Productive Parenting

Ever felt like you've done absolutely nothing but procrastinated and stayed unproductive? Who hasn’t? We've all been there. It definitely doesn't take rocket science to tell us that it is simply not a healthy habit. Jackie DiCap had seen it, been there, done that, and had fallen at the hands of this vicious cycle. Fortunately, not only did DiCap break out of this loop, he can also let you in on the secret.

With its practical advice and compassionate tone, The Myth of Laziness shows parents how to nurture their child's strengths and improve their classroom productivity. Most important, it shows how correcting these problems in childhood will help children live a fulfilling and productive adult life.

Being a parent is the toughest job in the world, especially with the increasing number of negative influences and pitfalls facing our kids today, from childhood obesity and out-of-control celebrity culture to the dangers of the internet and credit card debt. Larry Winget has never been one to shy away from tough truths, and what he says here may well be difficult for some parents to swallow: we are in the midst of a crisis with our kids.

We’ve all been around those people who can leave us feeling drained after an encounter with them. Some people can leave us feeling agitated or annoyed or even just feeling really bad about ourselves. The most important thing you need to understand when dealing with someone like this is that their behavior toward you has nothing to do with you, and more often reflects their inner mental and emotional state. Identifying their harmful behavior is the first step to minimizing their impact. You might not be able to change what they do, but you can change what you do with it.

In the modern world, distractions are everywhere. From the phone in your hand constantly beeping out notifications to the chatter of an open plan workplace, there is no shortage of elements in your environment that make it hard to focus on a task at hand. With the right mental tools you can learn to tune out the noise and sharpen your concentration. This program has been designed to train your brain to stay focused even when the world around you throws you off balance. It can help you enhance your concentration, have more productive days, and achieve better results at work.

The things we want most - peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work - are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds.

This meditation and self-hypnosis program is perfect for both beginners and those who are experienced with hypnosis. It'll help you wake up with energy, focus, and motivation. Create a lasting, positive outlook first thing when you get up, and see how much more productive and incredible your days become. Your mind will receive deep hypnotic suggestions for positive change, deeply relaxing your mind and body and helping you remove any blocks, self-doubt, or negative self-beliefs.

We live in a world where it seems like everyone is busy. We apologize to our friends for being too busy to go out and meet them and even complain about being too busy, but with a hint of boasting, as if we are constantly accomplishing things. But is that what’s really happening? Could we be working harder and more often, but not really getting things done? This program has been designed to transform your ways of thinking and working so you can become more efficient with your time and effort.

In this book, you will learn that developing good habits will require discipline and the implementation of several lifestyle changes. And aside from implementing changes, you must learn to build on your successes, so you don’t fall back into your lethargic ways. To do all of this, I have laid out a road map towards becoming a more successful and productive person. The first step will always require introspection.

Productive ME is about learning how to deal with the dizzying array of information, projects, and tasks that confront us daily. It's a battle plan for how to get it all together—and remain sane in the process. This book shows you how to take the most effective professional and personal practices—individualized for your own personality and working style—and put them together in a way that lets you get the job done. This book will teach you how to operate at the peak of efficiency with less stress. The end result: a productive you with a finished product, not a to-do!

How many hours have you wasted casually browsing the Internet on your phone? How many episodes of that TV show you’ve already seen a dozen times before did you watch last night? And are you getting enough sleep? If we did a genuine time audit of our lives, the results would probably be frightening. Although leisure is an important part of life, we can learn to keep it from taking over and preventing us from accomplishing our goals. This program has been designed to ramp up your output and make your time work for you.

There is one priceless asset that no one can retrieve once it is lost - time. Every person has the same hours in the day...so how come some people knock out their to-do lists - while others can barely get through a few tasks? For many, the bare-bones excuse is procrastination. Laziness sneaks up on many of us in the form of daydreaming, avoiding a task, or just goofing off instead of getting to work. Think of how much more you could accomplish if you could tame this unproductive habit. This program is meant to help you do just that.

Mind hacking - What exactly is “mind hacking?” “Mind hacking” is about getting your mind to do things your mind doesn’t know it can do or isn’t doing, things that you want it to do. The mind is extremely powerful, but it has no direction, and that’s where you come into play. Memory Improvement - What if I told you that after listening to this book you will be able to remember more, recall your memories faster, make better decisions, and even achieve your goals?

As a first-time manager, Sally felt lonely, stressed, and completely overwhelmed. It affected her life at work and at home. It took an ultimatum from her husband to stop the downward spiral. In turn, Sally became inspired to acquire new skills and insights to transform herself into a truly productive and successful leader. Her story, and the decades of coaching and passion to ensure managers, leaders and employers don’t go through what she did, is at the center of The Productive Leader. This book provides an opportunity to see time management and productivity in a new way.

Productive Accidents shows how a framework for curiosity and creativity can also be a recipe for innovation and adventure. There are 10 actionable insights that can be applied by individuals, families, or companies. The more you experiment with these ideas the more you realise that serendipity can be predictable and repeatable experience.

Are you still on your journey to become a productivity master? With this book, you'll learn all about why you need to "do it now", be flexible, use single handling, why failure is your friend, triage ruthlessly, identify and recover wasted time, apply the 80-20 rule, and more. Enjoy this book and enhance your productivity today. Not tomorrow, today.

In a world filled with distractions, mastering time management becomes even more crucial for those seeking to improve their daily routines and make lasting lifestyle changes. By understanding and implementing effective time management techniques, individuals can create a structured approach that promotes not only efficiency but also personal growth.

Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.

Anyone privileged with the choice of how they spend their time is cursed with a common struggle...work-life balance. 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?

ADHD is a disorder that continues to be researched, but as an adult, you don’t have the time to wait for the perfect cure. You need real and proven strategies and coping mechanisms before your life spirals out of control because of ADHD.