Taming Your To Do List

No matter how much we accomplish in a day, we nearly always feel a little guilt over what we didn't do. Taming Your To-Do List exposes a seismic shift in society: from one in which most of us were proactive to one in which we carry the burden of having to respond--to every email, text, tweet, and message we receive. This creates a cycle where everyone else sets the priorities for our days rather than us directing our own lives. The result? We procrastinate, putting off the important stuff for later while we tend to the "urgent" stuff right now. It's time to take back your schedule! Ready to tame your to-do list? This book shows you how.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 You may be a high-achiever, but you still may feel overwhelmed by the amount of things you have to do. You may be doing everything you can, but you’re still not getting everything done. The shoulds of life constantly tap you on the shoulder, reminding you not to forget about them. #2 I had an overcommitment problem, which is when you have too much to do and always feel behind. The fear of disappointing someone constantly chased me. I had been reactive about my life, rather than being proactive. #3 Procrastination has always been a silent companion of mine. I knew it was there, but I preferred to ignore it. I didn’t really think it was a problem. Everyone procrastinates on something, I reasoned. #4 I was always busy, but I found that I was also procrastinating on good things. On creative things. On dreams that would make my heart sing.

Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned. If you didn’t learn yesterday, you can learn today. It’s not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it’s hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don’t have an off switch until you build one. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how. Readers learn about the brain chemicals that make us feel threatened and the chemicals that make us feel safe. You’ll see how your brain turns on these chemicals with neural pathways built from past experience, and, most important, you discover your power to build new pathways, to enjoy more happy chemicals, and reduce threat chemicals. This book does not tell you to imagine yourself on a tropical beach. That’s the last thing you want when you feel like a lion is chasing you. Instead, you will learn to ask your inner mammal what it wants and how you can get it. Each time you step toward meeting a survival need, you build the neural pathways that expect your needs to be met. You don’t have to wait for a perfect world to feel good. You can feel good right now. The exercises in this book help you build a self-soothing circuit in steps so small that anyone can do it. Once you learn how it’s done, and how it can help ease your anxiety, you will learn how to handle situations in which you feel threatened or anxious. Understanding the underlying mechanisms will help you stop them before they get ahead of you.

Deborah Smith Pegues, bestselling author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (over 500,000 copies sold), leads readers to tame their stress and exchange it for peace in just one month’s time. With insight gleaned from her experience as a certified behavioral consultant, Deborah uncovers the surprising causes of stress and reveals simple, life–changing cures, such as extending grace, mercy, and respect to others telling the truth and striving to do the right thing accepting yourself and being able to laugh at yourself deleting stress–related words from your vocabulary reciting Scripture affirmations daily This spiritual and practical offering will release readers from worry and will increase their sense of purpose, direction, contentment, and freedom.

Deborah Smith Pegues, author of the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (over 500,000 copies sold), now offers friendly, doable money management strategies in 30 Days to Taming Your Finances. Giving readers the benefit of her many years’ experience as a public accountant and certified behavioral consultant, Deborah sheds light on the emotional and practical side of putting finances in order. The wealth of information readers will gather includes how to forget past financial mistakes and start fresh stop emotional spending and still be content fund future objectives with confidence Each day’s offering will inspire and motivate readers to savor the freedom that comes with organizing, valuing, and sharing their resources wisely.

From Deborah Pegues, popular author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 500,000 sold), comes an indispensable guide for overcoming the emotional barriers that rob men and women of life's fullness and derail their personal and professional relationships. Pegues uses biblical and modern-day examples to help readers identify and overcome the obstacles that hold them back. Readers will discover emotion-taming strategies such as establishing boundaries extending grace, mercy, and respect to others conquering perfectionism accepting themselves and learning to laugh at themselves telling the truth and striving to do the right thing 30 Days to Taming Your Emotions provides Scripture-based principles, heart-searching personal challenges, and healing prayers and affirmations that point readers to a new sense of emotional freedom. Compilation of Supreme Confidence, 30 Days to a Great Attitude, and 30 Days to Taming Your Stress.

"A daring and important addition to the field of leadership development." — Vijay Govindarajan, New York Times bestselling author. Faber offers practical advice to help unlock your potential for growth by overcoming your "crocodiles" and fostering a supportive team environment.

Learn how to implement leadership practices into everyday life, deepen your appreciation for the adventure of life and leadership, connect with your calling, and turn your fears into growth practices.