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  • Developing Mental Toughness

    Developing Mental Toughness

    Coaching Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing

    By Peter Clough & Doug Strycharczyk

  • Developing Mental Toughness In Young People – Approaches to Achievement, Well-being and Positive Behaviour

    Developing Mental Toughness In Young People – Approaches to Achievement, Well-being and Positive Behaviour

    By Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough

    Published by Karnac Books

  • Developing Resilient Organizations – How to Create an Adaptive, High-Performance and Engaged Organization

    Developing Resilient Organizations – How to Create an Adaptive, High-Performance and Engaged Organization

    Much of the fear and uncertainty surrounding the global recession is concerned with the adverse impact it will have on organisations and society. However, recessions are nothing new. We know from past experience that when a recession is over, there always emerge organisations and individuals who have not only survived but have thrived.

  • Leadership in Coaching

    Leadership in Coaching

    Get the best from your clients with the latest thinking from international experts on the most effective techniques for coaching leaders.

  • Developing Employability and Enterprise Book

    Developing Employability and Enterprise Book

    Coaching Strategies for Success in the Workplace

    By Doug Strycharczyk & Charlotte Bosworth

    Published by Kogan Page

  • Man’s Search for Meaning

    Man’s Search for Meaning

    A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

    “This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
    —Anderson Cooper, 
    Anderson Cooper 360/CNN

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Hardcove

    Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Hardcove

    The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold!

    Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

    No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    *Major New York Times Bestseller
    *More than 2.6 million copies sold
    *One of 
    The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year
    *Selected by 
    The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year
    *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
    *Daniel Kahneman’s work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis’s best-selling 
    The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

    In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

  • Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

    Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

    From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything

    Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer.

  • The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

    The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    *1 in 4 adolescents have a mental illness
    *1 in 7 primary school kids have a mental illness
    *1 in 5 adults will experience mental ill-health throughout the year
    *65% of adolescents do not seek help for mental illness

  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. It’s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book DRIVE: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

  • 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

    13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

    The ultimate guide to mastering your mental strength with revolutionary new strategies that work of everyone.

    Everyone knows that regular exercise leads to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? Or as psychologist Amy Morin asks, what should we avoid when we encounter adversity?

  • Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

    Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

    Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!

  • Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

    Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

    World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.

  • The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

    The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

    An accessible, invaluable guide to mastering your “inner game” to ensure success on and off the court—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!

    “Groundbreaking . . . [The Inner Game of Tennis is] the best book on tennis that I have ever read, and its profound advice applies to many other parts of life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes (“Five of my All-Time Favorite Books”)

  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

    Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

    In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).

  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

    Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

    Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership―at every level―is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations.

  • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds – Clean Edition

    Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds – Clean Edition

    New York Times Bestseller

    Over 4 million copies sold

    For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare – poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world’s top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America.

  • Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

    Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier.

    “Vaulted me out of my funk…. So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book.” The New York Times Book Review

  • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

    Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

    From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of “mindsight”, the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain – and in your life.

    Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

    The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times

    In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.

  • Meditations

    Meditations

    Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

    Throughout his life, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept notes for self improvement, and Meditations is a collaboration of these notes ranging from a single sentence to long paragraphs. Segmented into twelve chapters, or “meditations,” Marcus Aurelius’ famous philosophical work chronicles 12 important times in his life and provides a modern understanding of stoic philosophy that was prevalent during the Roman Empire.

  • The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

    The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

    Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.

  • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

    The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

    ‘Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH

    ‘A hero who is as humble as he is resilient… testament to a “never give up” spirit!’ BEAR GRYLLS

    ‘From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.’ ANT MIDDLETON

    Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim around Great Britain, breaking multiple world records. Now Ross focuses on mental strength, stoicism and the training needed to create an unbreakable body.

  • How to Create a Resilient and Positive Culture in the Workplace

    How to Create a Resilient and Positive Culture in the Workplace

    How can consultants, managers and practitioners of all types help organisations understand how to develop their resilience to setback to obstacles and be positive in embracing challenge and opportunity?

