Researchers at Minneapolis-based Search Institute have identified 40 Developmental Assets that all kids need in their lives—good things like family support, a caring neighborhood, and resistance skills. Communities across the nation have embraced the book’s quick-read, commonsense suggestions for helping kids lead healthy, productive, positive lives and stay out of trouble. This revised and updated third edition draws on findings from a 2010 survey of about 90,000 kids (grades 6–12) from communities across the United States. The new data confirms the power of Developmental Assets in young people’s lives, reflecting updated levels of assets young people experience as well as the power that assets have to prevent high-risk behaviors and increase thriving behaviors.
Do you ever wonder how some people make success look so simple? In Succeed, award-winning social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson offers counterintuitive insights, illuminating stories, and science-based information that can help anyone: • Set a goal to pursue even in the face of adversity • Build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle • Avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail Whether you want to motivate your kids, your employees, or just yourself, Succeed unlocks the secrets of achievement, and shows you how to create new possibilities in every area of your life.
Indispensable: How To Succeed At Your First Job and Beyond is the young employee’s guide to excelling in a new job. This is the advice you wish a mentor gave you Day One.
Learn to be a people person with international bestselling author Paul McGee! Let's face it, if you want any sort of success in life you’re going to have to deal with other people at some point. All success requires input from other people – even if you've invented something in your bedroom, eventually, you're going to need to interact with people to take it to the next level. And even if you don’t desperately hanker after success, you surely want to be liked, have friends, get on well with people? Learning how to better communicate and interact with others can really help to improve your life – from ensuring you enjoy parties more to turning you into a roaring success magnet. So whether you dread social events with a passion and spend evenings cringing in a corner, or just want to have better relationships at work and in life, then How to Succeed With People, written in Paul’s characteristic down to earth, approachable style, can help you become a people magnet. Learn how to: Hold people’s attention when you talk Listen and react properly to what others are saying or doing Better confront, complain and deal with difficult conversations Give compliments and praise Deal with interviews, networking events, difficult conversations and more And much more
The winner of the UK's Business Book of the Year Award for 2021, this is a groundbreaking exposé of the myths behind startup success and a blueprint for harnessing the things that really matter. What is the difference between a startup that makes it, and one that crashes and burns? Behind every story of success is an unfair advantage. But an Unfair Advantage is not just about your parents' wealth or who you know: anyone can have one. An Unfair Advantage is the element that gives you an edge over your competition. This groundbreaking book shows how to identify your own Unfair Advantages and apply them to any project. Drawing on over two decades of hands-on experience, Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba offer a unique framework for assessing your external circumstances in addition to your internal strengths. Hard work and grit aren't enough, so they explore the importance of money, intelligence, location, education, expertise, status, and luck in the journey to success. From starting your company, to gaining traction, raising funds, and growth hacking, The Unfair Advantage helps you look at yourself and find the ingredients you didn't realize you already had, to succeed in the cut-throat world of business.
A handy, straightforward guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate—revised and updated for today’s economic and academic landscapes. Award-winning college professor and adviser Bill Coplin lays down the essential skills students need to survive and succeed in today’s job market, based on his extensive interviews with employers, recruiters, HR specialists, and employed college grads. Going beyond test scores and GPAs, Coplin teaches students how to maximize their college experience by focusing on ten crucial skill groups: Work Ethic, Physical Performance, Speaking, Writing, Teamwork, Influencing People, Research, Number Crunching, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving. 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College gives students the tools they need to prepare during their undergraduate years to impress potential employers, land a higher-paying job, and start on the road to career security and satisfaction.
Many people today believe that the less sleep you get, the more productive you are. But two nationally recognized experts are here to debunk that myth and show that sufficient sleep and success go hand in hand. A groundbreaking collaboration between certified clinical sleep educator Terry Cralle, RN, and sleep psychologist W. David Brown, PhD, Sleeping Your Way to the Top presents the ultimate wake-up call for ambitious people who wish to achieve maximum performance. Based on compelling new research, it provides the latest clinically proven techniques for getting quality rest, achieving maximum productivity, and overcoming common sleep impediments to enhance your career. Featuring sidebars, charts, and illustrations, this book finally takes the stigma out of sleep.
Great leaders are driven to win. Yet career wins can come at great cost to your health, relationships, and personal well-being. Why does it seem impossible to both win at work and succeed at life? Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller know we can do better because he's seen it in his more than four decades as a successful executive and a loving and present husband and father. Today Michael and his daughter, Megan Hyatt Miller, coach leaders to live the double win. Backed by scholarly research from organizational science and psychology, and illustrated with eye-opening case studies from across the business spectrum and their own coaching clients, Win at Work and Succeed at Life is their manifesto on how you can achieve work-life balance and restore your sanity. With clarity, humor, and plenty of motivation, Win at Work and Succeed at Life gives you - an understanding of the historical and cultural forces that have led to overworking - 5 principles to rethink work and productivity from the ground up - simple but proven practices that enable you to slow down and reclaim your life - and more Refuse the false choice of career versus family. You can achieve the double win in life.
"This book is an easy blueprint for success and should be in your library. I highly recommend it." Emile Allen, M.D. Author of Eaten By The Tiger Knowing what you need to do to become successful in life is common sense, getting yourself to do what you need to do is something quite different! Success leaves clues and what successful people do has a pattern to it. If you want more success and fulfilment in life and you want to know what other highly successful people do then "The 8 Principles of Success" is for you! This easy to digest step by step success guide gives you exactly what you need to get you on the fast track to success. Inspiring and comprehensive, this self help book covers the detail you need to know which makes the difference between success and failure. Success secrets are revealed so you can save time achieving what you need to achieve to become fulfilled in life. If you want: More self esteem More self confidence Greater fulfilment To set goals and stick with them To stay motivated, focused and balanced Faster results To get up and stay up Clarity of where you are going and what you want out of life To get out of a rut Better relationships To be fitter and healthier with more energy then this book is for you. A personal note from the author Steve Harrington "I have been fortunate enough in my life to experience great success in many areas then have it all taken or thrown away. I say fortunate because I have managed to get it back again and in the process learned many valuable lessons. I know what it takes to get back to the true me, the successful me through studying what it takes to be successful and applying exactly what I have written in this book." Steve has learned directly from many of the world's top success minds and has studied the science of success for over twenty years. He has taken this information directly from billionaires, business leaders and psychology experts and passes it on to you right here. He has built his own businesses which he has sold and built again from scratch. He is a family man and an accomplished athlete. He cares deeply about helping others to get what they want out of life. Some of the many powerful tools, tips and techniques you will learn are: How to get goals finally working for you to drive you forward How to create a plan for your dreams and goals which actually works How to get your focus back and KEEP it What you need to know to get you motivated and keep your momentum going so you drive forward all the time What you need to do to make your mind work for you and not against you, always The small differences between success and failure What it takes to get what you want So whether you want to know how to make money, how to become a millionaire, how to set goals, how to get better relationships, how to be more disciplined, how to win friends, how to be the true you or how to succeed then this book is for you. "Steve has really captured what you need to do to create success in your life" Terry Jones, property entrepreneur and business owner
