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Has the "daily grind" diminished your enthusiasm for your various pursuits, both personal and professional? Are you in need of some fresh inspiration and motivation--some tangible strategies to help you rediscover your passions and break through mental blocks and other obstacles that are preventing you from achieving your goals? Let Earl Nightingale, one of the most successful radio broadcasters of all time and an expert on joyful, purposeful living, help you actualize your dreams by showing you the importance of creative thinking and impactful communication. As you'll discover, these two elements hold the key to healthy relationships, excellence in leadership, success in business, and effectiveness in public speaking. Your Greatest Asset contains some of Nightingale's most inspiring broadcasts on the subjects of brainstorming, problem-solving, decision-making, goal achievement, and interpersonal communication. Its simple yet incisive messages will teach you techniques and attitudes, which, if practiced regularly, will result in your living an even more creative, rewarding life. In this volume, you'll learn how to: Become a better conversationalist (hint: it's not about your speaking skills)Strengthen your friendships and marriageHandle disagreements in the most effective manner possibleCultivate the essential qualities of leadershipIdentify your employees' talents and develop them accordinglyPersuasively sell your ideas and/or productsForm habits that help you overcome writer's block and channel your creative powersExpand your perspective through lateral and vertical thinkingCreate more engaging presentationsAnd enhance your public speaking skills Rediscover the joy that the critical power of imagination and creative thinking can bring when applied to the three "departments of living"--your family life, your work life and leisure activities, and your income--with this invigorating collection from "the Dean of Personal Development."

Are you productive? Would you like to be more productive? Are you frustrated that sometimes you have so much to do on your "to do" list that stuff ends up on the next day's "to do" list? Well, good news, help is here and you can be more productive! Nationally known speaker, author and coach, Shawn Doyle will share with you tons of simple easy tips and techniques for getting and staying productive. Here are some of the thought provoking areas that are covered: Target based goal setting: Knowing how to prioritize your time Don't fight the system: Selecting and using a time management system Productivity vampires: Activities that suck away your time Planning for maximum success: The inside secrets for successful planning Night owl or early bird: Looking at when you are most productive Doing the do: The power of making and using a daily "to do" list Thumbs down: How to say no and decline invitations gracefully Pardon the interruption: How to finally gain control of all those interruptions I have a robot: Using technology to get more done now The Power of R&R: How to use downtime to increase your productivity Follow the law: The 10 most powerful principles of productivityThis high energy, fun and engaging book will help you get more done, be less stressed and finally take control of your work and life.

Increase Your Personal Productivity NOW! If you want to learn the skill and willpower needed to easily "get more done" in your personal and professional life, this is the book for you! In Personal Productivity, author John Martin shines the spotlight on six useful initiatives-- including a three-step process to creating a personalized sustainable and repeatable goal system--guaranteed to unlock interesting possibilities about increasing your level of productivity. What would you do if you had more time to do it? Combining practical advice with less mainstream tips, Martin reveals how "not having time" becomes a distraction you can quickly bypass with a simple yet remarkable formula. Additionally, Personal Productivity offers the valuable truth about how to: Create a productive state of mindProduce around your strengthsStop second-guessing yourselfUse patience to become more productiveOvercome perfectionismFinish what you start...and much moreRead this book and start becoming the most productive version of yourself today!

"Finally, a book that provides simple, step-by-step instructions for business owners who are passionate about being the best." The Five P system and best practices described in this book, and in the associated materials, are being used globally by Sandler Training, the world's largest sales and management training company. Five P's to a Wow Business focuses on a proactive system of professional management best practices that will help your business to truly excel. Using practical terms and an easy-to-follow presentation, author Bill Matthews, lays out the business roadmap to success within the outline of five areas: planning, people, processes, "performetrics," and passion. Matthews draws on his experience as an executive and corporate officer of a Fortune 500 company, and his consulting work done with hundreds of privately-held businesses to teach important guiding principles that can result in incredible returns and growth in your company. Read this book and learn how to take the perfect path to creating your own WOW business today!

What would your life be like if you achieved all your goals? How do you overcome fear and inhibition in order to accomplish things that before were only unimaginable? What if you had a five-step system that you could plug any desire into and get immediate results? The Success Model outlines a five-step system you can use in any of the seven major areas of life. Learn to overcome fear, gain balance in your life, improve your communication skills and much more. The Success Model will leave you thirsty for personal growth, ready to achieve and positioned to teach those you lead.

