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After a terrifying brush with death, entrepreneur and philanthropist Carl Barney created the innovative idea of “pre-quests” or Happiness Grants—inheritances provided to the grantees while the grantor was still alive.

When he decided to give these grants to twenty friends, the Happiness Experiment was born. The experiment provided a deeply meaningful and fulfilling way for Carl Barney to use his wealth to enhance his own life and the lives of those he cared about. And now heshows how you can do this too.

The Happiness Experiment describes how the recipients reacted to their grants and how their lives were changed forever…along with their perspectives on what true happiness means.

The book also reveals how to:
• discover your core values to achieve happiness,
• use deliberate planning to find your purpose,
• determine what brings you real joy and fulfillment,
• create a step-by-step plan to increase your happiness.

Through a groundbreaking process of Happiness Planning, Happiness Coaching, and Happiness Grants, The Happiness Experiment provides a completely new way to intensify your happiness and change lives.

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This step-by-step training manual from one of the ’s top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best. Whether you’re an athlete or not, you’ll find exercises, techniques, and tools in this book that will improve every area of your life. Your life will take on new meaning as you move beyond the pursuit of happiness to a life of purpose and fulfillment.

As a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also was afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure.

After years of research, interviews, and writing, Murphy had a revelatory insight: The pursuit of extraordinary performance and the pursuit of the best possible life are the same path. Murphy learned that the very best athletes compete for competition’s sake. Winning might still result, but it’s never the goal.

True fulfillment comes not through achievements and possessions, but in seeking enriching experiences and meaningful relationships.

Based on the powerful principles of love, wisdom, and courage, Inner Excellence trains you to lead with the heart and live a life devoid of fear—one where you feel truly alive.

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“You don’t get to be my age without navigating all kinds of transitions. Some you embraced and some you never expected. Some you hoped for and some you fought as hard as you could.” —Melinda French Gates

Transitions are moments when we step out of our familiar surroundings and into a new landscape—a space that, for many people, is shadowed by confusion, fear, and indecision. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward accompanies readers as they cross that space, offering guidance on how to make the most of the time between an ending and a new beginning and how to move forward into the next day when the ground beneath you is shifting.

In this book, French Gates will reflect, for the first time in print, on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more.

Each one of us, no matter who we are or where we are in life, is headed toward transitions of our own. With her signature warmth and grace, French Gates candidly shares stories of times when she was in need of wisdom and shines a path through the open space stretching out before us all.

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• Why you should never “win” an argument
• How to assert yourself and communicate with intention
• How to set boundaries and frame conversations
• Why saying less is often more
• How to overcome conflict with connection

The Next Conversation will give you practical phrases that will lead to powerful results, from breaking down defensiveness in a hard talk with a family member to finding your own assertive voice at the boardroom conference table. Your every word matters, and by controlling how you communicate every day, you will create waves of positive impact that will resonate throughout your relationships to last a lifetime. Everything you want to say, and how you want to say it, can be found in The Next Conversation.

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Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men do and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: Upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues–for every 100 men who are promoted to manager, only 87 women and 73 women of color get promoted.

This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call “the broken rung,” and its effects compound throughout women’s careers, causing women to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up.

In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem’s underlying cause: while about half of a person’s lifetime earnings come from education and half from experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. As the authors show, it is also here, in one’s experience, that the solution lies: How can women build their “experience capital” to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential?

Based on over a decade of research, conversations with more than 50 remarkable leaders, and their own experiences as senior partners and as the first three consecutive chief diversity and inclusion officers for McKinsey, the authors weave data on the potential pitfalls across a career with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung by using strategies that increased their experience capital.

Leaders and companies must do more to address structural gender inequalities in the workplace–but you don’t have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the corporate ladder and reaching your full potential at work.

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It’s no wonder you can’t calm down: your to-do list is as long as your arm, your bank balance keeps dropping, you feel guilty for not calling your parents more often, and there always seems to be a big deadline to meet at work. You need a serious breather–but you can barely find time to shower, let alone to exercise or meditate.

