Download or read book The Overachievers written by Alexandra Robbins and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesn't attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar. Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B. With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.
Download or read book An Overachiever s Guide to Breaking the Rules written by Heather Whelpley and published by Wise Ink. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to stop. It's time to break the rules. Join speaker and coach Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting-and guides you to do the same. Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode and learn how to: Quiet the inner critic-and reawaken your true inner voice Reconnect to your body Reclaim your joy Redefine success on your own terms Reset boundaries and say no An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules is more than a personal development book. It's an inward journey to free yourself from the weight of perfection and start living your truth.
Download or read book The Overachiever s Dilemma written by C. J. McClanahan and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as you can remember, you've worked hard to be the best. Now you're thriving in a busy career, running your own business or quickly climbing the corporate ladder. However, instead of being satisfied with your progress, every achievement adds more stress and complexity to your life. You're beginning to doubt that the phrase "I'll be happy as soon as..." will ever be true. For thirteen years I've coached over three hundred talented, driven professionals who faced the same challenge. This experience has taught me that there's a better way to live. In The Overachiever's Dilemma, I'll help you understand why having a "Type A" personality makes you feel like you're running on a treadmill, unable to slow down long enough to catch your breath. More importantly, I'll introduce a simple system that's helped hundreds of professionals grow their careers and actually enjoy their hard work
Download or read book Better Sleep for the Overachiever written by Anne Bartolucci and published by AIBHS. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your inner drive keep you up all night? Discover methods to ease your ambitious mind into a healthy, highly productive pattern of sleep. Do you toss and turn worrying about tomorrow’s to-do list? Does your body crave rest but your brain won’t shut down? Have you tried all the recommended bedtime tricks and found no relief? Insomnia specialist and clinical psychologist Anne D. Bartolucci, Ph.D. has spent more than a decade helping results-driven people catch some z’s. Now this fellow overachiever is here to show you a simple way to get the restorative repose you need to fuel your busy lifestyle. Better Sleep for the Overachiever is a thorough guide to creating a lifelong habit of healthy, rejuvenating slumber patterns to help you perform at your peak. Drawing on Bartolucci’s extensive experience, you’ll discover why insomnia isn’t just a nighttime problem—it’s deeply intertwined with your daily thoughts and activities. Using simple strategies to identify and defuse stressful behaviors, you’ll soon be drifting off to dreamland! In Better Sleep for the Overachiever, you’ll discover: - Step-by-step tips and best practices to wind down in the evening - Why perfectionism and imposter syndrome stifle quality sleep and how to overcome them - The time management skills needed to let go and allow your mind to settle - An exploration of the role that mindfulness plays in managing racing thoughts - Real-life case studies, conversations from Bartolucci’s practice, and much, much more! Better Sleep for the Overachiever is an easily accessible handbook to help you snooze like a pro. If you like expert advice, practical techniques, and proven research, then you’ll love Anne D. Bartolucci’s life-changing resource. Buy Better Sleep for the Overachiever to get the rest you deserve tonight!
Download or read book My Morning Pages written by Carol Miltersteiner and published by Carol Miltersteiner. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eye-opening, comforting, uplifting" 24 months: that's the average time expected for a full recovery from burnout. The syndrome is a growing concern around the world. In the span of these two years, former technology manager Carol Miltersteiner documented her journey through burnout and its side effects (anxiety, depression and stress-related issues). She also reflects on our culture of busyness and how we see productivity. A unique, honest memoir on chronic stress and mental illness, My Morning Pages: Chronicles of Living Through Burnout marks Carol's debut as a writer. The book is a collection of the author's writings following the exercise "Morning Pages", introduced by the multitalented artist Julia Cameron. In My Morning Pages, Carol writes about her exhaustion, her overachiever personality and the effects it had in her personal and professional life. It's a glimpse into one's process of coming from the bottom to the surface and emerging radically different. Carol's mission with this book is to increase awareness and reduce stigma around burnout, anxiety and depression, and to raise hope that there are better, healthier ways to live our lives.
Download or read book Overachievement written by John Eliot, PhD and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were you ever advised to "just relax" before making a big speech? Don’t. From Texas A&M professor and celebrity advisor, Dr. John Eliot, this insightful guide takes a sledgehammer to what most of us think we know about doing our best. Eliot explains how mainstream psychology moves us in the wrong direction when it comes to stress management and performance enhancement; techniques like visualization and goal setting, based on pseudoscience rather than empirical evidence, often get in our way rather than propel us forward. Drawing on field-tested experiments and extensive research in neuropsychology, Eliot shares why these “common sense” strategies tend to come up short for the majority of people—and how, instead, great accomplishments are more likely to result from "Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket", "Thinking Like a Squirrel", and "Embracing Butterflies As a Good Thing". These counterintuitive practices not only trigger your full natural talent, but also teach you how to thrive under pressure, not dread it. OVERACHIEVEMENT incorporates Eliot’s work with Fortune 500 companies, Olympic athletes, renowned surgeons, military pilots, and Grammy-winning musicians, providing you with a powerful combination of inspiring stories and life-changing tools, offering the skills needed to overcome stress and rise above your peers in the boardroom, on the playing field, or in the normal day-to-day of life.
