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Liderazgo: Equipo De Gestión E Influencia Para Una Mejor Productividad

La creencia de que nacemos y crecimos con límites nos roba muchas posibilidades y oportunidades. Estos lentes a las que estamos acostumbrados nos ciegan de la verdad. Ahora es el momento de quitarse esas lentes y ver el verdadero mundo y cosechar las abundantes oportunidades que no creías que podían ser tuyas. Este libro te ayudará a desarrollar tu presencia de liderazgo. Los autores ofrecen un marco simple y convincente, así como prácticas para desarrollar su "voz de firma". Donde sea que te sientes en una organización, puedas desarrollar presencia si puedes hacer dos cosas bien: demostrar tu valor y distinción auténticos; y conectarte con otros de una manera positiva. Los líderes que pueden ser auténticos mientras se conectan e impactan con otros tienen lo que los autores llaman una voz de firma, un medio de autoexpresión que es único y claramente suyo. Una vez que aceptes y expreses esta habilidad invaluable, no creerás el tremendo impacto que puedes tener en quienes te rodean. Lleno de historias y ejemplos de la vida real, Own the Room desmitificará la noción de presencia y brindará consejos prácticos sobre cómo desarrollarla.

Stressed or Depressed: A Practical and Inspirational Guide for Parents of Hurting Teens

This book will inspire and equip parents to help their hurting teens. The well-known and widely respected author team of Dr. Catherine Hart Weber and Dr. Arch Hart helps parents discover and identify nervousness, irritability, negativity, and low self-esteem, and determine whether their teen's symptoms are caused by physical problems, raging hormones, stress, or depression. Offering practical suggestions, spiritual solutions, and encouragement, this resource helps parents and teens face their own feelings of fear, anger, and hurt.

Thrilled to Death: How the Endless Pursuit of Pleasure Is Leaving Us Numb

A fascinating exploration of the profound loss of pleasure in our daily lives and the seven steps for restoring it. Pleasure. We know what it feels like and many of us spend our days trying to experience it. But can too much pleasure actually be bad for us? Yes, says Dr. Archibald Hart, clinical psychologist and expert in behavorial psychology. Backed by recent brain-imaging research, Dr. Hart shares that to some extent, our pursuit of extreme and overstimulating thrills hijacks our pleasure system and robs us of our ability to experience pleasure in simple things. We are literally being thrilled to death. In this insightful book, Dr. Hart explores the stark rise in a phenomenon known as anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure or happiness. Previously linked only to serious emotional disorders, anhedonia is now seen as a contributing factor in depression (specifically nonsadness depression) and in the growing number of people who complain of profound boredom. This emotional numbness and loss of joy are results of the overuse of our brain's pleasure circuits. In Thrilled to Death, Dr. Hart explains the processes of the brain's pleasure center, the damaging trends of overindulgence and overstimulation, the signs and problems of anhedonia, and the seven important steps we must take to recover our wonderful joy in living.

The First and Second Book of Esdras: Edited (classic Reprint)

Before providing helpful notes and English translations of the first and second books of Esdras, Archibald Duff gives an in-depth introduction to the books. This introduction covers the books’ origin, authorship, and intended audience. Dedicated sections explain each book’s doctrine, and Duff lays out “The Christian’s Need for Esdras 1 and 2.”-Print ed.

Helping Children Survive Divorce

The Anxiety Cure: A Proven Method for Dealing with Worry, Stress, and Panic Attacks

Panic Anxiety is the number one mental health problem for women and second only to drug abuse among men. Synthetic tranquilizers can alleviate the symptoms of anxiety illnesses. However, in order to achieve lasting emotional tranquility, a significant lifestyle change must be made. The Anxiety Cure provides proven, natural strategies for overcoming panic disorder and finding an emotional balance in today's fast-paced world.

The Hidden Link Between Adrenaline and Stress: The Exciting New Breakthrough That Helps You Overcome Stress Damage

Psychologist Archibald Hart theorizes that heart attacks and other stress-induced illnesses are the lethal by-products of too much adrenaline pumping through our systems. He suggests ways to minimize these threats through adjustments in values and lifestyles.

