Download or read book Myths of Choice Why People Won t Change and what You Can Do about it written by Clare Mann and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a self-help book inviting the reader to examine their own life and how personal and social myths impact and limit their choices. By understanding how these myths operate, you can re-evaluate their role in your life, see the pervasiveness of myths in other people's lives, and how their resistance to change is influenced by them. It provides tools for becoming an even stronger voice for change.
Download or read book The Paradox of Choice written by Barry Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Choosing Simplicity written by Linda Breen Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground breaking work goes beyond the books that tell you how to simplify your life. This book reveals what has happened in the lives of real people who have done it. Based on the author's three-year study of over 200 people from 40 states and eight countries, Choosing Simplicity is a delightful and rich blend of real-life profiles and guidelines on simplicity. Interwoven throughout the stories are the author's insights and guidance for those who want to explore simplicity and those who have already embarked on this journey. The book also includes a 16-page Resource Guide with reviews of 42 books on simplicity, information on related web sites, organizations, simplicity study circles, workshops, newsletters and magazines.
Download or read book Stories We Need to Know Large Print 16pt written by Allan G. Hunter and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of therapy and expertise in literature, this book explains the six archetypes derived from 4,000 years of literature and how they may guide unhappy people seeking meaning in their lives. Holding up the great books as the best way to understand these timeless story elements, the discussion devotes a chapter to each of the six archetypes; the innocent, the orphan, the pilgrim, the warrior-lover, the monarch pair, and the magician. Story structures are shown to be particularly suited to therapy with adolescents, many of whom have never stepped away from television and the shopping mall long enough to understand their unmet spiritual needs.
Download or read book Six Myths about the Good Life written by Joel J. Kupperman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken simply and generally they all miss out on something. Six Myths about the Good Life explores what they miss and, in the process, gives a sense of what a good life can be.
Download or read book Gender Stories written by Sonja K. Foss and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for anyone who seeks to understand the contemporary gender landscape, Gender Stories defines gender as the socially constructed meanings that are assigned to bodies. The book helps readers navigate issues of gender by introducing them to the ubiquitous gender binary, the problems with much of the research on gender differences, and the variety of gender stories in popular culture. At the heart of the book is a description of the process of becoming a gendered person through crafting and performing gender stories. Because each gender performance is unique, a virtually unlimited number of genders existsnot just two, as the gender binary would have us believe. The same multiplicity that characterizes the gender landscape characterizes the individual, who typically changes gender multiple times a day and across the lifespan. In Gender Stories, personal gender performances are framed within a philosophy of choice. Readers are encouraged to become more conscious of the choices they have in constructing their gender identities and to allow others the same choice by respecting their gender performances. Readers will easily find a place for themselves in the book, regardless of their views on gender, because one perspective on gender is not presented as the right one. Gender Stories affirms and legitimizes diverse perspectives as providing more comprehensive knowledge about gender for everyone.
Download or read book Eating Disorders Time For Change written by Mona Villapiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection for therapists and clients presents practical, how-to information, for the treatment of eating disorders. The authors have kept the needs of the therapist in mind by considering managed care as well as specific therapeutic issues. This resource will maximize the efficient use of time and resources for the therapist and increase the efficacy of work with clients with eating disorders. Clients will find the tools to be helpful resources and a critical extension of individual therapy.
Download or read book ATI TEAS Strategies Practice Review with 2 Practice Tests written by Kaplan Nursing and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaplan's ATI TEAS Strategies, Practice & Review provides comprehensive content review, realistic practice, and expert advice to help you face the test with confidence and get into the school of your choice. Kaplan's content review and practice questions are developed and tailored to the TEAS 6 for the most up-to-date prep. Our exam-focused instruction and targeted practice help you make the most of your study time. The Best Review Two full-length practice tests with comprehensive explanations of every question 50-question online Qbank for additional test-like practice More than 300 additional practice questions and explanations to develop your skills Expert review of all TEAS content areas: Reading, Math, Science, and English and Language Usage Glossaries to help you understand the key terms in each content area Expert Guidance Our practical test-taking strategies and study techniques help prepare you for even the hardest concepts Kaplan's expert nursing faculty reviews and updates content annually. We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams.
