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Transform your thoughts, your life, and your actions to achieve greatness … one thought at a time. This powerful audio program featuring top motivational speakers and thought leaders will teach you steps to increase confidence and motivation to reach your goals. In Thinking Big, Les Brown will infuse you with inspiration and a sense of empowerment so you can choose your future.

These days, everyone is busy. Advances in technology mean there is more information to sort through than ever. Work hours have increased, but to-do lists are endless - schedules get blown in the first five minutes of the day. You could spend more time “planning” and “prioritizing” your list than actually doing the work! At work and in life, we all just have too much to do! And when you have too much to do, it’s hard to feel productive. If you can’t do everything, you need to put your time and energy into what will yield the more important results.

Self-confident people exude passion and achieve extraordinary results. Join 10 experts in self-confidence as they share the systems for what the most successful people in the world enjoy - powerful self-confidence! Powerful Self-Confidence will teach you skills to increase your emotional capacity, build an unshakable belief in yourself, and experience increased performance through self-confidence. Implement the systems and tools offered in this program, and you will cultivate a healthy and confident state of mind to propel your life forward.

This is the poignant life-and-death story of Johnny Stack, whose young and vibrant life ended by suicide after his descent into addiction to high-potency marijuana and cannabis-induced psychosis. You’ll laugh and cry with his mother, Laura Stack, as she retells the story of Johnny’s joyful childhood and then takes you through the unthinkable tragedy of his loss. It’s every parent’s nightmare. But this book is much more than Johnny’s story. 

In the daily whirl of work, family obligations, social interactions, and all the other activities that make up our busy lives, it’s easy to lose track of the basics, like household finances.In this presentation, Laura Stack, the Productivity Pro®, teaches you the fundamentals of staying on top of your home finances, from budgeting to insurance needs. With that foundation laid, you’ll be ready for Brian Tracy’s tips on how to set and achieve million-dollar goals.

Don't Slow Down-Team Up! With countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings, it's a wonder any of us gets anything done these days. You can try working harder or faster or smarter, but what really makes the difference is “teaming well.” A good team is the most powerful productivity machine in existence. Laura Stack's FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other's best interests at heart. Teams learn to work together Fairly, accept Accountability, apply Systems Thinking, and maximize available Technology. An interactive assessment helps you evaluate your team's current speed and rate of acceleration. Every team may have its stars, but they couldn't do their jobs without the rest of the team doing theirs. By the end of this audiobook, you'll truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go. So, rev your team's engines, and you'll soon be roaring down the track together!

Are you plagued with constantly running out of time? Would you like to squeeze more time out of every day? Not to worry - now you can tap these ingenious strategies to launch your productivity to new heights. By the time you've finished this program, you'll know just how to smash your deadlines and power through your most challenging tasks. This program teaches you the difference between settling for mediocre results and achieving resounding success by becoming the master of your time.

Is the burden of debt keeping you awake at night? Are you looking for debt relief, wondering if you need to get a second job just to tread water? Are you seeking the shortest path to financial freedom? Well, you're in luck. You're about to unlock the secrets to getting out of debt fast - and forever! The truth is that creditors don't want you to pay down your debt. They want to keep your debt principal high so they can collect the most amount of interest possible.

Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization - doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them in the least amount of time, with the least effort and cost - doing things right. If you're not clear on both, you're wasting your time. As Drucker put it, "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Stack's 3T Leadership offers 12 practices that will enable executives to be effective and efficient, grouped into three areas where leaders spend their time.

There is one particular thing that works faster and more consistently than anything else to bring your mind and body into balance. This audio program from best-selling authors tells you what it is. Reducing the stress levels in your life will save you money, improve relationships, and get your life back into balance. This short audio program shows you how to do that, while you get more things done listening to this program during your commute.

Let these best-selling authors share their strategies for staying relevant in these times of information overload, with practical strategies on organization and easy to master dynamics of speed reading.

Are you running toward your dream, or just making it through each day? Do you know your gifts and purpose? What’s holding you back? There are three steps you can take to move forward faster toward dreaming again, hurdling the barriers to your goals, and fulfilling what you are here to do! It takes vision, plans, and action.

LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert and the author of Leave the Office Earlier and Find More Time. As a professional speaker, she helps workers Leave the Office Earlier with Maximum Results in Minimum Time. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro, Inc., an...

An award-winning pioneer of the modern field of "change management", this consultant to companies as diverse as American Express, General Motors, and British Airways specializes in connecting psychology to people skills. Subjects include the phenomenon of leadership, what makes a leader "authentic", examining your motives, and top reasons why leaders fail.