The top achievers learn the most and apply what they learn; therefore, there is no skill, information, or lesson more vital than learning how to learn. This book is a must-read for business executives, entrepreneurs, people interested in personal development, trainers, teachers, and students. We live in a world where, more and more, we succeed based on what we know rather than what task we perform. Authors, Jim Stovall and Ray Hull, PhD are lifelong learners and teachers of successful best practices across a wide spectrum of topics including learning and education. Read this book to understand more about: The ways people learnAction steps for learningNew methods to learnHow learning will help you achieve your goals Universal in appeal and highly accessible, this book acts as a spotlight on the truth that there is no one seeking any goal who doesn't need to learn how to learn!

Communication and connection are the key elements for achieving success professionally and personally. Do you know people who in any situation can connect with people? People who seem to always know what to say and how to say it? People who have the extraordinary knack for always knowing what to do in any situation? Would you like to be more like these people? Then this book is for you! In The Field Guide to Extraordinary Communication and Connection, business owner and entrepreneur Rachael Doyle shares the inside secrets of being an extraordinary communicator and connecting with people in a meaningful way. In this useful handbook, you will learn new tools and tactics for: Making a positive impression during one on one in person communicationConnecting with others at business meals and knowing exactly how to leverage the opportunitySuccessful holiday, birthdays and other celebrations at work Connecting and networking with people onlineCommunicating with confidence and clarity via emailBeing a superb communicator using the phoneCommunication and connection in business meetingsNetworking for maximum impact personally and professionallyFostering and developing great teamwork And much more! Make the connection now with people at work and in your world! Communication and connection are based on skills that, once learned, can make a huge difference in your career and personal life. Be the extraordinary communicator and connector you want to be today!

Don't let fear hold you back from the personal and professional success you were meant to enjoy. It's time to master your fears and increase your resilience so that you can regain control of your life and achieve your vision of success. Fear is one of the greatest obstacles to your success, happiness, and fulfillment, and it is one of the most difficult to combat. It roots itself deep in the subconscious and darkens your dominating thoughts, coloring your perceptions and, in turn, your actions. But fear does not have to write your story. It is simply an emotion--one that can be mastered and channeled to work for, rather than against, you. This guidebook contains Napoleon Hill's best advice for throwing off the chains of fear, finding opportunity within temporary defeat, and living life with intention. You'll learn how to: Develop the self-confidence, faith, and willpower you need to overcome even the most challenging obstacle; Reduce your vulnerability to the negative influences of others; Conquer the seven basic fears by forming new mental habits; Filter the noise around you and de-escalate the panic of Fearenza and Worryitis; Harness the power of Cosmic Habitforce to accelerate your success; and, > "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" This famous line from Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural address is etched into the public consciousness, but few people know that its inspiration derived from one of his advisors, Napoleon Hill. Commissioned by the great steel magnate Andrew Carnegie to build a philosophy of individual achievement, Hill spent 25 years conducting research on more than 500 distinguished individuals to uncover a magic law of the human mind that guaranteed personal and professional success. The achievement principles he discovered enabled a generation to break the bonds of fear responsible for exacerbating the ills of the Great Depression and world war and raise themselves to new levels of success--and they continue to do so today. If there was ever a time in this country when men and women need to recognize the power of their own minds, when they need to overcome frustration and fear, that time is now. There is too much fear spread around, too many people talking about depressions. ...Let's get our minds, each and every one of us as individuals, fixed upon a definite goal so big and so outstanding that we'll have no time to think about these things we don't want.--Napoleon Hill

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It only takes a moment for each of us to realize that something needs to be changed. By taking positive action toward that change, the moment of our personal dedication can become an empowered movement! Many little actions soon add up to a lot. By letting little actions accumulate until they become too big to go unnoticed, we begin to change the world. With contemporary commentary by Judith Williamson, the director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center, Napoleon Hill's Action Activities for Health, Wealth, and Happiness will guide you to live your own life, think your own thoughts, find your own goals, and achieve them by gaining power over your own mind. Simply by exercising this profound privilege, you can bring abundance into your life and with it know the greatest wealth of all--peace of mind, without which there can be no real happiness. Organized into short, easily digestible chapters complete with action activity prompts, this book is an interactive experience that can truly change the way you approach your success journey. Read this book and learn how you can begin to make a contribution today that will change the world!

