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How to Do It All: The Revolutionary Plan to Create a Full, Meaningful Life — While Only Occasionally Wanting to Poke Your Eyes Out With a Sharpie by Linda Formichelli
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Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges
Derek Doepker - 2013
The good news is that when you understand what's really been secretly holding you back, you'll finally have the map for how to escape.You're about to discover:• The secret to getting answers when you're feeling lost, confused, and have no idea what to do or where to even begin.• How to tap into your inner strength to experience more motivation, happiness, and fulfillment on demand – regardless of what’s happening in your life.• How to get whatever you want even if you're stressed out, busy, or have a million excuses.• What the 6 things are that drive all of your behavior and how to tap into them to reprogram any thought or habit on a neurological level.• What the most common fear is that holds people back, and why you’ll never overcome it until you understand this one simple thing.• Why it’s impossible to remove a bad habit, and what you must do instead.• Why a force stronger than willpower may be your missing link to getting yourself out of any rut.• Why much of the great advice you’ve heard, especially from self-help and personal development gurus, may be the very thing that’s keeping you stuck.• Why looking to find your life’s purpose is almost always going to backfire on you.• Why the truth gets you stuck more often than lies, and what the “real” truth is when it comes to you becoming a master of your life.• How being selfish can be the best thing for you and for the rest of the world.• Why being stuck may be exactly what you need to make your next breakthrough.If you've ever asked yourself...What's my purpose and how do I find it?Why do I know I should feel grateful, happy, or fulfilled but still I feel absolutely miserable?Why can't I get myself to do the things I say I'm going to do?Why are people crazy and how do I learn to live with them?How can I stop obsessive thoughts and get rid of unwanted emotions?What can I possibly do to change things when everything seems so hopeless and beyond my control?If so, then this will be one of the most eye-opening books you'll ever read.How can I make such a bold claim?I am regular guy who used to be out of shape, broke, and struggling to find answers to life's big questions. After years of study and thousands of dollars spent on education from the world's leading experts in psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, and personal development, I applied many great concepts to my own life. And... nothing much happened.At least not until I discovered a few more key insights that tied everything together into a concise system. Since then, I've become a bestselling author, achieved financial freedom, maintain a fit body year round, and am living a life of freedom and fulfillment.So I decided to write the book I wish I had handed to me from the very start of things, the instruction manual for life if you will, to help you achieve whatever breakthroughs you desire in your life.This book is my gift to you, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 1995
What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pressure, so that during our free time, we tend to live in boredom, watching TV or absorbed by our phones.What are we missing? To answer this question, Csikszentmihalyi studied thousands of people, and he found the key. People are happiest when they challenge themselves with tasks that demand a high degree of skill and commitment, and which are undertaken for their own sake. Instead of watching television, play the piano. Take a routine chore and figure out how to do it better, faster, more efficiently. In short, learn the hidden power of complete engagement, a psychological state the author calls flow. Though they appear simple, the lessons in Finding Flow are life-changing.
Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
Steve Kamb - 2016
Learn how to design your own personal Epic Quest of Awesome through advice on health, fitness, travel, and finance.Author Steven Kamb, the founder/creator of NerdFitness.com, leads you on a journey to discover the kind of game you want to play, including how to:* Develop a leveling structure* Create a personal Origin Story (every hero has a great origin story)* Determine what your Level 50 character will look like* Build your own quest lists * Hack your productivity, habits, and willpower to build momentum* Build in rewards and accountability* Add members to your party, expanding your community* Find your own personal Yoda or Morpheus (i.e. mentor) to help you along the way* Restart and earn Extra Lives (how to keep going when you get scared or stuck)
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday - 2014
What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus AureliusWe are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.These men and women were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success came from timeless philosophical principles laid down by a Roman emperor who struggled to articulate a method for excellence in any and all situations.This book reveals that formula for the first time—and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into advantage.
The Millionaire Morning
Lewis Howes - 2017
The Morning Mindset, Habits, and Routines of Millionaires!
