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There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even...
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For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe. What transforms...
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In How To Break Up With Your Phone (2018), author Catherine Price argues that most smartphone users have a toxic relationship with their phones, one that sabotages their sleep, creativity, and interpersonal relationships. Smartphone screens emit blue light that delays the release of melatonin, a neurochemical that signals for the body to rest...
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Listen now to get the insights from Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. Sample Insights: 1) Power is not determined by money, but by the options you have in your life. If someone makes $500,000 a year, but cannot travel and must work 80-hour weeks to afford rent, are they really powerful? 2) To begin living a life with endless possibilities and with substantially fewer work hours, you have to change your assumptions about life.
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Listen now to get the insights from Jen Sincero's Badass Habits. Sample Insights:
1) Habits are no-brainers. They're a routine tendency or behavior. They are the beliefs, thoughts, and actions that we repeat on autopilot.
2) You can quit bad habits through repetition.
When you repeat something enough times, you establish new neural pathways in the brain that your habit flows through effortlessly and automatically. In other words, the new habit...
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If a strange old gas station attendant offered to teach you to change your life, would you take him up on the offer? Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives (1980) is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Dan Millman, a personal transformation coach and former collegiate gymnast...
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There's a reason coaches tell fumbling players to get their heads in the game": it's the players' minds, and not their muscles, that really count. In The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive (2013), sports psychologist Jim Afremow explains how top-performing athletes develop the mental fortitude needed to not only take home the gold, but also to improve consistently...
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Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student 30 years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, without interruptions. By grouping a number of Pomodoro together, users can tackle a project of any length, and drastically improve their...
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In the more than 15 years since its publication, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book. The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and...
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Is there a simple formula for becoming a winner? In Born to Win: Find Your Success Code (2012), motivational speaker Zig Ziglar cuts straight to the chase: the real winners in life, he teaches, are the people who prepare, plan, and expect to win. It's really that simple...
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