David Esposito contributed to an article on Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People recently published on Entrepreneur.com. Many of the principles in the book are similar to those he references in his daily life, therefore they “resonated with him as he tried to balance his family life with his career.” His sentiments are shared by many around the world who own one of the book’s 25 million copies sold since its publishing in 1989. Read more about David’s thoughts in this article: 7 Reasons ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ Lives on 25 Years Later.
Author: Harvest Time Partners
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. Launches a Children’s Book Series to Expand Its Line of Character-Building Products
Children’s Books Reinforce the Importance of Principle-based Decision Making
Portage, MI (July 23, 2014) — Harvest Time Partners, Inc. has created The Principles of Our World, a unique line of children’s books designed to help families and educators teach children about the importance of principles like courage, teamwork, and sacrifice. The Principles of Our World book series provides resources to help parents and teachers support children as they grow in a world that continues to become more complex, intense, and uncertain. Through lessons in principle-based decision making, the books aim to help children accomplish their hopes and dreams in a challenging and changing world.
Today, Harvest Time Partners, Inc., a rapidly growing personal- and professional-development company, is launching the first five books in the series with plans to launch one new book each month through the remainder of the 2014. The books provide parents and educators with the opportunity to read to young children (ages 4+) and to offer young, independent readers (ages 7+) a great addition to their book collection.
Sections of The Principles of Our World book series can be accessed from the company’s website at https://www.harvesttimepartners.com.
The books are currently available through a growing number of retail stores and online at Amazon.com. Each book in the series sells for $9.99.
David Esposito, author and managing partner of Harvest Time Partners, was inspired by his experiences as a combat veteran, business executive, husband, and father of four to create resources that remind families about the importance of principles like courage and honesty.
“We are excited to continue to expand our line of products to help build and strengthen character,” said Esposito. “As our world continues to grow more challenging, there is a need for resources that support and encourage families to learn how to more effectively deal with today’s realities. The Principles of Our World book series reinforces the importance of character and principle-based decision making as powerful means to succeed in today’s world.“
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. was created almost 20 years ago to provide support to individuals, families, and organizations on a variety of topics and subjects encompassing personal and executive development, team building, leadership training, and building a strong marriage and family. Harvest Time Partners provides character-building seminars, workshops, and custom programs designed to increase personal effectiveness, enhance character development, and strengthen the bonds of marriage and family. For more information, visit https://www.harvesttimepartners.com.
2014 Academics’ Choice Award Product Review for Abundant Harvest® for Kids
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. recently announced that Abundant Harvest® for Kids has been honored with a 2014 Academics’ Choice Mind Spring Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys.
The independent panel of the Academics’ Choice Awards program recently released their product review of Abundant Harvest® for Kids.
We want to thank the panel for a very thorough and thoughtful review. Their comments provide a great summary to guide parents and educators on the intent of Abundant Harvest for Kids.
Please see the link below for the complete review.
http://www.academicschoice.com/games/abundant-harvest-for-kids.php
Abundant Harvest & Face to Face Conversation Games Earn 2014 Academics’ Choice Award for Mind-Building Excellence
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. is pleased to announce that its conversation games, Abundant Harvest® for Kids, Abundant Harvest® for Teens & Adults, Face to Face™ Kids and Face to Face™ Teen editions, have been honored with a 2014 Academics’ Choice Mind Spring Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys.
The independent Academics’ Choice Awards program and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions as a mark of genuinely effective learning tools that stimulate the mind and provide potential for the student to fully develop higher order thinking skills.
The Abundant Harvest and Face to Face games are designed to open to the door to more effective communication, encourage decision-making based on principles such as honesty, loyalty and commitment with the intent of reinforcing the Law of the Harvest, simply “you reap what you sow.” Made in the USA, the innovative games support open discussion on real-world issues and help to develop the critical life skill of face to face communication that is rapidly being replaced by today’s online chatter.
