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Every Day Matters 2019 Desk Diary / Planner / Scheduler / Organizer: A Year of Inspiration for the Mind, Body and Spirit

With vibrant, uplifting artwork, thought-provoking monthly themes and insightful weekly quotes, the Every Day Matters 2019 Diary will help readers feel not only highly organized but also deeply inspired every day of the year.

For the fifth year in a row, Watkins will be publishing the popular Every Day Matters Diary. Designed as a resource for enriching daily life, this vibrant bestselling illustrated holistic planner will guide you on a journey of awareness and fulfilment as you go about your everyday activities.

It’s all too easy to become overwhelmed with multiple thoughts each day as our to-do lists grow, so positivity blogger Dani DiPirro insightfully presents within this diary one life-enhancing theme a month to focus on. This year’s themes range from mindfulness, wonder and creativity to vision, bravery and resilience.
Each week-to-view spread then features an inspiring quote that encourages reflection on the theme and an exercise to further your overall well-being. Focusing on just one theme for each whole month, but in a different way each week, allows a seed of inspiration and awareness not just to be planted but also to grow substantially, so that positive action can become an integral part of daily life.

The combination of uplifting illustrations and friendly content will draw the attention of both those who love the content of the author’s PositivelyPresent.com and those who are completely new to the brand.

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Measure What Matters

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth – and how it can help any organization thrive.

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he’d just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They’d have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress – to measure what mattered.

Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove (“the greatest manager of his or any era”) drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove’s brainchild with more than 50 companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked.

In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone’s goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization.

The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization’s most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Read by John Doerr, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini Kim, Mike Lee, Atticus Tysen, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki, Cristos Goodrow, Julia Collins, Alex Garden, Joseph Suzuki, Andrew Cole, Bono, and others 

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Dark Matters: Dark Matters Series, Book 1

Rudolph “Rudy” Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world’s largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist – an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what’s best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy’s struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world’s future? And who, if anyone, can break the Consortium’s iron grip on the status quo?

The answer may lie with a renegade physicist, close to unraveling one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. And a headstrong art curator, driven to find the meaning behind her increasingly compelling visions. From a life-changing moment in a crowded Singapore marketplace, to the business end of an assassin’s gun, they face a power beyond any the world has ever seen. To survive, they’ll have to decipher the truth about dark matter – before the Consortium can achieve its ruinous end game.

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Every Day Matters Pocket Diary 2017: A Year of Inspiration for the Mind, Body and Spirit

A refreshed and updated version of the former bestselling Mind, Body, Spirit Book of Days, this contemporary, illustrated diary provides not only plenty of space for daily planning, but also vibrant colour artworks that will lift your spirits and inspiring advice on how to make each and every day really matter. Designed as a resource for enriching daily life, it will guide you on a journey of awareness and fulfilment as you go about your weekly activities. It’s all too easy to become overwhelmed with multiple thoughts each day as our to-do lists grow, so positivity blogger Dani DiPirro presents insightfully, within this cheerful diary, one life-enhancing theme a month to focus on. This year’s themes range from Love, Positivity, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Hope and Inspiration to Joy, Appreciation, Authenticity, Adventure, Empathy and Freedom. And each month offers a positive affirmation to inspire the reader to embrace the motif to the max. Each week-to-view spread then features a carefully chosen quote that encourages reflection on the theme, as well as an exercise to further your holistic well-being. By focusing on one theme per month, but in different ways each week, the diary allows a seed of awareness to grow over time so that positive action can become an integral part of daily life. So here’s to a year ahead where we really do make every day matter.

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Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy (Multilingual Matters)

The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states.

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Leap First: Creating Work That Matters

You’re probably good at your job, maybe even great. But secretly, do you yearn to fly higher? To challenge the rules and surprise us with something remarkable? To instigate delight, connection, and real change? To choose better over safer?

Business and cultural visionary Seth Godin has transformed the terrain of marketing and commerce more than once. But many of his readers remain stuck in their own work lives. So what’s keeping us back?

“The problem isn’t a lack of knowledge or skill,” he’s realized. “The problem is fear.”

With Leap First, Seth Godin is here to help. This immersive audio program invites us to learn with him personally, unrehearsed and in the moment, as he shines a light for us, not with answers but with questions on the road to:

Overcoming our instinctual resistance to risk and change Discovering our creative genius in the face of the empty page or whiteboard Finding the courage to share that work-with vulnerability, generosity, and results

 

Recorded in an intimate gathering of aspiring entrepreneurs, writers, and leaders, Leap First teaches us 49 essential principles, practices, and life lessons that have helped Seth the most in his own work and life.

More than an audiobook or keynote speech, each track here presents a carefully chosen catalyst intended to trigger our own passion and insight with each listening.

“It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that’s the moment between you and remarkable. I hope this helps you return to that edge. And then, to leap.”

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Every Day Matters 2015 Diary: A Year of Inspiration for the Mind Body & Spirit

A spiral-bound flexi-cover 2015 engagement calendar for spiritual seekers! This bestselling illustrated holistic calendar provides not only plenty of space for daily planning but also offers inspiring advice on how to make each and every day really matter. Designed as a resource for enriching daily life, it will guide you on a journey of awareness and fulfilment as you go about your everyday activities. It’s all-too-easy to become overwhelmed with multiple thoughts each day as our to-do lists grow, so positivity blogger Dani DiPirro insightfully presents within this highly practical diary one life-enhancing theme a month to focus on in the form of a simple verb, such as “love”, “explore” and “marvel”. Each week-to-view spread then features an inspiring quote that encourages reflection on the theme and an exercise to further your holistic well-being. Focusing on just one theme for each whole month, but in a different way each week, allows a seed of positive awareness not just to be planted but also to grow substantially so that the positive action can become an integral part of daily life. Individual themes for the months of 2015 are: Organize, Love, Change, Explore, Create, Nurture, Inspire, Refresh, Learn, Share, Marvel and Believe. So here’s to a year ahead where we really do make every day matter.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: How medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person’s last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.

Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person’s last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.

Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.