About the Authors
Jeff Davidson, the Work-Life Balance Expert®, has written over fifty mainstream books, is a preeminent authority on time management, and is an electrifying professional speaker, making nearly eight hundred presentations since 1985 to clients such as Kaiser Permanente, IBM, American Express, Lufthansa, Swissôtel, America Online, RE/Max, USAA, Worthington Steel, and the World Bank. He is the author of Breathing Space and Simpler Living. His 60 Second Series with Adams Media, including the 60 Second Organizer, 60 Second Self-Starter, and 60 Second Innovator, are popular titles in China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, Spain, France, and Brazil. Jeff has been widely quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. Cited by Sharing Ideas magazine as a “consummate speaker,” Jeff believes that career professionals today in all industries have a responsibility to achieve their own sense of work-life balance, and he supports that quest through his website BreathingSpace.com.
Chris Widener is a successful businessman, author, speaker, and television host. He has authored over 450 articles and numerous books; he has also produced many CDs and DVDs on leadership, motivation, and success. Widener was previously the host of the national interview show Made for Success and cohost of True Performance with Zig Ziglar. As a public speaker, he has presented to organizations such as General Electric, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard School of Business.
Chris Widener is a successful businessman, author, speaker, and television host. He has authored over 450 articles and numerous books; he has also produced many CDs and DVDs on leadership, motivation, and success. Widener was previously the host of the national interview show Made for Success and cohost of True Performance with Zig Ziglar. As a public speaker, he has presented to organizations such as General Electric, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard School of Business.
Dianna Booher is an American author and communication expert. She is also the chief executive of Booher Research Institute, a Colleyville, Texas–based company that offers communication consulting, executive coaching, and publishing strategies for Fortune 500 organizations and nonprofit organizations. She is also the founder of Booher Consultants, a communication training firm, that has worked for Fortune 500 organizations and governmental agencies since 1980.
Marcia Wieder, CEO and founder of Dream University, has been coaching, training, and speaking for twenty years. Her inspiring message has touched audiences from fifty to five thousand. The author of over a dozen books, she has appeared on Oprah and Today, is the personal dream coach to Jack Canfield, stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
Bob Proctor has focused his entire agenda around helping people create lush lives of prosperity, rewarding relationships, and spiritual awareness. After rising to the position of vice president of sales at Nightingale-Conant, he established his own seminar company. He now travels the globe, teaching thousands of people how to believe in and act upon the greatness of their own minds.
Chris Widener is a successful businessman, author, speaker, and television host. He has authored over 450 articles and numerous books; he has also produced many CDs and DVDs on leadership, motivation, and success. Widener was previously the host of the national interview show Made for Success and cohost of True Performance with Zig Ziglar. As a public speaker, he has presented to organizations such as General Electric, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard School of Business.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) was a motivational speaker, teacher, and trainer who traveled the world over delivering his messages of humor, hope, and encouragement. He wrote over thirty celebrated books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, family, and success, including See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar’s Leadership and Success Series, and Developing the Qualities of Success. His books have been translated into over thirty-eight languages. He traveled over five-million miles across the world delivering powerful life-improvement messages, cultivating the energy of change. Recognized by his peers as the quintessential motivational genius of our times, Zig Ziglar’s unique delivery earned him many honors, and today he is still considered one of the most versatile authorities on the science of human potential.
Chris Widener is a successful businessman, author, speaker, and television host. He has authored over 450 articles and numerous books; he has also produced many CDs and DVDs on leadership, motivation, and success. Widener was previously the host of the national interview show Made for Success and cohost of True Performance with Zig Ziglar. As a public speaker, he has presented to organizations such as General Electric, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard School of Business.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.