Unmasking Male Depression: Reconizing the Root Cause to Many Problem Behaviors Such as Anger, Resentment, Abusiveness, Silence, Addictions, and Sexual Compulsions

Depression is a secret pain at the core of many men's lives, and one that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. The consequences of not treating male depression are extremely serious. Studies show that suicide is more common in men than women, and tha the male suicide rate is three times higher at midlife than at any other life stage. In Unmasking Male Depression, Dr. Archibald Hart explores the many forms of depression and gives tools for coping with and healing depression in men. Hart also examines the lives of Christian leaders who struggled with depression, such as Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther, and John Calvin, to reveal the myths surrounding this illness

The Moral Universe: A Preface to Christian Living

In this book Archbishop Sheen reflects on Christian Ethics and provides guidance on how to improve one’s life.Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was one of the best-loved prelates of twentieth century Catholicism. A prolific writer and orator, a distinguished scholar and teacher, an influential master of the media, Bishop Sheen was one of the most effective communicators of our time. His scores of books have offered inspiration, profound thought, and penetrating analysis of Christian faith and life.

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance. This straightforward book explains how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns. The authors demonstrate that breaking out of these patterns leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.

The Anatomy of Peace

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon--not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues, relatives, and friends. The Anatomy of Peace asks, What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve? Through an intriguing story we learn how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they came together, how they help warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the struggles that weigh us down. This second edition includes new sections enabling readers to go deeper into the book's key concepts; access to free digital study and discussion guides; and information about The Reconciliation Project, a highly successful global peace initiative based on concepts in The Anatomy of Peace.

Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety

SELF-HELP/ANXIETY. A psychiatrist and neuroscientist describes fear and anxiety in our brain and body and how they color many aspects of a modern human's life. In a way that is accessible to the public, he explains why we love to be scared; the link between bravery, meaning, aggression, creativity, and fear; and the diseases of fear and anxiety and how we manage them. ARASH JAVANBAKHT, MD, is director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic STARC) at Wayne State University, School of Medicine. He is renowned for his research of biology and innovative technologies for treatments of anxiety and PTSD. Dr. Javanbakht's public scholarly work has been read by millions and featured on CNN, NPR, BBC, PBS, Scientific American, and many others.

Return to Source: Unlock the Power of African-Centered Wellness

Return To Source invites Black people around the world to reconnect with their lost heritage and find healing, self-love and transformation.This book is an empowering call to journey home to a new way of looking after yourself. A new way that is, in fact, the old way.Globally, Africans and Diasporans are rediscovering that, even while navigating an oppressive and often unsafe world, we are called to make space for healing, not just for ourselves but also for loved ones, Ancestors and descendants. Our path to liberation includes a commitment to nurturing our personal and community growth by making wellness a priority. In this powerful book, Araba Ofori-Acquah will help you to:embark on a spiritual, emotional and – for some – physical journey back to the Motherland, back to your heritage, back to yourself, back to source unlock your potential with the power of an African-centred approach to wellness incorporate the three seeds of African wellness – music and movement, Mother Earth and magick – into your routine demystify and undo the demonisation of African beliefs, rituals and practices create a path to healing that feels most authentic to you Discover how to live well – in accordance with African traditions – and find power, healing and alignment through your Return to Source.

A Smart Girl's Guide to Parties: How to Be a Great Guest, Be a Happy Hostess, and Have Fun at Any Party (American Girl)

This book shares everything a girl needs to know about going to parties and throwing them! Girls will love testing their party know-how with fun quizzes and finding easy-to-make gift ideas.

Mindfulness Workbook for Stress Relief: Reduce Stress through Meditation, Non-Judgment, Mind-Body Awareness, and Self-Inquiry

Ease stress and achieve balance through the healing power of mindfulness Mindfulness is a powerful and proven method for reducing stress and its negative health effects. The Mindfulness Workbook for Stress Relief shows you how to relieve tension and find calm using soothing, restorative techniques like meditation, non-judgment, self-inquiry, and mind-body awareness. Featuring helpful exercises and simple meditations, this hands-on stress management workbook delivers a wide variety of effective mindfulness tools that you can add to your self-care toolbox like breath awareness, body scans, mindful walking, and more. The Mindfulness Workbook for Stress Relief includes: Practical & actionable—This book has a beginner-friendly focus that covers a spectrum of everyday situations and science-based solutions. Evidence-based approach—Explore engaging mindfulness-based exercises that are proven to help relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and sleep issues. Situational success—Learn how to address stress triggers in many areas of daily life like relationships, at work, and beyond. Take a deep breath and begin your practice today with this evidence-based mindfulness workbook.

Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

&“A reassuring, hands-on guide to treating unexpected events as challenges to embrace rather than obstacles to avoid.&” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Think Again Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and a fulfilling life. But in a world of so much—and faster-paced—change, and an ever-faster pace of change, flexibility and resilience can be stretched to their breaking points. The quest becomes how to find calm and lasting meaning in the midst of enduring chaos. A world in flux calls for a new mindset, one that treats constant change and uncertainty as a feature, not a bug. Flux helps readers open this mindset—a flux mindset—and develop eight &“flux superpowers&” that flip conventional ideas about leadership, success, and well-being on their heads. They empower people to see change in new ways, craft new responses, and ultimately reshape their relationship to change from the inside out. April Rinne defines these eight flux superpowers: Run slower. See what&’s invisible. Get lost. Start with trust. Know your &“enough.&” Create your portfolio career. Be all the more human (and serve other humans). Let go of the future. Whether readers are sizing up their career, reassessing their values, designing a product, building an organization, trying to inspire their colleagues, or simply showing up more fully in the world, enjoying a flux mindset and activating their flux superpowers will keep readers grounded even when the ground is too often shifting beneath them. &“You&’ll never look at change and uncertainty in the same way again.&” —Chip Conley, founder of Modern Elder Academy and New York Times–bestselling author

Chakra Balance: The Beginner's Guide to Healing Body and Mind

Help heal your body and soul—the essential beginner's guide to balancing chakras.Chakra imbalances can manifest in a number of physical and emotional ailments. Chakra Balance is a practical beginner's guide to identifying energy imbalances, and restoring harmony with powerful, energy healing practices.Chakra Balance offers illustrated, easy-to-follow guidance for using yoga poses, crystals, and essential oils to harness your energy and heal. With in-depth profiles of each of the seven chakras, you'll gain a fundamental understanding of the physical, emotional, and spiritual elements of every chakra.Push past blockages and keep your chakras clear and open with:A symptom reference chart that allows you to diagnose which chakra is blocked based on the emotional or physical symptoms you experienceEffective, energy exercises that don't require previous experience and specifically target the chakra in distress through yoga, crystals, essential oils, and other healing practicesStraightforward chakra profiles that explain the characteristics and causes of imbalance for each chakraVisual guidance with photos, illustrations, and charts for easy referenceTake a deep breath. Tune into the energy running through you, and feel the connection between your mind and body with this practice-based guide for chakra healing.

Essential Chakra Meditation: Awaken Your Healing Power with Meditation and Visualization

Unlock your healing power with chakra meditation.Your chakras are your body's vital energy centers, and their health can impact your physical and mental wellbeing. Drawing on rich traditions and hundreds of years of knowledge, Essential Chakra Meditation shows you that practicing intention and purpose can transform your mind, body, and spirit.Discover how to unblock your energy through a series of guided meditations—each tailored to treat a specific chakra. Whether you're new to meditation or have some experience, this book offers you everything you need to create internal balance and start healing today.Essential Chakra Meditation includes:Awaken your healing power—Learn how guided meditations can keep your energy flowing—reducing stress, easing fatigue, and bringing balance back to your busy life.Understanding your chakras—Detailed descriptions of the Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown chakras provide you with the information needed to diagnose and treat blockages.Essential mantra and mudras—Enhance your meditation and mind-body healing with mantras (short chants) and mudras (hand postures) for each chakra.Master the art of chakra healing and help free yourself from worry and exhaustion.

