Work Motivation

Every day is a new day and that in itself is a reason to celebrate. Despite the fact that you wake up in the morning and sleep at night, the things you do in between are supposed to make you feel fulfilled and with a sense of accomplishment. Productivity is an indicator of a job done.

Mira Tasich, a loyal, hardworking, and devoted employee of several large corporations, finds herself unemployed, a victim of the recession. As a young teenager, she moved to America, learned a new language, and gained prestige and career success only to get laid off in a corporate downsizing. Frustrated, angry, and confused, she struggles to justify the familial and personal sacrifices made over the years for her employers, including a 2,141-mile move away from family and friends to the Southwest.

To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone.

Once upon a time, people wrote fables featuring untrustworthy ravens, wicked wolves, insincere monkeys, and power-hungry lions. Told repeatedly through generations and spread throughout the world, classic stories abound in which noble heroes and heroines matched wits with these typically treacherous beasts. But what's that you say? You feel as though you're surrounded by just these sorts of characters at work? Well, you're not alone.

In Empower Your Best Habits, transformational mindset strategist and peak performance trainer Scott Allan delivers key concepts to help you optimize, align and direct your actions to form the best habits necessary for developing a high-performance mindset. You will learn to create a system of good habits while breaking the bad ones.

Have you ever struggled to convince someone of something you felt passionate about? No matter how hard you try to convince them, they just don't get it. Or, maybe, you've been stumped in a job interview where you're being asked to sell yourself and your capabilities to the interviewer, but you just don't know how.

Are you someone who is in control of your mind and thoughts? Do you always think positively, or do you allow negative emotions to take control at times? Learning to be in control of our mind is a crucial skill that each of us should practice as often as possible. An out of control mind leads us to do and say things that can be harmful to ourselves and others and can have a negative impact on what is best for us in the long term. By identifying your deficiencies when it comes to controlling your mind, you can find ways to improve your life in every area.

A recent study done by psychology researchers at Yale University shows only 10 minutes of meditation is enough to turbocharge your brain’s cognitive capabilities whilst lowering stress hormones. In a short amount of time, you’ll notice significant focus and performance improvement as well as reduced levels of stress and anxiety. By increasing your self-awareness and balance with meditation, you’ll no longer find yourself reactive to the environment and people around you.

Employees can be cynics and skeptics. Both have much in common. They’ve been disappointed, deceived, and at times, devastated. Most workplaces are loaded with the working wounded - men and women who have been let down by their leaders, managers, coworkers, or even the culture of their workplace. They live for Fridays. Could that be yours? Is your workplace one where employees can’t wait to clock out? Would you like to discover how you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in? You can!

Within each of us lies the hero we’ve all been waiting for and want to become: our true self. Bringing this hero to work unleashes our greatest potential, resulting in higher earnings, increased satisfaction, and greater well-being. This book serves to help the struggling professional, executive, or entrepreneur in discovering their inner hero, which emerges with the convergence of heightened awareness, stronger boundaries, and improved communication.

Is your healing business taking over your life? A profession in the healing arts allows you to live your passion, but the rarely-spoken secret of healer life is that it also often feels lonely and depleting...The good news is that there is another way! In her 15 years as a healing arts practitioner and business owner, Heather Glidden discovered the techniques needed to balance a business in the healing arts with a healthy life. If you are facing healer burnout, it’s time to bring the joy back to your healing work.

Master what it takes to empower yourself, own your career, and achieve the success you deserve. In Get a PhD in You: Business Edition, author Julie Reisler (CEO of Empowered Living and host of The You-est You podcast) outlines just how you can leverage principles used by nature itself - to master your habits, your thoughts, and your personal strengths - to crush it in the workplace (and life).

Become a calm, confident person - improve your social skills, confidence and happiness - manage your work and personal relationships better. Meghan Roberts best-selling guide has helped countless people around the world and has been praised for its no-nonsense and fast approach.

Inspiration. Success. Confidence. Passion. No one is born with these qualities, but they are the key ingredients for reaching goals, building careers, or taking a blueprint and turning it into a breathtaking skyscraper. In The Trump Card, Ivanka Trump recounts the compelling story of her upbringing as the ultimate apprentice, the daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump, and shares the life lessons and hard-won insights that have made her a rising star in the business world.

This book is a step-by-step guide that will reveal the simple, yet effective secrets of what makes people happier. In fact you will be amazed that many of these steps are actually not a secrets at all. All you need is the determination and desire to make some small steps and changes and you too can change your outlook forever!

If you've recently been laid off, or have concern that you might soon be laid off, there are powerful things you can do to improve your chances of finding another job. I've been on both sides of the "laid off" scenario. I've had to let people go, and I've been let go.

Motivational speaker Mark Sanborn has changed thousands of people's lives for the better. Here he shares the true story of Fred, a mail carrier who constantly goes the extra mile. While others may see a job like his as monotonous, Fred sees the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

With great tenderness, transparency, and candor, Tami Longaberger opens her heart, offering readers a glimpse of her unique American Dream, the kind not handed down or given freely, but earned by hard work and fierce tenacity. Longaberger prompts listeners to dream bigger, think more broadly, and risk taking the road less traveled in business and in life.

Are you happy? Imagine a more organized and happier you, stress free, trouble free, and filled with positive energy. Each day would never be a drag and you would actually be excited to see each day! This book will go through with you the seven timeless principles of happiness that you can put into action immediately. Unlike other happiness books that are lacking of actionable tips, Happiness Yes or No? is a straightforward guide that provides you with the actionable tips that you need to be the happier you that you've always wanted.

Do you struggle to come up with topics to discuss about important people or people you just met? Small Talk for Success will teach you innovative ways to comfortable in social situations that could be the key to your success. While small talk is just that, small, people don’t realize that small talk could essentially be a first impression.