Category: Motivation

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How to Interview: What Employers Want to Hear in Today’s Competitive Job Market (Directional Motivation Book Series)

Do you dread interviews? Don’t you wish you could bring power to your next interview? Well now you can! In fact, anyone can with the help of this book. Russ Hovendick has coached thousands of candidates, just like yourself, to bring a new found confidence level to the interview process. Why take the chance of missing out on your opportunity of a lifetime, when the tools you need, are as close as the click of your mouse? Do your future a huge favor by clicking right now to own this valuable resource. If you’ve ever bombed a job interview, you probably left the room wishing you could be a fly on the wall. What would the interviewer say about you? What was going on in that person’s head as you spoke? Imagine how valuable that information could be in helping you prepare for your next job interview. In How to Interview: What Employers Want to Hear in Today’s Competitive Job Market, executive recruiter Russ Hovendick shares what he has learned after twenty years of coaching job applicants and getting feedback from hiring managers from some of the most sought after Fortune 500 companies. With this book you will get an insider’s view of the hiring process and the candid–mostly blunt–version of what’s going through the employer’s mind.
Learn the art of storytelling to steer the conversation in your favor. Apply the bold technique Hovendick’s successful candidates use at the end of every job interview to nail your next interview. Implementing the strategies in this book, will turn your interviewer into your advocate. How to Interview is part of the Directional Motivation series of career development books. Filled with pragmatic advice, confidence-boosting exercises, sample scripts, and unbeatable techniques for demonstrating your unique assets, the book is undoubtedly the go-to resource for you, the proactive job seeker. Click now to change your future!

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50 Success Classics, Second Edition: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on motivation, achievement, and prosperity (The 50 Classics)

This brand new updated edition of Tom Butler-Bowdon’s guide to the texts that will help you find success in your professional and personal life. Contains eight brand new chapters summarising recent classics such as Grit by Angela Duckworth and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Millions of us are drawn each year to find the one great book that will capture our imagination and inspire us to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. 50 Success Classics is the first and only ‘bite-sized’ guide to the books that have helped legions of readers unleash their potential and discover the secrets of success. Mapping the road to prosperity, motivation, leadership and life success, 50 Success Classics summarizes each work’s key ideas to make clear how these timeless insights and techniques can inform, inspire and illuminate a path to authentic achievement.
Tom Butler-Bowden presents this wide-ranging selection of enduring works in the literary and the legendary: pioneering thinkers, philosophers and powerful leaders who have shown us how to Think and Grow Rich, acquire The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, become The One-Minute Manager, solve the challenging puzzle of Who Moved My Cheese? and discover The Art of Wordly Wisdom. From the inspirational rags-to-riches stories of such entrepreneurs as Andrew Carnegie, Warren Buffet and Sam Walton to the leadership lessons of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela, 50 Success Classics goes back to the basics to find the classic books on staying true to ourselves and fulfilling our potential. Practical yet philosophical, sensible yet stimulating, the 50 all-time classics span biography and business, psychology and ancient philosophy, exploring the rich and fertile ground of books that have helped millions of people achieve success in their work and personal lives.

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20 Principles of Productivity: Focus, Motivation, Organization, Habit Building, Time Management, Apps, Psychology, Goal Setting, Procrastination & More

This book will help you become more productive and professional starting today and for the rest of your life. Boosting your overall productivity will help you get more done in your business or any job regardless of which career you choose. This book is a collection of 20 productivity principles that will help you accomplish more in your daily minute to minute work, and in your life’s work by helping you set your life’s work on a path better suited for you as the individual. This book will help you identify the what’s most important for you, focus on those things, and say no to the things that are not important. Here are some of the productivity fields covered in this book: – Productivity fundamentals – Improving your focus – Self-discipline – Habit building: learn to form healthy work habits that replace damaging or bad habits – Productivity smartphone apps and desktop software – Minimizing distractions from your phone, co-workers, and browser tabs – Organization (how to improve organization of your desk and work area) – Task and project outsourcing – Task delegation – Business process optimization – Marketing optimization and automation – Work efficiency – Faster learning with coaching and masterminds – Planning projects ahead – Overall health maintenance for productivity – Improving your memory and cognitive ability. Memory is underrated in how closely it is related to ability to learn faster and intelligence – Time management, keeping a calendar and a schedule – Task and project prioritization – Self-awareness to make wiser choices – Practicing Mindfulness meditation to reinforce your self-awareness so you can choose projects and life goals more wisely after working on getting to know yourself better – Psychology and mindset to boost everything from focus to motivation to having more clarity when it comes to greater goal setting for your life – How to uncover your life purpose and set your life on the path that is right for you – Goal setting: short-term goal setting and long-term goal setting for your life projects – Reversing and decreasing procrastination by recognizing that procrastination is often a habit that we have to replace with a better habit – Boosting motivation (how to get short-term intrinsic and long-term extrinsic motivation) – Productive market testing for products and business ideas – Meeting productivity This book will help you become more productive today and for the rest of your career. No matter which career you choose, whether you want to start a business or be a productive and highly effective employee who shoots up through the ranks at your company, this book will give you all the tools to help you stand out, and do your best work. There are more than 20 principles of productivity in this book. I often add to the book. In the most recent edition of the book, I added a chapter on memory management and improving your memory. Memory has to do with intelligence and our cognitive abilities and has an impact on our overall productivity. I’ll be constantly working to add even more productivity strategies to this book on an ongoing basis. If you have the Kindle version of the book, your Kindle copy of the book will update automatically as the book is updated. Get this book today, and begin making yourself much more effective at everything you do, getting more done.

