Goals! How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought possible

Business & Money

Unknown, Author

Job Hunting & Careers

GOKO Publishing

How can we gain insight into and mastery of ourselves? Entering the world of the great philosophers and engaging with them, we become aware of what we are capable of becoming. They speak to us of themselves and the good life and thereby offer the possibility for self-development. While this sounds like psychology, it is what the ancient Greeks called moral philosophy and its main precept is 'know oneself'. To know oneself is to embrace one's personal power. From Socrates to Sartre, from Plato to postmodernism, philosophers have important things to say about the personal power that underpins human existence. This book discusses ten philosophical perspectives, or worldviews, which present original ideas capable of evoking in us values that are guidelines for personal conduct. Harmonising knowledge, values and conduct maximises our personal power and thereby enables us to solve the practical and psychological problems of human existence, or overcome those that cannot be solved. The philosophers discussed in this book embody ideas of considerable fascination and force which can change our lives by penetrating the illusions of appearance and the delusions of common sense. As philosophy is thinking critically about thinking, it is a liberating activity because philosophers confront us with our prejudices and arouse our curiosity without satisfying it. They show us what they were and how philosophy inspired them to live productive lives. They did not seek disciples but encouraged others to philosophise with them. We cannot escape from philosophy because we philosophise when we reflect critically on how well we are living. Philosophy is, therefore, a meditation on who we are and what we can become: it is an eye for an I.

An Eye for An I: Philosophies of Personal Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Spillane, Robert

Philosophy

When the boundaries between the real world and the unseen world overlap and you begin getting cooking tips and dating advice from your ghostly grannies, life itself can never be the same. What do you do when you suddenly realise that there is a whole other world out there which is opening up to you? You ride the whirlwind, hang on tight and enjoy this whole new adventure of being an Unintentional Medium. This is a story of an adventure, a step into the unknown, a collision of worlds and what happens to the unsuspecting young woman who happens to have been chosen by the spirit world to act as their messenger. The true story leads us through an eventful and often hilarious life describing events and people, both here and in the spirit world who have played such a part in this journey.  A newly single girl on the London dating scene and who, after several close escapes, finally finds happiness with her handsome Australian husband.  Not only are the spirits extremely happy about this, they redouble their efforts to get their message across and pop in with increasing regularity.A cross between Bill Bryson, Brigit Jones and Ghost with a dash of Carrie Bradshaw thrown in for good measure.

The Unintentional Medium

Samuel, Suzi

Religion & Spirituality

In this Australian edition, you’ll read the life-changing concepts of the original book, and learn what author Jeff Olson discovered as he continued along The Slight Edge path: the Secret to Happiness and the Ripple Effect. The Slight Edge isn’t just the story of these discoveries—it’s a way to continue to create life-altering dynamics; a way of thinking and processing information that impacts your daily choices and leads you to the success and happiness you desire. The Slight Edge is "the key" that will make all the other personal development books and tools that you consume actually work. This edition of "The Slight Edge" isn t just the story, but also how the story continues to create life-altering dynamics how a way of thinking, a way of processing information, can impact daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. "The Slight Edge" is the key that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work.

Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success & Happiness

Olson, Jeff

There are many books on improving working relationships however they are based in interpersonal skills. While acknowledging that interpersonal skills provide the ‘social glue’ for working relationships, this book identifies the working environment as the cause of most conflict at work. The book identifies the causes of workplace conflict and how to create the right working environment that enables constructive working relationships.Interpersonal skills have limited value in a workplace and/or a working relationship which is otherwise flawed in its design or subject to ineffective leadership.To have constructive working relationships requires an environment that both enables it and sustains it. This environment is created by:Setting the expectations on how all employees are to work together Providing effective organizational design Clearly defining roles and role relationships Providing effective systems of work Developing interpersonal skills Building strong manager-employee relationships

Don't Fix Me, Fix the Workplace: A Guide to Building Constructive Working Relationships

Mills, Peter

Management & Leadership

The ultimate test of management is performance - the achievement of actual results. Why, then, do Australian managers concern themselves with their colleagues' personalities and motives? Why have they become infatuated with emotional intelligence and, in bizarre cases, with spiritual intelligence? Traditionally, managers who performed earned the right to argue with their colleagues. Nowadays, individuals who argue are said to lack 'soft skills' while a sad few are thought to be suffering from a personality disorder. The popularity of soft-skill management has created psychomanagers: managers who have entered into a Faustian bargain with psychologists. Some managers work with psychologists to master themselves; others work with psychologists to master other people. As psychomanagement requires specialised knowledge, many Australian managers have yielded their authority to counsellors, coaches and consultants, many of whom believe that human behaviour is determined by internal and external forces over which individuals have little or no control. Accordingly, psychologists have laboured to absorb the idea of the free and responsible individual into a pseudo-scientific framework that denies moral agency. The result is that ideas of 'right' and 'wrong' have been replaced with 'healthy' and 'sick'. In their pursuit of a 'therapeutic state', psychologists have medicalised morality and managers have embraced powerful myths about minds, motive-forces, personality traits, social conditioning, leadership, occupational stress and mental illness. Consequently, the twin ideas of personal freedom and responsibility have been sabotaged. Freud, Maslow, Eysenck, Skinner and other influential psychologists have denied, or minimised the importance of, personal responsibility. And insofar as managers have entered into an unholy alliance with them, they too have minimised personal responsibility at the workplace.
This book is about Australian managers and their long-standing love affair with psychologists. For fifty years the author has studied, taught and consulted with managers and 'waltzed' with several famous psychologists and an infamous psychiatrist. Fortunately, they represented both sides of the debate about personal responsibility and human freedom. This book is, therefore, a personal and selective account of a professional life spent studying the problematic relationship between managers and psychologists.

Psychomanagement: An Australian Affair

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