Productive Parenting

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.

In an increasingly polarized world, our only chance for coming together and moving forward is to learn from those who have mastered the art and science of disagreement. In this much-needed book, Ian Leslie explores what happens to us when we argue, why disagreement makes us stressed, and why we get angry. By drawing together the lessons he learns from different experts, he proposes a series of clear principles that we can all use to make our most difficult dialogues more productive—and our increasingly acrimonious world a better place.

Your thoughts are the only thing you have power over. You can take control of them and use them to build yourself up, connect with other people, and achieve success in life, or you can ignore them and continue to struggle with low self-confidence, poor productivity, and unnecessary suffering.

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.

All in all, Success Under Stress offers a veritable arsenal of "magic bullet" solutions - hundreds of situation-specific, quick-acting tips for defusing stress and boosting productivity. Complete with quizzes, examples, exercises, and more, this practical audiobook helps you gain control, exude calmness and confidence amid everyday chaos, and achieve the success you richly deserve.

Procrastination is the monster that we are always running from but not always successfully. The Science of Overcoming Procrastination is a deep dive into our tendency to push things until the last minute possible. It uncovers the biological and evolutionary science behind procrastination and how we can beat these instinctual drives to triumph in our career and personal life.

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.

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.

"No one asked you to show up." Every experienced product manager has heard some version of those words at some point in their career. Think about a company. Engineers build the product. Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. Sales get potential customers to open their wallets to buy the product. What more does a company need?

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.

Product management has become a critical function for modern organizations, from small startups to corporate enterprises. And yet, the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product managers are high-flying visionaries who build products that people love. In practice, they're hard-working facilitators who bring clarity and focus to their teams. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition, Matt LeMay provides real-world guidance for current and aspiring product managers.

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.

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.

Discover the revolutionary antidote to overload and exhaustion. Productivity speaker, trainer, and author Maura Nevel Thomas shows you how to master attention management with practical strategies that make an immediate impact.

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.

ADHD in men often looks different than you expect. Society tells you to be strong, decisive, and in control, but ADHD can make that feel impossible. If you're tired of feeling stuck and frustrated, The End of ADHD for Men gives you 11 powerful rules to master your mind, maximize productivity, and strengthen your relationships.

Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address? Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framework that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever.

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.

Most people don't know their actual potential because they never utilized it like hell in their work. Humans can work round the clock until they are exhausted. If we waste four hours a day, it means we are losing double hours of productivity. If pain is passing in your life, don't stick to it. Let it go as rapid as it can. If pleasure is passing in your life, grab the moment and hold it.

Trying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. By collecting all of your tasks in one place, you can reserve your mental energy for work that drives significant results, both in your professional life and your personal life. To start, productivity expert Maura Thomas takes us through an exercise called "brain dumping", which will clear your mind of all the things you're trying to remember you have to do - all the things that are distracting you or keeping you up at night.