Career Stress

Venture-backed companies are expected to grow at high velocity, raise large amounts of capital, and build teams effectively to achieve unicorn - no, decacorn - status. Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities, and black swan events. The Resilient Founder addresses the fundamentals of understanding our own inner workings and explores practical ways of overcoming our inner hurdles. Filled with simple, yet concrete strategies, lessons, and insights, founders and business leaders can work with stress, anxiety, and other mental challenges.

Take everything you have been taught about peak performance and set it aside. You’re making it harder than it has to be. Ever notice that when you’re at your best, you’re in the flow and things feel effortless? You’re not struggling to think positive and work harder. Janet McKee calls that state of being “stressless success”, and she shows you how to flip your own internal switch. As a Fortune 500 corporate executive who almost died from massive burnout and then rose from the ashes, Janet McKee is dedicating her life to helping others succeed without stress.

Struggling? Juggling? Drowning? Argh! These experiences of being overwhelmed can be a common part of a normal day or week in our life. Yes, the world can be an overwhelming place. We might have an emotional experience of being overwhelmed. We can experience the "too much" workload - too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.

Gallup CEO Jim Clifton has pointed out that, “an increasing number of people in the world are miserable, hopeless, suffering, and becoming dangerously unhappy”. Something is profoundly wrong, and it must be addressed. Dr. Trevor Blattner’s thesis detailed in Redefining the Top 1% is simple. Leaders must break away from the current trend of despair and self-destruction by becoming a leader of themselves and those around them. And not just any sort of leader, but a very particular type of leader. They must become a Shepherd Leader.

Living Wisely - For Millennials & Beyond by psychologist Barry M. Cohen explores the essential life skills that millennials beginning their journeys through life - as well as all the rest of us - need to live wisely and well throughout our lives. Throughout the book, scientific research and contributions from psychology, medicine, and renowned life coaches validate each skill and illustrate how it contributes to well-being. All those seeking to gain healthy life habits for self-improvement will find the book an invaluable resource.

According to the data published by the American Psychological Association, 20 percent of adult Americans are chronic procrastinators. That is higher than the number of people diagnosed with any mental or physical health issue. The good news is that improving productivity and bringing procrastination under control are well-researched topics. With some effort, you can follow the path to procrastinate less and produce more.

Unsere Welt dreht sich immer schneller. Das Pensum, das wir täglich in Beruf, Familie und Freizeit erledigen müssen, steigt. Stress und Überforderung sind die Folge. Mit all unseren Kalendern und To-do-Listen übersehen wir dabei, dass wir Menschen und keine Maschinen sind, die ständig die gleiche Leistung bringen können. Um viel zu erreichen, sollten wir deshalb nicht nur unsere Zeit, sondern vor allem unsere Energien bestmöglich nutzen. Mathias Fischedick zeigt, wie wir ganz einfach mehr erreichen können, wenn wir unsere Kräfte richtig einsetzen.

Infused with eye-opening insights and strategically practical tools, this book will help you understand and integrate the seven mindfulness habits that will empower you to rewrite your “high-performer pain” stories, recreate healthy boundaries between work and life, reduce your anxiety, depression, and exhaustion, realign with your values and create congruence, return your clarity, focus, and optimism, and more.

You have spent some time learning all the skills it takes to be a good cop, deputy, agent, or civilian member of a law enforcement agency. You have proven yourself on the front lines. You relied on tools such as protective instruments, defensive tactics, handcuffs, firearms, and your experience. In short, you've been a superhero. To successfully transition from superhero to supervisor requires a new set of tools and skills: soft skills.

An alarming 39 percent of workers in high-tech companies believe they are depressed, as reported by PC Magazine in December 2018. Seventy-two percent of people who have daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives - anxiety and stress alone have reduced productivity by 56 percent. Previous generations used to say, "Work harder," but we've now learned we must "work smarter." Polak has practiced and tested his methods in hundreds of opportunities. He feels that every individual and business should have these tools, and will share them with us here.