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

    In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be positive all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

  • The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles

    The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles

    Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps the crucial ingredient–to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it’s what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone needs resilience, and now two expert psychologists share seven proven techniques for enhancing our capacity to weather even the cruelest setbacks.

  • Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries

    Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries

    Written by a leading mental skills coach and a contributing writer to Runner’s World, this is a practical guide to building the mental skills athletes need to recover from injury and rebound stronger.

    Weaving together personal narratives from athletes, scientific research, and the specialized clinical expertise of mental skills coach Carrie Jackson Cheadle, Rebound contains more than 45 Mental Skills and Drills athletes can use at every phase of their recovery process. These same strategies can help athletes who aren’t currently injured reduce their vulnerability to injury and enable any individual to reach new heights within their sport and beyond.

  • Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

    Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

    These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.

    True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going.

  • Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy

    Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy

    Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day — every day.

    As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus and low energy.

  • Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

    Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

    In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

    Just weeks later, Sandberg was talking with a friend about the first father-child activity without a father. They came up with a plan for someone to fill in. “But I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend put his arm around her and said, “Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.”

  • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

    Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

    he #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 2 million copies sold!

    Look for Brené Brown’s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us!

    From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

    Through Dale Carnegie’s seven-million-copy best seller (recently revised) millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry habit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today, formulas that will last a lifetime! Discover how to:

     

    • Eliminate 50 percent of business worries immediately
    • Reduce financial worries
    • Turn criticism to your advantage
    • Avoid fatigue and keep looking young
    • Add one hour a day to your waking life
    • Find yourself and be yourself – remember, there is no one on earth like you!
      How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and ideas. It is fascinating to listen to and easy to apply. Let it change and improve you. There’s no need to live with worry and anxiety that keep you from enjoying a full, active, and happy life!
  • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

    Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

    A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ – ‘a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea’ (Harvard Business Review)

  • The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future

    The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future

    Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks and win over and over again? What do the super successful know? What is standing between you and your wildest dreams?

    The Book of Mistakes will take you on an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful lessons that will transform your life. You’ll meet David, a young man who with each passing day is more disheartened and stressed. Despite a decent job, apartment, and friends, he just feels hollow . . . until one day he meets a mysterious young woman and everything starts to change.

  • Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

    Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

    Praise for Mind Gym

    “Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary’s lessons and David’s writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game.”

  • The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

    The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

    From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child’s innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity.

  • The Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive

    The Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive

    Even among the most elite performers, certain athletes stand out as a cut above the rest, able to outperform in clutch, game-deciding moments. These athletes prove that raw athletic ability doesn’t necessarily translate to a superior on-field experience—its the mental game that matters most.

  • Be Your Own Leadership Coach: Self-Coaching Strategies To Lead Your Way

    Be Your Own Leadership Coach: Self-Coaching Strategies To Lead Your Way

    Leadership is challenging. There are many complex problems to work through, decisions to be made and priorities to juggle. And, by the time you are in a leadership role, there seems to be an expectation that you should know exactly what to do and how to do it. It’ s not that simple. Often leaders are overwhelmed and confused by their responsibilities and are still discovering how to lead in a way that positively impacts others.

  • Mental Toughness Metaphors

    Mental Toughness Metaphors

    Are you looking to build your resilience to the challenges you face? Do you like short, powerful stories?

    Stories can inspire us, they convey hope and help us find meaning in the things that challenge us. Stories are a great way to connect with others and teach us about ourselves. They can also help us tap into reserves of resilience and mental toughness we didn’t know we possess.

  • The Manager’s CODE: The four habits of highly effective managers

    The Manager’s CODE: The four habits of highly effective managers

    Are you one of the 2.5million managers who have received no or little formal training and how to manage?

    In 1994 I was that person. It wasn’t until almost 12 years later that anyone invested in me and put me into a formal management development programme. In those twelve years I had some highs and deep lows as a manager. I wanted to do my best for my team and sometimes I would. Sometimes I’d get it very wrong. I learned by trial and error in a haphazard way.