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This is a profound book, deeply informed by the spiritual traditions of the West, the Far East, and Native Americans, with whom the author has worked for many years. Its honest authority and moral focus appeals to readers of such classics as The Prophet and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Its simple format and beautiful presentation make it ideal for the intelligent gift-giver looking for a small treasure.]]> 112 Kent Nerburn 1577315154 Bela 0 to-read 4.28 1993
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]]> 146474 240 Kent Nerburn 1577310314 Bela 0 to-read 4.25 1993
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]]> 72662 336 Kent Nerburn 1577312333 Bela 0 to-read 4.37 2002
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]]> 556246
A companion piece to Kent Nerburn’s book Simple Truths, Small Graces is a journey into the sacred moments that illuminate our everyday lives. Through the exploration of simple acts, he reminds us to chart a course each day that nourishes the soul, honors the body, and engages the mind.

Small Graces asks us to observe life’s quiet rhythms, the subtle shifts in perception and changes in light, the warm comfort of family voices; to feel the blessing of birdsong, the solitude of a falling leaf, the echo of footfall in snow-covered woods. By inviting us to recognize the hidden power of the ordinary, Small Graces reveals the mystical alchemy of the mundane made profound by the artistry of a well-lived life.]]> 128 Kent Nerburn 1577310721 Bela 0 to-read 4.17 1998
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]]> 173302 325 Christopher Vogler 0941188701 Bela 0 to-read, writing 4.05 1992
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]]> 48930266 Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a "lizard brain" and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behavior.
��
Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humor, and important implications for human nature--a gift of a book that you will want to savor again and again.]]> 192 Lisa Feldman Barrett 0358157145 Bela 0 4.03 2020
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]]> 29502354 Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers---from Darwin to Stephen King---to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.]]> 320 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang 0465074871 Bela 0 3.77 2016
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]]> 197773418 Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.

Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?

Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers—from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe—Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,” a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for workers to replace them with a slower, more humane alternative.

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.]]> 244 Cal Newport 0593544854 Bela 0 3.65 2024
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]]> 176823386 240 Laura Mae Martin 0063317443 Bela 0 productivity 4.19
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]]> 931656 416 Dianne R. Stober 0471720860 Bela 0 coaching-mastery 3.95 2006
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]]> 137592721 230 Claire Pedrick 1788604563 Bela 0 coaching-mastery 4.54
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]]> 52153407 What would it mean for your coaching if you got right to the heart of the matter — every time?
You can. Learn rarely taught tips and concepts that will immediately elevate your coaching while avoiding the common pitfalls.

New and experienced coaches alike will benefit greatly from the detailed strategies and wisdom shared from Marion’s years of experience.
—Cheryl Richardson, NYTimes Bestselling author of Take Time for Your Life

Marion Franklin, the Coach’s Coach, has been training and mentoring coaches for more than 20 years. Every student she has mentored or taught who sought ACC, PCC, or MCC has gotten their credential using the material in this book designed for all levels of coaches. No matter where you are in your coaching journey, this book has something for you.

This book is different because it:
• Includes brilliant tools for beginner-to-seasoned coaches
•. Offers advanced techniques for developing powerful questions without any lists
• Provides principles of human behavior that help you quickly identify what’s really going on
• Contains the 25 Themes that underlie every coaching situation and make coaching and questioning much simpler
• Shares a step-by-step, easy to follow, way to create a shift in perspective
• Presents 17 strategies that clients unknowingly use that actually work against, not for them

Begin using even one or two of the concepts and principles in this book and notice your coaching immediately elevate to a new level. Your clients will notice the difference!

You will experience this innovative approach to masterful coaching with two full laser-coaching sessions with commentary — much like eavesdropping in on the mind of a master coach.

Marion shares unprecedented concepts that will help new coaches and even the most experienced coaches gain new insights and ideas, including a deeper understanding of what they already know.
• Automatically improve your coaching by applying one rarely known principle.
• Never feel stuck around what question to ask.
• Feel more confident by quickly identifying what’s really going on.
• Know exactly what to listen for in every conversation.
• Discover a simple “2 inquiry” approach that instantly enables you to deepen your curiosity.

