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2. Shift Your Mind : 9 Mental Shifts to Thrive in Preparation and Performance
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Brian Levenson and Brian Levenson
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- Attitude (Psychology), Performance, Success--Psychological aspects, Performance technology
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Greatness is a matter of timing.Executive and mental performance coach Brian Levenson has spent years working with high performers in sports, business, and culture. And from the field to the boardroom, he noticed something surprising. Talented people were failing to reach their goals, not because they lacked the necessary skills, but because they didn't understand the mental processes that fueled them.When it comes to high performance, talent isn't enough.He began interviewing former CIA agents, world-class chefs, astronauts, athletes, CEOs, and more to find a solution, and soon realized that elite performers have one thing in common. They shift between complementary mindsets, one for preparing effectively and one for delivering when it counts. Only by practicing both mindsets do the best of the best—such as swimmer Diana Nyad, performer Taylor Swift, and legendary football coach Tom Coughlin—move seamlessly from drills to game-changing plays and back again.In Shift Your Mind, you'll learn nine key mental shifts to help you think like a high performer:humble and arrogantwork and playperfectionistic and adaptableanalysis and instinctexperimenting and trusting processuncomfortable and comfortablefuture and presentfear and fearlessnessselfish and selflessWith exercises, examples, and actionable tips, each chapter explores the power of the shift through skills like visualization, mindfulness, and self-talk.Make the right moves at the right time with Shift Your Mind.
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- 2020
3. Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian : Gold Medal Techniques to Unleash Your Potential at Work
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Jean François Ménard, Marie Malchelosse, Jean François Ménard, and Marie Malchelosse
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- Attitude (Psychology), Psychology, Industrial, Athletes--Psychology, Achievement motivation
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The global pandemic has completely disrupted how, where, and when we work and added tremendous pressure to individuals and their families. Learn how to refocus and achieve your full potential from one of the world's top mental performance coaches. In Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian, Jean François Ménard provides the skills necessary to: Remain focused in the face of distractions Overcome negative self-talk and replace it with a constructive mindset Recover quickly and learn from setbacks Be comfortable with the uncomfortable Elite athletes need to deal with multiple distractions, manage their stress levels, and have robust self-confidence to deliver podium-worthy performances. In our current work-from-home reality, these pressures are also experienced by those of us who are asked to do more with less and work longer hours with fewer distinctions between work and private lives. The pressure to perform at your best and be on the mark is always present, and let's face it, being consistently great in an environment like this is easier said than done. Whether your performance realm is the playing field, the workplace, the home office, or the classroom, mental strength is no longer simply an asset. It's an absolute necessity. Thriving at work and in life doesn't happen by accident: there are teachable skills that can help you stay positive, stay focused, and unleash your full potential. This book will give you exclusive access to techniques and strategies that help Cirque du Soleil artists, Olympians, and pro athletes become the best in the world.
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- 2020
4. Confidence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Harvard Business Review, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Jen Su, Peter Bregman, Harvard Business Review, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Jen Su, and Peter Bregman
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- Attitude (Psychology), Success in business--Psychological aspects, Self-confidence, Emotional intelligence
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Become more confident at work.You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability to act decisively and persuade others. What can you do to push past these insecurities?This book explains how you can use emotional intelligence to become more confident at work. You'll learn how to correct what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when feeling too self-assured can actually backfire.This volume includes the work of:Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicRosabeth Moss KanterAmy Jen SuPeter BregmanHow to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
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- 2019
5. Micro-Resilience : Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy
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Bonnie St. John and Bonnie St. John
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- Goal (Psychology), Attitude (Psychology), Distraction (Psychology), Stress management, Time management
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Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day -- every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus and low energy. So they dug into the latest research on neuroscience, psychology and physiology looking for big answers. Instead they found small answers; proof that small adjustments in daily routines, including thought patterns, food and drink, rest and movement can fight the forces that sap our energy and store focus and drive. They call these amazing efficient restorative techniques'micro-resilience.'Thousands of men and women from all walks of life have already found effortless ways to incorporate these little changes into the busiest of schedules. Dozens of entertaining anecdotes from real people using micro-resilience demonstrate that when our brains fire faster, our energy increases and we can cope with almost any surprise, pressure or crisis.
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- 2017
6. Your Invisible Power and How to Use It
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Genevieve Behrend and Genevieve Behrend
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- Positive psychology, Visualization, Success, Attitude (Psychology)
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In'Your Invisible Power and How to Use It', Genevieve Behrend will guide you through the use of visualization, teaching you how to manifest the things in life that you want by visualizing them and making them come to you. This power of positive thinking has revolutionized how we look at the world. Everything you need to succeed is inside you and this book will help you unlock it. A practical guide to manifesting The Law of Attraction in your life. Genevieve Behrend was Thomas Troward's only pupil and was very well versed in the Law of Attraction and in the power of positive thinking.