David Esposito, inventor and managing partner of Harvest Time Partners, said, “We are honored that our conversation games were selected to receive the Academics’ Choice Mind Spring Award. We share a common mission to promote the importance of having effective learning tools that stimulate the mind, foster communication and create ‘teachable moments’ for parents and educators.”
Abundant Harvest
Each board game is a race to the finish but along the way players are asked to make decisions that will reveal their ideas about various character traits such as honesty, faithfulness, compassion, and trust. For 2 to 8 players.
Abundant Harvest for Kids is for ages 7+
Abundant Harvest for Teens & Adults is for ages 13+
$19.99 each
Face to Face is played with a deck of 96 cards that ask players questions that stimulate lively discussions on real-life issues. The cards provide a variety of scenarios then ask the question, “What would you do?”
The game is suitable for play in a variety of forums such as typical family gatherings at home, on vacations and road trips, or as engaging conversation starters for small-group parties.
Face to Face Kids is for ages 7+
Face to Face Teen is for ages 13+
$9.99 each
The award-winning games are available at harvesttimepartners.com, amazon.com and select specialty retailers.
About Harvest Time Partners, Inc.
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. was created almost 20 years ago to provide support to individuals, families and organizations on a variety of topics and subjects encompassing personal and executive development, team building, leadership training, and building a strong marriage and family. Harvest Time Partners provides character-building seminars, workshops and custom programs designed to increase personal effectiveness, enhance character development and strengthen the bonds of marriage and family. For more information, visit www.harvesttimepartners.com
About Academics’ Choice
Academics’ Choice helps consumers find exceptional brain-boosting material. The Academics’ Choice Advisory Board consists of leading thinkers and graduates from Princeton, Harvard, George Washington University, and other reputable educational institutions. The board combined with a volunteer panel of judges, including professionals, parents, educators and students, evaluate submissions based on educational benefits such as higher-order thinking skills, character building, creative play, durability and originality. The full list of winners is posted online at www.AcademicsChoice.com
The National Parenting Center Expert Panel Review of Face to Face Teen Edition
The National Parenting Center recently gathered its panel of some of the world’s most respected authorities in the field of child rearing and development to provide parents with a comprehensive and responsible review of recently released products. The National Parenting Center’s expert panel released their review of Face to Face Teen Edition.
We want to thank the expert panel for a very thorough and thoughtful review. Their comments provide a great summary to guide parents and educators on the intent of Face to Face Teen Edition.
Please see the link below for the complete review.
The National Parenting Center Expert Panel Review of Abundant Harvest for Teens
The National Parenting Center recently gathered its panel of some of the world’s most respected authorities in the field of child rearing and development to provide parents with a comprehensive and responsible review of recently released products. The National Parenting Center’s expert panel just released their review of Abundant Harvest for Teens.
We want to thank the expert panel for a very thorough and thoughtful review. Their comments provide a great summary to guide parents and educators on the intent of Abundant Harvest for Teens.
Please see the link below for the complete review.
http://the-parenting-center.com/abundant-harvest-for-teens/
Harvest Time Partners Announces Major Product Award
Abundant Harvest® and Face to Face™ Receive Awards from The National Parenting Center
Harvest Time Partners, Inc., an industry leading personal and professional development company, continues to create relevant and practical tools to support and encourage individuals, families, and organizations to reach their full potential. One specific initiative, Character Creates Opportunity®, is a portfolio of resources designed to support the character development of children, adolescents, and adults. Abundant Harvest® and Face to Face™ are a series of conversation games under the Character Creates Opportunity® initiative.
Abundant Harvest® for Kids, Abundant Harvest® for Teens & Adults, Face to Face™ Kids Edition and Face to Face™ Teen Edition are all recent winners of The National Parenting Center’s “Seal of Approval.” The games are designed to open the door to more effective communication, encourage decision making based on principles such as honesty, loyalty, and commitment with the intent of reinforcing the Law of the Harvest, simply “you reap what you sow.” The games help to foster effective conversation around real world issues and help to develop the critical life skill of face to face communication in a world that has gone digital.
Created in 1990, The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval program identifies the finest products and services being marketed to the parent/child audience. This award signifies to other parents that their peers have acknowledged a product’s quality and desirability based on a wide variety of determining factors. It is the sole intention of The National Parenting Center to advise, support and guide parents with sound, responsible advice.
David Esposito, managing partner of Harvest Time Partners, said, “We are absolutely thrilled with receiving the Seal of Approval from The National Parenting Center. For more than 20 years, The National Parenting Center has gathered some of the world’s most respected authorities in the field of child rearing and development to provide the most comprehensive and responsible parenting advice to parents everywhere. Receiving the Seal of Approval for Abundant Harvest® and Face to Face™ is a tremendous honor.”
Harvest Time Partners continues to market Abundant Harvest® and Face to Face™ on major ecommerce sites such as Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Newegg.com, and others. In addition, a growing number of select specialty retailers around the United States are beginning to carry the Abundant Harvest® and Face to Face™ line of conversation games.
For more information or to discuss additional products and services from Harvest Time Partners, Inc., please visit the company website at https://www.harvesttimepartners.com, email David at david [at] harvesttimepartners.com, or call 877-786-4278.
About Harvest Time Partners, Inc.
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. was created almost 20 years ago to provide support to individuals, families, and organizations on a variety of topics and subjects encompassing personal and executive development, team building, leadership training, and building a strong marriage and family. Harvest Time Partners provides character-building seminars, workshops, and custom programs designed to increase personal effectiveness, enhance character development, and strengthen the bonds of marriage and family. For more information, visit https://www.harvesttimepartners.com
About The National Parenting Center
The National Parenting Center was founded in July of 1989 with the intention of providing the most comprehensive and responsible parenting advice to parents everywhere. The advice provided is furnished by some of the world’s most respected authorities in the field of child rearing and development. For more information, visit http://the-parenting-center.com/
Harvest Time Partners Expands Distribution of Conversation Games Through Partnership With New Day Christian Distributors
Educational Conversation Games Now More Widely Available
Portage, MI (April 3, 2014) — Harvest Time Partners, Inc., a personal and professional development company, is expanding its market penetration through a distribution agreement with New Day Christian Distributors. The arrangement will provide Harvest Time Partners with the capability to offer its full line of patented and award winning conversation games to a broad retail network.
David Esposito, a managing partner of Harvest Time Partners, said, “After the successful launch of our conversation games during the 2013 holiday season, we look forward to significantly expanding the presence of our games into the ‘brick and mortar’ retail market with our newly established relationship with New Day Christian Distributors. New Day Christian Distributors has tremendous presence in the market and we see them as a great fit to reach our goal of further penetrating the large market for conversation games. We look forward to working with them as we expand our reach and make our conversation games available to more consumers in stores throughout the United States.”
New Day Christian Distributors will begin offering the revised and updated version of the award-winning conversation game Abundant Harvest®, a one-of-a-kind board game designed to help families and educators open the door to more-productive dialogue and encourage decision making based on principles such as honesty, loyalty, and commitment. Reinforcing the law of the harvest, the game’s primary takeaway is that you will always reap what you sow. Face to Face, the newest line of conversation games from Harvest Time Partners, will also be marketed by New Day Christian Distributors. Face to Face games are designed to start great conversations on real-life issues, in real-time with friends and families. Face to Face is available in a Kids Edition, Teen Edition, and Dinner Party Edition.
Michael Turner of New Day Christian Distributors said, “We are excited to offer these innovative conversation games to our customers. In addition, the fact that Harvest Time Partners, Inc. is a combat-veteran owned business and all products are “Made in USA” is of great value to New Day Christian Distributors and our customers. We look forward to a successful relationship with Harvest Time Partners as they continue to bring innovative products to the market.”
