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**A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERFrom Chris Bailey, productivity expert and author of How to Calm Your Mind, comes a new approach to finishing what you start.**Setting goals is easy. Finishing them is the challenge.In Intentional, productivity expert Chris Bailey reveals the surprising truth: willpower isn’t enough. The secret to accomplishing your goals lies in being more intentional. Bailey distills a decade of deep research on productivity ...

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Canada's productivity expert returns with a totally fresh angle on how to do more with less.Throughout his experiments and research, Chris Bailey came across many little-known insights into how we focus (a key element of productivity), including the surprising idea that focus isn't so much a state of heightened awareness (as we'd assume), but a balance between two frames of mind. The most recent neuroscientific research on attention reveals that our brain has two p...

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A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivit...

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A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal that the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm.When Chris Bailey, productivity expert, discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works—and we need it ...

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Chris Bailey, Jamie Bailey

An accessible and easy-to-use men's devotional offering a year of scripture, prayers and wisdom.As a main supporter of their families, dads are pillars of strength. But sometimes they can get overwhelmed and stressed and require self-care. Men’s Devotional for Dads by authors and renowned Christian counselors Chris and Jamie Bailey, helps all dads lean on God for strength and wisdom for the journey of fatherhood and beyond.Men’s Devotional for ...

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With Jesus Readings

Nourish and strengthen your relationship with the only couple’s Bible study that turns to Jesus for inspiration and guidance.Tailored to the unique experiences of Christian couples at any stage of a relationship—from dating and engagement through all the years of marriage—this Jesus-centered Bible study for couples provides a space for intentional daily connection and growth through Jesus’s life and teachings.Bestselling authors Chris and Jamie Bailey, marri...

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What Your Hands Have Done looks at how life spent in a close-knit fishing family in rural Prince Edward Island marks a person. The book is rooted in PEI but moves from there to Toronto where the malaise of life proves to be unbound to the sameness of small-town days spent hauling gear on the Atlantic or toiling in rust-red potato fields.Bailey examines the world around him from the inside, observing the minute to account for the vast. These poems are laid bare and free of ...

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Chris Bailey, Jamie Bailey

The only Christian devotional on forgiveness offering weekly prayers and faith-based practices to heal and find a path toward a forgiving heart.Forgiveness isn’t just a one-time decision, but a journey that none of us asked to go on. Whether you are wrestling with an offense, replaying painful memories, or don’t know how to forgive and move forward, God is waiting and ready to lead you to the freedom that forgiveness offers. Through weekly devotions, prayers, and f...

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“This is no quaint voice from the Land of Anne. Suffused with our era’s geist and angst, which have penetrated to the rural periphery, Bailey is a sharp-eyed, clarion-voiced witness.” —Richard LemmConfessional, candid, and insightful, Forecast: Pretty Bleak looks at life in rural PEI. These poems explore climate change, work, family, love, and the idea that sometimes all you’ve got is hope for better weather and favourable winds tomorrow.

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Education (R0)

This book illuminates the lived experience of a group of primary school children engaged in virtual world play during a year-long after-school club. Shaped by post-structuralist theory and New Literacy Studies, it outlines a playful, participatory and emergent methodological approach, referred to as ‘rhizomic ethnography’. This ‘hybrid’ text uses both words and images to describe the fieldsite and the methodology, demonstrating how children’s creation of a digital community through Minecra...

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**A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERFrom Chris Bailey, productivity expert and author of How to Calm Your Mind, comes a new approach to finishing what you start.**Setting goals is easy. Finishing them is the challenge.In Intentional, productivity expert Chris Bailey reveals the surprising truth: willpower isn’t enough. The secret to accomplishing your goals lies in being more intentional. Bailey distills a decade of deep research on productivity ...

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Chris Bailey

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By the author of How To Calm Your Mind, a practical guide to managing your attention—the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful lifeOur attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle to multitask. Despite this, we feel compelled to do so anyway while we fill each moment of our lives to the brim with mindless distraction. Hyperfocus provid...