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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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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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Compensation and Motivation: Maximizing Employee Performance With Behavior-Based Incentive Plans

Over 12,000 copies sold. 
“Compensation and Motivation” is the first book in the Culture of Partnership series. With a strong foundation in social science and behavioral psychology, this book will show you how to develop incentive plans that work!Turn the cost of compensation into an investment that will increase revenue and profit, enhance the value of the organization and motivate all employees to deliver the business strategy. This book describes how to develop the right reward system that will engage and motivate the target audience.Employees come to work for the rewards, either material (money), social (recognition and appreciation) or both.  Mr. McCoy shows how to combine behavioral psychology and business strategy to create a reward system that offers fulfillment to the employees if they deliver on the company goals. This book goes beyond just showing how to link pay to performance. It shows how to balance the array of rewards that a company can offer (cash, benefits, meaningful work, social recognition and appreciation) so that the maximum motivation is obtained with the least overall cost. It’s called “the mix that motivates.”Over 65 percent of all businesses offer some form of incentive to all employees. However, many of those efforts are ineffective in achieving the organization’s goals. This book shows how to engage all employees in the business, motivate them to perform at exceptional levels, create a common focus and a feeling of shared destiny (teamwork.)  Learn how to become an employer of choice. Learn how to engage employees so that the operation “runs itself”. Learn how to use compensation as the engine that drives a Culture of Partnership.

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Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Motivation: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learn)

It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts. Since that time significant advances have been made in sociocultural theory and research. Various sociocultural approaches to the understanding of learning (for example, sociocultural psychology, sociocultural discourse, cultural historical activity theory) have been developed and consolidated and new challenges are currently being addressed. In the motivational arena sociocultural approaches deriving from Vygotsky have only begun to emerge relatively recently. In this Volume we examine and evaluate the achievements of past sociocultural theory and research, and consider the future directions of sociocultural theory and research in the domains of learning and motivation.

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Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with students by meeting their individual social-emotional needs.

Inspiring the Best in Students includes step-by-step instructions for dozens of classroom activities for grades 3 12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and skills. Also included is a thorough overview of William Glasser’s Choice Theory and such core teaching and learning concepts as internal control psychology and total behavior.

The more students are given the freedom to make choices in a safe environment while also having fun, the more their enthusiasm for learning deepens. By following the advice in this book, you can ensure that the students in your class will remain engaged and inspired to achieve their best.

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Jumpstart Your Life: Find Your Motivation and Change Your Life One Step at a Time

Are there areas in your life where you experience discomfort? That’s a good thing. Discomfort is your mind’s way of spotlighting areas where you need to make changes.

In Jumpstart Your Life, Whole Living Consultant Diane Randall reveals how to take discomfort and shape it into something powerful and transformative. You’ll discover how to step out of your comfort zone and create the life and success you desire.

Randall presents a series of simple, effective steps to personal success based on more than a decade of experience leading life-changing wellness and self-help workshops. You’ll learn to design meaningful affirmations, create a vision of the ideal life you want now, and start working toward that life immediately. With care and consideration, she guides you around the thought processes that are keeping you stuck, setting you on the road toward dreams you once thought unattainable.

If you’ve ever desired change but felt overwhelmed, Randall’s book is for you. You’ll start at the beginning and take one small step forward every day, moving inexorably toward a new, balanced, and harmonious existence. The life you live emerges from the choices you make. Randall invites you to make different choices and change your path forever.

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The Science of Motivation: Strategies & Techniques for Turning Dreams into Destiny

Legendary college football coach, Lou Holtz once said: “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” These few, yet profound words explain one of the biggest predicaments that individuals face today. We want to be successful, happy and influential. Yet, very few of us, follow up what we say with specific actions that move us directly toward those goals. The idea of being successful is an attractive dream that fills us with positive emotions. Whereas the actions required to be successful are often difficult. The desire to be genuinely happy is a goal toward which nearly every individual aspires. But, the actions required to achieve deep and sustained happiness require us to often delay temporary gratification and “quick fixes” to problems. Saying that we want to achieve influence, either as a leader of others in the workplace, an influential member of the community, or as an admired parent and spouse, is far easier than the gut wrenching decisions, enormous amounts of personal time, and direct truth-telling that are required.

In this cutting-edge program from personal development expert and motivation master, Brian Tracy, you’ll learn that there truly is a Science of Motivation. If you apply Brian’s teachings and implement them in your life, your dreams will become your destiny as you produce the outcomes that you desire.