Do you ride the escalator or do you take the stairs? No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world", one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end - and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go. How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? This lively and insightful guide presents a simple program for taking the stairs - that is, for overcoming the temptations of quick fixes and procrastination, conquering creative avoidance, and transcending personal setbacks in order to tackle the work that leads to real success. Whatever your goals are, Rory Vaden's proven approach will get you there - one stair at a time.

Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success

Business & Money

VADEN, Rory

Business Culture

Your Coach In A Box

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, listeners will learn: � Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. � Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. � Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower. � Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. � Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. � Willpower failures are contagious--you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends��--but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help listeners with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Self-Help

McGonigal, Kelly

Personal Transformation

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK- delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework. Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday, including: * Dunbar's Number - Humans evolved to live in bands of roughly 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle more than that number. If you have more than 150 Facebook friends, they are surely not all real friends. * Hindsight bias - When we learn something new, we reassure ourselves that we knew it all along. * Confirmation bias - Our brains resist new ideas, instead paying attention only to findings that reinforce our preconceived notions. * Brand loyalty - We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

McRaney, David

Reference

The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique vision of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide iIt helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose.But Leider and Shapiro came to realize that repacking is not something we do once or twice in reaction to a sense of disillusionment or frustration in our lives. Developing one's own vision of the good life is a matter of constant and evolving choice, as the inevitable shifts and surprises life has to offer continually unfold before us. With each step along the way, it remains necessary to re-examine what has brought us here, to continue asking ourselves if the choices that have sustained us so far are continuing to do so-or if they're just weighing us down.This edition has been thoroughly revised to make it applicable for listeners today. The changes include:� Refocused message on the new life and work realities and the survival skills required to succeed� More practices and experiences for �lightening your load.�� Fresh new stories of "people just like me", the listener.� A new "Repacking Journal"� Addition of Leider's immensely popular Calling Cards exercise for discovering your gifts, passions and values, with access to a Calling Cards online profile

Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life

Leider, Richard J.

Shapiro, David A.

Radical formula transforms your money and spiritual growth into global change The Awakened Millionaire is a practical manifesto guiding you to new dimensions of personal wealth, spiritual growth, and as a result, global transformation. Crafted by Dr. Joe Vitale, a famed millionaire, best-selling author, and star of the blockbuster movie The Secret, you'll discover a controversial formula that accomplishes what few believe possible: combining money and spirituality together to bring you more of both, while transforming you into a force for good in a world that desperately needs it. This audiobook is a call to action, pushing you to wake up, stand up, and transform yourself into a powerful expression of your passion, your wealth, and your desire to make a difference. It is an invitation to become a true Awakened Millionaire, starting today. While most consider money and spirituality a blasphemous duo, Dr. Vitale shatters these social norms and shows you the true nature of money empowered with soulful purpose. At turns inspirational, motivational, and conversational, this page-turner ultimately narrows in on practical steps anyone can use to see instantaneous results, regardless of your past failures, current financial situation, or future goals. But his mission is not to simply transform you. Dr. Vitale's mission is to create a swarm of Awakened Millionaires transforming the world with every action they take, while enjoying personal luxury and soulful fulfillment new levels of money and spiritual growth can give them. The book reveals:How to turn your passion into wealthHow to transform money into a spiritual toolHow to create a soulful mission that changes the world If you desire both wealth and spirituality, this audiobook finally reveals how.

The Awakened Millionaire: A Manifesto for the Spiritual Wealth Movement

VITALE, JOE

Personal Finance

An accessible guide on training the brain to work effortlessly in your favor-from the international bestselling author of the productivity classic Eat That Frog In business and in life, you must be smart to get ahead. As things shift and change quickly, you need to tap into your brain-learn how to think smartly-in order to make sure that you maximize your opportunities.  In Get Smart!, internationally-acclaimed business guru, speaker, author, and productivity expert Brian Tracy has laid the groundwork on how to easily reconfigure your negative thinking patterns and habits, and reprogram your brain to achieve its maximum potential. In this invaluable book, readers will encounter: � The latest brain research on how to think, in order to get results� Practical, easy-to-understand advice and immediately actionable steps and exercises� How to train the brain to think correctly and help to create a brilliant future� Tapping in to the power of positive thinking� How to harness the true potential of the human mind� And so much more Whether your goal is making more sales, coming up with better business plans, or simply finding ways to make extra money or have more residual income, this book will serve as your personal express elevator going straight to the top!

