Development First

Becoming a dad is like unlocking a new level in the game of life – exciting, challenging, and completely transformative. Every journey starts with a step, and this book is that step towards a more confident, joyful, and balanced fatherhood.

Transitioning into life as a parent can be incredibly overwhelming. It can be daunting to think about all the nuances of being a parent. After all, there’s no guidebook to raising kids, right? Wrong! This comprehensive book is a fantastic addition to the arsenal of any new parent. Put your child rearing worries at ease with this manual that covers everything from birth to age three (yep, it even covers the terrible twos)!

Whether it is a speech, a presentation, a webinar, or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove our value. How can we capture our audience's instant attention and support? By mastering our first 20 seconds.

This book will help you to feel better about yourself, achieve greater success, and enjoy your life to the fullest. It is a step-by-step guide filled with straightforward and effective techniques to help you dramatically improve the way you think and feel about yourself. It will help you talk back to your inner critic, realistically assess yourself, and begin to celebrate your personal strengths.

"Do the Hard Things First: Defeating Shiny Object Syndrome" is your essential guide to conquering distractions and achieving your goals. This book dives deep into the root causes of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS), offering practical strategies and real-life applications to help you stay focused and productive.

Your first pregnancy is an exciting time in life! It can also be a bit terrifying. You have many questions and you don’t know what to expect. Questions like, how do you choose the right OB-GYN? What foods can you eat? What if I go into labor earlier? Every new parent goes through this. Some parents tuck these thoughts away but there’s a better way to get rid of the anxiety. You get informed. You make the choice to educate yourself about what you don’t know. It takes time and effort but it’s worth it. And that’s what this book will help you do.

There is no turning back once you step onto the path of fatherhood. It’s a transformative expedition filled with highs and lows, joys and challenges. The doubts and uncertainties that set in as soon as you learn you're going to be a father will intensify once the baby is born…However, remember that each step you take as a first-time dad is a meaningful stride. And right here, within this audiobook, you'll find a trusted companion to guide you through the uncharted territory of fatherhood.

Embrace the power of conscious communication and become part of a new generation of emotionally aware, respectful men. Your journey towards enhanced relationships and a more fulfilling life begins here. In this guide, author Jem Fuller draws on twenty years of coaching and leadership, providing strategies to enhance communication skills. Explore the depths of personal discovery through honest stories, discovering how small steps in awareness can lead to significant changes in relationships and results.

Packed with real-life lessons from an experienced manager and coach, Nurture provides bite-sized people management tips to help you get the most from your new team. The information in this audiobook will increase your chances of successfully navigating the journey from buddy to boss.

Have you had a detour in your life? It can be life-changing. To experience this at a young age further complicates things! Although this book is geared toward young and teen parents, anyone who has faced a detour will find affirmation and encouragement about life after a detour.

Faced with the most challenging moment of his life, Mark Lichterman had to ensure his mind was in a state of positivity and gratitude. He would find his soul rejuvenated in the most unlikely place: His garden. Pull up a chair and sit beside the author as he shares lessons learned and secrets revealed to make us better people basking in magic and joy when we journey through the garden of life.

En la educación de sus hijos, los padres buscan enseñarles a vivir y a convivir, a prevenir situaciones de riesgo, agresivas y frustrantes. Pero, lamentablemente, esto no siempre es posible, de ahí que sean necesarios libros tan reales y eficaces como este del psicólogo Javier Urra, con larga experiencia en estos asuntos.

In this compact business management audiobook, Mac Anderson and Tom Feltenstein take the listener through every step of change - from realization that change is a good thing, to implementing that change in every department, across all channels. Change Is Good...You Go First will facilitate and champion change in any working environment and comes in an easily digestible format, including well-organized lists and objectives to help your team achieve its goals.

If you find yourself struggling to get that desired promotion, people often don't understand you, and neither you understand them. There are good chances that you could improve your communication skills. This audiobook will guide you through the main and most valuable concepts about communication! Listening, body language, expressing yourself, hearing and delivering the right message, and much more.

Este libro es un regalo que nos anima a descubrir y conectar con lo mejor que tenemos para ofrecer a los demás, que aumenta nuestra consciencia y responsabilidad, y que nos inspira a tomar las riendas de nuestras vidas invitándonos a crecer y a ser mejores de lo que estamos siendo, hasta permitirnos brillar y ser luz para nuestros seguidores.

There have been a lot of scientific studies dedicated to studying emotional intelligence and how it affects our lives. In the past, the focus was more on IQ as the gold standard for predicting performance. Intelligent people are those who are often described as having high IQs. But recent studies have shown that the more capable, competent and effective individuals are actually those that have a high emotional quotient. In fact, researchers have discovered that people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time.

So you just gave notice at the job you have worked almost your entire life that you have decided to retire. But until your last day, the excitement has deterred you from thinking how you would like to spend the remaining time you have here in this lifetime. If you begin to think negatively about what your retirement may have to offer you, then you have come to the right place. Retirement should not be seen as a stage of life that lacks in luster. It should be a time that is seen as positive, uplifting, inspiring, and adventurous.

Kate Lucey has been ‘officially’ depressed (as in, diagnosed) for six years. In that time she’s experienced everything from bad therapy, knock-out meds, and friends-with-too-many-opinions, to good therapy, medication and solutions that actually work. This book recognises that getting help is not as easy as ‘just telling someone’ or ‘taking some pills’. It weaves real peoples’ experiences of depression with the opinions of actual qualified experts and facts from scientific studies to create a no-nonsense guide to mental health.

In "People Pleaser No More! Reclaim Your Life And Relationships By Putting Yourself First—Without Guilt!" you'll discover the disastrous impact of people pleasing on your life and how it's been holding you back from true happiness and fulfillment. From emotional exhaustion and burnout to strained relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners, you'll learn to recognize the holes in your boundaries and take proactive steps to mend them.

When you start to write a book, you're doing more than just typing words on a keyboard. You're entering the book business - and like every other business, the book business has many different elements. The author wants you to be 100 percent successful in dealing with all those elements, so he has written this book to share with you his insider's story.