Download or read book Hope and Healing in Urban Education written by Shawn Ginwright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic actors. The book argues that healing a community is a form of political action, and emphasizes the need to place healing and hope at the center of our educational and political strategies. At once a bold, revealing, and nuanced look at troubled urban communities as well as the teacher activists and community members working to reverse the damage done by generations of oppression, Hope and Healing in Urban Education examines how social change can be enacted from within to restore a sense of hope to besieged communities and counteract the effects of poverty, violence, and hopelessness.
Download or read book 10 Myths of Success Leading to Your Daily Failures written by Lee Werrell and published by CEI Compliance Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a business person or a private individual wanting to better your life and wants who wants to know the secrets of Success, Failures, and Beliefs, then you're about to discover how to develop a major, definite purpose in your life the way you want it right now! In fact, if you want to know Start taking control of your life and plan your future the way you want it to be, then this new Ebook - "10 Myths of Success Leading to Your Daily Failures" - gives you the answers to 10 important questions and challenges every business person or private individual wanting to better their life faces, including: - What are the common myths about success and money? - Why you fall at the first hurdle? - What are your limiting beliefs and habits? - Why you can't save money? - Why do you feel a lack of control? ... and more! So, if you're serious about wanting Develop a major, definite purpose in your life the way you want it and you want to know start taking control of your life and plan your future the way you want it to be, then you need to grab a copy of "10 Myths of Success Leading to Your Daily Failures" right now, because Success Expert, Lee Werrell, will reveal to you how every business people and private individuals wanting to better their life, regardless of experience level, can succeed - Today!
Download or read book The Seven Stories that Shape Your Life written by Gerard Kelly (Author) and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most basic questions everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose? Gerard Kelly presents the stories that make up the overall story of God in the world. And here we find our purpose for each of our individual Christian lives. Our purpose is as distinctive as our fingerprint and we will connect with it when we connect with our identity and origin in God. God remembers how he made us and is committed to the fruitfulness and fulfilment of our potential. We discover the importance of finding our place of service and usefulness, knowing that our lives have meaning in the purposes of God.
Download or read book Telling Stories written by Cartledge Tony and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling stories, Jesus often used imagination and metaphor, pulling attention-grabbing stories and images from the air. He asked his hearers to imagine someone who could examine a speck in another's eye while a plank protruded from his own, or to visualize a great camel squeezing through the eye of a needle. He spoke of a despised Samaritan who showed unexpected compassion and a bigger-barn-building landowner who thought only of himself. Jesus' hearers understood that the characters and events in those memorable stories didn't have to be real in order for the stories to be true. In his preaching experience of nearly forty years, Tony Cartledge, like many other preachers, has often told creative stories as an avenue for capturing the attention and engaging the minds of those listening to the message he was called upon to bring. His latest book, Telling Stories, contains a smorgasbord of stories and scripts that range from the possible to the fantastic, along with one that really happened. They include original stories in folktale style and monologues or dialogues designed to illuminate biblical characters. All of these stories are designed to inspire those who proclaim Christ to effectively utilize good stories in their own preaching.
Download or read book Transformations written by Grant David McCracken and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reinvention of identity in today's world.
Download or read book 101 Career Myths Debunked written by Elizabeth L. Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything you know about careers is false? Bombarded by toxic misinformation about unemployment and failing career prospects, job hunters are often halted by fear. 101 Career Myths Debunked is essential reading for college students, job hunters, and career changers to discover the myths holding them back and reveal the surprising truths and practical steps that will set them on the path to career success. Written by a counseling psychologist and career psychology expert, 101 Career Myths Debunked is your personal career coach and ultimate planning guide. This easy-to-use workbook will show you how to boost your confidence and build a life you love. It walks you through the entire career development process and helps you deal successfully with everything you need to consider. You’ll learn practical new ways to move forward from your present uncertainty into a promising future.
Download or read book Thriving Through Change CD written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use change as a competitive tool and efficiently move organizations through the change process. Thriving Through Change is not a book of theories, but a change leader's practical guide focused on supercharging the change implementation process. Templates, checklists, and advice help to walk you through.
Download or read book The Myth of the Closed Mind written by Ray Scott Percival and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious zeal, suicide terrorism, passionate commitment to ideologies, and the results of various psychological tests are often cited to show that humans are fundamentally irrational. The author examines all such supposed examples of irrationality and argues that they are compatible with rationality. Rationality does not mean absence of error, but the possibility of correcting error in the light of criticism. In this sense, all human beliefs are rational: they are all vulnerable to being abandoned when shown to be faulty.
