Showing results by publisher "Gildan Media" in Personal Development

If you're ready to take the journey to independence and financial success, here's your ticket. In this life-changing audiobook, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker Keith Cameron Smith tells you how to think like a boss instead of an employee. The key to moving beyond the employee role and up the economic ladder is mastering 10 vital principles.

Gill Hasson, author of the best-selling Mindfulness, is back, and this time you can fit her advice in your pocket! This little audiobook is packed with over 100 quick exercises, each dealing with a different situation, to help you get calm, collected, and balanced. So whenever you start to feel the stress mounting, reach for your Mindfulness Pocketbook, find the relevant exercise, and instantly make life better!

Would you like to feel thin, fit, and full of energy? You are only as old as your dreams, as young as your hopes, as limited as your beliefs about yourself. Now is the very best time of all to open your mind and your heart to live a wonderful life. Learn 21 practical, proven principles and strategies to enjoy life more in your later years. It is never too late to try new things, to develop new habits and tasks, and to achieve new goals. Practice these great health habits - used by all who look good and feel great into their 80s and 90s.

Prosperity means to increase our capacity or ability in every direction, so that we make use of the Power and ourselves. The human mind connects the word prosper with money, but we do not get more money until we prosper inwardly by increasing our knowledge of God, the way he works, and by deepening our ability to express ourselves.

Positive psychology - with its focus not on mental "disease" but rather on what actually makes people happy - has revolutionized the way that we look at mental health. What many people don't realize, however, is that positive psychology is not as young a field of inquiry as we think. In fact, according to Joseph Emet, the original positive thinker was the Buddha himself.

All Work No Play: A Surprising Guide to Feeling More Mindful, Grateful and Cheerful is a practical and rewarding handbook for reconnecting with joy and happiness daily. The book shares strategies for play-based mindfulness, empathy, and gratitude exercises that will help listeners rediscover their inner child; promote good mental health; build and foster more meaningful connections with others; and help combat loneliness and deep-rooted toxic behaviors and thoughts.

In Whatever Works, Thalma Lobel explores groundbreaking psychological research on job performance, satisfaction, and creativity. Did you know that just doodling in a certain way can increase your creativity? That looking at something green for forty seconds will improve your attention? That crossing your legs similarly to an interviewer could get you the job? That the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk can lessen your performance, even if it's turned off? These are the invisible factors that nudge our behavior on a daily basis.

In workplaces throughout Australia and across the planet, billions of messages are sent in various forms every day, but not all of them get though. Of those that do, may are misunderstood. Communication breakdown is just as common as communication effectiveness, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Have you ever wondered how your life would change if you had a mentor - your own personal coach - to help you solve the most difficult challenges in your life or to inspire you to your greatest achievements? If you’ve ever had an inkling that you could benefit from this special kind of one-on-one relationship, you’ll want to listen to The Miracles Manual: The Secret Coaching Sessions, Volume I.

Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008 showing that "fluid intelligence" - the ability to learn, solve novel problems, and get to the heart of things - can be increased through training. But is it all just hype?

The Napoleon Hill Foundation CEO Don discusses his mentor, Napoleon Hill, and how listeners can derive the same benefits he has found by following his teachings. Don is known as one of the great leaders in the personal development field and is the author of Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill.

As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing - whether losing a hockey game or bombing a math test - can actually be a critical part of success. So he sought out the perspectives of men and women who have turned significant setbacks into meaningful comebacks - and sometimes even new careers - to illustrate how we can not only overcome defeat, but grow stronger from the experience.

Feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck? Discover the power of the pause. Sometimes life throws you for a loop. You're stressed out at your job; you're torn between work and family; your motivation and productivity are taking a nosedive. Your impulse might be to lean in and tough it out, but what you may really need to do is take a step back. Reassess your life with a clear head and dive back in with purpose and poise.

In Experiencing Spirituality, Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham take listeners on a journey through storytelling as a means of self-discovery. Recounting and interpreting great wisdom stories from all ages and all cultures, as well as telling many of their own, the authors shed light on such experiences as awe, wonder, humor, confusion, and forgiveness. In story after story, seekers look to those whose lives reveal a special quality - sometimes called spirituality - and ask the masters what they must do to attain that same quality.

In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post "Marriage Isn't for You" shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his marriage, his self-obsession led to a downward spiral of addiction and depression, culminating in a suicide attempt at the age of twenty.

There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday cognitive performance and fundamentally changing the way we engage and succeed in the workplace. Combining their expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting, neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans W. Hagemann present simple yet powerful strategies.

Early in the history of English, glamour and grammar were the same word, linked to enchantment and magical spells. Now grammar brings to mind language bullies and bored-out-of-their-skulls students. Roy Peter Clark, one of America’s most influential writing teachers, wants to change that by putting the glamour back into grammar.

Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin think you've been fed a lie: that if you save for decades and invest in 401(k)s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily over decades, allowing 20 to 30 years of secure, peaceful retirement. This might have been true at some point in the last century, but it is not true any longer. If you want to get ahead and enjoy a life of prosperity, the authors argue that you must invest in the most powerful source of wealth you'll ever know: your own earning power.

Practical, motivating, and inspiring ways to unleash your potential - from one of today’s most exciting spiritual teachers! You are a masterpiece. You have everything you need right now to create your life exactly as you want it to be. Successful people will often say that when they’re at their peak performance level, they feel a sense of some other presence with them - something beyond themselves. That other presence seems bigger than their own talent or personality. The Power of You guides listeners in discovering the other presence that resides within all of us.

Disrupters shows what different women in business have done to reach success as they define it. From board members to CEOs to freelancers, the business world is stacked against women because they follow the unspoken rules of business culture made long before women entered the workforce. Tech executive, board member, and angel investor Dr. Patti Fletcher recognizes those rules and then showcases the women who have found success by breaking them.