Highly reviewed skills books

The bestselling writer Michael Hyatt, explains why, too often, our big are pushed away and get slowly forgotten, but he has a counter method. Yes, he thinks readers will eventually close the distance between fact and their fantasies. Yes now is the perfect time. Hyatt offers a strong, tested, research-driven framework to set and accomplish targets in Your Best Year Ever. Readers know in just five hours how to plan their best year ever. Anyone tired of not seeing change in their social, academic, career, friendship, or financial goals would enjoy the field-tested information found on these pages.

It can be truly intimidating to speak in public. The thought of appearing before an audience is more terrifying for David Nihill than cliff diving into a thorny pit of snakes and mothers-in-law. Some change was needed. David wanted to conquer his doubts by pretending to be an experienced comic named Irish Dave for a whole year, attending as many comedy clubs, concerts, and events as possible in what doesn’t seem like the best idea ever. At least one part of the strategy is logical: he was still Irish and was already named Dave. Within one year, David went from being mortally scared of talking to holding a business event, doing stand-up comedy on a weekly basis, and winning storytelling contests in front of packed audiences. So he did so by reading from one of the world’s best public speakers: stand-up comedians. Do You Talk Funny? reveals that the main concepts of stand-up humor can be adapted to your talks and speeches to make you more entertaining, fascinating and attractive. Whether you’re planning for a speech on trade, delivering a wedding toast, defending your dissertation, collecting money from investors, or even trying to bring something you’re scared of, this book will take you from sweaty to stage-ready.

Through her bestseller, The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron has inspired millions. Julia turns, in It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, her attention to a section of the society that is still hesitant and overwhelmed by the artistic process. Cameron tells readers that retirement can potentially be their life’s best, most rewarding, and most imaginative period. Through this book Cameron teaches readers how to help them conquer this new environment by nurturing their imaginative selves. She shares elderly people’s inspirational tales that have found new artistic interests and talents. This twelve-week program helps to describe the life you desire when you redefine and re-create yourself, this book includes practical resources that will motivate and encourage you to make the most of this moment of your life. This enjoyable, gentle, step-by-step guide will help you express your imaginative dreams, hopes, and aspirations and easily help you realize that it’s not too late to start again.

No one has looked at a blank calendar and thought, “The easiest way to spend this time is to get it packed with meetings! Nobody went to work, saying, I’m going to waste hours on Facebook today! In a world where knowledge is constantly refreshed and the every day feels like a constant shower of attention requests, being distracted has become our default status. Yet what if this relentless busyness fatigue was not mandatory? Would’n it be great if you could take back control of your time and energy? As founders of Google Ventures design sprints, Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams tackle big challenges by transforming how they work. Building on the popularity of these sprints and their expertise of creating omnipresent software items from Gmail to YouTube, they have spent years playing with their own patterns and behaviors, finding ways to help users maximize their strength, concentration, and time. So we put the most powerful strategies into a four-step routine structure that could be used by all to plan their days efficiently. Make Time provides a customized list of tips and tactics that can be personalized to particular routines and lifestyles. Make Time is not about dramatically revising your lifestyle; it is about making incremental adjustments to your working environment to liberate yourself from relentless annoyance and distraction. A must-read to anyone who ever wondered, if there were just more hours in the day. Make Time makes you avoid responding unconsciously to the external demands and finding time for things that matter.

The New York Times Bestseller’s writer THE $100 STARTUP reveals how in just 27 days you can start a lucrative side business. Many people dream about leaving their day job to start new life as an entrepreneur but most of the time they never have the guts to go for it. A steady career that offers a daily paycheck is, naturally, a comforting gift. Yet what if we can build an extra revenue source efficiently and conveniently without giving up a full-time work security? Enter the side hustle. Chris Gullibeau, having launched more than a dozen side hustles throughout his career, is no newcomer to this world. He provides a step-by-step guide here which will take you in just 27 days from idea to profit. A thorough guide, built for the busy and impatient, will teach you how to pick, launch, optimize, and make money off your side hustle in less than a month. Rather than just another revenue source, a side hustle is a life changer. It helps you to take more risks with your ‘normal’ career as you collect money from various sources. The increase income increase your options and therefore your freedom To start a lucrative side hustle, you don’t need any particular entrepreneurial skills or experience. Using Chris as a mentor, you can make more money, follow your dreams without losing your day job.

