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If I'd Known Then: Women in Their 20s and 30s Write Letters to Their Younger Selves (What I Know Now)
: :If you could send a letter back in time to yourself, what would it say? Following in the tradition of the bestselling What I Know Now™ comes a new collection that will speak directly to young women. Editor Ellyn Spragins asked women under forty to write letters to the girls they once were, filled with the advice and insights they wish they’d had when they were younger. Readers will recognize familiar names as well as meet new voices in these wonderfully candid missives, including: author Hope Edelman; actress Jessica Alba; Olympic soccer ...
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Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist
: :Freakonomics revealed much about our society. Now, one of America’s most respected economists reveals how individuals can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily life—at home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual is the key to successful and satisfactory daily interactions—from getting the kids to do the dishes to having a productive business meeting, attracting a mate to finding a good guide in a foreign country. Discovering your inner economist, Cowen suggests, can lead to a happier, more ...
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Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle
: :Paperback - The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle by Jim Rohn Jim takes an in-depth look into the reasons certain people succeed and others don't. He covers the key components to success - philosophy, attitude, activity, results and lifestyle.
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Habit: The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore
: :80% of new products fail. Billions of advertising pounds are wasted every year. Even 'satisfied customers' abandon companies at the drop of a hat. How can this be? How can so many brilliant marketers and product developers be failing so thoroughly? Here's how: they've focused their vast resources almost exclusively on the conscious mind, but it's the unconscious mind that controls 95% of human behaviour. In Habit, Dr. Neale Martin presents powerful new research that reveals how the mind actually works and explains in practical detail the implications of this new science ...
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The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work
: :Can there be more to life than just going to work everyday and doing your job? Is there work that is unique to you? Is there a job that you are uniquely called to do? In The Power of Purpose, Dick Leider provides a practical process for answering these questions and creating a life filled with meaning and passion. We all possess a unique intelligence, a unique ability to do the work we were made for. The Power of Purpose is a remarkable tool to help you discover your calling. Concise and ...
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100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It (100 Simple Secrets)
: : Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence ...
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How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis: Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club
: :A midlife crisis can devour a relationship. The Midlife Wives Club is a supportive online sisterhood for midlife mates-a place to vent some steam, share advice, or just get a reminder that they're not alone. In this guide, readers find wisdom from both Midlife Wives and experts on: € Recognizing the symptoms of male midlife crisis € Coping with the threat (or reality) of infidelity € Handling bad behavior-thrill-seeking, financial irresponsibility, or substance abuse € Identifying underlying problems like depression and anger € Deciding when to stick it out-and when to pack ...
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
: :Revealing her own long quest for self-esteem, Gloria Steinem explores what self-esteem is, how crippling a lack of it can be, and how recapturing it can transform your life. She affirms that anyone can heal the inner child of the past, and she provides moving stories of those who have done so.
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Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty
: :For anyone stuck in a bad relationship, for anyone trapped in a job that's unfulfilling, for anyone who drinks too much or uses food as a drug, for anyone whose lifelong dreams have fallen by the wayside-here's help.Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow offers surprising and effective new strategies for turning the pain of the past into the power of the future. Drawing on more than 15 years of clinical experience, he presents case studies that reveal how ignoring painful memories can negatively affect every aspect of our lives. Acknowledging that examining the ...
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We Can Work It Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
: :Practical suggestions are included on how to foster caring, genuine co-operation, and satisfying resolutions even in the most difficult situations. The tenets of 'Non-violent Communication' are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application.
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