Download or read book Four Thousand Weeks written by Oliver Burkeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

Download or read book Dinner A Love Story written by Jenny Rosenstrach and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by her beloved blog, dinneralovestory.com, Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story is many wonderful things: a memoir, a love story, a practical how-to guide for strengthening family bonds by making the most of dinnertime, and a compendium of magnificent, palate-pleasing recipes. Fans of “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond, Jessica Seinfeld, Amanda Hesser, Real Simple, and former readers of Cookie magazine will revel in these delectable dishes, and in the unforgettable story of Jenny’s transformation from enthusiastic kitchen novice to family dinnertime doyenne.

Download or read book The 2021 Rock Star Life Planner written by Suzanne J. Paulinski and published by The Rock/Star Advocate, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rock/Star Life Planner is a 365 day planner designed with you, the creative-entrepreneur, in mind. Organize your appointments, manage your finances, and keep track of where to put your focus each day with The 2021 Rock/Star Life Planner. Access spreadsheets, checklists, & other tools to help you stay on top of it all + avoid the burnout with membership to a private Instagram community! THIS YEAR we've released both PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL VERSIONS for those who prefer to print out the weekly layouts on their own or buy internationally and save on shipping {shipping within the U.S. is always FREE}. You can purchase the digital version through Google Books or on our website at www.therockstaradvocate.com/planner. The physical version is exclusively sold through our website. Those purchasing outside of the U.S. will be responsible for additional shipping costs. WHAT'S INCLUDED: >>Year-Long Calendar {avoid missing future opportunities & plan out launches} >>Monthly Vision Boards {attract what you want & let your creativity run free} >>Full-year Financial Spreadsheet {finally gain control of your income} >>Weekly Planning Prompts {clarify your focus and prioritize your tasks} Additional digital tools & templates (yours FREE) to manage the career you’ve always wanted plus access to a PRIVATE community on Instagram where you can connect with like-minded hustlers.

Download or read book Super Sexy Goal Setting written by Julie Schooler and published by BoomerMax Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget SMART goals. You need super sexy goals! Have your attempts at setting goals been too exhausting? Are you sick of New Year’s resolutions that go nowhere? Does goal setting seem so serious and boring it puts you off completely? This book overthrows traditional goal setting practices to help YOU to discover your ‘super sexy’ goals that will make your life exciting and meaningful once again. Super Sexy Goal Setting will give you the simplest and most fun way to set goals that lead to a life you love. This entertaining and easy-to-read book will also: · cut through the confusion so you can easily set goals that are perfect for you · tell you exactly what to do to work out your goals—even if you have never set goals before · provide compelling reasons why super sexy goals give you MORE time and energy (yes, really!) We are promised that goal setting is an amazing way to transform our lives for the better, but it often seems like a hard chore that can often end in failure. It doesn’t have to be this way. Super Sexy Goal Setting narrows the focus to just FOUR exciting and meaningful goals in a 12-month period. This book distills an avalanche of information and all the learnings from years of goal setting into simple and practical tips to help you write your ‘super sexy’ goals and then take action without the overwhelm. Goal setting need not be boring, complicated or serious. Four super sexy goals. One year. Your life transformed. Follow the short, chunked down chapters in Super Sexy Goal Setting to: · lead and inspire others to live life on their terms · wake up each morning with a sense of excitement and zest for life · know exactly how to decide what you want in life, not what you don’t want · feel like you are living the life you were meant to live, one with excitement, meaning and true joy In less than a couple of hours this book will give you the exact blueprint that will make it effortless and exciting to discover and take action on your most desirable goals. This is the most fun, stress-free and of course, SUPER SEXY book on goal setting you will ever read. This is a short book but—and this is not said lightly—it will change your life. Follow the simple strategy in Super Sexy Goal Setting and give yourself the best gift of all—a feeling of accomplishment in achieving exactly what you want in life. What’s stopping you from being the happy, energized and successful person you always thought you would be? Don’t wait until another year rolls by with failed New Year’s resolutions! To add some much-needed clarity, direction and joy back into your life, buy this book today.

