Kara Lane
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Kara Lane is the author of six books, with more on the way. Explore her current titles, learn more about the author, and find information on where to buy her books.
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Explore how-to books on eclectic topics, including style and clothing, fine art photography, humor and happiness, effective thinking, and personal growth.
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Crappy Advice for a Happy Life is a lighthearted guide to happiness for people who can laugh at themselves…and others!If reading conventional self-help books on how to be your best self and live your best life hasn’t made you any happier, you’ve come to the right place. Crappy Advice for a Happy Life offers humorous advice that highlights the things we do that make us unhappy.This “reverse” self-help guide introduces a path to happiness called Approach-EZ. It consists of 100 rules that many of us unconsciously follow because (a) we believe we can only be happy when things go our way, and/or (b) we react to people and situations based on our ingrained personality traits without considering the consequences to ourselves and others.If you’re wise (or a contrarian), you might want to do the opposite of what the rules suggest. Although following the rules as written may be more fun.This short, humorous guide includes a quiz. You can count how many rules you currently follow and check your happiness score…and no judgment here if you also grade your family, friends, and coworkers!Praise for This Book:“This is the best self-help book I’ve never read.”
—Anonymous“The perfect gift book for someone.”
—A Random Person on Amazon“10 out of 10 people with no sense of humor would not recommend this book.”
—The Buford Times Book Review
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Also available as an ebook on iBooks, Nook, and Kobo and as a paperback and hardcover at Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and other booksellers everywhere.
The Thinking Game provides the key to achieving personal and professional success is learning to think more effectively.Dissatisfaction is the number one problem in life. Things happen that you don’t want, and things you want don’t happen. The solution to increasing your satisfaction can be found in your mind. Understanding your beliefs and emotions will change how you feel. Improving your thoughts and actions will lead to more satisfying results.Author, CPA and CFE Kara Lane will show you how to enhance your thought processes so you can achieve greater clarity, focus, and success. The Thinking Game will help you:*Set and achieve the right goals
*Make better decisions and solve challenging problems
*Increase happiness and decrease fear, worry, doubt, guilt, and anger
*Focus your time and efforts on the things you can control
*Improve your thinking with the right mindset, skills, and techniquesThe Thinking Game will provide you with the rules, the tools, and the strategies you need to achieve greater success and satisfaction. Buy your copy today and start experiencing better results tomorrow.
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The Smart Woman's Guide to Style & Clothing is the book you need if you have too many clothes but nothing to wear.Do you have clothes that do not fit well, do not flatter you, or do not go with anything else in your closet? This is a common problem that few of us have the time, money, or expertise to solve.Fortunately, author Kara Lane researched the issue and found a solution. She developed a system for creating a versatile, stylish, personalized wardrobe. You can create your own look-good, feel-good wardrobe by following the ten steps in the Style & Clothing System:Step 1: Identify wardrobe needs based on your lifestyle
Step 2: Select the wardrobe classics that appeal to you
Step 3: Choose your colors, patterns, and clothing styles
Step 4: Know what fits and flatters your body
Step 5: Decide what quality and quantity of clothing you want
Step 6: Pick your shoes, handbags, jewelry, and other accessories
Step 7: Choose your preferred brands and stores
Step 8: Put together outfits and consult style resources as needed
Step 9: Analyze, declutter, and organize your wardrobe
Step 10: Complete your Style & Clothing ChecklistIn this comprehensive guide, you will learn the colors and styles that flatter your skin tone and body shape. You will discover techniques for creating more outfits with fewer clothes. You will receive recommendations for brands, stores, and style resources…and much more.If you use the Style & Clothing System to guide future purchases, you will simplify your life and create a wardrobe you will love!
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From Photographer to Gallery Artist can help you make the transition from fine art photographer to gallery-represented artist.Talent alone will not bring you recognition as a fine art photographer. For that, you need exposure to collectors and museums. Galleries can give you that exposure, but first, you need an effective marketing plan to reach the galleries. You will find that plan in From Photographer to Gallery Artist.Author Kara Lane conducted hundreds of hours of research and contacted over 60 galleries to find the best strategies for getting your fine art photography into galleries. Now she is sharing the secrets she discovered with you.In this complete guide to finding gallery representation, you will learn:*The criteria galleries use to evaluate fine art photography
*Three primary resources for identifying the best galleries for you
*The tools you need to showcase your images and experience
*Six major marketing strategies for attracting gallery representation
*Key issues to discuss with galleries before agreeing to representation
*How eight famous fine art photographers achieved their success
*Self-assessment questions to help clarify what you want from your life and art
*Lists of recommended portfolio review events, art fairs, juried shows and competitions, art magazines and blogs, artist websites, and other resources to help you become a gallery-represented fine art photographer
With your talent, effort, and persistence…and the research and marketing strategies in From Photographer to Gallery Artist…you can achieve gallery representation!
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Simoni's Gift draws on wisdom from Michelangelo, Maya Angelou, and many others to help you find a more meaningful way to live.This visionary novella begins immediately after Davita’s death. She opens her eyes and is greeted by Simoni, who appears to be some sort of angelic afterlife coach. Simoni gives her a choice: She can begin a new life or remain forever in death. Davita has one hour to decide.To help her make her decision, Davita asks Simoni questions about life. Why are some people always unhappy? Why is it so hard to overcome childhood influences even as an adult? Why is life so unfair? Is religion a good thing or a bad thing? Finally, she asks about the purpose of life.As Simoni reveals the truth about life, Davita realizes that she misspent much of hers. She had tried to control other people’s behavior, rather than working harder to improve her own. She had complained about life being unfair, rather than making the best of the situations she faced. She had believed what she was told, rather than thinking for herself. She had thought religions were supposed to give life meaning, rather than understanding the source of these belief systems.Through Simoni’s wisdom, Davita becomes aware of a better way to live. She learns that her purpose in life is something called personal evolution. Then she discovers the five practices that would help her achieve personal evolution. If only Simoni would let her take her new insights into her next life, her decision would be easy. Instead, she learns she must follow the clues available to all who seek the meaning of life…
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Wake Up to Powerful Living is the owner's manual for how to live a good life.You can experience more happiness and fulfillment if you follow 12 simple principles. The principles work because they help you focus on what matters, regardless of what is currently happening in your life.So many people live their lives based on the expectations of others, and they end up regretting that they did not follow their own dreams. You can be different. Regardless of your current age, you can experience life at its finest. Let the principles get you started, and then you can take it from there.Author’s Note: Wake Up to Powerful Living was my first book, which was published in 2007. My views and writing have come a long way since then (and so have my covers). But I think it’s kind of nice when we look back on where it all started.
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About
Kara Lane is an avid reader and the author of six books. So far, the topics of her books include self-help, business, art, style, and humor.Her books include…Crappy Advice for a Happy Life
The Thinking Game
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Style & Clothing
From Photographer to Gallery Artist
Simoni’s Gift
Wake Up to Powerful LivingIn addition to writing books, Kara Lane is a Forensic Accounting Consultant, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She grew up in Indianapolis and now lives in Carmel, Indiana (the roundabout capital of the world) with her husband Rick.
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