Work Motivation

What if everything you thought you needed to do to succeed was actually standing in the way of your success? Tama Kieves, Harvard-lawyer-turned-career-coach, has spent the last decade crossing the United States and Canada, speaking to tens of thousands of people and sharing her inspiring story of moving from a career that was killing her to a life that has uplifted her. She has mentored thousands of people who, with her help, have followed their passion, and now live their dream lives.

In today’s fast-moving world, strategy isn’t just a business buzzword—it’s the difference between winning and falling behind. Winning with Strategy is a practical, powerful guide to building a strategy that actually works—one that rallies your team, aligns your organization, and drives results. Drawing on over 20 years of real-world experience—from Fortune 500 giants to high-growth startups—Robert Frost shares a proven, repeatable framework for turning vision into action.

Welcome to the gender penalties that sideline women from the game of work. The Gender Penalty is a playbook for navigating career success in a male-dominated environment. If you want to stand out without stepping on toes, get what you want without compromising who you are, and make your mark without becoming someone you’re not, this audiobook is for you.

Do you want to build a rewarding career? No matter if you're a college student just planning your future career or a seasoned employee, you've probably answered with yes. But if you have any work experience, you've definitely noticed that building a career takes more effort than just showing up. Your managers have high expectations of you...but what exactly do they want? While you're wondering about this, you might already be making mistakes that will cost you your job!

What will it take to accomplish Christ's mission in our lifetime? That's the question evangelicals have been asking for over a century, but our efforts to reach the unreached and finish the task have often sacrificed the important for the immediate. The greatest challenge in evangelical missions isn't a lack of urgency, but a lack of discernment. As we've prioritized movements that are simple and reproducible, the gospel and faithful churches are now threatened. In Mission Affirmed, Elliot Clark seeks to reshape our motivation by considering the example of Paul the missionary.

For many employees, feeling burned out and uninspired is nothing new. But going through the motions impairs more than just work performance - it affects your well-being. Wouldn't it be better to feel as engaged and energized as you were on day one? Fortunately, everyone has the ability to rekindle inspiration. The key is to quit waiting for it to happen and take control of the process yourself. Whether you're wrestling with fear, disconnectedness, boredom, or other issues, Find the Fire helps shake off the malaise and dial up the motivation.

After decades of building a tech career, author Debbie Levitt is one of many people with questions, anxieties, and doubts. As a mentor and coach, the employed and unemployed often ask her, “What happened to tech jobs?” and “What will I do next?” Life After Tech is your personal and proactive journey. Eighteen introspective exercises—plus templates and examples—make Life After Tech a guide and a workbook. Use the "Phoenix Flight Plan" to get grounded, plan, rise, and soar.

Are you ready to unleash your awesome? Drawing on strengths research and real-world experience, Daria Williamson has created this practical, easy-to-implement handbook to help you to get clarity on what you love, what you’re great at, and how you can achieve more without sacrificing your wellbeing. Built for motivated, busy people, Unleash Your Awesome is full of simple exercises you can use to identify and leverage your strengths, and create the kind of life and work you’ve been dreaming of.

Mira Tasich, a loyal, hardworking, and devoted employee of several large corporations, finds herself unemployed, a victim of the recession. As a young teenager, she moved to America, learned a new language, and gained prestige and career success only to get laid off in a corporate downsizing. Frustrated, angry, and confused, she struggles to justify the familial and personal sacrifices made over the years for her employers, including a 2,141-mile move away from family and friends to the Southwest.

Every parent hopes their child will develop healthy and happy friendships. However, most parents don't know what to do that will encourage their child to be a friend and attract friends. The author offers clear-cut friendship-making guidelines for parents and their children. Some of the audiobook's recommendations include: Don't overschedule a child's time; guide children to participate in "friend-attracting" activities seek out friends in the neighborhood.

Are your employees feeling exhausted, cynical, or just tuned-out? Do they frequently check their phones in meetings, and seem especially uninterested to hear about the next important organizational change? Ill too often or for too long? These are some of the classic warning signs of disengagement. In a perfect world, work should do so much for us. It should lend us purpose and a sense of meaning, offer us structure and stability. But invariably, something goes wrong - many employees have to pull themselves over the fence each day at a job that is burning them out.

Too often we’ve been told to go to college, get a good job, start a family, pay off debt, then run off into retirement happily ever after. For those of us struggling to embrace this concept, let alone make “ends meet,” it can feel overwhelming to navigate the world of work. For those of us that want to align our purpose with the work we do, find our calling, or live out our dreams this journey can be tough. This book will tap into 10 years of life in the career development space unpacking powerful stories, strategies, psychology theory and biblical truth that has helped countless people.

We have to make decisions all the time. But were any of us taught at school, college or work how to make better decisions? This book, by Sharon Curry and Andrew St George, provides a very simple system for making good decisions, tried and tested in a wide variety of workplaces, and under extreme conditions with clients from military to health to commercial to consultancies to international governments. The process derives from the Royal Marines and military planning, fully extended and adapted to match the challenges of everyday lives.

Paul Hichens transformed his own mundane office-block existence into doing something he loves in a fantastic location, and has since helped and guided thousands of people to change their job/career and improve their lifestyle. Dramatically improve your job, career, and work life balance.

Many doctors are at a crossroads. How to find a career that you feel passionate about, protects your autonomy, and provides a growing and sustainable income? You create it. This audiobook details one doctor’s journey from burnt-out employee to successful entrepreneur, providing you a road map in becoming your own boss. You will learn ho to: Leverage your medical expertise into lucrative opportunities, escalate your financial level through multiple streams of income, start a side business while still employed, and work smarter, not harder without trading time for dollars.

Find Your Hedgehog and Stop Working is not about relaxing on a beach or working a few hours a week. It’s about finding what you love to do so that work no longer feels like work. By following these principles you will reinvigorate your passion, sharpen your skills, and explode your profits.

With great tenderness, transparency, and candor, Tami Longaberger opens her heart, offering readers a glimpse of her unique American Dream, the kind not handed down or given freely, but earned by hard work and fierce tenacity. Longaberger prompts listeners to dream bigger, think more broadly, and risk taking the road less traveled in business and in life.

Employee engagement drives superior performance - it's that simple. Good leaders know this, and take active steps to promote it. Yet engagement is a two-way street; no program works without employees stepping up and participating. If you're a leader, this participation is the key to your team's breakthrough results. If you're a team member, it's the ticket for more life satisfaction and career advancement.

This book uses acronyms and a positive attitude to shape how you set and reach your goals, increase a sense of happiness in your life, and add more exercise and peace. The main acronym used throughout the book is WORK: willpower, overcoming, relationships, and kinetics. Learn about yourself while discovering work as your talent, and see how that talent comes in handy throughout every aspect of your life. Not only will this book allow you to grow a sense of awareness of the world around you, but you will take the time to learn how the world works in ways you can understand.

Imagine walking into work each day with more joy, energy, and purpose. Now you can. And you can set a meaningful example for those around you. Thriving at Work will inspire and empower you to make positive self-care a daily habit, carry yourself with more confidence, eliminate 99 percent of stressful drama with one simple sentence, and make a meaningful difference, right where you are.