Delve into personality development by reading these eBooks. Learn how to manage your stress, become more assertive and how to improve your personal confidence. These personal development books are written by experienced coaches and trainers. Take a look!

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I think all of us have to work under a lot more pressure nowadays that at anytime in history.

MTD Training

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Do you have the self belief and confidence to make a difference? Do you just know that youll succeed no matter what?

Eric Garner

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This eBook will cover all kinds of thinking skills and will make you see that your brain is the most powerful organ you possess.

Kasia Lyczkowska

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The goal of this book is to progressively build your confidence through a combination of initial belief injected by vivid visualization, body language techniques and self-efficacy.

Jacky Dakin; Laura Taplin

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This book will help you overcome various difficulties you may experience in taking the first steps to start the journey towards success in your chosen career direction.

Paul Newton

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This eBook explains how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from starting difficult high-priority tasks.

Gerry Larsson; Bodil Wilde-Larsson

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Drawing on the scholarly writings of the late professor Richard S. Lazarus, the book presents the development of the Emotional Stress Reaction Questionnaire (ESRQ).

John Kyriazoglou

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This is the first of the 3-volume practical book on managing and improving Workplace Wellness describing The H4u Wellness Approach and all its aspects, principles and components.

Carole Spiers

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Do you: Have to manage emotional and volatile staff? Have to deal with angry customers?

ManageTrainLearn

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In "The Experts Teach: Maximising Your Potential", we bring together 27 articles from top experts on how to make the most of your personal talents.

Harold L. Taylor

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This book explains how to increase your powers of memory and recall by using your brains natural ability to visualize and associate.

Charlotte Wittenkamp

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This book discusses differences in cultural values and norms. Why do we feel challenged when interacting with culturally different people, and how can we improve the outcomes of such interactions?

Jonne Ceserani

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This book debunks the perceived mysteries and complexities of creativity and problem solving.

MTD Training

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Do you make the most of your time or are you always chasing your tail? Do you use to-do lists?

Andy Turnbull

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When we see people being authentically themselves we call it things like individuality and charisma - yet how can we be our true selves when we have so many demanding roles to fulfil in life?

Eric Garner

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This book will guide you on your own self-development through life.

Apex Leadership Ltd

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This e-book explores how leaders can develop the high-impact inter-personal skills which will make them both more effective and more successful.

Ken Pierce

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If you are ready to handle the annoying and troublesome people in your life then Dealing with Difficult People is for you.

Jenny Gould

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We live in a world where the pace of life is phenomenal. We have to work harder, faster, more efficiently, longer hours and with less job security than ever before.

Lindsay Wittenberg

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Become the Leader You Are: Self-Leadership through Executive Coaching is a mini-manual for high-quality leadership, self-leadership and self-coaching. Each chapter gives insight and practical tips.

Abder-Rahman Ali

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This book will make you discover several productivity tools that will help in boosting your productivity. You will learn to use these tools and strategies to set, manage and keep an eye on your goals.

Eric Garner

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Assertiveness is one of the most important skills you can learn today. It changes the way you communicate, deal with conflict, and your own relationship with yourself.

Philip Gould

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This book teaches a powerful blend of the two most crucial conversation skills, empathy and assertiveness.

Annabelle Beckwith

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Goal Setting for Success is a very practical book which takes you through the key stages and principles of setting and achieving your goals.

Eric Garner

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This eBook will help the reader manage discipline confidently and successfully at work.

Harold Taylor

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In this brief book, Harold discusses the importance of sleep and its impact on personal productivity, organizing skills, and health and well-being.

Patrick Forsyth

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An antidote to discontentedly putting up with things, the book can be your first step to a better future.

Eric Garner

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In this collection, youll find around 500 quotes on the theme of Personal Effectiveness.

Shenandoah Chefalo

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This book will guide individuals and business owners alike through the process of establishing a personal mission statement that helps provide clarity and a sense of purpose.

Benjamin Ball

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Time Management is about the HOW: which techniques and systems can I use to free up as much time as possible? There are all kinds of systems around, that all have their merits and pitfalls.

Hansa Pankhania

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This collection of short stories is packed full of expert advice on how to overcome stress & perform at your peak.

