook/dp/B091FVTF6Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Kindle Pick of the Week: Say Goodbye to Plastic

If you've heard of the plastic-free lifestyle, but think you don't have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be delightfully wrong. Goodbye Plastic shows you how, whether you're seeking to knock plastic out of your life or just try out a few novel eco-hacks in your kitchen, bathroom, office or dining room. Plastic pollution activist and entrepreneur Sandra Ann Harris invites us to say goodbye to plastic, room by room. Opportunities abound to simplify our lives by re-thinking our wasteful habits--we just need to learn to recognize them.

Kindle Pick of the Week: Flavour with Benefits

Would you love to escape on a romantic journey? Your ticket is between the covers of the stunning Flavour with Benefits: France.

Discover the world’s most popular travel destination:
• Experience breathtaking France with over 100 original photographs.
• Sail by limestone cliffs on a warm Mediterranean current.
• Descend a glowing staircase to a wine cave filled with millions of bottles of champagne.

Learn about women who changed the world
• The Grande Dame of Champagne who couldn’t vote yet built an empire.
• La mère (the mother) Brazier whose restaurants set new culinary standards.

Food that doesn’t compromise flavour or health
• Enjoy 50+ inspired recipes accompanied by stunning photographs.
• Learn about food as medicine and a five-year-old girl.
• Crave a dessert that reimagines: I’ll have what she’s having!

Flavour with Benefits: France will inspire you to plan the trip of your dreams and indulge in
flavours that deliver a pleasant surprise.

Co-authors, Cathy Connally and Charley Best, are obsessed with developing new approaches to
iconic flavours served with a side-dish of travel. Flavour with Benefits: France is the first book
in the series.

A great read for the spring and summer.

Kindle Pick of the Week: Total Olympics

Pre-order now in this Olympic year.

Faster! Higher! Stronger! Stranger! A glorious tapestry of legendary characters, forgotten records, crazy accomplishments, unbelievable feats, wacky contests, and controversial moments, Total Olympics is pure pleasure for anyone who loves the world’s greatest sporting event.
 
Discover how the modern Games began, in an out-of-the-way Victorian English town named Much Wenlock. Long-discontinued Olympic sports like tug of war, firefighting, live pigeon shooting, and painting. (Picasso for the gold?) And the over-the-top, heroic exploits that make it all so thrilling––like the inspiring story of gymnast Shun Fujimoto who brought his team to victory while fighting through the pain of a broken knee. With hundreds of true stories and stunning photographs, it’s a collection of sports yearns unlike any other.

Order now on Amazon.