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"Your drive to create change, have impact, and solve problems all comes from the energy-the real electrical impulses-firing in your brain. On good days, this energy rises in you. It makes you feel empowered and dynamic. And on bad days, this same energy hurts. It leaves you depleted and defeated. Who you become-how dynamic and powerful you are as a person and a leader-depends on learning to work with this energy. You may feel as if you don't control...
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"Leadership expert and coach Amy Jen Su's powerful new book helps readers by focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements--Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace--you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your impact, with less stress and more equanimity. Drawing on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes, as well as on research by experts, the author brings together the best of...
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Life can be, compared to the construction of a tunnel; it seems we are often obstructed by solid rock. Invincible thinking works as the powerful drill to break through this rock. When we practice it, we will never feel defeat in our lives. By savoring and practicing the philosophy in this book, and using it as your own power, you will be able to declare that there is no such thing as defeat.
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I have cited many examples from the four great saints, Shakyamuni Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates and Confucius, to Jan Hus, Joan of Arc, Lincoln and Shoin Yoshida. People, who have left their mark on history, did not necessarily sail smoothly through their lives. No matter how much you suffer, the Truth will gradually shine forth as you continue to endure hardships. Therefore, simply strengthen your mind and keep making constant efforts in times of...
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According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, stress-related disorders are fast becoming the most prevalent reason for worker disability. Millions of CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals are thinking, planning, and scheming about how to stretch a 24-hour day into an endless and productive workday. Burnt-out, energy depleted, and constantly stressed, many find themselves unable to take pleasure in their hard-earned...
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Master those Minutes. Find Time for Everything!...With Top 100 Tips to Find More TimeOften find yourself wondering where the day went? Are you overwhelmed by a crammed inbox, too many ongoing projects, or by impossible clients? Too busy to be effective? Has your 'To Do' list become a 'Hard To Do' list? Does your packed day allow no time for family or play?To run a team or business successfully, you can't afford to lose track of time. Because it doesn't...
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Many people today believe that they are seeking happiness, yet their efforts only make them more and more unhappy. The Laws of Happiness is a basic introduction to the teachings of Ryuho Okawa, illustrating his core philosophy.
Okawa teaches that, if people can master The Principles of Happiness Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection, and Progress, they can make their life shine in both this world and the other, for these principles, based on his own experiences,...
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This book describes ways to build inner confidence and achieve spiritual growth, adopting a spiritual perspective as the basis. With a willingness to learn from everything that life presents you, good or bad, any difficulty can be transformed into nourishment for the soul.
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An invitation to intellectual happiness, which is filled with infinite possibilities.
The Laws of Wisdom guides you along the path on how to acquire wisdom, so that you can break through any wall you are or will confront in your life or in your business. By reading this book, you will be able to avoid getting lost in the flood of information and, going beyond the level of just amassing knowledge, be able to come up with many great ideas, make effective...
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This book offers empowering inspirations that let us find the inner strength and start living a triumphant life no matter what we face. The encouraging and powerful words in this book will fill you with the energy and strength to overcome any hardships and the courage to keep moving forward. We may not be able to avoid setbacks, failures, and mistakes in life. But we don't have to let them defeat us. We can overcome and turn trials into triumph and...
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The happiness literature is about how to be happier. This book summarizes all of that advice, but adds an important caveat: Roughly, one person in nine is born happy, and the other eight must find alternatives to happiness. The good news is that the alternatives to happiness are as satisfying or more than happiness itself. These five alternative modes of positive being are flow, fit, progress towards goals, altruism, and community. The theory is,...
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Not all heroes wear capes. You might not think of yourself as a hero, but every time you create value for others, you're benefiting people and making life easier or better for them in some way. The question is, "Who do you want to be a hero to?" By identifying the key audience you want to create value for, you focus yourself on the most crucial people in your life, helping them to grow their capabilities-and growing your own as well.
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Happiness and unhappiness are determined by the images we hold in our minds. Those who are surrounded by worries or seized by feelings of unhappiness continually hold unhappy images of themselves in their minds. In this book, author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa describes in detail some of the negative patterns of thinking that keep us from attaining peace of mind. He outlines the causes of a number of life's problems, including depression, inferiority...
14) The Nightingale Gene: Lessons to Living a Balanced Life & Having the Nursing Career of Your Dreams
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The first in a trilogy highlighting caregiving as a demanding, yet rewarding, profession that forces work-life imbalance, The Nightingale Gene provides lessons for those who make caring for others a priority over taking care of themselves.
By the year 2020, the United States will experience a shortage of more than 1 million nurses as baby boomers in the profession retire and hospitals struggle to keep up with supply and demand as the boomer-aging...
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Everyone is busy. And it's killing us all.
Hurry is the new normal. When someone asks us how we're doing, we tell them that we're "good... but busy." We want to achieve our dreams and live a significant life, so we cram our calendars with nonstop activities.
Instead of feeling fulfilled, we're distracted, exhausted, and overwhelmed. We have too much to do and not enough time.
But, it doesn't have to be this way!
Garland Vance knows how you feel. In...
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Leadership and management are the most read about subjects in business. They are the most talked about themes in politics, they are the most needed commodity for today's problem choked world, yet a true understanding of leadership and management remains ever elusive.
There is probably nothing more important to our world today than leadership and management, every society, institution and individual is as good as their leadership and management.
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Gallup CEO Jim Clifton has pointed out that, "an increasing number of people in the world are miserable, hopeless, suffering, and becoming dangerously unhappy". Something is profoundly wrong, and it must be addressed.
Dr. Trevor Blattner's thesis detailed in Redefining The Top 1% is simple. Leaders must break away from the current trend of despair and self-destruction by becoming a leader of themselves and those around them. And, not just any sort...
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Living Wisely-For Millennials & Beyond by psychologist Barry M. Cohen explores the essential life skills that millennials beginning their journeys through life-as well as all the rest of us-need to live wisely and well throughout our lives. Reflecting Dr. Cohen's decades-long experiences as a consulting psychologist to healthy corporate populations, the skills covered in Living Wisely are timeless and apply to all generations. This guide approaches...
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Be energized, but not overwhelmed
What's the most pressure you've ever been under? How did you react? What helped? What didn't? Over the past five years, Dane Jensen has asked these questions of thousands of high performers, from Olympic gold medalists to Navy SEALs, politicians, executives and busy parents. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone's experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops...
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