Finding Personal Balance

The world is getting smaller and spinning faster. Bosses, families, and responsibilities constantly demand more. But there's good news: you have a choice in your experience. You can search for-and achieve-fulfillment and peace of mind. The answer is in your mind-set. In Finding Personal Balance, Will Ellis pieces together a brilliant mosaic of leadership lessons, management practices, ancient wisdom, and common sense into "The Choice Cycle." By practicing a few straightforward principles, you'll embrace your freedom to choose your attitude, mind-set, feelings, and thoughts about any situation. By focusing on results, instead of problems, you can change the course of your life. Ellis proffers solutions through stories of others' experiences with life's difficult challenges. He presents a simple process for analyzing yourself and your situations. Whether it's dealing with stress at work, reacting to a hostile driver on your ride home, or coping with an illness or injury, Ellis equips you with tools for change. All of us can be survivors in life and not victims of our circumstances. With lan, Ellis leads you to a new way of thinking. Find your personal balance, and you'll find peace in a world of stress and change.

Accomplish what matters most Because we all have too much to do, it feels like our lives are out of balance. But Brian Tracy and Christina Stein argue that imbalance results not so much from doing too much but from doing too much of the wrong things. They provide a process that enables you to sort out what is most important to you from among the many activities you could focus on. When you can efficiently identify and accomplish what really matters to you, you've found your balance point.

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This is a revolutionary new look at why we are affected by illness and how to restore balance and learn to heal. This book will show you how you can become the newer, healthier, more vital you!"

Teenage cancer survivors Jase and Mari learn how to move on with their lives after cancer as they struggle to understand their differing experiences.

As parents, we want to shape our children into emotionally mature and healthy human beings. But we cannot effectively shape our children's emotional well-being until we've addressed our own traumas and emotional needs. In It Starts with You, marriage and family therapist and parent coach Nicole Schwarz offers a nonjudgmental, shame-free guide to parenting children with a calm confidence. Working from a place of grace and compassion, she encourages us to explore how our history, thoughts, and assumptions impact our parenting decisions. Moving away from traditional discipline strategies, Schwarz focuses on the importance of having a calm brain, connected relationships, respectful conversations, and a coaching mindset with our kids. It Starts with You lays out a five-step process you can turn to whenever you're stuck in a difficult parenting situation. Each step is grounded in research and presented in a way that is easy to understand. Rather than adding unnecessary pressure, we learn that kids do not need perfect parents, but parents who are willing to learn, grow, and move forward with them in a positive direction.

Nautilus Book Awards Winners for 2007 (category: Self-Help/Psychology/ Personal Growth) "Like many people, Kathleen Hall found that despite great success and material wealth, she had yet to identify purpose, meaning, and balance in her work and her life. She left her Wall Street firm and devoted herself to understanding the relationships between mind, body, and spirit, and between professional and personal fulfillment. Since then, she has studied with great spiritual leaders including the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and the exiled Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. She has also learned from medical experts like Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind-Body Institute. Inspired by those diverse influences, Dr. Hall has written A Life in Balance, a guided journey to joy, peace, and an intentional life grounded in the four roots of the SELF: * Serenity. Find what brings us peace, and channel it into everything we do * Exercise. Align the body with energy and health through walking, yoga, martial arts, and more * Love. Build community and relationships that heal others as well as ourselves * Food. Pay attention not just to what we eat, but to what we experience through all our senses Our lives pull us in many different directions; to find happiness, we must first create balance. Filled with wit, wisdom, and compassion, A Life in Balance will help any reader identify and stay true to his or her authentic self."

Oola is not your typical self-help book. So what is it? Just like its origins from the expression 'oh lá lá!'Oola is a 'state of awesomeness,' it's when your life is balanced and growing in the 7 key areas of life (Fitness, Finance, Family, Field, Faith, Friends, and Fun). Oola is not stale and stuffy advice, it reads more like a collection of kick-butt anecdotes and sincere stories that just happen to have meaningful messages. Co-authors Dave Braun (The OolaSeeker) and Troy Amdahl (The OolaGuru) have been there and done that. What started out as a small group of people meeting once a year to set intentions for the future has turned into a nationwide phenomenon. Maybe you've seen Dave and Troy traveling the highways and byways of America in their 1970 VW Surf Bus. Covered with colorful Oola stickers, they are carrying the hopes of people, just like you, who are putting their dreams into action, ready to have the OolaLife. You, too, are awesome and designed for greatness and a purpose—LiveOola! Oola has received glowing reviews from top authors, pro athletes, musicians, industry leaders, and Olympians. Need 7 more reasons to read this book? 1. Learn the three simple steps to balance and grow your life in an unbalanced world. 2. Uncover what blocks you from the life of your dreams and what can get you there faster. 3. Find out what you can learn from a drunken Thai monkey, a black Ninja, and zebra-striped underwear. 4. Why no matter what you have done or have failed to do, you deserve a better life. 5. Become inspired to take the steps, reach your milestones, and achieve your OolaLife. 6. Discover the 7 key areas of life you must balance and grow. 7. Unlock the secrets to taking your life to the next level.

Most human issues have two sides, with many shades of gray in between. As examples, think of closeness in relationships versus independent self-sufficiency, working for the future versus living in the present, kindness to others versus taking care of ourselves, and so forth. When people fixate on one side of a two-sided issue and move to an extreme, or swing like a pendulum between two poles of these spectrums, their thinking and behavior become unbalanced and ineffective, resulting in frustration, conflict and, sometimes, worse. What does this apply to? A remarkably wide range of issues that occur on different scales, from individual psychology to relationships to politics. On all these levels, black-and-white thinking is a poor guide for living in a world involving many shades of gray. The opposite of polarization is balance. The idea that optimal human functioning involves a moderate balance between two opposite extremes has roots in both ancient philosophy and modern psychology. The search for balanced moderation, with its dialectical capability for integrating opposite forms of truth, has never been more important than in our polarized age. Finding Goldilocks is a pioneering effort to help us understand, envision, and live in that zone. Polarized, black-and-white thinking results in maladaptive extremes of emotion and behavior. This type of thinking is at the root of a wide range of mental health problems, with Borderline Personality Disorder as the most severe example and depression, anxiety, perfectionism, and aggression as more common examples. Black-and-white thinking causes polarization and conflict in many relationships, especially in couples and parent-child relationships. This type of cognition can also be found at the root of the angry, bitter polarization afflicting politics in the United States and many other countries at the present time. The same basic psychological patterns and principles seem to spiral up through a variety of levels, from the micro to the macro. This ebook addresses polarization on all these scales. vIt also brings a wide variety of conceptual tools to bear on these issues. While the central idea can be traced to Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius, Finding Goldilocks draws on cognitive, clinical, social, and political psychology, neurobiology, cybernetics, and evolutionary theory. The author also draws on his extensive experience as a psychotherapist to illuminate the problem of polarization in its many manifestations. Finding Goldilocks includes careful instruction in procedures that readers can use to analyze and plan solutions for personal problems and difficulties experienced by loved ones. These techniques involve creative use of diagrams, which enable us to use visual reasoning and supplements our usual reliance on words. Most of this material was published previously in an ebook for therapists called Psychotherapeutic Diagrams and is adapted here for non-therapists. Finding Goldilocks is a psychology book designed to help you understand other people, a self-help book designed to help you help yourself, and a proposal for cleansing politics of the shrill half-truths and reciprocal distortions that have crowded out reasonable discussion and debate. There is a deep throughline that links all these purposes of the ebook.

The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones.