Why You Need Work Life Balancing in Your Life (Like, Yesterday)

Are you tired of feeling like your work laptop has a tighter grip on your soul than your partner does? Do you ever wonder if you’re actually living life, or just surviving from deadline to deadline with a coffee IV drip? If so, it’s time to pick up Work Life Balancing: Why You Need It, Why You Should Want It, and Why It's Your Right by Rob Alex, Ph.D.—the ultimate guide to reclaiming your sanity, your time, and maybe even your weekends.

The Problem: Life Out of Whack

Most of us know the struggle:

• Work emails at midnight.

• That guilty feeling when you say no to yet another “urgent” request.

• Wondering if balance is just some mythical creature like Bigfoot or a stress-free Monday.

But here’s the truth: work-life balance isn’t a luxury—it’s your right. And Dr. Rob Alex is here to show you how to achieve it without selling all your belongings and moving to a remote island (unless that’s your thing).

Why This Book Works

Rob Alex isn’t just another “guru” spouting clichés about bubble baths and time-blocking. He’s lived it—through the chaos of corporate management, the hustle of retail logistics, the grind of owning a business, and even the unique world of sports facility management.

His secret sauce? Blending real-world experience with metaphysical wisdom, plus just the right dash of humor. Because sometimes the best way to tackle burnout is to laugh at it first.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Boundaries That Stick
  Learn how to say “no” without guilt and protect your personal time like it’s sacred (because it is).

• WFH Without the WTF
  If your office is three steps from your couch, Rob gives you tools to draw the line between work and life—so you don’t “accidentally” check emails at 11 p.m.

• Delegation is Your Superpower
  Spoiler: you don’t have to do it all. Empower others and lighten your load.

• Escape Plans Aren’t Just for Spies
  Be ready to pivot when life (or your boss) throws curveballs your way.

• Special Tips for Entrepreneurs
  Because business owners know the grind never really ends—unless you learn how to step back without the world collapsing.

Who Needs This Book?

• Professionals: If you want more personal time without tanking your career.

• Entrepreneurs: If your “baby” business has turned into a workaholic monster.

• Remote Workers: If you’ve blurred the lines between office and home until your pajamas are now business attire.

• Anyone Human: If you want a happier, healthier, more balanced life.

Why You Need It Now

Work-life balance isn’t just a feel-good buzzword—it’s essential for long-term health, happiness, and success. Without it, burnout wins. With it, you get stronger relationships, more joy, and the energy to actually enjoy the life you’re working so hard to build.

Work Life Balancing isn’t just a book—it’s your permission slip to stop overcommitting, start living with intention, and finally find that sweet spot between hustle and hammock.

So don’t wait until burnout knocks you flat. Grab your copy today, and unlock the secrets to a happier, healthier, more balanced life. Because balance isn’t just possible—it’s your right.

Click here to get Work Life Balancing

on Amazon  Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

 

Every Person Has a Story to Tell

   

Every Person Has a Story to Tell

By Dr. Walter R. Hoge

What if a life is not one straight road, but a thousand remembered paths crossing faith, grief, science, ancestry, and wonder?

Every Person Has a Story to Tell opens like a memoir, but it quickly expands into something larger and stranger: a life archive shaped by memory’s unreliability, family legend, spiritual longing, professional reinvention, and the haunting possibility that the most important places we visit may not belong entirely to this world. The book moves through ancestors, frontier histories, veterinary practice, personal losses, philosophical reflections, and a mystical valley that lingers in the author’s soul like an unfinished calling.

At its heart, the book gathers family history, memoir, faith, and reflection into a deeply personal meditation on memory, purpose, and the experiences that shape a life.

Its atmosphere shifts between grounded recollection and visionary experience. One moment, the book is contemplating squirrels, elephants, and the fragile mechanics of human memory; the next, it is standing at the edge of a glowing valley in what feels like a parallel universe, where fear gives way to peace and purpose. That tension gives the book its pulse: the earthly and the eternal, the documented and the imagined, the ordinary life and the life that seems to whisper from just beyond it.

What makes this book stand out is its refusal to separate disciplines that are usually kept apart. Science and religion, memory and myth, family history and personal testimony all occupy the same terrain. The central question is not simply what happened, but what a person does with what happened: how experience becomes meaning, how grief becomes redirection, and how a life can be measured not only by achievement, but by whether it remains open to wonder, service, and a second chance.

Some stories are told to preserve the past; others are told to light the way back to the self.

Click here to get Every Person Has a Story to Tell on Amazon

 

Website: www.drwalterhogebooks.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/booksbydrwalterhoge

The Sexy Art of Conversation: How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

     

The Sexy Art of Conversation:

How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

(Sexy Challenges)

Conversation is foreplay.
And most people are doing it badly.

The Sexy Art of Conversation is not about small talk, polite chatter, or “How was your day?”
It’s about connection that lingers, words that arouse, and conversations that change energy in a room.

This book explores the four powerful layers of conversation—physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual—and how mastering them can transform your relationships, intimacy, attraction, and emotional connection.

You’ll discover why:

• The right words can create instant chemistry
• Vulnerability is irresistibly attractive
• Deep listening is more seductive than any pickup line
• Conversations can heal, ignite desire, and build trust
• Energy exchange happens long before touch ever does

Blending relationship psychology, metaphysical wisdom, sensual awareness, and humor, this book teaches you how to:

• Create emotional intimacy without force
• Speak in ways that lower defenses and open hearts
• Ask questions that unlock desire and truth
• Recognize and dissolve conversational energy leaks
• Turn everyday conversations into magnetic experiences

Perfect for:

• Couples looking to deepen intimacy
• Singles wanting stronger attraction and connection
• Spiritual seekers curious about energy exchange
• Anyone tired of shallow relationships and surface-level talk

This isn’t manipulation.
This isn’t scripted romance.
This is conscious conversation—where words become touch, listening becomes intimacy, and connection becomes electric.