In Let That Sh*t Go, Kate Petriw and Nina Purewal share the wisdom they’ve gained though decades of practicing and teaching others to find peace of mind no matter how busy they are.

Learn to put your life in perspective, take each day one step at a time, and steal moments of calm amid the chaos. And remember: it’s not worth holding onto that sh*t.

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“An essential first step to letting go of that suffering.” –Simon Sinek
“An inspirational guide.” –Deepak Chopra
“The tools necessary to rediscover our intuition and to create a future aligned with our individual goals and inspiration.” –Dr. Nicole LePera
“A relatable guide that shows all of us how to free ourselves from toxic overthinking and replace it with inner peace.” –Lori Gottlieb
“Brilliant and easy solutions to avoid overthinking.” –Francesc Miralles
“A thoughtful way to help you retrain your brain.” –Apple Books

In this book, you’ll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you’ve always wanted to live. Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment. New in this expanded edition:

• New chapters addressing reader questions and feedback
• Journaling prompts and contemplative exercises to let go of negative ruminative thinking
• Original poetry to uplift, encourage, and inspire

In this book, you’ll discover:

• How to become unaffected by negative thoughts and feelings
• How to experience unconditional love, peace, and joy in the present, no matter your external circumstances
• How to instantly create a new experience of life if you don’t like the one you’re in right now
• How to break free from negative thought loops
• How to let go of anxiety, self-doubt, self-sabotage, and self-destructive habits
• How to effortlessly create from a state of abundance, flow, and ease
• How to develop the superpower of being OK with uncertainty
• How to access your intuition and inner wisdom beyond the limitations of thinking

No matter what has happened to you, where you are from, or what you have done, you can still find total peace, unconditional love, complete fulfillment, and an abundance of joy in your life. No person is an exception to this. Darkness only exists because of the light, which means even in our darkest hour, light must exist.

Within these pages, you’ll find timeless wisdom to empower you with the understanding of our mind’s infinite potential to create any experience of life we want, regardless of external circumstances. Don’t Believe Everything You Think is not about rewiring your brain, rewriting your past, or positive thinking. We cannot solve our problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. Tactics are temporary. An expansion of consciousness is permanent.

This book was written to help you go beyond your thinking and discover the truth of what you already intuitively know deep inside your soul.

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Millions of books sold worldwide!

A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

What if the key to happiness, success and love was as simple as two words? If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words–let them–will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.

The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands–and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins–New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s most respected experts on motivation, confidence and mindset–teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that’s made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact.

Within a few pages, you’ll realize how much energy and time you’ve been wasting trying to control the wrong things–at work, in relationships and in pursuing your goals–and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.

Learn how to:

• Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control
• Stop comparing yourself to other people
• Break free from fear and self-doubt
• Release the grip of people’s expectations
• Build the best friendships of your life
• Create the love you deserve
• Pursue what truly matters to you with confidence
• Build resilience against everyday stressors and distractions
• Define your own path to success, joy and fulfillment

…and so much more. The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.

Order your copy of The Let Them Theory now, and discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words.

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Each year, an estimated 1 billion people switch jobs worldwide. A lucky few stumble into the role of their dreams, but hundreds of millions are disappointed. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along our career paths lies with each of us, as opposed to hiring managers or the market?

According to the Jobs to Be Done theory of product design–customers don’t simply buy products; they recruit them to do specific jobs that solve a problem. Job Moves adopts this model to view jobs as positions we “hire” to help us make progress in our lives and careers.

Based on research conducted with more than a thousand professionals at all stages of their careers, Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta find that this notion bears out no matter your age, stage or trajectory.

Key to this new, universal approach is understanding our priorities at the specific moment when we make each move. This team has created a process to help individuals identify the current circumstances driving them to look for new opportunities, the experiences they hope to gain in a new job, what tradeoffs they’ll gladly make in return, and how to learn-before-switching if a new job will deliver. The result encourages job seekers to look beyond a title or company for a more holistic view and ask not what you can do in a job, but what a potential job can do for you.

Full of useful activities and tools, Job Moves offers the timeless framework of our generation to help anyone create a career that will be happier and more fulfilling.

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