Career Stress

What happens when you're asked to give a speech, professionally or personally? If you get nervous, start sweating, and hope it's all just a bad dream then you aren't alone, but you need help. Painless Presentations proves that speaking doesn't have to be painful, or even stressful. A speech is a means to giving great, helpful material to an audience and the speaker is the vehicle to achieve that goal. This simple-to-understand book guides those just beginning their journey into the world of speaking.

The World Health Organization estimates that American businesses lose more than $300 billion a year due to stress experienced by employees, and recent research by Harvard Medical School found that more than 95 percent of leaders felt at least somewhat burnt-out. For individuals and organizations who want to thrive in today's high-pressure, 24-7 business environment, working even longer is not the solution. To maximize your performance and well-being over the long-term, you need to work stronger.

Have you ever been in a position when you felt compelled to break emotionally? Do you ever wonder why your emotions get the best of you at times? Have you ever pondered over what the term "emotional flexibility" means and why it is so vital to health? Wesley Holland has highlighted the most fundamental characteristics of creating emotional flexibility in his book, Emotional Flexibility: Essential Guide to Master Stress and Build Resilience for a Better Life. This book not only explains but also teaches the notion of bending rather than breaking.

With worker stress at an all-time high, particularly in the fast-paced technology industry, it’s no surprise that Google, Salesforce, and Apple have adopted mindfulness and meditation into their workplace culture. Studies show mindfulness practice increases emotional intelligence, reduces stress, and enhances health and overall well-being.

This comprehensive guide, rooted in advanced business management and behavioural psychology, offers actionable strategies to boost your productivity, streamline your operations, and maximize your profitability. From mastering marketing systems that consistently attract and retain clients to crafting irresistible offers and building elite referral networks, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap to elevate your business performance and achieve remarkable results.

“Si vis pacem, para bellum” is Latin for “If you want peace, prepare for war.” If you want to handle another economic downturn you will need to start preparing right now and make sure you are profitable and have a system to keep that profit. As the owner of Simple CFO Solutions, I am on a mission to bring massive value to entrepreneurs in helping them be confident in their finances and be more profitable. That is the whole point of this book. I want to bring simplicity, clarity, stability, and systematization to your profit, finances, and business.

Ever feel like you’re so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Bill Mitchell is here to help. A psychologist who specialises in rebalancing the lives of the overwhelmed, overstressed and overscheduled, in this book Bill brings you tried and tested, practical solutions that will help you protect your energy and prioritise what is most important. Find out how to prevent the drift towards burnout and poor mental health that so many of us suffer from in our busy modern lives. Your family - and your boss - will thank you.

In "Virtuous Leadership Skills: Easily Lead with Integrity and Emotional Intelligence for Effective Decision Making, Time Management, and Stress Reduction," listeners are invited to embark on a transformative journey towards becoming leaders who not only achieve but inspire. This comprehensive guide features seven pivotal chapters, each designed to build upon the last, creating a robust framework for success

Quiet Quit & Fully Live is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet quitting phenomenon, challenging the negative connotations it often carries. The book explores how stepping back from over-engagement at work can lead to a more balanced life, enhanced personal well-being, and surprisingly, a boost in workplace productivity. It argues that by setting healthy boundaries, individuals can reignite their passion for their roles and bring a renewed sense of purpose to their teams.

Six great ways to help relieve stress - simply and naturally. Stress builds up like steam in a pressure cooker - but how can we release that pressure? Use a release valve! This guide offers easy-to-follow stressbusting advice and tips, complete with quizzes to help you take control and live a more healthy, effective life.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stick with It by Sean Young, read by Roger Wayne. We all have bad habits - whether it's a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lack of exercise. But change is hard. Forty percent of dieters quit within a week. Eighty percent of New Year's resolutions don't last beyond January. How can we kick bad habits - and stick with it?

Infused with eye-opening insights and strategically practical tools, this book will help you understand and integrate the seven mindfulness habits that will empower you to rewrite your “high-performer pain” stories, recreate healthy boundaries between work and life, reduce your anxiety, depression, and exhaustion, realign with your values and create congruence, return your clarity, focus, and optimism, and more.

Leadership Burnout and Recovery takes leaders on a voyage to recognize burnout, admit it, and discover a clear path to recovery. Don unleashes a plan to coach leaders to recapture their joy and never return to that dark, foggy place. Applying Don's proven principles also rejuvenates tired leaders who may be on the verge of burnout.

When Work Hurts: What to Do When Your Job Breaks Your Spirit by Dr. Martina Carroll-Garrison Feeling trapped in a toxic workplace? Struggling with burnout, emotional exhaustion, or job-related stress? When Work Hurts offers a practical, compassionate guide to help you recognize when your work environment is harming you—and how to heal, rebuild, and reclaim your career and well-being. Written by leadership expert and executive coach Dr. Martina Carroll-Garrison, this essential guide covers: How to recognize the signs of toxic workplace cultures and professional burnout Tools for setting ...

Feeling rushed, out of control, and overwhelmed?Feeling like you can’t keep up…and can’t stop? It’s not just you. Dr. Brown offers a step-by-step plan for breaking out of the speed trap. With practical guidelines, she shows us how to ease up on the gas pedal and reconnect with ourselves, learning to accept - and value - our limitations as human beings, reduce our stress levels, and free ourselves from our counterproductive obsession with speed.

Discover how to overcome conflicts with confidence and grace… and regain your peace of mind. Have you seen simple misunderstandings escalate into full-blown conflicts? Do you revisit conflicts in your head, thinking of better responses? Are your personal and professional relationships straining because of your conflicts? If you answered yes to the above questions, you are in the right place.

Informative lifestyle audiobook. The Norwegians have discovered the secret to happiness and they are finally sharing it with the world. That secret is Friluftsliv. This Norwegian lifestyle phenomenon has taken the world by storm with an ever growing following around the globe. We will learn about how Friluftsliv can help us feel satisfied and happy.

With greater workplace demands comes greater stress--and it's taking a toll on our productivity and well-being. The standard recommendations are to exercise, meditate, and eat better. But who has time for yoga poses amid nonstop meetings and pressing deadlines? Stress reduction becomes one more thing to do! Executive coach and psychotherapist Aimee Bernstein offers a more effective and realistic approach: Embrace the pressure. See it as an energy source.

Are you a working mother who feels frazzled and frenetic? This book is for you! Research shows that working mothers experience up to 40% more stress and that women’s happiness has been declining since the 1970s.

Gaining the Systems Advantage explores how unsuspecting small-business owners get trapped in the daily chaos of feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and out of control while growing their business and provides strategies and solutions for escaping it.