Who doesn't want to be happy? If there is one common goal in this world that everyone can agree on, it's true happiness. The real question is HOW? How can you be happy, prosperous, and motivated? How can you live a life of intention? The answers are in this thought-provoking book, and it can be used as your blueprint for achieving HAPPINESS. In these pages, motivational speaker, bestselling author and executive coach, Shawn Doyle CSP will share with you the critical jolts to help JUMPSTART your happiness. This book is the result of thirty years of experience in motivational speaking, coaching, and training. Within this volume, you will learn the keys to unlocking your happiness including: The role that passion plays in happiness and maximum performanceUnderstanding the power of goal-setting and achieving your dreamsHacks for changing your mindset to program yourself for happinessWays to massively expand your expectations for life at work and homeHow to confront and flatten your fears once and for allHow having a vision can impact your daily happinessLiving a life that is extraordinary and joyful every dayIdentifying and being clear about your purpose in lifeAnd much much more! If you want to live a happy, prosperous, motivated, and intentional life--read this book and change your life today!

The secret to reducing your stress is not a better work-life balance, nor is it in meditation or mindfulness. Chronic high stress--the kind contributing to heart disease--is not caused by an inability to decompress, but rather external factors that are out of our control--namely, overwhelm and uncertainty. So, while most people are focusing on either eliminating or coping with their stressors, they should be working to become immune to unavoidable stress. Stress-Proof Your Life leverages insights from Eliz Greene's 17 years of research, including a 4,000-person study, to provide the reader with stress management techniques that actually work. Through data-driven health insight and actionable exercises, this book teaches readers how to: Quantify and assess their current stress levelOvercome overwhelm by practicing stress ecologyCombat uncertainty and the paralyzing loop of anxiety that accompanies itOffset the physical impact of stressRecover from the emotional toll of stressCultivate resiliency in the face of crisis and change Eliz also shares insights from her research on generational and gender differences, leading high-performance teams, and cultivating a purpose-driven organizational culture that is immune to external and internal pressures. Once you implement the strategies detailed in this book, you'll elevate your quality of life, enhance your productivity, boost your capacity for critical and creative thought, and attain heightened levels of personal and professional success. After experiencing a near-fatal heart attack at the age of 35 while 7 months pregnant with twins, Eliz Greene committed herself to uncovering and combating the preventable risk factors for heart disease, which led her to focus on job stress as a deadly and underexamined cause of heart attacks. For nearly two decades, Eliz has been on a mission to inspire busy people to pay attention to their heart health by identifying and taming their stress environment so that they can increase their vitality and create a purpose-driven and enjoyable life. Don't let job stress hold you back from the fulfillment and wellness you deserve or cause you to miss those special moments that make everything matter. Stress-proof your life and discover the secret to weathering adversity and uncertainty and improving your overall well-being!

Algunas personas eligen permitir que la vida suceda. Otras personas hacen que suceda. ¿Cuál es tu decisión? Nos cuesta tomar decisiones y la mayoría de las veces deseamos que alguien las tome por nosotros. ¿Qué si todo eso pudiera cambiar y pudieras dominar las decisiones que enfrentas en tu vida? La persona promedio toma cientos de decisiones cada día. Incluyen desde lo ordinario y lo mundano hasta los eventos que alteran la vida. Muchas de las decisiones que enfrentamos tienen poco efecto en nuestras vidas. Se tratan de problemas sencillos y requieren elecciones sencillas. Sin embargo, hay decisiones que afectan nuestras vidas y las de quienes nos rodean de maneras muy significativas y consecuentes. En Toma decisiones responsables, Sam Silverstein presenta maneras de abordar las decisiones en nuestra vida y cómo interactuamos con otras personas y las afectamos. Lo hace por medio de enfocarse en las decisiones más sustanciales en nuestras vidas, cómo nos impactan, y qué decisiones podemos tomar para agregar valor y significado.

"An impressive guide to finding and following your path to success!" > Do you dream about doing something different with your life? Do you wish you knew what your next move should be? Do you hope to start your own business someday? Do you regret not exercising consistently? If so, read Empower Yourself. In this powerful analysis of the mindset and choices that lead to self-actualization, you will learn how to identify your strengths, align your work with your goals, and take action that helps you achieve your version of success. What do you want your story to be? You create the life you want one decision at a time, and it starts with the decision to look inside and learn about yourself. Read and follow the steps within these pages, and join others who are facing the challenges of self-discovery, pushing through discomfort, and using the knowledge to create and live the life they dreamed for themselves!

Amazement is a habit that anyone can master--in business or in your personal life--and Shep Hyken knows the tricks to making it your own.