Get Smart: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

TRACY, BRIAN

Ready to activate your dream life? You know that sneaky voice inside your head telling you that you're not good enough, smart enough, skinny enough, whatever enough? That's your Mean Girl. And she's doing her best to keep you stuck in Fear Town, too scared to go after the life you always imagined. But enough's enough! Melissa Ambrosini has made a life beyond her wildest dreams, all by mastering her Mean Girl, busting through limiting beliefs and karate-chopping through the fears that held her hostage for years. And now she wants to help you remember not only what you are capable of, but how amazing you truly are! In this inspiring, upbeat guide, Melissa provides a practical plan for creating your own version of a kick-ass life - one that's wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy and bursting with love. Designed to propel you out of stuck-ness and into action, this is a must read if you're ready to let go of your Mean Girl and start living the life of your dreams.

Mastering Your Mean Girl: The No-BS Guide to Silencing Your Inner Critic and Becoming Wildly Wealthy, Fabulously Healthy, and Bursting with Love

Ambrosini, Melissa

Happiness

Brainblocks are the mental obstacles that keep people from achieving success, defined as setting, pursuing, and achieving a goal. Managing the brain is the solution to preventing mental blocks from interfering with achieving your goals. And neuropsychologist Dr. Theo Tsaousides gives you the tools to improve: Awareness: the seven brainblocks to success (self-doubt, procrastination, impatience, multitasking, rigidity, perfectionism, negativity) the characteristic feelings, thoughts, and actions associated with each brain block the brain functions involved in goal-oriented actionbrain glitches and how they create setbacks the cost of not removing brain blocks the best strategies to remove the blocks Engagement:actively search for brainblocks in your actions, thoughts, and feelings recognize and label each brainblock as soon as it is identified practice each strategy consistently until it becomes second nature track your progress toward a goal Through these strategies you will learn to overcome these cognitive obstacles and harness the power of the brain to achieve success in any endeavor.

Brainblocks: Overcoming the 7 Hidden Barriers to Success

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tsaousides, Theo

Psychology & Counseling

The subject of �money� remains one of the most fascinating, thought provoking, emotional, polarizing and well researched subjects in the world. Scores of books, articles, blog posts, and speeches have been written on what money is, how to earn it, how to spend it, who has it and who does not and a myriad of other topics related to the effects that it produces. Yet, despite the constant focus and interest on the topic, there is one word that describes the average person's views around money: confusion. It seems that, there is so much dis-information (what we might call �financial white noise�), that most people either rely on chance for their fortune, or they ignore the subject altogether. This is not only unnecessary, it is a tragedy, because of the untapped human potential that is never uncovered when people leave their lives to chance, or give up on their dreams. It's also totally unnecessary, because the topic of money-how to create it, how to invest it, and how to spend it wisely-is known. Truly, there is a �science� of money, just as there is a science of nutrition, chemistry, and engineering. This �science of money� has been tested and proven again and again. And while new �theories� can arise all the time-just as we have new theories for cures for cancer or baldness, for example-the discipline of science, and it's rules for testing and verifying results-will, in short order, move these ideas from the realm of �theory� to one of two categories: -The Laws of Money that have been proven and can be relied upon-as much as you can rely upon the sun rising in the East and setting in the West-and The Myths of Money-those ideas (some of which may still be around, just as �rumor� or �innuendo� can exist without any basis) which claim to be true, but which have been tested and disproven, or which at best have never been decidedly proven. Ultimately, this program has one central goal: To end all of the confusion once and for all, and to present, in one comprehensive program, the essential truths about money. If you simply study the ideas in this program, and apply them to your life and your business, you will become financially successful-as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.

The Science of Money: How to Increase Your Income and Become Wealthy

STRUTZEL, DAN

"Close With Supreme Confidence - Attract Superb Customers and Big Checks Without Resistance and without using High-Pressure!"Achieve extraordinary sales results using the world-renowned techniques of Psycho-Cybernetics. Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the creator of Psycho-Cybernetics, and five hugely successful sales entrepreneurs - each themselves a Psycho-Cybernetics success story - reveal how to apply this powerful self-improvement program to every aspect of selling. Learn how to completely eliminate customer resistance even as you remove your own mental obstacles and doubts. This unique program enables you to:� Quickly become a "master closer" � Use objections to forge a "partnership" between you and the customer � Make dynamic, action-inspiring sales presentations � Soar out of any selling slump � Ensure your own financial health and well-being� Sell successfully even in situations where your self-image insists you're in "over your head" � Network for astounding results - without wasting time� Conquer call resistance forever� Use stress to your advantage � Attain happiness and peace of mind in your sales careerZero Resistance Selling shows you how to literally "reprogram" your self-image to help you attain your loftiest selling and career goals.

Zero Resistance Selling: Achieve Extraordinary Sales Results Using the World-Renowned techniques of Psycho-Cybernetics

MALTZ, MAXWELL

Marketing & Sales

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