Personal development

CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? is not your traditional self-help book that offers 12 simple steps to enhance brainpower. Nor is it a book on Eastern Wisdom, spirituality, or conventional meditation. It is an eye-popping adventure that combines ancient, high-speed attention-building processes with cutting-edge attention research in psychology, neurology and biology.

Do you know that: · Emotions are understandable and contain valuable information? · Our behaviour has a hidden purpose? · We all have an internal saboteur whom we must identify and control? · We can change how we act if we change how we think? · Time heals nothing? During their more than 60,000 hours facilitating psychotherapy, Drs.

In these turbulent times, the job-interview game is more difficult than ever for executives. They face a longer interview process, must demonstrate a vision to meet the prospective employer's challenges and will undergo intense vetting before receiving a job offer.

Here is one book every job hunter needs. Fast paced, with no fluff, WINNING JOB INTERVIEWS is packed with strategies and techniques that are practical, market-proven and easy to use. Combining 30 years of career expertise with equal doses of motivation and humour, Dr. Paul Powers shows you how to: ...

Many legitimate home-based jobs and projects can be found online, but trustworthy guidance is scarce. Worse, with a 56-to-1 “scam ratio” in work-at-home ads, the terrain is a minefield of fraud. Nevertheless, customer service agents, researchers, test scorers, tutors, writers and concierges are just a few of the many people regularly hired to work from home.

When you don't believe in yourself, everything is more difficult. 100 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE will literally help you change your life by changing the way you feel about yourself. Not only will you have faith in who you really are, but the people you love and work with will believe in you as well. 100 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE will show you how to: ...

Few of us have ever experienced anything like the current job market. Millions of jobs have disappeared and everyone from experienced executives to newly minted college graduates are facing the toughest environment in decades. Which is why top-notch interview skills are more important than ever.

Each of us has the ability to develop and improve our minds in amazing ways. All you need is motivation, an effective method and an expert guide. Ramon Campayo's method shows you the fastest, easiest and most effective way to: · Improve your studying habits and revise for exams. · Drastically and almost immediately increase your memory capacity and reading speed.

Does your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, accent, mannerisms, quirky clothing, piercing or outlook on life make you feel like a fish out of water in your workplace, from the moment your workday begins until you leave at the end of the day? OUTSIDERS ON THE INSIDE provides specific guidance and simple but effective strategies to help outsiders recharge their careers. You will learn: ...

Did you know that stress causes most people to fight with those closest to them? That people with positive social relationships recover from illness faster? And that people who have a best friend at work are 7 times more likely to be engaged in their jobs?

In today's tough economy, most people are too desperate to get any job, rather than seeking one that will provide the career satisfaction and growth they deserve. Worse, they treat the interview as an opportunity to focus on themselves. In HIRED!, Elinor Stutz asserts, “The interview is not about you, it's about how well you will solve the company's problems.

Let's face it: very few people have studied how to solve problems. Problems knock us down like a tsunami and we don't know what to do about it. We lie awake at night worrying about it and spend our days stressing out over a situation that only seems to get worse. It doesn't have to be that way.

Today more than ever, job candidates make initial contact with prospective employers via the telephone. Phone interviews are often the most unexpected facet of job interviewing, yet they are fast becoming the standard for employers when narrowing the pool of applicants and determining who will be invited for in-person interviews. THE ESSENTIAL PHONE INTERVIEW HANDBOOK covers: ...

Social networking sites are dramatically changing the way people stay connected. Not surprisingly, sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace, along with “tweets,” blogs and personal Web pages, are now key components of how job seekers discover exciting new opportunities and how companies find promising new employees.

The majority of debt-ridden consumers are in desperate need of financial budgeting and credit repair. THE ESSENTIAL CREDIT REPAIR HANDBOOK contains all the information you need to walk you through the step-by-step process of repairing your credit and leaving debt behind! THE ESSENTIAL CREDIT REPAIR HANDBOOK will teach you how to: ...

The art of the argument. It's mysterious and powerful. It's the art of having things go your way. But it's also the art of getting out of your own way. It's having the Moves. But it's also about having the Touch. Welcome to the "new normal." It's a time and place where conversations are tougher, disagreements more frequent, consensus more difficult to find than ever before.

Job seekers are frustrated. Online job applications through job agencies and employer sites are leading to dead ends. Why? Employers are closing the last chapter on the online application playbook. Inundated by online applications and hampered by computer systems that are unable to select viable candidates from the masses of applicants, employers are now using innovative strategies to recruit and ...

In a world focused on high tech networking, Darrell Gurney reveals shows old-fashioned yet innovative high touch wins hearts, minds, and opportunities for the savvy job seeker or career expansionist.
Drawing on basic principles of human psychology, Gurney shows readers how to open doors to influential players in their fields of interest to gain top-of-mind awareness and top-drawer ...

Almost everyone is guilty of playing the blame game. It's satisfying and easy to do. If we despise our work, we can blame our manager or even our short-sighted organisation for its inability to recognise our genius. If our personal lives are a disaster, we can blame our spouses, partners, the economy or even our ancestors.