Showing results by publisher "Ascent Audio" in Motivation & Self-Improvement

Whether you are at work or at home, you are probably being asked to do more with less. We often become consumed with what doesn't really matter and spend far too much of our precious time on what doesn't even count. In Simple Is the New Smart, Dr. Rob Fazio shows you how to block out the static so you can turn up the volume on the right information and accelerate your path to success. In an engaging, conversational style, Dr. Fazio offers success strategies that can be used immediately.

What does it take to lead the successful turnaround of four consecutive organizations? What does it take to run a $5 billion business in Detroit as the city struggles to emerge from municipal bankruptcy and its worst ongoing crisis ever? What does it take to be a female CEO who has come up against discrimination and personal attack? It takes Unconventional Leadership, a style of leadership based on confronting reality and leading headlong through adversity.

This new audiobook hand-holds listeners through a 26-step program that will help them become the top earners in the industry. Become a Network Marketing Superstar will take direct sellers and network (multilevel) marketers through the key steps to joining the highest earners in an industry that has spawned thousands of millionaires and millions of financially independent business owners.

Supported by the latest research, this eye-opening audiobook argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment. That's good news for you as a manager. While you can't personally transform the corporate culture, you can influence the workplace climate and create meaningful and lasting change.

In his blockbuster book The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay showed how to deflect the negativity that derails our goals and leaves us stressed and miserable. Now, in this inspiring follow-up, Pollay explains how making three simple promises to yourself - "to find joy every day, do what you love, and make a difference" - can radically enhance every aspect of your life. Illustrating his points through memorable, personal stories, Pollay makes it simple to practice transformative strategies that help us achieve fulfillment.

Most sales training programs offer the same old pointers: Always be closing, keep it simple, stupid, and ask for referrals. You know these clichés. Selling Is So Easy, It's Hard is the first program to focus on the 77 correctable selling mistakes that novices and veterans make. Without conscious awareness, these errors, snafus, miscues, and blunders keep the typical seller from earning at least 25% more business.

Great companies distinguish themselves from the competition by providing their customers with something truly special, something beyond price point that can't be duplicated: unique, outstanding customer service experiences.

Play is an essential, necessary, and natural human activity, and it's for adults and companies, too. Funny Business will show you how adults and companies can recapture and use this powerful tool to foster innovation, increase their competitive advantage, and create a vibrant and satisfying workplace. It delves into the concepts of play and what makes it so powerful in children's development' and dispels the myths and beliefs that have made play a dirty word.

This powerful, enlightening guide comes from a team of martial arts experts who openly share their triumphs and their failures - and reveal how you too can become more successful, happy, and self-confident. Merging the martial arts' lifestyle and philosophy with sheer business acumen, they teach you not only how to make a living but how to make a life. Their 39 conditioning-for-success exercises compel you to look introspectively as you never have before.

Women comprise 51 percent of the world's population, make up over half of the workforce, and control 85 percent of consumer decisions. It's estimated that two thirds of the nation's wealth will be in women's hands by 2030. Never before have women been so degreed or so represented as decisionmakers in all areas of influence.

The Sage Stance is a powerful combination of Toltec teachings and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technique allows you to easily and instantly access, in any moment, the wisdom and power of your higher self, your inner Sage.

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own.

In the world of personal development, motivation, public speaking and sales, there will never be another Zig Ziglar (1926-2012). His infectious sense of humor, his masterful story-telling skills, his uncanny ability to inspire, and his downhome Southern charm... that is the legacy of Zig Ziglar. What will your legacy be? What lasting imprint do you want to make on the world?

Today's organizations are collaborative. With old command-and-control methods replaced by openness and transparency, networking has become an essential professional skill expected of everyone at every level. Unveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new network-oriented workforce, Strategic Connections provides practical advice for building better, more productive business relationships.

Everyone wants a better life, more money, or freedom. Why is it that only some of us make this happen? No, intelligence, luck, and background have very little to do with it. Our brains are so sophisticated that they can work against us to try and protect us! If a car has two wheels going forward and two wheels going backward, you will eventually get frustrated and burn the engine. Your sub-conscious has built certain fears while your conscious has developed this drive for a better life.

Flying is a top 10 fear universally. Especially now we have tighter security, more money, and less services from airlines and schedules to meet. Whatever your reason for fear of flying is, it revolves around your mind racing to worst case scenarios that you have most likely never experienced or know anyone who has experiences it. Based on media reports, TV shows, or stories, you have created a belief so strongly that you mind believes it is going to happen to you.

You mind has a hidden energy source that will unlock your true personal power. When you unlock this power source you can fully utilize both your conscious and subconscious mind.

Written by Femail Creations catalog founder Lisa Hammond and inspirational author, poet, and storyteller BJ Gallagher, this wonderful new audiobook speaks to women of all ages, from all walks of life. Here at Simple Truths, we celebrate women who light up the world - and we want to lovingly remind them to keep their own lamps filled. Oil for Your Lamp is the perfect audiobook for women who want to glow, sparkle, shine, and dazzle!

We can’t do our finest work at the last minute. Creativity is a process that takes time. The good news is that we can learn how to stop procrastinating…how to get assignments done right away. Nothing beats the satisfaction of having the project complete, the assignment thought through, the task done.

The Nature of Success is an inspirational audiobook of Mac Anderson's wisdom and insight on the keys to personal success. An inspirational quote will introduce each "success chapter" followed by two to three pages of insights, unforgettable real life stories, and Mac's favorite quotes on each topic. Anderson's insights take on new life as he brings a solid Christian perspective to The Nature of Success.