Download or read book The Overachiever s Guide to Getting Unstuck written by William L. Reeb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel trapped by your own plans, expectations, and priorities? As a CPA, successful entrepreneur, consultant, volunteer, husband, father, and martial arts enthusiast, author Bill Reeb knows first-hand how easy it is to let your own goals and ideas keep you from moving forward. He’s spent years analysing the roadblocks he regularly encounters in his own life, in addition to the obstacles that he sees his high-achieving clients struggle with on a daily basis. Drawing on his experience as a leading business consultant and his years of martial arts training, Reeb developed a logical and dynamic process for getting more out of life and avoiding the pitfalls that are often part and parcel with a high-achievement mind set. Being “stuck” takes on many forms, from simply failing to change course when you know you should, to circumstances that are complicated by family commitments and financial constraints. Reeb’s process of replanning, reprioritizing, and reaffirming is flexible enough to apply to any barrier, big or small, that you run into. Rely on the advice and tools in this book to help you: Determine what drives you Recognize the early signs of being “stuck” Learn to work “better” instead of “harder” Balance conflicting priorities Set boundaries Manage your time Align what you think with what you do Move past roadblocks Derive a greater sense of fulfilment from what you take on in life
Download or read book How to Become an Overachiever written by David E. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 90-minute guide to achieving peak performance.
Download or read book Overachiever written by S M Shade and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Overachiever was hands down one of the best rom coms I have ever read. One word. Banter. It has that in spades and gets better as you read as if that's even possible!" -- #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken It started with a summer job and a ridiculous sex dream. If you were to ask my friends to describe me, they'd tell you I'm an ambitious person. Responsible, driven, and focused on my goals. Words like stubborn and uptight would probably get thrown in there too. I'm not sure about that, but I know who I'm not. I'm not the woman who lets a guy derail me from my plans. Watching others make that mistake has taught me well. No serious dating. No relationship until I'm successfully settled into my career. That's the promise I made to myself and I'm determined to keep it. Despite being an excellent student, there's one lesson I fear I've learned too late. Funny men aren't as harmless as they seem and should be avoided at all times. They sneak in under your radar and end up under your skirt. One second you're laughing. The next you're hunting for your underwear on a hotel room floor. Believe me, it's not worth it. If only my heart would stop screaming louder than my brain, I might be able to believe that Owen falls into that category. He's my friend, but every day we spend together in this hotel, or working on our summer job building houses for charity, the harder it gets to convince myself we shouldn't be more. Years of diligence, and I'm being destroyed by a goofy smile.
Download or read book Lost in the Meritocracy written by Walter Kirn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within.
Download or read book Underprivileged Overachiever written by Y. A. Salimu and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Change written by Bilaal Rajan and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation, inspiration and fundraising tips from UNICEF Canada's Child Representative.
Download or read book Everything Isn t Terrible written by Kathleen Smith and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licensed therapist and respected mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a smart, practical antidote to our anxiety-ridden times. Everything Isn't Terrible is an informative, and fun guide - featuring a healthy dose of humor - for people who want to become beacons of calmness in our anxious world. Like Sarah Knight's "No F*cks Given" guides and You Are a Badass, Everything Isn't Terrible will inspire readers to confront their anxious selves, take charge of their anxiety, and increase their own capacity to choose how they respond to it. Comprised of short chapters containing anecdotal examples from Smith's personal experience as well as those of her clients, in addition to engaging, actionable exercises for readers, Everything Isn't Terrible will give anyone suffering from anxiety all the tools they need to finally be calm. Ultimately, living a calmer, less anxious life is possible, and with this book Smith will show you how to do it.
Download or read book We All Looked Up written by Tommy Wallach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.
Download or read book Adventures of a Semi Reformed Overachiever written by LaNelle C. Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We've tried to have it all (somebody said we could) and do it all (nobody said we couldn't). And while we're doing it, we have to look good and stay slim and keep young". Sound familiar? You're not alone. And with LaNelle Stiles around--a self-confessed semi-reformed overachiever--you'll never look at your problems the same way again.
Download or read book Overachieving Parents Underachieving Children written by Dorothy Bodenburg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a successful, achievement-oriented parent, you are being driven berserk by a child who lacks your drive and skills for success - especially when nothing you do seems to motivate your idle child. Overachieving Parents, Underachieving Children gives you an innovative step-by-step program for opening up lines of communication between you and your child, allowing him or her to blossom while reducing the stress that both of you feel." "Family counselor Dorothy A. Bodenburg explains the natural personality differences between parent and child that can lead you to misinterpret your child's behavior as underachieving. She describes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of underachievers by category - people pleasers, procrastinators, master-manipulators, and drop-outs - and shows why some parenting strategies backfire with these different types of underachievers." "Overachieving Parents, Underachieving Children is filled with examples of real-life situations that show you how to transform power struggles into teamwork and discouragement into motivation. As a high achiever, you'll learn to recognize the skills that have made you successful and acquire techniques that help you convert your skills into useful tools for your children." "You and your child will actually have fun filling in the "discovery sheets" that translate vague expectations and animosities into clear-cut goals and understanding. Imagine the pleasure of hearing what your child is actually saying and the pride of watching your child gain the self-confidence and self-discipline needed for success."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Family Evaluation written by Murray Bowen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy and the originator of family systems theory, are brought together here in an integrative fashion. Michael Kerr (who worked with Bowen for many years) and Bowen propose that the enormously complex task of evaluating a clinical family can be orderly when it is grounded in family systems theory. Using family diagrams and case studies, the book is devoted to an elegant explication of Bowen theory, which analyzes multigenerational family relationships and conceptualizes the family as an emotional unit or as a network of interlocking relationships, not only among the family members, but also among biological, psychological, and sociological processes. Bowen’s persistent inquiry and devotion to family observation, in spite of obstacles and frustrations, have resulted in a theory that has radically changed our ways of looking at all behavior.
