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How to Do the Work by Nicole LePera Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

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What's it about? How to Do the Work (2021) is a hands-on guide to healing our bodies and minds. The physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of our health are all interconnected. By changing how we eat and exercise, engaging in mindfulness and tackling past trauma, we can heal ourselves and transform our relationships. Dr. Nicole LePera was getting serious warning signs from her body that something was wrong. She suffered from chronic gut issues, constant headaches, and had even fainted for no apparent reason. She also suffered from brain fog and constant anxiety. She took antidepressants and popped paracetamol, but treating these conditions with medication and traditional therapy just wasn’t working. LePera embarked on a journey to heal herself that involved completely expanding her practice as a psychologist, incorporating physical and spiritual elements and becoming truly holistic in her approach to health. Do you also want to learn how to heal from burnout, trauma, a...
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The Data Detective by Tim Harford Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

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What's it about? The Data Detective (2021) is a smart, practical guide to understanding the ways in which statistics –⁠ and our reactions to them –⁠ distort and obscure reality. Using psychological research and illuminating examples, it reveals some of the ways our brains influence how we see data and statistics and how we draw incorrect conclusions as a result. By picking apart our cognitive biases and misconceptions, we gain the ability to see data, and in turn, the world, for what it really is. Did you know that storks deliver babies? Statistics prove it: In countries with higher stork populations, more babies are born than in countries with low stork populations. This, of course, isn’t true –⁠ storks don’t deliver babies. But it’s very easy to make it seem like they do, using faulty statistical arguments. The ease of lying with statistics has made many people understandably leery of them. The trouble is that without statistics, we’d never have discovered that cigarette smokin...
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Win at Work and Succeed at Life by Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller 5 Principles to Free Yourself from the Cult of Overwork

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What's it about? Win at Work and Succeed at Life (2021) explores the pitfalls of our long-hours work culture. It outlines how professionals can reclaim their personal lives and achieve a better work-life balance. Has work taken over your life? Do you struggle to remember the last time you mentally checked out of the office or had a good night’s sleep? If this sounds familiar, then you’re overworking – and damaging your life and your career in the process. That’s where these lessons come in. You’ll discover the dangers of working long hours and explore the hidden costs to your health, family, and productivity. You’ll also discover how you can reclaim your personal life and set yourself up to win at the office and at home. From sleep to marriage to vacations, these lessons reveal the pleasures and benefits of leading a truly balanced life. In these lessons, you’ll learn why working long hours is counterproductive; the power of a wandering mind; and how to reclaim your sleep. Mich...
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Breadwinners by Melissa Hogenboom And Other Power Imbalances That Influence Your Life

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What's it about? Breadwinners (2025) explores how shifting income patterns and gender roles reshape power dynamics in modern relationships, especially when women earn more than their partners. It draws on interviews and research to show how money, unpaid labour and social expectations intersect, and offers ideas for recognising and redressing those imbalances at home and at work. You’ve probably heard that women are catching up at work, smashing glass ceilings, closing pay gaps. But walk into most homes and it’s a different story: the kids’ appointments, the never-ending to-do list, the cleaning, the mental spreadsheet of who needs what and when? That’s still usually sitting in one head. And very often, it’s the same head that’s also paying most of the bills. In this lesson, you’ll see why the higher earner can still end up overloaded with care. You’ll also see what typically happens when a woman earns more. Some men feel threatened while others are quietly relieved. You’ll also ...
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Kaizen by Sarah Harvey The Japanese Method for Transforming Habits, One Small Step at a Time

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What's it about? Kaizen (2019) is a guide to the improvement philosophy known as kaizen, which encourages taking small steps to complete ambitious goals. Already well established in the world of business and sports, this method can also be applied to personal development. Using practical examples, this guide explains how to take a kaizen approach to setting goals that’ll improve health, relationships, money, and work. Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution, only to find yourself throwing in the towel by the second week of January? If you struggle to make changes to your routine, you’re not alone. Making a leap into the dark can be scary when it comes to changing habits. To conquer this natural fear, the kaizen approach focuses on taking slow and steady steps forward. Originally a Japanese management theory, it’s now a widely-applied philosophy that values continuous improvement toward lasting change. In these lessons, you’ll find out how you can adopt kaizen techniques to ta...
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Superhero Leadership by Peter Cuneo & Joe Garner 28 Ways to Lead with Courage, Strength, and Compassion

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What's it about? Superhero Leadership (2026) distils decades of frontline executive experience into the core principles that define exceptional leadership. A portrait of one of the world’s top “turnaround” CEOs, it’s also a playbook for leaders and managers navigating crises in their own organizations. Leadership has its perks: authority, status, and ownership are just a few of them. Life on the frontlines of a failing enterprise, though, is anything but glamorous: morale is low, cash is tight, and trust sorely tested. The leader’s lot is to hold steady when everyone else is panicking. In this kind of situation, the right call is rarely the most popular. Most managers know the theory of leadership, but crisis is the true test of their character. As we’ll see in this lesson, what matters most isn’t charisma but clarity, discipline, and emotional control. Our guide as we explore these practical virtues is the world’s top turnaround CEO, Peter Cuneo. Cuneo’s book on superhero le...
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