Please Dont Just Do What I Tell You

The author of the million-copy-selling 1001 Ways series shows how to get ahead by fulfilling every employers ultimate expectation. This book contains a clear message: Every boss wants an effective worker to do what most needs to be done without having to be asked. Simple? Perhaps. Easy? Not on your life. But thanks to Bob Nelson, employers and employees everywhere will be empowered by this vital message, and in the process achieve their goals and create a mutually rewarding experience. As brief, to the point, and inspiring as his previous best-selling titles, Nelsons commonsense advice can be applied to any situation, from the mailroom to the boardroom, and is illustrated with a wide array of examples and anecdotes from real life. Helping readers tap into their own intelligence, resourcefulness, and pride, Nelson demonstrates how acts of initiative both big and small can make an enormous difference in the way an employee is viewed -- and rewarded -- by his or her boss; he also shows how the effects of those actions benefit the entire organization. It's a perfect first day on the job book; a useful resource for any HR department; and a worthwhile investment for anyone who wants to learn more and go farther in a job, in a career, and in life.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery” (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

'Simple, smart and savvy - this book shows employees how to reach for the sky and use initiative they never knew was there.' Dr Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. From Bob Nelson, the author of the million copy selling 1001 Ways series, Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to be Done is about fast tracking or getting ahead by fulfilling an employer's ultimate expectation - that you'll figure out what needs to be done and take the initiative to do it. With direct advice and fascinating anecdotes about people who have taken initiative and been rewarded. The book is short, easy-to-read and inspiring and includes advice on how to: - suggest ways to save money - turn problems into opportunities - collect your own data, develop alternatives, and build support for your ideas - be a person that makes things happen - avoid the 'blame game' - persist when obstacles arise

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK “Another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me? With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable voice, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with her most must-read book yet. In her brand-new collection, Phoebe shares stories that will make you laugh, but also plenty that will hit you in the heart and inspire a little bit of rage, and maybe a lot of action. That means revealing her perspective on performative allyship, white guilt, and what happens when white people take up space in cultural movements; exploring what it’s like to be a woman who doesn’t want kids living in a society where motherhood is the crowning achievement of a straight, cis woman’s life; and discussing how the dire state of mental health in America means that taking care of one’s psychological well-being—aka “self-care”—usually requires disposable money. She also shares tales of her mom slowpoking before a visit with Mrs. Obama, the stupidly fake reassurances of zip-line attendants, her favorite things about dating a white person from the UK, and how the lack of Black women in leadership positions fueled her to become the Black lady-boss of her dreams. By turns perceptive, hilarious, and heartfelt, Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes is not only a brilliant look at our current cultural moment, it's also a collection that will stay with readers for years to come.

One night, when Ethan reaches under his bed for a toy truck, he finds this note instead: "Monsters! Meet here for final test." Ethan is sure his parents are trying to trick him into staying under the covers, until he sees five colorful sets of eyes blinking at him from beneath the bed. Soon, a colorful parade of quirky, squeaky little monsters compete to become Ethan's monster. But only the little green monster, Gabe, has the perfect blend of stomach-rumbling and snorting needed to get Ethan into bed and keep him there so he falls asleep—which as everyone knows, is the real reason for monsters under beds. With its perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this silly-spooky prequel to the award-winning I Need My Monster and Hey, That's MY Monster! will keep young readers entertained.

This book is a gigantic compilation a.k.a magnum opus containing the two very well received books "Pushup Central" and "Pushup Central - the TIPS!". The first book goes where "no man has gone before in terms of pushups, and indeed physical activity", and shows you unique, creative and interesting ways to do pushups that will burn fat off your body quicker like butter in a furnace - or ole George Foreman's grills, hehe - and build lumps of hard, solid corrugated MUSCLE over your entire body while doing so. Your health and fitness levels will skyrocket dramatically within a while of getting on this routine. Your abs will become a bundle of steel and chiseled muscle, and you'll have pillars for legs - stamina that doesnt run out - and SKYROCKETING CONFIDENCE and best of all, these exercises will truly develop the "iron jaw" in your mentally and physically. Once you get on the exercises in Pushup Central (once you learn them, and then DO them regularly as opposed to just read) - you'll not only become a fitness phenom like NO other (in relatively short time at that!) but you'll find that problems in other areas of your life melt away and you achieve all goals you set for yourself on auto pilot, almost. You'll focus like a laser on your work - and goals - and will sleep like a baby at night as well on these routines. Truly, 100 pushups a day keeps the doctor away - for good - and I ain't even kidding there. And if you thought that was all, no, I'm just getting started. The SECOND book in the series is the world famous book on TIPS - extras that were not included in the initial book - 51 forgotten TIPS that will take you from being "just good at pushups" to rarified and STRATOSPHERIC levels of excellence at this exercise. In other words, the cake is great, but the icing is really what makes it uber special, and so it is with this cake and the icing - and in this book, yours truly, the bodyweight exercise Guru as the 0 Excuses "fanatics" swear I am (and they're spot on) brings you pushups like never before, in a style and format that has never ever been put out there before, period. These tips will help you improve your pushup numbers per set or overall - they will BOOST your stamina while doing pushups (if you implement correctly) - they will help you RECOVER faster too. You'll learn which are the best supplementary exercises and workouts to do with pushups - the best way and best types of pushups to do - why certain types of pushups are always a must to do, others maybe not so much so - and a lot, lot more that no-one else out there knows, let alone teaches you. EACH of these tips is probably worth the $150 odd I'm charging for the course, which given the massive amounts of information that is NOT known to the public (no, you cannot find it all on Google either) - is a pittance my friend, a nigh pittance I'm charging you for this course. I should really be pricing this at $1000 or thereabouts, and likely will at some point. But for now, we'll stick to a "special introductory" price of $150 for the Kindle Edition. Be sure and check out the paperback and hardcover versions as well! Pushing for YOU - forever! Very best, Rahul Mookerjee Fitness Fanatic "par excellence" and so can YOU BE if you do the thing! :)

