Just Laid Off?
Are you coping with the loss of your job? Discover resources to help you successfully navigate this life transition. See also our list of online resources.
Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, & Matthew McKay
This best-selling classic workbook for beating stress offers comprehensive, step-by-step directions for the most popular relaxation techniques including mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, thought stopping, stress inoculation, autogenics, and more.
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Ariane de Bonvoisin
A founder of First30days.com outlines a program for initially responding to difficult life changes with dignity and empowerment, explaining how to experience life transitions as catalysts for wisdom and strength, in a guide that covers such obstacles as new careers, bad health diagnoses, and the ends of relationships.
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Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Challenges readers to overcome negative opinions that are preventing optimal levels of success, happiness, and health, pairing typical excuses with a series of questions designed to help readers to overcome illusory obstacles.
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Keith Ferrazzi
Explains how to achieve personal and professional goals by building close, trusting relationships with others that help facilitate creative feedback, encouragement, and long-term success.
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Chris Gardner
The author of The Pursuit of Happyness shares the life lessons that enabled him to rise from a homeless single father to a millionaire businessman, in a guide that outlines inspirational steps for recovering from professional or physical setbacks and finding the motivation to pursue new challenges.
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Spencer Johnson
Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.
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Jim Loehr
Outlines a strategy for personal success that explains how readers can adjust the telling of their life stories to promote goals and change how they are seen by others.
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John C. Maxwell
Shares the eleven secrets that highly successful people use to succeed in life and work, including seeing beyond one’s own needs, removing mental distractions, working with others, and examining the past for a better understanding of the future.
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Caroline Adams Miller & Michael B. Frisch
Creating Your Best Life supplies dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes readers can use to identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes. The exercises are fun, making the process of self-discovery enjoyable and productive.
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Ann Patchett
An inspirational primer based on the author’s 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College discusses how to manage life’s crossroads, recounts times of struggle from her own life, and celebrates the benefits of not knowing what is to come.
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Dave Pelzer
Drawing on his own personal history as well as his experience helping others, a best-selling author teaches readers how to harness the strength of surviving past negative experiences and use that empowerment to live their lives according to their own values.
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Stephen M. Pollan
The author, a financial guru and life coach, presents a powerful guide that shows readers of all ages how to overcome everyday challenges and create dramatic life changes, also called “second acts,” in order to live a more enjoyable, rewarding existence.
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Betty Rollin
Drawing on personal experience and on examples from other people’s lives, a wise and witty study reveals what individuals can gain from difficult times in their lives, detailing the lessons the author has learned and the positive outcomes that can occur in such situations as failure, divorce, widowhood, illness, and more.
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Marianne Williamson
Argues that the need for change as one grows older is a human phenomenon and assists the individual psychologically and spiritually to reframe this transition so that it leads to a sense of joy and awakening.
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