Work Development

A comprehensive, practical guide for the busy working woman to enable better understanding of yourself, your goals and how to identify and change negative behaviours and beliefs, manage stress and overwhelm and to practice better self-care. You deserve a happy, abundant, empowered and balanced personal and working life.

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.

Mindfulness at Work Essentials for Dummies explores the many benefits of utilizing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals, and business people of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills. You'll discover the key concepts of mindfulness and quickly grasp how its implementation in the workplace is a win-win for you, your team, and your organization as a whole.

Tactical Boundaries will show you how to have richer relationships with others, including yourself. You will learn to invest your energy and new skills in those who are willing to reciprocate, making the relationships thrive for everyone involved.

Developed with input from friends and professionals who share a passion for expanding their lives, Whatever Works offers practical insights for living a life of purpose and happiness—without relying on expensive programs from gurus or corporations.

A frequent contributor to many popular media outlets including the NY Times, O Magazine, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, and Fast Company, Dr. Clark has made it abundantly clear that rethinking anxiety, as a tool we can use to our advantage, can help us manage it more effectively. Weaving together modern neuroscience, case studies, interviews, and personal anecdotes, Hack Your Anxiety demonstrates how anxiety can be reclaimed as a powerful energy source, bringing you growth, success, and peace.

Have you reached a plateau with the project you’ve been working on? Maybe you’re struggling to organize your ideas or turn them into action. Or maybe you’ve found that you’re not working as hard as you were at the beginning. Whatever the holdup is, you can learn to overcome it so you can get back on track. This program has been designed to ramp up your performance and make you work harder and smarter.

When slighted, misunderstood, cut-in-front-of, annoyed, taken advantage of, or treated rudely, most people avoid their bosses, ignore co-workers, change hairdressers, complain to friends, shout and pound their fists. They often miss the most positive, effective alternative of all: confronting positively. Now, for everyone who was never taught, or never realized, that between "bully" and "wimp" is a range of behavior that is positive, dignified, and effective for dealing with life's bothersome situations.

Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths Through Work and Motherhood aims to provide listeners with stories and research that support the notion of women owning and feeling confident in the choices they make as they navigate a complex series of work and family transitions. This book challenges the impulse to reduce work/life challenges to a single point in time, such as the decision to return to work after the birth of a child; instead, it recognizes that work and family decisions are anything but stagnant.

BE CREATIVE is one of a series of card and communication games that are designed to be both entertaining and stimulate discussion about these topics. They can be played just for fun at a party or to have a serious discussion.

Feeling stuck, repeating emotional patterns, or struggling with relationships? What if healing means embracing parts of yourself you've been taught to suppress? Transformative Shadow Work is your all-in-one guide, workbook, and journal to help you integrate your hidden self, break free from triggers, and embrace self-acceptance.

Stop juggling; start managing everything you need to do at home and at work. It used to be simple: Stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. You needed that mindset to get where you are, but that's not going to cut it anymore. You need to make different choices to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member. Getting It All Done can't teach you how to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenge of succeeding at work while making sure your family is housed, fed, healthy, safe, and educated.

People have been sharing their life stories with Psychologist Allison Keating for the past 18 years and the words she hears most often are ‘I feel overwhelmed’, followed by ‘I thought I’d have it figured out by now’. Adulthood is tough. As we try to divide ourselves between our partner, children, parents, siblings, friends and colleagues, it is no wonder we can feel overwhelmed, often neglecting the most important relationship of all - the one we have with ourselves.

It’s true. We’ve all believed something that wasn’t true and been been trapped by a fear, an emotion, a circumstance or relationship. In my book “Pretty Much Everything You Try Doesn’t Work,” I share five steps to help you break free from what is holding you back from living your best life. I've experienced disappointments as you have, but we've learned we can't quit. In the book "Pretty Much Everything You Try Doesn't Work" the listener will learn how to identify the trap, make a decision not to be that way anymore.

Ever felt tongue-tied in conversations? You're not alone. Many of us struggle to express ourselves, connect with others, or handle tricky discussions. But imagine being able to chat confidently with anyone, anywhere. Picture yourself resolving conflicts effortlessly, building stronger relationships, and feeling heard and understood. This book is your roadmap to becoming a conversation master. Inside, you'll discover five simple yet powerful rules that will transform the way you communicate.

In Thoughts That Control You, you’ll learn how to catch the mental traps — procrastination, overthinking, and burnout — that quietly sabotage your success. You’ll understand why your brain resists effort, how fear disguises itself as logic, and how to reprogram your inner dialogue to create unstoppable momentum.

In Day in, Day Out, Nick Dancer invites you to build a life on the timeless principles that have brought out the best in humankind since the beginning. Technology has changed our lives, but nothing has changed about the battle inside of us - we want a great business and life, but have been told we can do it differently.

In a world that rewards hustle and glorifies excess, Kedren Crosby found herself drained by the very life she worked so hard to build—overwhelmed by work, overstimulated by technology, and overloaded with everything from commitments to clutter.

When you speak, do people lean in? When they hear you, do others feel impressed, challenged, motivated or inspired? Through tested frameworks and instantly applicable techniques, How to Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Every Time shows you how to use your words and your body language to engage and persuade. With this handbook, you'll learn crucial communication skills for delivering with impact in any professional setting ? be it in the boardroom, your next sales meeting or interpersonal interactions. Master how to deliver your message with conviction, confidence and clarity.

The Power of Delta Phi explains and enables listeners to adopt principles that empower them to move beyond the constraints of resisting the ever-present change in our lives, so that they may actively pursue solutions to improvise, overcome, and adapt to the ever-changing world we live in. The book sets down a set of eight principles that, when properly utilized, will provide the foundation upon which a person can build a less stressful environment controlled more by their own design and less by chance.