Download or read book Goals Planning and Action Guide written by Zig Ziglar and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever find yourself confusing activity with accomplishment? In this interactive action guide, legendary speaker and author, Zig Ziglar points out you can’t hit a target you don’t have. He shares the 4 Reasons People Don’t Set Goals. Anyone can be, do, and have more. BUT... “You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.” Zig guides you through the 9 Steps of Setting Goals. And he encourages you with, “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” Zig shares a quote by Oliver Wendall Holmes, “Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” After teaching the steps to setting goals, Zig takes you straight into ACTION! Zig identifies 13 Variables in the Formula to Reach Your Goals. The day by day actions work. “When you take hold of these ideas and follow the procedures, you will accomplish your goals.” If you’re familiar with Zig, you know you’ll get lots of folksy stories and one-liners in this book. And motivation by the wheelbarrow load. What you might be surprised by is the level of practicality. Zig breaks the goal setting and getting processes down to step by step, day by day actions. Whether you are just now experiencing Zig Ziglar for the first time or even if you have followed him for years, this book will be a life-changing revelation.

Download or read book Understanding Employee Engagement written by Zinta S. Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Employee Engagement is a comprehensive source for the science and practice of employee engagement. This book provides a rigorous and objective review of scholarship and empirical research on engagement from around the world. Grounded in theory and empirical research, this book debates the definitions of engagement, provides a thorough evaluation of empirical findings in the engagement field including a focus on international findings, and offers practice implications for organizations. The book is broad, with references and research across disciplines and countries, as well as new sections addressing current challenges, such as virtual engagement, engaging the aging workforce, and perspectives on diversity and inclusion. Employers can learn how to foster an engaged organization; practitioners can learn how to measure, identify, and implement evidence-based solutions to disengagement; and researchers can master the existing engagement literature and begin to study the many propositions and new models the author proposes throughout the book. This book is an essential read for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and business leaders alike for understanding how to measure, identify, and implement evidence-based solutions to foster employee engagement.

Download or read book When They Win You Win written by Russ Laraway and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary Silicon Valley manager who inspired Radical Candor, the three simple rules for creating happy, engaged teams. Businesses everywhere are plagued by managers who seem to think that keeping their staff miserable is the best way to deliver profits. This is a failure of leadership that also hurts the bottom line; research has shown that maintaining a happy, engaged workforce consistently drives measurably better business results across the board. In When They Win, You Win, Russ Laraway, the Chief People Officer at Qualtrics, provides a simple, coherent, and complete leadership standard that teaches organizational planners and managers how to develop incredible levels of employee engagement. The book identifies three key elements: clear direction-setting, frequent coaching, and active engagement with employees on their long-term career goals. Russ Laraway's approach to management, developed at Google, Twitter, and Qualtrics, shows the way to cultivate a happy, productive, and engaged team. Happy results are sure to follow—for you, your customers, your shareholders, and your employees alike.

Download or read book ACE Your Life written by Michelle P. Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s common for anyone to feel trapped or stuck by their inner commentator, habitual patterns of behavior, and the lessons they’ve learned throughout their lives. Everyone has regrets, with many trying to preserve strained relationships and other difficult parts of their lives. When faced with these hardships, it’s easy for self-worth and confidence to take a nosedive, causing many to wonder where they went wrong and to wish for a “do-over.” ACE Your Life: Unleash Your Best Self and the Life You Want to Be Living offers another way. Michelle P. Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R, explains how to create a life and legacy of love (both of self and others) and fulfillment. Predicated on acceptance, compassion, and empowerment skills, Maidenberg’s approach has transformative range, working for those who feel slightly “stuck” and are seeking personal growth and enhancement as well as those with more complex “stuckness” caused by trauma, cumulative stress, or other significant challenges. Each section of Ace Your Life walks the reader through definitions, benefits, barriers and includes curiosity-based mindfulness questions and exercises to promote growth, healing, and a path toward personal fulfillment. Individuals who want to enhance their life in a significant way and become their best self through the work and wisdom of personal growth will benefit from this encouraging, inspirational, and easily actionable guide.

