In BTY: Better Than Yesterday – 5 Steps to Greatness, Coach Bobby Bluford shares a powerful, actionable roadmap to transform your life. Drawing on his personal journey as an athlete, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, Coach Bobby reveals the five essential steps to overcoming adversity, unlocking your potential, and achieving greatness. This book blends inspirational stories, proven strategies, and timeless wisdom to help readers take control of their mindset, build resilience, and st...

Washington Post BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerDo you want to change the course of your life?Do you want to be the best?The best manager, the best athlete, the best artist, the best speaker, the best parent?In There's No Plan B for Your A-Game, former pro athlete, playwright, and accl...

**This program is read by the author.Do you want to change the course of your life?**Do you want to be the best?The best manager, the best athlete, the best artist, the best speaker, the best parent?In There’s No Plan B for Your A-Game, former pro athlete, playwright, and acclaimed leadership coach Bo Eason shows you exactly what it takes to be the best. His proven tools and training have worked for Olympic ...

An award-winning business writer dismantles the myths of entrepreneurship, replacing them with an essential story about the experience of real business owners in the modern economy.We're often told that we're living amidst a startup boom. Typically, we think of apps built by college kids and funded by venture capital firms, which remake fortunes and economies overnight. But in reality, most new businesses are things like restaurants or hair salons. Entrepreneurs ar...

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach -- a doer's approach developed over a decade at MIT and internationally in workshops, classes, and ...

Everyone is talking about mindfulness, but how does it actually work and how can it help you? Mindfulness is a simple yet radical practice that can completely transform your life. Paddy Brosnan worked for many years as an investment advisor but felt trapped in a cycle of anxiety and anger. When he began practising mindfulness every day, he found that his relationships became more profound, his interactions with others more honest and his daily frustrations and anxieties si...

There's a precise moment that falls between working enough hours to be productive and working too many hours, yielding a diminishing marginal return. The difference between the person able to master this and most Americans that fail miserably at it is quality of life! If one continues to work past this moment, a negative return will ensue, and that negative return produces guilt. It lowers the amount of time for recreational activities and spending time with family.An alarming 39% ...

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge to bear in an eye-opening investigation of how banks have overbalanced the economies o...

**This program is read by the author.An essential guide for how to snap out of autopilot and become your own best advocate, with candid anecdotes and easy-to-adopt steps, from veteran HR specialist and popular podcast host Laurie Ruettimann**Chances are you've spent the past few months cooped up inside, buried under a relentless news cycle and work that never seems to switch off. Millions of us worldwide are overworked, exhausted, and trying our hardest—yet not getting the ...

American opportunity is not dead. Bestselling author and entrepreneur John Hope Bryant outlines the mindset and practices that will allow us to achieve the American Dream, no matter what our current circumstances are.Americans have lost faith in their country. With job security disappearing and fewer glimpses of a better future, it can feel like we are barely surviving, much less thriving, in today's problematic economy. Americans want the "old" America back-- the America where opp...

In a world with a surplus of ideas, what separates a good idea from a bad one? Learn how to cultivate a mindset that produces the kind of ideas people can't turn down.Most professionals cannot generate a solid idea. They either offer up tired or reused ones, or they generate lots of ideas but none that are worth pursuing.A great idea presents a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move...

**An award-winning business writer delivers a new view of entrepreneurship, shifting the focus from the glitzy world of venture capital to the everyday self-starters“A necessary corrective to Silicon Valley’s stranglehold on the meaning of entrepreneurship.” —Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Work**Small businesses anchor our communities and are the fabric of our economy. Yet we are often too distracted by the idea of the Silicon Valle...