Recommended Reading

Focus

Start With Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Sinek explains his model for helping people become more engaged and inspired at work, and, therefore, inspire their colleagues and clients as well!

The Purpose Effect – Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role, and Your Organization by Dan Pontefract

Pontefract explains three key areas of purpose in our lives: personal, organizational, and workplace role. He indicates how finding the “sweet spot” of all three areas creates a ripple effect across organizations, teams, and even society as a whole.

Perspective

Mindset – The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we approach our goals.

The Upside of Stress – Why Stress is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal

McGonigal shows readers how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain’s natural ability to learn from challenging experiences.

Energy Management

Thriving in a 24/7 World – An Energizing Tale About Growing Through Pressure by Dr. Peter Jensen

With our constantly growing to-do lists, we often turn to time-management to get more done. However, there are still only 24hrs in a day! Third Factor’s founder, Peter Jensen, outlines how we can strike a balance between high performance and renewal through energy management, which, unlike time, is under our control.

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.

Imagery

Working Inside Out – Tools for Change by Margo Adair

Learn how you can incorporate meditation into your daily life. The book includes an audio CD of guided meditations, and Adair teaches you the use of symbols to make meditation available to even the most restless and busy of people!

Active Awareness

Wherever You Go, There You Are – Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Kabat-Zinn outlines simple ways to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life. Whether you are brand new to mindfulness or a seasoned pro, this resource is practical and interesting!

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