The Productive Person Action Guide: How to be more productive and maximize your work-life balance in 2 weeks
Chandler Bolt - 2014
Whether you're a student, entrepreneur, or even stay at home parent, dividing your free time between productivity and personal time can be difficult. How do you maximize each hour of productivity so that you are only focused on the task at hand, leaving you free to do other more enjoyable things? And...how do you make sure your free time is truly FREE...free of guilt, free of stress, and free of feeling anxious for not being "busy"? Both of these things require practice and can be tough to implement and manage with your already overloaded schedule. In this practical and lighthearted Action Guide, James Roper and Chandler Bolt explain how you can be productive with your time without sacrificing your social life and the freedom you cherish. By drawing examples from their time as students, entrepreneurs AND years of coaching student-entrepreneurs, they show the reader how be more productive while also creating more time freedom. In this Action Guide, the reader will be given: Productivity Hacks for becoming instantly more productive Daily schedules that work perfectly for people who need to get stuff done, but also want to have some "me" time too Prework that will alter their mindset and perspective on how they make decisions Actionable Steps to create your new productive habits in a hurry But, don't get it twisted...The Productive Person Action Guide is not meant to be the end all be all for productivity management. (instead, think of these productivity tips as a whole new set of tools for your productivity tool bag.) The Productive Person is concisely written with your valuable free time in mind, and it teaches time management for entrepreneurs, college students, or anyone who struggles with work-life balance. The Productive Person Action Guide takes it a step further by only providing the actionable steps and exercises from The Productive Person. If you want further explanation of what's covered in the Action Guide, you can check out the full version of The Productive Person on Amazon. Don't let your time keep slipping away...take it back, make it productive, and enjoy your new life.
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron - 1992
An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.
Breaking Out Of A Broken System
Seth Bolt - 2014
Find out below how all profits from every purchase of this book saves another person's life.Has your life turned out exactly as planned?When you were younger did you have dreams of being a rockstar?...a fireman?...a doctor?Who did you want to be before the world told you who you should be?When we're born, we enter a world full of systems, most of which are out of our control. There are tons of unwritten rules and social pressures we feel forced to follow. We're pressured to:- study hard and get good grades- get accepted and attend college- graduate and find a secure job- get married and start a familyWe're trained not to stray too far from the path.If we follow this recommended path, why do we still feel that we're missing something? In Breaking Out of a Broken System, Seth & Chandler Bolt give you the tools to re-draw the lines, chart new roads, and expand the borders around your life. Each of the brothers writes a totally different perspective on the 15 most important life lessons taught by their parents. These are things they thought everyone learned growing up, but they realized otherwise after going out into the "real world".As you read, you'll have the option to read two completely different perspectives on each life lesson.You can start with the artistic account written by Seth, bass player for the southern rock band NEEDTOBREATHE.Or...Dive into Chandler's entrepreneurial story told from the perspective of the younger brother.There are two major benefits that will manifest from reading these intriguing tales. First, your life will gain a fresh new outlook on how blazing new trails can be the perfect addition to your own path.And secondly, you'll be saving someone else's life.Each book sold saves a life by providing a life-saving malaria pill (#1book1life). Each year, 1.2 million people die from malaria. This is solely because many villages only receive 3-4 months worth of pills per year to cure the disease.Our mission with the "Breaking Out of a Broken System" book launch is to buy 10,000 life-saving malaria pills by selling 10,000 copies of this book.Buy this book, change your life. Buy this book, save another.Buy the book during launch week to get tons of free stuff & a chance to win the trip of lifetime to Uganda!
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
Robin S. Sharma - 2018
Forever.
Accelerated Learning: How To Learn Any Skill Or Subject, Double Your Reading Speed And Develop Laser Sharpe Memory - INSTANTLY - OUT-THINK ANYONE
James Horton - 2017
man or woman... no matter how poor your education may be today!It makes no difference how badly you did in school as a child... how difficult it is for you to concentrate today... how poor your memory may be... how much a prisoner you are of crippling mental habits... how impossible it may seem to you today that YOU could read an entire book in as little as half an hour -That YOU could flash through business and financial problems that leave your friends stopped cold - that YOU could hold an entire roomful of people ABSOLUTELY SPELLBOUND BY THE POWER OF YOUR IMAGINATION, YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOUR ABILITY TO TRANSMIT THE SPOKEN WORD! What's The Secret? It's As Simple As This - I believe that you can perform every one of these accomplishments - and more - far easier and faster than you've ever dreamed - because of this one simple fact: I believe that your mind is working today at only HALF of its true power - simply because no one has ever shown you the right way to make every book, every article, every subject you ever wish to learn HALF TEACH ITSELF! What are some benefits you can expect when you follow this program
Effortlessly remember important dates, appointments, meetings and schedules weeks, months or even years ahead without missing a single one!
