You check your bank account and the numbers don't make sense. You make decent money. You know what a budget is. You've tried apps, spreadsheets, no-spend months. And somehow, at the end of every month, you're still wondering where it all went.This isn't a discipline problem. It's a brain problem. And once you understand the difference, everything changes.The Spending Loop is a practical, compassionate guide to the real reasons smart, capable people can't stop overspending, ...

Your life is a project. Let God lead it.When failure occurs or tragedy strikes, we struggle to make sense of it. Divine interruptions can sometimes leave us feeling confused. From Genesis to Revelation, God uses conflict as a vehicle for growth.Matthew A. Thomas understands there is more behind every situation than what we can see at first. Completing Project Me is an invitation to understand how God uses challenging experiences to make our lives richer. Learn to:

This is an odd story…and not a story.It is both truth, and fiction.What follows is what one foolish man wrote to one beautiful woman in a quest to win her heart. If it seems not to follow the course of any knownwritten format, it is because the heart follows no known format itself.The heart simply wants what the heart wants.The reader may decide what became of those two hearts.Because, you see, the book itself IS The pickup line...

Written for US workers without employer pensions.Most retirement advice was written for people with pensions. If you don't have one, the standard rules -- save a million dollars, replace 80% of your income -- were built for someone else's life.The starting point here is where most people land: a 401k they may or may not be maximizing, a Social Security estimate they've never looked at closely, and a vague sense that the math might not be working in their favor. The real cal...

You know you should negotiate. You've rehearsed what to say. And then someone offers you a number and you hear yourself say "that sounds great" before your brain catches up.That's not a confidence problem. It's a nervous system problem.The Uncomfortable Conversation: Negotiation for People Who Hate Conflict is for anyone who finds salary negotiation genuinely terrifying rather than merely uncomfortable. Whether you freeze when an offer lands, accept whatever your boss says ...

Most career advice is written for people who are just starting out. It talks about working hard, building skills, and showing up. But somewhere around year five or ten, a lot of people do all of that and still stop moving. The reviews stay strong. The feedback stays vague. And the promotions go to someone else.What actually happens at mid-career is different from what most career advice accounts for, and the frustration comes from applying the right advice to the wrong problem. Wor...

You became a consultant because you are good at solving complex problems. Not because you wanted to spend your mornings making cold calls or your evenings working a room at networking events.But nobody told you how to get clients any other way.Sell by Writing: Get Consulting Clients Without Pitching or Prospecting is for introverted consultants and coaches who are excellent at the actual work and exhausted by the sales methods they have been told to use. The book builds the...

Explore and experience the joy we have in Christ from the wisdom of Jonathan Edwards.“The enjoyment of [God] is…the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.”—Jonathan EdwardsAs one of history’s greatest theologians, Jonathan Edwards had a singular passion motivating his work: that all people find their joy in God. God is the highest good, the source of all joy and happiness that can satisfy our deepest longings.The Jonathan Edwards ...

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included in this volume - writings and speeches from both well-known and obscure early American thinkers - show that religion played a prominent yet fractious role in the era of the American Revolution.

A deep dive into how our precious health data is slipping away and the paths to reclaiming it.Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. While this can be helpful for health agencies to improve public health and to us to perform better at sports, it all comes at a cost.In a world of increased surveillance, tech companies and cybercriminals have the abilit...

Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable,...

Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into the ruthless activities of dangerous cartel activit...