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If you've got a teenager in your life, you probably need a dose of Dramamine. That's right - that little blue pill for motion sickness. You're probably queasy from the whirlwind of trying to keep up with their social calendar. You may feel dizzy from all the ups and downs of riding their emotional roller coaster. You might even have a headache from banging your head against the wall, feeling frustrated by an apparent failure to communicate. Well, before you commit any heinous acts - or take up karate as the family sport of choice....

Parenting great kids doesn’t happen by accident, and with the proper training, anyone can raise positive, motivated children. In today’s fast-paced culture, vast amounts of information bombard our children from all sides, competing for their attention. Nevertheless, research demonstrates that a parent’s involvement is the number-one contributing factor to the ultimate respectfulness and motivation of kids. So the question is, how do you structure your communications and activities with your children to create a positive attitude with a bright future?

The biggest obstacle that all sales distributors must overcome is fear: fear of rejection, fear of making decisions, fear of change, fear of failure, and of course, the big one - fear of success. It is this fear - and all of its cousins, such as worry, anxiety, and self-doubt - that paralyzes you and keeps you from higher levels of success. In this program, Lisa Jiminez provides a three-step process that empowers you to overcome fear, reject rejection, and be free to get on with creating and achieving what you really want.

Join a bestselling author and an internationally published psychologist in an entertaining look at successfully dealing with intimidating personality types. Get prepared for crucial conversations with the top seven personality types and learn how successful leaders deal with their challenges. Mastery in dealing with difficult people and tense situations is a learned skill, and through this program you will learn techniques that will allow you to easily and rapidly handle interpersonal communications issues.

Focus your mind like a laser beam at the touch of a button? You bet! There's no doubt about it: lack of focus dramatically impacts your ability to be effective, and it can make you come off as a little, well, less intelligent than you really are. In this era of information overload, it's easy to get lost in every shiny new object that comes along. Now you can learn to focus your mind on the task at hand to achieve any objective, complete any task, or reach a complex goal. Focus for Success is your secret weapon for overcoming distractions and achieving at a higher level. 

The phrase “getting things done” is almost a rallying cry for a generation of career professionals striving to make their mark on the world. In this program, Jeff Davidson, author of 56 mainstream books, 260 e-books, and 24 iPhone apps, discusses the nuances of what he does to maintain high personal productivity hour after hour, day after day. It's the little things that count, and Jeff shares oodles of tips, tactics, and strategies to help you become more efficient, more effective, and more accomplished starting right now.

Kevin L. McCrudden takes commonsense ideas—such as “When you fail to plan, you plan to fail” and “insanity” defined as doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results—and simplifies them for all to understand. This program will help you create an action plan—individually, personally, and professionally—that will help you set goals and priorities for the year ahead.

If you want to influence, persuade, or inspire your team, clients, or a room of colleagues, you need to be a skilled speaker. Are your communications skills up to par? Can you think on your feet and deliver a compelling message at any moment? Learn how to deliver presentations, lead meetings, and communicate the company vision with ease and confidence, speaking in a compelling manner that arrests attention and makes people want to follow you.

Raising a motivated teenager doesn’t have to be a struggle! Empower yourself with the knowledge that will make your child-rearing years a success. Plenty of tools and methods exist that you can use today to make your child’s teen years happy and successful. These are pivotal years in the life of your child, and you can prepare your teenagers to be productive in school, happy in their relationships, and on their way to a bright future.

Whether you’re an author, a business professional, or you simply want to be better at harnessing the power of the written word, this program can help. The storytelling tools and writing techniques contained here will help you manipulate words on paper to your greatest advantage. You’ll understand the power of using a story, a quote, or some powerful hook to rope in the reader from the very first paragraph. You’ll also learn why it’s important to understand who the reader is, what he or she needs, and how you can best convey your point.

According to recent studies, your nonverbal signals communicate more powerfully than your words. What do your body language, clothing choice, and vocal intonation say about you? Knowing exactly what you want to communicate by your body language can be the difference between winning the sale, getting the job, or influencing groups of people to your point of view and not.

Raising extraordinary children is elusive for many parents because most have had absolutely no training on how to do it. Brad Worthley, a motivational expert, offers very simple steps that can provide remarkable longterm rewards. They focus on understanding how humans think, why we do the things that we do, respectful communication skills, and a positive attitude. The more you understand why your children do some of the things they do, the more poised you will be in handling daily challenges.

Boost your brain power and put your mind on turbo! Very few people are gifted with innovative thinking, but now you could be one of them at the touch of a button. Use your cognitive ability to launch yourself in the direction of your dreams! Wherever it is you want to end up in life, you will need more information than you have right now. Use the techniques in this audio program for developing your mind power to achieve maximum results in minimum time.

Would you like to use your personality to successfully deal with intimidating people? Would you like to use your personality to motivate people to action? Perhaps you’d like to know if your personality is talking people into or out of your ideas, or even discover how the best leaders face personality challenges and succeed. Well now you can! Internationally acclaimed speaker and author Dawn Jones presents her incredible “Top Seven Personality Challenges,” along with how to communicate with success with each personality type.

Imagine building your business vocabulary and having fun at the same time. Now you can! Verbalicious takes a fun, entertaining approach to language. With Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you'll expand your word base and develop verbal prowess for business situations almost effortlessly. Other vocabulary programs are boring, and often they just don't work. But Verbalicious is fun and engaging.

You are an entrepreneur. No matter what job you do you’re in business for yourself. Everyone you cross paths with needs to believe in you and must have a desire to work with you. Your most important job is building a brand called "YOU". Everything you are doing is either enhancing or diminishing that brand. In this program Dr. Larry Iverson will share keys to success so you thrive!?

Do you have a story waiting to be told but know your writing skills need improvement? This expert resource will help you develop both your technical and creative writing skills. Best-selling authors reveal entertaining and informative methods to craft a story, organize complex thoughts, and write effectively to engage your readers.

Can a person have too many positive habits? This audio program gives you step-by-step instructions that are essential to building strong habits that allow you to flourish. This collection of audio recordings from best-selling authors offers methods for tapping into greater wisdom and resources to create a life based on your own terms. By identifying bad habits and breaking the stubborn ones, you can set yourself up for a life of balance and harmony.

There's a book inside you, just begging to be written. But if you're like most people, the task of writing it gets pushed aside day by day until the weeks become years. Speaker and author Liv Montgomery has published more than 80 book and audio titles in less than two years. Learn from a high-output author with dozens of published works the techniques for writing at super speed, and you too can draft your book in a single day!

Have you ever wondered why some presenters have such a strong impact on their audience? What if there was a way you could increase your credibility when you speak? How would you like to know nonverbal strategies used by people like Oprah Winfrey, Winston Churchill, and James Earl Jones that made (or makes) them so compelling?