Why is it that some people can overcome adversity and others can’t? Why are some people more prone to depression than others? How can some sales people keep going despite getting one ‘no’ after another, while some give up after the first ‘no’? This brilliant and important paperback answers these questions.
I recommend this book to my clients on a regular basis. The reason for this is that it looks at all the common themes found in stress related problems and breaks them down into manageable chunks. It doesn’t blind you with science, it just gives you practical things to do and to think about in terms of how you are living your life and the things you might want to think about changing.
This is the original, classic book on ‘Emotional Intelligence’. As someone who has never considered himself as being over endowed with conventional intelligence, I found this book answered many questions for me. Goleman explains how Emotional Intelligence (EQ) can, at the end of the day, be more powerful than conventional IQ.
This book has helped so many parents and also teachers since it was published five years ago. It is full of common sense, as a parent told me they kept nodding in agreement as they read it. We live in a culture with many pressures on our children whatever their age and on through the teens and later (yes, many adults have found this book helpful as well).
This is one of the most famous personal development books ever written and has since spawned a veritable industry – leadership training, time management systems, you name it.
As well as some general tips on creating a healthy work life balance for yourself, this book contains 16 chapters of work/life interviews with business leaders from Sir Dominic Cadbury to Sir Richard Branson.
Have you ever been in the position of having to speak up about something at work but been very worried about the consequences of doing so? I’m sure everyone has. We often take what seems the easy way out and don’t speak up at all. So the bad practice, or worse, bad behaviour continues.
Dr Hallowell is an expert in ADD and has found that adults under pressure can develop a culturally induced state similar to ADD. This programme is to help you build a manageable game plan for turning a hectic life into a happy, productive, rewarding, and satisfying life. He gives 10 key principles to managing modern life. He also gives a six-step plan to deal with overload.
The Buzan Mind Mapping techniques are also of great use. I have used them very successfully to help to improve my understanding of organisations or structures that I previously found complicated and confusing.
The ideas in this book are based on the assumption that the quality of everything we do depends on the thinking we do first, and our thinking depends on the quality of the attention we give each other.
I find that perfectionism is often a common underlying theme for a lot of problems ranging from anxiety to depression. This book is full of practical exercises to try to challenge some of the underlying thoughts that make us perfectionist about particular issues.
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