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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
by Oprah Winfrey Arthur C. BrooksYou can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime.In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change.With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life―immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. And along the way, they share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship.Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. Build the Life You Want is your blueprint for a better life.
Build the Strength Within: Create the Blueprint for Your Best Life Yet
by Deborah CarlinWhen you get lost, you feel awful. And finding your way through life's morass can be difficult-even impossible. Do you feel weak, tired, and powerless? Dr. Deb Carlin is here to guide you. We all possess strength, inner fortitude, and confidence, but often lack the capacity to truly utilize them. Build the Strength Within can help you make the most of your abilities, find joy, and reap the rewards of your success. Renowned psychologist, business consultant, and author Dr. Deb Carlin is known for guiding clients-both organizations and individuals-to achieve the critical integration of their personal and professional lives. By blending her personal experiences with clients and scientific data and theories that underscore the importance of a clear and intentional life plan, Carlin provides the necessary tools and exercises to turn your life around. Through a series of eleven self-assessments, readers formulate their own individual plans of action and create a unique, customizable Blueprint for a Successfully Intentional & Integrated Life. This step-by-step process enables the reader to map, build, and realize an ideal existence. Learn to build the strength within, and create your blueprint for your best life yet.
Building Authenticity: A Blueprint for the Leader Inside You
by Todd Nesloney Tyler CookThere is a leader inside each one of us. Whether at work or inside the front doors of your home, you have influence and set an example through the life you live. That is why the call for true, authentic leaders is greater than ever. In Building Authenticity, Todd Nesloney and Tyler Cook will take you on a journey of both discovery and action. You will explore the foundations of truly living and leading with authenticity, such as: -Understanding your core values -Increasing self-awareness -Building relational support systems -Welcoming feedback into your life -Fostering growth within those you lead -Prioritizing your life -and much more You have greatness inside you, and Building Authenticity will provide you with the blueprint necessary to become the leader you were meant to be–in every aspect of your life. No matter your season, position, or title, leadership development begins with personal development, because who you are is how you lead.
Building Autonomous Learners: Perspectives from Research and Practice using Self-Determination Theory
by Woon Chia Liu John Chee Keng Wang Richard M. RyanThis edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore. A total of 15 chapters include some of the latest findings on theory and practical applications alike, prepared by internationally respected researchers in the field of motivation research in education. Each author provides his/her perspective and practical strategies on how to maximize motivation in the classroom. Individual chapters focus on theoretical and practical considerations, parental involvement, teachers' motivation, ways to create a self-motivating classroom, use of ICT, and nurturing a passion for learning. The book will appeal to several different audiences: firstly, policymakers in education, school leaders and teachers will find it a valuable resource. Secondly, it offers a helpful guide for researchers and teacher educators in pre-service and postgraduate teacher education programmes. And thirdly, parents who want to help their children pursue lifelong learning will benefit from reading this book.
Building Better Boundaries: Devotions and Faith-Guided Wisdom to Help You Develop Healthy Relationships
by Alexis WaidLearn to set boundaries using the wisdom of Scripture Establishing healthy boundaries makes life more manageable, but it's something many Christians struggle with. This weekly devotional draws on lessons from the Bible to show you that being a loving Christian doesn't have to mean putting the needs of others before your own. Over the course of a year, you'll learn to free yourself from feelings of obligation and guilt so that you can enjoy more rewarding relationships with the people in your life—including yourself. What sets this boundary book apart: Weekly themed devotions—Learn how to draw a line in the sand with 52 weeks of devotions each centered around an aspect of boundary-setting, like how to say no, manage your time, and more. Insightful exercises—Each devotion ends with a prayer and a goal for the upcoming week to help you reinforce God's guidance and put every lesson into practice. An uplifting read—It's easy to commit to this engaging devotional thanks to an empathetic approach that makes it feel as though you're in conversation with a supportive friend. Establish healthy boundaries while honoring God with this devotional book.
Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Children
by Matthew KellyFor more than a decade, Matthew Kelly has been traveling the world inspiring people to become the-best-version-of-themselves. During this time he has been amazed at how regularly he is asked: How do I encourage my children to embrace this message? How does your message apply to a family? Now, for the first time, Kelly shares with us remarkable insights and sensible everyday strategies for transforming the family into what it should be: a place where each of us can become the-best-version-of-ourselves. Beginning with an exploration of the changing face of the family in our culture, Kelly sets every reader at ease by explaining: "A family is not what we think a family should be, or what we hope to have, or should have, or what would be ideal-a family is what we actually have. A family is the one we've got. " Nor can a family ever be perfect, he goes on to explain. "Perfect families exist only in our minds, and it is these imaginings that are very often the enemy of our ability to enjoy the wonderful family we already have, or might have if we made it just that little bit more of a priority. " In Building Better Families, Kelly explores important issues by raising evocative questions: What makes a successful parent? Do you realize that your children are in the middle of a cultural war? What are the five things children really need? Are you asking your children the right questions? What are you teaching your children about work, money, food, exercise, body image, and sex? What are the priorities of your family culture? Every page of this book is filled with examples that can be applied to your daily experience of parenting and family, while at the same time illuminating the broader and deeper significance of family for society and the future of humanity. "The family is at once a deeply personal experience and the cornerstone of all great societies," Matthew Kelly tells us. Allow this book of classic wisdom and practical insight to help you build a better family. From the Hardcover edition.
Building Career Success (Smart Skills)
by Anthony JacksThis book will show you how to build the skills that will make you a more successful professional, such as developing your skills and competencies, working and partnering with your your employer, building strong organizational relationships and increasing your visibility, thriving in your organization's culture, and increasing and applying your business knowledge. It will enable you to achieve peak performance and success by understanding and capitalizing on your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.
Building Confidence In Your Child
by James DobsonA solid sense of self-worth helps children make good choices, develop healthy relationships, and work to achieve their dreams. Based on a biblical understanding of human value, Building Confidence in Your Child teaches moms and dads how to parent positively to help their children grow into secure adults who are poised for success in life. Deftly balancing the principles of humility and pride, trusted author and parenting expert Dr. James Dobson offers practical pointers that break through the theories and get right down to the decisions parents have to make every day.
Building Dynamic Business Communities: How to Create an Evergreen Client Ecosystem
by Alan WeissThis book is based on the author’s lengthy experience in creating communities and helping organizations and individuals thereby providing for evangelism and sustained growth. The result is dynamic marketing and sales at low, or no, cost of acquisition. Thus, communities are powerful sources for business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs. The research and literature supporting communities and the power of referral, peer-level influence, and normative buying pressures is enormous. This is not an internet-based or “pyramid marketing” initiative, which is based on a zero-sum game and is unethical or illegal. These communities are both “live” and remote and become perpetual-motion sales machines. Most organizations have the raw materials for successful communities, but they don’t realize it, nor do they know how to go about creating them.This work is the remedy. The author believes that many people are still “lonely” and isolated post-pandemic with remote work or hybrid work. Communities can embrace these people to build camaraderie and higher performance. The key benefits include gaining value for merely bringing people together who normally would never have met; providing viral marketing among members, which is effective 24/7; easily creating global communities to expand business; and dramatically building brands. Essentially, this book will enable the reader to use over a dozen pragmatic, sequential steps to organize resources, publicize, gain members, provide instant value, and assemble critical mass for the community to continually add members and perpetuate itself in “The chain reaction of attraction”®.
Building Influence in the Workplace
by Aryanne OadeIntroduces you to a valuable set of tools enabling you to build influence, promote your interests and get buy-in to your plans and proposals. The book will enable you to identify your own workplace values and those of your key colleagues and understand how to retain the influence you have already gained and stand by your values under pressure.