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The Phantom Letters: Motivation at Notre Dame in the Parseghian Era

In the Era of Ara from 1964 through the 1974 season, a written chronicle of pre-game information, slogans, mottoes, and ideals emerged. The author was known only as the Phantom. The letters were one or two pages, written in staccato phrases, geared to thoughts that encompassed team goals and the philosophy to win. Through the past 40 years, some of the Phantom letters have been lost, but this collection, arranged from 1966 throughout, contains the great bulk of them. The

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A Simplified Life: Tactical Tools for Intentional Living

Clear the Clutter Once and for All

Do you long to simplify the demands on your time, energy, and resources? Have complicated responsibilities, overwhelming to-do lists, and endless clutter left you feeling overwhelmed?

Busy wife, mom, entrepreneur, and bestselling author Emily Ley knows how you feel. With a growing family, increased work demands, and more, she understands the struggle it is to keep the plates spinning.

In A Simplified Life, you’ll find Emily’s strategies, systems, and methods for permanently clearing the clutter, organizing your priorities, and living intentionally in 10 key areas—from your home and meal planning, to style and finances, parenting, faith life, and more. Emily will show you how to truly make the most of your days with realistic, achievable, and tactical tools.

Walk alongside Emily through each page of the book, working through her simple strategies toward your own goals as you simplify and make space for what matters most.

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EMPOWER Your Students: Tools to Inspire a Meaningful School Experience, Grades 6-12 (Increase Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom)

Discover how to motivate students in the classroom, using the elements of EMPOWER exploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience. Make school a positive, meaningful experience in your students lives and cultivate intrinsic motivation. This highly practical resource offers enjoyable, engaging classroom activities, as well as strategies for refining teaching practices, incorporating student values into course content, fostering the development of soft skills, and deeply connecting with learners.

How this book will EMPOWER you:

Understand what values are and how they are different from preferences and goals. Discover how to help students determine which values they want to enact at school and in life. Examine how to incorporate values work into the classroom curriculum in all disciplines. Explore examples of classroom experiences that highlight the importance of student empowerment. Learn how to bring your own values to the classroom to become a better teacher and colleague.

Contents:
Introduction: Empowering Students to Transform What School Means

Part I: Activities That Empower Students
Chapter 1: Exploration
Chapter 2: Motivation
Chapter 3: Participation
Chapter 4: Openness
Chapter 5: Willingness
Chapter 6: Empathy
Chapter 7: Resilience

Part II: Strategies That Empower Students
Chapter 8: Empowering Dialogue
Chapter 9: Empowering Partnerships
Chapter 10: Empowering Collaborations
Chapter 11: Empowering Curriculum
Chapter 12: Empowering Inquiry
Chapter 13: Empowering Yourself

Conclusion: Paths to Empowerment
Appendix: Examples of Values References and Resources Index

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Goals! How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

[Read by Brian Tracy]

Hundreds of thousands – even millions – of men and women have started with nothing and achieved great success. Renowned leader Brian Tracy presents the essential principles you need to know to make your dreams come true. Here is the simple, powerful, and effective system for setting and achieving goals: accomplish any goals you set for yourself – no matter how big; discover how to determine your own strengths, what you truly value in life, and what you really want to accomplish in the years ahead; learn a system for achievement that you will use for the rest of your life.

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Goals! How to Get Everything You Want–Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size. Using simple language and real-life examples, Tracy shows how to do the crucial work of determining one’s strengths, values, and true goals. He explains how to build the self-esteem and confidence necessary for achievement; how to overpower every problem or obstacle; how to overcome difficulties; how to respond to challenges; and how to continue moving forward no matter what happens. The book’s “”Mental Fitness”” program of character development shows readers how to become the kind of person on the inside who can achieve any goal on the outside.

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