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This practical business book by an internationally acclaimed time management expert helps listeners understand why they're not finishing projects and what to do about it, including using Dr. Yager's unique F-I-N-I-S-H technique. It also goes beyond a "do this, not that" approach to help you develop a deeper insight into what you should be committing to in the first place!

International friendship expert, coach, sociologist and author Dr. Jan Yager has created a unique book that can help anyone who is dealing with a friendship challenge or even if someone wants suggestions for finding a new friend, or improving the friends they have. This new book could be used alongside Dr. Yager's book, When Friendship Hurts, published in the U.S. and Canada by Simon & Schuster, and around the world by Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., or it could be a standalone workbook.

With The Fast Track Guide to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off, follow Jan Yager, PhD on her mission to help you not only lose weight and maintain the loss but also to understand the different sociological and psychological reasons behind why the weight is so hard to get off and especially to keep off.

"Friendshifts" is a word Dr. Yager coined to denote how sometimes our friendships may shift throughout our lives, and even how we define a friend. Fortunately, in some instances, lifelong friendship does happen. The examples, anecdotes, quotes, and studies cited throughout the audiobook reinforce the notion that the right friends will help you get ahead or be happy in life, and even live a longer life; whereas the wrong friends can sabotage you or even get you hurt or killed.

Dr. Yager's latest book, TIME MASTERS, is a game changer in the world of time management books, offering new insights and examples from a diverse group of achievers. Each concept/chapter is enhanced at the end by one or more exercises to give you a deeper understanding of what you are learning, as you reinforce key ideas, in an interactive and experiential way.

Whether your book is being released through a commercial publisher or an academic press, or you are self-publishing it, as the author, you can and should play a crucial role in getting your title seen, talked about, and sold.

How can you get the most out of your college experience? Do you have all the tools you need to succeed? With the Skills Building Workbook for College Students, you will learn the skills you need to not only get through college, but to excel. Chapters include lessons and exercises or activities such as: Note Taking 101, Introduction to Time Management, Dealing with Procrastination, and Better Writing Skills.

In my memoir, which goes beyond my life to hopefully share useful insights into the world of writing, publishing, and book promotion, you'll meet some of the famous and infamous people I have interviewed over the years.

This prescriptive self-help book by acclaimed friendship coach, expert, and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager, author of the international hit titles When Friendship Hurts (in 29 languages) and Friendshifts (in nine languages) now looks at how the right friends can extend your life and even delay or avoid the onset of dementia and how the wrong ones can have catastrophic effects.

This fast-paced novel combines two genres - coming of age and crime. It is initially set in Texas but the action moves on to Nevada and Arizona. On the Run has strong themes and occasional violent confrontations as the author explores the motivations behind the characters and the events they find themselves in as well as the aftermath. The two main characters, Angelina and Steven, are 17-year-olds who have grown up in very different worlds.

This practical step-by-step guide shows you everything you need to know about selling or buying foreign rights. Written by an international foreign rights expert, this useful book provides the information you need so your book can be translated or sold into additional English language markets. Aimed at authors, publishers, foreign rights managers, literary agents, and even those aspiring to enter the foreign rights field, Foreign Rights and Wrongs goes beyond just describing the do’s and don’ts of selling or buying rights.

This concise guide offers suggestions as well as additional resources to help you deal more effectively with your money challenges and where to seek out further assistance.

In Put More Time on Your Side: How to Manage Your Life in a Digital World, sociologist, business, and relationship expert Dr. Jan Yager helps you to become more efficient in a work world that is more demanding and 24/7 than ever before.

In this third edition of her international hit time management book, Work Less, Do More, sociologist/productivity and relationship coach and expert Dr. Jan Yager offers a 7-day plan to get more done in less time.

Positive statements related to key relationships including parent-child, sibling, extended family, friend, romantic partner, neighbors, co-workers, or service providers. Includes an introduction by relationship and business coach and author/sociologist, Dr. Jan Yager as well as activities in the back of the book on how to improve your relationships at work and in your personal life.

Transform your nonfiction writing now! Through concrete examples and clear guidelines, seasoned and prolific writer, teacher, and coach Jan Yager gives solid advice on how to create business and nonfiction writing that will help you to get ahead in your career. Originally published by Arco with the title, How to Write Like a Professional, this practical and extremely useful book provides guidelines for improved nonfiction writing including a self-evaluation to access your current writing skills.

The audiobook is based on the second edition of 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life, which is being finalized. The core of the audiobook is 125 annotated ways to meet the love of your life, organized into nine categories, such as introductions by friends and family, dating services, trips, at work, cybermatching, online dating, singles clubs, parties, and lots more. Inspiring examples of successful matches based on original research throughout the book; Dr. Yager and her husband Fred even share their own "how we met" story.

Work Less, Do More, 2nd Edition, is filled with suggestions on how to handle e-mail, deal with distractions ("distractionitis") and interruptions, as well as tips on prioritizing, delegating, conducting more effective meetings, multitasking, and mastering (or even eliminating) paperwork.

A collection of 87 poems by a husband and wife, writing separately although several of the poems are about each other. It covers all types of love, from romantic love to the love of a parent, sibling, child, grandchild, pet, and friend, to work, whether that work is serving in the Navy, witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the way to work, writing, being an artist, and more. There are poems in celebration of birthdays, Valentine's Day, and wedding anniversaries.

A noted time management consultant shows how to identify goals, clarify priorities, and achieve an ideal balance among work, family, and play concerns. Creative Time Management for the New Millennium especially appeals to those who want a time management approach that offers more flexibility while still accomplishing business and personal goals.