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The Trap of Success: A Brutally Candid Guide to Overcoming Your Fears, Finding Significance, and Attaining Profound Successby Gene Hammett

This book is NOT about building a wildly successful business in a traditional sense. And it’s certainly NOT about “How I made millions, and you can too.”

This book was written for those that want to unlock their highest potential. To make his point, the author, Gene Hammett, shares the hidden message that he found in losing millions on one day. That “message” is exactly what he failed to understand in his climb to traditional success. This book gives you the heartbreaking story of losing it all and rebuilding back his life with the courage to create significance.

Have you ever been so comfortable in a situation that you stop growing? Have you ever reached your goals for success–the money, the prestige, the stuff–yet felt unfulfilled in your work and your life? That’s the trap of conventional, incremental success.

The Trap of Success takes you beyond that comfort zone so you can start your journey to significance and exponential success. This book is for visionary leaders–and those who want to be–who feel the thirst to achieve breakthroughs within themselves and in their impact on the world. It will help you grow to be the person you know you can be.

Discover the stories of real people who have faced moments of choice that caused them to dig deep, find their courage, and create a life and career of meaning. And learn how significance and exponential success dance together once you get past the limited thinking that got you this far–once you escape your own trap of success.

Here is what some early readers have said about this book:

“Probably the single most important lesson I have ever learned in my life was how to get outside of my “Comfort Zone.” I only wish that Gene had written his book when I was struggling so much. You have the opportunity to Avoid the Success Trap by reading this book. I promise you won’t be disappointed.”
— Howard Behar, President Starbucks, retired

“A friend once told me that success traps are harder to get out of than failure traps. This is brilliantly illustrated in Gene Hammett’s raw and authentic book. Be careful: this might just change your life!”
— Greg McKeown, New York Times Bestselling Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What a fascinating story! Gene Hammett’s journey is inspiring to us all. He shares the common enemies that we must overcome to keep growing.”
— Dee Ann Turner, VP of Enterprise Social Responsibility of Chick-fil-a
and Best Selling Author of It’s My Pleasure

“As Gene Hammett shows in this terrific book, we must have the courage to break from what we have always done to create more impact in this world. Stop waiting and start doing.”
— Dr. Jonah Berger, Marketing Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Best Selling Author of Contagious and Invisible Influence

“Gene Hammett works from the depths of his heart, from a place of openness with the facts instead of his hopes, and with a massive body of knowledge gathered from his experiences and the countless interviews he’s conducted with leaders. What you get with The Trap of Success is a great tool for getting yourself out of your own traps and back on the path to what matters most.”
— Chris Brogan, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Freaks Shall Inherit
the Earth

“For many of us, we’ve been taught to follow the beaten path because it’s supposed to be safe. Gene’s candid stories around losing millions and his path back coupled with the experiences and insights from clients as well as guests on his popular podcast, Leaders in the Trenches, teach and inspire you to overcome the fear that keeps you from living a professional life of significance and impact.”
— Jordan Harbinger, Host of The Art of Charm Podcast

Driver 8: A Post-Apocalyptic Novelby G. Michael Hopf

Nineteen years have past since a nuclear world war wiped out the United States, leaving nothing but charred and ruined cities.

Out of the ashes, small pockets of survivors banded together to forge new societies in the few areas not ravaged by the nuclear holocaust.

One community has not only risen but thrived. Known as The Collective, they pride themselves on an orderly system of government with a functioning infrastructure. The citizenry owe their success to their founder The Number One, who presides over them with an iron fist.

Life in The Collective centers on contribution and purpose. All are assigned responsibilities and if one cannot fulfill them, they are cast out.

The most coveted but dangerous responsibility is that of a driver.

Drivers ride the lonely and barren roads scavenging and exploring the outer reaches. Over the years only one has emerged as a legend and his name is Driver 8.

The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generationby Matthew Rozell

Dying for freedom isn’t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.

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— “You flew with what I would call ‘controlled fear’. You were scared stiff, but it was controlled. My ball turret gunner–he couldn’t take it anymore… I guess he was right. He’s dead now. But he had lost control of the fear. He never got out of that ball turret; he died in that ball turret.” –B-24 bombardier

How soon we forget. Or perhaps, we were never told. That is understandable, given what they saw.

