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Retirement Can Be a Time of Fulfillment

Enriching Your RetirementAre you approaching retirement age? Have you just recently retired? Are you one of the thousands who retire every day wondering what they’ll do with all of the free time? In this easy to read and relatable book, the author shares numerous testimonials from people she’s personally interviewed who share your concerns about reaching this juncture in life. This book offers insight into the struggles and victories they’ve experienced with these issues. You’ll learn how they’ve found new interests and are living their retirements with more joy than they’d previously thought possible.

After 25 plus years of working inside of a structured environment, the sudden change to retirement freedom isn’t always comfortable. Especially when the majority of hours spent awake were hours spent at work. Even the necessary structure required to get personal things done on weekends and evenings fed into a reliance on schedules and calendar appointments.
Habits acquired over a time period probably exceeding fifty years, including time spent during high school and college, can be hard to break. Dependency on that structure, and its sudden absence, leave many feeling that they’re without a purpose.  The author’s comfortable and sometimes humorous style of conveying the information you need to move forward, makes this a uniquely enjoyable read.
Enriching Your Retirement covers topics that will get you to take a deeper look into your own life and weigh the pros and cons of:
• Where and how you want to live?
• What kind of lifestyle you want to pursue?
• How you’ll discover new things you might like to try?
• Why your attitude about change sabotages your happiness?

Follow the advice in this book and in a few short weeks you’ll begin to feel a difference, a relief from the pressure of facing the unknown. You’ll be able to look at your future through new eyes. Build your bucket list and start living it now. Tomorrow isn’t a promise, make every day count.

What’s stopping you from having a positive outlook and great expectations for your remaining years?

Rafael Bettencourt’s eBook is free today!

Free today on Amazon Rafael Bettencourt outlines the essential steps needed to help you unleash your inner greatness and live a fulfilling life.

Decoding Happiness: How can I be happy by Rafael Bettencourt

Rafael Bettencourt Decoding HappinessLEARN: How to become happy

While being happy is a natural goal that drives all humans, the truth is that most people do not know exactly what happiness is – which means that they do not know what they are really pursuing and how they can accomplish it. That’s why frustration is such a common feeling – people want to be happy now but have all kinds of misconceptions about what being happy actually is.

That’s why DECODING HAPPINESS – 10 STEPS TO UNLEASH YOUR INNER GREATNESS AND LIVE A FULFILLING LIFE asks two very important questions:

What if happiness is far simpler and more achievable than we are often led to believe?  And what if our ability to experience joy and to welcome greatness into our life is the only key that we really need to be happy – and that we are already born with?  More than asking these questions, this book offers a simple yet powerful answer – which is based on 10 essential steps that you can easily follow every day to be as happy as you’ve always wanted to be.

Here is what you will learn in this book:

  • What true happiness actually looks like
  • How to stay positive
  • Different ways to be happy
  • How to become the unique character your are supposed to be
  • How to be happy every day
  • A step by step guide to apply all these principles to your everyday life

As simple as they may sound, this book proposes that these are the very accessible but life-changing principles through which you can become a happy, balanced and successful individual.

In short this book answers the question how to be happy in life and its message is that happiness is a mindset that you can practice through these steps – so that you can unleash all the happiness and greatness that lies within you.

More about the author, Rafael Bettencourt:

Rafael BettencourtRafael’s journey began with a choice, the choice that life has much more to offer.
The choice that life lies in his own hands. The choice he will change.

Rafael grew up in a small village in West Germany. His loving family took care of him and gave him the best conditions for a bright future. But something was missing.
In his past, he never had the urge to leave his comfort zone. In a small village, it is easy to get to know people, because everybody knows each other, so he never learned this task.
Then he moved to a different city to study in college, and everything changed.
He didn’t know how to talk to strangers,
how to be comfortable in such a strange environment.
Everything felt weird and uncomfortable, which led him to stay on his own. After a long time of feeling lonely and depressed, he made the choice to change his life.

He stepped out of his comfort zone often. It became one of his daily habits to give people high fives on the street, to approach strangers everywhere he goes, to walk through life with a big smile on his face, and to enjoy his life, instead of staying in his head.

Today, he is an entrepreneur and author, has a beautiful woman by his side, is travelling the world, and is enjoying every moment he has in this beautiful world.
It became his ultimate goal in life to share what he experienced.
He wants to show people there is much more in life than average.

There lies Greatness within all of us, and everybody can build the life of his/her dreams that he is supposed to live.

 

Free contemporary romance available now!

 Contemporary Romance by Melissa FosterSEIZED BY LOVE is a USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Lizzie Barber runs a successful flower shop by day and secretly hosts the Naked Baker webcast at night to help pay for her younger sister’s education. To keep friends and family from finding out about her sexy secret, she’s put her social life on hold until her sister’s education is paid off and she can stop filming the webcast.

Blue Ryder fell hard for Lizzie Barber when he met her a year ago, and he hasn’t been able to get her off his mind since. Everything about the feisty little brunette, from her tight bod to her seductive smile, cuts straight to his heart. Though Lizzie has turned down every invitation he’s extended–Blue is not about to give up trying.