DISCLAIMER As with my other course Pushup Central, and every thing else I teach in all my businesses, products, books, courses, and manuals, be damn sure you’re in good physical health before attempting the exercises in this course. Now, these exercises will GET you into the best shape of your life if you aren’t already, but what I am saying is “don’t just jump from a perch on the sofa to Everest” – as I state in my other books, work up to everything. All in “dew” time as a person recently told me, so it works for life, fitness, everything else. Second, read these tips not in place of but WITH those in Pushup Central. The author is not a medical professional (although he has more and useful practical knowledge than most actual medical professional will let on beyond the facade of “repeated hospital visits” to fatten their wallets”), and he promises if you DO the thing, your abdomen will have the exact opposite impact. All puns aside, though I Was serious there – the advice in book does not take place of that dispensed by a qualified medical professional – contact your doctor or medical provider if you have any doubts, stop if you experience “actual” pain and so forth. I hate to have to say all this, but I do! With that said, onward. INTRODUCTION and why I wrote this book. Phew, that was a long intro wasn’t it – or disclaimer? So I’ll keep it short here – no pun intended, or I’ll TRY and keep it short. Basically, many of the same reasons I wrote Pushup Central I.e pushups being the mainstay of any serious fitness enthusiast’s routine, yet being roundly ignored by most folks, dispelling the “they’re too easy or too boring” B.S. you keep hearing about them (anyone that says that is an utter fool that hasn’t done ‘em right, or has no clue on how to) – how they “only build endurance” (WRONG! Ask Mike Tyson, Herschel Walker, Ken Shamrock and a host of other illuminaries for one, even better, DO ‘em yourself, and you’ll see!) – (and even if thats all they built, what most people need today is a dose of “Energizer Bunny” if you get my drift, what with all the “I’m always sick” (or tired) nonsense going on!) … … because pushups build every part of your body, and turn you into an IRON being, literally INDESTRUCTIBLE as a reader wrote in about Pushup Central. Because they build a core of steel, the grip of Cain and more you’ve always wanted, legs like pillars (yes) – they reduce fat, SMELT fat in record time I should say, yada, nada, schnada. And more, and either go to the benefits portion of this book or in Pushup Central and you’ll read more. I could literally wax lyrical all day on this! Point being though, the same two reasons why I (despite not liking them too much) do a lot of videos. Its nigh impossible to put all your knowledge in one book. Even if you write that book for years, you keep learning, the day you put out the book is the day you learn something new, and thats how it is, you NEVER stop learning. As I said in 0 Excuses Fitness, that is as close to true mastery as you can get, if you were to ask the great Bruce Lee that, he’d tell you the same thing too. And the same thing goes with non videos. Hence, an FAQ on pull-ups and handstand pushups … Hence, Gorilla Grip – TIPS! And hence this book. In it you’ll find ignored, forgotten but EXTREMELY valuable gems, nuggets of info that will add to what you learn in Pushup Central, and if used correctly, they will SKYROCKET your gains beyond belief. Perhaps thats why the benefits section in this book is longer than in Pushup Central. In the trenches learning is the best learning anyone can hope to receive from the school of HARD knocks or hard workouts. And thats the style I bring this to you in as with all my other writing. Dont just READ these tips and forget about ‘em. Don’t just implement them once and forget about ‘em. They deserve to be in your mind every time you knock out a pushup workout, or even a set, they’re that important, and you’ll soon see why once you start implementing. That said, onward! BENEFITS YOU’LL GET FROM NOT JUST READING, but IMPLEMENTING what is taught in this one of a kind course – or manual, what have you. I love that word manual! (and word to the WISE – these are all benefits you can get from Pushup Central, the EXTRA parts in PURPLE are the adds on you get HERE in addition to the above!!!) A rock solid midsection and a core that looks like it’s carved from STEEL. I don’t care if you’re a boxer, or martial artist, or just the everyday “blob”, hehe (sorry, but sometimes one has to be honest) – – we could ALL use that sort of a midsection – – not to mention the six pack – – doncha think? Your abs will literally HURT, smoulder and POP like never before when you implement the EXTRAS IN these tips! If you’ve been suffering fromIBS – or flatulence– or those annoying issues that make you “constantly have to go” – well – you might as well kiss them goodbye once you start on these exercises! Constipation? Whats that? The malady that affects almost everyone, including fitness gurus and such? Well, you’ll completely forget what the meaning of that word is, almost! Literally pushups with these magic tips work your entire core from the inside out like NOTHING ELSE AND