Career Education

Being stressed is normal. In fact, some stress is good for us. But when it becomes unmanageable and self-discipline is lost, then it can create long-term and lasting issues with our physical and mental health. Stress Management tackles the issues and offers detailed and comprehensive advice on how you can change it and feel more positive and happier.

Funding your author career isn’t easy, but you CAN make money WHILE pursuing your passion for writing. How? By working on other people’s books in addition to your own. This book is the no-nonsense guide to starting the writing side-hustle you've been waiting for. Author and veteran editor Kristin McTiernan shares her experience of creating and growing a 6-figure freelance writing business and will guide you in creating that success for yourself.

This limited-edition insight unveils the Wizard's theories on how thoughts are assembled in the mind from stored sensory associations. Properly used, this knowledge will allow you to deepen perception and heighten interest in all your attempts at visual and auditory messaging.

If I were a Major League baseball player, I would smack the ball out of the park! I would scoop up a grounder and throw out the runner. Dream big, and see what fun it is to be a Major League baseball player.

This book reveals 60 proven principles and easy career-management techniques. Discover powerfully effective ways to start a new job and make a great first impression; work more smoothly with bosses and colleagues; build a high-performance personal network; manage workloads; decide who to trust (and distrust); handle enemies and overcome career setbacks; recognize when to move on; get noticed, get ahead, and get to the top!

From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being - mind, heart, and spirit - an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time.

A few years ago, lifestyle celebrity and TV pioneer Debbie Travis realized that she was no longer challenged by her wildly successful TV career, and she was so busy she was missing out on the people and things that made her happy. She dared to dream about a whole new direction in life - a plan to turn a 13th-century farmhouse in Tuscany into a unique hotel and retreat for people who need a change as much as she did. And now, after a crazy amount of work, she is not only living that dream but sharing it with others....

In this common-sense guide to mastering key areas of life, author and personal development mentor David A. Dunn shares a road map of practical advice and actionable steps for achieving success and happiness in all areas of life. As an avid consumer of everything self-help-related, David implemented the best strategies he found throughout the years that led him to a life of happiness, health, and self-made wealth.

Students and learners of all ages continually face the challenges of gaining direction, making decisions, and building self-confidence. Fortunately, the keys to successfully meeting these challenges - your own natural talents - already exist within you. Through these talents, you will produce your greatest achievements.

Music Educators are burning out of the career faster than ever before. From frustrations with school administration, to a lack of general health and wellness, to financial and emotional needs we just can’t seem to manage…we all know the demands of being a school music teacher can leave us feeling stripped of vitality and looking for change. This book proposes a different scenario: one that music educators can create for themselves with the right tools in their toolbox. You’ll be taught how to craft a life filled with financial, social, emotional, and vocational wellness using ...

If you are interested in learning everything there is to know about compulsive hoarding, than this is going to be the most important information you'll ever listen to... Because: Recently, a new breakthrough in compulsive hoarding was discovered and reported in an amazing new audiobook called Conquering Compulsive Hoarding. It's amazing, because it covers nearly every bit of information you wanted to know about compulsive hoarding, plus more...

This book contains 10 steps on how to be happy. By following these steps, you will learn how to have a happier life. And it's probably a lot easier than you imagine. A lot of people think that happiness is something you have to be born with. Don't fall for that happiness myth! With a few simple actions, you can increase your life-satisfaction and create a life of joy.

Today, most business writing is email writing. We handle even our most important customer transactions, internal operations, and supplier partnerships solely by email. Yet many of us still struggle to write emails that get results. And we often are so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of emails that we feel as though we’re in email jail! How we handle email has a large impact on the trajectory of our career. Emails can build or destroy credibility, clarify or confuse situations for our coworkers and customers, and reduce or increase security risks and legal liabilities.

Like the best advice from a therapist, career counselor, and savvy best friend, this practical resource details dozens of concrete ways to improve work life in any kind of job or entrepreneurial setting. As Minda Zetlin shows, basic self-care principles are the key, and they apply in both tranquil and turbulent times. Her prescriptions are action-ready and available to all.

Learn the 10 principles of personal longevity and how to apply them to your life to live decades longer. Learn about how science is helping us increase our longevity. What can we do to lengthen the telomeres that control our cellular aging? How enlightenment affects your longevity and how spiritual development can improve the length of your life.

When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor - with a love of argument for argument’s sake and the freedom to experiment - into the head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mind against “the man.” The college president is “the man.” Maeda has had to teach himself, through trial and error, about leadership.

Balance is a mythical beast. We always say we need to achieve it for equilibrium in our work, life, or family time, but balance doesn't really exist. In The Myth of Balance, Frank Bealer explains how a simple four-word formula can prepare you for the unexpected and not-so-unexpected events that distract you in the most inconvenient moments. Next time, be ready to slay the beast of balance with this time-tested approach.

Simplify, structure and succeed in life with leading life coach Shannah Kennedy's The Life Plan. Discover what you really want in life and how to get it! Do you want to live with purpose and achieve your life goals? In The Life Plan, leading life coach Shannah Kennedy sets out a step-by-step strategy to help you identify your true self and values, declutter and simplify your life, improve your time management and create structures that will help guide you towards your goals and visions.

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In a world increasingly defined by crisis, public service institutions like colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations require capable, dynamic, and trustworthy leadership, yet stories of leadership failures there abound. The problem, Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues in Leading Generously, is a fundamental mismatch between the communal purposes that leaders must serve and the individualistic structures under which they operate.