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Before you can lead change, you must first learn to communicate effectively.Sync or Swim will help you: break through apathy and cynicism to inspire teamwork; empower and energize frustrated colleagues; and create an engaging work environment.

Do you constantly feel sick and tired of being a puppet to your emotions? Often get envious of other people that live good happy lives? Or maybe you’re just looking for that new outlook on life, but just simply can’t find the answers anywhere? Stoic philosophy actually allows us to embrace our negative and detrimental emotions, and turn them into positive peaceful thoughts, thus giving us a whole new perspective on life.

This self-help communication book can help you find and accept yourself. So much is coming from self-love that it is vital to mend this gap. Strikingly honest and personal, this thorough guide offers amazing self-transformation techniques. The author shares her experience of shedding years of conditioning and becoming a happier and more fulfilled individual. This inspiring book will help you do the same.

Create a bulletproof first impression and turn strangers into lasting relationships. Beat surface level small talk and truly connect. You've seen them - people who have the ability to walk into a room of strangers, instantly befriend everyone, and leave with 20 new contacts in their phone. What makes people open up, engage, and connect with them? They've mastered the first 60 seconds of any interaction. Learn the subtle signs people actually pay attention to.

If you’re finding it hard to express yourself, whether in work environments or at home and if you feel like your voice is not loud enough, you need to transform yourself into a more assertive person. Even if you feel like you’re confident enough to express yourself clearly, assertiveness is a communication skill and as such can be trained and upgraded. If you’ve ever felt like you’re not getting enough respect, you should use this book to test your behavioral patterns and find a solution.

Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathetic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same kindness and caring you strive to offer your kids. Simple, yet powerful, guided meditation techniques (most under three minutes long) are easy to practice while doing the dishes, driving to work, or soothing a fussy baby. Learn to respond to your own imperfections like a supportive friend, not a harsh critic.

A playful guide to understanding the ways of "normal people", The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy flips our usual scripts about neurodiversity. Following on from her internationally successful memoir, The Autists, Clara Törnvall has written a fun, comprehensive, and accessible explanation of neurotypical, or "normal", behavior. Full of facts, tips, and tests, and developed with input from other autists, this book places the difficulties autists face in the context of a world built for the neurotypical majority.

Deepak Chopra and Kimberly Snyder offer an exciting and practical program to help transform you from the inside out. Through six pillars of healthy living that focus on internal and external nourishment, sleep, living naturally, avoiding excessive stress, and better understanding the relationship between emotions and inflammatory foods, the authors offer practical tips, tools, innovative routines, and foods that will allow you to achieve your highest potential of beauty and health.

Improved communication will enable you to demonstrate your value to others and defend your arguments, but also feel more secure in any scenario. The knowledge throughout this book will offer you the abilities you'll need to be assertive and in command. You'll discover how to enhance your connections, advance your profession, and gain the trust of all colleagues, relatives, spouses, employees, and even your employer with this knowledge.

Developing unwavering confidence and a magnetic personality can transform your career, relationships, and self-image. Yet even the most capable people battle self-doubt or struggle to share ideas effectively. If you’ve ever felt invisible in a crowd or longed to take command of a room, Small Talk [5-in-1]: 99 Techniques & Insights to Create Powerful Connections by Mastering the Art of Making Conversation is your roadmap to standing out and succeeding.

Give Them The Words is a must-listen for anyone who is seeking practical advice and actionable strategies to improve communication for exceptional kids. Written by Speech Language Pathologist and mother Kim Gallo, this thought-provoking, easy-to-follow, and pragmatic guide draws upon Gallo's expertise in early intervention and her previous published works.

The 21st century has seen very positive movement for LGBT+ rights. In the last few years, the overturning of DOMA, the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Marriage Equality Act, American transgender politicians elected to office, and landmark moments such as Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world under the leadership of an openly gay CEO have advanced LGBT awareness and understanding. In a world full of LGBT questions, The ABC's of LGBT+ has the answers.

Are you tired of repeating the same painful relationship patterns? Do fear and insecurity keep you from forming deep connections? The echoes of childhood wounds can shape your relationships—but healing is possible. The Psychologist’s Attachment Solution Workbook is your step-by-step guide to transforming anxious, avoidant, or fearful-avoidant attachment patterns and creating the secure love you deserve.

Do you ever feel like a failure? Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It's the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters.

We all have the desire to belong, to connect. And in the age of social media, making personal connections has been more challenging than ever. Millennials and Zoomers tend to have high anxiety at the thought of meeting new people and often fumble during in-person relationships. They struggle to connect, don’t know how to make friends, and subsequently flounder in workplace relationships. Sound familiar? But relationship expert and media personality Rachel DeAlto knows that it doesn’t have to be that way. Everyone can be likable.

The pain of people-pleasing is very common. It’s a pain of never being able to say no, constantly worrying about what others think of you, and feeling like you can never do enough. Though breaking free from this cycle can seem impossible, what if there was a solution? This audiobook aims to help you break this cycle and master how you can set helpful boundaries for yourself.

From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other human beings. Face-to-face contact matters: tight bonds of friendship and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives, and make us happy. Looser in-person bonds matter too, combining with our close relationships to form a personal "village" around us, one that exerts unique effects.

Our world is constantly changing, but something that always remains true? Manners matter. Etiquette is about more than just knowing which fork to use at a fancy dinner or how to write a thank-you note. Modern Etiquette For Dummies shows you how to navigate tricky interpersonal scenarios and tough workplace dilemmas with ease. With the help of Dummies, you'll toss aside stuffy old notions of etiquette and discover how to conduct yourself in various environments. This book is full of tips on tackling today's unique challenges.

Did you know anxiety is one of the most common mental health concerns for children, affecting upwards of 20 percent of children and adolescents over the course of their youth? Anxiety is more prevalent in our society than ever before; we’re all affected by it. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your kids don't have to live a life of anxious stress. Together, you can build a new reality - one completely free from unnecessary anxiety.

Is it hard to find time for yourself? Do you often ignore what you want and focus, instead, on what others want? Do you find it difficult to speak up for yourself? Yes! I Said No! gives you specific tools to set healthy boundaries and retake control of your life. You will learn how to do what you want to do. Without drama. Without anger. Without fear. A series of simple-to-follow examples and clearly stated tools will help you invest in yourself, say yes when you want to, and say no when you need to.