Motivational and leadership books, workbooks, and CDs that will help you manage your career, build your business, create true wealth, and achieve your personal and professional goals. SparkStore.com is also the home of CourageWear – Apparel with Altitude!

Proven strategies for goal-setting, personal motivation, leadership development, and life success. You will learn how to:

• Dream bigger and think more creatively.
• Confront your fears with courage and determination.
• Stop procrastinating and use your time more productively.
• Overcome inner barriers holding you back from being your best.
• Be more effective as a leader – and as a parent.
• Achieve your most authentic goals.
• Become the person you are truly meant to be.
  

Values-based life and leadership strategies:

Motivation: Be your own Success Coach by applying the strategies in these books and CDs to your work and your life.

Leadership: Learn how you can be a more effective leader at work, at home, and in your community.

Goal-Setting: Stop cheating yourself with anemic goals and dreams!

Team-Building: Learn from the greatest leaders in history and fiction how to motivate your team for achievement.

Wealth and Money: Achieve your financial goals by living your values.

Spiritual and Emotional Strength: The ultimate benefit of values-based living is the emotional equanimity and spiritual peace that you gain.

Price: $15.00

The Farmer is a fictionalized account of how West Central – one of America’s most progressive agricultural cooperatives and the world’s top producers of biodiesel – has integrated The Twelve Core Action Values into its operating philosophy and corporate culture. A great overview that can be used to foster values-based leadership in any organization.

Excerpt from The Farmer:

“Thanks, Gayle,” said Marcia. “If Courage is a decision, then Perseverance is making that decision every day. And you begin with the first pillar, Preparation, because many of the difficulties of life can be anticipated and prepared for. The second pillar is Perspective – choosing to be a cheerful optimist rather than a grouchy pessimist.” Everyone laughed, but to some extent, Randy knew, it was the laughter of people who had to admit to on occasion falling into the latter category.

“The third pillar,” Marcia continued, “is Toughness. It means having a ‘failure is not an option’ sort of attitude about the problems you encounter. And finally, the fourth pillar is Learning. One of the things that I’ve really come to accept as we’ve gone through these values is that we learn more, and grow more, in times of difficulty than we do when everything is going great.”

“One of the things I’ve personally gained from internalizing this value,” Marcia continued, “is that every time things get tough and I refuse to quit, it boosts both my confidence and my pride. I love what it says on the little poster, that every great accomplishment was once the ‘impossible’ dream of a dreamer who refused to quit when the going got tough. I’ve also found that as I overcome the obstacles standing in my way, I think bigger.”