Posts Tagged ‘practical-guide’

The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Stop Feeling

Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Stop Feeling

A practical guide to getting organized, beating procrastination, and working more efficiently

The Fourth Edition of The Personal Efficiency Program continues the book’s long tradition of helping overwhelmed professionals get their work lives organized to become more effective and efficient. Readers will learn how to stop procrastinating, stop feeling overwhelmed, and start feeling good about their work lives. This new edition contains new chapters on e-mail and meetings, as well as new content on portable communications and how best to utilize tools like cell phones and Blackberries. As always, this edition features Kerry Gleeson’s proven, effective program for helping anyone get organized and become far more productive.

The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Win Back Control of Your Work

Price: $13.57

Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance

Drawing upon the expertise of more than twenty leaders of their fields, this is a comprehensive and practical guide to psychological concepts and theories as well as to strategies and techniques designed to help future coaches and sport psychologists cultivate peak performance and personal growth through recent advances in sport psychology. The text’s four-part organization focuses on motivation and leadership, social interactions, mental training, program implementation, and issues that go beyond performance enhancement. Contributing authors are experts in their topic, and each chapter has been written specifically for this collection.

Price: $81.33

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A

Thursday, August 19th, 2010
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A

Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will “become filled with grace, peace, and unconditional love.” Author workshops.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

Price: $8.99

The Complete Book of Personal Training

Friday, July 30th, 2010
The Complete Book of Personal Training

The Complete Book of Personal Training delivers exactly what the title promises and more, making it the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for you as a personal trainer, whether you are a newcomer to the field or have a well-established business.

The book is truly a complete resource. It’s full of information about working with clients and designing programs, and it’s also a practical guide to all aspects of the personal training business. The Complete Book of Personal Training will help you in the all aspects of your profession:

· Learn applicable information on fitness testing and assessment.
· Identify your clients’ goals and create fitness tests specifically for them.
· Properly train and help special populations.
· Understand the business side of personal training, including marketing yourself as a trainer, getting and retaining clients, and learning time management.
· Learn how to expand your business.

Noted author, educator, and personal trainer Douglas Brooks digs deep into the world of personal training, offering solutions to the challenges that trainers face in daily life and providing answers to many of the questions personal trainers ask throughout their careers. More than just a training manual, this text explores the best ways to run your business—from marketing and promotions to record keeping and retirement planning. The book includes a thorough index to help readers quickly locate any topic, and more than 100 photos accurately illustrate proper techniques for dozens of exercises.

The Complete Book of Personal Training contains something for every personal trainer. It’s the first reference of its kind to provide all the information you need to start, run, and grow a personal training business or career. The text is an essential tool to help you solve the daily organizational and business challenges of personal training.

Price: $60.86

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A

Saturday, July 17th, 2010
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A

Featured in the premiere issue of O: The Oprah Magazine and on Oprah’s Favorite Things 2000 segment, The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements — be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, always do your best — offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform life into a new experience of freedom, love, and true happiness. This jacketed linen-bound hardcover gift edition features two-color printing and a silk ribbon marker.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book

Price: $12.21