Self Change

Will to Wild is an instruction manual to adventure. Your guide: enthusiastic outdoorswoman Shelby Stanger. Shelby has been teaching folks how to leap into the unknown since she taught her first surf class over twenty years ago. Over the years, she watched many of her students quit their jobs, end dysfunctional relationships, and move across the country for a healthier work-life balance—all after spending a bit of time in nature. Shelby marveled at the phenomenon. Being outside was changing the lives of her students, her peers, and herself.

How many times have you tried to change your own habits, only to find that changing yourself is even harder than trying to change someone else? With his signature wit and commonsense psychology, Dr. Kevin Leman walks you through your own personal five-day action plan. You will come to accept the truth about yourself, boost your confidence by identifying the lies you’re telling yourself (and putting them to rest for good), and change your life by concentrating on becoming who you really want to be.

Overthinking can be hugely damaging to your mental and physical wellbeing. An endless cycle of thoughts, especially worrying and alarming ones, deprives you of sleep. This causes stress, fatigue, and anxiety, which often manifest physiologically. This makes mornings tough. It feels like a lot of effort is needed to force yourself out of bed, before dragging yourself around your home as you go about your morning routine to try and prepare for the day ahead.

From happiness to distress, and all moods in between, Feel Good will help you to effectively manage your mood and to lead a happier and more content life.

Self-hypnosis appears to be a useful tool for losing weight. It helps you lose moderate amounts of weight steadily, resulting in safe and lasting weight loss. Combine it with exercise, and you get better results. Self-hypnosis has been used successfully for hundreds of years to combat various types of psychological problems, addictions, and to help eliminate bad habits. There are many forms of hypnosis, but if you dedicate yourself and design a program that is only personalized and unique to you, it will be the starting point of achieving success in many areas of your life.

Change Your Day, Not Your Life offers a proven strategy to help you become energized at work. This audiobook is designed as a resource for work-life balance, a tool to help you increase productivity during the final two hours of work by up to 47 percent, content to fuel employee communication, and a curriculum that departments can use in weekly or monthly meetings to keep everyone working at their best.

In our increasingly polarised society, having productive discussions about social justice issues has never been more challenging, or more crucial. From the persistent ('not all men,' 'I don't see colour') to the insidious ('to play devil's advocate...', 'climate change is coming'), too often, antagonistic or problematic responses threaten to distract and derail our most urgent conversations. Tackling twenty of the most enduring conversation-stoppers, No Offence, But... equips listeners with the knowledge, tools and context to respond with confidence.

Does it sneak up on you on holiday when your mind finally has time to wander? After a bad day in the office where your ideas have gone unnoticed? We all have days when we idly dream of a new life. But this is different. The Career Change Guide is designed to take you from the confusion and indecision that stops you doing anything, to a clearer picture of the kind of work and life you want, with concrete steps to make it a reality. Get your brain into gear and equip yourself with the tools to become a committed career redesigner.

If you’re not achieving everything you’d always hoped to, it’s time to make a change: Live the life you really want. Employee surveys have found that 23 percent of workers feel burned out more often than they don’t. This reflects a culture in which we must overwork ourselves to achieve our goals. Not only is this unnecessary, but it distracts us from understanding what our desires are in the first place.

Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically? The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a leading psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and underappreciated processes in the brain. Although people like to think that they are in control, the vast majority of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.

On April 20, 1999, Billy Epperhart was taking a break to go fishing. That's when he received the call that two students had opened fire at Columbine High School. As the pastor of the nearest church to the school, Billy found himself thrust to the forefront of tragedy, broken people with lots of questions, and a whirlwind of media attention.

Drawing on his highly successful sales background and decades of research, he lays out a simple, repeatable, predictable, and ethical process that will enable you to lead others to discover for themselves what and why they need to change. Whether you hope to make a sale or improve a relationship, Jolles’ wise advice will help you ensure that changing someone’s mind is never an act of coercion but rather one of caring and compassion.

What if wellness isn’t about achieving another set of impossible standards, but about finding what works­ - for you? Radically simple and ridiculously doable, The Feel Good Effect helps you redefine wellness, on your own terms. Drawing from cutting-edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, podcast host Robyn Conley Downs offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life, embracing the idea that “gentle is the new perfect” when it comes to sustainable wellness.

Why do people find it so hard to change? The secret is that everyone has their own formula for making changes that stick, but most people don't know what theirs is. They think there is one way to lose five pounds, and another way to stay on top of their e-mail, but they don't realize that for all changes, there is one system that works best for each individual.

Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at the aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (Mountain Dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeño). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.

Take a look at the vehicle sitting in your driveway. It may be the last one you ever own. With an estimated 33 million fully autonomous cars and taxis projected to hit the road by 2040, an automotive renaissance is soon to be upon us. Personal car ownership currently costs the average sedan owner $9,000 annually. But car ownership may soon be a thing of the past.

Saying no should be practiced, mainly if you are used to being too available for quite a while. Ouch! Was that excessively unforgiving? I needed to make sure you were perusing. If you are not used to stating "no" it will feel outsider, peculiar, and uncomfortable. Start little and simple. Practice getting good at small nos. Like no to the servers when they inquire whether you need a beverage other than water at the café. Or on the other hand no to your kid when they have spent their remittance.

Mindfulness is the state of being conscious or aware of something. It is about being present in the current moment and not dreaming about the future or reminiscing about the past. It is about being aware of exactly what you're doing spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally. If you have ever thought that mindfulness would help you in your day-to-day life, then this is the book you should listen to.

Sara Bliss (yes, that’s her real name) tracked down more than 65 people who transformed their lives to learn how they did it so you can, too. Take the Leap is packed with inspiring profiles, quotes, and other pieces of creative advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers, including successful entrepreneurs like Barbara Corcoran, Bobbi Brown, writer turned actress (at 40) Jill Kargman, Black Crowes drummer turned sports radio host Steve Gorman, writer Simon Doonan, and NFL player turned artist/activist Aaron Maybin, and many more.

Here's the secret in 3 steps: 1. Suspend disbelief as you read the following; 2. "We Become What We Think About." - Earl Nightingale; 3. Then, decide that it's true. Can you actually change what you think about? Do positive thoughts create a positive personal environment? By being critical of anything or anyone around you actually improve conditions? Is your health affected by negative thinking? You'll find continuing instances of how this is true and how it might not be.