Power Relationships

Ideas are everywhere, but those with the greatest problem-solving, business-transforming, and life-changing potential are often hard to identify. Even when we recognize good ideas, applying them to everyday obstacles - whether in the workplace, our homes, or our civic institutions - can seem insurmountable. According to Matthew Syed, it doesn't have to be this way. In Rebel Ideas, Syed argues that our brainpower as individuals isn't enough. To tackle problems from climate change to economic decline, we'll need to employ the power of "cognitive diversity".

How did the Bushes, America's most powerful political family, become gradually seduced by and entangled with their Saudi counterparts?

After eight books, many of them best sellers, A Game Plan for Life is the one closest to John Woodens heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of mentorship. The first half focuses on the people who helped foster the values that carried Wooden through an incredibly successful and famously principled career, including his college coach, his wife, Abraham Lincoln, and Mother Teresa.

The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people’s lives. Here, Sue Stuart-Smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self. Stuart-Smith’s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Confidence is based on self-esteem, which shapes people's views of their capabilities. Personal and professional success depends much on confidence—that is, the belief in one's own value, abilities, and potential. Strong self-worth helps people to trust their judgments, express themselves openly, and seize chances without regard to fear. A confident attitude helps people to venture beyond their comfort zones, take chances, and fiercely pursue their goals. Without self-esteem, confidence stays brittle, and people find it difficult to believe in their skills.

Best-selling author and professional certified life coach Valorie Burton knows the value of pausing and reflecting in critical moments as a way to drive personal growth. In her practice, she has developed life-changing questions to help you make meaningful choices that lead to authentic success. Valorie offers a fresh way to help you think about what matters, build the courage to follow through, and discover a vision for your relationships, career, money, health, and spiritual life that energizes you.

Success Is for You draws upon many concepts that fans of Dr. Hawkins will recognize and applies them to the world of business and the psychology of success. Expanding upon the illuminating discussion of the attractor patterns of success from Power vs. Force, this remarkable never-before-published book pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the successful mind. Success, according to Dr. Hawkins, is an attitude we inhabit rather than a goal we strive for.

In Dark Goddesses, you will journey alongside Lilith, Morrigan, Hekate, and others—dark, fierce, and wild forces of the feminine divine. These goddesses, each a keeper of ancient secrets, will guide you through rituals, meditations, and practices that crack open the barriers of your heart.

Your kids are the most important people in your lives. In this increasingly competitive and confusing world they need you to help them be their best. They need you to guide them in developing traits for success and happiness. Grit for Kids will teach you how to help your child to develop their own grit in just 16 easy-to-follow chapters. Each one contains real stories of real kids facing common situations, proven steps to take in these situations, and the outcomes after the steps were taken.

In More Time to Think, Nancy Kline demonstrates that the quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The leaders, entrepreneurs and business people who understand this are at the top of their fields and inspire some of the most successful and innovative practices and businesses in the world. In this audiobook, Nancy Kline shares 10 effective ways to help people think innovatively, and with rigour.

Millions of people around the world have changed their lives for the better, thanks to Norman Vincent Peale and his Positive Thinking philosophy. Dr. Peale's groundbreaking program of affirmation and positive visualization is an amazingly effective way to overcome any obstacles that may stand between you and success, happiness, and your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and well-being.

In his last book, Turn the Ship Around!, Marquet told the incredible story of abandoning command-and-control leadership on his submarine and empowering his crew to turn the worst performing submarine to the best performer in the fleet. Now, with Leadership is Language he gives businesspeople the tools they need to achieve such transformational leadership in their organizations.

Are you an introvert or loner who feels painfully different from others and unable to fit into society? Do you often feel misunderstood and alienated from those around you? Do you find yourself opposing conventional beliefs and society’s values? Do you feel deeply frustrated and alien to this world, like you don’t belong here? You are not alone.

Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a teacher, a student, or a stay at home parent — this book will show you how to shatter procrastination and live a life of purpose and fulfillment. No matter how big or small, we all have goals, and when days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months and months turn into years without achieving them, life can get pretty depressing.

We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook - or even better, creating a start-up with the potential to be the next Google or Facebook or Uber. We see software coders becoming millionaires or billionaires before age 30 and feel we are failing if we are not one of them.

This "Super Self-Discipline" sleep learning program was designed to assist the listener in enhancing self-thoughts related to mental clarity, focus, self-discipline, an empowered attitude, willpower, and follow through. Some say that we are the sum total of what we surround ourselves with. For example, what we choose to watch on television, listen to on the radio, who we choose to surround ourselves with, and even the thoughts we think all have an effect on our overall perceptions and thought patterns.

Isn’t it time to finally change the lifelong, self-defeating patterns that prevent you from living the life of your dreams? In this audio, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer shows you how to put his groundbreaking Excuses Begone! paradigm into action so you can dramatically transform your life.

This practical and visionary guide helps you discover that the more you give, the more you have. The Power of Giving provides a wealth of down-to-earth ideas, exercises, and real-life stories that reveal to each listener the unique gifts he or she has to give, including kindness, ideas, advice, attention, hope, and more, and the many ways you can benefit from giving them, from better health to better job prospects.

In Burn It Down, veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does just that. She draws on decades of experience to connect the dots and illuminate the deeper forces sustaining Hollywood’s corrosive culture. Fresh reporting sheds light on problematic situations at companies like Lucasfilm and shows like Lost, Saturday Night Live, The Goldbergs, Sleepy Hollow, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more.

In this book, you will find practical suggestions for improving your self-image and exercises designed to accelerate your pattern of positive change. You will set yourself the goals you long to achieve - success, happiness, friends, money, and relaxation. Whatever your dream for success, if you have reasonable goals, we will move toward them utilizing the power of mental imagery. Unlike simple positive thinking, you are not waiting for the magic to occur. You are creating magic with the power of your mind and the harnessing of your mental energies.