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  Risk Reward - Why Intelligent...

  Anne Kreamer

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  We entertain ourselves with modest risk—the scary movie, the party full of strangers, the weekend in Vegas. But when it comes to our careers, when self-identity and security hang in the balance, most of us don't like to play the odds very aggressively. While some of us are natural born thrill seekers, the majority of us are hardwired to avoid risk. But, Anne Kreamer argues, in the current workplace, that very avoidance could be putting us in a far more precarious position than we know. 
  Kreamer makes a compelling case that we all need to think and act more like entrepreneurs on our own behalf and become practitioners of the art of risk. Through proprietary research and her own keen record as a trend spotter, Kreamer convinces us of the necessity to embrace risk as a healthy and forward-thinking attribute—and a way to improve the quality and longevity of our working lives. 
  Anne Kreamer is the author of It's Always Personal and Going Gray. She has worked as a columnist for Fast Company and Martha Stewart Living and is a blogger on HarvardBusinessReview.org and NextAvenue.org. Her work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and Travel & Leisure.

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  Joy on Demand - The Art of...

  Chade-Meng Tan

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  A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena. 
  In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan shows that you don't need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy-you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as fifteen seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life. 
  For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full-time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, the bestselling author and Google's "Jolly Good Fellow" has developed a program, through "wise laziness," to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand.

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  How IT Managers Can Get the Most...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  As an IT manager one of your most valuable possessions is your career. At your firm, you are the only person who is going to be spending any time worrying about your career: how's it going, what is your next step, what could you be doing better? These are all vital questions for you to be able to answer if you want to advance in your career. 
  
   
  What You'll Find Inside: 
  
  HOW TO PROTECT YOUR IT CAREER FROM SABOTAGE
  WHAT CAN TOP ATHLETES TEACH YOU ABOUT BEING A BETTER IT LEADER? 
  SHH! HOW TO KEEP YOUR IT JOB SEARCH SECRET…
  IT MANAGERS & THE SECRET OF THE COLOR WHEEL
  
  
   
  We do need to be careful as we manage our careers. Not everyone that we work with may have our best interests in mind. Sabotage is always possible if we are not keeping our eyes open. Stay aware at all times and perhaps even take a look at how top athletes manage their careers in order to better understand what you should be doing. 
  
   
  The job that you have today may not be the job that you'll have tomorrow. That means that at some point in time you'll have to go looking for your next job. Do you know how to go about doing this without screwing up your current job? 
  
   
  None of us is perfect, we all make mistakes. As an IT manager you need to have a plan in place for dealing with the mistakes that you know that you'll eventually make. To make yourself more valuable to the company, you may want to consider getting an executive MBA. Picking a school and a program can be a real challenge. 
  
   
  One of the things that IT managers do a lot of is make presentations. The challenge that we face in doing this is that few of us have ever been trained how to do it effectively. We need to find out how to create better PowerPoint slides. A little bit of help in how to go about selecting the right colors to use wouldn't hurt either. 
  
   
  If you find yourself in a situation where your job has gone away either due to a restructuring, a layoff, or perhaps a merger, your #1 job is going to be to find your next job. Outplacement services might be made available to you and if so, you're going to have to know how to maximize this valuable resource.

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  Rock Star Communications - How...

  Patricia Fripp

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  Why are so many executive presentations so darn BORING? How often have you dreamed of creating the energy and excitement of a rock star? Do you want your company to enjoy a competitive edge. When you listen to Rock Star Communications you learn the 17 “inside secrets” of How to Inspire Action and Commitment. What would it mean to you to know what makes a business-world rock star speaker?  Good presentation skills are no longer a nice skill to have they are career life or death. You will learn how to: *Eliminate the one action your audience will NOT forgive you for  *Conversationally design your presentation. *Adapt seventeen little-known and frequently-overlooked inside secrets of powerful presentations. *Make your stories memorable and repeatable. *Implement the number one technique to inspire action and commitment. *Craft stories that are memorable and repeatable.

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  Networking Confidence

  Natasha Taylor

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  This ‘Networking Confidence' Guided Meditation & Hypnotherapy session is aimed for people who want to have more confidence when networking. You may find networking intimidating, stressful and feel like it puts unnecessary pressure on you. But networking offers you the occasion to expand your contacts and open doors to new opportunities. This audio will help you to become a confident, calm and relaxed networker, connecting with many people and expanding your horizons. We recommend that you listen to our session at least four times so you can really compound the positive messaging, override the old beliefs and help your mind create new neural pathways to being a confident and calm networker.  Download the House of Wellbeing app for more audios.

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  Anti-Laziness - Quick Methods to...

  Instafo

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  Take Action Against “Laziness” Now! 
  What’s that? 
   You much rather be sitting on the couch munching your potato chips and sipping your pop soda, while binge-watching Netflix? Alright, listen up couch potato, you need to get off your high lazy laurel! If you have work to do, but instead you’re procrastinating by being here now...well...first congratulations on subconsciously realizing and admitting to yourself that you do have a laziness problem by reading this in the first place...but still...what the heck are you waiting around for? Get cracking on whatever it is you that you need to be doing! 
  Confession: The truth is, we would all rather be relaxing and indulging in pleasure...than having to get up early in the morning for work, finishing up school assignments, running errands or taking care of things around the house or at the office. After all, life is certainly not only about work but about enjoying it. 
  The kicker? We are all lazy by nature. There’s no denying that. However, we can still do the things we love while taking care of those other life essentials that we don’t (Ahem anybody left who’s got no bills to pay?). The key is to know when to override that hardwired laziness within all of us at will. It’s definitely not easy...but definitely not impossible. Bulletproof Mentality for “Anti-Laziness” will help you with: 
   How to tame your procrastination by breaking it down into micro-forms. How to hijack your lazy mind to steer any task towards easy completion.How to convert from your unmotivated-slacker self into a go-getter self.including many more. 
  Everybody can be lazy, but anybody can also be the complete opposite when necessary. That’s exactly what Anti-Laziness is all about - giving you the tools and control to switch off that innate laziness in order to trigger yourself to be all fired-up productive to get things done when you need to...so then you can have more time and opportunity to enjoy what you truly love.

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