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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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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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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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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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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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Insights from Holly Whitaker's Quit Like a Woman. Sample Insights:
1) Most of us are living the lives others expect us to live while aching for another.
2) The dissatisfaction and emptiness we feel from living a life that isn't in line with who we are manifests through substance abuse. We drink to feel better.
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Imagine believing that if the lock on the front door isn't checked for the eighth time in a row, a family member will die, or that if a used fast-food wrapper is thrown away, it may be needed five years into the future to prevent a financial catastrophe. This is the type of psychic world inhabited by those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
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Molecules of Emotion (1997), by neuroscientist Candace B. Pert, is an account of her life in the lab and beyond. After she made a major scientific breakthrough as a graduate student, Pert's long career mapped mysterious connections between the mind and the body despite serious pushback from the scientific community...
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Insights from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Sample Insights:
1) Thoughts are truly powerful. When mixed with the definiteness of purpose, persistence, and desire, they can be translated into riches or other material objects. Desire is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
2) Desire is thus the first step to riches. The method by which desire for riches...
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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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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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