For so many women, "work-life balance" is a myth. And when you're already juggling a career, personal life, and family - plus your side projects, a smidgen of self-care, and the occasional need to sleep - "mindfulness" can sound like just another thing to do. But if you take five minutes for mindfulness now and then, it may not only save your sanity - but also springboard your success. Let psychotherapist Shonda Moralis coach you through 50 "mindful breaks" ingeniously tied to your hectic schedule

¡Descubre cómo silenciar a tu crítico interno, contrarrestar el sesgo de tu cerebro hacia la negatividad y aprender a reconectar tu mente para ser feliz y tranquilo con técnicas probadas y probadas con el tiempo! En este revelador y práctico audiolibro, Adesh Silva se salta la pelusa común en la mayoría de los libros de autoayuda y le muestra hábitos poderosos que puede usar para "piratear" su biología y su mente, ayudándole a lidiar efectivamente con el estrés y otros trastornos mentales en su vida cotidiana.

Our jobs can become such an important part of our identity that we walk the treacherous line between loving our work and speeding towards burnout. An always-on culture, the cult of busyness and blurred boundaries mean that work and life can become seriously out of balance. So, if you are burnt out, are anxious, feel like an impostor, or are caught in a cycle of procrastination, this life-changing book contains all the advice you need to restore your balance and get back on track.

Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media is for anyone who needs to be reminded that we're all a work in progress, no matter what judgments we make when measuring our lives against what others share online. In her debut book, award-winning journalist and sought-after speaker Jessica Abo addresses the relationship between our psychology and technology and how we can take back our happiness IRL (in real life) without falling into the compare-and-despair trap.

Slay procrastination, distractions, and overwhelm! The Inefficiency Assassin presents a revolution in time management books - a way to improve productivity and kick chaos to the curb once and for all! This book is exactly what professionals-on-the-go and entrepreneurs need! This time management book addresses and solves every known productivity roadblock known to man...and woman. Listeners who implement the strategies and tactics in this guide will never have an issue with time management again.

Feeling rushed, out of control, and overwhelmed?Feeling like you can’t keep up…and can’t stop? It’s not just you. Dr. Brown offers a step-by-step plan for breaking out of the speed trap. With practical guidelines, she shows us how to ease up on the gas pedal and reconnect with ourselves, learning to accept - and value - our limitations as human beings, reduce our stress levels, and free ourselves from our counterproductive obsession with speed.

Long hours. Juggling family and work. Deadlines. High stress levels. Professionals are feeling more overworked and overwhelmed than ever before. Yet you CAN get more done than you ever thought possible and still get home to your real life sooner. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, shows you how.

Wir werden überschwemmt: unsere Smartphones vibrieren bei jeder Headline, unsere Aufmerksamkeit wird besonders vom Schrillen, Extremen und Exotischen eingefangen. Ob in Wirtschaft, Politik, Bildung, überall Kurzwahrheiten im Sekundentakt. Doch was bitte, ist jetzt wichtig? Was stimmt überhaupt? Und ist es uns wirklich wichtig, ob es stimmt? Wer versteht noch das Ganze? Gunter Dueck nimmt uns mit in den Dschungel an der Hirn-Quickie-Front.

Nobody knows better than millennial and Gen Z professionals how rapid technological development has inundated post-pandemic work. Organizational researcher Craig Mattson listens to their stories and builds a framework for coping with digital overwhelm at work. This book won’t tell you to declutter your digital life or to end capitalism now. But what you can do, suggests Professor Mattson, is change how you attend to zones where technological disruption meets emotional pressure. Calling these zones modes of communication, this book urges you to practice mode-switching.

Der alltägliche Stress hat Dich im Griff und Du weißt nicht, wie Du ihn im Zaum halten kannst? Du willst endlich mal wieder Deine Mitte finden, entspannt und glücklich den Alltag gestalten? Mal wieder die Sorgen vergessen und das Leben aktiv und energiegeladen neu genießen? Dann ist dieser Ratgeber genau das Richtige. Hier erfährst Du, wie Du mit einfachen, alltagstauglichen und erprobten Methoden langfristig Deinen Stress in die richtigen Bahnen lenken kannst. Und dafür brauchst Du keine besonderen Geräte, spezielle Lebensmittel oder teure Kurse.