Time Stress Management

Does your heart pound at night, and make it impossible to sleep? Do you lie awake and overthink every little thing? Is stress and anxiety a constant in your life? As soon as your head hits the pillow, the war begins. You need to wake up early the next day, but you just can’t get to sleep. One negative thought leads to another and before you know it they’re spiraling out of control, and you instantly feel dark and foreboding. Worst of all, it follows you into another groggy day.

Do you have trouble unwinding after a stressful day? Do you lie down at night and spend hours trying to get to sleep? But, it feels like you just can't stop thinking about what you forgot to do today, what you could've done better, what you need to get done tomorrow, or what happens if something unexpected happens. Your brain keeps on going even though you desperately want to rest. Even worse, it feels like you are focused on negative things. And all you want is rest. You want to shut your brain down!

Digital Detox hands you a science-backed roadmap to escape screen overload and reclaim the calm, focused life you remember. Behavioral psychologist Dr Anya Sharma unpacks the neurological, psychological, and social costs of always-on living—then gives you practical steps to reverse them.

American baby boomers are aging, and 15 million of them never had children. Who will take care of them? Unprecedented in US history, this demographic will create challenges for these individuals, as well as for society. This book is a passionate exploration of the path ahead for "Solo Agers". Author Sara Zeff Geber takes listeners on a journey, starting with the choice for childlessness and then suggests ways in which Solo Agers can mitigate the absence of adult children by relationship-building and rigorous planning for their future.

What if you had everything you needed to overcome stress and boost your well-being, without spending a fortune or making unrealistic lifestyle changes? “It’s just a bit of stress,” you tell yourself… “Next week will be different!”. However, as the weeks and months go by, there is no sign of this pressure lifting. If anything, the weight on your shoulders gets heavier. It’s not just the mental clutter that exhausts you.

You get to choose how to spend your 1,440 minutes, every day! Are you happy with how you’re spending your time now? Are your expectations reasonable? Are you ready to stop constant distractions and interruptions? Does being happy and fulfilled at work matter to you? Do you have a system for making decisions about how you spend your time? This audiobook is your guide to harness the mind-set and tools of the Making Minutes Matter Method.

As recent scientific research shows, the simple act of praying can be emotionally, spiritually, and even physically healing. With Prayers for Hard Times, author Becca Anderson offers solace in bringing together the wisdom of great thinkers, spiritual leaders, and writers who have faced difficulty and learned from it. This audio daybook draws from sacred sources such as the Bible, the Torah, Buddhist and Native American texts, as well as inspirational writings of: Joan Didion, Elizabeth Gilbert, Maya Angelou, Rumi, Abraham Lincoln, and many others.

Are distractions sabotaging your efforts to get ahead? Do you feel like you're constantly plagued by technology or interruptions by others? Lurking around us are forces-labeled demons-that interrupt our flow of attention and psychic energy and it's time to fight back! This book is designed to arm workforce employees, independent professionals, and family managers with simple, yet powerful strategies to defeat the 8 Demons of Distraction.

"Be brave. Be kind. Fight fires." That's the motto of firefighters, like Hersch Wilson, who spend their lives walking toward, rather than away from, danger and suffering. In this unique collection of true stories and practical wisdom, Wilson shares the Zen-like techniques that allow people like him to stay grounded while navigating danger, comforting others, and coping with their personal response to each crisis. As in Zen practice, firefighters are trained to be fully in the moment and present to the heartbeat, the life at hand.

You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, 17 bills to pay, 36 e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you would love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You cannot add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will help you make the most of the time you do have and get things done.

It takes just 10 minutes a day to train your mind - you will feel more awake, more alive and more creative. Using these carefully researched exercises, you can increase your attention span, realise your potential and use your mind to its full capacity.

Imagine life without debilitating stress... When You Need a Time Out - take it to reduce everyday anxiety and stress with proven stress relief and relaxation techniques. Feeling irritable, fatigued, and overwhelmed lately? Does juggling the roles of career, homemaker and/or caregiver cause mood swings that drain your strength? Make you impatient...angry or short tempered? These are signs of your body under stress.

This self-help book will give you a strong mental edge so you can break through stagnant, confining barriers that often make you feel like you cannot reach your full potential.

The adult world is stressful. It is incredibly difficult to live in a world where you are constantly connected to everyone and everything. You cannot escape responsibilities, bills, expenses, relationship troubles, or anything else; it can all weigh you down, making it hard for you to cope with your daily stressors. There are things you can control, and there are things you cannot. What is within your control is choosing how to respond to the world around you and how you can better cope with stressors. These mindfulness-focused bedtime stories will help.

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.

Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn't evolved to our 21st-century, stress-filled lifestyles, and we're paying the price—we're dEvolving. The Resiliency rEvolution is your stress solution. Rather than letting stress diminish your life, you can become more resilient to it. Using your primitive hardwiring to your advantage, you can learn how to recover from stress more quickly and raise your threshold for it. Utilizing realistic and manageable tactics, you'll soon be on your way toward a more resilient life.

In challenging times (like the ones we're living in right now), spiritual practice isn't a luxury, it's an absolute necessity. Now, expert teacher Philip Goldberg offers a hands-on guide based on his decades of scholarship and practical experience, giving listeners a wide range of tools and techniques - from meditation to cognitive reframing to "spiritual space management" - to relieve their minds and refresh their souls.

Both inner and outer journeys are needed for us to shift out of the energy of fear and violence into the place of peace and love. In Soldier of Love, TJ Bartel tells the story of his climb out of a life of violence and dysfunction into a life devoted to love. TJ shares vulnerably about the tough times he’s faced and the potent spiritual lessons he has learned, providing a blueprint others can follow to help themselves and the world.

Ever been stressed out by the clutter on your desk? Or when you’re trying to find an important document, or a specific outfit from a messy closet? The truth is – the more stuff we have, the more difficult it is to keep them organized. The more clutter and mess we end up with as a result can lead to a stressful day, and this stress can build up over time. This has to stop.

Penguin presents The Shed Method, written and read by Sara Milne Rowe. Wishing to be better at something lies at the heart of modern life: a bad week to a better week, a frustrated parent to a better parent, an anxious speaker to better speaker, a burnt-out colleague to a better colleague. Doing anything new or better might sound simple, but in practice it can be tricky. The Shed Method is a mind-management system that offers practical advice for improving your decision making.