Coming Early 2025: Life Skills for the Journey Second Edition
One of the most empowering things an individual can do for themselves and those they love is to make good decisions about their lives and how they want to live. At every moment, we must choose how we will relate to the world around us and what we will do with our lives. Building a brighter future that supports a desired lifestyle requires investing in the present. Your past decisions have determined your current situation. But investing in yourself positively today will create a more successful path on your journey. Being skilled is a decisive step toward achieving goals and finding fulfillment, putting a person in the driver’s seat of their destiny.
Writing this updated version thoroughly provides powerful intellectual teachings with an inside story of faith, truths, and insight into wholeness and how a person moves toward improving their limitations and utilizing areas of personal excellence. Life skills are vital
to being whole and finding unity and harmony within yourself. In the chapter Elevate and Upgrade Your Life into Wholeness, the reader uncovers meaningful commitments to becoming whole and how physical, mental, and spiritual health are significant factors. In Life Skills for the Journey: Identify Essential Life Skills That Matter with 5 Successful Approaches, lessons varied in detail, allowing readers to walk away positively with life-changing ways to improve various aspects of their lives from a pivotal perspective. On that note, revisions will show highlights to freshen viewpoints and provide new impressions. The chapter on Self-Directing Your Knowledge explains how transferring usable skills in different areas relevant to personal growth is critical to continuous learning. The book’s Second Edition, Invest in Yourself to Grow, Elevate, and Upgrade Your Life, drills down for enrichment and goes deeper into an in-depth and comprehensive framework guiding an individual’s profound approach to success by self-investment to further advance in life. Successful people are intentional about achieving their goals. Still, for the ultra-successful, there is a burning ambition and vigorous determination to become the best version of oneself with unwavering belief. Grasp techniques and strategies for unleashing heightened performance to achieve exceptional results. inspirational concepts provide guidance every step of the way, making a person feel assured and confident about his or her journey.
This book offers a robust, motivating, and entertaining conversation necessary in today’s unpredictable world. It makes you feel connected and understood.
Life Skills for the Journey is intended to help an individual look at life in a pivotal review. This book gives you inspirational insight and guidance using life skills for personal and professional growth at any stage of your journey. You will discover new concepts with the transformation of knowledge for self-directed learning and a reframing of your mindset to fresh possibilities. Know the steps needed to increase awareness and identify your strengths. There are 5 successful approaches to essential life skills that matter and are aimed at improving one’s ability for self-development.
Book Reviews
If you want to read the book on organizing your life that you never knew you needed, you can start now with Life Skills for the Journey by Gloria Sloan. This uplifting guide to getting the most out of life clearly highlights the interconnectivity between our thoughts and our behaviors by promoting joy through gratitude, learning, and choosing to actively contribute to our own happiness.
One overarching point stressed throughout the book is that life is a journey and the goal is to learn to enjoy it, even when it gets messy. Sloan stresses the importance of truly accepting your own successes and practicing self-appreciation. Her insights on unbiased self-analysis are especially useful for anyone who leans toward the self-critical.
This book is organized into five main sections, each with a concept, clearly presented and deeply explored. Sloan paces her information beautifully, interspersing quotes from the bible and famous authors, summarizations, life lessons, and questions for consideration. The style allows readers the time to fully absorb the concepts being presented.
Sloan’s well-cultivated advice touches on aspects of business, religion, economics, philosophy, psychology, and more. She provides holistic wisdom rooted in healthy mindsets, beginning with what fulfillment looks like for the reader as an individual and continuing on to delve into the importance of growth mindsets, emergency preparedness, discovering your passions, and so much more.
Life Skills for the Journey is a proclamation to the world. Stop selling yourself short. Stop undervaluing your skills. Learn, grow, and take pride in your accomplishments. This book aims to solidify foundations of confidence by encouraging a shift in rudimentary ideas taken for granted every day.
Review Written By: Book Excellence (www.bookexcellence.com)
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Gloria Sloan’s Life Skills for the Journey is a refreshing and practical guide to understanding and cultivating the essential skills needed for personal growth and a fulfilling life. From the very first chapter, the book draws you in with its relatable tone and actionable advice, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve themselves and navigate life with greater purpose.
The book is centered on the idea that life skills are not just tools for professional success but are also the foundation for emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. Sloan’s approach is both holistic and balanced, addressing multiple aspects of personal development. What I appreciated most was the clear and practical structure—each chapter dives deeply into a specific area, offering not just insights but also real-world applications and strategies to help readers apply these lessons to their own lives.
One of the highlights of the book is Sloan’s ability to connect with readers on a personal level. Her voice feels genuine and encouraging, and it’s clear that she writes from a place of experience and compassion. She doesn’t present herself as someone who has all the answers but as someone who has lived through challenges, learned valuable lessons, and now wants to share those lessons to help others grow.