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- 2017
7. Scrappy : A Little Book About Choosing to Play Big
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Terri L. Sjodin and Terri L. Sjodin
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- Success in business, Attitude (Psychology), Strategic planning
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Scrappy \'skra-pē\ adj: Full of fighting spirit—synonymous with having moxie, being feisty, enthusiastic, gutsy, lively,and spunky Maybe you have been told time and time again that if you pay your dues and keep plugging away, you'll gain enough experience through “the school of hardknocks” to be successful. That might be true. But maybe you want to reach your goals faster. Maybe you want to earn more, beat the odds—and do it with class and style. If so, it's time to get scrappy. Scrappy people see big problems and come up with big solutions. Or they see ordinary challenges and find a new path to extraordinary results. They're like the entrepreneur who turned his home into an indoor jungle—complete with waterfalls, tropical birds, and a live baboon—to sell investors on the now famous Rainforest Café restaurant chain. Or the Girl Scout who skipped the usual door-to-door cookie sales and set up a table outside a medical marijuana dispensary, selling 117 boxes in just 2 hours. It can seem like these successes are just one-off acts of ingenuity or isolated flashes of brilliance...but are they? In today's world you need more than just an occasional burst of creativity. You need a consistent attitude, a proven strategy, and a tactical plan for execution. That's where Terri Sjodin's Scrappy can help you, by explaining and demonstrating the unique elements behind any successful scrappy effort. Drawing on research, interviews, and her own personal experience, Sjodin identifies the habits that will help you get into the right mind-set. She shares stories of scrappy tactics that have worked and those that have crashed and burned, in order to provide practical takeaways for achieving your vision, whatever it might be. She explains, for instance... • Why getting scrappy is a choice to play big. • How to cultivate your best ideas. • How to manage risks and bounce back from mistakes and failures. • How to scale a scrappy culture within anyorganization, big or small.As Sjodin puts it,'This is not another book about persistence, although scrappy and persistent make a winning combination. Nothing annoys a persistent person more than a scrappy person who pulls off a classy, unexpected, amazing effort to land the deal, the sale, or the opportunity.'Whether you're a sales rep, a job seeker, an entrepreneur with big dreams but a small budget, or a corporate executive aiming for the next level of success, the fastest way to get what you want is to get scrappy.
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- 2016
8. Getting to Yes with Yourself : (and Other Worthy Opponents)
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William Ury and William Ury
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- Interpersonal conflict, Attitude (Psychology), Negotiation
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William Ury, coauthor of the international bestseller Getting to Yes, returns with another groundbreaking book, this time asking: how can we expect to get to yes with others if we haven't first gotten to yes with ourselves?Renowned negotiation expert William Ury has taught tens of thousands of people from all walks of life—managers, lawyers, factory workers, coal miners, schoolteachers, diplomats, and government officials—how to become better negotiators. Over the years, Ury has discovered that the greatest obstacle to successful agreements and satisfying relationships is not the other side, as difficult as they can be. The biggest obstacle is actually our own selves—our natural tendency to react in ways that do not serve our true interests.But this obstacle can also become our biggest opportunity, Ury argues. If we learn to understand and influence ourselves first, we lay the groundwork for understanding and influencing others. In this prequel to Getting to Yes, Ury offers a seven-step method to help you reach agreement with yourself first, dramatically improving your ability to negotiate with others.Practical and effective, Getting to Yes with Yourself helps readers reach good agreements with others, develop healthy relationships, make their businesses more productive, and live far more satisfying lives.
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- 2015
9. Bull's-Eye : The Power of Focus
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Brian Tracy and Brian Tracy
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- Self-actualization (Psychology), Career development, Achievement motivation, Success--Psychological aspects, Self-management (Psychology), Attitude (Psychology)
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Your aim in life should be to achieve all of the wonderful things that are possible for you. There is no reason for you not to be earning twice as much as you are today, or even five or ten times as much. Your potential is practically limitless, if you could just learn how to utilize it.Clarity, Focus, and Concentration: Three strong, simple attributes needed to hone in your potential and hit the bull's eye! And just as you can develop your physical muscles through hard work and concentration, you can develop your mental muscles through continuous repetition.You have the ability right now to achieve more than you ever have before. Bull's Eye will teach you how to unleash your powers for success and accomplish more in the next few months than many people do in a lifetime.