The Art of Influence, written in Jim's entertaining, story-telling style alongside Dr. Hull's straight-forward, factual approach is a must-read for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place of influence in life.

"We are responsible for things...but we are accountable to people. When we discover our own unique purpose, and then make and keep personal commitments that support that purpose, that is accountability. If everyone in the Accountability Circle makes and keeps those commitments, then accountability becomes a way of life." -Sam Silverstein THE ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE gives you a trusted group of Accountability Partners for your life, your career, and your business. They support you in identifying and acting on your Purpose, your Mission, and your Values...and you support them in turn.THE ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE is where you go to become the best person you can be. It is much more than a mastermind group. It goes far deeper than networking and sharing best business practices. It is about becoming a truly accountable person and a leader in your own life. THE ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE goes far beyond your current "circle of friends" ... and creates a powerful group of allies who are focused on your best interests, based on your unique purpose and mission. THE ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE is the ultimate personal development strategy and the critical leadership advantage. We all want to reach our potential, become the best version of ourselves, and get the most we possibly can out of life. We all want to maximize our impact and leave a legacy that inspires other people to be their best. For most of us, the problem is not that we are not trying to be our best. The real problem is that we are unable to see and understand fully what our very best can be. We may think that we have to create our own solutions and cannot ask for help. However, this vision of a self-reliant accountability is wrong. In fact, everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong. Accountability is not about having to prove ourselves, create some original idea, or live an independent life, and it is certainly not about "holding others accountable." Quite the contrary--accountability is all about commitments and interdependence. We need other people to help us to be our very best, and we need to help other people to be their very best. It is in helping others fulfill their potential that we identify and achieve our own true potential! Action always comes with belief. When you begin taking action with full accountability in your Accountability Circle, you will begin to see people differently, show up differently, commit differently, and bring people into your life differently. By building accountable relationships, you will open yourself up to unrealized opportunities for growth and outreach. Sam Silverstein's The Accountability Circle shows you how to unlock the power of your own purpose, and learn how your best self can be discovered through the eyes of people who truly care about you. This discovery results, not just in more meaningful relationships within the Circle, but in the capacity to cultivate stronger relationships outside the Circle. Building on the commitments you make and inspire, you can achieve major life goals and make deeper contributions in your home life, your workplace, and the larger world.

Is stress hurting your heart?Do you want to live longer, feel better, and protect your health?A stress-proof heart is immune to the physical impact of unrelenting stress.Diet and exercise play an important role in preventing heart disease, but the most insidious, under-addressed risk factor of all is the one that many of us find the hardest to manage--stress. We can't alleviate all stress, and we wouldn't want to even if we could. Some stress is natural and necessary; it is what gives us the zing of energy to get things done. Trouble comes when that zing becomes a constant thrum, continually triggering the stress hormone cortisol to pump into the body rather than allowing it to ebb and flow as we need it. This book provides tools to power a fulfilling life by efficiently processing cortisol out of the body and nurturing a heart resilient enough to withstand high stress, change, crisis--and to bounce back from illness.Author Eliz Greene knows that protecting your heart from stress isn't a "nice-to-have." The strategies in this book are essential, life-or-death skills. When she was 35 years old and 7 months pregnant with twins, Eliz survived a massive heart attack, causing her heart to stop for 10 minutes. To reduce her heightened risk of having another heart attack, she's spent the last 17 years honing practical and implementable strategies to manage stress for herself and the thousands of audience members and readers she reaches each year.Stress-Proof Your Heart contains these strategies and the fruits of her international research study on job stress. Engaging assessments and actionable principles and tools will enable you to evaluate the physical impact of your stress and then offset that impact to protect your heart. Find out how to: Protect your heart from the stress hormone cortisol and avoid countless other unpleasant symptoms such as weight gain (especially in the belly and face), insomnia, muscle weakness, mood swings, and reduced cognitive function. Use everyday activities to help your body efficiently process cortisol of your system, so you can to feel better and function at a higher physical and mental level. Motivate yourself to commit to a healthier life. Includes bonus content to address emotional stress from Eliz's book Stress-Proof Your Life.

