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\"A must read for anyone in the business of leading others.\" Ken May, CEO of Top Golf; former CEO of Fedex \"If you want your team to stay focused, you will want to read Can I Have Your Attention?\" Chester Elton, New York Times Best-Selling author of All In, The Carrot Principle and What Motivates Me Inspire better work habits. Focus your team. Get stuff done in the constantly connected workplace. As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep. In Can I Have your Attention?, Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunites to \"improve productivity\", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs. Yet, the potential for harnessing the power of your team's attention has never been greater--if you can capture it. You'll learn how to: * Implement a comprehensive organizational strategy to increase focus and overcome digital distraction. * Take back control of the technology in your organization and life. * Establish a Communication Compact, defining how, when, and why your team will communicate with each other. * Create a \"vault\" to increase productivity, decrease stress, and boost your creativity. * Free yourself and your employees from the never-ending flood of emails and messages. * Achieve unmatched focus in the age of distraction. The smartphone isn't going away. Learn the simple rules and guidelines that will improve focus and create the mental space needed for your people to work to their full potential.

Harness your mind-body connection for lasting ease and well-being In our busy,  get-it-done-now  culture, stress has become the new normal--a normal that's embedding itself into our minds and our bodies. If left unchecked, stress can dictate how we think, feel, and act.

\"Follow-up to the bestselling Mindfulness: Live in the MomentGill Hasson, author of the bestselling Mindfulness is back and this time you can fit her advice in your pocket! This little book is packed with over 100 quick exercises, each dealing with a difference situation, to help you get calm, collected, and balanced. So whenever you start to feel the stress mounting, reach for your Mindfulness Pocketbook, find the relevant exercise and instantly make life better!So if you feel like life is moving too fast and you're struggling to keep up with constant demands and commitments, don't let anxiety and worry get the better of you -- integrate these mindfulness exercises, practices, and reflections into your daily life and get in control and feel more confident, calm, and present. By progressing through the pocketbook, you will develop mindful ways of thinking and doing that will benefit a wide range of situations in your personal, social, and work life.Slow down, take a deep breath, and take that step toward an easier and more manageable life. The Mindfulness Pocketbook will help you: Move in the direction of greater calm, balance, and wellbeing Increase your insight and awareness Break free from unhelpful thoughts and thinking patterns, feel more confident, and have better self-esteem Be more able to manage other people's demands, stress, anxiety, and worry Experts increasingly recognise that developing mindfulness skills is an effective way to improve performance, reduce stress, enhance emotional intelligence, increase life satisfaction, and develop leadership skills. A mindful person consciously brings awareness to the here-and-now with openness, interest, and receptiveness. Mindfulness Pocketbook is the take-with-you guide to receptive, constructive thinking\"--.

All parents experience stress as they attempt to meet the challenges of caring for their children. This comprehensive book examines the causes and consequences of parenting distress, drawing on a wide array of findings in current empirical research. Kirby Deater-Deckard explores normal and pathological parenting stress, the influences of parents on their children as well as children on their parents, and the effects of biological and environmental factors.Beginning with an overview of theories of stress and coping, Deater-Deckard goes on to describe how parenting stress is linked with problems in adult and child health (emotional problems, developmental disorders, illness); parental behaviors (warmth, harsh discipline); and factors outside the family (marital quality, work roles, cultural influences). The book concludes with a useful review of coping strategies and interventions that have been demonstrated to alleviate parenting stress.

The first self-care book designed specifically for the early childhood field, Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators is filled with helpful strategies and tools that you can implement immediately. Recognizing that self-care is not one size fits all, the authors present culturally responsive strategies drawn from diverse early childhood staff working in a range of roles across communities and contexts. By tying the importance of educator self-care to goals of social justice and equity, this book advocates for increased awareness of the importance of self-care on both an individual and institutional level. Through key research findings, effective strategies and personal anecdotes, this accessible guide helps readers understand and engage with the critical role self-care and wellness-oriented practices play in creating strong foundations for high-quality early learning programs.

Mindfulness is a powerful treatment for anxious thoughts and negative emotions. However, many people find it difficult to apply the principles of mindfulness when they are in the throes of anxious worries and destructive moods. In this book, psychologist Scott Symington presents a ridiculously easy, breakthrough mindfulness approach called the two-screen method to help when the painful thoughts feel overwhelming.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue: You Don't Have Jack -- Section One: Nobody's Working -- Chapter 1: The Curse of the Overwhelmed -- Hey, I'm Doing My Job -- Chapter 2: It's Not Their Fault -- More Valuable Than Cash -- Chapter 3: Tools of Our Tools -- Technology Is Not the Problem -- Millennials Are Not the Problem -- Poor Productivity Is Not the Problem -- The Problem Is Much Deeper-and Much More Costly -- The Problem -- Are You Part of the Solution? -- Now That I Have Your Attention. . . -- Section Two: Finding Focus -- Chapter 4: The Science of Attention -- Our Two Systems of Attention -- Broken Models -- The Magical Mysteries of Multitasking -- Full Focus, Medium Focus, Light Focus -- Chapter 5: Focus-Wise in the Age of Distraction -- The Raft -- The Sailboat -- Drop That Marshmallow -- Allocating the Right Focus at the Right Time -- Choices and Consequences -- Chapter 6: The Four Elements of Focus -- Energy -- Environment -- Emotion -- Experience -- Now That I Have Your Attention. . . -- Section Three: Focus-Wise Space -- Chapter 7: In Praise of Walls -- Environmental Protection -- Mental Space -- Chapter 8: Office Space -- Open Office -- Cubicles -- Working Remotely -- The Focus-Wise Space -- Chapter 9: The Vault -- A Gym for Your Mind -- Forming the Vault Habit -- Now That I Have Your Attention. . . -- Section Four: Focus-Wise Technology -- Chapter 10: Relationship Status: It's Complicated -- Thank God for the Gift (?!) of Modern Technology -- Technology Meets Culture -- Technology Meets Greed -- Chapter 11: Message Undeliverable -- Barriers to Access -- Limits to Excessive Switching -- Utility and Simple Design -- Chapter 12: Free at Last -- Capture and Share -- Automate, Automate, Automate -- Be Easy to Use -- Chapter 13: Best Buddy or Big Brother? -- My Buddy and Me -- Big Brother Is Watching.

Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life?Easy.It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress.And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it.

It is commonly acknowledged that stress and coping has an impact upon the productivity, health and well-being of individuals. As such, many domains of psychology are seeking to better understand the stress and coping dynamic to inform the construction of interventions intended to facilitate coping. This book is designed to profile the use of theory in guiding the structure, content and assessment of coping interventions across a range of applied domains. The domains addressed within the text include sport psychology, clinical psychology, organizational psychology, developmental psychology, police psychology and health psychology. This book brings together related issues regarding the application of theory to practice into a single source.