Life Development

After a tiring day of the same old routine, you catch yourself mindlessly scrolling through social media yet again. Frustrated, you can’t help but think, “Is this really all there is to life?” Monster Jam driver and motivational speaker Bryce Kenny has been there. In his new book, Geared for Life: Making the Shift Into Your Full Potential, he aims to help others uncover their dreams and dare to be brave.

If your home feels like a never-ending mess, your to-do list is buried under a pile of other to-do lists, and you’re constantly running late again, you’re not alone. ADHD in women over 40 is often misunderstood—especially when it comes to organization, time management, and staying on top of daily responsibilities.

Journey into life’s quirky truths with comedian Tim Minchin in this nonfiction book, that infuses his renowned comic flare with heartfelt wisdom. Minchin transforms three of his most adored speeches—including his viral “9 Life Lessons” speech—into a captivating book designed to inspire, amuse, and create a sense of wonder.

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology, social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them.

Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep, and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience, and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.

Enjoy the wisdom, compassion, gentle humor, and companionship of a master teacher in a beloved book that has helped hundreds of thousands of people find their way toward meaning and purpose.

You and Your Anxious Child differentiates between separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, and social phobia, and guides parents on when and how to seek intervention. With moving case studies, such as Jon's, whose mother quit her job because his separation anxiety compelled her to stay with him full-time, this audiobook elucidates the nightmare that families can be living and helps them understand that they are not alone. Every step of the way, Albano illustrates proven therapies to manage anxiety issues in children while addressing the emotional needs of parents, too.

Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But with great compassion, Life After Loss offers a way through it. Drawing on numerous first-hand stories and almost 40 years of pastoral counseling to inform his advice, Bob Deits provides helpful exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief.

1000 Ideas: Change Your Life is your personal roadmap to transformation. Packed with powerful habits, mindset shifts, lifestyle upgrades, and practical strategies, this book offers a thousand ways to break through limits, boost your well-being, and live with more clarity, energy, and purpose. From small daily changes to bold life decisions, each idea is designed to spark action and unlock potential—whether you’re looking to be healthier, happier, more productive, or more fulfilled. You don’t have to change your whole life overnight. Just start with one idea… and see where it leads. ...

You are about to discover how to achieve a lifestyle you have always wanted and create a new, stronger version of yourself. You see, it's always a lack of emotional fitness and low self-esteem that are the reasons why even smart, competent and talented people are not able to achieve a satisfying life, a life that should easily be possible for them.

Steve Dalton’s 2-Hour Job Search simplified the process of finding work by utilizing technology, and now The Job Closer helps you seal the deal by applying his time-saving techniques to the surrounding steps. As a career consultant, Dalton has found that job seekers routinely overinvest in trivial aspects of the employment hunt while underestimating the important ones. In this guide, you’ll learn how to avoid wasted effort and excel in all areas.

If you dream of achieving big life goals but feel stuck in bad habits, this book is your way forward. Have you tried to shed pounds only to give in when friends order pizza? Do you have brilliant ideas for a project but end up procrastinating? Is past trauma stopping you from bringing your best to work and relationships? If so, you’re not alone. Consider New Year’s resolutions: a University of Scranton study reveals only 8% succeed. Why? Many aim too high, neglecting to understand the “why” behind their goals or preparing for the change they want.

We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free-ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world. This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives.

Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question: 'what do I want to be when I grow up?' In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want - and how to get it. Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to midcareer professionals to retirees contemplating whole new futures.

In this brand-new book, Pope Francis offers fifteen mindsets that allow listeners to find hope and meaning in every circumstance. He encourages us to defend and protect the light that shines in us, to believe in the beautiful, to find meaning in the struggles, to work for peace, and to build something wherever we are. He also reminds us of the importance of gratitude, warns Christians against complacency, and encourages real, face-to-face connection over conversations merely on screens.

In his trailblazing Harvard courses, his internationally best-selling books, as well as his lectures and videos, positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar has shared his wisdom on finding fulfillment with people around the world. But even a happiness expert needs a sympathetic ear now and then. Tal found his - not in a fellow psychologist or guru but in his longtime neighborhood barber, Avi, who (along with cutting hair) dispenses wisdom beyond his years.

Fair Play is a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than 500 men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With four easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore from laundry to homework to dinner.

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance? In this compassionate and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden—known online as “Hospice Nurse Julie”—shares the valuable lessons she’s learned in her fifteen years as an RN in the ICU and in hospice.

You were born with a unique gift, which is like a seed in your heart waiting patiently to bloom. When you discover, nurture, and share your unique gift with the world, you become magnetic to all the resources needed to create your heart’s dream life. Your unique path to wealth was chosen by your Soul before you were born, but it’s not predestined that you’ll walk it. Your intuition is always available to help guide you down your path, but you must have the self-love to listen to and follow it.

In this new edition of the best-selling classic, Florence Scovel Shinn teaches the power of positive thought and how to access abundance, love, and success. At a time of global trauma like no other, The Game of Life and How to Play It is the ultimate guide to creating a life full of optimism, clarity, and happiness. With simplicity and force, Florence Scovel Shinn's teachings have profoundly shaped the fields of personal development and spiritual growth.