Make other people "Hang On Your Every Word!"
Develop a perfect, computer-like memory in just 5 minutes a day!
Quickly and easily double or even triple your reading speed
Breeze through any test or exam
Develop unbreakable concentration and focus
Never experience social awkwardness or anxiety again
Skyrocket Your Vocabulary - In Minutes! What will you learn? Discover advanced techniques from psychology to become a master at any skill or subject
Simple methods that allow you to nail down tough information or complex concepts quickly and easily
What you can do to eliminate procrastination, minimize distractions, avoid interruptions, keep your mind focused and concentrate longer, even during challenging or stressful situations
Step-by-step easy-to-understand methods for turning even the worst memory into a powerful one.
How to use what you learn to become SUCCESSFUL in your business and enjoy all of the benefits
How you can dazzle your friends and fellow workers with your ability to absorb facts like a sponge And much, much more Final Words: This is NOT a textbook! NOT a study manual
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath - 2010
Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:- The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients (see page 242)- The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping (see page 130)- The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service (see page 199)In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
Henry Cloud - 2006
It is more than simple honesty. It's the key to success. A person with integrity has the -- often rare -- ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances.Drawing on experiences from his work with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and individual leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist and nationally syndicated radio host, shows how our character can keep us from achieving all we want to (or could) be.In Integrity, Dr. Cloud explores the six qualities of character that define integrity. He uses stories from well-known business leaders like Michael Dell and sports figures like Tiger Woods to illustrate each of these qualities. He shows us how people with integrity:Are able to connect with others and build trust Are oriented toward reality Finish well Embrace the negative Are oriented toward increase Have an understanding of the transcendentSuccess is not related to only talent or brains. There are a lot of bright, talented people who are never successful. And the most successful are not only the ones with the most talent. The real factor, Cloud demonstrates, is the makeup of the person. All of us can grow in the kinds of real character that bring about fruitful relationships and achievement of purpose, mission, and goals. Integrity is not something that you either have or don't, but instead is an exciting growth path that all of us can engage in and enjoy.
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg - 2007
Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman. Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of “go-givers:” a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a real estate broker, and the “Connector,” who brought them all together. Pindar’s friends share with Joe the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and teach him how to open himself up to the power of giving. Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to giving—putting others’ interests first and continually adding value to their lives—ultimately leads to unexpected returns. Imparted with wit and grace, The Go-Giver is a heartwarming and inspiring tale that brings new relevance to the old proverb “Give and you shall receive.”
The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
Mark Sanborn - 2002
Because of that, he is constantly going the extra mile handling the mail – and sometimes watching over the houses – of the people on his route, treating everyone he meets as a friend. Where others might see delivering mail as monotonous drudgery, Fred sees an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those he serves.We’ve all encountered people like Fred in our lives. In THE FRED FACTOR, Mark Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each of us can take to transform our own lives from the ordinary – into the extraordinary. Sanborn, through stories about Fred and others like him, reveals the four basic principles that will help us bring fresh energy and creativity to our life and work: how to make a real difference everyday, how to become more successful by building strong relationships, how to create real value for others without spending a penny, and how to constantly reinvent yourself. By following these principles, and by learning from and teaching other “Freds,” you, too, can excel in your career and make your life extraodinary. As Mark Sanborn makes clear, each of us has the potential be a Fred.THE FRED FACTOR shows you how.
The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work
Ted Leonsis - 2010
Through research studies, personal stories, and anecdotal evidence from celebrities, famous athletes, and influential businessmen, Ted reveals the six secrets to achieving true happiness—and how they make success almost inevitable. Showing people exactly how they can apply the six secrets to their work, at home, and in their personal lives, Leonsis also reveals how some of the most successful and happy people today—Bono, Michael Jordan, Steve Case—have put these secrets into practice for themselves. Dynamic, inspiring, and unique, The Business of Happiness proves that anyone can be more successful and happier, including you.