The book is packed with methods, strategies, and expert knowldedge you can’t find anywhere else. All has been analyzed, discussed and adapted in a manner to my own life inside this book. I used hundreds of strategies and philosophies in high-stakeholder agreements, high-risk situations, and major company transactions. The courses made me millions of dollars and saved me years of disappointment and unnecessary work. I built this book for myself, my ultimate high-leverage device notebook. My life has changed, so I expect the same will happen to you.

A completely different kind of man with a very different kind of mind will dominate the future Left brain hegemony and the digital age it gave rise to, are now opening the path to a modern environment in which right brain qualities (creativity, emotion, intuition) predominate. That’s the premise at the heart of this insightful and groundbreaking novel that uses the two sides of our minds as a analogy to explain the contours of our times. Daniel H. Pink provides a new glimpse at what it takes to excel in the tradition of Emotional intelligence and Now, Find Your Strengths. A Whole New Mind outlines the six vital qualities that now rely on career achievement and personal satisfaction, and provides a series of hands-on drills taught by professionals around the world to help readers sharpen the expertise they need. The book does not only change how we view the world, but also how we perceive it.

Creativity Inc. is a guide for those chasing freshness, and the very first all-access journey to Pixar Animation’s core, with conferences and brainstorming sessions where some of the most famous movies in history were produced. It is, at heart, a book on imagination but, as Ed Catmull, co-founder and chairman of Pixar, says, it is also an illustration of the thoughts that I think really matters. Pixar has ruled the animation landscape for almost twenty years, making such iconic movies as the franchise of Toy Story, Finding Nemo or The Incredibles, which have been breaking box office records and winning thirty Academy Awards. Pixar animations are in many respects an educational lesson on what creativity actually can be. Catmull exposes here in this book the principles and methods that made Pixar so highly revered.

The acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast reveals how successful working people with families really make the most of their time. Some now consider that to be the essence of the gospel: any person who wishes to step ahead in a difficult profession must make major sacrifices. Many thinks it is doubtful that a women can have a stable family, quality time with her children, a social life, personal interests, and on top of it a good night’s sleep. Time management researcher Laura Vanderkam brings concrete facts to the discussion that will change your mind. Analysing the lives of women earning at least $100,000 a year, she compiled hour-by-hour daily records for about 3 years. And she observed some interesting trends in how these women spend their time during a typical week. Generally, these women worked less and slept more than they were thought doing before starting the study. They found room for the things that gave them joy and purpose, putting together the pieces like tiles in a mosaic without adhering to overly strict routines that would remove mobility and spontaneity. Vanderkam shows with stories of hundreds of actual people that you don’t want to give up on the things you truly want. I Know How She Does It will encourage you to create a smooth and successful life on every aspects, one hour at a time.

Political scientist Robert Cialdini, shines light on powerful persuasion and explains that the secret in the crucial moment before the message is sent and in the message content. How can we distinguish successful persuaders from communicators? Robert Cialdini describes how to take advantage of the critical lapse of time before sending important messages. Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion builds on his considerable expertise as the most quoted behavioral psychologist of our time and discusses the methods that a person can use to become a master persuader. Changing the views, values, or perceptions of a listener is not important, Cialdini says that all that is needed is to shift their focus of attention. Through reports on promotional symbolism to the diagnosis of opiate dependence, from Berkshire Hathaway’s annual letters to historical annals, Cialdini uses a number of research and myths to describe the different strategies you can use on social marketing campaigns and even propaganda. He shows that shifting of focus contributes to positive pre-suasion and pushes the target group to say yes.