Building Leaders the West Point Way: Ten Principles from the Nation's Most Powerful Leadership Lab
by Joseph FranklinMajor General Joseph P. Franklin (ret.) believes almost everything that he is as an adult can be traced back to his days at West Point, where he was not only a cadet but an instructor, football coach, and eventually Commandant of Cadets. U.S. Military Academy graduates are found at the highest levels in every walk of life: military, education, business, medicine, law, and government. "But," says Franklin, "you don't have to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy to embrace its ideals or to benefit from the wisdom that is taught there. Competent, even inspiring, leadership is within the grasp of nearly everyone." The principles of leadership-including Duty, Honor, Faith, Courage, Perseverance, Confidence, Approachability, Adaptability, Compassion, and Vision-can be internalized and polished to one's own level of expertise and ambition."I have known Joe Franklin, since the late 1970s, when I coached at West Point and he was the Commandant of Cadets. General Joe is well-known by the many people whose lives he has touched as a truly thoughtful, approachable, and compassionate human being. He has written a very readable book using examples drawn from his personal experience to illustrate key principles of leadership, a subject I have studied and practiced for most of my adult life. His simple, honest, easy to understand text is a welcome addition to the references available to leaders, young and old alike. This book will definitely help you become a better leader. The General is one of the best ever!" - Mike "Coach K" Kryzewski, Duke University Basketball Coach
Building Moral Intelligence
by Michele BorbaGain a new understanding of moral intelligence, and a step-by-step program for its achievement from bestselling author, Michele Borba. In this indispensable book for parents, Borba has created a new break-through in conceptualizing and teaching virtue, character and values under the auspices of a measurable capacity -- Moral Intelligence. This book confronts the front-page crisis we now face in our country regarding youth violence, alienation, self-destructive behavior, cold-heartedness, lack of compassion, insensitivity, intolerance and the break down of values. The author provides a new way to understand, evaluate and inspire our kids with the seven essential virtues which comprise moral intelligence.
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook
by David B. RosengrenDeveloping expertise in motivational interviewing (MI) takes practice, which is exactly the point of this engaging, user-friendly workbook. The volume is packed with real-world examples from a range of clinical settings, as well as sample interactions and hands-on learning activities. The author is an experienced MI researcher, clinician, and trainer who facilitates learning with quizzes, experiential exercises, and reproducible worksheets. Working alone or with a partner or study group, the reader is taken step-by-step through practicing core MI skills: raising the importance of behavior change, enhancing the client's confidence, resolving ambivalence, solidifying commitment to change, and negotiating a change plan.
Building Muscle: Life is Your Trainer
by Nathan W. Evans Jr.BUILDING MUSCLE is a testimony to building character by using life as your trainer. Nathan shows no shame in being vulnerable. Drawing from his grandfather’s death to his struggles with post-traumatic sports syndrome and his battle with severe anxiety and depression. Nathan opens up to share every lesson he’s learned and how he’s conquered. BUILDING MUSCLE isn’t just a phrase but a call to action to use your hardships as a trainer to become the strongest version of yourself.
Building Project-Management Centers of Excellence
by Dennis BollesIt&’s been shown again and again that business components from R & D to systems, engineering to manufacturing can benefit from a project-centered management approach. Now, organizations that have had success at the departmental or divisional level are taking the project management approach to new levels, adopting PM standards into across-the-board management philosophies and business strategies. This new model is known as the Project Management Center of Excellence. PMCoEs need every group within the organization to work under the PM model, but more important, they need the proper tools to implement PM standards in new areas. A crucial tool in developing project management objectives across the company, this book covers: * Positioning project management as a business strategy * Creating and managing an organizational PM portfolio * Education, training, and internal PM certification programs * Classifying projects, benchmarking, and mapping a methodology
Building Rapport with NLP In A Day For Dummies (In A Day For Dummies)
by Kate Burton Romilla ReadyBecome an effective communicator and create rapport with ease Building Rapport with NLP In a Day provides you with all the tools you need to make and break rapport and communicate effectively. Designed to contain a day's reading, this handy guide explains how Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) skills can help you to use the power of your senses to see, hear and feel your way to better communication, and gain insight into how different people think. Open the book and find: How different people communicate How to recognise what people are thinking from their language choices Ways to tell that somebody is lying to you How to improve your ability to say ‘no’ Tips for getting people to listen to you
Building Resilience to Trauma: The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models
by Elaine Miller-Karas<p>After a traumatic experience, survivors often experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual responses that leave them feeling unbalanced and threatened. <p>Building Resilience to Trauma explains these common responses from a biological perspective, refraining the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology. <p>It also presents alternative approaches, the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), which offer concrete and practical skills that resonate with what we know about the biology of trauma. <p><p>In programs co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, ADRA International, and the department of behavioral health of San Bernardino County, the TRM and the CRM have been used to reduce and in some cases eliminate the symptoms of trauma by helping survivors regain a sense of balance. <p>Clinicians will find that they can use the models with almost anyone who has experienced or witnessed any event that was perceived as life threatening or posed a serious injury to themselves or to others. The models can also be used to treat symptoms of vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue. <p><p>Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, is the executive director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI) and adjunct faculty at Loma Linda University's School of Social Work and Social Ecology. <p><p> She has 30 years of experience in social work, education, and trauma therapy and has held leadership roles in international disaster-recovery projects in the Philippines, Haiti, Guatemala, China, Kenya, and Thailand. Her El Salvadoran ancestry fuels her commitment to create culturally sensitive interventions.
Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness
by Jeanie Cockell Joan McArthur-BlairJourney through hope, despair, and forgivenessLeaders cannot predict the complex challenges they are called on to face. Veteran consultants Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell show that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an invaluable tool to build resilience.AI is a widely used change approach that emphasizes identifying what's working well in a system. Leaders can use AI to increase their ability to weather the storms they'll inevitably encounter and be resilient. A profound guide, this book features personal accounts from leaders across a variety of settings describing how they've practiced appreciative resilience in the ongoing cycle of hope, despair, and forgiveness.
Building Resilient Teams: How to Transform Your Workplace, Your Community and Your World
by Brian MolitorAn essential how-to guide to building more efficient and successful organizations at work, in our communities, and in the world as we discover how our humanity transcends all.In an age of self-care and mindfulness, Building Resilient Teams translates those concepts and turns it into the group. All of us are parts of communities, neighborhoods, and other organized systems. These organizations and teams can be further characterized as places where we work, play or worship. The impact of a negative or under productive workplace on individual lives is huge. The good news is that organizations, much like people, can learn, grow and transform once there is a clear path ahead with logical mile markers along the way. Building Resilient Teams provides step-by-step instructions on how to take any organization from where it is now to a level of higher success.
Building Self-Confidence for Dummies
by Kate Burton Brinley N. PlattsWe could all use a little more confidence in our lives. With a push in the right direction, you can discover how to carry yourself confidently at work, at home, and even in relationships. This friendly guide shows you what confidence is and where it comes from, and offers practical tips and techniques to build on your skills, challenge your fears, and channel your energy into a more effective you.Discover how toRecognise your strengthsSee things from a brighter perspectiveSay 'No' with confidenceBuild confidence in othersRaise confident children
Building Strategy and Performance
by Kim WarrenThe fundamental challenge facing business leaders is to drive performance into the future--the dynamics of strategy. To tackle this effectively, they need a clear understanding of what causes performance to improve or deteriorate and what power they have to change this trajectory for the better. Without this understanding, they risk making poor choices about their future--failing to exploit promising opportunities, pursuing unachievable aims, or falling victim to competitive and other threats. Building Strategy and Performance Through Time sets the agenda for building business strategy in powerful, actionable, and accessible terms. It gives executives clear frameworks for answering three fundamental questions: * Why is our business performance following its current path? * Where is it going if we carry on as we are? * How can we design a robust strategy to transform this future? The existing strategy tools most widely used help guide management's choices about where to compete--which customers to serve, with what products and services, and how to deliver those products and services to those customers effectively and profitably. While this choice is important, it is not often changed in any fundamental way; having found a reasonably strong and profitable position on these issues, few firms will, or should, set off in a new direction. But there is still much to be done to deliver that strategy, powerfully and sustainably over time. Many decisions need to be made, continually and holistically, across all functions of the business and adapted as conditions change from month to month and year to year. Pricing, product development, marketing, hiring, service levels, and other decisions cannot be made in isolation but must take into account other choices being made, elsewhere and at different times. Building Strategy and Performance Through Time explains a reliable, practical method, known as strategy dynamics, that creates a living picture of how an enterprise actually works and delivers performance. This picture shows exactly where the levers are that management controls and how to choose what to do, when, and how much, to accomplish your specific goals. It shows, too, how the same approach can be used to defeat competitors, cope with other outside forces, and keep delivering performance.