ManageTrainLearn

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In "The Experts Teach: Assertiveness", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on assertiveness. They will show you how to become a confident person at home and at work.

John Kyriazoglou

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The ability to maintain a positive mental attitude during a survival situation is something that needs to be taking seriously. Its also something that you need to start working on now, before the SHTF.

Making it through a survival scenario often comes down to how well you can control your emotions. Keeping a positive frame of mind, even in the face of an unthinkable threat, will help you process whats happening and will help you respond without giving into fear.

Now Im not suggesting that you ignore the dangers or take on some delusional view of whats going on. But I am suggesting that you need to keep a level head, regardless of your circumstances. In a survival situation griping about your circumstances or wallowing on your problems will do one thing, IT WILL GET YOU KILLED!

In a Survival Situation you need to be able to work on solutions, not wallow in self-pity. Every obstacle that you face will likely present a solution if you have a level head and can look for it. If you spend all your time crying about the problem, the opportunity to survive will pass you by.

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The most important thing to remember about mastering your emotions is that it takes time. While it only takes a second for fear and anger to invade your mind, it can take years to really master the ability to tune these emotions out during a stressful situation.

Being able to maintain a positive attitude in a stressful situation takes practice. Its not an easy thing to master, but once you do it will be well worth the effort.

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An Individual Development Plan (IDP) can help you stay on course toward achieving your career development goals. But where and how do you begin? With these tips, you will learn to identify and describe your goals, choose activities that will help you meet them, set key milestones, and create a timeline for the completion of your goals.

To start the IDP process, first spend some time thinking about your career. As you do, ask yourself these questions:

As you consider these questions, write down your thoughts and note the areas with which you might need help. Be open and honest about your developmental needs. Finally, write down any career goals that emerge as a part of this brainstorm.

Once you finish brainstorming, you should have some initial ideas for goals and relevant developmental opportunities. Now, begin to organize these ideas. Depending on where you work at VA, you may have access to an IDP form. Your supervisor or HR specialist should be able to provide you with a form or another option if your organization does not participate in a formalized IDP process.

Generally, your IDP should include the following:

Dont be afraid to set tough, but realistic, goals for yourself. Good career goals will help you to identify and focus your developmental efforts, bringing you closer to where you want to be in your career. By capturing both long-term (3-5 years) and short-term (1-2 years) goals, you can make sure your current efforts are supporting your future ambitions. Try to capture at least one long-term career goal and three to six short-term career goals in your IDP.

As you develop your IDP, make sure all of your goals:

Explain how you will measure your progress

Include a deadline for achieving your goals

Finally, for each goal you set, identify one to three developmental activities that will help you achieve that goal. Continue reading for specific ideas about developmental activities you can include in your plan.

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Life Coaching has experienced explosive growth over recent years in Australia and around the world. This growth is due to the amazing results achieved by people and corporations through the application of life coaching principles.

People from all walks of life are finding Life Coaching to be an incredibly rewarding profession. Life Coaching can provide you with immense financial and emotional rewards. You can free yourself from the constraints of working long office hours, and pursue a self-employed career assisting people and businesses attain their highest aspirations.

The Life Coaching Institute is a leading educator of Life Coaches in Australia. The Institute delivers the nationally recognised and accredited Certificate IV in Life Coaching; and Diploma of Life Coaching. As you undertake these programs you'll be supported by the country's largest and most highly qualified team of coaching professionals.

Institute programs are unique in their construct. Institute courses and course material is prepared by a highly qualified and experienced team of educators and practitioners. All courses have a high level of applied content, use real-life case studies and are developed to a world class standard. They're developed utilising proven theoretical underpinnings whilst integrating substantial practical application.

Institute courses have a focus on flexible, blended delivery. We understand that your life is already full. Fitting studies in to an already busy schedule can be a challenge. That's why Institute courses can be completed entirely externally, at your own pace.

The Institute has Student Fulfillment Centers in each major capital in Australia. Local support ensures you get immediate response and greater networking with other students, academic advisors and mentors.

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From his earliest childhood in India, Osho was a rebellious and independent spirit, challenging all accepted religious, social and political traditions and insisting on experiencing the truth for himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others.

