Boost Your Productivity 30 Minute Reads

You’re half an hour away from a more productivelife! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each ofthese short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressingthose painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expertadvice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make yourwork-life more productive, less painful and more successful! Too much to do and not enough time to do it in? Spend 30 minutesboosting your productivity with this succinct, pragmatic guide thenblast through your to-do list and leave everyone else trailing inyour wake. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as partof 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Boost Your Productivity will help you: Identify the problem and what isn't working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-daycount-down plan to no more pain.

Introducing the 30 minute reads e-book series! You're half an hour away from a pain free working life! So why not fill your down-time with some up-skilling? The average commute to work is 30 minutes. Why not kick start your New Year good intentions by using your commuting time to skill-up?! And with five books in the series you could have the most productive week of your life! Digitally native content optimized to be read on-screen Each book contains 10 short, sharp and to-the-point chapters, finishing with an ‘Action Plan’ with clear, super-structured, super-easy steps to no more pain! Brand new series of short form e-books Each can be read in just 30 minutes! Covering core business skills and problems to make your work life more productive, less painful and more successful

Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.

You’re half an hour away from a more productive life! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! Too much to do and not enough time to do it in? Spend 30 minutes boosting your productivity with this succinct, pragmatic guide then blast through your to-do list and leave everyone else trailing in your wake. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Boost Your Productivity will help you: Identify the problem and what isn't working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington “This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert “A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break? In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost—we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine what is truly worthwhile. Pulling together threads from history, neuroscience, social science, and even paleontology, Headlee examines long-held assumptions about time use, idleness, hard work, and even our ultimate goals. Her research reveals that the habits we cling to are doing us harm; they developed recently in human history, which means they are habits that can, and must, be broken. It’s time to reverse the trend that’s making us all sadder, sicker, and less productive, and return to a way of life that allows us to thrive.

If you've always wanted a simple way to learn faster and improve your memory but find learning difficult then keep reading…. Do you feel like you spend a lot of time easily distracted on things other than what you're meant to really be focusing on? Have you ever tried learning something new only to forget the information as fast as you read it? Would you like to improve your brain's ability to learn? You see, learning and improving your memory doesn't have to be difficult. Even if you've tried other solutions which didn't work before. In fact, it's easier than you think. This is the power of Accelerated Learning. Accelerated learning programs are one of the fastest growing transformations in higher education. For four consecutive semesters it has doubled the number of writers who succeed in passing first-year compositions. Accelerated learning fills a much-needed role for nontraditional learners. Which means you can learn faster and improve your memory without tedious hours of practice every day. Inside this book are powerful learning techniques that will drive an exponential growth in your career, business, and personal life. Here's just a tiny fraction of what you'll discover: Make Learning Painless, Exciting, Habitual & Fun Learn Anything At 10x The Speed Optimise Your Strengths & Build Up Your Weaknesses Boost Productivity With a Step by Step Blueprint Filter The Junk To Give You A Laser-Focus Optimal Brain States For Learning The Surprising Truth About Multitasking Learning Techniques Used, by Steve Jobs, Salvador Dali, Leonardo DaVinci & Many More Double Your Reading Speed & Read Books Even Faster Absorb Info Like A Human Sponge …and much, much more! Are you ready to accept the challenge to become the best you, you can be? And if you have a burning desire to never forget anything again, and transform yourself into a "super learner" then scroll up and click "add to cart"

“Required reading for professionals—and aspiring professionals—of all levels.” —Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Robert C. Pozen, one of the business world’s most successful—and productive—executives, reveals the surprising secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. It's far too easy for working professionals to become overwhelmed by a pile of time-sensitive projects, a backlog of emails, and endless meetings. In order to be truly productive, they must make a critical shift in mindset from hours worked to results produced. With Extreme Productivity, Pozen explains how individuals can maximize their time and energy by determining and focusing on their highest priorities. He also provides a toolkit of practical tips and techniques to help professionals at all stages of their careers maximize their time at work. This essential handbook empowers every person with proven methods for prioritizing their time to achieve high-impact results and refine their career goals for long-term success, all while leading a full and meaningful personal life as well.