This book will not only boost your confidence and mastery as a coach, it will enable you to produce sustained results for your clients. I designed this book to not only show you what laser-focused coaching looks, sounds, and feels like, but to show you HOW TO coach for permanent, life-altering change.

When using the Laser-Focused approach, you’ll be able to:
• avoid getting seduced by the story
• ask questions that get right to the heart of the matter
• have the client do all of the summary
• know how to create the shift and what to do afterwards
• recognize the client’s underlying pattern and know how to address it and so much more

The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching –– A revolutionary, unprecedented approach makes coaching easier while also enhancing your ability to help clients create deep and profound change. Transform your coaching into something so powerful and life-changing that your coaching consistently flows and becomes effortless.
]]> 296 Marion Franklin Bela 0 coaching-mastery 4.41
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]]> 33542973 590 Rodney Warrenfeltz 0997516925 Bela 0 personal-transformation 5.00
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]]> 60572752 Your indispensable guide for coaching mastery.Language is a powerful tool that can unite, engage, and move people to action. It’s all in what you choose to say, and how you say it.In this practical, accessible guide to having more powerful conversations, leading evidence-based coaching expert Haesun Moon offers a set of powerful words or phrases—one for every letter of the alphabet—to help you move others toward greater purpose and accomplishment. Based on her extensive research with the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School, Moon shows you how to apply each of these concepts to transform the way you relate to others and empower them to strive for and achieve better outcomes. Each entry includes an inspiring real-life example, and reflection questions to help you put it into action in your own life and in the lives of people around you.Whether you’re a leader in business, education, healthcare, the public or non-profit sector—or even in your family—the ability to coach others and support them in achieving their goals is an integral skill one of the most important skills you can master. A guide to return to again and again, Coaching A-Z is an indispensable tool for anyone seeking to master the art of coaching and leadership.]]> 208 Haesun Moon 1774580470 Bela 0 coaching-mastery 4.42
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]]> 11793353 288 Tatiana Bachkirova 0335238564 Bela 0 coaching-mastery 4.40 2011
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]]> 13425570
كيف يمكنني أن أتأكد أنني سأجد الرضا في مهنتي؟
كيف أتأكد من أن علاقاتي الشخصية ستصبح مصادر دائمة للسعادة؟
كيف أتجنب التضحية بنزاهتي وتجنب السجن؟


باستخدام دروس من حياة أعظم الشركات في العالم يقدم الكاتب أفكارا مذهلة لهذه الاسئلة الصعبة. يحفل الكتاب بالالهام والحكمة وسوف يساعد الطلاب والموظفين في منتصف السلم الوظيفي والوالدين على حد سواء في تغيير سبلهم نحو الاشباع والرضا.]]> 240 Clayton M. Christensen 0062102427 Bela 0 4.03 2012
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]]> 18077875 Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
��Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the EssentialistThe Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.�� It is not����a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.��

By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.

Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to learn how to do less, but better, in every area of their lives, Essentialism ��is a movement whose time has come.]]> 260 Greg McKeown 0804137382 Bela 0 4.05 2011
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]]> 92545 226 Joseph Jaworski 1576750310 Bela 0 personal-transformation 4.18 1996
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]]> 57933306 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]> 357 Johann Hari 0593138511 Bela 0 to-read 4.22 2022
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]]> 58330567 Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Over the past two decades, Brown's extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown's singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn't give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.

Brown shares, "I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves."]]> 301 Brené Brown 0399592555 Bela 0 to-read 4.33 2021
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]]> 36190690
Who we are, and how we relate to others, is a major factor in the sustainable development of organizations and communities today. The helping relationship—whether as coach, manager, trainer, teacher or leader—is central to developing this capacity to relate—not only to others but also to ourselves.

This book provides a series of innovative concepts and practical tools for those involved in helping relationships, as they help others develop and transform. It provides five operational strategies that answers the questions “What should I do?” and “How should I do it?”. It then offers four strategies to help a person build their own identity. Finally, it describes a “crystallization” strategy that encompasses all the others, and enables a person to crystalize what has been occurring during the helping relationship.





It also provides a unique perspective on the place of coaching in the context of the evolution of our species towards an empathetic civilization, of our society to and beyond the third industrial revolution, and of our companies as they reinvent the way they organize in the 21st��century to give greater autonomy to those who work in them and harness the power of participative democracy in the workplace.



