Hyatt, Michael S.
Summary: A former CEO and best-selling author provides a proven system for people looking to take their personal goals off the backburner and create and execute a plan to achieve their personal, intellectual, business, relationship or financial dreams. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HYAStutz, Phil
Summary: Presents a new outlook on therapy that utilizes a new set of "tools" that allow patients to use their problems as levers to access the power of the unconscious, allowing for personal growth much faster than traditional therapy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 STUParks, Casey
Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARHarden, Greg
Summary: Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 616.85 PERForna, Aminatta
Summary: A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORAtwood, Meredith
Summary: "Exhausted and overworked lawyer, triathlete, wife, and mom Meredith Atwood decided one morning that she'd had it. She didn't take her kids to school. She didn't go to work. She didn't go to the gym. When she pulled herself out of bed hours later than she should have, she found a note from her husband next to two empty bottles of wine and a stack of unpaid bills: You need to get your sh*t...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ATWOlivera, Lisa
Summary: This guide will help you identify, understand, and reframe your life story in order to live a more whole and meaningful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Morin, Amy
Summary: The best-selling author of "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do" addresses the challenges facing middle grade students in today's world, offering relatable, graphics-complemented advice on developing healthy mental habits for fulfilling personal potential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 158.1 MORCarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARLiebermann, Albert
Summary: "Ganbatte (gan-ba-tay) is a Japanese philosophy focused on doing the best you can with what you have. Though there is no direct translation, "keep going," and "give it your all," embody the sentiments behind the word. Just as wabi sabi shows the beauty of imperfection in life, ganbatte teaches you how to get past obstacles and be motivated to keep moving forward. In Ganbatte! author Albert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021
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Summary: The fitness celebrity discusses his life and the struggles he endured, emphasizing the need to overcome mental obstacles to achieve wellness, and detailing seven principles that can guide success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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Summary: "Relationships are usually the most important part of a person's life. But they're often stressful and frustrating, or simply awkward, distant, and lonely. We feel the weight of things unsaid, needs unmet, conflicts unresolved. It's easy to feel stuck. But actually, new research shows that we create our relationships with our thoughts and words, giving us the ability to improve them-as long as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Do our brains store experiences from our first few months of life? What happens to children who witness disturbing events before age two? How does being unwanted affect a baby? This program explores the personal significance of memory and examines the developmental stages at which meaningful awareness is formed. Visiting a group of 25 children, the film observes them as they turn two years old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: What makes a boy or girl a loner? Can a child's future social life be predicted in his or her toddler years? How crucial is a sense of humor as children learn to make friends? This program examines the diverse ways and varying degrees of success in which youngsters build that all-important skill: getting along with others. Observing a group of 25 children who are now three years old, the film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Strick, Alexandra
Summary: "You can . . . be brave, challenge yourself, overcome your fears, be kind, be YOU! Come on an amazing journey with fourteen young people as they grow from birth to eighteen, learning new skills, exploring new worlds, standing up for their own and others' rights, and following their dreams. Created in consultation with real young adults, Alexandra Strick's groundbreaking narrative will inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STRTygielski, Shelly
Summary: Shelly Tygielski shows that self-care can be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action. She shares her evolution from a Jerusalem-born child of traditional Sephardic Jewish parents to a middle-class American suburban youth who questioned her faith to a young executive in corporate America. As she used radical self-care practices to manage a serious chronic health issue, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.2 TYGTygielski, Shelly
Summary: "A combination of memoir, manifesto, and how-to guide that shows how mindfulness can be a powerful tool for spurring collective action"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 TYGSummary: Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing-the key to unlocking all forms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Berns, Gregory.
Summary: Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 BERCain, Susan
Summary: Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death, bitter and sweet, are forever paired. With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 155.2 CAIHyatt, Michael S.
Summary: Everyone has two remarkable, related capacities: we can aspire to something more and we can envision ways to achieve it. But if we're capable of aspiring to something better and making plans to achieve it, why is it sometimes so hard to reach that next level of success? Drawing upon the latest insights from the fields of performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 HYALozano, César
Summary: "Esta es una obra en la que el Dr. César Lozano nos exhorta a valorar lo que tenemos; es un reconocimiento de que nuestra vida es breve y pasajera pero que, para aquellos que tenemos esperanza, siempre nos lleva al verdadero despertar. ¡Despierta!... que la vida sigue ofrece valiosas fórmulas y técnicas que te sacudirán para que no te quedes enredado en tus problemas y disfrutes de los mejores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aguilar 2022