Work Motivation

Spark is an unconventional business book. It has been built on the idea that coming from a perspective of 'getting' something is a severely self-limiting position. Instead, a career should be seen as an opportunity to give - to your funders, your team, your customers and the world at large. Doing so, the authors argue, can lead to expansive possibilities. At the same time, however, people should be averse to bloat, bureaucracy, and everything that comes with achieving a certain level of inert mass.

Inspired by ancient Greek philosophy and traditional Greek village life, and backed by years of research, The OPA! Way offers a breakthrough, practical approach to discovering and reconnecting with the true meaning of our lives and work. Best-selling authors Alex Pattakos and Elaine Dundon, founders of The OPA! Way® and The Meaning Group, share insights, stories, and three core lessons to guide you on your odyssey to meaning.

Living in a small town where dreams were dismissed and bouncing between the homes of divorced parents, Cameron Hanes carried low expectations and no hope for a life of fulfilled potential. Then he discovered his great love—the bow. For Cameron, finding his drive, his purpose, a reason for pushing himself every single day, changed everything. Endure chronicles the lessons Cameron has learned and compels us to raise our expectations of ourselves.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

Nunca teremos tempo para tudo, mas Faça o trabalho que precisa ser feito vai ensiná-lo a identificar a tarefa mais importante e concentrar tempo e energia nela, produzindo o melhor resultado para você e sua empresa. Conheça as práticas e os segredos dos maiores nomes da gestão de tempo, como Stephen R. Covey, David Allen e Heidi Grant Halvorson. Com seu novo nível de produtividade, você vai sair do trabalho a cada dia com a gratificante sensação de que seus projetos progrediram e que sua contribuição para a empresa ganhou outro patamar.

This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life.

Why can we not quit worrying and ruminating? Even though we want to quit ruminating, we spend a considerable amount of time doing it, days as well as sleepless nights. All in all, we can spend months and years of our lives ruminating and brooding, even though it only makes us feel worse. Olle Wadström explains why we ruminate, what drives ruminations, and why they are so hard to stop. He also provides different tools that are useful, as well as explanations as to why things should be done in the way he presents them.

In Run with the Bulls Without Getting Trampled, veteran corporate psychologist Tim Irwin presents the distilled essence of what makes some succeed and others derail in the workplace. Using compelling real-life stories to launch each chapter, not only is Irwin transparent with the lessons he has learned from his own experiences, but he also shares the invaluable insights and principles he has gathered from thousands of interviews with senior executives.

A pep talk in your pocket, this short audiobook will fill you to the brim with happiness, positivity, well-being and, most importantly, success! Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker are experts in the art of happiness and positive psychology and The Art of Being Brilliant is crammed full of good advice, instructive case studies, inspiring quotes, some funny stuff and important questions to make you think about your work, relationships, and life.

"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work." - Charles Spurgeon. If you've been stuck in a lazy rut lately, here are some suggestions to get yourself working productively...

Too often we’ve been told to go to college, get a good job, start a family, pay off debt, then run off into retirement happily ever after. For those of us struggling to embrace this concept, let alone make “ends meet,” it can feel overwhelming to navigate the world of work. For those of us that want to align our purpose with the work we do, find our calling, or live out our dreams this journey can be tough. This book will tap into 10 years of life in the career development space unpacking powerful stories, strategies, psychology theory and biblical truth that has helped countless people.

To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone.

How to Go to Work is a practical guide to equip you with everything you need to know to choose and achieve the career you want. The world of work is changing faster than ever before and it can feel overwhelmingly competitive out there. That's why Lucy Clayton, a founding CEO, and Steve Haines, an education policy advisor, have compiled and distilled the most valuable advice you can get on how to jump-start your career and shortcut the competition.

It's only been a couple of years since Janice Parker lost her partner Cheryl to kidney complications, and she is sure that she isn't ready for another relationship. However, when her sister and best friend come up with a complicated scheme to set her up on a date with a stranger, Janice finds out that attraction can exist on different levels. As she explores her feelings regarding the new territory she is presented with, Janice wonders if she is capable of falling in love again.

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.

A 22-year-old college student with a dead-end job, overwhelming debt, and now one credit short of graduation, Chad can feel his anxiety and anger growing as each day passes. His only hope for graduating lies in the hands of Paul, a man who offers Chad more than he bargained for.

In his groundbreaking debut book, Unseen Work, Myles Biggs challenges his listeners to acknowledge all of the unseen work in their lives: perceived past failures, seemingly disconnected life events, and childhood circumstances. Biggs argues that no experience is ever wasted, but instead, our unseen moments build to determine our levels of success.

The Mindful Living series is a new series of short mindfulness books dedicated to enhancing three important areas of our lives: work, relationships and parenting. Best-selling author and mindfulness guru Oli Doyle shows that all the key domains of life provide great opportunities to practice mindfulness and discover peace of mind. In Mindfulness at Work, Oli guides the listener through a six-week guide to show that even with demanding bosses and stressful environments, we actually can be happy at work.

Las lecciones de este audiolibro están narradas en forma coloquial y sencilla. A medida que lo vayas escuchando, te va a sorprender. Si eres humilde y tienes un deseo genuino de mejorar tu vida, comenzarás a seguir sus consejos para trasformar tanto tu vida familiar, como tu vida laboral. Una de sus preguntas te invita a plantearte: "¿Qué tipo de persona soy?" Si escuchas con valentía y sabiduría te convertirás en un líder visionario, que es precisamente lo que nuestro mundo necesita con desesperación.

If you do more than one thing for work, then you are more than one thing. If this describes you, then you may be a hybrid professional. Until recently, hybrids have been hidden in the workforce. But today and moving forward, the secret is out. In today’s world, professional identity is no longer just about being an expert or a generalist. Now, workers can be both. These hybrid professionals have unique talents that defy conventional labels because they work at the intersections of their multiple identities.