Kindle Pick of the Week: Relentless Solution Focus (Preorder)

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What is the one thing that all successful people do?  They focus on solutions — not problems — when confronted with a challenge, says Dr. Jason Selk.  In his forthcoming book RELENTLESS SOLUTION FOCUS (McGraw Hill; January 2021), Dr. Selk -- who has helped athletes win World Series and business leaders increase productivity exponentially -- reveals his proven three-step process for developing a winning mindset. Would you like an advance copy for possible review or excerpt?

Twenty years ago, Dr. Selk set out to combine what he knew about cognitive neuroscience, brain chemistry, and human performance to create a training method to show people exactly how to develop the solution-focus that characterizes all top performers.  Since then, he has taught his method to countless businesspeople and athletes who have used it as a springboard to their own success.    
 
In his book, Dr. Selk addresses such topics as:
 
• How he combined what he knows about cognitive neuroscience, brain chemistry, and human performance to create his three-step method
• Why people are hardwired for “problem-centric thought” and how to overcome this
• Why it’s a mistake to focus on problems if you really want to get past them
• Why the key to achieving relentless solution focus lies in what you do in the first 60 seconds after having a negative thought
• The tools you need to retrain your brain

Mentally tough people actually choose the thoughts that cause them to take actions that lead to positive outcomes, although this is contrary to the way humans are hardwired. “Over millennia, our very survival relied on our ability to be alert to potential dangers,” says Dr. Selk.   That is, we are pre-disposed to look for problems – what he calls “Problem-Centric Thought.”  This negativity bias significantly limits our potential and increases stress, pressure, and underperformance.

By developing a Relentless Solution Focus (RSF) – which he and Ellen Reed have taught to tens of thousands of clients – people will not only be prepared for adversity, but will be able to thrive in it.  This mind-training regimen makes it possible to reframe every problem into an opportunity for positive, productive action.  

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Kindle Pick of the Week: Managing Brilliant Jerks: How Organizations and Coaches Can Transform Difficult Leaders into Powerful Visionaries

Whether you are an executive coach, a human resources professional, a manager, or an employee with a difficult boss, Managing Brilliant Jerks provides resources to help you work more effectively with difficult leaders. As you read, you’ll find detailed information on the flow of coaching sessions, sample correspondence to use with key stakeholders, and questions that encourage you to reflect on the issues presented in each chapter. The story of Peter, a brilliant but abrasive leader who rescued his company’s ailing Asia division but wreaked havoc on his colleagues and employees, will clarify for you the complex processes at work in the mind of an abrasive leader—and empower you to forge a productive and cooperative relationship with the brilliant jerks you encounter in your own professional life.

DR. KATRINA BURRUS, MCC has a proven track record in coaching numerous international leaders, including Nestlé, Novartis, United Bank of Switzerland, CERN, UNAIDS, United Nations, the International Labor Organization, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization. She is the founder of MKB Excellent Executive Coaching, which specializes in coaching international and highly mobile leaders to be more productive and quicker in a new position, as well as helping brilliant but abrasive leaders to develop an engaged followership. Dr. Burrus is the first ICF master-certified coach in Switzerland, is a founder and past board member of ICF Switzerland, and served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations.

Kindle Pick of the Week: Extreme

Surfing, skateboarding and tech!

Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope’s mission is to groom the scrappy company for prime time. Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes. Adding to the excitement of this thriller are the stars and heroes of surfing and skateboarding. With a keen eye on women in tech, business ethics and dangerous stunts, “Extreme” will leave you breathless.

Winner of the Cervena Barva and Chaffin Fiction Awards, Joan’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Rattle, Pank! The Meridien Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicken Soup for the Soul and over 200 literary journals, blogs and magazines.

A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan has worked for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, Chiat/Day Advertising and other Bay Area companies. She currently coaches writers and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Book Pick of the Week: Freeda the Frog

Kids are growing up in a world driven by technology and media, where sensitive subjects like race and inequality are permeating the airwaves. Gold Mom’s Choice Award-winner and author Nadine Haruni is addressing these hot button issues with acceptance and understanding in Freeda the Frog & Her New Blue Family. Appropriate for ages 3 to 11 (pre-K to Grade 3), the book encourages children (and their parents) to be sensitive to people of all different racial, ethnic, religious and gender backgrounds—and to celebrate the blended family.   