Building Sustainable Leadership from the Inside: How To Grow The Inner Capabilities We Need To Lead
by Joakim ErikssonDrawing on contemporary neuroscience, this book shows leaders how they can literally train their mind to become more resilient and have a more sustainable impact.This is a research‑backed and practical guide for how to grow inner capabilities enabling sustainable leadership in this time. It is built around five areas that many leaders will recognize as being challenging on a personal level, such as how to stay calm under pressure, navigate in uncertainty or collaborate skilfully with people with diverse points of views. While many leadership books describe the importance of such traits, few show how to actually cultivate them. Grounded in multiple fields of research, this book offers a practical training manual for the mind. With more than 40 reflections and exercises, it offers a guided tour to an ‘inner gym’, showing readers how to cultivate these capabilities.Leaders who have realized that it takes more than IQ and theoretical knowledge to create sustainable impact and are looking for ways to deepen their leadership capacity and authenticity will find them in this practical training manual for the mind.
Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World
by Ph.D. Darryl StickelLosing someone&’s trust is easy—building it back is much harder. In Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World, Darryl Stickel answers the key questions leaders face: what is trust, why is it essential to leadership, and how can I become more trusted?Trust is a basic, intuitive human reaction; it holds the fabric of our society together. Unfortunately, trust is at an all-time low in our institutions, governments, healthcare, and law enforcement. Fewer people attend a place of worship than at any time in the last eighty-plus years. Citizens fear their votes are not being counted and that politicians are lying to them—that the system itself has no legitimacy. People fail to take life-saving vaccines because they don&’t trust what medical professionals and policymakers tell them. In law enforcement, a lack of trust motivates non-cooperation, fear, and a breakdown in law and order. We are facing an unprecedented trust-deficit crisis. In Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World, Darryl Stickel, one of the world&’s foremost experts on trust, outlines his groundbreaking Trust Unlimited blueprint for building trust. Stickel moves away from the traditional approach of influencing people&’s willingness to trust—the con artist&’s tactic—to employing one or more of ten levers, which leaders can &“pull&” to close the gap between how much they are trusted and how much they should be. This approach also makes them more trustable and increases trust where it is deficient. Detailed case studies provide examples of his Trust Unlimited model in action.
Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals
by Lynn GrodzkiProfessional business coach and psychotherapist in private practice discusses psychological and business strategies for developing a successful private practice. Includes information on dealing with managed care, as well as how to adapt to an ever-changing marketplace.
Building Your Money Machine: How to Get Your Money to Work Harder for You Than You Did for It!
by Mel H. AbrahamUSA TODAY BESTSELLER!Make financial freedom real with the right mindset, right process, and right action stepsDoes it feel like you&’re missing out on life because you can't get your finances in order? Are you seeking a life free of financial fear and full of meaning, purpose, and impact?The key to building the life you desire and deserve is to build your Money Machine—a powerful system designed to generate income that&’s no longer tied to your work or efforts. This step-by-step guide goes beyond the general idea of personal finance and wealth creation and reveals the holistic approach to transforming your relationship with money to allow you to enjoy financial freedom and peace of mind.Part money philosophy, part money mindset, part strategy, and part tactical action, these powerful frameworks will show you how to:· Demystify wealth creation through proven processes like The Wealth Priority Ladder™ and The Five Incomes™· Build the three pillars of your Money Machine—Earn, Grow, and Protect· Optimize your earnings, transform them into assets, and protect them from lossWhether you are a dreamer, doer, or believer—or all three!—your financial freedom is a birthright. Now is the time to embrace your financial potential with confidence and courage.