At the age of twenty-one, on March 21, 1953, Osho realized his enlightenment. He says about Himself, I am no longer seeking, searching for anything. Existence has opened all its doors to me. I cannot even say that I belong to existence, because I am just a part of it. When a flower blossoms, I blossom with it. When the sun rises, I rise with it. The ego in me, which keeps people separate, is no longer there. My body is part of nature, my being is part of the whole. I am not a separate entity.

He graduated from the University of Sagar with First Class Honors in philosophy. While a student he was All-India Debating Champion and the Gold Medal winner. After a nine-year stint as professor of philosophy at the University of Jabalpur, he left to travel around the country giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, upsetting traditional beliefs, and shocking the status quo.

In the course of his work, Osho has spoken on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. From Sigmund Freud to Chuang Tzu, from George Gurdjieff to Gautam Buddha from Jesus Christ to Rabindranath Tagore. He has distilled from each the essence of all that is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man, based not on intellectual understanding but tested against his own existential experience.

He belongs to no traditionI am the beginning of a totally new religious consciousness, he says. Please dont connect me with the pastit is not even worth remembering.

His talks to disciples and other seekers from all over the world have been published in more than six hundred and fifty volumes, and translated into over thirty languages. He says, My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation, so only those willing to die as they are and be born again into something so new that they cannot even imagine it right nowonly those few courageous people will be ready to listen, because listening is going to be risky. Listening, you have taken the first step towards being reborn. So it is not a philosophy that you can just make an overcoat of and go bragging about. It is not a doctrine when you can find consolation for harassing questions. No, my message is not some verbal communication. It is far more risky. It is nothing less than death and rebirth.

Osho left his body on January 19, 1990. Just a few weeks before, he was asked what would happen to his work when he was gone. He said: My trust in existence is absolute. If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing anything on anyone.

I will remain a source of inspiration to my people. And thats what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow on their own qualities like love, around which no church can be created; like awareness, which is nobodys monopoly; like celebration, rejoicing, and maintain fresh, childlike eyes.

I want people to know themselves, not to be according to someone else. And the way is in.

In accordance with his guidance, the commune which grew up around him still thrives in Pune, India, where thousands of disciples and seekers gather throughout the year to participate in the unique meditations and other personal growth and creative programs offered there.

About Osho was published in Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Third Edition, Rebel Publishing House, Cologne, Germany.

Many of Oshos books are available from Amazon.com and in the U.S. books are available online from OshoStore-Sedona and Osho Here and Now.

One of the unique contributions of Osho are the active meditations created specifically for modern man. Here is a link to a page that offers instructions, music that was designed for each of the meditations and video demonstrations.

Here is an excellent biographical site with lots of resources.

Osho shares his vision of the ultimate meditation in 5 minutes on this video.

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Goals are the blueprint to the life that you want to create and experience for yourself. There will of course be a lot of times that creating the goal that you want will not create the outcome of the goal right-a-way. This means you will live in a world that is at times less than []

Why the 6 mental skills are so important to your teenagers success and happiness! In life there are at least three major educations. There is school education and the grades achieved there. There is life education and knowing how it works. There is the inner-education and knowing how to control and manage yourself. When it []

The Time For You To Do Is Right Now, Where You Stand, And With Your Imperfect Plan of Action! (Dont wait for the perfect moment, for all moments are perfect for you to begin.) Most people sacrifice their future because they are waiting for the perfect time to start. Most think they have to have []

Another Viewpoint on Addiction. These are my personal thoughts, not the words of a doctor or professional. I am a person, like most of you that has had addiction personally touch their life. I have had addiction touch my life from three generations of my family. I have seen drug and alcohol addiction first hand []

I am willing to fight with everything Ive got to make this work. Have you heard people say that? I have. I have also thought that way myself. I think we all think that way from time to time. I would like to introduce a different way of thinking about this. When you say you []

There are those people that have great interpersonal skills and can walk into a room full of people they do not know, yet they look and feel as comfortable as they are at home around their family. Then there are those same people that can walk into that same room of strangers and seem very []

Stress and pressure go hand in hand with work and life. Its a package deal. Sometimes, the stress likes to take over and create a huge mess that we have to clean up. Its kind of like having grandchildren. You get to play with them and give them sugar, and then when the sugar kicks []