Diversity and blended families are a key there.

Green tadpoles Frannie and Frank are surprised and filled with questions when they first meet blue frog Samson and his blue son Jack. Why are they blue and not green like them? Why is Freeda going to marry Samson? Will their new blue stepfather be replacing their green biological father? Will they get along with their new blue step-tadpole? Their momma, Freeda, encourages them to get to know the blue frogs. Before long, the tadpoles discover that Samson and Jack are just like them: really cool amphibians! While spending time with the blue frogs, the green tadpoles learn a lifetime lesson: a frog is who they are on the inside, not to be judged by the color of their skin.

The Freeda the Frog series serves as a tool to help parents, educators and school counselors open up conversations about difficult topics with children in an upbeat and non-scary way. Toward that goal, each book offers discussion questions at the end. The entire series has been leveled for the schools to align with National Education standards, and all five books in the series have a Readers’ Favorite 5-star review and the Gold Mom’s Choice Award for excellence in the family-friendly picture book category.

“We are happy to award deserving books like Freeda the Frog & Her New Blue Family,” says Dawn Matheson, CEO, Mom’s Choice Awards. “Our panel of judges really felt this book merited a place on our list of the best in family-friendly products that parents and educators can feel confident in using.”

Future topics for Freeda and her tadpoles to explore include adoption, Special Needs kids, a new baby sibling and a parent returning to work. Each book reinforces Nadine Haruni’s mission of “helping families of all species, one tadpole at a time.”

Author Nadine Haruni has gone through a divorce herself and is now the mother of five kids in a blended family. She has appeared on TV, radio, print, online and does virtual storytime events across the country. Haruni has also created a lesson plan inspired by her books for Garden State Equality in New Jersey, her home state. For more information, please visit www.freedathefrog.com.


Freeda the Frog & Her New Blue Family

Publisher: Mascot Books

Hardcover / $14.95

ISBN: 978-1-68401-132-2

Get it on Amazon here.

Amazon Pick of the Week: The Nomadic Wealth Formula

The Nomadic Wealth Formula, an inspired look at practical ways in which people can expand and create their own wealth, regardless of locale while expanding their freedom, will publish on September 1st, 2020. Nomadic Wealth is the first “how-to” handbook authored by American entrepreneur, former special operations Marine, and host of the influential “Wealth, Power and Influence” podcast, Jason Stapleton.

Wealth focuses on the philosophy and practical steps necessary for anyone to achieve true freedom in their lives. As both technology and our world economy continue to evolve many Americans have fallen victim to an antiquated education system that hasn’t prepared them for the rapidly changing economy we have today. In this remarkable new work, Jason Stapleton presents a unique perspective of both financial independence and liberty by reimagining what it means to be free in the 21st century, and what needs to be done to seize borderless financial independence. This comes at a highly pertinent time in human history, as government interference in regional economics due to COVID-19 have left millions unemployed, unsure of their future, and in need of a new way of approaching financial security.

“This book is a culmination of the techniques and lessons I’ve gleaned over the past ten years building myself and my companies, and creating an independence that I want to see everyone achieve,” said Jason Stapleton. “Nomadic Wealth isn’t just a title, it’s a way of viewing the world, yourself and making the most out of your skillset and opportunities to be your own boss and give yourself full freedom without strings attached. This book will undoubtedly change people’s lives, if they have the drive and discipline.”

Nomadic Wealth keys on several primary principles, including:

The 4 things necessary to achieve real freedom in your life.
The 3 Pillars of Nomadic Wealth.
Why working a 9-5 is far more risky and less secure than working for yourself.
Traditional entrepreneurship vs. the Nomadic Entrepreneur.
Why most people are unhappy regardless of how much money they make and the one thing you can do to start being happy now.
Why the rich get richer regardless of how many social programs we create.
The difference between a producer and a consumer and why all the money flows to producers.
What the future of employment will look like over the next 20 years.
The 7 things a business needs to create nomadic wealth.
How you can use the principles of nomadic wealth even if you already own a traditional business.
Stapleton provides a perfect platform from which to educate, having experienced the harshest of life challenges as a special forces marine, and then creating his own finance-centric empire with Trade Empowered in 2009. Trade Empowered became one of the largest and most respected trading education firms on earth boasting tens of thousands of clients in over 110 countries.  

Nomadic Wealth is available for pre-order at http://nomadicwealth.com/