Bøger af Mike Robbins

Drafted by the New York Yankees directly out of high school, the author decided instead to postpone his professional baseball career until he finished college. In this book, the author looks at one of the most important and challenging aspects of life - our relationship with ourselves.

What's holding you back from the life you dream of? This classic book, nowin its second edition, guides you to make breakthroughs, lose weight, overcome procrastination, gain sudden profits, feed your soul for moreenergy, and persuade with ease. Discover how to command your intuition toreveal your path to success and fulfillment. Use the hidden power ofEasethroughs -- the skillful removal of resistance. What's better than timemanagement? Implement Time-Leverage to get more done and feel good doing it!Award winning speaker, author, university lecturer and CEO, Tom Marcoux, coaches you to success in job interviewing, closing sales, public speaking, media relations, and personal branding. Learn a system of persuasivecommunication and goal-achieving techniques for business and life. Examplesfrom the lives of prominent success stories include Walt Disney and Oprah. Arich collection of quotations stimulates the reader's imagination, rangingfrom Benjamin Franklin to Steve Jobs.Spoken Word Strategist Tom Marcoux is an Executive Coach and Guest lecturer (STANFORD UNIVERSITY), winner (special award at EMMYS). Tom directed a feature film that went to CANNES FILM MARKET. Author of 47 books, CEO Tom leads teams (U.K., India, USA). (Member, National Speakers Association, over 19 years) Tom guides clients and audiences (Linkedin, Sun Microsystems, IBM and more). The San Francisco Examiner says that Tom is "The Personal Branding Instructor." Tom's popular online course is "The Introvert's Formula to Get Clients" GetTheBigYES.com ... YourBodySoulandProsperity.com (visitors from 101 countries) ... PitchPowerFest.com** How Tom Marcoux can help You: Tom's clients and audiences feel more confident and learn to communicate powerfully to get many YES's (with a speech, TED Talk, pitch, book, video marketing) **

What do you really want? An improved relationship, more money from less work and to enjoy feeling calm and confident. What makes the big difference? The "crucial 10 seconds." The ten seconds can occur at anytime during a conversation. Top professionals know how to be better than persuasive. They foster a comfortable state of readiness to take full advantage of any opportunity. This classic book, now in its second edition, guides you to save time, avoid miscommunication, build confidence, gain instant rapport, manage difficult situations, reduce stress through cooperation, work effectively with creditors, align yourself for promotions and raises, and even gain forgiveness. This book is a unique blend of practical business strategies and spirituality. Learn to enhance your romantic relationship so you feel better and prosperity flows in. Make your personal brand vivid so people respect you and want to hear your ideas and suggestions. Practice shifting your thoughts so you can bounce back faster from communication setbacks. Award winning speaker, author, university lecturer, and CEO, Tom Marcoux coaches you to success through job interviewing, public speaking, and personal branding. Learn to access your Divine Gifts so that you're at your best during the 10 Seconds that mean success in your business and personal life. Examples from the lives of prominent contemporary success stories include Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Short articles by other eminent authors provide further strategies. A rich collection of quotations stimulates the reader's imagination, ranging from Jack Canfield to Oprah.

This new Handbook of Family Therapy is the culmination of a decade of achievements within the field of family and couples therapy, emerging from and celebrating the dynamic evolution of marriage and family theory, practice, and research. The editors have unified the efforts of the profession's major players in bringing the most up-to-date and innovative information to the forefront of both educational and practice settings. They review the major theoretical approaches and break new ground by identifying and describing the current era of evidence-based models and contemporary areas of application. The Handbook of Family Therapy is a comprehensive, progressive, and skillful presentation of the science and practice of family and couples therapy, and a valuable resource for practitioners and students alike.

In 1987 Mike Robbins, a young journalist in London, felt restless and decided to travel. He never really stopped. In the quarter century that followed he lived and worked in countries as diverse as the world itself.The pieces in this book take the reader from rural Sudan to the headwaters of the Amazon, from Semana Santa in Quito to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas, across Bhutan on a motorbike, into the ancient souk of Aleppo, to the steppes of Central Asia and finally to New York. Along the way there is Ethiopian gin, a sex tourist in Moscow, Kyrgyz women in cycling pants, a surreal toilet in Brussels, echoes of slavery in Brazil, and an encounter with Helen of Troy in Third Avenue. The Nine Horizons is an anarchic snapshot of a troubled but beautiful world in transition.

Así que crees que conoces a tu perro. Bazza es un profesor de universidad de mediana edad de trato fácil al que le gusta la marihuana, el porno, la cerveza y las pelirrojas. Cuando adopta un perro de un refugio no nota nada raro en el animal. Entonces, un monje himalayo les hace una visita y este percibe algo extraño. Perro es una intensa historia de amor y pérdida, de pecado, de redención y de excrementos de perro. No volverás a ver a tu mascota de la misma forma.

When Silvia's country falls apart after a coup, she flees to London. Picked up by the police, she is dumped for weeks in a bed-and-breakfast with a crazy landlady, then rescued by cold intellectuals. She finds she is a nuisance to one side and a cause to the other, with no dreams, family or opinions of her own. Until she meets another, earlier, refugee; and then she has a surprise for everyone.The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán is a story of flight, loss and the pain of exile. But it is also a sideways look at liberal London - perceptive, caustic and sometimes very funny.

So you think you know your dog?Bazza is an easy-going middle-aged college lecturer with a taste for weed, porn, beer and redheads. When he adopts a rescue dog, he sees nothing odd about the animal. Then a Himalayan monk comes to visit, and sensessomething strange.Dog is a powerful story of love and loss, sin, redemption and dog mess. You'll never see your pet the same way again.

Mike Robbins believes that for us to thrive professionally, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work we do. This means acknowledging that we're all vulnerable, imperfect human beings doing the best we can. Mike outlines five principles we can use to approach our own work in this spirit of openness and inclusivity.

Three Seasons is a book of three novellas, unconnected with each other, but all set in the south of England in the 1980s. In Spring, a middle-aged Hull trawler skipper, his great days gone, has one last throw of the dice a South Coast port. In Summer, an ambitious young man makes his way in the booming Thames Valley property market, unconcerned with the damage he does to others. In Autumn, the Master of an Oxford college welcomes his two sons home, but they awake difficult memories from half a century before. Three Seasons is about the Thatcher era in Britain, but it is not about politics. These three stories are portraits of a country and its people on the verge of change.

A guide for being a truly authentic (and happy) person by the bestselling author of Focus on the Good Stuff "Authenticity," says Mike Robbins, "is enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who you really are, yourself, natural and without a mask in relationships, work, and life.

Robbins offers a simple but powerful program of seven principles for a world of appreciation, an effective form of positive psychology that reduced stress and increases happiness and productivity by recognizing the value of self acknowledgement and gratitude for loved ones, friends, and co-workers.