Because when you learn how to truly speak—and truly listen—
everything changes

Click here to get

The Sexy Art of Conversation

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

  

The Mark Of A True Hero

The Mark Of A True Hero Volume 1. 

Lake Jones heads to her local library to escape reality for a moment. Upon entering the library, the librarian hands her a book. Intrigued, Lake opens the book and is suddenly transported.

    She wakes up in an empty field alone. Confused, she needs to figure out what is             going on.

Click here to get The Mark Of A True Hero

on Amazon Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

Always, Never Almost:

Second Chance Romance, Single Dad, Family Drama,

Ex-drama, Slow Burn, Emotional

Andi Doyle built her life on her own terms. She owns a coffee shop in South Boston that she’s poured everything into, shows up fiercely for the people she loves, and learned one thing the hard way: she won’t be an afterthought. Not for anyone.

So when Gavin Byrne walks into her life with quiet intensity and a smile that makes her forget herself, she lets herself believe this one might be different. He’s steady. Present. Real.

Until she realizes she’s been waiting for a place in his life he never fully made room for.

Gavin doesn’t understand what he’s done until the distance between them is undeniable. He thought he had left his past where it belonged. He didn’t see how easily he defaulted to keeping parts of his life separate — smoothing things over, choosing the safer explanation, minimizing what mattered most when it felt complicated.

By the time he recognizes the cost of that mistake, Andi is already walking away.

Fighting his way back to her is one thing. But reconciliation doesn’t bring peace. The past he thought was settled resurfaces with its own agenda, threatening the life he’s fought to protect and forcing Andi straight into the center of it.

Now loving each other isn’t the only risk.

They’ll have to decide whether what they’re building is strong enough to withstand someone determined to tear it apart — or if some mistakes really do turn almost into never… or into always.

Click here to get 

Always, Never Almost

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

Kriegsmarine

   

Kriegsmarine 

By Ralph L. Myers

What if the most dangerous battlefield is not the Atlantic, but the bond between two boys whose lives are destined to meet on opposite sides of war?

Kriegsmarine opens not with battle, but with memory: an older Gerhardt “Gerry” Kroner returns to his childhood home in Hartzstein, Pennsylvania, and the house itself becomes a portal. Every room, smell, and object pulls him backward into a German American boyhood shaped by immigrant families, strict parents, and the fierce, almost inseparable friendship he shared with Karl Schuour. Their small-town world is vivid with autumn streets, schoolyard competitions, bicycles, swings, and the constant need to outdo one another—a rivalry the story makes clear will become both “a blessing - and a curse.”

From there, the novel expands into something much larger than nostalgia. Gerry and Karl grow up, follow different paths, and are carried into World War II, with Gerry serving in the U.S. Navy and Karl drawn into Germany’s naval machine. The story’s emotional engine lies in that split. One boyhood friendship is stretched across nationality, loyalty, and history itself, until the competition of childhood becomes a deadly adult collision between commanders at sea. The book places Karl at the center of the German U-boat campaign as captain of U-53, while Gerry develops anti-submarine strategies for Allied convoys—turning memory, rivalry, and warfare into one continuous thread.

It carries some of the pressure-cooker tension associated with classic submarine war dramas, but its true pulse is personal. Karl is not framed as a simple emblem of the Reich; he is trapped inside a collapsing moral world, horrified by Nazi brutality and torn between duty, love, and conscience. That conflict sharpens when his wife and children become bound up in a desperate attempt to flee, and the war stops being abstract strategy and becomes a question of whether a man can remain human inside a machine built for obedience and destruction.

What makes Kriegsmarine matter is that it refuses to separate war from memory: the swing in the yard, the old house, the buried keepsakes, and the childhood dares all echo inside the sonar-dark waters of the Atlantic.

Sometimes history’s cruelest weapon is not hatred, but the way it turns love, loyalty, and friendship into opposing flags.

Click here to get Kriegsmarine on Amazon 

Click here to get Kriegsmarine on Barnes & Noble 

 

  

1521: The Defiance

History remembers the fall of Ferdinand Magellan, but it forgets the lives caught in his death's shadow.

1521: The Defiance is not merely a retelling of the Battle of Mactan. It is a reckoning with how history is written, who is remembered, and whose stories endure.

Drawing from Antonio Pigafetta’s chronicle, the only surviving firsthand account of Magellan’s final expedition, and grounded in precolonial Visayan culture, this novel explores the lives, fears, and convictions of those who stood on both sides of this historic encounter between islanders and empire.

Written by a Filipino author rooted in the land where these events unfolded, 1521: The Defiance reimagines the human stories behind the clash, filling the silences between recorded facts with narrative, emotion, and cultural memory. It offers a perspective rarely centered in colonial histories, one that restores agency, dignity, and complexity to those long reduced to footnotes.

This is a story of belief and resistance, of men who sought to change the world, and of those who refused to let it be taken from them.

“Tell me, Antonio. What will your pages call him if we cannot make him bend?”
The Venetian hesitated, then gave a thin smile.
“A rebel, perhaps. Or a heathen. Or…”
He glanced at his parchment, as if unsure.
“Or a fool who defied destiny.”

A powerful tale of belief, resistance, and the cost of empire, this novel is for readers of immersive, multi-perspective historical fiction who seek stories that challenge inherited narratives.

Click here to get 1521: The Defiance on Amazon / Kindle 

Click here to get 1521: The Defiance on iBooks

Click here to get 1521: The Defiance on Google Play