A central theme of the book is freedom and responsibility. Having found, then fully accepted our freedom, we go beyond freedom, and take the path towards responsibility. Both client and coach chart their path on this journey through the alliance they create, and through which deep meaning is born for both.]]> 266 Vincent Lenhardt 331954795X Bela 0 coaching-mastery 0.0
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]]> 56199938
Whether you are brand new to coaching, are a trained coach who has lost confidence, or have many years’ experience coaching at a senior level, this deeply practical book will teach you how

•�� �� �� �� �� �� ��Do less so that your companion can do more

•�� �� �� �� �� �� ��Understand why saying what you see is more useful than listening to any particular story

•�� �� �� �� �� �� ��Put boundaries around a conversation, making it more effective for your companion and easier for you

•�� �� �� �� �� �� ��Tailor how you sit and how you speak to allow a collaborative environment

•�� �� �� �� �� �� ��End any conversation in partnership

Tailored to help the practising coach, this deeply practical book is nonetheless useful for anyone who has conversations with people.

“Claire stimulated a desire to know more about how to use existing skills in new and simplified ways. An altogether great book.”

Clive Avril, Executive Coach and Mentor (ACC)

“This is the kind of book that, after reading, you will want to have nearby for easy reference and reminders. I suspect that the well-worn pages will be a symbol of the book’s lasting contribution to coaching – and to transformational conversations. A clear, concise summation of coaching that will benefit the new and the seasoned coach alike.”��

J. Val Hastings, MCC and President of Coaching4TodaysLeaders and Coaching4Clergy

“This book is written for anyone with an interest in coaching who is looking to improve their coaching style in the workplace. It is ideal for people who are working to complete their studies and gain accreditation from any of the coaching bodies… This is now one of my all time favourite coaching books… I found something new in every chapter of the book.”��

Claire Caine, EMCC Book Club Review

“Simplifying Coaching is great at bringing you back to basics and reflecting on trying to resist the urge to ‘actively help’, rather than allowing the client to do the thinking. In a small book, it covers a lot of ground, and I would recommend reading the whole book and then dipping into it periodically for practical advice on particular topics. It is a brilliant and simple book that every coach should read.”��

Sally Twisleton, EMCC Book Club Review

Claire Pedrick has been coaching for over 30 years. A coach, mentor coach and coaching supervisor, she trains managers, leaders and experienced coaches across multiple sectors to reap the benefits of working more simply. Claire is the Founding Partner of 3D Coaching. Claire��received an award from Henley Business School for Outstanding Contribution to Coaching 2022]]> 250 Claire Pedrick 0335249086 Bela 0 coaching-mastery 4.56
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]]> 57073789 826 M Joseph Sirgy 3030718875 Bela 0 currently-reading 0.0 2002
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]]> 7842406
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]]> 774565 As threatening as shadow work may seem, it is often very effective in creating transformation. Ford's step-by-step guidebook is modeled on a highly successful course she developed about embracing the shadow. Ultimately, she helps readers illuminate the gifts and strengths that lie within the shadows. Although this works sound vague, clouded in dark metaphors, Ford manages to make it clear and specific. She has the writing gifts of a successful seminar leader--inspirational, trustworthy, and able to convey murky material with grace and ease. --Gail Hudson

]]> 208 Debbie Ford 1402828918 Bela 0 to-read 4.10 1998
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]]> 1908456 --back cover]]> 229 Garr Reynolds 0321525655 Bela 4 4.04 2007
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]]> 94318 Awareness in a grand synthesis.

In short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office, he cajoles and challenges: We must leave this go-go-go world of illusion and become aware. And this only happens, he insists, by becoming alive to the needs and potential of others, whether at home or in the workplace.

Here, then, is a masterful book of the spirit, challenging us to wake up in every aspect of our lives.]]> 184 Anthony de Mello 0385249373 Bela 5 4.30 1990
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]]> 18934115 284 Steve Chandler 1600250319 Bela 4 4.33 2013
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]]> 36072 372 Stephen R. Covey 0743269519 Bela 4 4.16 1989
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]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Bela 0 to-read 3.87 2016
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