Great Parenting

You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet, you feel like you are constantly treading water with "good work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "bad work" - endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps. Do More Great Work gets to the heart of the problem: Even the best performers are spending less than a fraction of their time doing "great work" - the kind of innovative work that pushes us forward, stretches our creativity, and truly satisfies us.

We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in their kids than ever, but the shocking lesson of twin and adoption research is that upbringing is much less important than genetics in the long run. These revelations have surprising implications for how we parent and how we spend time with our kids. The big lesson: Mold your kids less and enjoy your life more. Your kids will still turn out fine. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is a book of practical big ideas.

Norman Vincent Peale's self-help phenomenon The Power of Positive Thinking continues to transform countless lives. The volumes collected here serve to expand and deepen Dr. Peale's life-changing philosophy of positivity.

Do you need some good parenting advice and tips? This book is for you! There are many books on recovering from the trauma of child abuse, but not many that focus on the job of parenting afterwards. This groundbreaking self-help book reinforces the importance of healing the damage to be the best parent you can be. While the subject is heavy, there are many light and humorous moments throughout the book, especially in the parenting scenarios. This is a parenting book with useful tips, whether you came from abuse or not.

Growing Up Great is a body-positive guide to getting through puberty confidently by respecting the body and all of its changes. From how to handle the physical rollercoaster to coping with out-of-whack feelings, this book has your teen’s back - so they can focus on all of the good stuff ahead. When it comes to puberty books for boys, this one has it all.

Joining the ranks of Tarcher's runaway editions of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Public Speaking for Success by Dale Carnegie, and The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, here are three landmark guides to a life of prosperity-now restored to print in beautiful, signature volumes. Newly discovered by fans of The Secret, the metaphysical writer Wallace D. Wattles distills the rules of real power and personal achievement in his slender, immensely practical The Science of Being Great-the companion work to The Science of Getting Rich.

Arguing is probably one of the more frustrating things to do, especially if you're not arguing with someone who's equally matched. There are some tips and tricks that might help you win an argument, and it is important to remember that the best arguments are always backed up with data.

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.

What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parenting today into bite-sized pieces with real examples, useful tips, and tools and techniques that parents can apply right away.

We want to raise well-rounded human beings—we're just not quite sure how best to do it. Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously rewards stereotypical masculinity and is increasingly hostile to boys. Written by an in-the-trenches #boymom who intimately understands male development and the challenges currently facing boys and their families, Building Boys offers ten rules that parents can use to guide their parenting choices throughout their sons' lives.

In relationships, there are two kinds of people: reactors and creators. If you want stronger personal and professional connections, the keys to a happy, successful life, you need to stop responding to other people's shortcomings and start forming the relationships you want for yourself.

Our dreams give us insights into hidden truths and guide us to solutions to our problems. Dream expert Layne Dalfen gives listeners an overview of dream analysis, enabling you to grasp easily how to uncover why you had that dream last night, and more importantly, how to go about uncovering the solutions that appear there! Packed with dream charts, journaling techniques, and fascinating true success stories of people who have worked with this system, this book will transform - for the better - the life of every dreamer.

This book is filled with inspiring stories from the lives of great achievers past and present including Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Wright Brothers, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Walt Disney, Warren Buffet, and others.

In a world where it’s no longer acceptable besides bars and clubs to tell her she’s attractive (at least without being rejected, receiving a sexual harassment lawsuit, and being publicly humiliated), there is only one place left for guys to go that’s safe to approach women and where women want a man’s attention: Online dating. When it comes to online dating, some men love it, while others shun it like a de-masculinizing plague. Online dating has a bad reputation among certain groups of men as being a waste of time or even an excuse to not meet women in the real world.

At its core, time blocking is a potent scheduling tool that, when properly set up and adhered to, has the power to change the direction of its wielder's life. There are two major sections to this publication. Part one is all about time blocking and what it offers you, it will put you into the right mindset for creating schedules for yourself to begin dominating your life, and part two will show you the most efficient ways I have found to practically put together and structure your days in practice without missing things or unnecessarily wasting time.

Use this guide to storytelling as a sturdy foundation to change how you use stories. You can build solid stories to support your goals in business and life. The provided examples are from some of the world's greatest speakers, storytellers, with advice from leading experts. From best-selling authors to generation-changing motivational speakers, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals of outstanding storytelling. It will help you deliver stories to audiences that will leave them personally affected and motivated.

Someone once said, “Good enough sucks!” It really does, especially if you are capable of much more. Why settle for a slice, when you originally set out to get the whole pie? This book is the recipe for getting the whole pie. A true road map for achieving greatness in every part of your life. This easy listen will inspire you to not settle for “good enough” and strive for greatness in everything you do. It's for everyone who wants to achieve more and reach new heights. Achieving greatness means you recognize there is room for improvement.

It's finally over.... Those three little painful words have been playing in your head. You understand that the relationship is over, but your heart just doesn't understand. You still love that person.... Unfortunately, the reality is that the relationship is already over. And now, all that is left is a bunch of aching feelings that seems impossible to get rid of no matter what you do. You have never felt as lonely, depressed, and rejected as you do now. This book will show you how to overcome your breakup and make you feel better about yourself!

This powerful two-in-one audiobook brings together Wallace D. Wattles’s most influential works on success, mindset, and personal transformation. In The Science of Getting Rich, Wattles lays out a practical, no-nonsense formula for generating wealth through focused thought, unwavering purpose, and aligned action—rejecting scarcity and embracing abundance as a mindset. In The Science of Being Great, he expands his philosophy into character, revealing how true greatness comes from self-mastery, integrity, and living in harmony with higher principles.

The Science of Being Great, Wallace D. Wattles' final word in self-mastery and his finest work, will be of value to every person who seeks true fulfillment and the awakening of his or her highest potential. With its powerful message, this book is for everyone, at any age, who wants to make the most of themselves. It is a companion work to his other classic, The Science of Getting Rich.