For more information or to discuss additional products and services from Harvest Time Partners, Inc., please visit the company website at www.harvesttimepartners.com, email David at david@harvesttimepartners.com, or call 877-786-4278.
About Harvest Time Partners, Inc.
Harvest Time Partners, Inc. was created 20 years ago to provide support to individuals, companies, and organizations on a variety of topics and subjects encompassing personal and executive development, team building, leadership training, and building a strong marriage and family. Harvest Time Partners provides character-building seminars, workshops, and custom programs designed to increase personal effectiveness, enhance character development, and strengthen the bonds of marriage and family. Harvest Time Partners, Inc. created the award-winning conversation game Abundant Harvest that continues to be embraced by families, schools, and faith-based programs nationwide. For more information, visit www.harvesttimepartners.com.
About New Day Christian Distributors
Located just north of Nashville, Tennessee, New Day Christian Distributors ships to anywhere in the continental United States in three days or less. Independently owned, New Day began servicing store’s music needs 33 years ago, and now provides retail stores with a wide variety of gifts, toys, books, Bibles and family-friendly DVDs, in addition to a growing roster of exclusive music. Visit New Day on the web at www.newdaychristian.com or call 1.800.251.3633 to place an order!
David Esposito Appointed to the Board of Directors of Medizone International
David Esposito appointed to the Board of Directors at Medizone International
The Character Council of Western New York and Harvest Time Partners Foundation Announce a Grant Program for Western New York Schools
Hamburg, NY (January 2014) — The Character Council of Western New York and Harvest Time Partners Foundation are announcing a new grant program for Western New York schools and youth-serving organizations to reinforce the importance of character and encourage organizations to strengthen their commitment to character education.
The Character Council of Western New York and Harvest Time Partners Foundation are pleased to offer four-$1000 character-resource grants to schools to help build or strengthen an existing character-education program within the school community. These grants will be awarded to deserving public, private, or parochial elementary, middle or high schools within the eight counties of Western New York (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming). An additional $1000 character-resource grant will be awarded to a youth-serving organization in the same eight county area of Western New York.
The grant program will award $1,000 to each organization to purchase character resource materials consistent with the Character Council’s 49 character qualities.
“We are excited to offer these grants to schools and a youth-serving organization who are demonstrating a commitment to character education,” said Suzanne McKenney, President of the Character Council of Western New York. “These organizations have the potential to have a tremendous impact in helping to “create a culture of character” throughout the Western New York Region.”
“The Character Council of Western New York has made strong and measurable progress in establishing the importance of character in the lives of students in Western New York and we are grateful for their association in providing these grants,” said David Esposito, Managing Partner at Harvest Time Partners, Inc. “We look forward to recognizing these organizations and the positive impact they will have on the students and communities in the years to come.”
Details of the grant application process and additional information can be found on the Character Council’s website, www.charactercouncilwny.org/grant. The deadline for applying for the scholarships is April 1, 2014.
About the Character Council of Western New York
Launched in 2000, in Hamburg, the Character Council of Western New York’s mission is to “Create a Culture of Character”. We envision communities that place a priority on an individual’s responsibility for his or her own disposition, words and actions; encourage and praise excellence in character; and strive to reinstate universal community standards of respect, integrity and virtue. For general information about the Character Council of Western New York, contact us at 716-202‐0702 or email info@charactercouncilwny.org
Website: http://www.CharacterCouncilWNY.org
About Harvest Time Partners Foundation
Harvest Time Partners Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization that supports children and young adults in the pursuit of character-building opportunities worldwide. The Foundation supports a wide range of initiatives from college scholarships to community service projects, as well as international efforts to reduce the suffering of children and young adults. The Foundation was established by Harvest Time Partners, Inc., a personal and professional development company, providing resources and support to enable individuals, families, and organizations to reach their full potential in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world. To learn more, visit the company’s website at www.harvesttimepartners.com
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