Parenting Behavior

Are you tired of arguing and fighting with difficult people? Is your life filled with chaos and drama? Are you overly stressed because of how your boss, spouse, child, friend, co-worker, girlfriend, boyfriend or family member is treating you? Are you longing for peace of mind? In Amber Rain's book, Dealing with Difficult People: Coping with Conflict, Angry People, Abusive Behavior and Rage, you will find the help you need in order to make positive changes in your life.

Thirty years ago, Roger Fisher and Bill Ury wrote the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes. It established the mutual gains approach to negotiation, or what the popular media likes to call "win-win negotiation". But there are few, if any, negotiating situations in which everyone can get everything they want. In reality, most people want to win at win-win negotiation. And the way to win is to come up with a proposed agreement that is "good" for the other side and "great" for you.

It is said that more than 18 percent of the global population lives with some form of anxiety or another and that 100 percent of the global population experiences anxiety as an emotion in their lives. Anxiety is something that is uncomfortable for many, but can become seriously problematic for some people. The reason why it becomes so problematic varies from person to person, which is why finding a way to resolve anxiety and cure yourself of its grip can be challenging.

So often we want to make big changes in our lives, but lack the resolve to see them through. It seems we just can't summon the necessary willpower to take on these huge challenges - saving money, quitting smoking, increasing productivity, getting a promotion or pay rise, or losing weight. But here's the secret: willpower is not the answer.

Take a second to imagine how your day-to-day life will change when you can instantly analyze people everywhere you go. This guide will give you the practical tools and knowledge to read and understand people in a way few others ever will.

Night after night chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place - the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus and self-discipline.

All parents want a definitive set of steps to prevent reactions without sacrificing the crucial rules and boundaries kids need to thrive. Most parents are looking for what I call a “mindful authority”. Each tip the author includes uses a situation from real life to share how to address the intense emotions of early childhood and school-age children so that your child becomes independent, respectful, responsible, and capable of succeeding in the world.

These are the essences of Coach Carter's basic building blocks for winning in life. From learning about the quality of one's character to the love of learning - as well as the importance of self-discipline and spirituality - Coach Carter takes you through his own life experiences and shows you how you, too, can become successful in your everyday life.

Burnout, just like a connection with purpose, is never a coincidence. If you want to have a job you love instead of one that diminishes you on a soul level, practice awareness about what you are thinking, your urges for action, and feelings that surface within you. Author and certified career coach Gina Calvano offers a new perspective on why you feel disconnected from your work and burned out by your job. She delivers fresh insights on how to replenish your energy and power, along with accessible ideas for healing from job burnout and getting onto a path to purpose.

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned.

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?

Understanding your habits and how they impact your life is the first step to helping you change those habits to become more successful and happy. As a teacher and coach, Manuel knows the importance of forming good habits to help you be successful in life. With degrees in psychology and education, as well as over 20 years experience coaching soccer at all levels, he’s helped many of his students and players find the path to success.

Are you struggling to understand people’s intentions and would like to know how to interpret unconscious and non-verbal signals? Would you like to spot what others think of you by the way you make use of your body? Have you ever wanted to be more persuasive, or to learn how to influence others? Then this audiobook will open your eyes to the world of human behaviour and the ground-breaking techniques of dark psychology, teaching you how to interpret and even use at your advantage body posture, gestures, facial expressions, use of space and physical behaviour.

Imagine a life where intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors no longer control you. With Master Your OCD: The Easy Six-Step Workbook, you can break free from the relentless cycle of obsessive thoughts and actions. This workbook offers practical, stress-free strategies you can start using today.

Have you ever struggled with making emails deliver a powerful punch? If you already create punchy emails, you can make them deliver an even mightier blow. From novice to master, this guide has lessons and tips you can begin applying to your life right away. Don’t waste another second feeling your messages are when there’s a potent tool of electronic communication right in your hands. You will become an unstoppable dynamo of multimedia communication once you are through with these 7 easy steps.

Learn the most effective observation techniques and how they can influence your interactions with others; find out the different facial expressions and how to decode them; understand how someone’s posture and gestures can give away their emotions, and more!

Are you tired of the endless cycle of self-centered thinking and strained relationships? Do you want to build meaningful connections, embrace vulnerability, and live a life filled with genuine empathy? How to Stop Being a Narcissist is your compassionate guide to breaking free from the patterns that hold you back. This transformative book offers a step-by-step roadmap to help you identify, understand, and overcome narcissistic behaviors while creating space for emotional growth and authentic living.

In this constantly-connected, do-more-with-less world, being able to increase your productivity is a real advantage. Certified Professional Organizer (CPO®) and productivity expert Tamara Myles has developed a simple model - the Productivity Pyramid - which provides an actionable framework for anyone to achieve better results.

Paul Williams and Andreas Krebs take a no-punches-held look at the stories we tell ourselves about business success. The rags-to-riches tale is tempting, but we don’t have to search far to see that most organizations rise for a time, only to experience a dramatic fall from grace. Just look at some of the companies that used to be household names: Nokia, AOL, Pan Am, Woolworth, and Blockbuster. The Illusion of Invincibility examines the why of success and failure. It’s a smart, funny, and radical look at how to build and sustain a great organization.

If the progress you've sought to make in any one or all areas of your life has hit a plateau, you have to look within yourself to try to see if you're not perhaps your own worst enemy. It's time to take full responsibility for your own destiny, and it all starts with realizing that the problem is most likely you. You may be looking in the wrong direction in your attempts to try to figure out why you seem to have reached peak growth and progress, and it's now time to highlight and address the most likely source of your apparent lack of direction.