Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me?: A Real-Life Guide for Achieving Success at Work

Terri Jacke is an accomplished coach, speaker, and trainer, and the founder of Inspired Training Institute, Inc. She offers a unique blend of business savvy, perceptiveness, and momentum to the development of executives, business leaders and leadership teams. She works with clients across numerous industries and for companies ranging from small privately-held firms to large Fortune 500 companies to inspire organizations through character, leadership and culture development.

Her first book, Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me?, grew out of her work to better understand how to help people who struggle with difficult coworkers, meaningless work, and lousy work situations. It was 14 years in the making as she analyzed what allowed some people to move gracefully through all of those obstacles to find fulfillment and success while others rebelled, shrank, or got stuck.

Teri’s book and her coaching rely on her BY FABLE model to empower readers to make sense of their workplace experiences and effectively move themselves through the seven stages. Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me? empowers readers to employ the natural sequence of those stages to achieve more fulfillment from their work and greater success at work. Interactive tie-in workshops are available for workplaces to help strengthen their organizational cultures and/or develop stronger teams.

To learn more about Terri, her coaching, and her book, visit https://inspiredtraining.net/.

Live in a Home that Pays You Back: A Complete Guide to Net Zero and Energy-Efficient Homes

Award-winning author and respected housing expert Anna DiSimone wants to take you on a virtual tour of the home of the future. It’s healthier, more comfortable, saves money, and reduces your carbon footprint. Live in a Home that Pays You Back is a reference guide that can be used for years to come. It uncovers every part of the sustainable home, with clear explanations, helpful infographics, and hundreds of follow-up resources.

The book offers a wide range of information for homeowners looking to build or retrofit, including mortgage financing and how to roll retrofit costs into the mortgage. It explains about the health benefits of energy-efficient homes and how this can improve a home’s true cost of ownership. Anna explains many different renewable energy options, using a “whole-house efficiency blueprint” chapter to point out the many places homeowners should consider. Or, if you’re looking to construct your own home, consider the popular “zero energy ready” program and the home building opportunities chapter with instructions for modular, manufactured, log and timber, and prefab home kits.

The book even includes a comprehensive directory of rebates and incentives for all U.S. states and Canada provinces. Find out about cash rebates and financial incentives from utility companies and local municipalities, along with key local government policies such as solar and wind access rights, and net metering laws.

For more information about Ann and Live in a Home that Pays You Back, or to read sample chapters and view the full table of contents, visit https://annadesimone.net/books/live-in-a-home-that-pays-you-back/.