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Daring to Live

Author : Sheri Hunter
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493421417
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Live written by Sheri Hunter and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband, Mannard, unexpectedly passed away at just 50 years of age, Sheri Hunter was devastated. With her whole world falling down around her, she turned to her friends. Years before, she and these Dare Divas had gone on a whitewater rafting trip. Now they sought out other adventures--zip-lining, skydiving, mountain climbing, and more. Through these death-defying activities and the unwavering support of her friends, Sheri slowly found the strength to move forward in life. More than just a memoir, this empowering female travelogue pairs emotionally resonant, confessional storytelling with spiritual takeaways, challenging readers to engage fully in their own lives, surround themselves with friends who will support them, and face life's challenges with courage and faith. If you've ever experienced a sudden loss or upheaval in life, Sheri's story will reassure you that even if life as you knew it is over, the future God has for you is always full of new adventures.

Daring to Live on the Edge

Author : Loren Cunningham
Publisher : YWAM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780927545068
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Live on the Edge written by Loren Cunningham and published by YWAM Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Loren Cunningham's dream began with a vision--waves of young people moving out across the continents announcing the Good News of Jesus Christ. Decades later, Loren's vision has grown into an interdenominational movement of Christians from around the world who are dedicated to presenting the gospel to this generation. Loren speaks and teaches internationally, and his missionary travels have taken him to every nation on earth. Loren Cunningham illustrates that trusting God in every area, including finances, is not just for those Christians called into "full-time" ministry. Every Christian, regardless of vocation, can enter into the adventure of living by faith by firmly committing to obey God's will. A Christian who has experienced God's provision will be spoiled for the ordinary.

Daring to Live by Every Word

Author : Melody Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816366323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Live by Every Word written by Melody Mason and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An inspiring book about living out the victorious Christian life"--

The Exquisite Risk

Author : Mark Nepo
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307422003
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Exquisite Risk written by Mark Nepo and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh perspective on the art of being alive and essential insight into how we can minimize what stands between us and an authentic experience of life, in the spirit of works by Deepak Chopra and Ram Dass “Once again, Mark Nepo draws us to the heart of what matters. He illuminates love with the light of his own understanding.”—Marianne Williamson In these fast-paced times, the exquisite risk facing each of us every day is to slow down so that we may experience life rather than simply manage it. In The Exquisite Risk, poet and teacher Mark Nepo encourages readers to become quiet enough and open enough to listen to what truly matters—our own hearts, our loved ones, the wonders of nature—in order to live a life with nothing held back. In rich, lyrical prose, Nepo shares his own spiritual path, including a battle with illness that helped him understand how daring to embrace all that life has to offer can bring us to a deeper appreciation of its meaning and beauty.

Messy Faith

Author : A. J. Gregory
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 9781441201942
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Messy Faith written by A. J. Gregory and published by Revell. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most of us trudge toward the cross with the best intentions, at times our lives just don't pan out the way we've planned. Messy Faith addresses the muddled adventure that we call "working out our salvation." It is being sure and unsure, whole and broken, warring, losing, and winning. It is being right and being wrong and having no clue, but believing anyway. And it is trusting in God to perfect the final product of our flawed, human lives. Author A. J. Gregory explores her own personal experiences, and those of a handful of flawed biblical heroes and others who have endured painful or simply ordinary realities in the journey to belief. This honest book will comfort anyone who has had a less-than-straight path to belief and those who continue to struggle.

A Daring Life

Author : Carolyn J. Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032956
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Daring Life written by Carolyn J. Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today's greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909-2001). Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. This biography follows this twentieth-century path while telling Welty's story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life. The chapters that follow focus on her education and her most important teachers; her life during the Depression and how her career, just getting started, is interrupted by World War II; and how she shows independence and courage through her writing during the turbulent civil rights period of the 1950s and 1960s. After years of care giving and the deaths of all her immediate family members, Welty persevered and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist's Daughter. Her popularity soared in the 1980s after she delivered the three William E. Massey Lectures to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard, and the lectures were later published as One Writer's Beginnings and became a New York Times bestseller. This biography intends to introduce readers to one of the most significant women writers of the past century, a prolific author who transcends her Mississippi roots and has written short stories, novels, and non-fiction that will endure for all time.

Daring to Live

Author : Michelle M. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940769554
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Live written by Michelle M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, so carefully crafted, are expressions that obviously come from both the mind and the heart. As we read and ponder on them, we can accompany Michelle on her journey of grief and in doing so find a helpful resource for our own journeys.After significant losses in our lives, we naturally yearn for healing and wholeness, for the restoration of faith and hope. Michelle has given us a gift that will encourage us to be honest and transparent, and allow ourselves to grieve in healthy ways, and eventually move forward toward a confident future. We will also do others a special favor by sharing these writings with them.

Daring to Ask for More

Author : Melody Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816356249
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Ask for More written by Melody Mason and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daring Greatly

Author : Brené Brown
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670923532
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Daring Greatly written by Brené Brown and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision in Daring Greatly that encourages us to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly and courageously. 'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly' -Theodore Roosevelt Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. Challenging everything we think we know about vulnerability, Dr. Brené Brown dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that vulnerability is in fact a strength, and when we shut ourselves off from revealing our true selves we grow distanced from the things that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research, across the home, relationships, work, and parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous; to show up and let ourselves be seen, even when there are no guarantees. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. 'Brilliantly insightful. I can't stop thinking about this book' -Gretchen Rubin Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Her groundbreaking work was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday, NPR, and CNN. Her TED talk is one of the most watched TED talks of all time. Brené is also the author of The Gifts of Imperfection and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't).

Daring to Hope

Author : Katie Davis Majors
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0735290601
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Hope written by Katie Davis Majors and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for? When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him. Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible—the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn’t come. It’s about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It’s about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God’s goodness in the least expected places. Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You’ll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you’ll hear God’s whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.

Dare to Lead

Author : Brené Brown
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399592520
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Dare to Lead written by Brené Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start. Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.” Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.

Fierce Mercy

Author : Abby Johnson
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 149343411X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Fierce Mercy written by Abby Johnson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power of God's fierce yet tender mercy to transform her life. But she never imagined what could happen once she allowed that very mercy to infiltrate her life and spill out into a hurting world. In Fierce Mercy, Abby calls you to experience a transformation of your own. Against the backdrop of her first decade involved in the pro-life movement, Abby helps you discover God's unrestrained mercy at work in your own life and take steps toward becoming a channel of that life-changing mercy in the world around you. She shows you how to model God's mercy, freely offer mercy to those who seem undeserving, respond with mercy when others err or offend, and bear witness to God's unrestrained compassion so that others may know him. This is Abby's challenge to you: dare to do what is hard, what is right, and what is good. And do all of it in love.

Walk Out Walk On

Author : Margaret Wheatley
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609941136
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Walk Out Walk On written by Margaret Wheatley and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an era of increasingly complex problems, fewer and fewer resources to address them, and failing solutions. Is it possible to find viable solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? This inspiring book takes readers on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have “walked out” of limiting beliefs and assumptions and “walked on” to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need. In India, we meet people from Shikshantar, a community that is rejecting the modern culture of money, with its emphasis on self-interest and scarcity, in favor of a gift culture based on generosity and reciprocity. In Zimbabwe, we discover the capacity people have to adapt and invent new ways of surviving and thriving in the face of total systems collapse. Through essays, stories, and beautiful color photographs, Wheatley and Frieze immerse us in these communities that are accomplishing extraordinary things by relying on everyone to be an entrepreneur, a leader, an artist. From Mexico to Greece, from Columbus, Ohio, to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that every community has within itself the ingenuity, intelligence, and inventiveness to solve the seemingly insolvable. “It’s almost like we discovered a gift inside ourselves,” one Brazilian said, “something that was already there.” “This book gives insight and beauty to the new world beyond consumerism and all of its side effects. Written with poetic and reflective grace, it is an intimate journey through communities that are creating a future with their own hearts, hands, and relationships.” —Peter Block, author of Community and coauthor of The Abundant Community The Enhanced Edition includes 25 minutes of animation, video, and audio. The animation shows the “Two Loops Theory of Change” with a voiceover from co-author Deborah Frieze. Three videos show inspirational “Walk On” communities in Brazil, South Africa, and India. This edition also includes the “Walk Out Walk On” theme song. Margaret Wheatley cofounded and led the Berkana Institute, a global foundation that partners with people developing healthy and resilient communities. Deborah Frieze succeeded her as Berkana’s president and created the Berkana Exchange with many of the people described in this book. Margaret is the author of several books, including Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way, Turning to One Another, Finding Our Way, and Perseverance.

