Psychology > Self Help & Relationships

Siimon Reynolds explores the main causes of failure and reveals solutions for overcoming them. He offers strategies for beating failure habits such as: unclear purpose; destructive thinking; low productivity; weak energy; not asking the right questions; poor presentation skills; stress; lack of persistence; money obsession.

< b>A CBA Bestseller< br>Gold Medallion Book Award Winner< /b>< P>Christians often focus so much on being loving and giving that they forget their own limitations. Here Drs. Cloud and Townsend show you how to set healthy boundaries which will give you the freedom to walk as the loving, giving, fulfilled individual God created you to be.

Combining ancient Eastern wisdom (Ayurveda), thousand-year-old spiritual teachings, natural health science secrets, and the latest modern research, this book will reconnect you to the age-old wisdoms of health, as followed by the world's healthiest people.

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it...
Amy Chua's daughters, Sophia and Louisa (Lulu) were polite, interesting and helpful, they were two years ahead of their classmates in maths and had exceptional musical abilities. But Sophia and Lulu were never allowed to attend a sleepover,... read more

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice - based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories - Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. No mere sequel, Great by Choice distinguishes itself... read more

Ensure your contented baby has a contented mum. Becoming a mum is an exciting journey, with new rewards and responsibilities. But while you focus your energies on the needs of your growing baby, it's easy to neglect your own needs as a new mum. Gina Ford has helped millions of women bring up contented babies and now she wants to ensure that it's not just your baby that's happy, but you are too. In this indispensable guide, Gina has worked with her online community of mothers to distill the best advice on being a contented mum. This... read more

Tap into the magic of gratitude with Rhonda Byrne's latest book - and change your life in just 33 days. In The Magic a great mystery from a sacred text is revealed, and with this knowledge Rhonda Byrne takes the reader on a life-changing journey for 28 days. Step by step, day-by-day, secret teachings, revelations, and scientific law are brought together to form 28 simple practices that open the reader's eyes to a new world, and lead them to a dream life.

A book that shows you how to prevent the little things in life driving you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your hurried, stress-filled life. Learn how to put things in perspective by making the small daily changes he suggests, including advice such as 'Think of your problems as potential teachers'; and 'remember that when you die, your 'in' box won't be empty'. You should also try to live in the present moment, let others have the glory at times, and low... read more

The last word on dating rules, written by two hip, young authors with the right blend of love smarts and wry humour. Whether you're trying to get your partner to commit or trying to find one in the first place, Zoe and Hamish's advice is sure to help.

What if almost everything we believed about finding happiness turned out to be inaccurate, misleading, or false? And what if those very beliefs were making us miserable? A growing body of scientific research suggests that we are all caught in a vicious cycle whereby the more we strive for happiness, the more we suffer.
This book provides an escape from "the happiness trap", via a revolutionary new development in human psychology: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT helps people to create a rich, full and meaningful l... read more

Dr Gordon Livingston's first book, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, enlightened thousands of readers who have embraced its thirty bedrock truths about life and how best to live it. In And Never Stop Dancing, Dr Livingston - a Vietnam War veteran, psychiatrist, and parent twice bereaved - offered thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths he identifies and explores are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear.... read more

When Lori Gottlieb found herself forty and still single, she came to an uncomfortable realisation. If so many of her friends were very happily married to 'good enough' guys, the type of men who might not make you weak in the knees but made great partners and fathers, maybe she had been looking for the wrong man. Could her Mr Right have been, well, right in front of her all along? Funny, confronting and very very real, Marry Him is Lori Gottlieb's account of her search for a partner and the adjustments she had to make to her own exp... read more

'Eight Steps To Happiness: an everyday handbook' is a condensed version of the 2010 bestseller 'Eight Steps to Happiness', the companion volume to the ABC television series, "Making Australia Happy". Dr Tony Grant and Alison Leigh bring us the latest findings of happiness research - and show that happiness is within our grasp and how we can achieve it. While genetics and life circumstances play a significant role in happiness levels, 40 per cent is within an individual's personal control. You can't change the cards you were dealt i... read more

Mindfulness reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion and promote genuine joie de vivre.
It's the kind of happiness that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life can throw at you with new courage.
The book is based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which take... read more

In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - David Malouf returns to the 'highest wisdom' of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happiness became a 'right', and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. I... read more

For many women an active sex life is on the bottom of their 'must have' list. What's happened to their sexual urges? Is it a medical issue, or a matter of competing priorities? One of Australia's leading sexual anthropologists investigates.

Is women's sexual desire in the western world at an all time low? When it comes to women's priorities, is sex on top? Recent studies tell us that lack of libido is women's most common sexual problem and that once in a secure relationship, women's sex drive begins to plummet. So, wha... read more

Through simple mindfulness meditation, learn to live in the moment and enjoy a life that is more vivid, awake, connected and true. Anna Black shows you how to intentionally pay attention to your daily experiences, become aware of habitual thoughts and behaviours and discover which are helpful and which are not.

Flourish: A new understanding of Life's Greatest Goals- and what it takes to reach them. In this groundbreaking book, now in a second format one of the world's foremost academic psychologists- and founder of the Positive Psychology movement - offers a new theory on what makes people flourish and how to truly get the most out of life. Eight years have passed since the publication of Dr Seligman's internationally bestselling Authentic Happiness. As a highly esteemed psychologist, Dr Seligman has been on the cutting edge of psychologi... read more

This is a book for all women who want to improve their sex life. No matter what age you are, it is possible to have a sex life, and it can be a really wonderful one! You may think you are too old or that you have too many problems or even that it doesn't really matter because it is just too hard to talk about something so personal- if you do think like this, then you need this book. Dr Sandra Cabot is a medical doctor and sees thousands of women who ask for help with their sex life - they want to improve it for themselves and they ... read more

Are you in a job you hate, feeling that there is more you could be doing with your life? Do you want to feel enthusiastic, happy and interested in your life? The No Excuses Guide to Uncovering your Purpose gives you clear, no nonsense advice to get you out of the rut and into the life you truly want. It gives you the tools you need to identify what you could be doing to embrace the life you really want and find true meaning and purpose in everyday activities. Finally a no excuses, hands on, practical guide to get you moving towards... read more