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Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity - think Strunk and White's Elements of Style for the digital age. In SMART BREVITY: The Power of Saying More with Less, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz teach readers how to say more with less in virtually any format. They also share communication lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications.

In the lives of women who have felt the desire to become mothers and have not succeeded, for whatever reason, there is a turning point when they are faced with what is perhaps the most dreaded of questions, "What's next?" Míriam Aguilar shares her profound and personal journey through the painful path of non-motherhood. She had promised herself that one day she would speak openly about her struggle to become a mother, and now she unfolds her story, not as the mother she hoped to be, but as the woman who has found strength and peace in the acceptance of a childless life. With a direct and frank narrative, the author addresses the taboos and social judgments, the pressure of gender mandates, beliefs and expectations that women suffer when motherhood does not materialize. From vulnerability to empowerment, from mourning to acceptance, she invites us to free ourselves from shame and stigma, and to embrace a full and satisfying existence. A courageous book that makes visible a topic surrounded by discomfort, silence and prejudice, and gives us valuable keys for a more empathetic and respectful professional and social accompaniment. A call for women to honor their processes, rewrite their stories and redefine the meaning of their lives outside the traditional paradigm of motherhood.

Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice―frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated. This wisdom is drawn from John Cassian's fifth-century CE Collationes, one of the most influential manuals for monks from late antiquity. The Collationes follow Cassian and his friend Germanus as they travel around Egypt, asking a series of sage monks how they can make their minds stronger. In response, these monks offer a range of techniques for increasing focus, including setting goals, training the body, managing the memory, using mantras, taking breaks, consulting others―and, most of all, being honest about yourself. As Cassian and Germanus eventually realize, we can't escape distraction―but we can learn how to confront it and, eventually, to concentrate. Featuring an engaging new translation by Jamie Kreiner and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Focus can help even the least monkish of us to train our attention on what matters most.

How to focus in a culture that does not recognize limits? Psychologist Svend Brinkmann proposes moderation and self-control as an antidote to doing more, having more, consuming more, experiencing more. An essential book to discover the joy of missing out on things. In a world obsessed with doing more, having more, consuming more, experiencing more, the "fear of missing out" or FOMO syndrome has become epidemic. But this relentless pursuit of gratification and self-fulfillment doesn't seem to make us happier, or freer. How do we maintain focus in a world full of choices and stimuli? Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann proposes to recover moderation and self-control to learn to discern what is important, to say no and to miss out on the multitude of things that, deep down, prevent us from valuing what we have, from feeling good about who we are and what our life is like. Cultivating moderation and having the courage to commit to something, leaving aside the constant choices and temptations that dominate our consumer society, will allow us to develop a more satisfying way of life and a better connection with ourselves, with others and with the planet we all share. A necessary book that reminds us that missing out on things can be a real source of joy.

Can a book inspire action? Can it make us get up and move? Start something? Live differently? This is The Book of Do. Within these pages you'll find over 50 photographs, 30 illustrations, 8 lists, 6 recipes, 4 diary entries and hundreds of ideas around business, creativity, resilience and wellbeing that might just change your life. Ideas + action = change. Are you ready for change? The Do Book Company launched in 2013 with the aim of helping creative entrepreneurs, makers and Doers work smarter and create positive change. Since then, the collection has grown to 40 (and counting!) titles spanning design, business, wellbeing and sustainable living, with each book focusing on the doing rather than the background theory. To celebrate 10 years of publishing, The Book of Do draws together the very best writing and artwork into one seminal anthology. Organized around 10 themed sections, it features wisdom and advice from leading experts including bestselling Do authors David Hieatt, Robert Poynton and Bobette Buster on how to live a more sustainable life, work smarter, or even take a different path.

In this work, Joël Callède, renowned author of graphic novels, immerses us in an intimate exploration of meditation through a documentary journey to discover the many ways to practice it in today's society. In a sensitive and inspiring journey, we meet some of the most renowned masters, such as Christophe André and Thierry Janssen, who give us the keys to the profound nature of meditation. The author goes out to meet people, famous or anonymous, who teach this practice in schools, hospitals, companies and even prisons, to unravel the place of meditation in the contemporary world. This book is above all an invitation to stop, listen and calm our mind, but it encourages us to go one step further: meditation opens unknown doors and allows us to savor the fragrance of the infinite within us.

Who has never said to themselves: "I'll never make it...", "Everything goes wrong", "I'm incapable", "I'm too stressed out..."? These are phrases that reflect the daily reality of many people who are too demanding, self-critical or hard on themselves. Mindfulness with heart combines the path of mindfulness with the practice of compassion, which allows us to assume our deepest and most vulnerable aspects to achieve greater well-being, happiness and wisdom in life. This eight-session step-by-step guide follows the Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) program. It invites you to explore each topic through a variety of exercises, at your own pace and according to your current needs. It includes valuable supplements to accompany the reading: audio practices and worksheets to complete the exercises, record your reflections and track your progress. This book will help you to manage the inevitable stresses of life in a healthier way; to cultivate more kindness, joy, health and harmony in your personal and professional life; and to develop a caring and compassionate attitude towards yourself and others with the practice of mindfulness with heartfulness.

Every day we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected, from a broken toaster to losing (or gaining) a major client or navigating our way through a global pandemic. Our natural ability to improvise gets us through. But we feel as if we're winging it, rather than acting with courage and conviction. First published in 2013 and now fully updated, Robert Poynton shares his acclaimed method taught to some of the world's biggest brands and companies, including Nike, Chanel and PwC, to show us how simple improvisational skills can be applied to the everyday business of work and life.It's a practice that helps us to navigate life's daily obstacles and remind us how the unplanned and the unexpected can be a source of wonder and delight - leading to moments of serendipity or thoughts and ideas we wouldn't have otherwise have had. Do Improvise will help you to: become more productive without trying harder, overcome creative blocks and generate new ideas, respond fluidly to circumstances beyond your control and realize that you don't have to know everything. Not sure what to do next? Improvise.

Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life. He stresses the universality of death, its importance as life's final rite of passage, and its ability to liberate us from pain, slavery, or political oppression. Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide

The world of business is changing. The single pursuit of profit at any cost has been replaced by a desire to build companies that create a better future. In Do Build, Alan Moore draws on his years of research into some of the most pioneering and progressive businesses on the planet. By speaking to their purpose-driven founders, he discovers that it is possible to lead with generosity, have a transparent supply chain, design products and services that are thoughtful and joyful, and create a company culture where individuals flourish. By sharing examples of best practice, Moore invites us to create a different type of business: one that will regenerate and restore our economy, our environment, and our civilization. Are you ready to build a new reality?

El tema de las relaciones nos moviliza a todos. En este libro, Elma Roura, autora de El camino al âextasis, nos proporciona herramientas prâacticas para observar nuestros vâinculos con mayor claridad y recordarnos que tener una relaciâon de pareja sana es posible.