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- 2015
10. The Positive Dog : A Story About the Power of Positivity
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Jon Gordon and Jon Gordon
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- Positive psychology, Motivation (Psychology), Attitude (Psychology)
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Discover the benefits of being positive. We all have two dogs inside of us. One dog is positive, happy, optimistic, and hopeful. The other dog is negative, mad, sad, pessimistic, and fearful. These two dogs often fight inside us, but guess who wins the fight? The one you feed the most. So begins the story about a negative mutt named Matt and a big dog named Bubba who teaches him how to feed himself with positivity each day and in the process Matt transforms his own life and the shelter they call home. The Positive Dog is an inspiring, heartwarming story that not only reveals the strategies and benefits of being positive but also an essential truth for humans: Being positive doesn't just make you better. It makes everyone around you better.
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- 2012
11. The Happiness Advantage : How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
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Shawn Achor and Shawn Achor
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- Attitude (Psychology), Positive psychology, Happiness, Work--Psychological aspects
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An engaging, deeply researched guide to flourishing in a world of increasing stress and negativity—the inspiration for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time “Powerful [and] charming... A book for just about anyone... The philosophies in this book are easily the best wire frames to build a happy and successful life.”—Medium Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can. Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we'll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But the science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Research shows that happy employees are more productive, more creative, and better problem solvers than their unhappy peers. And positive people are significantly healthier and less stressed and enjoy deeper social interaction than the less positive people around them. Drawing on original research—including one of the largest studies of happiness ever conducted—and work in boardrooms and classrooms across forty-two countries, Shawn Achor shows us how to rewire our brains for positivity and optimism to reap the happiness advantage in our lives, our careers, and even our health. His strategies include: • The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility so we can see and seize opportunities all around us• Social Investment: how to earn the dividends of a strong social support network• The Ripple Effect: how to spread positive change within our teams, companies, and families By turns fascinating, hopeful, and timely, The Happiness Advantage reveals how small shifts in our mind-set and habits can produce big gains at work, at home, and elsewhere.
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- 2010
12. Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work : Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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Joseph Murphy, Arthur R. Pell Ph.D, Joseph Murphy, and Arthur R. Pell Ph.D
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- Success in business--Psychological aspects, Success, Attitude (Psychology)
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All new, never-before-published? from the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.When Dr. Joseph Murphy wrote his bestselling book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, he set forth the basic techniques for enriching one?s life by programming the subconscious mind. This all-new book, based on forty years of previously unpublished research, shows how the subconscious mind can be used by people in their workplace when dealing with both routine and unexpected problems faced on the job. To illustrate Murphy?s principles, editor Arthur Pell has provided examples from the lives of past and contemporary business leaders who have achieved success by applying these concepts in their professional lives. This book covers the most vital subjects in career and business success including: establishing goals, developing self-confidence and resilience, mastering the law of attraction, leading a dynamic team, effective communication, managing time efficiently, and more.
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- 2009
13. The Power of a Positive Attitude
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Roger Fritz and Roger Fritz
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- Success, Attitude (Psychology), Employees--Attitudes
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In this book, you'll discover how to develop a deeper understanding of the effects of your attitude and how it influences not only your performance, but the results others achieve.The way we view difficulties and setbacks can make the difference between success and failure. Author Roger Fritz has devoted his career to helping people overcome obstacles and achieve their goals by changing their outlook on life, and he'll help you do the same with this useful resource. In The Power of a Positive Attitude, you can learn to succeed in business by: assessing your attitude toward yourself and your co-workersovercoming negative attitudeslearning the dos and don'ts in dealing with your bossbecoming a better listenerovercoming resistance to change in the workplacerejecting suggestions without causing resentmentgiving and responding to criticism from team membersdisagreeing with employees and colleagues without being disagreeableconquering burnout and stressAttitude affects every facet of our lives—from the way we handle stress to how we communicate at work. Life-affirming and authoritative, The Power of a Positive Attitude is an invaluable book that will empower anyone to face life and work with joy and confidence.
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- 2008
14. Suite Success : The Psychologist From the Apprentice Reveals What It Really Takes to Excel-- in the Boardroom and in Life
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Siegel, Liza and Siegel, Liza
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- Optimism, Self-confidence, Attitude (Psychology), Success in business--Psychological aspects, Creative ability in business
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In'Suite Success', Dr. Liza Siegel, the Consulting Psychologist for the popular reality show'The Apprentice', shows readers how to develop the powerful, positive mindset necessary for achieving success. Filled with fascinating examples from the show, the book helps readers become more resilient, tough and confident in their quest for the top.
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- 2006
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