The five approaches Sloan focuses on are thoughtfully crafted and offer a comprehensive framework for self-improvement. She encourages readers to think deeply about what skills they already have, which ones they can build upon, and how these skills can lead to a more fulfilling life. Her advice is rooted in self-reflection and mindfulness, making it accessible for people at any stage of their journey.
What makes this book stand out is its emphasis on the why and the how. Many self-help books focus heavily on inspirational ideas but fail to provide concrete steps for implementation. Life Skills for the Journey strikes a great balance between inspiration and practicality, offering a combination of research-backed insights, personal stories, and exercises that help readers take meaningful action.
I also appreciated how Sloan ties everything back to the broader purpose of living a life of abundance and wholeness. She frames the development of life skills not as a checklist but as an ongoing process of growth and self-discovery. The book challenges readers to rethink what success and fulfillment mean to them and to actively pursue a life that aligns with their values.
Overall, Life Skills for the Journey is an empowering and thought-provoking read that left me feeling inspired to take a closer look at my own habits and priorities. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to revisit whenever you need a boost of clarity or motivation. I’d highly recommend it to anyone interested in personal growth, whether you’re just starting your journey or looking for new ways to build on the progress you’ve already made. Gloria Sloan has created a timeless resource that’s as insightful as it is practical.
Review Written By: Mental Health Pulp (www.instagram.com/mentalhealthpulp)
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AS SEEN ON
Through my own journey, I have learned how important it is to live deliberately and with a sense of purpose. Abundant Faith is a narrative blend of daily life experiences in a heartfelt memoir. It inspires and encourages one to discover their faith for strength and abundance in life. In the chapter on Wisdom and Faith, I talk about life skills and my own personal development process.
Book Review
Abundant Faith: Secrets to Plenty by Gloria Sloan is an uplifting and deeply spiritual book that invites readers to embrace faith as a guiding force in their lives. What makes this book stand out is Gloria’s ability to weave together her personal experiences, biblical references, and thoughtful reflections in a way that feels both intimate and universally relevant. From the very first chapter, you can sense Gloria’s genuine heart and unwavering belief in God’s power to transform lives. She doesn’t shy away from discussing the hardships she’s faced, and through her vulnerability, she reminds readers that challenges are inevitable, but faith can provide strength, healing, and clarity. Her stories are not just inspiring but also relatable, and they encouraged me to think deeply about my own spiritual journey.
One of the most impactful aspects of the book is how Gloria integrates scripture with her insights. The biblical references are thoughtfully chosen, and she uses them not just as support for her ideas but as tools for readers to reflect on their own relationship with God. Her reflections are grounded in humility and gratitude, which makes the book feel less like a sermon and more like a heartfelt conversation with a trusted friend. The structure of the book is also worth mentioning. It’s designed not only to inspire but to engage. Each chapter includes reflections and questions that encourage you to pause and consider how the themes apply to your own life. Whether you’re reading it on your own, with a partner, or as part of a book club, the book’s format makes it easy to connect with the material on a personal level.
What I appreciated most about Abundant Faith is its message of hope. Gloria doesn’t promise that life will be without struggles, but she shows how faith can help you navigate even the most difficult seasons with grace and perseverance. Her words reminded me of the peace and comfort that can come from trusting in God, even when the path ahead feels uncertain. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking encouragement, whether you’re just starting to explore your faith or looking for a deeper connection with God. It’s a book that you’ll want to return to during challenging times, and its lessons will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading. Gloria Sloan has created a beautiful guide to living with faith, gratitude, and purpose.
Review Written By: Mental Health Pulp (www.instagram.com/mentalhealthpulp)
BOOKS AS A CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR
A Daily Gift of Gratitude is a collection of stories from grateful hearts around the globe. I am a contributing author and my story title is “Abundant Faith and Gratitude”.
Nearly 100 authors from around the globe have brought their perspectives on gratitude to the pages of this book.
Remember…
Gratitude and anxiety can’t be present at the same time. When you focus on gratitude, anxiety loses its hold, and the level of light in your life grows exponentially.
A Daily Gift of Hope is the second book in the Daily Gift Book Series.
The first, A Daily Gift of Gratitude, opened the door for this book. After all, a grateful heart is indeed a hopeful heart.
A Daily Gift of Hope is a collection of nearly 100 personal stories contributed by 77 authors from around the globe who have brought their perspectives, experiences, and hopeful hearts to the pages of this book.
Kindness is the focus of the stories in this, the third book of the Daily Gift Book Series.
The first focused on gratitude, and the second was hope.
In a world filled with trials, confusion, instability, and divisiveness, we need all three of these, especially a little kindness to calm the storms of life.
Many voices have come together to address the need for kindness. Some will define it, and some will provide it. We hope you will relate to these stories and share a little kindness with others in your life.
