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This book will start you on your journey to becoming a more empowered and assertive person. If you find that you just don't say what you need to, and keep repeating the same passive self-effacing behavior, then this book if for you. The aim of this book is to give helpful and clear guidelines for becoming a more assertive person at work. Assertiveness At Work outlines WHY some of us aren't naturally assertive, and how our mind-set can be our biggest ally or our worst enemy in this area. This book outlines practical steps and tools on HOW you can work on your mind-set and become a more assertive you. The goal is assertiveness with dignity. You have a right to expect respect from others, and your opinion at work has as much worth and value as others. Inside The Assertiveness Compass, you'll discover:A comprehensive introduction to assertiveness, including what it is, the barriers that are preventing you from achieving it, and how developing this essential skill will benefit you personally and professionally.How to set boundaries, handle difficult situations, and resolve conflict with calmness and diplomacy.Compelling techniques you can start implementing right now to express yourself clearly, respectfullyThe secret behind assertiveness is to stop pleasing people and learn to express your thoughts without worrying about what others will think of them. This book will teach you this and how to do it all without offending everyone around you.

This book is the second in a series about how I learned some of the most important lessons in life. For me many of those lessons happened while I was in the navy. That should be understandable because that was the first time I was away from home, still in my late teens but on my own out in the world away from the comfortable and secure surroundings I grew up in. This book covers the time period when I was still new in the navy, going to various schools before I would be of any real use. It's not really about the navy as much as it is about the people. What people do is where you learn a lot about life.

In hiding on planet earth. He becomes one of us, lives as one of us, until the day he is called home to rescue the conquered galactic empire he left behind.

I was a young man of about twenty five. Up to then, I had worked hard and applied myself. I had been taught honesty and hard work would make things go well. That's how it was up until this point in my life. I found myself in an intolerable situation that caused a near mental breakdown. But I was rescued at the right moment, in a most unexpected way. Life has been very good ever since. Sometimes life's lessons are hard learned. Sometimes, you are the teacher and you don't even know it. We are being watched over and directed. Sometimes life seems like bad luck. But maybe it isn't. Maybe there's a purpose to it. Sometimes, even though you might be saying to yourself, "Why Me!" Maybe it really isn't about you. This is the story about how I found myself in a situation like this. Everything was going wrong. Nothing was right. But it all changed one day, and after a time, I understood why it happened. It wasn't about me. It was bigger than that.

Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volume provides readers who are unfamiliar with Korea's heritage insight into how Korea became a divided nation engulfed in international geopolitical tensions, providing expert analysis of this rendered nation's background, modern circumstances, and future prospects.The Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia is home to a country that was divided at the end of the Second World War after its liberation from Japanese colonialism. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years soon spawned a very hot Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volume provides readers who are unfamiliar with Korea's heritage with insight into how Korea became a divided nation engulfed in international geopolitical tensions, providing expert analysis of this rendered nation's background, modern circumstances, and future prospects.After a survey of Korea's geographic setting and historic legacy, Olsen details the circumstances of Korea's liberation and subsequent division. Drawing on that background, he analyzes the evolution of both South Korea and North Korea as separate states, surveying the politics, economics, and foreign policy of each. What are the key issues for each state from an international perspective? What are the prospects for reuniting the two into one nation? What challenges would a united Korea be likely to face? Olsen determines that stability in Korea is essential to future peace in the region. He concludes that a successful move toward unification is the best way to resolve issues connected to North Korea's nuclear agenda.