Productive Parenting

Put an end to the cycle of procrastination, be more productive and boost your focus with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke. It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep! The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle.

Christina Mars' comprehensive guide, "Parenting Teens: 7 Steps to Escape Communication Breakdown and Cultivate a Calm, Loving, Productive Relationship with Your Teenager," might just be the lifeline you need. Mars offers a multifaceted approach to the challenges of parenting adolescents.

Discover the revolutionary antidote to overload and exhaustion. Productivity speaker, trainer, and author Maura Nevel Thomas shows you how to master attention management with practical strategies that make an immediate impact.

Ever felt like you've done absolutely nothing but procrastinated and stayed unproductive? Who hasn’t? We've all been there. It definitely doesn't take rocket science to tell us that it is simply not a healthy habit. Jackie DiCap had seen it, been there, done that, and had fallen at the hands of this vicious cycle. Fortunately, not only did DiCap break out of this loop, he can also let you in on the secret.

Procrastination is the monster that we are always running from but not always successfully. The Science of Overcoming Procrastination is a deep dive into our tendency to push things until the last minute possible. It uncovers the biological and evolutionary science behind procrastination and how we can beat these instinctual drives to triumph in our career and personal life.

Most productivity advice asks one thing: do more. Productive Without Collapse asks a different question: how do you do the right work and still have the energy to enjoy the life that work is meant to buy? Drawing on neuroscience, sleep science, behavioral psychology, and real-world case studies, this book replaces myths of hustle with a durable architecture for performance. You’ll discover why willpower fails, how ultradian rhythms shape your best thinking, and why rest is not indulgence — it’s infrastructure.

Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical and destructive so people, organizations, and communities flourish. This edition has been revised throughout with new examples; updates on the latest supporting research in neuroscience, positive science, and positive psychology; and a discussion guide. It also features a new chapter on what the authors call tuning in: cultivating awareness of how our physical and mental state affect our perceptions, emotions, and thoughts as we engage in conversation.

What is the secret of happy relationships? How do companies build collaborative cultures? What lies behind some of the greatest scientific and creative breakthroughs? The surprising answer is: conflict. Whether it's at work, at home or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most out of them. How to Disagree is about how to do that successfully.

Living with ADHD as a woman, and learning to accept that you are different, is something that millions have to do. It isn’t easy, of course, and there are many challenges to be faced along the way if you want to live a productive and tranquil existence, but facing and overcoming these challenges are worth it in the long run, and can allow you to live in a way that is not only tolerable but is filled with joy too.

The brain's superpowers have been discovered by neuroscience. Your genius mind knows how to make your brain dissolve worry and stay in your best internal states longer. The result is a life full of possibility. The Worry-Free Mind shows you how to decipher the architecture of your model of reality, shift it to a newer version, and overcome your tendency to worry every day.

Your thoughts are the only thing you have power over. You can take control of them and use them to build yourself up, connect with other people, and achieve success in life, or you can ignore them and continue to struggle with low self-confidence, poor productivity, and unnecessary suffering.

Do you often lose focus? Convince yourself that your tasks can wait...when they can’t? Can’t follow any change in your habits more than a few weeks? And when your deadlines arrive you start panicking so badly that you won’t be able to figure even where to start your task? The time to do something about your bad habits is right now! Otherwise, you are in the danger that you will never start. Learn to identify, prioritize, and focus on your most important tasks and get them done.

The Psychology of Procrastination: 10 Ways to Beat It and Be More Productive is not another time-management manual. It is a deep dive into the emotional and psychological roots of procrastination—why we delay, how it harms us, and, most importantly, how to overcome it with strategies grounded in science and compassion. Procrastination is often misunderstood as laziness, but research shows it is actually a problem of emotional regulation.

Wish there were more hours in the day to get things done? Want to be more productive and efficient? This audiobook may not do the impossible of adding more actual hours to the day, but it will get you thinking about ways that you can make small changes in your time management and organizational system to see big changes in your productivity/efficiency.

ADHD is a disorder that continues to be researched, but as an adult, you don’t have the time to wait for the perfect cure. You need real and proven strategies and coping mechanisms before your life spirals out of control because of ADHD.

We’ve all been around those people who can leave us feeling drained after an encounter with them. Some people can leave us feeling agitated or annoyed or even just feeling really bad about ourselves. The most important thing you need to understand when dealing with someone like this is that their behavior toward you has nothing to do with you, and more often reflects their inner mental and emotional state. Identifying their harmful behavior is the first step to minimizing their impact. You might not be able to change what they do, but you can change what you do with it.

How many hours have you wasted casually browsing the Internet on your phone? How many episodes of that TV show you’ve already seen a dozen times before did you watch last night? And are you getting enough sleep? If we did a genuine time audit of our lives, the results would probably be frightening. Although leisure is an important part of life, we can learn to keep it from taking over and preventing us from accomplishing our goals. This program has been designed to ramp up your output and make your time work for you.

There is one priceless asset that no one can retrieve once it is lost - time. Every person has the same hours in the day...so how come some people knock out their to-do lists - while others can barely get through a few tasks? For many, the bare-bones excuse is procrastination. Laziness sneaks up on many of us in the form of daydreaming, avoiding a task, or just goofing off instead of getting to work. Think of how much more you could accomplish if you could tame this unproductive habit. This program is meant to help you do just that.

Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.

This meditation and self-hypnosis program is perfect for both beginners and those who are experienced with hypnosis. It'll help you wake up with energy, focus, and motivation. Create a lasting, positive outlook first thing when you get up, and see how much more productive and incredible your days become. Your mind will receive deep hypnotic suggestions for positive change, deeply relaxing your mind and body and helping you remove any blocks, self-doubt, or negative self-beliefs.