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The newly revised and updated edition of this best-selling title on how to be a success without fear of failure pulling you back. Self motivation is an essential skill for success. This practical self-help guide reveals what it is, how exactly it can help us and why it is often so elusive. The book contains exercises and provides a complete self-help course. Gael Lindenfield reveals 36 secrets for motivating yourself plus tips on encouraging others to do the same.

This recording uncovers what influences our thinking, helps us identify signs of undue stress and gives hints and tips which help you live the life you dream of.Understanding the difference between pressure and stress and the effects that undue stress have on our lives is key to becoming more aware of what makes us feel good and what brings us down.

A seven point guide to planning, preparation, exam techniques and overcoming exam nervesA 7 point guide to planning, preparation, exam techniques and overcoming exam nervesFor many of us examinations can be challenging and somewhat nerve-wracking and for others, a complete nightmare. How come some people seem to sail through with flying colours, get great results and never seem to bat an eyelid?

Knowing how our feelings work allows us to tame our temperament. Gael Lindenfield takes the latest research into the body/mind/behaviour cycle and explores how we can control our body, mind and behaviour to have healthy relationships, happy selves and successful working lives.

Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed Notes to My Mother-in-Law - which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years - we now have a chronicle of Phyllida’s relationship with her own mother who suffered from dementia. Recently widowed, bringing up her own two daughters (actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson), and working as a successful actress herself, Phyllida went up and down to Scotland to spend as much time with her ailing mother as she could manage.

Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular ‘Ask Hadley…’ column, presents the modern lady with 23 essays that remind us to Be Awesome.

Learn the secrets of self-esteem with 365 tips from the UK’s number-one confidence expert Gael Lindenfield. Dip into this comprehensive self-help handbook as and when you need it, or use it as a personal development plan. It includes advice on social life, work issues, relationships, and much more.

A charming audiobook by Olympic gold medallist rower, adventurer and father of three Alex Gregory, DadVentures is packed with inspiration and aimed at busy dads in need of highly practical and fun ideas of what to do with their kids, which need little expense or advance preparation. DadVentures will appeal to anyone who wants an achievable, easy plan on an otherwise empty family day, without needing to do a sport or (shudder) resort to soft play.

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family, and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough.

Sally grew up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, her childhood world filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God - their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sally’s baby brother vanished from his pram, she became suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go?

This audiobook will walk you through the necessary steps to setting up as a freelance mum, from deciding on your freelance career path to launching a website, social media, getting your name out there and perfecting your brand. There is a comprehensive guide to the childcare options available to freelance mums, daily routines for optimum productivity, and tips on establishing and maintaining healthy work-life boundaries.

An extended train journey frames the action - and the author turns not to self-help manuals but to the fictions that have shaped our emotional and romantic landscape. Listeners will find themselves propelled into Anna Karenina’s world of steam, commuting down the Northern Line with the Railway Children and checking out a New York L-train with Anthony Trollope’s forgotten muse, Kate Field.