Download or read book F It Less written by Shaun Rawls and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In “F”-It Less he offers a whole new lexicon of F-words more powerful than the one we all already know. By employing each thoughtfully and practically in your life you can begin to craft the existence you’ve always dreamed of. During his own transformation, words such as ‘fragmented’, ‘frustrated’, ‘fractured’, and ‘failed’ helped him identify where he was in the moment and to earnestly assess where he’d gone wrong in the past. In time he enjoyed days that were ‘fine’ or even ‘fantastic’. Prioritizing words such as ‘float,’ ‘family,’ ‘faith,’ ‘fun,’ and ‘freedom,’ reminded him of his destination, while words such as “find,” “forgive,” “forget,” “fix,” and “foxhole” helped him to get there faster. What he discovered is that these F-words can draw us back into alignment with our purpose and goals, enabling us to live a more intentional and rewarding life—the life of our dreams. What does it take to say “F-it!” and really mean it? To walk away from the circumstances that have you stuck in neutral, or worse, headed in the wrong direction? To reroute your life along a smoother path toward success? To live an “F”-It-Less life? Have you ever just thrown your hands in the air and said “F”-It!? Been tempted to give in to someone or something you’ve been resisting? Or worse, found yourself backed into changes, circumstances, or even a life you didn’t ask for? If so, you are not alone. But thankfully, there is now a powerful way to never have to say “F-It!” again. It begins with reframing the ‘f’ word . . . and ultimately leads to reframing your life. It’s a method designed to help you choose the life you want to live, rather than blindly accepting the one you’ve got"--

Download or read book Life Is Setting Me up for Success written by Victor Levy and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is success? What does it look like? How does one achieve it? In Life is Setting Me Up for Success, author Victor Levy takes an in-depth look at success, discussing what it is and what it isn’t. Levy offers thirty-three insights from day-to-day life, relationships, consciousness, yogic philosophy, society, and modern science to shift your perspective from living a life of constraints to expand to full possibility. He explores a variety of themes including goal setting, love, change, fear, and worry against the backdrop of success. Life is Setting Me Up for Success shares a wealth of philosophy, advice, and tips to help you expand your awareness from subconscious limitations to accessing your full intelligence.

Download or read book Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs written by Bart den Haak and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders in the digital era are faced with breaking into new markets, disrupting existing ones, and doing so with more precision than ever before just to keep up with their competitors. To innovate more quickly, to rapidly experiment with ideas and technology, to pivot seemingly overnight, you need to have a system in place that can help you execute your most ambitious strategy. While OKRs (Objective and Key Results) have made huge waves recently, practical implementation of OKRs remains elusive for many. Lean OKRs are the evolved version of the OKR strategy execution tool that has powered the transformational journeys of giants like Google and Facebook. It is the lightweight method that turns good ideas into great execution, heightens employee engagement, aligns teams, and achieves measurable, breakthrough results. Lean OKRs presents insightful anecdotes, creative exercises, clear figures and step-by-step models. Designed as a comprehensive guide, it covers everything from theoretical roots to practical execution, including company-wide strategy alignment and emotional management. Applicable to small companies as well as large organisations, Lean OKRs drives innovation through behavioral changes, empowering and motivating teams through focused daily OKR practices that are simple to put into action. Practical and to the point, this book integrates a unique combination of structural and leadership strategies, resulting in a new approach to OKRs that conquers the hurdles experienced by most business leaders today.