Renovating Lizzie’s kitchen brings Blue further into Lizzie’s life, and the oven is not the only thing heating up. One night and one powerful kiss changes everything. But when Lizzie’s secret is revealed and the safe bubble she’s hidden in shatters, true love may not be enough to put the pieces back together.

More about the author of this contemporary romance story, Melissa Foster

contemporary romance author, Melissa FosterNEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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Melissa writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa’s fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summer, Harborside Nights, and the Wild Boys After Dark. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented. She is the founder of the World Literary Café. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success.

Melissa has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Her interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and visiting Cape Cod.

Melissa is available to chat with book clubs and welcomes comments and emails from her readers. Visit Melissa on social media or her personal website.

“Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!” -NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely

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“What sets Melissa Foster apart are her compelling characters who you care about… desperately. I dare you to read the first chapter and not be hooked.” NYT bestseller, M.J. Rose

“You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that’s fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won’t want to stop reading. Every book’s a winner!” New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak

“Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Fated For Love was amazing. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis’ books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness.” –Books Like Breathing

Comments from Melissa:

Hello everyone! I grew up in Maryland with my mother, a slew of wonderful brothers, and never a shortage of friends. I am passionate about writing, reading, living healthy, and helping others do the same, and enjoy just about anything outdoors (and anything chocolate!). I love to chat with readers and book clubs, and welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me. You can also catch me on Facebook.com/MelissaFosterAuthor.

Thanks for reading!

 

Read the complete Black Room Saga

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE STONE MAN, SHORTLISTED FOR AUDIBLE UK’S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015

Black Room

There are hangovers, there are bad hangovers, and then there’s waking up inside someone else’s head.

The morning after a boozy night before comes with the rudest of awakenings for young bartender Charlie Wilkes. Instead of finding himself in his bedroom, he awakes in a prison consisting of moving, undulating black walls and a huge glowing screen that seems to float in thin air. But the prison isn’t a prison, and the screen isn’t a screen; incredibly, he is somehow inside the mind of a young woman – Minnie – and the screen is actually a projection of what she sees.

How did he end up in the Black Room? What has happened to his life? How is it that he recognises Minnie, feels a bond of some sort with her …even though they’ve never met? Can he exist inside the mind of a troubled, terrified, but beautiful woman with secrets of her own? Most important of all, can he ever get out? 

Uncertain whether he’s even real or if he is just a figment of his host’s imagination, Charlie and Minnie must work together – and learn the secret of their strange connection – if he is to find a way out of The Black Room, a place where even the light of the screen goes out every time Minnie closes her eyes…

IN THE DARKNESS, THAT’S WHERE I’LL KNOW YOU tells the complete story of THE BLACK ROOM PARTS ONE TO FOUR all in one book, and contains all of the adventures of Charlie and Minnie. All the answers are revealed in a story guaranteed to keep the reader on the edge of their seat.

Bobby Adair’s Black Virus is free today!

In Bobby Adair’s Black Virus, people are dying by the millions and safety lies far from the city, but just getting out will be tougher than anyone knows.

Black Virus by Bobby Adair

bobby adairAlienated in a world where he doesn’t fit in, Christian Black survives because he’s different. Then the virus came, and made the world turn different, too.

Now people are dying by the millions. Food supplies are short. Riots are blazing through the streets, and Christian’s only goal is to keep his family alive. But safety lies far from the city, and just getting out will be tougher than anyone knows.

 

 

 

About the author, Bobby Adair:

Bobby AdairAfter rewarding and successful careers in widow bilking, candy stealing, and puppy punting, Bobby served for a time in the peas corps. That last one was an accident of not paying attention. He thought he was joining the Peace Corp and instead found himself shacked up with migrant farm workers harvesting tiny vegetables.

It wasn’t until the winter of ’83 when the migrants were snowed in and forced to eat a three-legged transient in order to survive that Bobby began an introspective journey that led him to the summits of average-height mountains, through semi-arid deserts, and across relatively narrow oceans, that he discovered that the word introspection didn’t mean what he thought it did. So, he sat down on a heavily trafficked thoroughfare in Bangalore, India and thought about things for a while.

Affluent Indians with high-tech jobs often offered to lend him assistance and kindly left him with enough Rupees to buy fried-bug sandwiches and used apple cores. His hair grew long, and his beard turned scraggly. His clothes wore thin. Puny parasitic insects befriended him in one-sided relationships.

Then one day, a dark-skinned man with dreadlocks and a New Jersey accent came and squatted beside Bobby on the road and asked him what he was doing among the beggars and stray animals. Bobby told him that he was on a journey of the mind and was searching for a direction in a life that seemed to have no meaning.

Dreadlock Man laughed and laughed.

Bobby asked, “Why are you laughing?”

Dreadlock Man said, “You’re a writer, you idiot. Stop sitting on a curb doing nothing and go write something.” Then he smiled and walked away.

After sitting on the curb begging for Rupees for another thirteen years while his head told him that Dreadlock’s prediction made no sense, Bobby couldn’t overcome the contrary certainty in his heart that Dreadlock Man had spoken true. He had to be right. Bobby realized, he had to write.

So, he did.

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