Your Search Results

      • Health & Personal Development
        October 2021

        Untangling you | How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?

        by Dr Kerry Howells

        A practical guide to untangling difficult relationships, letting go of resentment and ultimately leading a happier life. No doubt you have experienced everyday resentment in your life: a sibling who appeared to be favoured by your parents; a partner who leaves you for another person; a neighbour who won’t deal with their barking dog; a workmate who is promoted ahead of you… the list goes on and on. These everyday resentments can keep simmering away, robbing us of joy and wreaking havoc on our health, relationships and workplaces. But no matter how hard we try to let it go and be the ‘bigger person’, sometimes it’s impossible to express gratitude toward someone who has wronged us. Thousands of clinical studies have demonstrated the positive benefits of gratitude to our physical, emotional and social wellbeing, but according to award-winning gratitude educator Dr Kerry Howells, it’s only when we experience the discomfort of not being able to find gratitude that a path opens for real growth and transformation. Based on 25 years of ground-breaking research, Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? is the first book of its kind to discuss gratitude in terms of its conceptual opposite: resentment. Using practical strategies, tools and insights, this life-changing book will show you how to start to repair difficult relationships, improve your wellbeing, grow your resilience, and ultimately move from resentment towards deep gratitude to lead a happier and more fulfilling life. Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? will help you on this journey, whether you are a leader, coach, parent, teacher, people manager, mentor, health professional, or just someone who wants to grow their character and self-efficacy.

      • Health & Personal Development
        March 2021

        Turning Right -- Inspire the Magic

        How to transform who you think you are to reach your highest aspirations

        by Kay Bretz

        A compelling, award-winning account of marathon runner Kay Bretz’s transformation into one of the best ultra-runners in the world, for fans of David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me. Ultra-runner Kay Bretz beat the race record of Australia’s Big Red Run by more than five hours and was awarded the Australian Ultra Performance of the Year Award at the 24-hour world championships in France – but it took a significant change in mindset to do it. In Turning Right, the elite athlete and executive coach shares his fascinating personal journey to success, interweaving his amazing running journey with how he overcame physical, mental and professional challenges to achieve his goals and break records, all by ‘turning right’ when his perspective on what he was capable of started to shift. Bretz explains how he left behind self-imposed limitations that prevented him from reaching his dreams, often rejecting what was reasonable and logical, and found the magic instead. Brilliantly interweaving his amazing running journey with the challenges in his professional and personal life, Bretz leaves behind the reasonable and logical to find the magic. His book will inspire the magic in you too.

      • Health & Personal Development
        February 2021

        The Loudest Guest

        How to change and control your relationship with fear

        by Dr Amy Silver

        An award-winning guide to reducing fear and taking control of your life from Amazon bestselling author and renowned psychologist Dr Amy Silver.When fear looms as the loudest guest in your mind, it dominates your thoughts and controls your choices. Author and psychologist, Dr Amy Silver, believes that if you reduce the control that fear has on you, you take back control of your life. Fear is merely a guest in your mind, albeit a noisy one, and you are the host. In The Loudest Guest, you will learn the six essential steps to calm your fear so you can run your best life. This book is for you if you: are prone to worrying or over-thinking desire to do something new but feel you shouldn’t or would fail talk yourself down, either out loud or in your head know there’s a gap between what you’re doing and what you could do if you had more courage spend too much time thinking about what people think of you are too ‘in your head’, full of doubt, regret or indecision. In this easy-to-read, practical book you’ll learn to quieten your fear voice so you can be a more powerful version of yourself.

      • Health & Personal Development
        July 2021

        Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions

        and how critical thinking can protect them

        by Annie McCubbin

        This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book. Think Bridget Jones gets a critical makeover. In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of ‘Believe-in-yourself-and Magic-will-happen’ will not deliver her a better life. Her story, which recounts her hapless attempts to navigate scenarios disturbingly familiar to many readers, is presented with a companion account of the cognitive quirks that drive her faulty thinking and behaviour.   This is neuroscience explained through the lens of a modern comedy; the buggy brain stripped bare in a laugh out loud take down of magical thinking and the goofy, delusional self-actualisation movement.  Kat discovers that the simplistic advice to honour your intuition is not all it’s cracked up to be. Despite practising Gratitude and Acceptance, she is still failing to lose the 2.35 kilos that preoccupy her. Despite her Positive Thinking, her performance review leaves her limp with despair, and despite her assiduous application to making affirmations, her philandering Hipster Boyfriend leaves her (taking with him the remote control). In the companion explanation to each chapter, author Annie McCubbin explains to readers what drives people to behave in blindly optimistic and self-destructive ways. If only they could apply the critical thinking that our narrator suggests, smart women would indeed stop making bad decisions. It becomes clear to Kat, and in turn the reader, that positive thinking, meditation and magical thinking will not turn her life around. Instead, women should apply the narrator’s advice and change the inherent cognitive flaws that run, and often ruin, their lives.

      • Health & Personal Development
        July 2019

        Fear Money Purpose

        How to overcome your fears to find financial freedom and your true purpose

        by Nancy Youssef

        Small business owners and entrepreneurs often face big money fears. Whether it is the fear of not making money, of not knowing what to do with the money they make or the fear of being financially responsible for staff, the fear is real. In FEAR MONEY PURPOSE, Nancy Youssef shares her experienceand insights gained from helping hundreds of people take control of their financial destiny. By thinking outside of the bank, understanding all the finance options available and taking simple daily actions to help you keep your financial goals on track, you’ll find out what life is like beyond the money fears that can hold you back from achieving your true purpose. A multiple award-winning finance broker, inspiring mentor and energetic philanthropist determined to create lasting change, Nancy Youssef is the founder of Classic Finance and Classic Mentoring and Coaching. Recognised as a leader, innovator and expert, she is an ambassador for change both within the finance industry here in Australia and in some of the world’s most impoverished communities.

      • Health & Personal Development
        April 2019

        A Surfer's Guide to Property Investing

        How to achieve your financial goals and lead your best life through investing in property

        by Paul Glossop

        A Surfer's Guide to Property Investing is about how to achieve your financial goals and lead your best life through investing in property. Paul Glossop believes the mark of financial success isn’t about getting bigger, better, faster or more. To him, success is freedom – freedom to spend more time with his family, or giving back to his community, or just more time to go surfing. Paul initially studied architecture before transferring his focus to education. He started working as a teacher in one of the roughest, toughest schools in the UK. A series of fortunate events brought him back to Sydney where over 10 years investing in property, Paul amassed a portfolio which has been focused on capital growth, development opportunities and cash flow. The success of his portfolio gave Paul the financial freedom to take a calculated risk to walk away from a successful corporate career and start something that he was truly passionate about: helping his family and others change their lives through investing in property.

      • Health & Personal Development
        August 2019

        20 Must Ask Questions for Every Property Investor

        by Margaret Lomas

        Margaret Lomas is one of Australia’s most recognised and respected property experts, and the best-selling author of nine property investment books, with collective sales of approximately 200,000 copies. In this ‘must-read’ for property investors, she provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand information for property buyers searching for the right property. When looking to invest in property, if you start at Question One and work through to Question Twenty, you will be have done everything possible to minimise your risk of buying a lemon and maximised your chances of buying the right property for you. Along the way, Margaret shares indepth information on all aspects of property investing, as well as anecdotes and examples to illustrate the discussion.

      Subscribe to our

      newsletter