The purpose of this book is to empower YOU to take the wheel of life and become an assertive driver by learning how to transform adversity into high-grade fuel on YOUR journey toward success. Drive Yourself Successful: 11 Inner States to Personal Empowerment offers you a driver's view of what keeps your gear shift stuck in park on the road of life. Author Rachel Lynn illustrates what keeps you from setting goals and accelerating toward them and challenges you to realize that you hold the key to your own life experiences. Following the analogy of driving your car, Rachel helps you identify items stored in your trunk that weigh you down emotionally and keep you from moving forward. She supplies you with crucial tools to carry with you in case you break down or run out of gas; demonstrates how thoughts serve as your life GPS; assists you in developing a clear vision for the future--steering you away from focusing on what is in the rear-view mirror; educates you on how to regain your spark, embrace detours and prevent them from turning into roadblocks, and when to stay in your own lane by setting personal boundaries and not comparing yourself to others. Make a wrong turn? Rachel challenges you to recognize when it is time to change gears and go in a different direction while helping you develop an internal sense of self-confidence and motivation to get behind the wheel. This book draws from others' real life experiences to challenge you to closely examine what lies underneath the hood of your car in regard to your thinking and personal beliefs and how you can redirect your thoughts to accelerate toward the life you desire.

Pulling together her experiences from years of coaching entrepreneurs and consulting in hundreds of small businesses across America, along with stories shared with her by mentors and teachers such as Richard Bach, Bob Burg, Mitch Matthews and John David Mann.

Will your business relationships suffer or be saved by your ability to communicate? Like it or not, professional relationships are impacted - positively or negatively - by the ability to communicate. Customers are won or lost - employees are encouraged or de-motivated - professional networks are expanded or extinguished - all by how well we communicate. We Need to Talk reveals key strategies to help you build trust, win respect and sidestep common minefields when communicating gets critical. "As a manager in a client service environment, the need frequently arises to have critical conversations. Within days of reading We Need to Talk, I applied two of the principles Phil described and was beyond thrilled at the outcome. Not only did my associate respond favorably to the message, but agreed that changes were needed and committed to making them. I was utterly amazed at how easy it was to have the conversation. Every manager, no matter how experienced can benefit from this book. The time comes for you to have your next critical conversation, pick up We Need to Talk. You'll be glad you did!" --Priscilla Pinnegar, Client Support Manager II ADP, Inc. Discover how you can: Establish empathy and trust when communicating with subordinates, co-workers, superiors or customersRebuild the believability quotient when truthfulness has not always been practicedRein in "brutal honesty" and the damage it causesBuild rapport by "actively" listeningEarn respect while delivering difficult or sensitive messagesBuild integrity while eliminating communication barriers like the "grapevine"And get results by guaranteeing the message you intended was interpreted correctly Through a masterful use of stories and illustrations, We Need to Talk reveals six unique, powerful strategies for communicating successfully when relationships and results are riding on your abilities.

"Almost all industries today struggle with the increasing commoditization of their products and services, putting considerable pressure on prices and margins, leading to fiercer competition. The solution? You must create an Uncopyable Attachment with your customers. They must see you as not only delivering a superior product but also as a high-value relationship they simply cannot get anywhere else. In Uncopyable, Steve Miller ... argues that new advantage isn't found by going 'outside the box'--you must actually build your own box. Uncopyable will guide you to achieving an unfair and enduring competitive advantage"--Publisher marketing.

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"A terrific resource for freeing your mind to create and produce!" -D.G. Wild DO YOU: Overthink and procrastinate? Hold onto regrets about the past? See the negative side first? Worry about what others think? Want to be more creative and productive? > In his latest book, author John Martin offers an up-close, powerful exploration of how your perspective influences your success. Choose Your Perspective is an instructive system for revealing the unique nature of your thoughts and unlocking the proven truth about using intentional thinking to: Leave the past behindCreate mental habits that enhance a positive perspectiveSee opportunity in chaosDevelop an active awareness of your thinkingFree your mind from the criticism of othersOvercome distractionAnd much more!

In The 5 Secrets of a Phenomenal Business, the 5 "secrets" are the key areas of building your business. If any one of them is suffering, the business suffers. The stronger these key areas are the better results you get in your business. Understanding what these secrets are and how to apply them is key to a phenomenal business.

The greatest joy and fulfillment are within your reach, but they require an enduring Promise to The One...someone you might not expect. It's not your boss, your spouse, your children, or others--no, the ultimate commitment is The Promise you make to yourself to discover your purpose and gifts and share them with the world.

If you approach your job with maximum effort and a great attitude while avoiding all of the pitfalls outlined in these pages, you will become a valuable employee and reap all of the rewards that go along with it. Check out 100 Worst Employees and enjoy the humor while learning how to be your best self today!