NO OTHER exercise/workout can or WILL! Your entire abdominal region and lower back will become rock solid – and health issues will become a thing of the PAST. Not to mention your hamstrings, groin, everything will become way more powerful than it is right now, and more flexible. Implement the tips here in, you’ll literally get into “supreme martial artist” shape with persistence – as close to Bruce Lee as you can get! You’ll build a massive upper body – shoulders and chest -not to mention slabs of MUSCLE all over back – especially the upper back – and this won’t be the bloated “gym” muscle you see all over the place that looks good, but ain’t got squat to back it up, hehe (pun intended!) And you’ll do so while keeping the lean, mean and TONED look. STEEL AND WHALEBONE! Your legs will get the workout of their lives on some of these pushups – believe me now – and trust me LATER! You’ll start to lose FAT – that unsightly blubber around your waist and midsection specifically within a FEW workouts. That’s right – and this fat loss will be so RAPID you’ll not only wonder where the love handles, muffin tops, bingo wings etc WENT – – but you’ll be scratching your head in amazement at the sheer SPEED you’ll lose weight at! It won’t just be rapid, it might well be permanent, so well will you be “rewiring your body’s circuits” once you implement these tips! You’ll literally be huffing, puffing and blowing the dang house down! Improved digestion is a given – not to mention an increased appetite. You’ll be able to eat more, and still not turn into “Tubbo” i.e. no more unsightly lard anywhere on your frame! You’ll be able to fit into clothes you haven’t fit into for years. Friends and co-workers won’t believe the rapid changes in you – and will ALL want to know the secret – let ’em in on it if you so desire, hehe. Perhaps the best thing for the average Joe – you won’t have any excuses left NOT to workout any more, my friend. All you have to do is drop down and start on these pushups – and as for a space to workout – – well, we ALL have a floor and a few inches of space somewhere, don’t we?? Your forearms – and grip – will increase tremendously. “Carpal tunnel”, pain in the wrists etc will become a thing of the past very quickly indeed. MY! IF there was ONE reason I’d urge you to pay heed to these tips its that you’ll build a gorilla like grip x10 and CLAWS OF PURE STREAMING STEEL when you implement the tips right! You’ll feel relaxed throughout the entire day – and you’ll have an unshakeable, “laser like” confidence about you after just a few workouts – confidence that others will NOTICE (“Here cometh the MAN!”) – and confidence that will propel you – UNWAVERED – towards whatever goal you set for yourself! COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH the man, folks will say about you! LITERALLY – that is the confidence and vibe you’ll build with these tips and workouts! Increased success with the “opposite sex” is a by product of these workouts. I don’t know why, but pushups lend themselves to a sort of “confident demanor” that women (or men) will pick up on – a sort of feeling you CANNOT get from pounding weights galore at the gym. If you can handle your own body from all angles and directions- you can handle — ah, but I’ll stop there – but you get the picture, my friend! REAL functional strength that STAYS with you regardless of circumstance or situation. You’ll be able to carry your damsel up several flights of stairs WITHOUT being out of breath – and come “moving day”, you’ll be tossing sofas around like no-one’s business! And thus forth … Mental strength that CANNOT be beat. Believe me, once you start doing 100 plus – or 250 – or even the hallowed 500 – pushup number per workout – you’ll develop an unshakeable sense of mental strength which will allow you not just to achieve nigh any goal you set yourself – but also to overcome adversity – sometimes of the most harrowing kinds (and believe me, I’ve been there on this one! And much, much more my friend. The above is just the proverbial TIP of the iceberg … Who is this book for? For the every day Joe or Jane that wants to improve their strength and conditioning beyond any sort of belief, and quick at that. For bloated “tubbos” looking to lose the lard quick. If you’re looking to add that extra oomph to an already solid upper body routine, this book (manual) is for YOU. If you’re looking to build Tyson/Herschel Walker like ARMS – this book is for you (do what the greats did, you’ll be great too in your way – guaranteed – natural law of the Universe, friend). If you’re looking to build a REAL 12 pack from the inside out as opposed to the showy tosh at the beach so many guys exult in showing (and girls too). If you’re looking to build strength that never quits on ya, amps when you need it. If you’re looking to build trap power like no other combo of routines can or will build (those mountainous GORILLA Traps). If you’re an ace swimmer, elite martial artists, triatholoner – or Crossfitter looking to UP your game and take it to the next level. And lots of other categories not mentioned here! Get this NOW, my friend. It is indeed a MUST HAVE along with Pushup Central. Best Rahul Mookerjee