Daring Greatly in 30 Minutes

Author : Garamond Press
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1623151406
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Daring Greatly in 30 Minutes written by Garamond Press and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring Greatly ...in 30 minutes is the essential guide to quickly understanding the life-changing lessons outlined in Brené Brown's best-selling book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. In Daring Greatly, Brené Brown argues that by learning to be vulnerable, people can find deeper connections with the people around them and improve their relationships. Daring Greatly aims to prove that vulnerability is not a negative trait, but that we should have the courage to embrace imperfections if we want to be content and live a more fulfilling life. Daring Greatly posits that if people can learn to practice vulnerability, they can find deeper connections in their relationships—and, perhaps most important, they can establish compassionate and loving relationships with themselves. Understand the key ideas of Daring Greatly in a fraction of the time, with tools such as: Concise synopsis, which examines the principles of Daring Greatly In-depth analysis of key concepts from Daring Greatly, including an explanation of the "Wholehearted," shame resilience, and embracing vulnerability Insightful background on thought leader Brené Brown and the origins of Daring Greatly Key takeaways for utilizing Brown's theories to live a worthy, connected, and authentic life Extensive recommended reading list and bibliography relevant to Daring Greatly As with all books in the 30 Minute Expert Series, this book is intended to be purchased alongside the reviewed title, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.

Daring

Author : Gail Sheehy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062291718
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Daring written by Gail Sheehy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel. Always on the cutting edge of social issues, Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a “man’s world.” Daring is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy’s tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker, the charismatic creator of New York magazine. As well, Sheehy recounts her audacious pursuit and intimate portraits of many twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, and the world-altering attraction between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it all—career, love, children, friends, social significance—and lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes, the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent, liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness, even in the shadow of illness. Now stronger than ever, Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to today’s young women. Her fascinating, no-holds-barred story is a testament to guts, resilience, smarts, and daring, and offers a bold perspective on all of life’s passages.

Daring to Drive

Author : Manal Sharif
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476793026
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Daring to Drive written by Manal Sharif and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.

Follow Me

Author : Ryan Bash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490555768
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Follow Me written by Ryan Bash and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow me. With just two simple words, Jesus altered the course of twelve lives forever. With an extended hand and a gleam in His eye, he invited these men to step out into a life of true adventure: a life fraught with storms, imprisonment, miracles, beatings, feasts, fights, laughter, tears, trials ... and victory. He taught them, prayed for them, challenged them, and comforted them; and when His time came to return to the Father, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower them to follow in His steps. His ministry would now become their ministry; his mission, their mission. And so like Him, they would face the scorn of a world in rebellion against God. Like Him, they would pour out their lives for the sake of the lost and broken. Like Him, they were obedient, even unto death.I know what you're thinking: here comes another guilt trip! Many of us, if we're impacted by such challenges at all, have trained ourselves to be satisfied with simply feeling bad about our low standard of discipleship. We read a book or hear a sermon which challenges us to follow Christ, and we agree. The problem is, seldom do we know what to do about it. We may pray a little harder for a few days, maybe read a little more Scripture (both great ideas, by the way!) for a week. But in the end, we are no more following Jesus than were the disciples before they stepped off their boats and out of their prior circumstances. So what can we do?This book serves as a starting point for you to discover the answer. What follows is not a deep, theological treatise on what it means to be a Christian; rather, it is a practical guide for all who wish to truly follow Jesus, but don't quite know where to begin. Whether you are new to the faith, or you simply recognize that, even after years in the church, your stated beliefs have not led to real transformation in your life, this book was written for you. We ought to take seriously the words of Jesus, when He said, "if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23, NIV). Do you really believe that, and all that it implies? If so - or even if you're unsure, but at least interested - keep reading.