The one thing that will ruin a couple is mismanaged expectations. Are long term marriages and relationships a thing of the past? The relationships of the past generations are the ones we all secretly want to have. You meet in your late teens or early twenties and you get married, have children, have great grandchildren []

Abusive relationships are not limited to children and lower income adults. Relationships that are rooted in abuse are more common than one might think. They are in places where no one would even think to look. There are signs, but if you are not expecting any signs of abuse to be there, you will miss []

If you are like most people then you have probably thought at some point in your life that you would like to reinvent yourself. You might have said it any number of ways, such as I need to get my life together, or It is time to make some changes. Essentially, any way you put []

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Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such images which are based on their relatively limited sense of understanding about the particular subject or person. This is a "fill in the blank" reality, which often manifests itself into the hearts and the minds of those who have a "fill in the blank" mindset, not the person with the here said reality. The universe is designed in a way that reflects itself, just like a mirror, showing you exactly who you are to yourself, not who others are. Your largest and most concealed insecurities have their way of presenting themselves to you in a fashion that is relative to your self designed way of communication. This short writing is a reminder that your preconceived notions on a particular subject or person, are a construct of your inner mind and emotional-relational well being and not of others. This is one of the largest fundamental truths in which you must have large insight to carefully watch who and what you massacre with your personal thoughts. Having a keen sense of control on this subject will lead you to enlightenment in many platforms of life. Will Barnes, The Expansion of The Soul

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Surveys show that far too many nurses feel powerless in their jobs, unable to act autonomously or even have a voice in the policies that affect them. If youre a nurse manager who started your career as a staff nurse, youre probably familiar with this perception of powerlessness.

The ability to initiate and manage change is a skill that can be taught. In recognition of this, American Sentinel University has forged a commitment to empowering nurses through leadership-oriented education.

In theory, nurses who have advanced to management positions have acquired, either through education or experience, a sense of personal empowerment. Yet, research suggests we might still have a long way to go. A 2011 study found that nurses in middle management in an acute care hospital setting did not feel fully empowered. A more recent study, published in 2014 in the Journal of Nursing Administration, found only moderate levels of empowerment among 140 clinical nurse managers at one large health care system in the northeast. And in 2012, researchers who took a close look at nine empirical studies conducted between 1990 and 2009 concluded that, The empowerment of nurse managers correlated positively with job satisfaction, perceived organizational support, role satisfaction, and managerial self-efficacy, and correlated negatively with emotional exhaustion and own health outcomes.

The problem with powerlessness within the nursing profession is clear: it creates job dissatisfaction, stress, and burnout. It can lead to ineffective nursing management that compromises patient safety. And its incompatible with todays increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary care, where collaboration is key.

In the corporate world, organizational studies have found that successful process improvement plans often come not from the executive level, but from engaged employees and middle managers who feel like stakeholders in the processes being targeted for change. Theres no reason why this shouldnt apply to health care as well.

Empowered managers tend to be engaged employees who feel like important stakeholders in their workplace and the processes that keep it running. Nurse managers are more likely to develop a sense of personal empowerment when they work at an organization that values structural empowerment for example, by including nursing representatives in the process of creating policies staffing models, and administrative committees. Structural empowerment gives nurse managers a measure of influence in areas that have traditionally been governed by the executive-level administration, and it helps to promote the highest level of nursing excellence. [incl-event tag=open]

One of the most important traits of empowered leaders is that they are facilitators of change. They feel capable of identifying areas that need improvement and working to bring about transformation. Most health care organizations have compliance programs in place to deal with government-mandated change. Many also have some sort of process improvement plan that functions at the executive level, with goals of reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and improving patient care. But how much input comes directly from nursing managers? Managers who have a clear vision of the future can develop a strategy around that vision to bring about change.

This ability to initiate and manage change is a skill that can be taught. In recognition of this, American Sentinel University has forged a commitment to empowering nurses through leadership-oriented education. The Capstone Project, an exercise in applied learning, is one example of this. It allows students to design and implement a project that closely integrates their current work experience with their coursework, under the guidance of an academic advisor. American Sentinels online MSN, management and organizational leadership specialization degree is designed for experienced nurse professional who seek to develop both management and leadership skills.

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