A combination of essays, motivational musings, and action plans makes Tokens and Treasures for Life a fun and interactive way of discovering what you want in your future and determining how to make it come true. Once you have visualized your goals, it is amazing how opportunities arise and things fall into place.
Authors Qunoot Almecci, MS, and Barbara Baethe, EdD, LPC, use their own experience as educators and stories of success from others to create a realistic, practical guide that allows you to dream big but start small.
Almecci and Baethe divide their guide into three distinct sections with six vignettes in each section. The first section, "Tools for Discovery," contains stories about clarity, action, confidence, excellence, performance, and self-worth. Each story is interspersed with questions intended for reflection and meditation and encouragement to form your own action plan based on the lessons.
Section 2, "Inquiry of Balance," and section 3, "Investments to Reinforce," are structured similarly. Almecci and Baethe incorporate cutting-edge psychological research and words of wisdom from Zig Ziglar, Napoleon Hill, and other leaders in the field. Their combined insight will inspire you to begin your own journey of self-discovery.
About the Author: Qunoot Almecci, MS, learned successful habits and planning from her many years as a student. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Temple University and a master's degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Almecci moved to Bangalore, India, to work for Microsoft. She and her husband moved back to the United States in 2013. Almecci now lives in Houston, Texas, and inspires the next generation as the student success coordinator for North American University.
Barbara Baethe, EdD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and worked in education for forty-six years. She has been a teacher, counselor, and administrator at public, private, and correctional education facilities. She now serves as an education consultant and has taught courses at Houston Baptist University, Belhaven Christian College, DeVry University, the University of Phoenix, and North American University.
