Stop talking, start doing a kick in the pants in six parts
"Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Capstone
2023.
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| Edición: | 10th Anniversary edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009703315806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Part 1 Tick Tock
- The speed of life
- The doors are wide open.
- The boat is being rocked.
- The boat is already being rocked.
- Is this all there is?
- Tick
- Part 2 The Itch
- The train
- Where do you want to sit on the train?
- All aboard your life express
- Where are you scratching?
- Why are people driven to DO things other than make money?
- What you need to HAVE and what you want to DO
- In defence of talking . . .
- Braggadocio
- You know the one about the reason you were given TWO ears and ONE mouth . . .
- Applause warning
- Responsibility warning
- The world is not conspiring against you. (It just feels like that. Sometimes.) Some advice for when you feel like a victim.
- Part 3 Fear and Regret
- The scales that matter the most
- The usual suspects
- How to flush
- Dig deep
- Final word on fear
- Regret
- But wait, there's more . . .
- Part 4 Start
- Let's get ready to rumble
- Your internal nagging friend
- The professionals have a word for it
- The history of accidental success
- The solace of failure
- But it didn't work out
- Part 5 The Art of Decision-Making
- The decision-makingmuscle
- The seduction of research
- How losing yourself in the flow can help your decision-making
- The flow
- What you ought to know about the surprising lives of maximizers and satisficers . . .
- Want to make better decisions? Make fewer of them
- Part 6 . . . And Action
- A bit of planning
- The problem with fantasy goals
- Set your sights high
- Planning
- The critical path
- Things to help you on your journey and things to trash
- A personal slogan
- . . . and now it's down to you
- Sources
- Illustrations and images
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- EULA.