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— “I spent a lot of time in hospitals. I had a lot of trouble reconciling how my mother died [of a cerebral hemorrhage] from the telegram she opened, saying I was [shot down and] “missing in action”. I didn’t explain to her the fact that ‘missing in action’ is not necessarily ‘killed in action’. You know? I didn’t even think about that. How do you think you feel when you find out you killed your mother?” –B-24 bombardier

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At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a history teacher tracks down the veterans with a connection to “Hometown, USA” who fought the war in the air over Europe, men who were tempered in the tough times of the Great Depression and forged in battle. He rescues and resurrects firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
Here are the stories that the magazine could not tell, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today.

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Li Bai’s Shadowby Lee J. Mavin

It appears I have undoubtedly been mysteriously transported to a young child’s bedroom, her name is Caitlin and she is of course very fond of my poetry. However despite this unusual occurrence I miss my homelands, dreadfully. This dry and scorching hot city, that she calls Sydney is beyond any distance I can comprehend, but I have always been a traveler, so I am contempt with the path I have stumbled upon. Her mother has faded into the shadow, so I must guide her, keep her safe and share a glass or two of good wine. It is rather odd that her father behaves like I don’t exist, it is at the very least disrespectful, doesn’t he know who I am? Why I am none other than the world’s greatest poet to have ever lived, Li Bai and my words have been etched in history and sang throughout the ages with the guzzling of wine. Yes indeed, I have informed and educated the girl on the most important pleasures of the world, to drink wine whenever one desires to, though she is still a youngling, it is rather amusing to watch her chant my poems in a drunken stupor. Together we will drink and recite my old rhymes and perhaps not long after I will figure out how to get home.

Secrets in the Graveby Karen Ann Hopkins

170+ rave reviews for this story about the intertwining lives of unlikely members of an Indiana Amish community!

Just when Sheriff Serenity Adams thinks life is getting back to normal, the death of a young, pregnant Amish woman rocks the community. Is it circumstance…or murder? It’s up to Serenity and her ex-Amish boyfriend, Daniel Bachman, to discover the truth about the new shaman-type medicine man who’s brought his dark secrets to Blood Rock.

Leader of Titansby Kathryn Le Veque

It’s Medieval knights on the high seas! Swords, sea, and sea-going warriors in this exciting tale!

Welcome to a brand-new Medieval series of a daring brotherhood, where honor among thieves reigns supreme, and crushing their enemies is a thrilling pastime. These are the Pirates of Britannia.

1444 A.D. – Constantine le Brecque a man of many facets. As the bastard son of Henry V, he was raised in secret to protect him from the king’s enemies and lived his life knowing that his royal blood was a curse. He was, however, properly educated and trained as a knight, and one of the very best England has ever seen. But when he falls in love with the wrong woman, the course of his life is irrevocably changed….

Now, Constantine is known as the fearsome English pirate called LEADER OF TITANS, but his experience with his ex-lover wasn’t enough to drive him away from women. He loves them, and loves them in droves. Passion, plunder, and pirates his is motto.

Enter Lady Greggoria “Gregg” de Moyon. A pious woman, she was given a sacred object by her husband, an object much sought after by the terrible French pirates who roam the coast between Brittany and England. When her husband is killed by the French pirates on their quest for the treasure, Greggoria must turn to Constantine for help. She knows that only a pirate of equal strength can fight off the French and save her from most certain doom.

Constantine is more than willing to help the beautiful woman with the unusual name. But when he unexpectedly falls for her, the man with more women than a Arab shiek finds that his task has just become unbearably complicated. Can he save Greggoria from the French pirates who want to see her dead? And the mysterious treasure that she is protecting… will it be his destruction?

NOTE: This is Book 2 in the Lords of the Sea pirate series, written by Eliza Knight and Kathryn Le Veque. Eliza Knight’s novel, SAVAGE OF THE SEA, is Book One in this series. All books are stand-alones but much more fun if read together!)