Work Stress

Your job or career isn’t just about receiving a paycheck. It’s about how passionate you were when you chose your career in the first place. Do you still have the same passion you did when you got your foot in the door and landed your first job? From seeing the Jaws shark being built as a kid to working at 20th Century Fox Studios, Robert A. Lane is very passionate about the entertainment industry and Lights, Action, YOU! showcases not only his love for the industry but how his experiences working in the business translate into living a fulfilled life in any career.

If you're tired of holding your breath, waiting for exactly the right moment to arrive before you can start living the life you really want, wondering when it will be safe for you to stop working so hard and feeling stressed out, burnt out, and generally dissatisfied with life, this audiobook is for you.

Workplace bullying is a serious problem. If it's happening to you, it's important to take the right steps to deal with it. If you notice it happening to someone else, you should reach out and help that person. By fighting back against bullying wherever you see it happening, you can help to make your work environment happier, healthier, and more productive.

Congratulations, the day has finally arrived! You’re officially a first-time manager! But the question is, what’s next? How will you manage a team who works great with each other, meeting all their goals and making every project a success? When trouble arises, what are the proven ways to manage conflict, meet tight deadlines, and still make sure your team feels valued? This book will share with you the proven tips and strategies to help you become an effective and stress-free manager, lead a super successful team, and keep your boss happy.

Ever feel like you’re so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Bill Mitchell is here to help. A psychologist who specialises in rebalancing the lives of the overwhelmed, overstressed and overscheduled, in this book Bill brings you tried and tested, practical solutions that will help you protect your energy and prioritise what is most important. Find out how to prevent the drift towards burnout and poor mental health that so many of us suffer from in our busy modern lives. Your family - and your boss - will thank you.

Natalie Nixon helps corporate leaders achieve transformative business results by applying wonder and rigor to their work. In MOVE, THINK, REST, she reveals how the best organizations allow the personal and the professional to converge at strategic moments, which often come when we step away from our desks and phones. According to Nixon, it is this MTR framework that is the best way to collectively revise, re-organize and re-energize our daily lives.

Jobs. Kids. Chores. Bills. Life has an uncanny ability to get in the way of our dreams. But, this doesn't need to be the case. Michal Stawicki shares his techniques for extreme productivity. As a busy, working parent of three, Michal still manages to follow his dreams prolifically.

Workplace wellness is not a meditation center down the hall or a gym or lunchroom stocked with organic juices. Workplace wellness is showing up as a whole person, learning to work on both your mental and physical self while at work, internally, with techniques that demonstrate how everyone is on the same team.

Transform your remote work experience into a well-balanced lifestyle, even if you're feeling overwhelmed by the blur of work and life boundaries. Do you find it difficult to balance work and leisure as your home morphs into your office? Do you grapple with the isolation remote work brings, longing for genuine connections with your team? Are you struggling with endless distractions and a lack of structure in your work-from-home life? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you're not alone. Many remote workers face the same challenges—but it doesn't have to be this way.

This book is your ultimate guide to managing stress and transforming it into a powerful tool for resilience and growth. Specifically for entrepreneurs, this concise yet comprehensive resource combines evidence-based strategies, actionable methods, and inspiring examples to help you thrive in the face of chaos.

Stress is all around us every day and is inevitable and unavoidable. How do we live the life we always wanted? How do we manage stress? How do we acquire stress management skills? In this book, you will learn specific, step-by-step strategies and gain information to take stress under your control, once and for all.

Letting Go of Anger explores simple, actionable strategies that will help listeners diffuse their negative reactions and become more mindful and emotionally literate adults. The behavioral science and developmental psychology behind our most primitive emotions will empower listeners to take back control from a reactionary experience that often makes us (wrongly) feel powerless.

This is the audio summary of 10% Happier, a book that offers a practical way to approach mindfulness in the modern world.

Whether you're an aspiring leader, a seasoned manager, or stepping into a new role, this comprehensive guide is your roadmap to confident and effective leadership. Packed with actionable strategies and 15 FREE downloadable resources, this book equips you with the tools to master communication, ethical leadership, and team building, ensuring your success in today’s dynamic workplace.

The questions we ask ourselves determine our lives. Our thoughts are nothing more than a continuous question-and-answer session we have with ourselves. Our lives - material, emotional, spiritual, and financial - are a direct reflection of our thoughts. Eighty-five percent of these thoughts are both habitual and unconscious. Meaning, we are asking and answering the exact same questions every day, usually in the same way over and over again.

If you’re starting to feel like you’re standing on the sidelines of your own life, it’s likely that fear is playing a large part in the decisions you make, day to day. In Letting Go Of Fear, learn to understand this primitive emotion for what it is: A signal of growth. Compassionate, practical and easy-to-listen, this comprehensive motivational book will inspire and revolutionize the way you live, with personal anecdotes, psychology-based strategies, mindset hacks and simple, actionable steps.

From Burnout to Bliss: Discover a powerful solution that brings joy back to caregiving. It starts with the little things, doesn't it? Mom forgetting to turn off the stove, or Dad insisting on a winter sweater in July. Suddenly, a slip in the bathroom leads to a heart-pounding, E.R.-bound adventure. Your once-stable life becomes a tornado of caregiving responsibilities.

Nobody knows better than millennial and Gen Z professionals how rapid technological development has inundated post-pandemic work. Organizational researcher Craig Mattson listens to their stories and builds a framework for coping with digital overwhelm at work. This book won’t tell you to declutter your digital life or to end capitalism now. But what you can do, suggests Professor Mattson, is change how you attend to zones where technological disruption meets emotional pressure. Calling these zones modes of communication, this book urges you to practice mode-switching.

For years, Danielle Colley believed life was endless rounds of stress until you died. One day, after being fired as a journalist at The Australian Women’s Weekly, the solo mum was propelled beyond stress and straight to Burn Out Town. Deciding life should not feel like a constant uphill marathon, Danielle’s mission became discovering contentment and creating an ambitious life that still feels good to live.

For too long, we’ve been participating in “hustle culture” which says if we’re not moving and achieving, we’re not enough. Sometimes, the only way to release ourselves from this exhausting feedback loop is to take a break from work. Sabbaticals provide time and space for a reset and can give us energy to launch something new, adjust priorities, or rediscover passions. Most people would love to take an extended sabbatical, but the truth is, you probably haven’t made a plan to address fears that arise the moment you step away from full-time work.