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We live in a world engineered to steal your attention. Every notification, breaking news alert, and endless scroll is competing for one thing: your focus. And every time you give it away, your most important goals get pushed further into the background. Focus First in Your Life is a practical, no-fluff guide to reclaiming your attention and doing the work that actually matters.

In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you'll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. What do you want to learn?

From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to prioritizing your personal and professional goals. I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that...

Read by the author. The first meeting is where everything begins—or ends. Get it right, and you build unstoppable deal momentum. Get it wrong, and the deal is in big trouble. Traditional discovery meetings must die! Today's buyer demands it. They no longer tolerate one-sided sales...

Developed for business professionals, The First Two Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it. Using research on neuroscience, energy flow, and the body's natural rhythms, it divides the workday into manageable blocks and helps you determine when you are most resourceful, and therefore when you should complete your most demanding tasks. 

Whether you’re looking to get into recruitment, are in your first year, or just want to hone your craft, this book is a must-listen. The tips and tricks, gleaned from a decade in the industry, are relevant for all sectors and will help both temporary and permanent recruiters. Conversational and easy to digest, the book is fast-paced and full of practical advice.

Become a passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leader through identifying who you are, your strengths, and your skills. New York Times bestselling author Stedman Graham's Identity Leadership is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on his philosophy that a leader can't lead...

Most leaders agree trust is important to their organizations. However, they usually cannot describe what they do to lead or build trust. To get ahead in real problem-solving and lead trust-building, leaders must first think differently and decide to take action to create the conditions in their organizations for trust to grow. Brigadier General (Ret) Mark Towne shares over three decades of experience leading from the frontline to the boardroom in this groundbreaking approach where trust is not merely a reactive personal feeling or managerial task.

You get five minutes. What will you do with them? Most business conversations are lost before they even begin. We talk too much, sell too soon, or stumble through awkward small talk—wasting the most critical moments of any interaction. But what if you had a proven plan to leverage those first five minutes instead of losing them? In The 1st 5 Minutes, business connections expert Bryan Paul Buckley offers a simple, repeatable framework to turn every business conversation into a powerful connection.

In this book, Sten Morgan breaks down the process that helped him become one of the top 40 advisors in the country under 40 at the age of 30. As an active advisor and a coach to thousands of other advisors, he will share what it takes to reject the average path.

This is a quick reference guide. Once you’ve identified why your deal is stuck you can jump right to that chapter for solutions. This book is for book for all those entrepreneurs, business leaders and sales professionals that want to close those bloated pipelines and prevent deals from getting stuck in the first place. This book will teach you how to unstick deals, shorten your sales cycle and prevent deals from sticking to begin with.

While you might have the appearance of absolute success in everything you do, scratch below the surface the reality is that you are freaking out, even just a little. You have so many balls in the air that the juggle is becoming increasingly hard to sustain. You need to start doing things differently because trying to do it all represents a huge risk to your ongoing success and well being. This book teaches you how to successfully juggle your two lives and to be guilt-free, with a proven five-step process to help you identify and harness hours of lost time on the home front.

"Do the Hard Things First: Defeating Shiny Object Syndrome" is your essential guide to conquering distractions and achieving your goals. This book dives deep into the root causes of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS), offering practical strategies and real-life applications to help you stay focused and productive.

In Dante’s Renaissance-sparking Divine Comedy, Virgil guides the hero Dante through the many layers of Hell to reach paradise. Entrepreneurs, too, walk through a hellscape of risk so they may create wealth, freedom and meaning. Survival First ushers in a new Renaissance by guiding modern Dantes through this hellscape. Survival First humanizes risk by discarding academic jargon and complex formulas for simple logic, emotional realism and the stories of ordinary entrepreneurs.

Überblick und Selbstdisziplin statt Chaos und Überforderung Wir kennen es alle: Die Steuererklärung ist fällig und der Chef wartet auf den Bericht, doch plötzlich muss ganz dringend das Bad geputzt werden. So stapeln sich die unerledigten Aufgaben, die To-do-Liste im Kopf wird immer länger und zum Energiefresser. Denn die unschöne Angewohnheit, die schwierigsten To-dos als Letztes anzugehen – oder überhaupt nicht – führt zu Stress, Überforderung und Schuldgefühlen. Doch Prokrastination ist keine Charaktereigenschaft, sondern eine antrainierte Verhaltensweise, die sich umlernen lässt.

In this easy-to-follow book, you’ll discover the practical steps and insider tips that helped me secure my first 5-star review—and how you can do the same in just 7 simple steps. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced seller looking to boost your profile, this book is packed with actionable strategies that can make all the difference.

Strategic Leaders Are Made, Not Born provides an important foundation for every leader who is seeking to be more strategic in how they live and work. Each day, all of us face an overwhelming wave of daily tasks that can keep us from focusing on what we care about most. This audiobook provides leaders with critical tools for this journey.

Every salesperson has heard it—the dreaded words: “I’m just looking.” But what if you could turn those hesitant browsers into eager buyers? In I’m Just Looking... The Secret to Selling the Difficult Customer, master automotive trainer Amid Jones unveils SPARC—The Strategic Automotive Sales System, a game-changing approach designed to help sales professionals connect, engage, and close more deals without pressure or gimmicks.

The transition from university to career - from "ivory tower" to "real world" - has never been more challenging. 4L (or fourth year of law school) is the result of J.K. Franko’s many years of experience practicing law and is full of practical advice. This includes information on client development, baby lawyer syndrome, ethical dilemmas, and so much more - all of which can be put to immediate use.

This is an audiobook about the basics. I won’t tell you how to become CEO or double your salary, but if your hope is to become the boss that you would have wanted, this is the audiobook for you.