The Complete Guide to Chakras: Activating the 12-Chakra Energy System for Balance and Healing

A complete chakra guide to help you achieve spiritual growth, wellness, and healing If you've ever wondered how each chakra—the foundational energy centers of the body—can help you heal and harmonize your body, mind, and spirit, The Complete Guide to Chakras is the perfect resource. It features detailed profiles that illuminate the innate power of 12 different chakras and how they govern our physical bodies, our emotions, and our potential.The wide range of meditation-based exercises will help you explore how every chakra in your body can be harnessed for strength, vitality, healing, and personal growth. You'll even discover how to use that spiritual knowledge to seek guidance, expand your consciousness, and attract what you desire to live a full and healthy life.This comprehensive chakra guide offers:A complete reference—This book is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to what a chakra is, and how each one can regulate your body's energy system for peace and growth.Discover the 12 chakras—Learn about the Earth Star, the Divine Gateway, and every chakra in between, along with empowering exercises for activating and aligning them for spiritual healing and a deeper connection with yourself.Beyond chakras—Find background information about the long history of the chakras, the endless ways to engage with them, and even some discussion about auras, different dimensions, and more.Understand and align every chakra in your body with this clear and informative guide to inner balance.

When the Tide is Low: 30 Days of Biblical Encouragement for Those Who Love the Ocean

With a sincere appreciation of God's handiwork, “When the Tide is Low” offers 30 days of Biblical encouragement for those who simply love the ocean. Anyone who sees the ocean should take a moment to stand still and truly think about God and his magnificent gifts to us. Some of these gifts are easily seen everyday in the form of nature. The ocean’s waves and the tranquility that seems to just sit in the air above the water are quick examples of the magnitude of God’s power. Readers will get a glimpse of how the small, everyday happenings at the beach can show God’s grace, beauty and majesty one day at a time, when the tide seems low in life.

Self-Publishing Checklist

<p>Self-publishing feels overwhelming. So many places to start. Multiple options to upload various file types. They don't all match. Several distributors and combinations of distributors and social media blast options. It's difficult to know where to begin.&nbsp;</p><p>Each section of this workbook goes into detail about everything you need before you reach the destination's internet page. Step one covers an indepth look at nine distributors. The cover page for each highlights the major points later broken into individual worksheets. Step two goes into more detail about the pre-launch and post-publishing marketing aspects among several platforms. The Book Listing Newsletter sites picks a few sites to cover. More come and go every day. It gives a general idea of what you need prepared to use them. The last major section covers information about direct sales. This is something some authors look forward to, and others dread. It'll give you a list of points to remember for each one.</p><p>This group of checklists aims to help you organize your plan. Of course, it can't cover every option out there. They are constantly changing. Use these lists as a guide on your publishing and marketing journey.&nbsp;</p><p>Worksheets can be printed and updated for each project, or kept in a binder to refer to on all stages of the process: before, during, and after publication.</p><p>This book includes a link (in the back) to download an Excel spreadsheet full of data to help you connect all of this information into a practical process.</p><p>Step 1: Publishing Distributors</p><p>Amazon</p><p>Apple iBooks</p><p>Barnes and Noble</p><p>Bookshare</p><p>CreateSpace</p><p>Draft2Digital</p><p>Kobo</p><p>Smashwords</p><p>Step 2: Publishing Checklist</p><p>Book Listing Newsletter Sites</p><p>Direct Sales</p><p>Appendixes of printable worksheets</p>

Mindfulness: felicidad duradera, para principiantes hasta el poder de Mindfulness avanzado

En Mindfulness, te enseño cómo crear felicidad, ordenar tu mente y nutrir la conciencia espiritual para convertirte en la versión más poderosa de ti mismo. ¡No más estrés, ansiedad y confusión que lo agobien! Solo la claridad limpia y enfocada que ofrecen estas increíbles técnicas. Aquí hay una vista previa de lo que aprenderá ... Conceptos básicos de la filosofía budista .Meditación de conciencia plena .Diferentes formas de práctica de meditación .Meditación de conciencia plena en la vida cotidiana ¡Y mucho, mucho más! Este libro presenta mi punto de vista sobre cómo preparar su mente y cuerpo para lidiar con la ansiedad, el estrés y la pérdida personal y cómo mejorar su salud mental a través de los beneficios de la meditación de atención plena. El objetivo de este libro es ayudarlo a crear su paz interior y mejorar su vida.

To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop

Are you a shopaholic?Do you use shopping as a quick fix for the blues?Do you often buy things that you don't need or can't afford?Do your buying binges leave you feeling anxious or guilty?Is your shopping behavior hurting your relationships?Have you tried to stop but been unable to?If so, you are not alone. Nearly 18 million Americans are problem shoppers, unable to break the buying habits that lead them into debt, damaged relationships, and depression. If this describes you, or someone you care about, the help you need is here.Drawing on recent research and on decades of working with overshoppers, Dr. April Benson brings together key insights with practical strategies in a powerful program to help you stop overshopping. As you progress through this book, you'll take back control of your shopping and spending and create a richer, more meaningful and satisfying life.

Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn&’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song &“America Say Jesus&” on the Jim Bakker show, or when she participated in Jesus Marches across America, or when she posted cringe-worthy videos on YouTube to campaign for Mitt Romney. April just considered herself a good Christian: faithful, Republican, and determined to make America a Christian nation once again. But as her view of the world widened, Ajoy began to see cracks in her steadfast beliefs and recognized the ways her conservative politics and religion were intertwined in her mind. Did God really bless America? Is it actually by His red, white, and blue stripes that we are healed? Ajoy, content creator and podcast host, shares funny stories from her time deep within Christian nationalism, exploring how aspects of evangelical culture such as product boycotts, Satanic panic, and end-times theology have all been exploited to advance the Christian Nationalist narrative. She also illuminates the ways nationalist thinking has infiltrated our churches and political arenas, shaping not only modern evangelical culture but also American public policy and international relations. Part memoir, part guidebook, part call to action, Star-Spangled Jesus explores how the fight to make America a &“Christian nation&” has damaged us all and shows how one woman left Christian Nationalism and why America should too.

Zero Regrets

"Zero regrets. It's a philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love--anything and everything. It's complicated and yet not. You have to figure out who it is you want to be. Not what you want to be--who. There has to be a vision, a dream, a plan. Then you chase that with everything you've got." Over three consecutive Olympic games, Apolo Ohno has come to symbolize the very best of the competitive spirit--remaining equally gracious in victory and defeat, always striving to improve his performance, and appreciating the value of the hard work of training as much as any reward it might bring. In Zero Regrets, Apolo shares the inspiring personal story behind his remarkable success, as well as the hard-won truths and strategies he has discovered in good times and bad. Raised by his single father, an immigrant from Japan who often worked twelve-hour days, the young Apolo found it difficult to balance his enormous natural gifts as an athlete with an admittedly wild, rebellious streak. After making a name for himself as a promising young speed skater, his career was almost over before it began when his lack of preparation caused him to finish last at the U.S. Olympic trials in 1998. A life-changing week of solitary soul-searching at the age of fifteen led him to recommit himself to his training, and at the 1999 world junior championships he won first place overall--one of the most remarkable turnarounds in sports history. From that moment on, the world of speed skating had a new champion and Apolo was on his way to legendary status. Much more than an account of races won and lost, Zero Regrets is a compelling portrait of a father-and-son relationship that deepened over time and was based on respect, love, and unshakable faith in each other. For the first time, Apolo reveals what he knows about his long-absent mother; he makes us feel what it is like to face the best competitors on the planet with the eyes of millions of fans upon you; and he shares his secrets for achieving total focus and mental toughness, secrets that can be applied in situations well beyond sports. We learn the details of the unbelievably intense workout and diet that he endured while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics, a regime that literally reshaped his body and led to some of his most thrilling victories. In this deeply personal and entertaining book, Apolo shows how we can all come closer to living with zero regrets. While Apolo's own journey may be unique, the insights he has gleaned along the way have the power to help us all feel like champions every day. *** Nine days after dropping me off, Dad came to pick me up. In that call from the pay phone, I hadn't said anything to him about what decision I had made. On the car ride back home, I told him. "I want to try this," I said. "Are you willing," he asked, "to really put forth a true effort? From the bone?" I told my father: "I want to skate." With clarity of purpose, everything suddenly seemed different. I didn't just want to skate--I loved it. I realized, too, that while I had to want to buy into the training, the discipline, the self-sacrifice, I needed direction and guidance, too. You truly can't get there by yourself. I needed not only to truly and profoundly depend upon Dad for help but also to welcome those--coaches, trainers, others--who could help me along the way. . . . I was also making promises to myself and writing them in my journal: I'm not going to mess it up this time. When I go home, I really am going to be the different person I decided in Iron Springs I would be. I know what I want to do. I want to be the best in the world. I didn't know quite yet how I would get there. But I was clear, and I had no doubt-- that's what I was after. --From Zero Regrets