Career Control

Based on his experiences running design sprints for top companies, Douglas Ferguson authored Beyond the Prototype to offer practical advice for people shifting from discovery to realization. Full of stories from companies like Google, Liberty Mutual, and Adobe, this guide outlines six steps that every team should take to launch their vision.

Are you feeling overwhelmed because of all your thoughts? Do you find yourself ending up in procrastination and not being able to finish your tasks? Such issues are the result of a vicious cycle that is known as “undisciplined living”. All of us can be disciplined regarding our habits, lifestyle choices, and thoughts. You have got the power to be disciplined about your life priorities, true values, and deeper longings. Most of the time, you end up being undisciplined is because you stay preoccupied with all your past mistakes and tensions for the future.

Ultimately, effective leadership is based on four traits - Confidence, Authenticity, Responsibility, and Empathy. These traits, along with the understanding of the emotions that drive us all, can be used to navigate through communications and relationships, both professionally and personally. This book serves as a tool to connect with others and learn to lead with Confidence, Authenticity, Responsibility, and Empathy. It also serves as a reminder to C.A.R.E.

We're all dealt certain 'cards' in life, the daily challenges we need to overcome in order to thrive. Tackling the problems and challenges of everyday life begins with our thinking. Our thoughts and behaviours can propel us forward or sabotage our goals and relationships. This practical, eye-opening book draws on the philosophy of the ancient Stoics and the ground-breaking therapy of Dr Albert Ellis to help you achieve your goals. Is That Your Card? will help you change your mindset for the better, putting you in position to propel yourself to greater success.

Urgency - that frantic feeling that we need to be doing more, and faster - is a destructive force in today's workplace. Unnecessary urgency can be toxic, causing stress and burnout. But not all urgency is bad, and sometimes we really do need to get things done quickly. Too little urgency can lead to inaction and lost productivity. So how do we find the right balance where we can use urgency as a meaningful tool to keep productivity up without generating burnout? Urgent! is a guide to using urgency for good to help achieve your goals, to drive success, and minimize stress.

In a life where we are contaminated by an abundance of toxic people, who only seek to attack us and fill us with their false attitude. We are predisposed to become one more. How many times have you regretted an action you took because you did not control your thoughts, emotions, or feelings? We need a paradigm shift in how we feel and act. Just as we take care of the superficial, we must also worry about the internal, our mind, which is responsible for everything we do, feel, and say.

Lesson VIII, Self-Control, is the "balance wheel" with which you control your enthusiasm and direct it where you wish it to carry you. This lesson will teach you, in a most practical manner, to become "the master of your fate, the Captain of your Soul".

Ready to turn your technical expertise into a thriving solo consulting business? This is your roadmap. If you’re a high-performing engineer, scientist, analyst, or technical professional, you’ve likely asked yourself: “Could I take what I know—and build something of my own?” “How do I find clients, package my value, and get started—without hype or guesswork?” From Expert to Adviser gives you the step-by-step system to do exactly that. Whether you’re planning a career shift, exploring part-time consulting, or ready to go all in, this practical guide shows you how to make ...

Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods for identifying drivers (causes) of risks so you can manage root causes rather than the symptoms of risks. Providing you with an appropriate quantification of the key factors of a risk allows you to prioritize those risks without introducing errors that render the numbers meaningless.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stick with It by Sean Young, read by Roger Wayne. We all have bad habits - whether it's a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lack of exercise. But change is hard. Forty percent of dieters quit within a week. Eighty percent of New Year's resolutions don't last beyond January. How can we kick bad habits - and stick with it?

Do you want to know exactly how to get the upper hand in conversations, debates, and negotiations? Do you desire the ability to persuade individuals as well as audiences? Persuasion often gets a bad rap; naysayers call it manipulative. However, persuasion is all around us. You are affected by it every day. Simple choices like the colors of a company logo influence the way you think. You may already practice persuasion without even realizing it.

Ever watched someone command a room and thought, "I'll have what they're having"? Confidence isn't a personality trait you're born with—it's a skill you can develop, even if you're currently calculating the odds of becoming invisible to avoid social interaction. In this refreshingly honest and humor-filled guide, you'll discover: • Mind Hacks That Actually Work: Reprogram your brain for confidence without the cringe-worthy affirmations • The Competence Connection: Build concrete skills that make confidence inevitable (no "just believe in yourself" fluff) • Body Language Secrets: ...

This book will give you the tools to understand manipulation, persuasion, and mind control, teaching you how to communicate with people in the most effective way possible. Despite its simplicity, it can turn everything around. Remember that mind reading, mind control, and manipulation are not bad or immoral things per se, because they will always be used no matter what we intend to do. However, with this book you will be able to detect these techniques, you will never be in the dark and will be able to tell when someone is taking advantage of you.

If you can discipline yourself to make people laugh because of the types of content you create, then you can get rich and famous. Getting rich should be fun! This audiobook teaches you how a majority of the most successful content creators in the world got rich by making their work fun and enjoyable so that they would spend more time doing their content-creation work.

Conquer the REHS/RS Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian is designed for practical, focused exam prep. This study guide helps you review essential topics like food safety, water quality, air and waste management, vector control, housing, and emergency response—along with key environmental health regulations. Clear explanations aim to simplify complex material without unnecessary filler. Whether you're new to the field or reviewing for recertification, this guide provides a structured way to study core subjects that appear on ...

Fear is designed to paralyse us, to keep us safe from the risk of rejection and failure. But change and growth are often on the other side of such risk, so how are we to get there if fear is so controlling? The loudest guest, explored in this fascinating new book, is fear. Author and psychologist, Dr. Amy Silver, believes that if you reduce the control that fear has on you, you take back control of your life. Fear is merely a guest in your mind, albeit a noisy one, and you are the host.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: BEING AN ACHIEVER, DO A FULL DAYS WORK IN 90 MINUTES, CONTROLLING YOUR OWN SCHEDULE, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT, PRIME YOUR BRAIN FOR A PERMANENT PERFORMANCE GAIN IN A FEW MINUTES.

Emotions enhance our life walk. We have love, joy, happiness, with love being the greatest and most effective emotion we have. We also have the opposite emotions: anger, hatred, greed, envy, pride, etc, all of which will bring us down.

If we believe in God, then there is but pure love; if we believe in anything else, then it's the Devil - the antithasis of all that's good. And if we impose conditions on love, then that is our downfall too.

We may all have different abilities, interests, beliefs, and lifestyles, but there is one thing we all have in common: We want to be happy! Happiness shows you how to be happy by adopting lifelong "happiness habits" that bring and fulfillment and pleasure to your days.

From the master of personal power - a date with destiny..."I know that no matter where you are in your life, you want more! No matter how well you're already doing or how challenged you now may be, deep inside you there lies a belief that your experience of life can and will be much greater than it already is. You are destined for your own unique form of greatness..." Anthony Robbins already has unlocked the personal power inside millions of people worldwide.