Download or read book Happiness Through Goal Setting written by Christian Ehrlich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evidence-based, practical guide to reflection on the most important goals in life, this book provides a unique framework and thought-provoking exercises to modify personal and professional goals to increase happiness. Why we pursue our most important goals in life is an important question, and the answer we give ourselves greatly influences our happiness. This book presents the goal-striving reasons framework to illustrate the essential positive and negative ingredients: pleasure, altruism, self-esteem, and necessity. This new framework and the practical exercises throughout the book will enable readers to change their reasons for pursuing goals and achieve the ultimate aim of becoming happier in life. There are many books on happiness – no other discusses happiness specifically from a goal-setting perspective. Human resources and mental health professionals, mindfulness practitioners, coaches, mentors, higher education staff, postgraduate students, and others will benefit from the hands-on guidance in this book.

Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

Download or read book Plan and Organize Your Life written by Beatrice Naujalyte and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If You Want a True Lifestyle Change, Start With Good Habits #1 New Release in Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Organizational Learning, Time Management, and Business Project Management Learn about how to get more out of life, design your days intentionally, develop good habits, and create meaningful work from podcast, YouTube, and Instagram star Beatrice Naujalyte. Start planning for success. Plan and Organize Your Life is a comprehensive and interactive “planning bible,” packed with proven advice on how to get organized, how to embrace simple good habits, and how to work your way towards true self-improvement and personal growth. Organize Your Life. In Plan and Organize Your Life, author Beatrice Naujalyte introduces us to the four pillars of an intentional life: planning, organization, productivity, and routines. With these simple tools, you’ll be able to master everything from effective note taking to minimalist workspace organization. Design a system that works for you. This book is the ultimate guide to developing a planning system to effectively execute your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. Whether you have professional, personal, or creative planning to do, this book helps you accomplish your smallest and biggest goals by creating new good habits and setting realistic goals. • Perfect for everyday use, Plan and Organize Your Life is a productivity planner packed with: • Organizational tips and prompts for your everyday success • Time and task management tools to help guide you • Productivity tips for your ultimate lifestyle change If you enjoyed books like Tiny Habits, Designing Your Life, Cluttered Mess to Organized Success Workbook, or The Lazy Genius Way, you’ll love Plan and Organize Your Life.

Download or read book Healthy Happy written by Julie Booher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is too short to be consumed with food and a negative body image. If you've spent years on a roller coaster of dieting and body shaming, today is your day to liberate yourself from those destructive patterns. In this book, nutrition coach Julie Booher brings you the ultimate guide to food freedom and self-acceptance with her proven eight-week lifestyle makeover. Healthy & Happy gives you the tools you need to fall in love with your body and your life. This book takes a lighthearted approach to creating new habits to improve your mindset, practice self-care and self-integrity, and establish a Magic Morning routine to start your day right. It's everything you need to quiet your inner critic and find fulfillment. In her eight-week guide to intuitive eating, Julie outlines her GPF formula for giving your meals a light structure, along with her clever plus-one strategy. With a balance of greens, protein, and fat along with some of your favorite foods ("plus-ones"), you can enjoy meals that satisfy your body's need for nutrients and satiate your cravings. Julie even gives you a start on your journey by sharing some tasty GPF recipes, such as Savory Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet, Sheet Pan Chicken & Rainbow Vegetables, and Blueberry & Oat Crumble. You will come away from this book having the ability to create more room in your life for what inspires you, such as building better relationships and spending time doing the things you find enriching, and learning that the more you trust your body, the easier it is to enjoy your life. Book jacket.

Download or read book Understanding by Design written by Grant P. Wiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2005 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Download or read book Hand Lettering for Self Care written by Lauren Fitzmaurice and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hand lettering; lettering for beginners; letter tracing; letter shaping practice; DIY art projects; arts and crafts activity book; calligraphy training; lettering and modern calligraphy; lettering workbook; lettering books for beginners; hand lettering book for beginners; hand lettering 101; coloring for self care; crafts for anxiety; coloring for anxiety; books for self-care;